An al-Qaeda cell in Libya has threatened an imminent attack on the Libyan city of Darna if their imprisoned leaders are not released. The statement was published by the pan-Arab daily Al-Quds al-Arabi, from a posting on the Internet. The May 30 posting, addressed to... MORE

Security authorities in Kenya are on high alert following information that members of two Islamist militant groups, al-Ittihad al-Islamiyya and al-Takfir wal-Hijra, may have already entered the country. According to a report in the Kenyan East African Standard [www.eastandard.net], both organizations are linked with Abu... MORE

Evidence that the Muslim troubles in the south of Thailand may expand into a jihadist struggle were illustrated by the May 19 raid on an Islamic school at Ban Taloh Kapo village in the Ya Rang district of Pattani province. According to a report in... MORE

Thai authorities have become suspicious of an unusually large swell of Cambodian Muslims entering the country and heading for its southern provinces. According to the Thai News Agency, more than a hundred Cambodian Muslims a day have recently crossed the border into the country, a... MORE

Indonesian security authorities on May 17 issued a number of alerts about possible bombings mounted by suicide attackers against Westerners in the capital Jakarta. The list of potential targets included shopping malls, office buildings, international schools and embassy buildings as places likely to attract jihadist... MORE

Some light was recently cast on some curious comments voiced at the time of the bombing of a theatre in Doha on March 19, reported in Terrorism Focus (Volume 2, Issue 7). The online Arabic language Elaph newspaper quoted the Qatari foreign minister, Sheikh Hamad... MORE

Recent developments in Mauritania, including an alleged crackdown on Islamist GSPC linked rebels, are neither encouraging for the United States in the war on terror nor, as is claimed, an indicator of future political stability in that country. On April 28 the government at Nouakchott... MORE

An extra irritation to the Bangladeshi government, anxious to play down the level of Islamist militancy in the country, appeared with the publication on April 30 of the U.S. State Department's annual Country Reports on Terrorism (earlier known as ‘Patterns of Global Terrorism'). On page... MORE

Information war heated up on May 7 with an announcement on jihadi forums that the influential Al-Ma'sada jihadist forum had been ‘penetrated'. A brief note (posted on the Syrian site Minbar Suriya al-Islami) warned participants reading other jihadist forums, not to attempt to enter the... MORE

On May 2 a posting on an Arabic language forum [https://alsaha.fares.net] and a jihadi forum [www.alsakifah.org] featured a commentary by the Chechen ideological leader Sheikh Abu Omar Muhammad al-Sayf in which he discusses a number of issues, including the killing of the Chechen mujahid leader... MORE