TERRORWARS - RUSSO DAILY

Jan 22, 2013 (UPI)

The Algerian military's take-no-prisoners response to the jihadist seizure of a major natural gas complex in the southern desert and the bloodbath that ensued u...

US support to French forces is free of charge: Pentagon

Jan 22, 2013 (AFP)

The United States will not demand payment from France for the use of US transport planes ferrying French forces and equipment to Mali, the Pentagon said Tuesday...

Further Chad troops assemble for Mali deployment

Jan 22, 2013 (AFP)

Chad has doubled its troops arriving in Niger to help local forces mount a new front to battle Islamists in the northern Malian city of Gao, from 200 to 400, a ...

North Africa: Is this al-Qaida resurgent?

Jan 21, 2013 (UPI)

U.S. terrorism specialist Bruce Reidel, a former CIA officer, says the battles against jihadists in Mali and Algeria mark "the emergence of the third generation...

ETA reaffirms commitment to cease-fire in internal document

Jan 21, 2013 (UPI)

The Basque separatist terror group ETA has reaffirmed the abandonment of its armed campaign in a seized internal document published by a Spanish newspaper. In t...

Mali army claims 'total control' of Konna

Jan 18, 2013 (AFP)

The Malian army has retaken the central town of Konna which fell to Islamist rebels advancing from the north and sparked French military intervention, the milit...

Pentagon rejects request to drop 9/11 charge

Jan 18, 2013 (AFP)

The official tasked with running the Guantanamo military tribunals has rejected a prosecution recommendation to drop one of the counts faced by several detainee...

Many dead as Algeria hostage crisis ends in turmoil

Jan 17, 2013 (AFP)

Algerian special forces on Thursday launched a rescue operation on a desert gas complex, killing fleeing Islamists and an unknown number of their hostages, the ...

Book gives Brazil military's version of dictatorship

Jan 17, 2013 (AFP)

Former military officers are countering accounts of abuses during Brazil's 1964-1985 dictatorship with a new, briskly selling book that takes aim at President D...

Mali: Hostages seen as Islamists' revenge

Jan 16, 2013 (UPI)

The kidnapping of as many as 20 expatriate workers at a natural gas facility in southeastern Algeria underlines the danger of revenge attacks that now face Euro...

Libyans file suit against French tech firm over torture

Jan 15, 2013 (AFP)

Five Libyans tortured under Moamer Kadhafi have filed legal complaints against a French technology firm that provided his regime with surveillance equipment, a ...

France pounds Islamist strongholds in northern Mali

Jan 14, 2013 (AFP)

French warplanes have struck further north in Mali, pounding Islamist strongholds and forcing the insurgents to flee, as preparations for the African interventi...

In Mali, an old war on terror reignites

Jan 14, 2013 (UPI)

French military operations in Mali against Islamist militants who have carved out a desert sanctuary in the north of the country could trigger a new wave of ter...

Senior Pakistan anti-terrorist chief dies in car bomb attack

Jan 10, 2013 (UPI)

The head of Karachi's police anti-terrorist division was killed along with three other policemen by a car bomb in the Essa Nagri area of the city. Several polic...

Zarqawi's legacy: Jihadist rebels in Syria

Jan 09, 2013 (UPI)

The ghost of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, the notorious jihadist leader killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq in June 2006, pervades the operations of Jabhat al-Nusrah, ...

Indian cops hold 'hate' speech politician

Jan 09, 2013 (UPI)

Police in India are questioning a state politician for allegedly delivering a hate speech at a public meeting. Akbaruddin Owaisi, leader of the Majlis-e-Ittehad...

One-eyed jihadist terror chief seen as North Africa danger

Jan 08, 2013 (UPI)

North African governments, and the Americans as well, are bracing for attacks by a new jihadist alliance led by the one-eyed Afghan War veteran Mokhtar Belmokht...

Outside View: Islamists and the U.S.

Jan 08, 2013 (UPI)

Hans Christian Andersen's "The Emperor's New Clothes" is the tale of a vain emperor seeking only the finest of clothes. Two tailor "con artists" promise to make...

Algerian forces train to fight jihadists

Jan 07, 2013 (UPI)

Algeria, North Africa's military heavyweight, is reported to be intensifying counterinsurgency training for its army and air force amid moves by African states ...

Outside View: Russia's terrorist attack and the message for China

Jan 07, 2013 (UPI)

Those responsible for the Dec. 28 and 29 terrorist attacks on a railway station and trolley bus in Volgograd, Russia, have yet to step forward -- although their...