2014

January—Germany—On February 6, 2014, prosecutors announced that in January in a Munich state court, they had charged Alexander Abit J., 27, a German man, with trying to recruit people for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which is active in Afghanistan and Pakistan, by posting jihadi videos and messages on the Internet between October 2009 and January 2011. Using several aliases, according to the prosecutors, he posted audio and text messages that glorified IMU’s battle against “enemies of Islam” and killing of ­non-believers.

January—UK/Syria—On April 18, 2014, British officials announced an investigation into the death of Abdullah Deghayes, 18, a Briton who skipped going to university, ran away from his Brighton home in January 2014 to fight in Syria, where he was killed in recent weeks. He is the nephew of released Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Deghayes, who was held as an enemy combatant between 2002 and 2007.

January—Syria—At least 15 ISIS gunmen arrived in 3 cars in Rabiaa, in northwest Latakia, arrested moderate rebel guards protecting a hospital, then crashed into the building in hopes of attacking rebels receiving medical attention. Staff helped 2 rebels escape to ­al-Yamdiah Hospital. The ISIS gunmen then attacked that hospital, killing one wounded rebel and kidnapping another. The staff closed the hospital to protest the attack. ISIS freed the patient.

January—Syria—ISIS attacked the ­al-Biranas Hospital, a facility run by the Belgian branch of Doctors Without Borders and kidnapped 5 doctors from Belgium, Denmark, Peru, Sweden, and Switzerland. The group closed a hospital and 2 medical centers. Three were freed in April 2014; the 2 others were freed in May 2014. 14019901

January 1—Czech Republic—Palestinian Ambassador Jamel ­al-Jamal, 56, died of his injuries when explosives went off while he was moving an old office safe box in his apartment in Prague’s Suchdol neighborhood. His wife, 52, was taken to another hospital for shock. Senior Czech police official Martin Cervicek told Czech public television that there was no evidence of terrorist involvement. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki suggested that the safe’s door was ­booby-trapped; it had not been touched for more than 20 years before recently being moved from the old embassy building and a facility used by the Palestine Liberation Organization in the 1980s. This view was contradicted by Palestinian Embassy spokesman Nabil ­el-Fahel, who said that the safe “was used on a daily basis at the embassy and it was opened and closed almost every day.” The victim’s daughter, Rana ­al-Jamal, 30, added, “The Palestinian official account is baseless. The safe box has been in regular use—my mom (who lives there) told me that. The box was moved a day earlier and apparently something happened in the way. We, the family, believe it is a crime, and we need to find out what happened.” Police said the case involved negligence and possession of unregistered weapons that were found at the residence. The mayor of the neighborhood called for the Palestinian representation to move elsewhere.

On January 16, 2014, Czech investigators found explosives at the Palestinian embassy complex. They had earlier discovered 12 illegal weapons in the compound. Palestinian authorities told the Czechs that the weapons were gifts from the previous Czecho­slovak regime to the Palestine Liberation Organization.

AP reported on March 31, 2014, that Czech investigators had determined that Ambassador Jamal ­al-Jamal did not die from a bomb in the safe. The safe was not ­booby-trapped and did not contain a bomb. His death was thus being investigated as a case of negligence.

January 1—Somalia—Two ­al-Shabaab suicide car bombers set off explosives during the night outside the Jazeera Hotel near Mogadishu’s Aden Adde international airport, killing 10, including government soldiers, and injuring 2 people. The second bomb went off as first responders were arriving. The hotel is popular with expats and government officials. Jihadis had warned about New Year’s celebrations. Al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Hussein, alias Abu Jabal, told German reporters that “Yes, we did this. It was a sacred attack and hit its target. It is not the first and would not be the last. We are warning residents in Mogadishu to stay away from the areas of the infidels and ­so-called Somali government bases.”

McClatchy Newspapers reported hit and run attacks and grenade bombings against Somali military bases throughout Mogadishu.

January 1—Iraq—Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan Ibrahim announced the arrest in Baghdad of Shi’ite cleric Wathiq ­al-Batat, leader of the ­Iranian-backed Mukhtar Army militia. In November 2013, ­al-Batat took credit for 6 mortar shells that landed in Saudi Arabia, saying he was retaliating for Saudi religious decrees he deemed insulting to Shi’ites. He also said he was behind attacks against a camp hosting an Iranian opposition group. He had earlier led Iraq’s Hizballah Brigades.

January 2—Kenya—Two men on a motorcycle threw a grenade at the Tandoori restaurant in Mombasa’s Diani area, injuring 10 people, one of whom underwent surgery.

January 2—U.S.—The Chinese Consulate in San Francisco was damaged in an arson attack. The Consulate’s website said that someone pulled 2 buckets of gasoline out of a nearby van, poured it on the front of the building, and set it alight. The FBI launched an arson investigation of the incident, which caused no injuries. FBI Special Agent David Johnson said the incident was a criminal matter versus terrorism. The FBI arrested Chinese citizen with Permanent Resident status Yan Feng, 39, of San Francisco’s Daly City suburb, on January 3 after he called police. A federal affidavit said Feng told investigators that he had been hearing Chinese voices, so he believed the Consulate was involved. He was charged with causing damage to property of a foreign government and arson.

January 2—Tunisia—Authorities arrested 4 Ansar ­al-Shariah terrorists after nighttime gun battles in Sidi Bouzid and confiscated explosives, money, ammunition and an assault rifle.

Tunisian media reported on December 30, 2013, that Ansar leader Seifallah Ben Hassine had been arrested in Libya.

January 2—Yemen—Gunmen shot to death senior intelligence officer Colonel Marawan ­al-Moqbouli as he was riding in his car in Aden.

January 2—Iraq—A pickup truck bomb killed 19 people and wounded 37 on a commercial street in Balad Ruz.

January 2—Iraq—Al-Qaeda gunmen conducted simultaneous attacks against police stations in Ramadi and Fallujah.

A sticky bomb attached to a public minibus went off in Baghdad’s Shaab district, killing 4 people and wounding 6.

A bomb hit a military patrol in Mosul, killing 3 soldiers and injuring 5.

A bomb went off in a Latifiyah outdoor vegetable market, killing 5 civilians and wounding 9.

In a gun battle at a military post in Latifiyah, 2 soldiers and 3 terrorists were killed and 5 other soldiers were wounded.

January 2—Lebanon—A bomb apparently hidden in a parked car went off in Beirut’s ­Hizballah-controlled Shi’ite suburb of Haret Hreik, killing 5 people and injuring 66. On January 4, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed credit in a website posting, saying it was a “first, small payment from the heavy account that awaits those wicked criminals.” On January 6, Abbas Karnib, 52, a Lebanese reporter who had worked for 2 decades for Hizballah’s ­al-Manar TV station, died of his wounds. He was married with 4 children.

Lebanese officials identified the suicide bomber as Lebanese citizen Qutaiba ­al-Satem, 19, who lived near the Syrian border. A neighbor said ­al-Satem and his brother had joined the Syrian rebels.

January 2—Libya—The bodies of British citizen Mark De Salis and a New Zealand woman—both teachers in Tripoli who were shot to death—were found next to their luggage near an oil and gas complex outside Sabratha. De Salis had worked in Tripoli for 6 years, recently as an electric power manager. 14010201

January 3—Egypt—Three explosions, including a roadside bomb, hit a military/police convoy near the northern Sinai town of Sheikh Zuweid, close to the border with the Gaza Strip.

January 3—Pakistan—Gunmen killed 2 Ahle Sunnat Waljamaat clerics. The group is linked to the banned ­Sipah-e-Sahaba. The next day, more than 2,000 members of the Sunni group in Islamabad demonstrated against the murders.

January 3—Iraq—Gunmen ambushed an Army patrol near Falluja, killing 4 soldiers and stealing 8 Humvees.

January 4—Afghanistan—In a morning attack, a Taliban suicide bomber hit a joint ­NATO-Afghan base in Nangarhar Province’s Ghani Khail District, killing an American soldier. NATO troops killed 5 Taliban gunmen trying to storm the base on foot. A separate explosion from a Taliban mine going off at 7:30 a.m. at Camp Eggers caused no other casualties. 14010401

January 4—Iraq—The Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (al-Qaeda in Iraq) claimed it had taken over Fallujah and Ramadi. The next day, Anbar Province officials said fighting between the army and terrorists killed 22 soldiers, 12 civilians, and an unknown number of terrorists; 58 people were wounded.

January 4—Mauritania—The Nouakchott Information Agency website reported that a message from the Maraboutines group listed its 2013 attacks and warned that it would attack interests of “France and her allies” in retaliation for France’s military intervention in Mali. The group was formed in August 2013 in a merger between the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa and followers of Mokh­tar Belmokhtar.

January 5—Iraq—Bombs killed 70 people throughout the country.

Two parked car bombs went off near a restaurant and tea house in Baghdad’s Shaab neighborhood, killing 10 and wounding 26.

A bomb went off in Baghdad’s Bab ­al-Muadham area, killing 3 and wounding 6.

Two bombs in Baghdad killed 2 and wounded 13.

A car bomb went off in Baghdad’s Sadr City, killing 5 and wounding 10.

January 5—Lebanon—The U.S. Embassy urged Americans to avoid hotels, Western shopping malls, grocery stores, and social events involving numbers of Americans.

January 5—Spain—The Interior Ministry announced that police at Malaga Airport arrested Abdeluahid Sadik Mohamed, suspected of membership in an ­al-Qaeda–linked group who had participated in the Syrian uprising, as he arrived on a flight from Istanbul. He had flown on May 2, 2013, from Casablanca, Morocco, to Istanbul, then crossed into Syria. The Interior Ministry said he trained in an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant camp.

January 5—Yemen—President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi refused to extradite any Yemenis to any foreign country, including Abd ­al-Wahhab Muhammad ­Abdal-Rahman Humayqani, secretary general of the ultraconservative Salafi Yemeni Rashad Union, whom the U.S. accused of using his ­Yemen-based charity to finance AQAP and facilitate financial transfers from AQAP supporters in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The U.S. imposed financial sanctions on him in December 2013.

January 5—Tunisia—Death threats against ­left-wing Popular Front deputy Mongi Rahoui prevented Tunisia’s Constitutional Assembly from selecting an election commission.

January 5—St. Kitts and Nevis—Just before dawn, an arsonist destroyed the Venezuelan Embassy in Bassetterre and damaged offices used by the Organization of American States. No injuries were reported. Police detained 2 men. Prime Minister Denzil Douglas said the arsons were politically motivated, noting that they occurred after an opposition Unity Party rally. 14010501-02

January 6—Pakistan—Aitzaz Hasan, 17, died while trying to stop a suicide bomber who was about to target his school in a remote village in Hangu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. Hasan chased the attacker, who detonated his bomb.

January 6—Nigeria—A small explosion went off at a high court in southern Rivers State, causing no injuries. The government and opposition blamed each other.

January 6—Greece—Convicted November 17 member Christodoulos Xiros, 55, broke the terms of his 9-day prison furlough by missing a daily appearance at a northern police station. Police announced a search for Xiros, who had served 10 years of his 6 life terms for a series of N-17 assassinations and bombings. He and 2 of his brothers were convicted in 2003 of membership in N-17. He was due to return to prison on January 8. On January 20, he posted an Internet video in which he announced that he was returning to armed action, observing, “I once again decided to make the guerrilla rifle thunder against those who stole our lives and sold our dreams to make a profit,” referring to the Greek financial crisis, attacking the media, the judiciary, the police and the extreme ­right-wing Golden Dawn party. He said the ruling coalition parties—the conservative New Democracy and the socialist Pasok—were guilty of treason, and the “price of their treason is death.” He said the financial crisis made Greece and other countries colonies of “German occupation.” “If we ever meet again, which I don’t hope (and neither should you) you will do well to kill me. Because if you take me captive again, I will leave again to fight you to the end.” On January 22, 2014, Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias announced a 4 million euros ($5.4 million) reward for information leading to the capture of terrorists, including Christodoulos Xiros.

January 6—Rwanda—Terrorists threw a grenade into the home of the mayor of Musanze district, killing a baby. Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda rebels based in the Congo were suspected.

January 6—Afghanistan—Ten-year-old Spozhmai told border police in the Khan Neshin district in Helmand Province that her Taliban commander brother Zahir put a suicide vest on her. She refused to set it off at a Helmand checkpoint. The Taliban denied responsibility. Border police arrested her father, Abdul Ghfar. She said her brother told her to go to the checkpoint and ask the deputy commander to drive her to Kunar Province.

January 7—Iraq—A suicide truck bomber hit a Kirkuk police station, killing 2 and wounding 55.

A roadside bomb hit an army patrol in Madain, killing a soldier and wounding another.

A bomb hit a Sahwa patrol in Jisr Diyala, a Baghdad suburb, killing one and wounding 4.

A government spokesman said an airstrike killed 25 al-Qaeda terrorists in Anbar Province.

January 7—Nigeria—Gunmen attacked a Christian village in the Shonong community of Plateau State for 4 hours. Police said 5 were killed, but survivors and legislator Daniel Dem said 30 villagers were killed, 40 homes were burned down and scores of cattle were stolen. Survivors blamed Fulani Muslim herdsmen.

January 8—Iraq—In an afternoon attack, gunmen shot to death 7 women and 5 men in a brothel in Baghdad’s Zayouna district.

Later that day, gunmen killed 12 soldiers at an army barracks in Diyala Province.

January 8—Nigeria—Gunmen yelled “Allahu’akbar” then fired at worshippers at a mosque in the Kwankwaso village of Kano State’s governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, killing 3 and hospitalizing 12. The governor’s elderly father escaped unhurt. Heshimu Suleiman, a special assistant to the governor, said the politically motivated attack aimed to punish Kwankwaso for leaving the People’s Democratic Party of President Goodluck Jonathan for the opposition All Progressives Congress coalition in November 2013.

January 8—U.S.—Jamie ­Paulin-Ramirez, 35, of Leadville, Colorado, was sentenced to 8 years in prison for supporting Ali Charaf Damache, an Algerian al-­Qaeda–linked individual.

January 8—Russia—Authorities found 6 bodies of men shot to death in 4 abandoned cars in the Pyati­gorsk suburbs, north of the Caucasus Mountains region. ­Booby-trapped bombs were placed near 3 of the cars, although only one went off. No one was hurt. NTV Television said the men were from predominantly Muslim ­Kabardino-Balkaria, south of Pyatigorsk. Two of the men were taxi drivers; a third built furniture but also was a freelance cabbie. They drove ­Soviet-era Ladas.

January 8—Spain—Spanish police arrested 8 individuals suspected of ties to ETA, including 2 attorneys who had represented ETA defendants. The raids occurred in town in the Basque region and Navarre.

January 9—Nigeria—Military spokesman Colonel Muhammed Dole said soldiers killed 38 jihadis in an ambush against terrorists attacking Damboa village in Borno State at 1 a.m. One soldier died in the clash. Soldiers seized 3 vehicles carrying ­high-caliber weapons, ammunition, bombs and food.

January 9—Iraq—NPR reported that 21 people died and 35 were wounded when a suicide bomber hit a military recruiting center in Baghdad’s Allawi neighborhood in the morning.

January 9—Syria—A car bomb exploded near a school in the ­al-Kaffat village in Hama Province, killing between 16 and 18 people and damaging a residential area populated by minority Ismaili Shi’ites. Radical Sunnis were suspected.

January 9—Pakistan—Senior police official Munir Sheikh told the news media that a remotely-detonated roadside bomb destroyed the armored SUV of senior police investigator Chaudhry Aslam, who was killed along with 2 other officers traveling with him through a commercial area in Karachi. Aslam specialized in tracking down Pakistani Taliban terrorists, who had tried to kill him earlier. In September 2011, a suicide bomber killed 8 people when he set off his car bomb outside Aslam’s home. Pakistani Taliban spokesman Sajjad Mohmand took credit for the assassination, saying Aslam had tortured their colleagues.

January 9—Somalia—Kenyan military spokesman Major Emmanuel Chirchir said that Kenyan fighter jets attacked an ­al-Shabaab camp at Garbarahey in Gedo Region, killing 30 jihadis who were meeting. The targets included ­al-Shabaab leader Ahmed Godane, who was not killed.

January 10—Mali—UN MINUSMA peacekeepers’ spokesman Olivier Salgado told the press that 3 ­Chadian peacekeepers were wounded while chasing suspects during the evening in Aguel’hoc following an attack near a military camp. 14011001

January 10—Somalia—Al-Shabaab ordered telecom companies to shut down mobile 3G Internet services within 15 days, saying they were “enemy collaborators” helping the U.S. find them. The group said the service “corrupts the morals of society” by helping the enemy “to know your movements,” which they had learned about by following “the spying scandals practiced by the Americans.”

January 11—Austria—Two 50ish men died when a hand grenade exploded in their ­Bulgarian-registered car in Vienna’s Ottakring district in the early morning.

January 11—Iraq—Fighting in Anbar Province between ­al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadis and government forces killed at least 60 people during the previous 2 weeks. The head of Anbar’s Health Directorate, Khudeir Shalal, said that 43 died in Ramadi and 17 died in Fallujah. Another 297 people were wounded in the cities. The numbers did not include military casualties.

Gunmen killed 2 police officers at a security checkpoint in Mosul.

January 11—Russia—The National ­Anti-Terrorism Committee announced the arrest of 5 terrorism suspects in Nalchik, 185 east of Sochi. Authorities seized grenades and ammunition and a defused a ­shrapnel-packed bomb.

January 11—Libya—Gunmen assassinated Deputy Minister of Electricity Hassan Draouai, a former member of the wartime transition council, near a central market in Sirte during the night.

January 12—Nigeria—Northeastern Nigerian government official Alhaji Talba said attackers torched houses and shops at night in 2 neighboring villages, killing at least 5 people.

January 12—Pakistan—A bomb went off in Peshawar’s Shangla neighborhood near the convoy of Amir Muqam, a Cabinet aide and former parliamentarian, killing 2 police officers and 3 of his private guards. He was not hurt. Muqam told Geo News TV that it was the 6th attack he had survived.

Later that day, gunmen on a motorcycle killed Mian Mohammad Mushtaq, provincial leader of an anti–Taliban secular party, and his 2 aides in suburban Peshawar.

January 12—Iraq—A car bomb exploded outside a Baghdad bus station, killing 9 and wounding 16 civilians.

A parked car bomb exploded among buses and taxis in Baghdad’s Hurriyah district, killing 4 and wounding 12.

At sunset, gunmen attacked a military convoy in Abu Ghraib.

A suicide car bomb exploded in Tuz Khormato. Soon after, a bomb exploded in a nearby cart. The bombs killed 3 and wounded 27.

January 12—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide bomber on a bicycle attacked a bus carrying police recruits in eastern Kabul, killing a police officer and a civilian employee of a police training center, and wounding 6 civilian bystanders and 14 bus passengers, among them police and civilians.

January 12—Yemen—AQAP fired ­anti-aircraft guns mounted on pickup trucks at barracks in a coast guard camp in ­al-Shahr in Hadramawt Province, killing 4. The military responded with tanks and troops

January 12—Philippines—A man threw a grenade at a fire truck near a barracks of security guards at the ­state-run Cotabato Foundation College of Science and Technology in Arakan town, wounding 24 people, including government personnel who were fighting a fire. The injured included a police officer, government firefighters, students, and school guards. Two were in serious condition. The attacker fled.

January 12—Greece—On February 12, 2014, the Popular Fighters Group sent a 20-page manifesto to the weekly satirical newspaper To Pontiki claiming responsibility for firing a rocket at the headquarters of ­Mercedes-Benz on the outskirts of Athens during the night of January 12, as part of a “campaign against the German capitalist machine.” The group was responding to Greece’s financial crisis and Germany’s role in enforcing Greek financial reforms. The attack commemorated a destitute man who had committed suicide in Athens’s main Syntagma Square in April 2012.

January 13—India—Police and paramilitary forces killed 2 suspected terrorists and trapped a third in a clash in Sopore, Kashmir.

January 13—Gaza Strip—Terrorists fired 2 rockets that failed to land in Israel, a few hours before the funeral of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The burial site was within the range of the rockets. No injuries or damage was reported. The rockets landed in the sea.

January 13—China—State media reported that 14 people were killed and 7 injured in a 2:30 p.m. explosion at an illegal gambling hall in Kaili in Guizhou Province. Police believed it was deliberately set. Some observers suggested organized crime was involved.

