TERRORWARS - RUSSO DAILY

Oct 19, 2013 (AFP)

As patrols are stepped up against the jihadists who killed a Malian soldier in the northern city of Gao, fear stalks the streets for residents living under the ...

Outside View: The al-Shabaab Westgate raid -- A forewarning

Oct 18, 2013 (UPI)

Recently released details on the al-Shabaab raid on the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya, have made it possible to more clearly analyze the attack and what it me...

Outside View: Mosques -- Smiling dens of iniquity?

Oct 15, 2013 (UPI)

It is ironically appropriate to apply an old biblical term "den of iniquity" to mosques as the New York City Police Department has been doing for some Islamic c...

West Bank killings heighten fears of new intifada

Oct 14, 2013 (UPI)

With three Israelis killed in the West Bank in as many weeks and new clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police at Jerusalem's flashpoint holy si...

Libyan Al-Qaeda suspect in US: attorney

Oct 14, 2013 (AFP)

A Libyan Al-Qaeda suspect snatched from Tripoli by US commandos and interrogated on an American warship, has been brought to New York to face trial, a prosecuto...

Pentagon names envoy to shut Gitmo

Oct 08, 2013 (AFP)

The Pentagon on Tuesday named an envoy to shut down the controversial prison at Guantanamo Bay, showing renewed commitment to US President Barack Obama's elusiv...

US military interrogating wanted Al-Qaeda suspect

Oct 07, 2013 (AFP)

The US military was holding and secretly interrogating an alleged Al-Qaeda operative Monday, after covert weekend raids on Libya and Somalia which also targeted...

Twin U.S. raids in Africa suggest new anti-terror strategy

Oct 07, 2013 (UPI)

Attacks by U.S. Special Forces apparently aimed at killing or capturing jihadist leaders in Libya and Somalia last weekend indicate deepening concern in Washing...

US vows ongoing terror fight after Somalia, Libya raids

Oct 06, 2013 (AFP)

US special forces snatched a top Al-Qaeda suspect in Libya and stormed a Shebab leader's home in Somalia in daring twin raids, as Washington pledged to do every...

Army assault to retake Qaeda-held HQ kills 10

Oct 03, 2013 (AFP)

At least 10 people including three soldiers were killed in an offensive to retake headquarters seized by Al-Qaeda-linked militants in southeast Yemen, medical a...

Yemen jails 5 Qaeda for deadly army suicide blast

Oct 02, 2013 (AFP)

A Yemeni court on Wednesday jailed five Al-Qaeda militants for up to 10 years for plotting a suicide bombing that killed 86 soldiers and wounded 171 others last...

After Nairobi and Mumbai, cities are 'battlegrounds of the future'

Oct 02, 2013 (UPI)

For some security analysts, the recent bloodbath in Nairobi's premier shopping mall, in the heart of the Kenyan capital, underlines how terrorists are targeting...

Retired Ecuadoran officers accused of human rights crimes

Oct 01, 2013 (AFP)

Ecuador's attorney general brought charges of crimes against humanity Tuesday against 10 retired military officers accused of the torture, sexual abuse and ille...

Five soldiers die in latest Philippines fighting

Sep 27, 2013 (UPI)

Five soldiers were killed and 11 wounded on the 18th day of fighting with a faction of the rebel group Moro National Liberation Front in southern Philippines. G...

Kenyan anti-tank rocket ended Westgate siege: soldiers

Sep 27, 2013 (AFP)

The final stand of Islamist fighters who laid siege to Kenya's Westgate mall ended when Kenyan soldiers fired an anti-tank shell that sparked a fierce fire, sol...

Wildlife group says poaching funds Somalia's Shebab

Sep 26, 2013 (AFP)

Somalia's Shebab militia, which carried out a bloody attack on Nairobi's Westgate mall, is in part funded by the poaching trade, wildlife activists said Thursda...

Nairobi attack a signpost for rising jihadist terrorism across Africa

Sep 25, 2013 (UPI)

The four-day seizure of an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, in which dozens of people were killed by a platoon of diehard jihadists of the Som...

US military fights Shebab through regional allies

Sep 24, 2013 (AFP)

Instead of directly attacking Somalia's Shebab militants, the United States provides crucial intelligence and training to other armies battling the Islamists in...

Kenya mall bloodbath shows al-Qaida groups still deadly

Sep 23, 2013 (UPI)

The weekend seizure of a Nairobi, Kenya, shopping mall by Somalia-based jihadists linked to al-Qaida, slaughtering dozens of people, underlines how, two years a...

Most hostages rescued, shopping mall mostly secure: Kenyan army

Sep 22, 2013 (AFP)

Most of the hostages trapped in a Nairobi shopping mall by Islamist gunmen have now been rescued and most of the complex is secure, the Kenya army announced lat...