January 13—U.S.—Craig Baxam, 26, of Laurel, Maryland, was sentenced to 7 years in prison after pleading guilty to traveling to Africa to try to join ­al-Shabaab and destroying his computer to hide evidence in a federal terrorism investigation. He was not convicted of an earlier charge of attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization. He was represented by attorney Linda Moreno. He was born in Takoma Park, Maryland and graduated from Laurel High School in 2005. He had served in the Army.

January 13—UK—West Midlands Police at Heath­row Airport arrested 2 21-year-old Birmingham men on suspicion of participating in terrorist activities in Syria in May 2013. The duo arrived on a flight from Istanbul, Turkey. Yusuf Sarwar and Mohammed Ahmed appeared in Westminster Magistrates Court in London on January 18, charged with traveling on or before May 15, 2013, to Syria, “with the intention of committing acts of terrorism” and preparing to engage in acts of terrorism. They were remanded in custody until their January 31 hearing at London’s Old Bailey Court. They pleaded guilty to one count of preparing terrorist acts. On December 5, 2014, the 2 Birmingham residents were sentenced to 13 years by Judge Michael Topolski, who observed that the duo “enthusiastically” tried to commit acts of terrorism and were deeply committed to violence.

January 13—Iraq—A car bomb exploded during the night near a market in Baghdad’s Shaab district, killing 10, including 3 policemen, and wounding 13.

A car bomb in a northwestern Baghdad commercial area killed 5 and wounded 14.

A car bomb went off on a commercial street in Baghdad’s Hurriyah neighborhood, killing 4 and wounding 12.

A car bomb exploded on a commercial street in northern Baghdad, killing 3 and wounding 13.

January 14—Iraq—Drive-by gunmen killed a judge and his driver in Baghdad in a morning attack.

A sticky bomb exploded on a minibus in Sadr City in the afternoon, killing 3 passengers and wounding 8.

A roadside bomb in northern Baghdad missed its police patrol target, killing a civilian and wounding 6.

Gunmen in a ­drive-by shooting fired at an army checkpoint in Abu Ghraib, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 2 others.

A car bomb went off in the evening on a commercial street in Baghdad’s Ghazaliyah district, killing 6 and wounding 16.

A second car bomb in Ghazaliyah killed 2 and wounded 6.

A car bomb in a northeastern Baghdad suburb killed 3 and wounded 7.

January 14—Nigeria—A Boko Haram suicide bomber was suspected when a car bomb killed 17 people at the JTF Sector 4 military checkpoint in a commercial area of Maiduguri at 1:30 p.m. A second car caught fire. At least 15 vehicles and 4 motorcycle taxis were destroyed.

Nigeria’s military said Boko Haram set off a car bomb that killed 43 people in Maiduguri. Senator Ali Sheriff, a former state governor, blamed political opponents.

January 14—Turkey—The Dogan news service reported that police conducted raids in Istanbul and 5 other Turkish cities, detaining 5 people believed linked to al-Qaeda, including 2 employees of the Islamic aid Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) that assists Syria. The ­state-run Anadolu Agency reported the 3 were arrested in Istanbul and 2 others were held in Kayseri and Kilis. Dogan reported that 2 senior al-Qaeda suspects were arrested. IHH told the press that its storage facility in Kilis near Syria was searched. The IHH had organized the ­Gaza-bound aid flotilla that was halted by Israeli authorities in 2010.

January 14—Lebanon—The ­al-Qaeda–linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades threatened to attack Iran and Hizballah following the death of Majid ­al-Majid, its leader in Lebanon.

January 14—Yemen—Two suspected AQAP ­drive-by gunmen assassinated Colonel Abd ­al-Ghani ­al-Muqalih, the general manager of a ­military-affiliated corporation, in Hadramout Province.

January 15—Afghanistan—An insurgent shot to death a NATO service member in the east.

January 15—Lebanon—The army announced it captured Jamal Daftardar of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades during a raid in a village near the Syrian border. A second gunman holding a grenade was killed.

January 15—Russia—After terrorists barricaded themselves inside a home in Karlanyurt, Dagestan, a gun fight broke out, killing 3 security force members and 2 terrorists. Among the dead was Marat Idrisov, who the National ­Anti-terrorism Committee said was behind attacks on security officials and religious leaders in southern Russia, including a bombing that killed 3 in Pyatigorsk.

January 15—Iraq—At least 44 people died in attacks across the country.

A terrorist bombing killed 16 people and wounded 26 inside a mourning tent in Buhriz, 35 miles north of Baghdad. The funeral was for a Sahwa member who died of natural causes.

A parked car bomb exploded in an outdoor market in Baghdad’s Shula area, killing 5 and wounding 12. A bomb at a nearby market killed 3 and wounded 10.

A car bomb went off in Baghdad’s Shaab neighborhood, killing 4 and wounding 14.

A car bomb exploded in a commercial area in Baghdad’s Karrada area, killing 4 and wounding 14. A second car bomb in Karrada killed 2 and wounded 10.

A car bomb in a market in Baghdad’s Hussainya area killed 4 and wounded 11.

A car bomb on Palestine Street in Baghdad killed 3 and wounded 10.

A car bomb in Baghdad’s Maamil area killed 3 and wounded 8.

January 15—Nigeria—Six people died in a gun battle between suspected Boko Haram terrorists and local authorities. The gunmen arrived on motorcycles and a van and threw a bomb at the Banki police station southwest of Maiduguri. Various reports said 2 soldiers, 1–4 policemen, and several civilians died.

January 15—Cameroon—Nigerian civilians rushed across the border to escape a Boko Haram attack on Banki town. When Boko Haram chased them, Came­roonian forces responded. At least one woman died in Cameroon and 5 other people were wounded. Authorities arrested scores of people. 14011501

January 16—Nigeria—Borno State police spokes­man Gideon Jibrin said at least 7 people were shot dead and 3 others drowned while fleeing a Boko Haram attack in the Gashigar border fishing community.

January 16—Gaza Strip—Gunman fired 5 rockets at Israel. The Army’s Iron Dome ­anti-missile system shot them down, causing no injuries or damage. The IDF responded with air strikes in Gaza, hitting a rocket launcher and weapons facilities.

January 16—Lebanon—Lebanon’s ­state-run National News Agency quoted Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil as reporting that a suicide car bomb exploded during morning rush hour near 2 banks and close to government offices in the Shi’ite town of Hermel on the Syrian border, a Hizballah stronghold, killing 4 and wounding 26.

January 16—Yemen—Suspected AQAP terrorists stormed a military camp outside Radda, killing 8 soldiers and wounding 10. The terrorists escaped with a military armored vehicle, which soldiers soon recovered.

Meanwhile, a guard fired on a suspicious man outside a Radda court, setting off the suicide bomber’s explosives before he could enter the court.

Gunmen shot to death intelligence chief Colonel Mohamed Ali ­al-Qadimi en route to his Aden Province home. He escaped a previous assassination attempt.

January 16—Pakistan—A nighttime explosion at a Sunni seminary in Peshawar killed 6 and wounded 51. The cause was unclear.

January 16—UK—Scotland Yard officers arrested Nawal Msaad, 26, as she was preparing to board an ­Istanbul-bound plane at Heathrow Airport. Authorities seized a “large quantity” of cash and held her on suspicion of terrorism. Authorities also arrested Amal el-Wahabi, 27, in northern London on terrorism charges. Police said the duo were suspected of involvement in the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorism. On January 22, the British duo were charged with arranging funds which “they knew or had reasonable cause to suspect” would or might be used “for the purposes of terrorism” in Syria. They were to appear on January 23 at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ court.

On August 13, 2014, a jury found Amal ­el-Wahabi guilty of funding terrorism by asking her friend, Nawal Msaad, 27, to hide 20,000 Euros ($26,000) in her underwear on a flight from London to Istanbul in an attempt to get it to her husband, an alleged jihadi in Syria. Msaad agreed to do so for payment, but was detained at Heathrow Airport. Msaad was acquitted of funding terrorism charges.

January 16—Russia—Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov posted on Instagram that Doku Umarov, leader of the Caucasus Emirate in Chechnya, had died, citing intercepted communications from rebel leaders discussing succession plans.

January 16—Kenya—An explosion during the night at the Java House restaurant outside Nairobi’s airport damaged a metal trash can and the ceiling. No one was injured. Kenyan police chief David Kimaiyo initially blamed the explosion on a light bulb falling into a trash can, but suspicion later turned to ­al-Shabaab.

Police fired at a car leaving the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport after its 3 occupants refused to stop at a checkpoint at the main gate. Police patrolling a Nairobi slum 20 minutes away found a ­bullet-pocked car with a dead body and a 2-kilogram TNT bomb inside. Investigators suggested it was part of the shooting at the airport gate. Witnesses told police that 2 men fled from the car.

On February 4, 2014, 4 men, including Ilyas Yusuf Warsame, identified by defense attorneys as the Third Secretary at the Somali Embassy in Nai­robi, were charged in a Kenyan court with ­terrorism-related offenses in connection with the explosion. Prosecutors said police found 50 grams of TNT at a residence in a Somali enclave in Nairobi’s Eastleigh district. ­Anti-terrorism police officer Leonard Bwire testified that the 4 sneaked in and out of the country to either train with ­al-Shabaab or to bring in explosives. Hassan Abdi Mohamed, Mohamed Osman Ali, Ilyas Yusuf Warsame and Garad Hassan Fer were charged with acquiring Kenyan identification documents fraudulently, along with terrorism offenses. Magistrate Doreen Mulekyo set a bail hearing for the following week. 14011601

January 16—Italy—Police arrested Abdelkader Tliba at the Italian port of Ancona during an ID check and handed over to the French. He was on his way back to France from Syria, having joined the Islamic State with childhood friend Ibrahim Boudina, who was picked up by the French on February 11, 2014.

January 17—Thailand—A grenade was thrown at a truck near a crowd of ­anti-government demonstrators, hospitalizing 36. Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban, who was several dozen yards behind the truck, was not injured. Soldiers and police found 5 ­walkie-talkies, several knives, rifle parts and 2 flashlights in a search of the area.

January 17—Lebanon—A security official told the news media that rockets hit a town on the Syrian border, killing 6 people, including 2 children.

January 17—Iraq—A suicide bomber hit a Sahwa militia meeting in Ramadi, killing 3 and wounding 4.

Two civilians were killed in the crossfire during a gunfight between al-Qaeda and security forces in Fallujah.

January 17—Greece—The People’s Avengers sent threatening letters in envelopes that also contained bullets to Bank of Greece chief George Provopoulos and a prominent Mega television journalist. A bank security guard handed an unopened envelope containing 2 bullets to police.

January 17—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide bomber hit the popular La Taverna du Liban restaurant in central Kabul’s Wazir Akbar Khan district in the early evening, killing 13 foreigners, including 4 UN employees, and 8 Afghan citizens, all civilians, and wounding at least 4 people. Deputy Interior Minister Ayoub Salangi said “there were a number of people wounded, including drivers and people waiting outside and in neighboring houses.”

The dead included:

• Two U.S. citizens working for the American University of Afghanistan, including Dr. Alexandros Ptersen, who had recently joined the political science faculty

• Basra Hassan, a ­Somali-American working as a nutrition specialist for UNICEF

• Two British citizens—development specialist Dharmender Singh Phangura and close protection officer Simon Chase. Phangura was an adviser for Adam Smith International. He planned to run as a Labour Party candidate in upcoming elections for the European Parliament.

• Two Canadian citizens who worked for a Canadian financial services firm, Samson and Associates. The head of the firm said the 2 men—one from Quebec, one from Ontario—were conducting audits for the Canadian International Development Agency.

• Two Lebanese citizens, including Khanjar Wabel Abdallah, 60, the International Monetary Fund’s Lebanese representative; and Kamal Hamade, owner of the restaurant

• A Danish police officer

• Vadim Nazarov, 59, a Russian citizen who served as chief political affairs officer at the UN Mission in Afghanistan. He was fluent in Dari and had served in the country since the 1980s, initially as a Soviet diplomat, returning in 2005 with the UN political team. He was a key player in coordinating the peace process between Kabul and the Taliban. He had served as a Russian diplomat in Iran and Turkey.

• Nasreen Khan, a Pakistani citizen who worked as a health specialist for UNICEF

• A Malaysian citizen who was an adviser for Adam Smith, International

• A young Afghan couple who were married 5 months earlier and had honeymooned in Dubai

Security officials told the AP and Reuters that a suicide bomber set off explosives at the front door while 2 terrorists entered through the rear door of the kitchen and fired AK-47s on customers and employees. Some restaurant staffers were able to escape by jumping from the roof. In a 20-minute gun battle, police shot dead the 2 gunmen.

Taliban Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the “revenge attack” was for that week’s NATO airstrike and Afghan military attack in Parwan Province that killed a Taliban leader, 3 of his family members, 7 Taliban members and 5 civilians in a neighborhood where terrorists were firing on Afghan commandos. “The target of the attack was a restaurant frequented by ­high-ranking foreigners … where the invaders used to dine with booze and liquor in the plenty…. In this attack we have used very heavy explosives which caused heavy losses to the enemy. According to our initial information, which we received, in this attack we attacked senior officials from the German military and government.” The attack was a “heavy admonitory blow to the enemy which they shall never forget.” 14011701

January 17—Russia—Several people were wounded when a bomb and grenade went off outside a Ma­khach­kala restaurant. The next day, Russia’s ­Anti-Terrorist Committee claimed authorities killed 7 suspects, including a woman, in a ­shoot-out at a safe house in Makhachkala.

January 17—Central African Republic—Save the Children spokesman Mike McCusker told the media that terrorists fired a ­rocket-propelled grenade to stop a convoy of Muslim refugees outside Bouar, then attacked them with automatic rifles, clubs and machetes, killing 22 people, including 3 children.

January 17—UK—West Midlands Police arrested a 21-year-old man from Birmingham on suspicion of attending a terrorist training camp in Syria. He was returning to Gatwick Airport from Istanbul.

January 17—Pakistan—Pakistani Taliban gunmen murdered a driver, a technician and a security staffer for the private Express News television channel in Karachi. The group said the TV channel and other news media were supporting government efforts against the Taliban.

January 17—Libya—Masked gunmen kidnapped 2 Italians on the road between Derna and Tobruk. The duo worked for a telecommunications company under contract to the Communications Ministry. The driver said the Italians were forced out of the vehicle. Residents of neighboring Martouba blocked the road with sandbags to protest the kidnapping. 14011702

January 17—Libya—Gun battles in Sabha killed 3 soldiers and injured 4 other troops in revenge attacks between the ­African-origin Tabu tribe and the ­Arab-origin Awlad Soliman at 2 2 military bases in Sabha.

January 18—Yemen—Drive-by gunmen killed Ali Asghar Asadi, Iran’s economic attaché, while he was driving from the Iranian Ambassador’s home in the Hadda neighborhood in Sana’a. Iranian state television said he sustained 4 gunshot wounds to the chest and stomach (a Yemeni security official said Asadi took 3 bullets to the chest and shoulder). Investigators believed it was a botched kidnapping attempt. 14011801

January 18—Iraq—A bomb exploded inside a market in Baghdad’s Madain district, killing 3 and wounding 9.

Two bombs near a Kirkuk market killed one person and injured 15.

January 18—Thailand—A gunman fired at ­anti-government protesters in Bangkok’s Lad Prao district, seriously wounding in the back a 54-year-old male volunteer guard at a barricade who was checking vehicles and people entering the protest area.

January 19—Pakistan—The Pakistani Taliban bombed a truck carrying security forces at an army base near North Waziristan, killing at least 28 people, most of them soldiers, and injuring 30. The vehicle was hired by the paramilitary Frontier Corps, as part of a convoy that was about to leave the military base in Bannu for the normal troop rotation. Pakistani Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid phoned the AP to say that it was avenging the death of former deputy chief Waliur Rehman. “We will avenge the killing of every one of our fellows through such attacks.”

January 19—Thailand—The Bangkok emergency center told news media that 28 people were wounded when 2 ­Russian-built, ­anti-personnel RGD-5 fragmentation grenades exploded minutes apart during an ­anti-government protest near Victory Monument. The first bomb exploded 200 yards from a stage set up by protesters. The second hit a row of vendors selling ­anti-government ­T-shirts.

January 19—Iraq—Gunmen fired at a Sahwa checkpoint in Baqouba, killing the local leader and 4 aides.

January 19—France—Interior Minister Manuel Valls told iTele TV that nearly one dozen French adolescents had left for Syria to join jihadi groups or were trying to go. He said French intelligence services had identified 6 ­would-be jihadi adolescents.

January 19—Yemen—A gunman on a motorcycle killed Police Director Abd ­el-Wali ­el-Turkmi with a shot to the head while ­el-Turkmi was driving his car in Taiz.

January 19—Russia—Vilayat Dagestan, also reported as Ansar ­al-Sunna, a jihadi group in the North Caucasus, released a 49-minute Internet video in which it claimed credit for the 2 December 2013 Volgograd bombings and threatened to attack the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Two Russian speakers claiming to be the suicide bombers from Dagestan told President Vladimir Putin “That which we will do, that which we have done, is only a little example, a little step…. If you hold these Olympics, we will give you a present for the innocent Muslim blood being spilled all around the world: in Afghanistan, in Somalia, in Syria … for the tourists who come, there will be a present, too.” The group claimed that Sulei­man and Abdurakhman were the suicide bombers.

January 19—UK—Scotland Yard detained a 21-year-old man at London’s Stansted Airport on suspicion of terrorism offenses. He was returning on a nighttime flight from Istanbul.

January 19—Libya—Gunmen killed Mohammed Karah, a member of a ­pro-government militia that was fighting alongside army forces in clashes with gangs south of Tripoli. The gangs had stolen cars and blocked roads in the Rishfana suburb. Two other government officials were wounded.

January 19—Colombia—In a ­pre-dawn air and ground attack on a FARC camp in Arauca State, the armed forces killed 14 members of a FARC column responsible for sabotage of oil installations and an August 2013 attack that killed 14 soldiers.

January 19–20—Nigeria—Boko Haram gunmen were suspected in an attack on Alau farming village in Borno State that killed 19 residents and wounded women and children. The terrorists burned more than 100 homes and stole 10 vehicles. They terrorists arrived in van and motorcycles and yelled “God is great.”

January 20—Libya—In the morning, gunmen blocked the road in front of the car of Han ­Seok-woo, a 39-year old South Korean official of the Korea ­Trade-Investment Promotion Agency KOTRA in Tripoli’s upscale Qarqarish neighborhood as Han was leaving the South Korean Embassy, forced him out of his car, then pushed him into their car and escaped. Han’s driver was unhurt. 14012001

January 20—Iraq—Bombs killed 31 people across the country.

A roadside bomb hit a police convoy in Ramadi, killing 2 police officers and a local TV cameraman who was covering the battle with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

A bomb hit an outdoor market south of Baghdad, killing 7 and wounding 13.

A bomb in a neighboring commercial street killed 2 people.

A bomb in southeastern Baghdad killed 3 and wounded 7.

A bomb in a northern Baghdad suburb killed 3 and wounded 6.

Two car bombs near Baghdad court buildings killed 7 and wounded 22.

A car bomb in a commercial street in western Baghdad killed 3 and wounded 9.

A car bomb in southwestern Baghdad killed 3 and wounded 11.

January 20—Afghanistan—Nine Taliban terrorists wearing coalition uniforms attacked a NATO base in Kandahar’s Zhari District. The 9 suicide bombers and gunmen fired automatic rifles. Two civilian bystanders—a sheep herder and his 13-year-old daughter—and a NATO service member died. The gunmen were also wearing suicide vests. Jawed Faisal, spokesman for the governor of eastern Kandahar, said “First a suicide car bomber exploded near the entrance of the base, then other attackers armed with weapons engaged…. Eight attackers were gunned down in the firefights. There were a total of 9 attackers including the suicide bomber.” 14012002

January 20—Russia—MSNBC reported that Russian security officials were searching for up to 4 black widows, including Ruzana Ibragimova, alias Salima, 22, widow of a jihadi killed by Russian security forces in 2013, believed to have left Dagestan to be part of terrorist planning against the February Olympic Games in Sochi. She had a 4-inch scar on her cheek, limped on her right leg, and her left arm did not bend at the elbow.

January 20—Pakistan—A Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber on a bicycle killed 13, including 8 soldiers, and injured 24 near Army headquarters in Rawal­pindi. He tried to avoid a security check, but then set off his bomb at 8 a.m. Among the dead was Mubashar Mushtaq, whose father said he was minutes late on his way to college.

January 20—Mali—Olivier Salgado, spokesman for the UN peacekeeping mission, announced that 5 Chadian peacekeepers were injured when their car hit a land mine 30 kilometers north of Kidal. 14012003

January 20—Peru—Peruvian prosecutors in the Callao military prison began the trial of Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman, 79, and 10 other members of the group for a 1992 car bombing on Tarata Street that killed 25 and wounded 155. Guzman was captured 2 months after the attack. Guzman was serving life without parole for a 2006 terrorism conviction. He was represented by attorney Alfredo Crespo, who said he did not order the bombing. Five people had been convicted for the attack. On January 24, 2014, Guzman was tried for a Shining Path attack on an interprovincial bus in 1984 in Ayacucho State and killing 104 people.

January 20—Nigeria—Borno State police commissioner Lawan Tanko said Boko Haram followed a teacher to his Wulgo home, killed him, and hospitalized another man. The 2 victims taught at secondary schools.

January 20–21—Pakistan—The Pakistani military announced that it was conducting airstrikes against suspected terrorists in North Waziristan, and had killed at least 40 jihadis, including those who bombed a Christian church in Peshawar that killed 85 people in September 2013. Local elders said that the airstrikes were aimed at the home of senior Taliban commander Adnan Rashid; his family members were injured, but he was unharmed. Elders said an air strike on the al-Noor Mosque in Essorhi village killed 15 jihadis.

January 21—Indonesia—Police in Surabaya arrested 2 jihadis who admitted to planning to attack a police post and a large prostitution complex. Authorities found bombs and ­bomb-making equipment in their safe house.

January 21—Yemen—Gunmen shot to death Ah­med Sharaf Eddin, senior representative of northern Yememi Houthi rebels (a Shi’ite sect) who was en route in his car to attend the National Dialogue talks on drafting a new constitution. AQAP was suspected.

January 21—Lebanon—A Nusra Front in Lebanon suicide car bomb’s 44 pounds of explosives went off on a crowded commercial street in Beirut’s Haret Hreik neighborhood, killing 4 people, wounding 35, breaking store windows, and setting cars alight. The group said it was retaliating for Hizballah’s sending fighters to support Syrian President Bashar Assad. On January 2, a car bomb went off in Haret Hreik a few yards from today’s bombing, killing 5 people.

January 21—Afghanistan—Gunmen in the Pashtun Zargun district of Herat Province kidnapped 57 Afghan civilian ­de-miners who were being driven to work, then released them hours later. The ­de-miners worked for the ­UK-based HALO trust. 14012101

January 21—Pakistan—At least 18 Shi’ite pilgrims died and 24 were injured when a parked car bomb went off next to a convoy of buses returning from Iran that was passing by in the Dren Garh area of western Mastung District.

January 21—Pakistan—Gunmen on motorcycles fired on nurses and volunteers administering polio vaccinations in Karachi, killing 2 female polio workers and a police officer who was providing security, and injuring a child, according to the private Pakistani TV channel Express News.

January 21—Russia—Police released photos of 3 suspected black widows being sought in connection with a plot to conduct suicide bombings against the Sochi Olympic torch relay. They were identified as Zaira Alieva, 26, and Jhannet Tsakhaeva, 34, both from Dagestan, and Oksana Aslanova, 26, from Turkmenistan. Wanted posters said the women were to conduct the attacks on January 21–23 in ­Rostov-on-Don. The posters said males Ruslan Saufutdinov, 21, and Murad Musaev, 25 were planning attacks in southern Russia.

January 22—Gaza/Israel—The Israeli air force said it killed Ahmad Zaanim, a PFLP commander in Gaza who orchestrated several rocket attacks in southern Israel, shooting at soldiers, and setting off explosives near soldiers at the border. Gaza ambulance services said he and an Islamic Jihad member were killed in the early morning airstrike.

January 22—Thailand—Gunmen in a pickup truck wounded Kwanchai Praipana, senior leader of a ­pro-government movement. He was hit by 2 bullets in his Udon Thani home.

January 22—Greece—Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias announced a 4 million euros ($5.4 million) reward for information leading to the capture of terrorists, including Christodoulos Xiros. Authorities were also searching for a married couple suspected of belonging to another terrorist group who vanished in 2012 after they served the maximum 18 months in ­pre-trial detention.

January 22—Pakistan—Gunmen fired on Pakistani police escorting a Spanish cyclist traveling from Iran through Mastung District in Baluchistan Province, killing 6 officers and wounding 9 officers and the cyclist. 14012201

January 22—Pakistan—A bicycle bomb exploded next to a police patrol en route to guard a polio vaccination team, killing 7 people, including 6 officers and a boy standing nearby in Charsadda district outside Peshawar. Eleven people, including 4 tribal policemen, were injured.

January 22—Hungary—Bence Szabo, secretary general of the Hungarian Olympic Committee, told the sports daily Nemzeti Sport that it received a threatening email message written in Russian and English saying that its athletes should avoid the Sochi Olympic Games scheduled to be held on February 7–23 or they would be attacked. Committee President Zsolt Borkai told the state news wire MTI that other countries’ Olympic committees had received similar threats. Committees in the U.S., Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia, the UK, and Austria said they had received a similar message. Officials from the International Olympic Committee and the Sochi organizers told the Hungarians that the email as a hoax. Austrian National Olympic Committee spokesman Wolfgang Eichler told the Austrian news agency APA, “It’s a fake mail from a sender in Israel, who has been active with various threats for a few years. It’s been checked out because it also arrived 2 years ago.”

January 22—Israel—Shin Bet said it had arrested 3 Palestinians plotting ­al-Qaeda-sponsored bombings, shootings, kidnappings, and other attacks targeting the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and other locations in Israel. Two of the men were from Jerusalem and one was from the West Bank. Shin Bet said the trio was recruited by a Gaza ­Strip-based operative reporting to Ayman ­al-Zawahiri. The terrorists planned to fire on a Jerusalem conference center and kill first responders with a truck bomb. On January 26, 2014, an Israeli court extended by 2 days the detention of Eyad Abu Sara and Rubin Abu Nigma. The third detained Palestinian did not appear in court with them.

January 22—Russia—MSNBC quoted a statement by Russia’s National ­Anti-Terror Committee that during a gun battle it killed Eldar Magatov, leader of the Babayurtovskiy gang, who was suspected of bombings, attacks on law enforcement, and extortion in Dagestan. He released 2 women and 2 children at the safe house before the gunfight commenced.

Elsewhere in Dagestan, troops defused a bomb hidden near a village administration building then engaged in a firefight with terrorists hiding in a house.

January 23—Afghanistan—Gunmen kidnapped journalist Noor Ahmad Noori, 30, who had worked for the local Radio Busd. That night, hours later, police in Helmand Province found his body in a sack, badly burned.

A gunman on a motorcycle fired on local cricket players, killing 5 during a game in Alinghar District in Laghman Province. The Taliban were suspected.

January 23—Pakistan—Police official Garanullah Khan told the press that a car bomb that was towed into a Peshawar car repair shop exploded, killing 6 and wounding 7, including 2 children.

January 23—Syria/Internet—Al-Qaeda leader Ayman ­al-Zawahiri posted a 5-minute Internet audio in which he called on rival jihadi groups in Syria to end their infighting and focus on battling the Syrian government. He said internal battling “between the holy warriors of Islam has bloodied our hearts.” He said the groups should set up an Islamic court to settle differences. Fighters should aim at “bringing down Assad’s secular, sectarian, unjust and criminal regime to set up a just Islamic state.”

January 23—Iraq—Justice Ministry spokesman Haider ­al-Saadi announced that 11 Iraqis convicted of carrying out “terrorist attacks” against the Iraqi people were executed by hanging.

January 23—Yemen—The Interior Ministry announced that it had stopped an AQAP plot to take over banks and government buildings in Bayda Province the previous week.

January 23—Mali—Remi Libessart, spokesman for the ­French-led mission Operation Serval, said 11 jihadis were killed and a French soldier wounded in fighting north of Timbuktu.

January 24–25—Libya—Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Badr Abdelattie said that gunmen kidnapped the Egyptian Embassy’s administrative attaché in Tripoli. Five more Egyptian diplomats, including cultural attaché ­al-Helali ­el-Sherbini, 3 embassy staff members, and another Egyptian, were kidnapped from their homes during the night and early morning, possibly to retaliate for the arrest of Shaaban Hadiya, a Libyan militia leader, in Egypt. Hadiya was a senior member of the Revolutionaries Operation Room, which was believed to have abducted Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan in 2013. On January 25, 2014, the kidnappers and their hostages called the ­Dubai-based al-Arabiya to demand that the Egyptian government release Hadiya. ­El-Sherbini was quoted by ­al-Arabiya as saying: “We were taken from our houses,” and added, “we are under tough conditions here … we call upon the Egyptian authorities to end this situation.” Egypt announced it was pulling embassy personnel from Tripoli. A kidnapper said Hadiya should be allowed to speak with them within 30 minutes and be released within 24 hours, or they would keep the hostages. Hadiya reportedly had traveled to Egypt for medical treatment. On January 26, Libyan Foreign Ministry spokesman Said ­al-Aswad said 2 diplomats and the embassy staffer were released and the rest were expected to be freed soon, thanks to official and “unofficial” mediation. On January 27, the Associated Press reported that all of the hostages were released in Libya, while Egypt freed Hadiya, alias Abu Ubeida ­al-Libi. 14012401

January 24—Egypt—Four bombs killed at least 10 people in Cairo.

At 6:30 a.m., a truck bomb hit the barricade outside the Cairo Security Directorate, killing 4 policemen, injuring more than 50 people, and causing major damage to Cairo’s Islamic Art Museum, which was built in 1881 on the other side of Bab ­el-Khalq Square. A private television channel aired a video clip showing a person driving a white truck to the building. The driver got out, entered a black car that had just arrived, then drove off. In a second clip, the bomb exploded as police officers moved back into the building after they had inspected the truck. The Interior Ministry released the names of 3 suspects, saying they belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood and “extremist groups.”

Two hours later, a bomb hit a police car patrolling near a metro station in Cairo’s Dokki district on the other side of the Nile River, killing one person and injuring 8.

A small bomb at the Talbiya police station near the Pyramids caused no casualties.

A roadside bomb went off on Haram Street, which leads to the Giza Pyramids, killing one policeman and injuring 4 others.

Another bomb went off near a movie theater.

January 24—Afghanistan—A bomb went off as worshippers were leaving a mosque in Herat city after ­mid-day prayers in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate former Water and Energy Minister Ismail Khan, 67, a former Tajik warlord who was running for vice president in the April 5 Presidential election on the ticket of Abdul Rah Rasoul Sayyaf. Only the suicide bomber was killed.

January 24—Mali—Malian military spokesman Commander Daouda Sagara said 2 rockets hit Kidal during the night. Jihadis were suspected.

January 24—China—Two explosions at a hair salon and a produce market in an ethnic Uighur town in Xinhe county in Aksu region killed one person and injured 2. Police arrested 3 suspects. Police surrounded a suspicious vehicle, which then exploded, killing the 2 people inside. Police shot to death 6 people in ensuing violence in Xinjiang region.

January 24—U.S.—Pennsylvania authorities arrested Russian citizen Vladislav Miftakhov, 19, for possession of a weapon of mass destruction, risking a catastrophe, and several weapons ­drug-related offenses. Police found a homemade bomb, bombmaking materials (fuses, several containers of compressed air, one pound of atomized magnesium and one pound of Chinese potassium perchlorate along with a package labeled potassium nitrate powder) in a suitcase, 5 marijuana seedlings and a grow light, while investigating a ­marijuana-growing operation. When police asked what he planned to do with 2 devices, according to the affidavit, Miftakhov said “he was going to blow things up.” He later said he was going to set them off in a field. He told police that he had made other explosive devices in California. The suspect was a student at Penn State Altoona. His roommate said he had recently set off 3 “mini-bombs” outside their apartment. Bail was set at $500,000.

January 24—Lebanon—The ­al-Qaeda–inspired Nusra Front in Lebanon told Sunnis in a Twitter posting to avoid Shi’ite-dominated areas, since it was going to attack Hizballah strongholds. Hours later the warning, 3 rockets hit a Hizballah stronghold in Hermel near the Syrian border, causing no casualties.

January 24–25—Italy—A delivery service unwitting of the contents delivered 3 boxes containing pig heads to Rome’s main synagogue, the Israeli Embassy and a city museum hosting an exhibit on the Holocaust. The police ­anti-terrorism squad was assigned to the case.

January 25—Iraq—Three mortar bombs killed 6 people, 5 of whom belonged to the same family, in a village near Baquba. Among them were a woman and a child. Authorities suggested that the bombers were aiming at a nearby police station.

Two bombs in Baghdad’s Muqdadiyah neighborhood destroyed the home of a soldier and killed him, his wife, his 2 daughters and 2 sons as they slept.

A car bomb on a commercial street in Baghdad’s western Amariyah district killed 4 people and wounded 12.

A bomb near an outdoor market in western Baghdad’s Sadiyah neighborhood killed 2 shoppers and wounded 6.

During the night, a car bomb exploded near homes in a Turkomen neighborhood in Tuz Khormato, killing 3 people and wounding 5.

January 25—Somalia—Al-Shabaab gave cell phone companies a deadline of January 31 to shut down data services, fearing U.S. tapping into data and targeting its members. Terrorists started checking residents’ phones that day. Some residents said cell phone company Hormuud complied.

January 25—Internet—Al-Qaeda leader Ayman ­al-Zawahiri posted an audio on jihadi websites calling for Egyptian Muslims to not fight Christians, focusing instead on the military authorities who ousted Muslim Brother President Mohammed Morsi in 2013. “We have to be busy confronting the Americanized coup of [Gen. ­Abdel-Fattah] ­el-Sissi and establish an Islamic government instead…. We must not seek war with the Christians and thus give the West an excuse to blame Muslims, as has happened before.” ­El-Sissi “is a mercenary, an Americanized puppet, an impostor, treacherous and sinful with a history of bootlicking.” He said Morsi had cooperated with secular Egyptians and surrendered to the Americans. Sinai residents should support Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and end “the siege imposed by ­el-Sissi.” He observed that in Syria, “America got what it wanted—to secure Israel from Assad’s chemical weapons in exchange for turning a blind eye to his crimes.” He also said the Libyan government was a U.S. puppet, as evidenced by the seizure of ­al-Qaeda suspect Abu Anas ­al-Libi by U.S. special forces in October. “It hurts me to tell you that your revolution has been aborted and stolen by lackeys, and you have to take it back.”

January 25—Madagascar—A grenade went off outside the Antananarivo stadium where Madagascar’s new president, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, was inaugurated hours earlier, killing a child and injuring 33 people, 7 seriously.

January 25—Philippines—The government and representatives of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front signed a peace deal in Malaysia that would grant amnesty to MILF members who were facing or had been convicted on ­rebellion-related charges. The 11,000 rebels would disarm or join the Philippine military. The amnesty required congressional approval and acceptance via a plebiscite. The current ­5-province Muslim autonomous region would be replaced by a more powerful, ­better-funded and potentially larger Bangsamoro. The Abu Sayyaf and Moro National Liberation Front opposed the agreement.

January 25—Germany—Police arrested French citizen Marie Emmanuelle Verhoeven, 54, as she was boarding a flight from Hamburg to Dubai. She had been wanted since 1996 on an international arrest warrant for murder, forming a terrorist organization and grievous bodily harm resulting in death. She was believed to be a member of the defunct 1980s-era Chilean Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front which battled the regime of General Augusto Pinochet. She held a valid French passport.

January 25—Lebanon—Militia leader Abu Sayyaf ­al-Ansari pledged allegiance to the ­al-Qaeda affiliated Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in an audio posted on jihadi forums. He said Sunni Muslim soldiers should desert the Lebanese army, allegedly controlled by Christians and Shi’ites. “We pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr ­al-Husseini ­al-Qarashi ­al-Baghdadi and we will obey his orders…. Take us wherever you want, take us to difficulties and make us the point of your lance so that we crush your enemy…. I call upon Sunnis in the Army of the Cross to fear God and leave this tyrant…. Don’t be a sword that Christians and Shi’ites carry to stab you.”

January 25—Japan—Police arrested Toshiki Abe, 49, a worker at a factory of the subsidiary of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc., where poisoned food was found. Abe denied the charges. Some 2,800 people across Japan were sickened by poisoned pizzas, croquettes and pancakes made at the plant in Gunma prefecture, north of Tokyo. The firm recalled more than 6 million packages of frozen food. Police believed Abe poisoned the food 4 times in October. They found the pesticide malathion in his possession.

January 26—Iraq—Three car bombs went off at the same time in Kirkuk residential neighborhoods, killing 4 and injuring 14.

Drive-by gunmen killed a former army officer and his wife in northeastern Baghdad.

Police found 3 bodies with their hands and feet tied in different areas in Baghdad. They were killed by ­close-range gunshots.

Al-Qaeda gunmen captured 5 Iraqi soldiers during clashes in the Niamiyah area near Fallujah, destroying or commandeering several army vehicles.

During the night, a car bomb hit a Sunni mosque in Mishahda, killing 3 people and wounding 13 others.

Later that night, gunmen killed 4 soldiers when they attacked a security checkpoint in Abu Ghraib.

January 26—Russia—The Vilayat Dagestan jihadi group, which had claimed credit for December’s Volgograd suicide bombings, warned of more attacks if people did not rebel against President Vladimir Putin. The group posted a 4-minute video on its website, observing “Gone are the days when it was possible to destroy Muslims gratuitously…. Today, one mujahid could destroy dozens or even hundreds of people in your cities. And do not think that these are isolated cases and that you will not feel the losses. The number of such bombings will only grow, and they will overtake many of you.” They said the Volgograd attacks were avenging “atrocities carried out by the disbelievers on the ground of the Caucasus.” The group said “The Kremlin gang leaders make cannon fodder of you and your children, while they themselves accumulate billions in this war. If you do not decapitate this hydra, you will not see a quiet life.” The group said the Sochi Olympics reminded them of Hitler’s 1936 Games.

January 26—Afghanistan—A pedestrian Taliban suicide bomber attacked a military bus in Kabul, killing 4 people, including 2 soldiers and 2 civilians, one of whom was a woman, and injuring 22.

January 26—Somalia—Sahal Iskudhuq, an ­al-Shabaab commander believed close to the group’s leader, Ahmed Abdi Godane, died in a missile strike on his car in the Lower Shabelle region’s Hawai village. His driver was also killed. Abu Mohamed, an ­al-Shabaab commander, told the AP that Iskudhuq had been involved in ransom kidnappings of foreigners and was in its intelligence unit, choosing bombing targets and planning attacks.

January 26—Nigeria—The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta claimed credit for attacking a security patrol boat on a ­Nembe-Bassanbiri waterway in southern Bayelsa State. MEND threatened further attacks that would end Nigerian oil production within a year.

January 26—Nigeria—Security officials suspected Boko Haram when terrorists set off bombs at a market in Kawuri village in northeast Borno State that killed 85 people, injured 16, and destroyed more than 300 homes. Survivor Ari Kolomi said he saw more than 50 attackers in the nighttime raid. Two improvised explosive devices went off the next morning, missing security personnel collecting bodies.

Boko Haram was also suspected when terrorists used heavy guns and explosives during a 5-hour attack on Sunday morning services in a church in Wada Chakawa village in Adamawa State, killing 45 people, including 2 police officers. The gunmen took several hostages.

January 27—Egypt—Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis claimed credit for a pipeline explosion during the night in the Sinai Peninsula south of ­el-Arish. The attack was part of its war against the “Egyptian regime’s economy.” The group said the pipeline’s proceeds line the “pockets of [army chief ­Abdel-Fattah] ­el-Sissi and his generals.”

January 27—Greece—A bomb went off in the morning at a prosecutor’s office in Corinth in the southern Peloponnese region while workers were arriving; none were hurt but serious damage was reported. Police received no warning.

January 27—Malaysia—The online Star newspaper quoted Penang State police chief Abdul Rahim as reporting that 2 men on a motorcycle threw Molotov cocktails into the compound of the Assumption Church. The attack occurred during a dispute over the use by non–Muslims over the word “Allah,” which the government said is only for use by Muslims. The previous day, a banner was found hanging outside 3 of the city’s churches, including Assumption, reading, “Allah is great, Jesus is the son of Allah.” The churches complained to police.

January 27—Iraq—A suicide bomber crashed his car into a military post near Fallujah, killing 4 soldiers and wounding 21.

Gunmen shot to death a grocery store owner and his relative north of Baghdad.

A bomb exploded near stores in Latifiyah, killing 2.

January 27—Yemen—At least 21 people died and dozens were injured in early morning gun battles pitting northern Houthi rebels against ultraconservative Salafis in the northern Arhab mountains.

January 27—Syria—The ­UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported that earlier in the month fighting between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and rival rebel groups led to the assassination of Sameer Abid Mohammed ­al-Halefawi, alias Haji Bakr, a senior Iraqi ­al-Qaeda– linked figure, in Tal Rifaat in Aleppo Province. An Iraqi official said he was an air defense officer in Saddam Hussein’s army before joining al-Qaeda in Iraq after the 2003 coalition invasion. Authorities said he orchestrated attacks against hotels and embassies in Iraq in 2010 and led the military council of ­al-Qaeda in Iraq after the death of Abu Omar ­al-Baghdadi in 2010.

January 27—Rwanda—During the night, 2 men on a motorcycle threw a grenade at people waiting at a bus stop near the Rwandan Police College in Musanze district, wounding 6, 2 critically. Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) based in the Congo were suspected.

Meanwhile, the trial began of 16 people, including a former bodyguard of former President Paul Kagame, on terrorism charges.

January 28—Iraq—Gunmen attacked a joint security checkpoint near Muqdadiyah, killing 5 soldiers and wounding 4.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq attacked a police station near Fallujah, killing 2 police officers. Gunmen then set off explosives to destroy the building.

January 28—Philippines—President Benigno Aquino, III, told the news media that 37 jihadis were killed in a 2-day offensive against Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement fighters who conducted attacks on villages in southern Maguindanao Province following the peace deal with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Village leaders spotted a dozen of the rebels for the armed forces, which lost one soldier and reported 4 others injured when BIFM bombs exploded near a mosque.

January 28—Egypt—Two gunmen on a motorcycle killed police General Mohamed ­el-Saeed, variant Said, head of the Interior Ministry’s technical department, outside his home in the Haram district of Cairo’s Giza suburb. The ­Sinai-based jihadist group Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis claimed credit for killing the “deviant criminal.”

January 29—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide bomber killed 2 Afghan soldiers and wounded 3 civilians in a market in the Qarabagh district of Ghazni Province.

The Afghan National Security Forces killed 15 Taliban fighters in Ghazni’s Andar district.

January 29—South Africa—Police spokesman Captain Paul Ramaloko told the media that the Hawks, the police organized crime unit, arrested a 28-year-old man for a bomb threat and 2 hoax anthrax powder scares at the Johannesburg headquarters of Sanral, the national roads agency. The man, who was arrested at the Sanral operations center, faced terrorism charges. He was employed by a service provider in the Sanral building.

January 29—Libya—Gunmen fired on the car of Interior Minister ­al-Sadik ­Abdel-Karim en route to a meeting of the interim parliament in Tripoli. He was unharmed.

January 29—India—Gunmen from the National Democratic Front of Bodoland were suspected of killing a police official in Assam’s Sonitpur District.

January 30—Afghanistan—A bomb placed in a vehicle exploded next to the car of Danish soldiers, injuring 3 of them. 14013001

January 30—Libya—Masked gunmen kidnapped the son of Colonel Wanis Abu Khamada, head of the military’s commandos, near Benghazi University as he was entering a restaurant with friends.

January 30—Iraq—Six terrorists attacked the offices of the ­state-run Company for Transportation in Baghdad’s Canal Street, killing 2 employees and conducting a firefight with police, who killed 4 gunmen. Most of the employees fled. One employee and one police officer died in the clash. The remaining gunmen barricaded themselves in the building, then set off their explosives, killing themselves.

A parked car bomb exploded at a market in Baghdad’s northern Kasra neighborhood, killing 4 people and wounding 11.

A car bomb exploded at a bus station in Baghdad’s eastern Ur neighborhood, killing 5 civilians and wounding 11.

State TV reported that 24 terrorists were killed in the battle for Fallujah and Ramadi.

January 30–31—Afghanistan—Taliban gunmen attacked 3 police checkpoints during the night in Marjah District in Helmand Province, killing one officer and wounding 3; 16 jihadis died and several others were captured with their weapons.

January 31—Egypt—Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis gunmen shot to death a policeman guarding a south Cairo church.

Two bombs went off as a troop carrier drove by with riot police near Cairo’s Giza suburb, wounding one officer.

January 31—Yemen—AQAP attacked an army checkpoint in Shibam in Hadramwat Province during lunchtime, killing 15 soldiers and wounding 5 troops. Authorities fired back, killing or wounding 5 terrorists during the 30-minute gun battle. The terrorists’ bodies were taken away by their fellow jihadis during their withdrawal.

Earlier, gunmen attacked a police patrol in Bayda Province, killing 2.

January 31—Egypt—Armed forces Apache helicopters fired missiles at safe houses and meeting places for suspected terrorists in the Sinai Peninsula, killing 13 suspects. Earlier in the week, the ­al-Qaeda–inspired Champions of Jerusalem (Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis) claimed credit for shooting down a helicopter.

January 31—Iraq—A suicide car bomber crashed into an army checkpoint at a bridge in Hit town, killing 5 soldiers and wounding 3 people. The bridge collapsed into the Euphrates River.

January 31—Nigeria—Boko Haram was suspected when a bus ran over a bomb in Kuthra village, near Gwoza, killing 7 and wounding 3.

Jihadis were suspected of trying to burn down the Christian Sabon Garin Yamdula village and killing the pastor. Vigilante youths fired back; the gunmen fled.

January 31—U.S.—A suspicious package tested positive for explosives 10 a.m. at the post office of Maxwell Air Force Base.

January 31—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb went off near a police vehicle in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar Province, killing 4 police officers and wounding another.

January 31—Yemen—Armed tribesmen kidnapped a German in Sanaa. The German, who was studying Arabic, was taken to Marib Province. The kidnap-pers demanded the release of 2 colleagues who were arrested in a Sanaa military hospital 4 months earlier.

January 31–February 1—Yemen—At least 65 people died in a battle pitting Shi’ite Houthis and Sunni Hashid tribesman in a land dispute in Amran Province.

February—Thailand—On September 4, 2015, AP reported that a Thai court sentenced 4 men to life in prison for a February 2014 grenade attack on a political rally in Bangkok that killed 3 people, including 2 children, and injured 21 others. The court originally sentenced them to death for murder and other offenses but reduced the penalty because they confessed. The 4 were arrested in July 2014.

February—Iran—On April 4, 2014, the ­semi-official Iranian Fars news agency announced that the Jaish ­al-Adl group freed 4 Iranian border guards abducted in February outside Sarbaz in Iran’s ­Sistan-Baluchistan Province near the Pakistan border. They were handed over to Iranian officials in Pakistan. The fifth kidnapped border guard was killed in March. 14029901

February—Lebanon—Beirut-based Danish freelance television reporter Jeppe Nybroe was kidnapped near the Syrian border. He was released in March. Danish media knew about the kidnapping but kept silent until he was released. 14029902

February 1—Philippines—Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement jihadis were suspected when a bomb went off in Datu Saudi Ampatuan in Maguindanao Province, injuring 12 people, among them 6 soldiers, 4 civilians, and a reporter and cameraman for local TV5 network covering an explosion 45 minutes earlier that had flattened the tires of an armored vehicle.

February 1—Afghanistan—Gunmen killed 4 soldiers and injured 4 others in an afternoon attack on an Afghan National Army foot patrol along the main highway in Farah Province.

February 1—Lebanon—A Nusra Front car bomb killed 3 people and wounded 18 at a gas station in Hermel. The bomb went off near a school run by a charity dedicated to poor children; no children were injured. The Nusra Front said it was punishing Hiz­ballah.

February 1—Nigeria—Gunmen shot to death 3 people, including Sheik Adam Albani, in Kaduna State as they drove home from Albani’s theology lecture. On March 3, 2014, AP reported that Nigeria’s Department of State Services arrested 7 Boko Haram suspects, believed to have killed him because his “pro–Western posture and his preaching are contrary to the Boko Haram ideology.” The Boko Haram suspects hailed from 5 different Nigerian states.

February 2—Syria—The Islamic State of the Iraq and the Levant set off 2 car bombs near Aleppo that killed 26 people, including Adnan Bakkour, the military leader of the rival Tawheed Brigades; and Abu Hussein ­al-Dik of the Suqour ­al-Sham.

February 2—Kenya—Police fired on youths brandishing daggers at Mombasa’s Masjid Musa mosque, which was believed to be hosting a meeting to recruit Islamic extremists for ­al-Shabaab. At least one police officer who was stabbed in the face and a young man were killed. A police officer was hospitalized after he was stabbed in the stomach. Police arrested dozens and recovered a gun stolen from an officer. Aboud Rogo Mohammed, who was killed in August 2012, had preached at the mosque.

February 2—Afghanistan—At 6:30 p.m., gunmen fired on a vehicle outside National Coalition of Afghanistan campaign offices, killing 2 aides to presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah, an ophthalmologist, in Herat. Police identified them as Faiz Zada Hamdard, campaign manager, and the driver, Shujauddin, 19, nephew of a senior jihadi commander. Police detained several suspects. Abdullah was the son of a Pashtun father and Tajik mother. He was President Karzai’s foreign minister for 5 years.

February 3—Egypt—Soldiers supported by helicopters raided jihadi hideouts in the Sinai, killing 20, wounding 25, and arresting 16.

February 3—Syria—The ­self-described ­al-Qaeda “general command” issued a statement on jihadi websites saying it had cut off ties with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, led by Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi, who ignored Ayman ­al-Zawahiri’s orders to operate independently from the Nusra Front, led by Abu Mohammed ­al-Golani. The general command said it “did not approve of the creation of nor did it control” ISIL, and has “no organizational ties with it…. We distance ourselves from the sedition taking place among the mujahedeen factions [in Syria] and of the forbidden blood shed by any faction.” Jihadis should realize the “enormity of the catastrophe” in Syria.

February 3—Iraq—A parked car bomb exploded near a local council building in Mahmoudiya, followed by a second car bomb explosion at a nearby outdoor market, killing 9 and wounding 28.

A car bomb exploded in Baghdad’s Hurriyah neighborhood, killing 4 people and wounding 11.

A car bomb exploded in Baghdad’s Baladiyat neighborhood, killing 3 and injuring 9.

Police found bodies of 3 men and a woman who were dumped in the street of Baghdad’s Amil neighborhood. The 4 died from gun shots. They had no ID cards.

A sticky bomb attached to a bus went off in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood, killing one passenger and wounding 4.

A car bomb went off during the night at an outdoor market in Baghdad’s Abdu Dashir district, killing 6 shoppers and wounding 14.

The Defense Ministry told the press that overnight military operations in Ramadi had killed 57 terrorists.

February 3—Yemen—Four gunmen kidnapped British citizen and petroleum engineer Douglas Robert Semple, 64, as he was leaving a Sana’a supermarket during the morning. They beat him with their rifle butts, then forced him into their getaway car. He worked for an oil services company. On August 23, 2015, AP and the United Arab Emirates’ official WAM news agency reported that the UAE’s military freed Semple from his AQAP captors in Aden. 14020301

February 3—Pakistan—Two hand grenades exploded during the night in a Peshawar cinema, killing 5 and wounding 30. The terrorist was sitting in the audience.

February 3—Lebanon—A suicide bomber set off his explosives after he boarded a passenger van/minibus in Beirut’s principally Druse suburb of Chouei­fat during the evening rush hour, wounding 6.

February 3—Austria—The Vienna office of the Austrian Olympic Committee received an anonymous kidnap threat in a letter in German against Alpine skier Marlies Schild and skeleton pilot Janine Flock during the Sochi Games. Schild won silver in slalom in Vancouver in 2000 and was to compete in her fourth Olympics. She won silver in the combined event and bronze in slalom at the 2006 Turin Games. In December 2013, she set the record for most World Cup slalom wins by a female skier with her 35th victory. Flock won the European skeleton title in January at a World Cup event in Koenigssee, Germany.

February 3–4—Tunisia—The National Guard raided 2 Ansar ­al-Shariah safe houses in the Raoued seaside suburb of Tunis, during which 7 jihadis—including Kamel Gadhgadhi, who was wanted for the February 6, 2013, assassination of ­left-wing politician Chokri Belaid—and one National Guard member were killed. Gadhgadhi was wearing an explosive belt. Two other dead jihadis had ambushed soldiers in Mount Chaambi and killed 8, slitting the throats of 5 of them. The daylong gun battle began during an afternoon raid against Salafis. Police seized a large amount of weapons, explosives and ­rocket-propelled grenades.

February 4—Philippines—The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement was suspected of setting off a bomb near a military convoy consisting of army troops in trucks and armored personnel carriers, followed by TV reporters in 5 media vans, as they were passing by in Maguindanao’s Mamasapano town. No one was hurt. BIFM spokesman Abu Misry denied involvement.

February 4—Iraq—A parked car bomb exploded in the morning at an outdoor market in the Shurta district of Baghdad, killing 4 and wounding 11.

A car bomb exploded in Baghdad’s southwestern Maalef neighborhood, killing 2 and wounding 9.

A roadside bomb hit a police convoy in Baghdad’s Taji suburb, killing one police officer and wounding 4.

February 4—Pakistan—A bomb went off near a Shi’ite minority mosque and a hotel in Peshawar, killing 9 Shi’ites and wounding 30 others.

February 4—Yemen—A bomb hit a military bus pass through Sana’a’s Dar Silm district, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 10 troops en route to work.

February 4—Mali—Two rockets fired at a French army base near the Gao airport during the morning missed their target and caused no injuries. French Admiral Edouard Guillaud was visiting the camp.

February 4–5—Somalia—Al-Shabaab fired mortars into Mogadishu for 2 nights, wounding 12 people. Most of the rounds landed around the presidential palace and government buildings, but some civilian homes were hit.

Sheikh Mohamed Hussein, ­al-Shabaab’s ­self-proclaimed mayor of Mogadishu, said on the group’s radio station that more attacks were coming.

February 5—Iraq—Three car bombs exploded at an outdoor market in southeastern Baghdad’s Shi’ite suburb of Jisr Diyala, killing 9 and wounding 24.

Minutes later, a rocket killed a person standing near a gate of Baghdad’s Green Zone. Seven others were injured.

Two parked car bombs in separate parking lots exploded simultaneously across the street from the ­high-rise building housing the Foreign Ministry, killing 12, including 3 policemen, and wounding 22.

A suicide bomber set off his explosives at a nearby falafel restaurant frequented by officials or visitors to the Green Zone, killing 5 and wounding 12.

A parked car bomb exploded in Baghdad’s Khilani Square, killing 5 and wounding 11.

A bomb went off inside a cafe in Baghdad’s Dora neighborhood, killing 2 and wounding 6.

February 5—Russia—Russian security forces killed Dzhamaldin Mirzayev, 30, who was suspected of training the 2 Volgograd suicide bombers and sending them to the city in late December 2013. Mirzayev died when authorities raided them in Izberbash, Dagestan.

February 5—Libya—A Libyan student threw a bomb at a wall of his school in Benghazi, injuring 6 classmates. Five, aged 13 to 17, were hospitalized.

Authorities found the body of a special forces commando in a Benghazi graveyard. Doctors said that he had been tortured and shot in the head.

Gunmen attempted to kidnap commandos being treated at Galaa Hospital. Special forces and civilians repelled the attackers.

February 5—Yemen—Gunmen attacked an army patrol near the Balhaf gas export terminal in Shabwa Province, killing 4 soldiers and injuring 7.

Drive-by gunmen killed special forces commander Fadi Gebil in Aden.

February 6—Iran—Pakistan-based gunmen abducted 5 Iranian border guards outside Sarbaz in Sistan and Baluchestan Province and took them to Pakistan. On March 17, 2014, the military dismissed several commanders from service and others were facing court proceedings for alleged negligence. Iranian state TV’s website quoted border guard commander Hossein Zolfaghari as saying that the hos­tages were unharmed. The armed Sunni group Jaish ­al-Adl tweeted photos of the captives, threatening to kill them. Iran demanded that Pakistan arrange for their release. A local official said on March 23 that one hostage was killed. 14020601

February 6—U.S.—The U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned that terrorists flying to the Olympics in Sochi, Russia might hide explosives in toothpaste tubes.

February 6—Iraq—A car bomb exploded near auto spare parts shops in Baghdad, killing 4 and wounding 9.

Two car bombs exploded in Baghdad’s eastern neighborhood of Jamila and Baghdad’s northern neighborhood of Kazimiyah. Each bomb killed 3 civilians. The 2 bombs injured 22 civilians.

Car bombs exploded in 3 other Baghdad sites—central Karrada, northern Shaab, and eastern Batol—killing 3 civilians and injuring 22.

February 7—Egypt—Two bombs hit a Central Security forces truck parked at a police checkpoint on a bridge in Giza in the morning, injuring 6 people, including 4 police officers. The next day, a newly formed Ajnad Misr (Egypt’s Soldiers), a ­Sinai-based jihadi group, claimed credit via an Internet posting, saying its “soldiers” had told the “criminal apparatus … that they are not safe from retribution.” It members were watching police headquarters, where “they launch their attacks every Friday killing and abusing innocent people.” The group said it would continue attacks until “justice prevails and a state accepted by God is established,” calling on police to “leave the service before being overpowered because the events are accelerating and that the chance to defect might not last long.”

Egyptian military spokesman Colonel Ahmed Mohammed Ali said airstrikes against hideouts of “terrorist, extremely dangerous takfiri” in the eastern Sinai border town of Sheikh Zuweyid killed 16 jihadis with Muslim Brotherhood links.

February 7—Germany—German authorities charged 4 Turkish men—Ozgur A., 32, Sonnur D., 37, Muzaffer D., 42, and Yusuf T., 40—with belonging to the Revolutionary People’s Liberation ­Party-Front (DHKP-C), believed to be behind the suicide bombing on the U.S. Embassy in Ankara in 2013. Federal prosecutors said the group was suspected of raising funds and recruiting members in Germany. They believed Sonnur D. and Yusuf T. were also active in the Netherlands.

February 7—Iraq—A car bomb went off on a commercial street in Tuz Khormato, killing 4 and wounding 28.

Drive-by gunmen killed 2 Shabaks in Mosul. The Shabaks are a local ethnic minority.

Drive-by gunmen in Baghdad’s western Ghazaliyah neighborhood killed Hamza ­al-Shimmari, a Shi’ite politician from the Ahrar party who was running for parliament. He was a supporter of Shi’ite cleric Muqtada ­al-Sadr.

February 7—Ukraine—Istanbul Governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu said on Twitter that authorities subdued a man who tried to hijack a Turkish B-737–800 flying to Istanbul from Kharkov, Ukraine, and divert it to Sochi, Russia, scene of the ongoing Olympic Games, by claiming to have a bomb in the baggage hold. At 5:20 p.m., a Pegasus Airlines pilot signaled a hijack attempt, scrambling 2 Turkish F-16 fighter planes that escorted the plane to Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport. The plane landed at 6:04 p.m. The passengers were evacuated without incident. Special forces found no bomb, and arrested the man, who never made it into the cockpit. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said the hijacker was a Ukrainian; Turkish media identified him as Artem Hozlov, variant Kozlov, 45. He wanted to obtain the release of ­anti-government protestors in the Ukraine. Turkish NTV said a passenger recalled the hijacker calling for freeing prisoners, including former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. On May 21, 2014, Turkey’s ­state-run Anadolu Agency reported that a court ordered Artem Kozlov released from jail pending the outcome of his trial. He was barred from traveling abroad, and was to report to police twice/week. He faced 11 to 42 years in prison on charges of attempted hijacking and ­hostage-taking. He denied he had threatened to set off a bomb. 14020701

February 8—Thailand—Two grenades fired from an M79 launcher went off before 8 p.m. behind the stage of an ­anti-government protest site in Bangkok, injuring 2 men.

February 8—Russia—Russian special forces killed 5 suspected jihadis, including leader Alexei Pashentsev, a Russian who converted to Islam in 2010, and arrested one in a raid on a house in Makhachkala, Dagestan. Authorities said the dead were connected to the Buynaksk group, which was linked to the December 2013 Volgograd suicide bombers.

February 8—Norway—Police arrested a 22-year-old man of Pakistani descent on his return to Oslo from Syria on suspicion of supporting ­al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist groups. He was charged on February 13 with terrorist offenses committed in Syria. He was represented by attorney John Christian Elden, who said his client had been hospitalized with gunshot wounds.

February 8—Libya—Gunmen assassinated former Prosecutor General ­Abdel-Aziz ­al-Hassadi in Darna during the night. He resigned in March for health reasons.

February 8—Mali—International Committee of the Red Cross spokesman ­Jean-Yves Clemenzo told the press that a vehicle carrying 5 people, including 4 Malian ICRC employees and “one additional man who had attended training with us” was reported missing while traveling from Kidal to Gao in the morning. On April 17, 2014, AP reported that a ­pre-dawn French military special forces sweep backed by helicopters in northern Mali freed 5 Malian aid workers kidnapped in February. Ten of the kidnappers died in the raid on 2 pickup trucks carrying the kidnappers and the hostages north of Timbuktu. Four of the aid workers worked for the International Committee for the Red Cross. Two of them sustained minor injuries.14020801

February 8—Lebanon—Beirut-based Danish freelance television journalist Jeppe Nybroe was kidnapped near the Syrian border. On March 7, 2014, he was freed, having been held either in Syria or Lebanon. Danish news reports said a ransom had been paid. 14020802

February 9—Gaza Strip—The Israeli military announced it had critically injured and perhaps killed Abdallah Kharti, a member of the Popular Resistance Committees, in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip. The Israelis said Kharti had planned and carried out numerous rocket attacks on Israel, noting that 33 rockets had been fired from Gaza toward Israel in 2014. Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf ­al-Kidra said Kharti was in critical condition.

February 9—Russia—A 24-year-old private security guard fired his rifle inside the Russian Orthodox cathedral in ­Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, on Russia’s Sakhalin Island in the Pacific, killing a nun and a parishioner who had tried to stop him and wounding 6 others in the legs. The guard entered the cathedral shortly after a service had ended and began firing at parishioners and religious icons on the wall. He also destroyed a cross. He was arrested.

February 9—Yemen—A bomb placed on an intelligence colonel’s car killed him and seriously wounded his driver and 2 pedestrians. AQAP was suspected.

February 9—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb hit an Afghan military vehicle in Farah Province’s Dilaram district, killing 7 Afghan soldiers. No others were seriously wounded.

February 9—Pakistan—Four gunmen on motorcycles threw grenades at a Sufi religious gathering in Karachi, then fired on those offering prayers, killing 8 and wounding 8 others. Women and children were among the casualties.

February 9—Guyana—The U.S. Embassy website warned of “unconfirmed threat information” about flights of Caribbean Airlines from Guyana to the U.S., urging Americans to make alternate travel plans.

February 9—Pakistan—Baluch Republican Army separatists bombed 3 Sui Northern Gas pipelines in the central Rahim Yar Khan district, cutting supplies to millions of households overnight. A company spokesman said the lines would take 2 days to fix. BRA spokesman Sabax Baluch said the group was retaliating for the discovery of dead bodies of Baluch activists.

February 10—Afghanistan—A suicide car bomber crashed into a convoy near the ­Pul-i-Charkhi prison in eastern Kabul, killing 2 NATO civilian contractors and wounding 7 Afghan civilians. The ­Hizb-i-Islami said it was attacking “foreign occupiers” and planned to drive all foreign forces from the country.

February 10—Pakistan—A suicide bomber’s explosives went off in the Chamkani, Peshawar home of ­pro-government tribal elder Jan Mohammad Afridi, a prominent member of the local peace committee, killing 4 women, after local residents reported him as suspicious and police gave chase. Police surrounded the house and conducted a gun battle with the bomber. The home was completely destroyed. Five others in the house, including a woman and 2 children, were wounded.

A roadside bomb went off amongst a polio vaccination team in the village of Khugekhel in the Khyber tribal region, near the Afghan border, wounding 3 security troops escorting the team. The polio workers were unhurt.

A suicide bomber killed 4 women in a funeral procession in Peshawar.

Gunmen killed 3 teachers in a morning attack in Peshawar’s Hangu district, according to the Dawn newspaper.

Although the Pakistani Taliban was conducting talks with the government and had curtailed its attacks, a splinter, ­Ahar-ul-Hind, said it would continue fighting. The group’s spokesman, Asad Mansoor, observed, “Sharia cannot be implemented through dialogue.”

February 10—Pakistan—Two gunmen shot to death Faisal Saeed, 30, a Pakistani employee of the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar, while he was walking home from work in Peshawar. He was a computer programmer who updated the consulate’s Facebook page. 14021001

February 10—Somalia—One person was wounded when a bomb hidden in his car was set off by remote control.

Another remotely-detonated car bomb exploded outside a Mogadishu hotel while senior police officers, including the city’s police chief, were meeting inside, injuring 4 people.

February 10—Iraq—An Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorist instructor accidentally set off a car bomb at a training camp in an orchard in ­al-Jalam, outside Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, killing 21 terrorists and wounding a dozen. Police arrested the 12 wounded terrorists and 10 others trying to escape. The terrorists were attending a lesson on making car bombs and explosive belts. Police seized 7 car bombs, several explosive belts and roadside bombs in a raid on 2 houses and a garage in the orchard.

A bomb exploded near a western Baghdad café in the evening, killingd 3 and wounding 11.

A roadside bomb went off in Mosul next to the motorcade of Osama ­al-Nujaifi, the speaker of parliament, who was not injured. One bodyguard was wounded.

February 10—Greece—In morning raids, an ­anti-terrorist unit arrested 4 Turkish members of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation ­Party-Front (DHKP/C, a Turkish terrorist group) and seized weapons, several pounds of explosives, detonators, and berets with the ­Marxist-Leninist ­DHKP-C logo from residences in Athens. One of the detainees was sought by Turkish authorities under an international arrest warrant for participation in a terrorist organization. Police said his DNA matched that on weapons seized in the summer of 2013 by Greek police in the Aegean Sea on a speedboat believed headed for Turkey. The detainees ranged in age from 25 to 49. They appeared in court on February 11 on ­terrorism-related charges. The group was founded in the late 1970s as Dev Sol, and was designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S., and the European Union. On February 14, an Athens court jailed the 4 pending trial on terrorism and ­weapons-related charges.

February 10—Iraq—Gunmen attacked a remote military barracks in Ayn ­al-Jahish village outside Mosul during the night, killing 15 troops who protect an oil pipeline that sends Iraqi crude oil to international markets and guard a nearby highway. The terrorists beheaded 8 soldiers; the other 7 died from gunshots.

February 10–11—Mali—Thirty people died in an overnight battle near the ­Mali-Nigeria border between armed Tuareg villagers and Peul members of the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO). MUJAO lost 13 members; 17 civilians died.

February 11—Pakistan—Terrorists threw grenades into the crowded Shama Cinema movie theater in Peshawar, killing 13 people and wounding 30. One grenade destroyed the main door. Two others went off in the theater, which was showing “Yarana” (“friendship” in Pashto). Some 80 people were watching the film at the time of the attack. Many Sunni extremists view movies as obscene Western influences. Cinema manager Fayaz Khan said he had not received any threats. MSNBC reported that the theater was known for showing pornographic films. The Pakistani Taliban denied involvement.

February 11—Uganda—The U.S. Embassy warned that “a group of attackers is possibly in place and ready to strike targets inside Kampala in February or March.” The targets included the national museum.

February 11—Nigeria—Hundreds of jihadis attacked Konduga for several hours during the night, killing 39 people, including 3 children, and destroying a mosque and more than 1,000 homes. Local farmers said soldiers and police fled.

February 11—Afghanistan—The brother of provincial elections candidate Sabor Sabari was found in Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, during the night.

The Taliban killed a Lashkar Gah policeman during the night.

February 11—France—At 11:20 p.m., France’s DCRI, the domestic security service, arrested Ibrahim Boudina, 23, an ­Algiers-born French jihadi who had returned home from Syria apparently planning a terrorist attack. He spotted them and fled, but was grabbed on the staircase between the 11th and 12th floors of his father’s French Riviera apartment building in ­Mandelieu-La-Napoule near Cannes. Police found in a storage unit on the 13th floor a handgun, bombmaking instructions, and 3 soda cans filled with 950 grams of triacetone triperoxide (TATP) explosives. Screws and nails were attached with tape to one of the ­would-be bombs. He was charged with criminal association with intent to commit a terrorist act. Authorities said he “navigated around a (terror) cell” operating between Cannes and the eastern Paris suburb of Torcy. Police had arrested 20 people in the cell, which was discovered following a 2012 grenade attack on a kosher grocery story in Sarcelles. Police found bombmaking material in a garage in Torcy.

He had returned from Syria after going there in September 2012 with childhood friend Abdelkader Tliba, a ­French-Tunisian cook. On January 13, 2014, Greek border guards found that he was carrying a USB stick with bombmaking instructions “in the name of Allah,” but did not arrest him.

The Sarcelles bomber was alleged to be Jeremie ­Louis-Sidney, who was killed in October 6, 2012, in Strasbourg after resisting arrest. Three days later, police recovered bags of potassium nitrate, sulfur, saltpeter, headlight bulbs, and a pressure cooker from an underground parking lot in Torcy, an eastern Paris suburb.

Authorities said Tliba and Boudina first joined Jabhat ­al-Nusra, then defected to the Islamic State. Police said they discussed via social media their desire to “punish” France.

On January 16, 2014, police arrested Abdelkader Tliba at the Italian port of Ancona during an ID check and handed him over to the French. He was on his way back to France from Syria.

February 12—Kenya—A Kenyan official said authorities were searching in Nairobi for Omar Khalid, Somali leader of a cell plotting an attack in Uganda. The previous day, the U.S. Embassy in Kampala, Uganda issued a warning of a terrorist plot.

February 12—Pakistan—Some 25 gunmen attacked the home of anti–Taliban militia chief Israrullah Khan in Peshawar, killing him and 8 family members. The terrorists initially threw hand grenades into a guest house on the compound, then fired automatic weapons. The Pakistani Taliban was suspected. Earlier in the month, Khan’s son and 2 other people died after shooting to death a terrorist commander.

February 12—U.S.—The Federal Aviation Administration announced that there were 3,960 handheld laser attacks on U.S. aircraft in 2013, up from 283 in 2005. The FBI announced arrests, mostly of teenage boys and men in their 30s, who faced 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. During the upcoming 2 months, 11 U.S. cities and San Juan, Puerto Rico, were offering up to $10,000 for information leading to arrests.

February 12—Afghanistan—The ­NATO-led coalition condemned Afghan government plans to release 65 highly dangerous inmates from the former U.S. Bagram detention facility. They were part of a group of 88 men detained by U.S. and coalition forces during their search for Taliban terrorists. Several of the detainees at the renamed Parwan Detention Facility were responsible for the deaths of 32 coalition members and 23 Afghan soldiers and civilians. The Kabul government said there was insufficient evidence to try the prisoners, and freed them the following day. Those released included:

• Mohammad Wali, described by the U.S. as a suspected Taliban explosives expert who placed roadside bombs targeting Afghan and international forces. The military linked him biometrically to 2 roadside explosions and had a latent fingerprint match on another improvised explosive device. He also had tested positive for explosives resi-due.

• Nek Mohammad, whom the U.S. said was captured with several weapons.

• Ehsanullah, whom the U.S. biometrically matched to a roadside bomb and tested positive for explosive residue.

• Numerous members of the Haqqani Network, responsible for several attacks on coalition troops.

Meanwhile, 2 NATO troops and 2 Afghan service members were killed by 2 Taliban gunmen in Afghan uniforms at an Afghan base in the Pagab district of Kapisa Province. Several others were wounded in the insider attack.

February 12—Somalia—Several mortars hit Mogadishu during the night.

February 12—Yemen—Gunmen kidnapped British teacher Mike Harvey after he left an education institute in Sana’a. He was released on July 26, 2014, following negotiations between Yemen’s government and tribal intermediaries. A security official and a tribal leader said a ransom was paid to kidnappers. The kidnappers reportedly had AQAP links. 14021201

February 13—Pakistan—A remotely-detonated bomb in a parked van exploded as a bus filled with Rapid Response Force officers in Pakistan’s elite police commando passed by after leaving a training complex in Karachi, killing 11 and wounding 47, a dozen of them critically.

February 13—Somalia—A remotely-detonated car bomb exploded close to a convoy of United Nations vehicles at the Mogadishu airport junction, killing 6 Somalis on the street and injuring 8, including 4 security personnel. A UN vehicle was damaged, but no UN staff were injured. ­Al-Shabaab claimed credit. 14021301

February 13—UK—Suspicious packages were found at British Army recruitment offices in Oxford, Slough, and Brighton. Similar packages were found earlier in the week in Aldershot, Reading and Chatham. On February 14, the government said 7 such envelopes had been found. The IRA was blamed for the packages that contained gun powder, fuses and other potential bomb parts. Two of the envelopes were mailed from Ireland; 5 from the UK.

February 13—Yemen—Terrorists set off a car bomb and conducted a gun battle in an attack on the Sana’a Central prison, freeing 29 inmates, 19 of which were AQAP members convicted of terrorism charges, including plotting the assassinations of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and Western diplomats. The terrorists arrived in 3 cars. The first was the car bomb. A second group fired at the front gate. A third group infiltrated the prison. Still other attacks fired from the rooftops of neighboring homes. Most of those killed were security guards. Authorities closed roads to the airport. Police later suggested that insiders helped the inmates escape. Three prison officials and guards were detained.

Authorities announced receipt of information regarding possible attacks on the Interior Ministry and Defense Ministry.

February 13—Iraq—Two bombs exploded in clothing stalls in Baghdad’s ­al-Arabi market during the morning, killing 6 and wounding 18.

February 14—Congo—Machete-wielding terrorists hacked to death 70 people in the Masisi territory in the villages of Nyamaboko I and II in North Kivu Province.

February 14—China—Police were attacked with machetes and bombs in Xinjiang region. Security forces shot to death 8 attackers; another 3 died when they set off their bombs in Wushi County in Aksu Prefecture. Xinhua News Agency said the attackers drove motorbikes and cars loaded with liquefied natural gas cylinders to be used as suicide bombs against police who had mustered at a gate. Police arrested one of the ­machete-wielders. Two bystanders and 2 police officers were wounded. Five police cars were damaged. On February 16, the regional government’s Communist Party news website blamed religious extremists led by Mehmut Tohti. The website said he had spouted jihadi teachings 3 years ago. Since September 13, he led 13 individuals who watched violent videos and conducted physical training. Police investigators said that in January, the group bought vehicles, made bombs, and tested them in order to conduct attacks on police vehicles.

February 14—Bahrain—A bomb hit a white police minibus in Dih, variant Dair, injuring 3. One of the police officers died the next day.

February 14—Greece—Thessaloniki police arrested a 51-year-old Turkish man in connection with a 2011 incident in which a suspected Turkish member of the ­DHKP-C died in a flat when a hand grenade exploded in his hands. The individual faced charges of membership in a criminal group and supplying arms and explosives to terrorists.

February 14—Ethiopia—On March 20, 2015, AP reported that an Ethiopian court sentenced ­co-pilot Hailemedhin Abera, 31, to 19 years in prison for hijacking an Ethiopian plane bound for Rome and taking it to Geneva on February 14, 2014. The accused lives in Switzerland, and did not show up for the trial. 14021401

February 15—Afghanistan—A bomb killed a NATO soldier in southern Afghanistan.

February 15—Congo—Jacques Kikuni, head of the Muungano radio station, said journalist Germain Kennedy Muliwavyo, 30, died after being shot in the head and stomach in an Allied Democratic Forces (a Ugandan Muslim group) ambush while covering military operations 60 kilometers outside Beni. Two other journalists were injured.

February 15—Nigeria—Chanting “Allah is great,” suspected Boko Haram members shot to death 50 Christian villagers and slit the throats of others in a nighttime attack on Izghe village in Borno State. One survivor said 63 died; he claimed the attackers stole food and 10 vehicles. By February 18, 2014, the death toll had reached more than 150 in attacks on 8 villages in Borno and Adamawa states. At least 106 were killed in Izghe village, where the terrorists returned the next week to kill 3 more people. Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima lamented, “Given the present state of affairs, it is absolutely impossible for us to defeat Boko Haram.”

February 16—Pakistan—The Baluch Republican Army set off a bomb that derailed a train in Kashmor District in Sindh Province, killing 8, including 3 children, and wounding 20. Spokesman Sarbaz Baluch told the AP that the group was avenging killings in Baluchistan’s Dera Bugti region by Pakistani paramilitaries. The group had blown up 3 gas pipelines the previous week.

A roadside bomb killed a policeman and wounded another guarding a polio vaccination drive team in the Budhni area of the Peshawar suburbs.

February 16—Tunisia—At 1 a.m., 4 gunmen at a fake checkpoint at the road near Jendouba, 30 miles from the Algerian border, stopped a National Guard patrol vehicle, then killed 2 of its occupants, including a prison guard, and wounded 2 others. Tu­ni­sia’s Shems FM radio said the terrorists were disguised as members of the security forces.

February 16—Egypt—A suicide bomber set off explosives next to a tourist bus near the Taba border crossing in the Sinai Peninsula, killing a church member, 2 South Korean guides and the Egyptian driver and wounding 14 passengers, 12 seriously (some reports said all of the passengers were injured). Interior Ministry spokesman Hani ­Abdel-Latif said the driver and 2 South Koreans had gone to the cargo hold. When they attempted to get back on the bus, the terrorist pushed into the bus door and set off his explosives. The passengers included 31 Korean Christian parishioners from Jincheon Jungang Presbyterian Church who were visiting Biblical sites on their church’s 60th anniversary, an Egyptian guide, and a woman working in South Korea’s Foreign Ministry press office. The bus had arrived from the ancient Greek Orthodox monastery of St. Catherine’s in central Sinai and was on its way to Israel. The parishioners were also scheduled to visit Turkey and Israel. 14021601

February 16—U.S.—NBC station KTUU reported that at 2 p.m., an oil worker headed for the North Slope was arrested after he tried to smuggle a pipe bomb inside his ­carry-on-bag onto a Shared Services Aviation plane, shutting down Alaska’s Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport for an hour. The Anchorage Daily News reported that the suspect told FBI agents that the device was used to set off avalanches. Shared Services Aviation is owned by ConocoPhillips and BP.

February 16—Macedonia—Five Roma children were wounded when a bomb went off in Tetovo. Two 14-year-old girls were hospitalized in Skopje with serious limb and chest injuries. Police arrested 3 suspects. Tetovo police spokesman Marjan Josifoski announced the arrests of a 46-year-old man, his 28-year-old son and a 15-year-old.

February 16—Pakistan—The Pakistani Taliban’s Mohmand faction announced in a written statement and a video that it had executed 23 Frontier Corps paramilitary soldiers who were kidnapped in 2010. The group said it was retaliating for security operations against jihadis. Omar Khalid Khurassani, a group commander, said Pakistan’s military had conducted 16 extrajudicial killings of prisoners, observing, “We have warned the government time and again through the media to stop the killing of our friends, who were in the custody of security forces, but the government continued killing our people. So we executed 23 members of the parliamentary” Frontier Corps.

February 17—Jordan—The army announced that at dawn, a border patrol killed a gunman who shot at them as he and 3 others tried to cross the ­border from Syria. The other 3 were wounded. 14021701

February 17—Ethiopia—Once the Italian pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines plane left the cockpit for a restroom break, the ­co-pilot locked the door and hijacked the Addis ­Ababa-to-Milan-to-Rome flight of the B- 767–300 with 193 passengers and 7 crew, landing it in Geneva at 6 a.m. A passenger said the ­co-pilot threatened to crash the plane if the pilot didn’t stop pounding on the locked door. An Ethiopian official said it sent a distress message over Sudan that it had been hijacked; it is not clear how that could have happened with only the ­co-pilot in the cockpit. Two Italian fighter jets and later French jets were scrambled to accompany the plane. Upon landing, the ­co-pilot left the plane using a rope, then announced to police that he was the hijacker. The Ethiopian hijacker, 31, requested asylum, but was arrested after surrendering to police. No one was injured. Geneva prosecutor Olivier Jornot said hijacker would be charged with taking hostages, which carries a 20-year prison sentence. Yilikal Getnet, leader of Ethiopia’s opposition Blue party, said “I think he took the measure to convey a message that the … government is not in line with the public and people are not impressed by what the government says.”

Ethiopian Communications Minister Redwan Hussein said the hijacker was Hailemedhin Abera, who had worked for Ethiopian Airlines for 5 years. The hijacker had no prior criminal record. Hussein said Ethiopia would request extradition. Redwan said the plane was carrying 139 Italians, 11 Americans, 10 Ethiopians, 5 Nigerians and 4 French citizens.

Abera’s uncle, Alemu Asmamaw, said his nephew had been distraught over the death of another uncle, Emiru Seyoum, an associate professor at Addis Ababa University who died suddenly on January 1. 14021702

February 17—Uganda—Ugandan military spokes­man Lt. Col. Paddy Ankunda told the media that it believed Okot Odhiambo, deputy to Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony, was killed in October 2013 in Djema, Central African Republic, following an attack by African Union forces. Odhiambo was one of 5 LRA commanders indicted by the International Criminal Court in 2005 over atrocities committed in a rebellion that started in Uganda in the 1980s. He was a member of the “control altar” of the LRA.

February 17—Niger—Gunmen fired on the residence of National Assembly President Hama Ama­dou, who was away on a state visit to Iran. No one was injured in the nighttime attack. One of the bullets landed 2 yards from his bed. He had told aides that assassins were targeting him.

Meanwhile, Army leader General Seini Garba said the Army had arrested and killed jihadis in Diffa who had been planning an attack. The army also destroyed a large weapons cache. Boko Haram was suspected of involvement.

February 17—Mali—Olivier Salgado, spokesman for the MINUSMA peacekeeping mission, said 3 rockets exploded south of Timbuktu’s airport before midnight.

February 17—Iraq—Baghdad Shi’ite neighborhoods were hit with several bombings in the evening, with 23 dead and dozens injured.

A car bomb exploded in the eastern Ur neighborhood, killing 10 and wounding 23.

A car bomb in the Karrada area killed 8 and wounded 25.

A bomb in the Amil neighborhood killed one civilian and wounded 7.

A car bomb went off in a commercial area in Baghdad’s western Sunni neighborhood of Ghazaliyah, killing 4 civilians and wounding 11.

February 17—Pakistan—Gunmen in Peshawar shot to death Maulvi Abdul Raqeeb, who was Minister of Martyrs and Refugees during the Taliban’s ­5-year rule that ended in 2001, and who subsequently called for direct talks with President Hamid Karzai’s High Peace Council.

February 17—Afghanistan—The Washington Post reported that the Obama administration was trying to resume talks with the Taliban regarding freeing U.S. hostage Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who was kidnapped in 2009, possibly by the Haqqani Network. The Post said the administration would offer to send 5 Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay to Qatar in exchange for Bergdahl.

February 18—Yemen—Secessionists attacked a Yemeni army truck carrying food to a unit in Dali Province, killing 7 soldiers and wounding 9. Secessionist spokesman Ali ­al-Saya said the Army’s 33rd Brigade had randomly shelled 3 Dali districts, destroying 5 houses and killing 6 people, including a child. The government said the attackers were “subversive elements” who also set fire to an armored vehicle and captured 14 soldiers.

Two ­drive-by gunmen on a motorcycle shot to death a senior police officer serving as deputy security chief of the Marib civil status authority in Marib Province.

February 18—Philippines—Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement spokesman Abu Misry said it had expelled vice chairman Mohammad Ali Tambako and 30 of his followers for beheading a farmer in the southern Philippines in September 2013. Misry said BIFM does not practice such brutality.

February 18—Iraq—Car bombings of shopping streets and bus stations in Baghdad and areas to the south killed 33 people and wounded dozens. The car bombs in Baghdad killed at least 17 people and wounded 49. One blast at a bus station killed 7 and wounded 18.

Four bombs exploded simultaneously in Hillah, killing 11 people and wounding 35.

A parked car bomb in Musayyib killed 5 and wounded 13.

February 18—Yemen—A bomb hit a military bus as it passed through Sana’a’s Hizyaz district while it was taking troops on their way to work in the morning, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 10. Authorities were trying to determine whether it was a roadside bomb, placed on the bus, or the work of a suicide bomber.

February 18—Egypt—Reuters and NBC News reported that the ­Sinai-based Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis group warned that tourists must leave Egypt by February 20 or face attack. The group tweeted in English, “We recommend tourists to get out safely before the expiry of the deadline.”

February 19—Lebanon—Two Abdullah Azzam Brigades suicide car bombers set off their explosives in a BMW and a Mercedes at an Iranian cultural ­center in the Shi’ite Bir Hassan district in southern Beirut, near the Kuwaiti Embassy. Health Minister Wael Abu Faour said 4 people were killed and more than 100 wounded. Among the casualties were 12 children in an orphanage, university student Hussein Hazouri, 18, who was hit in the head, and Abdullah Atweh, 31, whose arm was hit by shrapnel. The Iranian Embassy reported no serious injuries, although one hospitalized man said he worked at the Iranian Embassy. The group said it was retaliating for Hizballah’s involvement in the Syrian civil war. The Leba­nese army said the car bombers used mortar shells to maximize the damage. Abdullah Azzam Brigades said on its Twitter account “We will continue to target Iran and its party in Lebanon through their security, political and military offices” until Hizballah fighters withdraw from Syria and scores of Islamic detainees are released from Lebanese jails … [Hizballah will not] “enjoy security in Lebanon until the people of Syria feel secure.” The blast set cars and trees on fire and heavily damaged a building that once held a pharmacy, a clothing shop and a ­well-known sweet shop, Gondoline, which is owned by Sam Hasna, a ­Lebanese-Canadian. One of his employees died and another was in critical condition. Hasna said, “I am trying to reserve the first ticket back to Canada,” after living in Lebanon for years. “We tried, we tried, we tried.”

On March 8, 2014, AP reported that the ­al-Qaeda–linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades posted an apology on jihadi websites for the twin suicide bombing that killed 8 people and wounded dozens, including children from a nearby orphanage, blaming a “technical fault” in the second bomb. “We affirm, always to our suicide bombers, to be cautious, and to abort any operation if they believe it will hit others but the targeted.” In this case, the Brigades said they were targeting Hizballah and Iranian interests in Lebanon. “The 2 bombs were meant to be in a place where the shrapnel of the explosion would not reach the main road. The Azzam [bombing] operations do not target Shi’ites in general, nor other sects.” 14021901

February 19—Iraq—A bomb exploded in a Mahmoudiyah vegetable market, killing 6 and wounding 18.

A bomb hit a security patrol in Khalis, killing 4 soldiers and wounding 3.

February 19—U.S.—NBC News reported that the Department of Homeland Security warned airlines about a potential new ­shoe-bomb threat from overseas flights.

February 19—Egypt—Egyptian army helicopter gunships fired rockets on several terrorist safe houses in the town of Sheikh Zuwayed and several others in nearby villages in the northern region of the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 10, including senior members of the ­al-Qaeda–inspired Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis (Champions of Jerusalem).

February 20—Nigeria—Boko Haram attacked Bama town during the night, killing 115 people, hospitalizing 200, and destroying 1,500 buildings and 400 vehicles. Several victims were beheaded. Kyari Ibn Elkanemi, shehu (king) of Bama, complained that the government “is not serious” in the fight against the jihadis. Akura Satoma, leader of youth vigilantes in Bama, said of the attackers, “The way they operate is so amazing because as soon as their member is killed, they pick the corpse. They seemed to have specific people for designated duties: while some were shooting RPGs [rocket-propelled gre­nades], others are planting bombs, others are breaking shops and houses and looting food items and other consumables which they haul into waiting trucks. Some others, like the teenagers, were seen helping to deliver ammunition while others were helping in picking corpses.”

February 20—Nigeria—Boko Haram leader Abu­bakar Shekau posted a video on the Internet in which he threatened to attack “in coming days” oil refineries 1,000 miles away from his base. He said Nigerian Muslim politicians and religious and traditional leaders would be targets for pursuing democracy and Western education. “The reason I will kill you is that you are infidels, you follow democracy…. Whoever follows democracy is an infidel and my enemy.” She­kau spoke in the local Hausa and Kanuri languages.

February 20—Pakistan—Pakistani air force jets bombed jihadi hideouts in villages in the North Waziristan tribal region, killing 15. Authorities also hit jihadi hideouts of foreign Uzbek and Tajik fighters in North Waziristan. The next day, planes bombed the Khyber tribal region, killing 5. A military official said arms, ammunition and explosives were destroyed.

February 20—Syria—A car bomb hit the Bab ­al-Salama border crossing near a refugee camp, killing 10 people, according to Turkey’s ­state-run Anadolu news agency. Several people were taken to hospitals in Kilis, Turkey.

February 20—Iraq—Five mortar rounds hit a Musayyib market at 7 p.m., killing 22 and wounding more than 50. Police believed the rounds were fired from the nearby ­Sunni-dominated town of Jurf ­al-Sakr.

February 21—Afghanistan—A suicide car bomber hit the gates of the district police headquarters in Surobi in the early morning. Two other male attackers clad in burqas then opened fire, killing one po-lice officer and injuring 4. Police said 3 terrorists died.

February 21—Somalia—Nine ­al-Shabaab terrorists wearing military fatigues and carrying guns and grenades attacked the presidential palace. Two car bombs went off at one gate, killing a former intelligence commander and an aide to the prime minister, ­Somali-American Mohamud Hersi Abdulle. The other 7 terrorists were killed in an attack on a second gate. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was unharmed. 14022101

February 21—Guantanamo Bay—The Washington Post reported that Ahmed ­al-Darbi, 39, Saudi ­brother-in-law of a 9/11 American Airlines Flight 77 hijacker, Khalid Almihdhar, pleaded guilty to ­war-crimes charges during his arraignment at Guanta­namo Bay, Cuba. The military’s chief prosecutor, Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, said that he would be sentenced in about 31⁄2 years. As part of a plea deal, Darbi was to testify against another ­high-profile Gitmo detainee. Martins noted the possibility of repatriation to Saudi Arabia to serve out the remainder of his sentence in a prison. He faced between 9 and 15 additional years in prison for helping to plan a 2002 attack on a French oil tanker in Yemen that killed a Bulgarian crewman. ­Al-Darbi was captured in 2002.

February 21—Spain—Ram Manikkalingam, spokes­man for the commission of mediators overseeing the 2011 ceasefire, said ETA in Bilbo had placed a rifle, 3 pistols, 300 rounds of ammunition, 2 gre­nades, and 35 pounds of explosives out of use, somehow sealing them away after permitting the inspectors to see them. The Spanish government does not recognize the commission. On February 23, 2014, Judge Ismael Moreno summoned 3 members of the ­commission to Spain’s National Court for 2 hours of questioning. On March 1, 2014, the Associated Press reported that ETA had reiterated its earlier claim.

February 21—Australia—NBC News reported that authorities were investigating a suspected multiple arson attack against a Boeing 777-300ER Etihad flight from Melbourne to Abu Dhabi. Smoke from what appeared to be deliberately-set fires in 2 lavatories engulfed the cabin. The plane was diverted to Jakarta, Indonesia, where no perpetrator was found. After takeoff, another fire was found in a lavatory. Abu Dhabi authorities detained 12 passengers, who were released the next morning.

February 22—Pakistan—Pakistani helicopter gunships fired on jihadis training in the village of Thal in the Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, killing 9.

A roadside bomb hit a vehicle carrying a ­pro-government elder in of Buner, killing him and 2 guards.

February 22—Lebanon—A Nusra Front in Lebanon suicide bomber set off his explosives when soldiers tried to search his car at an army checkpoint at the entrance to Hermel, killing 2 soldiers and a civilian and wounding 18. The group claimed credit on Twitter on February 23, saying it was retaliating for Hizballah’s support to the Assad regime in Syria.

February 23—Syria—The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant was suspected in a suicide bombing in Aleppo that killed Abu Khaled ­al-Suri, the representative of ­al-Qaeda leader Ayman ­al-Zawahiri in Syria. ­Al-Suri was the ­co-founder of Ahrar ­al-Sham, a key member of the Islamic Front.

February 23—Afghanistan—Hundreds of Taliban gunmen carrying guns and ­rocket-propelled gre­nades attacked an Afghan army base in the remote Ghaziabad district of Kunar Province in the early morning, killing 21 soldiers. Three Afghan soldiers were missing. By the afternoon, Afghan forces had ­re-taken the outpost.

Meanwhile, the Taliban postponed negotiations with the United States over the release of U.S. hostage Sergeant Bowe Berghdahl. The U.S. had proposed swapping the 5 most senior Afghans still held at Gitmo since 2002: Mohammad Fazl, Abdul Haq Wasiq, Mullah Norullah Nori, Khairullah Khair­khwa, and Mohammed Nabi.

February 23—Pakistan—A bomb exploded at a busy bus terminal near a police station in Kohat, killing 14 people and wounding 15, most of them passengers in a motorized rickshaw and those on a ­mini-bus bound for a ­Shi’ite-majority area.

February 23—Mali—Eight unidentified gunmen with AK-47 rifles arrived in a vehicle with a mounted gun and forced more than 800 workers to leave the Taoudenie salt mine in northern Mali, according to miner Hama Ould el-Hilla.

February 23—Iraq—A car bomb exploded in an outdoor market for used motorcycles and bicycles in Baghdad’s Sadr City, killing 6 and injuring 21.

A motorcycle bomb went off in Baghdad’s northern Waziriyah neighborhood, killing 3 and wounding 12.

Drive-by gunmen fired on a police checkpoint in Tarmiyah, killing one and wounding 3.

February 23—Nigeria—Boko Haram returned to Izghe village, where it had killed 106 people the previous week, firebombing remaining thatched huts and killing 3 survivors—a man and 2 women.

February 23—Tanzania—In Zanzibar, 4 people were hurt in the bombing of an Assemblies of God church. Authorities blamed the secessionist religious group Uamsho (“awakening” in Swahili), also known as the Association for Islamic Mobilization and Propagation, which calls for autonomy for the archipelago.

February 24—Colombia—A ­motorcycle-riding gunman tried to halt the ­3-vehicle convoy of leftist presidential candidate Aida Avella, 65, of the Union Patriotica—originally the political wing of FARC—in the northeastern state of Arauca, firing 8–10 shots at a security detail. No injuries were reported. She had been in exile in Switzerland for 17 years; she left in 1996 after being the target of a ­shoulder-fired rocket.

February 24—Pakistan—Gunmen killed Asmatullah Shaheen Bitani, a Pakistani Taliban Executive Council member, and 3 aides in Darga Mandi in North Waziristan. There was a 10 million rupee ($95,000) government bounty on him. He had served as interim chief of the group after the 2013 death of Hakimullah Mehsud in a drone strike.

February 24—Mali—Authorities found 5 bodies wearing military clothing in 2 graves near the Kati military barracks outside the capital.

February 24—India—Indian soldiers killed 7 rebels who had fired on them in Kashmir’s forested region of Kupwara. No soldiers were injured.

February 24—Tanzania—Two homemade bombs exploded near St. Monica Anglican Cathedral and the Mercury restaurant in Zanzibar, causing no injuries. Authorities blamed the secessionist religious group Uamsho/Association for Islamic Mobilization and Propagation.

February 25—Nigeria—In a 2 a.m. attack on the Federal Government College at Buni Yadi, Boko Haram set alight a locked dormitory, then shot and slit the throats of students trying to flee through the windows. At least 58 students were killed; many were burned alive. Eleven wounded survivors were hospitalized. Teacher Adamu Garba said the ­machete-wielding terrorists “slaughtered them like sheep” and gunned down others. A spokesman for the governor of Yobe State said soldiers guarding a nearby checkpoint had been called away hours earlier. The terrorists spared female students, telling them to go home, get married, and quit Western education. The terrorists burned down 6 dormitories, the administrative building, staff quarters, classrooms, a clinic and the kitchen. Musa Mohammed, 16, died of gunshot wounds in a local hospital on February 26, raising the death toll to 59.

February 25—Pakistan—The military said bombings by jets and helicopter gunships killed nearly 25 insurgents in North Waziristan.

February 25—UK—West Midlands Police arrested 4 people in Birmingham, including former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg, 45, on suspicion of ­Syria-related terrorism offenses. Police suspected Begg of attending a terrorist training camp and facilitating terrorism overseas. Gerrie Tahari, a 44-year-old woman; her 20-year-old son; and a 36-year-old man were suspected of facilitating terrorism overseas. Begg was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 as an enemy combatant, held at Bagram in Afghanistan, and sent in 2003 to Gitmo, where he was released without charge in 2005. He became a director of the UK advocacy group Cage, which campaigns against alleged abuses committed in the name of fighting terrorism. He was arraigned on March 1 in a London court on charges of promoting terrorism in Syria. Tahari denied a charge of aiding overseas terrorism. Begg was ordered held in custody until his next court appearance March 14.

February 25—UK—London High Court Justice Nigel Sweeney ordered IRA veteran John Downey, 62, freed, finding that Britain’s Northern Ireland Office in 2007 misled Downey when it provided the resident of Ireland with a secret document promising him he was not wanted for any outstanding IRA crimes in the UK while knowing that he was charged with the IRA killing of 4 soldiers and 7 horses assigned to a detachment of the Queen’s Household Cavalry in London’s Hyde Park in 1982. Downey had flown in 2013 to London’s Gatwick Airport, where he was arrested and charged with murder and other terror charges.

The next day, First Minister Peter Robinson, leader of Northern Ireland’s unity government, threatened to resign, claiming that his British Protestant party, the Democratic Unionists, would not have formed a coalition with Sinn Fein in 2007 had the UK revealed it was giving secret “get out of jail free” written guarantees to 187 IRA “On the Runs” who fled to the Republic of Ireland. On February 27, the British government announced it would appoint a judge to investigate the policy.

February 25—Afghanistan—A suicide car bomber killed 8 people and wounded 41, several seriously, in a crowded restaurant and hotel in Trin Kot, capital of Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan.

A roadside bomb killed 3 civilians and wounded 3 in Helmand Province’s Marjah District.

February 25—Iraq—A car bomb in the crowded commercial area of Karrada in Baghdad killed at least 15 people and wounded 36.

February 26—Egypt—The Cairo Criminal Court convicted 26 people of forming a terrorist group to attack ships passing through the Suez Canal waterway, security buildings, foreign tourists, Christians and police. Almost all were sentenced in absentia to death. One of the defendants, younger than 18, did not receive a death sentence.

February 26—Mali—Two Malian medical aid workers with the aid group Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) were injured when their vehicle hit a land mine near the Kidal airfield. The group’s Kidal coordinator sustained serious injuries to his hand.

February 26—Yemen—Two gunmen on a motorcycle killed Intelligence General Rishad ­al-Kaladi as he was leaving a restaurant in Hadramawt Province.

February 27—Somalia—A car bomb killed 11 people at a Mogadishu tea shop frequented by Somali intelligence officers. One man broke his arm when he jumped from a moving car near the attack. ­Al-Shabaab was suspected.

During the night, gunmen killed a health worker giving out polio vaccinations, the second polio worker killed in Mogadishu that week.

February 27—China—Before noon, an explosion set fire to a public bus in Guiyang in southwestern China, killing 5 and injuring 32. It was unclear what caused the blast. In 2013, a man set fire to a commuter bus in Xiamen, killing himself and 46 others. In 2009, a bus arson killed 27, including the arsonist, in Chengdu.

February 27—India—An Indian soldier fired indiscriminately at his colleagues at an army camp in northern Ganderbal region, Kashmir, killing 5 of them and wounding another before killing him-self. The sentry had earlier argued with his colleagues.

February 27—Nigeria—Survivors claimed soldiers fled before Boko Haram attacked 5 villages and a town, killing 33 people and bombing a theological school in attacks in northeast Adamawa State. The attackers hit during the night in Kirchinga village near the Cameroon border. Gunmen in13 ­all-terrain pickup trucks fired automatic guns and ­rocket-propelled grenades and threw firebombs into ­thatched-roofed huts. The attackers chased the villagers into neighboring Shuwa town, then torched banks, a police station, the homes of prominent residents and a bishop, and a seminary.

February 27—Iraq—A bomb hidden on a motorcycle exploded at a used motorcycle market in Baghdad, killing 12 and wounding 45.

A bomb attached to a minibus exploded in Sadr City, killing 5 civilians and wounding 14.

A bomb stuck on a minibus exploded in Baghdad’s northern Shaab neighborhood, killing 4 and wounding 11.

February 28—Iraq—A suicide bomber in Haditha crashed his ­explosives-laden car during the night into the guesthouse of Sheik Saeed Fleih ­al-Osman, a councilman and a leader for the town’s Sahwa militias, killing the prominent ­pro-government tribal sheik and 6 Sahwa militiamen and wounding 5 civilians.

February 28—Cyprus—A bomb exploded in the car of Cypriot referee Leontios Trattou, who was to work a soccer exhibition between the U.S. and Ukraine. The bomb was placed on the hood of the car in a Nicosia suburb.

February 28—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb killed a NATO service member in southern Afghanistan. 14022801

February 28—Yemen—Gun battles between troops and Shi’ite Houthi rebels at a military checkpoint in ­al-Jawf Province killed 2 soldiers and 5 rebels. Troops arrested another 11 suspected Houthi rebels, including 3 wounded men.

February 28—Lebanon—Military prosecutor Riad Abu Ghaida charged ­hard-line Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmad ­al-Assir with involvement in a deadly ­shoot-out in June 2013 in Sidon that killed 18 government troops and killing soldiers, calling for the death penalty. Abu Ghaida also charged 56 supporters of ­al-Assir, among them former popular ­singer-turned-extremist Fadel Shaker, with committing crimes against the military, against calling for capital punishment.

February 28—Egypt—Gunmen on a motorcycle killed an ­off-duty policeman also riding a motorcycle in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura. The officer worked as a guard for a judge hearing a case against former President Mohammed Morsi. The victim was on his way from the judge’s home.

Meanwhile, authorities dismantled a homemade bomb on a main bridge in northern Cairo.

February 28—Libya—During the night, gunmen shot to death Colonel Wanis Massoud ­al-Barghathi, an officer in the air defense branch, in Benghazi.

March—Switzerland—On October 31, 2014, AP reported that prosecutors announced the March arrest of 3 Iraqis suspected of supporting the Islamic State and planning an attack in Europe. Offenses included misuse of explosives and toxic gases with criminal intent and encouraging illegal entry to, exit from, and residence in Switzerland.

March 1—Pakistan—The Pakistani Taliban declared a ­one-month ­cease-fire as part of peace negotiations with the government.

Meanwhile, 2 bombs exploded minutes apart in the Lashora village of Jamrud tribal region in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, killing 11 people in an attack on tribal police guarding polio workers. The first bomb hit an escort vehicle, wounding 6 officers. The second bomb hit a tribal police convoy responding to the first bombing, killing 11 and wounding ­another 6. The next day, Reuters and NBC News reported that the Pakistani military bombed the hideout of Mullah Tamanchey, a jihadi leader, hours after the Taliban declared a ceasefire. Tamanchey was alleged to have orchestrated the previous day’s attack on a polio vaccination team’s convoy in which 12 people died.

A bomb killed 3 paramilitary Frontier Corps soldiers and wounded 6 as they traveled through Washuk in Baluchistan Province.

March 1—China—Men and women wielding long knives, including machetes and fruit and watermelon knives, attacked the Kunming Railway Station in Yunnan Province at 9 p.m., killing 31 people and injuring 143 before police fired on them, killing 5 attackers and arresting one. The government blamed separatists linked to international terrorism. The ­state-run Yunnan News said that killers wore black uniforms. Chinese State CCTV said 2 of the assailants were women, including one of the dead and the one detained. Police captured the other 3 suspects in Honghe on March 3. Xinhua News Agency reported that the Ministry of Public Security indicated that the ­Xinjiang-based “terrorist gang” of 6 men and 2 women were led by Abdurehim Kurban. Authorities suggested that the East Turkistan Islamic Movement was involved. Other observers blamed Uighur separatists. On March 5, Qin Guangrong, the Communist Party chief of Yunnan Province, announced that the 8 separatists from Xinjiang conducted the assault after failing to leave the country across the border in Yunnan, and later in Guangdong Province, to join jihad. On June 30, 2014, the national prosecutor’s office announced murder and terrorism charges against a woman—Patiguli Tuoheti—and 3 men for the knifings. The 4 had Uighur names. The Supreme People’s Procuratorate charged her with murder and participating in a terror group. The trio that was arrested elsewhere 2 days before the attack were charged with murder and with leading the terror group. On September 12, 2014, the Kunming Intermediate People’s Court Chinese court sentenced 3 men—Iskandar Ehet, Turgun Tohtunyaz and Hasayn Muhammad—to death and a woman, Patigul Tohti, to life imprisonment after convicting them of or­ganizing and leading a terror group and murder in the attack. Tohti was the only attacker captured alive at the scene. The court said she could not be sentenced to death because she was pregnant. The court added that local authorities arrested the 3 men on February 27 as they were attempting to illegally leave China. On October 31, 2014, AP reported that the Higher People’s Court of Yunnan Province Chinese court upheld the death sentences of 3 men convicted of organizing a knife attack that killed 31 people and injured 141 outside a railway station in Kunming, observing that they “all played a role in organizing, leading and plotting the terrorist activities at the Kunming Railway Station.” On March 24, 2015, AP reported that authorities executed Iskandar Ehet, Turgun Tohtunyaz and Hasayn Muhammad.

March 1—Nigeria—Two car bombs went off at night at a Maiduguri market, killing 51 people. Victims included children dancing at a wedding celebration and people watching a soccer game. The first bomb exploded on a pickup truck carrying firewood and did not cause many casualties; the second bomb went off in a car, hitting those rushing to aid the initial victims. Survivors captured and badly beat a man who jumped out of the car, grabbed a tricycle taxi and tried to escape. The suspect was taken to Umaru Shehu General Hospital.

Forty miles away, terrorists killed 39 people and destroyed every ­thatched-roof hut in Mainok, a farming village.

March 1—Iraq—Drive-by gunmen fired on a Sahwa checkpoint in Tarmiyah, killing 2 and wounding 4.

Gunmen fired on an army checkpoint in Abu Ghraib, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 4.

A bomb went off in an outdoor market in Abu Ghraib, killing a civilian and wounding 6.

March 2—Philippines—Two men on a motorcycle kidnapped a 9-year-old boy in front of his home in Sulu’s Indanan town.

March 2—Yemen—Gunmen ambushed and killed a security forces colonel driving in the Radaa suburbs; his guard was wounded.

March 2—Afghanistan—A terrorist car bomb exploded prematurely at a safe house during a nighttime police raid, killing 10 terrorists, including at least 3 Afghan and 6 Pakistani terrorists, as well as 2 women and 2 children, and destroyed a civi-lian house 6 miles north of ­Pul-e-Alam, capital of Logar Province. Police said the terrorists were ­planning to attack the provincial governor’s compound.

March 2—Nigeria—At 8 p.m., Boko Haram gunmen chased off soldiers guarding the village of Mafa, then killed 32 people and set alight the entire village. The next day, according to Senator Ahmed Zannah, “a bomb exploded this morning and 2 policemen were killed while trying to evacuate injured victims.” Most Mafa residents had left the village after reading leaflets the previous week warning of an imminent attack. Seven soldiers were reported missing.

March 3—Pakistan—At 8:30 a.m., 2 suicide bomb­ers entered Islamabad’s district court complex, fired AK-47 assault rifles and threw grenades at judges, lawyers and residents gathered for civil court proceedings, killing 11 people and wounding 25. Among the dead in the 45-minute attack were Rafa­qat Awan, 3 attorneys including 72-year-old Rao Abdul Rashid, the chief constable and several people who were eating in the cafeteria. The gunmen broke into a district court judge’s chambers and shot him to death. At the end of the 20-minute rampage, the terrorists then blew themselves up in front of a courtroom. Taliban negotiating team spokesman Maulana Sami ­ul-Haq commented, “We condemn this unfortunate incident. Some forces are trying to derail the peace process.”

The Interior Ministry had told the National Assembly the previous week that 900 people were killed in more than 1,700 attacks across the country since September.

March 3—Philippines—Five gunmen armed with M16 rifles kidnapped a 10-year-old boy, his 8-year-old cousin, their nanny and a driver while on the way to school. The gunmen bumped into the victims’ van with their jeep, then dragged them away in Jolo, Sulu Province. Abu Sayyaf extremists and small kidnap gangs were suspected.

March 3—Bahrain—A remotely detonated bomb planted near a lamp post went off in Manama, killing 3 policemen, including one from the UAE, who were trying to disperse what the Interior Ministry dubbed “rioters and vandals.” Two other bombs went off nearby. A fourth bomb was defused. The UAE’s state news agency WAM said the dead included 1st Lt. Tareq Mohammed ­al-Shehi, who was serving in Bahrain as part of the “Gulf Waves Force” deployed under a joint security cooperation agreement among Gulf Cooperation Council States, who include Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman. By the next day, authorities had detained 25 suspects. On March 6, Police Chief Major General Tariq Hassan ­al-Hassan announced the arrests of 4 people; 3 were in their 20s, one was 40 years old. On Feb­ruary 26, 2015, AP reported that a Bahraini court found 11 Shi’ites guilty of involvement in the bombing and sentenced 3 of them to death. One of the dead police officers came from the UAE. Another 8 defendants were scheduled to life in prison and would lose their citizenship. Defense attorney Mohammed ­al-Tajir said he would appeal the verdict. 14030301

March 3—Nigeria—Jihadis killed 3 policemen who were chasing 4 gunmen on motorcycles who had ­attacked a checkpoint on a road from Katsina to Kano.

Jihadis burned 11 people to death inside their homes in Jakana village in Borno State. Most villagers fled into the bush; the victims were too old to escape.

March 4—Pakistan—Gunmen fired on trucks in a NATO supply convoy heading to Afghanistan via the tribal Jamrud region, killing 2 truck drivers and wounding another.

March 4—Iraq—Two suicide bombers set off their explosives at the entrance to the local council in Samara. Another 5 gunmen set off a parked car bomb and rushed in, killing 6 people, including 3 police officers and 3 civilians and injuring 34. In a ­2-hour gun battle, security forces freed all hostages and killed the attackers.

March 4—France—The trial began of French citizen Romain Letellier, alias Abou Siyad ­al-Normandy, 27, described by prosecutors as running the 4,000-member Ansar ­al-Haqq ­al-Qaeda propaganda website. He was charged with defending and promoting terrorism by translating and disseminating 2 editions of AQAP’s Inspire magazine. He was arrested in ­September 2013 in the Calvados area of Normandy. He faced 5 years in prison in the first test of the 2012 law outlawing “cyberjihad.” He denied intent to incite violence and said he withheld information on sabotage, “because then you could really think that we were inciting people technically to do something.” Letellier grew up in a Norman village, raised by atheist communist parents, although he believed in God as a youth. On March 5, a Paris court sentenced him to a year in prison plus a ­2-year suspended sentence.

March 4—Libya—Gunmen fired ­rocket-propelled grenades at troops guarding Libya’s official television station. There were no reports of casualties. Officials said the attackers might have been members of the militia headed by Jumaa ­al-Shahm, who had earlier controlled the building before being forced out by government forces the previous week.

Meanwhile, prominent air force Colonel Adam Faraj ­al-Abdali was found dead from gunshots to the head and chest. He was found inside his car near a cemetery in Benghazi hours after he went missing in the country’s east. The 50-something colonel had pioneered the use of Russian jets in Libya.

March 5—China—A fire on a passenger bus carrying 43 people near a highway entrance in Jilin killed 10 and injured 17 in the morning.

The previous week, a man believing that his wife was unfaithful admitted that he had boarded a bus in the southwest and torched it, killing 6 and wounding 35.

March 5—Israel—Israeli troops fired on 2 suspected Hizballah members trying to plant a bomb in the ­Israel-controlled Golan Heights along the border with Syria.

March 5—Iraq—Car bombs in Baghdad commercial areas and marketplaces killed 17 people. Two bombs hit the northern Shaab and Shula neighborhoods, killing 4 civilians in each attack, and wounding 31.

A bomb in Zafaraniyah in Baghdad killed 3 and injured 9.

A bomb in Baghdad’s Bayaa neighborhood killed 3 and wounded 11.

A bomb in Baghdad’s Karrada area killed 2 and wounded 12.

A bomb in Sadr City killed one and wounded 3.

An attack in Baghdad’s northern Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah killed 5 people who were celebrating Iraq’s win over China in an Asian Cup qualifier in Dubai.

A roadside bomb in Tarmiyah killed a police officer on patrol and a nearby civilian.

March 5—Philippines—Gunmen kidnapped Hadji Muhtamad Vice Mayor Arsina Nanoh outside a shopping mall. She was released the next day in a Zamboanga town. Alnajil Nanoh said his wife phoned him earlier saying she was being held blindfolded in a room. She was also a gold trader. It was not reported whether a ransom was paid. Abu Sayyaf was suspected.

March 5—Israel—The Israeli Navy, in Operation Full Disclosure, intercepted the ­Panama-flagged KLOS C ship more than 1,000 miles off the Israeli coast in the Red Sea, near the coasts of Sudan and Eritrea, and seized dozens of ­Syrian-made M-302 rockets from Iran en route to Palestinian militants in Gaza. M-302s have a range of 100 miles, double that of ­Palestinian-manufactured M-75s. The ship was brought to the port of Eilat, where the Israelis freed the 17 crew members who were working for a firm registered in the Marshall Islands.

March 5—Netherlands—Judge Sanji Mmasenono Monageng announced that the International Criminal Court in a 3–2 decision refused to release Union of Congolese Patriots rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda, alias “The Terminator,” from ­pre-trial detention while the court considered possible trial on 13 charges of murder, rape, persecution and using child soldiers in 2002–2003 in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of Congo. He had later joined the M23, which splintered. He later fled to Rwanda.

March 6—Yemen—Yemeni security officials said an AQAP firing squad executed one of its members accused of spying for the United States. The terrorists hung his body from a street light pole in Shahr, Hadramawt Province. AQAP distributed a flier saying it was “retribution” for anyone dealing with the Americans. It claimed the victim had put microchips in cars and safe houses used by AQAP to guide missiles fired by U.S. drones.

March 6—Bahrain—The Ministry of Interior said that a group of men told 2 children, aged 10 and 11, to plant a bomb. The bomb exploded when one was carrying it. The children were hospitalized.

March 6—Iraq—A car bomb went off among shoppers in Baghdad’s southwestern Amil neighborhood, killing 7 and wounding 17.

A bomb went off at a cafe in Baghdad’s Sadr City, killing 4 and wounding 15.

A bomb exploded in a commercial street in central Baghdad, killing 3 and wounding 13.

A bomb near Baghdad’s Green Zone killed 3 and wounded 8.

A bomb in Baghdad’s southeastern Jisr Diyala suburb killed 2 and wounded 7.

Two car bombs killed 9 and wounded 28 in Hillah.

A bomb killed 4 and wounded 10 in Iskandariyah.

A car bomb in Mishada killed 5 and wounded 14.

March 6—Pakistan—A roadside bomb went off next to a passing convoy in Hangu District near the Afghan border, killing 6 troops and wounding 8.

March 6–7—Northern Ireland—Authorities found letter bombs in a post sorting office in Londonderry on March 6 and a second sorting office in Lisburn on March 7. The devices were addressed to prison officers.

March 7—Afghanistan—A remotely-detonated motorcycle bomb exploded in a crowded market in Marjah, Helmand Province, killing 5 and wounding 8.

March 7—Saudi Arabia—The Interior Ministry deemed the Muslim Brotherhood, AQI, AQAP, the Syrian ­al-Nusra Front, Saudi Hizballah and Yemen’s Shi’ite Houthis as terrorist groups. Membership in the groups or providing support carries a 5-to-30-year prison sentence.

March 7—France—A Paris court convicted and sentenced 3 young men to terms ranging from 2 to 5 years for criminal association with the intent to commit terrorism after they failed to travel to Syria to join jihadis. The 3 were aged between 21 and 26. They were arrested in 2012 before boarding a plane in France.

March 8—Yemen—In a morning attack, AQAP fired ­rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machineguns at the 115th Brigade’s base in Lawder in Abyan Province in southern Yemen, killing 2 soldiers guarding its gate. A Saudi gunman was killed. Two Yemenis were arrested. 14030801

March 8—Iraq—A suicide bomber stole a police Humvee, painted it in military colors, passed through a military checkpoint in Ramadi, then set off his explosives, wounding 14 people.

A roadside bomb hit a military vehicle in Baqouba, killing a captain and wounding 4 soldiers.

March 8—Afghanistan—A Taliban bomb exploded under the car seat of Noor Agha Kamran, a district chief in eastern Afghanistan, killing him and wounding 6 other people, as he was on his way to work in Jalalabad in Nazian District. The Taliban were suspected. Two bodyguards were seriously wounded.

Six Afghan security forces—4 soldiers and 2 po-lice officers—died and 2 were wounded when a Taliban roadside bomb they were trying to defuse exploded near Mihterlam, capital of Laghman Province.

March 8—Mali—French forces killed AQIM spokes­man Omar Ould Hamaha and 2 other terrorists in a ­shoot-out with men in a pickup truck 125 miles northeast of Timbuktu. He and Mokhtar Bel­mokhtar, to whom he was related through marriage, had founded the Mourabitoune group. In January 2013, he told the Associated Press, “Our jihadists are not a bunch of sheep waiting to be slaughtered inside a closed pen. Listen closely to me. Our elements are constantly on the move. What they hit is a bunch of cement. France is going to reap the worst consequences possible from this. Now no French person can feel safe anywhere in the world. Every French national is a target.” He also told the press of “divine orders” to destroy any grave that is more than 8 inches tall because anything taller encouraged people to orient their prayer toward the deceased rather than toward God.

March 8—Finland—Acting on a tip, Finnish police detained a man and a woman, both 24, for allegedly planning an attack against the University of Helsinki, which has 37,000 students. They were not students at the university. Their trial began on May 26, 2014, with prosecutors saying they planned to kill 50 people. She raised her right arm in an apparent Nazi salute at the court hearing. They pleaded innocent to charges of plotting a possible attack in January and weapons possession. They told the court that they met over the Internet in 2012 and discussed a potential attack online via encrypted emails, but denied committing a crime. He claimed he was bullied at school and started thinking about an attack after 2 school shootings in 2007 and 2008 in Finland that killed 20 people. News service YLE said he had images of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings on his computer. The couple faced a 4-year prison sentence. On June 27, 2014, the Helsinki Regional Court convicted them of possessing weapons, ammunition and chemicals meant “for the mass murder of at least 50 people, chosen randomly” and sentenced them to at least 3 years each in prison. The court said they were fueled by hatred toward society, anger and revenge for being teased at school. It was not clear if they would appeal.

March 8—Malaysia—Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, a B-777–200 carrying 12 crew and 227 passengers from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China, vanished from radar at 1:20 a.m. while flying at 35,000 feet over the territorial waters of Malaysia and Vietnam. It was due to arrive in Beijing at 6:30 a.m. There was no distress signal. ­Co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid’s last words to ground controllers were “All right, good night.”

An international search turned up no debris in the first week. Wild theories abounded. Popular ones included that it had been hijacked, or stolen, or that the pilot had committed suicide. Authorities later said the plane appeared to have turned once the transponder stopped transmitting, suggesting that it was being piloted. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said the plane flew 6 hours after the transponder turned off. One theory suggested that the plane rose to 40,000 feet, killing the passengers with the change in air pressure, then returned to its regular flying altitude.

Two Iranians who were flying with passports stolen in Thailand were believed to merely be seeking asylum. Both bought their tickets in Thailand. They traveled to Malaysia on their Iranian passports, then used the stolen ones. The passports were issued by Italy to Luigi Maraldi, 37, who said his passport was stolen in 2013, and by Austria to Christian Kozel, an Austrian who said his passport was stolen in 2012. The passports said they were Delavar Seyed Mohammad Reza, 29, and Pouria Nourmohammadi Mehr­dad, 19, who might have been seeking asylum in Germany, where his mother lived. Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar told a news conference, “We believe he is not likely to be a member of any terrorist group.” Two other people also were initially believed to have suspect credentials.

Passengers came from 14 countries; 154 were from China or Taiwan. The 3 American passengers were Philip Wood, 51, an IBM employee working in Malaysia; Nicole Meng, 4; and Yan Zhang, 2. ­Austin-based Freescale Semiconductor said 20 of its employees were aboard the plane; 12 were Malaysian, 8 were Chinese. The airline said other passengers included 38 Malaysians, 7 Indonesians, 6 Australians, 5 Indians, 4 French citizens, 2 Ukrainians, 2 Canadians (Muktesh Mukherjee, 42, and Xiaomo Bai, 37, a married couple who were returning from a vacation in Vietnam. He worked in Beijing for Xcoal Energy and Resources.), 2 New Zealanders, a Russian, an Italian, a Dutch citizen, and an Austrian. A group of 24 calligraphers were returning from the “Chinese Dream” exhibition in Kuala Lumpur; the manifest included Meng Gaosheng, 64, vice chairman of the China Calligraphic Artists Association. Also on the flight was Maimaitijiang Abula, 35, an art teacher at a college in Kashgar. The flight was a codeshare with China Southern Airlines.

Authorities examined why files had been deleted in a flight simulator found in the home of the pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, a flight buff.

On March 24, NBC News reported that Malaysian Airlines authorities told families that “none of those on board have survived.”

March 8—Afghanistan—A bomb exploded in Kajaki district, killing 2 civilians.

March 8—Syria—Activists released a video of Iranian women kidnapped by rebels. On May 6, Iranian and Russian representatives reportedly were in Homs to negotiate a prison exchange that would free 3 Iranians and a Russian held captive by rebels in the northern province of Aleppo. It was unclear when they were kidnapped. 14050802

March 9—Afghanistan—Gunmen attacked a checkpoint in Kajaki district, killing an Afghan police officer.

A roadside bomb destroyed a car in Musa Qala in Helmand Province, killing 7 people, including 3 women and 2 children, and wounding 8 others. The car was part of a ­2-vehicle convoy ferrying civilians between the Musa Qala and Nawzad district.

Afghan security forces killed 13 Taliban in Helmand’s Gereshk District.

A bomb exploded near a store in the Spin Boldak District of Kandahar Province, killing 2 civilians and injuring 2.

March 9—Iraq—A suicide car bomber set off his explosives at a security checkpoint at the entrance to Hillah during morning rush hour, killing 21 civilians, including 15 security personnel, a woman and a 12-year-old, and injuring 115 people stuck in traffic awaiting inspection. Police said they believed the bomber packed his car with liquid fuel, perhaps gasoline, that burned dozens of cars.

Gunmen attacked security forces and employees of the ­state-run oil company outside Baghdad, killing 6 and wounding 16.

March 10—Israel—Israeli guards killed Raed Zue­ter, a Jordanian judge who the Israelis said tried to grab a rifle from a soldier at the Allenby crossing border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan. He initially was identified as a Palestinian. The magistrate had worked in Amman since 2009. An Israeli spokesman said the incident appeared to have nationalistic motives.

March 10—Afghanistan—The Taliban warned Af­ghans to boycott the upcoming presidential election and ordered its fighters to “use all force” possible to disrupt the polling in the April 5 vote. Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the group told clerics to deem the election “an American conspiracy.” “We have given orders to all our mujahedeen (holy warriors) to use all force at their disposal to disrupt these upcoming sham elections to target all its workers, activists, callers, security apparatus and offices.”

A bomb hidden in a motorcycle was remotely detonated in Herat Province, killing 2 local policemen and wounding 2 other police officers.

March 11—Afghanistan—Gunmen shot to death Nils Horner, 52, the South Asia correspondent for the Swedish radio station Sveriges Radio, in a Kabul neighborhood populated by western NGOs, embassies and journalists. The ­Swedish-British journalist was sitting in a vehicle with his translator when he was shot in the head. He earlier worked in New York and London. He had reported for Swedish Radio SR since 2001 as a foreign correspondent mostly in Asia and the Middle East, including Afghanistan and Baghdad. The Taliban splinter ­Feday-e-Mahaz, followers of the late Mullah Daullah, said he was a spy for MI-6. 14031101

March 11—Somalia—African Union and Somali troops wrested the towns of Rabdhure, Ted, Hudur, Wajid and Buudhubow from ­al-Shabaab.

March 11—India—Some 200 armed Maoist rebels attacked a camp of paramilitary soldiers, killing 20 troops protecting construction workers building roads in the forests of remote southern Chattisgarh State. Troops fired back in a 3-hour gun battle near Jiram Ghati in Sukma district in Chattisgarh.

March 11—Kenya—During the night, ­Anti-Terrorism Police Unit officers stopped a car carrying homemade bombs and arrested 2 men planning an attack in coastal Mombasa’s Changamwe area. Police had intercepted their communications. Authorities discovered the explosives under the SUV’s seats on March 17, when a third suspect was arrested. Mombasa county commissioner Nelson Marwa said, “It is a Toyota … the chassis does not belong to that vehicle, the engine does not belong to that vehicle, the number plate does not belong to that vehicle. In it are 2 powerful explosives, motor vehicle explosives capable of mass destruction.” The explosives included 6 cylinders weighing 60 kilograms (132 pounds), 6 detonators, 6 grenades, an AK47 rifle, a cache of ammunition, and a cellphone to serve as the detonator.

On March 19, the arrested duo, Abdiaziz Abdulahi Abdi and Isaak Noor Ibrahim, believed to be Somali nationals, were charged in court with preparing to commit murder, being members of an outlawed organization and illegal possession of explosives and weapons. Mombasa County Criminal Investigations chief Henry Ondieki said 2 more suspects, Mohammed Daayo, a Somalia national and Shadrack Nicholas, a Kenyan, were in police custody in connection with the planned attack.

On March 31, 2014, AP reported that a Kenyan police official said 2 men arrested with a car bomb aimed at a Mombasa shopping mall on March 31, 2014, were in contact with the Westgate Mall plot-ters. The vehicle carried 381 pounds of explosives. The 2 men had spoken on the phone with ­Somalia-based terrorists connected with the Westgate at-tack.

March 11—Egypt—On March 15, the ­Sinai-based ­al-Qaeda–inspired Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis (Champions of Jerusalem) announced the death of one of its founders, Tawfiq Mohammed Freij, alias Abu Abdullah, when a “heat bomb” he was transporting in his car went off early. The group said he orchestrated attacks on gas pipelines supplying gas to Israel. It named him as the “field commander” of the August 2011 ­cross-border attack into southern Israel that targeted a bus and other vehicles near Eilat that killed 8 people. The group appeared to indicate that he moved to Cairo in early 2013 to run the group’s operations, including a failed suicide car bomb attack on Interior Minister Mahmoud Ibrahim in Cairo in September 2013.

March 11—Iraq—A sticky bomb attached to a minibus went off in Sadr City in Baghdad, killing 2 passengers and wounding 5.

A bomb went off after sunset in a commercial street in Shurta, Baghdad, killing 2 and wounding 8.

Drive-by gunmen killed an employee of Baghdad’s municipality in western Baghdad.

March 11—France—Authorities in the Paris area arrested 7 men and a woman on suspicion of planning to join jihadis fighting in Syria.

March 11–13—Nigeria—Dozens of gunmen on motorbikes attacked 4 villages 110 miles west of Katsina, killing more than 100 people, including 2 police officers, in a land dispute. A villager in Maigora said more than 100 bodies were buried in 3 villages. Gunmen returned to Marabar Kindo village to kill another 7 villagers.

March 12—Afghanistan—Three Taliban gunmen, driving a white Corolla sedan and armed with hand grenades, automatic rifles and smaller weapons, died in a gun battle while trying to storm a former intelligence headquarters in Kandahar. The gate guards retreated inside the building while the gunmen rushed to neighboring rooftops. Police quickly surrounded the terrorists and fired machine guns from armored vehicles. Taliban spokesman Qari Yusuf texted AP to say that the gunmen killed 4 intelligence commandos and 5 policemen. Police said a commando and a woman who lived in the area were wounded.

March 12—Afghanistan—Gunmen kidnapped 4 election coordinators in Nangarhar Province, which borders Pakistan.

March 12–14—Israel—The Israeli military said Gaza militants fired 70 rockets at Israel during the 3-day period. At least 18 were fired after the Islamic Jihad announced a ­cease-fire.

March 13—Egypt—Four masked gunmen on 2 motorbikes fired at an army Military Police bus in Cairo’s Amiriyah district in the morning, killing one soldier and wounding 3. Armed forces spokes­man Colonel Ahmed Mohammed Ali blamed the Muslim Brotherhood.

March 13—Guatemala—The trial in Chilmatenango began of Fermin Felipe Solano Barillas, alias Lieutenant David, 55, a former leader of the Revolutionary Organization of the People in Arms (ORPA), believed responsible for killing 22 people in the November 22, 1988, El Aguacate Massacre during the 1960–1996 civil war. A UN truth commission said the rebels were responsible for the murders. Solano was represented by attorney Julio Salvador Perez Hernandez. Solano was arrested in 2012 and charged with homicide and crimes against humanity and is the only person facing trial in the case.

March 13—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb hit a car in Helmand Province, killing 6 civilians, including 2 women and 2 children.

March 14—Thailand—A 42-year-old Buddhist teacher driving her motorcycle to work was twice shot in the head by a gunman on the back of a passing motorcycle. The terrorists then poured gasoline on the body and set it on fire. She was the 170th teacher killed by suspected Muslim insurgents. She taught English at a rural school in the Mayo district of Pattani Province. Police said the suspects scattered flyers with anti–Buddhist messages before fleeing. She lived in the neighboring province of Yala, driving an hour to work each day.

March 14—Iraq—A bomb went off in a market in Baghdad’s Shula district, killing 5 and wounding 16.

A bomb went off at a southern Baghdad wholesale vegetable market, killing one person and injuring 3.

A bomb went off in Baghdad’s northern Taji suburb, killing 2 and wounding 7.

March 14—Spain/Morocco—Spanish and Moroccan authorities arrested 7 suspected members of an extremist cell allegedly recruiting members to fight in Syria. Spain arrested a trio in Melilla and another in Malaga who had spent time with ­al-Qaeda–linked groups. Moroccan police arrested a trio in Laroui. Moroccan authorities said the cell’s leader was a Spaniard arrested in Spain who had previously lived in Laroui. He had ties with an AQIM cell recruiting fighters for northern Mali. The cell was broken up in November 2012. The Moroccan officials said he also sent fighters to Libya and Syria and raised funds for extremist groups.

March 14—Nigeria—Boko Haram was suspected in a morning attack on Maiduguri’s main Giwa Military Barracks. The Ministry of Defense said it repelled the insurgents and inflicted “heavy casualties” on terrorists planning on freeing colleagues detained at the barracks. Some detainees were killed by friendly fire as they were released. At least one student was killed. Four soldiers were wounded. The News Agency of Nigeria said the jihadis came from the Ngadda River running behind the University of Maiduguri. The Associated Press reported that hundreds of detainees were freed but that the military killed hundreds, citing reports by hospital workers who saw 425 corpses in the morgue.

March 14—Pakistan—Two bombings killed 17 people and wounded dozens.

A bomb planted on a bicycle went off as a passenger bus drove by in Quetta, killing 10 and wounding 17. Two vehicles carrying Pakistan troops had just passed by.

A suicide bomber attacked a police armored vehicle 12 miles south of Peshawar, killing 7 people and wounding 45, including many police officers. Police had recently increased patrols in the area.

March 14—Sudan—A court sentenced 18 Sudan People’s Liberation ­Movement–North rebel leaders to death for murder, including Malik Agar, former governor of the southern Blue Nile who was heading a delegation in talks with the Sudanese government. Another 47 were sentenced to life in prison. All but one were tried in absentia.

March 14—Algeria—Interior Ministry forces killed 7 terrorists, including foreigners, who were trying to enter Algeria in a ­4-wheel drive vehicle from Tunisia near Tebessa. Security forces surrounded the vehicle. The jihadis attempted to flee into the mountains, but the 7 died in a firefight. Authorities seized weapons and ammunition.

March 14—Germany—Prosecutors charged Marco G., 26, a German man, with attempted murder and attempting to cause an explosion by placing a pipe bomb at Bonn’s central railway station in December 2012. The bomb did not explode. He and 3 others—Albanian Enea B., 43; ­German-Turkish dual national Koray D., 25; and German Tayfun S., 24—were also charged with forming an Islamic terrorist group that aimed to kill the head of a regional ­right-wing party. The 4 were arrested the night before the planned killing in March 2013.

March 14—UK—Judge Brian Barker sentenced a British Muslim couple for posting “offensive” You­Tube videos praising the May 22, 2013, murder of British soldier Lee Rigby. Royal Barnes, 23, received 5 years and 4 months in prison after pleading guilty to 3 counts of disseminating a terrorist publication and one count of inciting murder. His wife, Rebekah Dawson, 22, was sentenced to 20 months after pleading guilty to one charge of distributing a terrorist publication.

March 14—Syria—The ­UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Abu Azzam ­al-Kuwaiti, a leader of the Nusra Front, was killed during the evening near Yabroud while battling the government and Hizballah. He reportedly was a mediator for the release of a dozen nuns earlier in the week.

March 14—Lebanon—On April 7, 2014, Hizballah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah claimed credit for a roadside bombing of an Israeli patrol in March along the Lebanon–Israel border. No Israelis were hurt. 14039901

March 15—Somalia—A suicide car bomber died when he prematurely detonated his car while trying to park near a Mogadishu hotel. No one else was hurt. ­Al-Shabaab was suspected.

March 15—Egypt—After dawn prayers, gunmen attacked a military police checkpoint in Shubra ­al-Kheima, a northern Cairo suburb, killing 6 officers, according to the Health Ministry. Major General Mahmoud Yousri, chief of security of Qalubiya Province, told MENA that bomb techs defused 2 bombs left behind and safely detonated a third. Armed forces spokesman Colonel Ahmed Mohammed Ali blamed the Muslim Brotherhood.

March 15—Iraq—A car bomb exploded during the night in southeastern Baghdad’s ­al-Ameen district, killing 4 and injuring 13 on a commercial street.

During the night, a car bomb went off near a falafel restaurant in Baghdad’s Qahira neighborhood, killing 3 and injuring 6.

A car bomb went off on a commercial street in western Baghdad, killing 4 and injuring 14.

A car bomb in a commercial street in western Baghdad’s Shula neighborhood killed 4 and injured 9.

A car bomb exploded Baghdad’s northern Hurriyah district, killing 4 and wounding 10.

March 16—Nigeria—Fulani Muslim herders attacked 3 Christian villages during the night, killed more than 100 civilians, and torched hundreds of ­thatched-roof huts. The gunmen killed more than 50 people in Chenshyi village in Kaduna State, leveling the entire village; among the dead were the pastor’s wife and children.

March 16—Yemen—Three AQAP terrorists—a Saudi and 2 Yemenis—died when their bomb went off early when they were placing it in their car in Shabwa Province’s Habban region. 14031601

March 17—Lebanon—A suicide car bomb in the Bekaa Valley killed 4 people, including 2 Hizballah members.

March 17—Kenya—Anti-terrorism police foiled a terrorist attack in Mombasa when they intercepted a car packed with explosives. Two suspects were charged with terrorist offenses.

March 17—Libya—A car bomb exploded at the gates of a military base in Benghazi’s ­al-Rahba district during an inauguration ceremony for new officers, killing 7 soldiers and wounding 9 people.

March 17—Tunisia—Authorities killed 3 gunmen after surrounding their home in Jendouba region in a gun battle that lasted several hours.

Two gunmen in a vehicle fired at the National Guard, wounding 2 before escaping in Sidi Bouzid.

March 17—Afghanistan—Gunmen killed Karukh District judge Abdul Latif and his bodyguard as they were driving in their car in Herat Province. He earlier served as Minister of Energy.

March 17—China—An armed attacker injured a police officer in Urumqi, Xinjiang Province, before he was shot to death by police. The 29-year-old police officer later died.

March 17—U.S.—The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento, California, announced the arrest of National Guard Private Nicholas Teausant, 20, on a bus in Blaine, Washington, while trying to cross into Canada “with the intent of continuing to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a foreign terrorist organization more widely known as al-Qaeda in Iraq.” He was charged with attempting to travel to Syria to join al-Qaeda and fight for “Allah’s Army.” The criminal complaint said the student at San Joaquin Delta Community College in Stockton, California, discussed a potential strike against the Los Angeles subway system with a confidential source. He was in the process of being released from the service, but was still officially classified as “Trainee Unassigned” with the Army National Guard’s 118th Maintenance Company in Stockton. Authorities said 10 months earlier, he started posting messages under the name “Assad Teausant bigolsmurf” on iPhonegram/Instagram indicating, “I would love to join Allah’s army but I don’t even know how to start.” The complaint said that in December 2013, he told a confidential law enforcement source during a phone call that he had going camping with 7 people during the weekend after Thanksgiving 2013, “who discussed ‘hitting’ Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day, specifically targeting the subway.” The complaint said he asked the informant how to acquire a “firework” from China, “The big loud one! With the biggest boom and the one that’s also compact!! Lol or at least close to it.” Officials said he then texted, “Don’t go to LA Anytime soo Akhi Please trust me on this … and if you do go don’t use the subway.” He allegedly dropped contacts with the 7 after he believed they had been tipped off to the FBI via Facebook. He was charged with one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. He faced 15 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.

March 18—Yemen—Remotely detonated explosives went off in a parked car outside the military intelligence department in Aden, killing one person and injuring 13, including ­passers-by outside and troops inside the building.

March 18—Afghanistan—A suicide bomber on a ­3-wheeled motorcycle killed 17 people and wounded 36, mostly civilians, in a crowded market in the main bazaar of Maimana, provincial capital of northern Faryab Province. Abdul Sattar Barez, the province’s deputy governor said, “In total, I can say that most of the 15 killed and 36 wounded people were civilians…. The victims included women and children, shopkeepers and poor hawkers.” Some observers suggested that the bomb went off prematurely.

March 18—Somalia—An ­al-Shabaab suicide bomber set off his explosives at a hotel in ­Bulo-burte. Gunmen then tried to break through the hotel’s defenses, sparking a gunfight with local authorities. Somali and African Union officials frequent the hotel. At least 5 people died.

March 18—Israel—A roadside bomb hit a military jeep on patrol in the Golan Heights, injuring 3 soldiers, one seriously, according to Israel television stations.

March 18—Nigeria—Borno State government officials closed all 85 high schools amid fears of massive attacks by Boko Haram. At least 120,000 students were affected.

March 18—Iraq—A car bomb exploded near shops in Karbala during the afternoon, killing 3 and wounding 16.

Two car bombs near a falafel restaurant and a bus stop in Hilla killed 3 and wounded 13.

A car bomb exploded in Hafriyah, killing one person. Minutes later, another car bomb exploded in a Hafriyah bus station, killing 2 and wounding 5.

A car bomb hit a security checkpoint in southern Baghdad, killing 2 police officers and wounding 9.

A roadside bomb in northern Baghdad’s Shaab neighborhood killed one person and wounded 3.

March 18—Russia—The jihadi Caucasus Emirate announced the “martyrdom” of Chechen terrorist leader Doku Umarov in a posting on the Kavkaz Center website. He had threatened to attack the Sochi Olympics.

March 19—Afghanistan—A remotely-detonated bomb attached to a bicycle killed 2 people, including a police officer who was a criminal investigation director and a civilian, and wounded 3 civilians in Ghazni city.

March 19—Egypt—Police, military and special forces raided a suspected Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis (Champions of Jerusalem) bomb factory in a timber workshop in Arab Sharkas village in Qalioubiya Province outside of Cairo, sparking a ­several-hour gun battle with terrorists who set off car bombs, killing a brigadier general and a colonel, both explosives experts, and 5 terrorists. Authorities arrested 4 gunmen and defused an explosive belt.

March 19—Kenya/Uganda—Security agencies announced an alert for ­al-Shabaab terrorist attacks in their countries. Ugandan police spokesman Ibn Ssenkumbi said Somali terrorists might be planning attacks on fuel trucks.

March 19—U.S.—The Florida ­Times-Union reported on March 20, 2014, that Shelton Bell, 20, a graduate of Jacksonville, Florida’s Sandalwood High School, pleaded guilty in federal court in Jacksonville to conspiracy and attempting to provide material support to terrorists. In May 2012, he planned to travel to Yemen to join Ansar ­al-Sharia and join the jihad. He was arrested in January 2013 on state charges. In July 2013, he was indicted on federal charges indicating that he and 2 others, including a juvenile, trained for jihad while seeking guidance from AQAP terrorists, including watching videos of Osama bin Laden and Anwar ­al-Aulaqi. In July 2012, Bell and his friends destroyed religious statues at a cemetery near his home; he was armed with a handgun. They held target practice at their homemade firing range, recording the sessions. In September 2012, Bell and a friend flew to Israel en route to Yemen. ­Israel detained them and deported them to Poland. They went to Jordan to stay with his friend’s relatives. Jordan deported them in November 2012. He faced 30 years in prison. Sentencing was to occur later in 2014. He had worked on computers at a flea market booth and lived in East Arlington, a Jacksonville suburb.

March 19—Iraq—During the night, a suicide bomber set off his explosive belt at a café in Baghdad’s western Washash neighborhood where people were watching a televised football game, killing 12 and wounding 38.

March 20—Afghanistan—Just before dawn, Taliban gunmen attacked a Jalalabad police station, sparking a 4-hour gun battle in which 7 terrorists wearing suicide vests, a civilian, and 10 police officers died and 14 people, including police officers, were wounded. A suicide bomber set off a vehicle at the station’s entrance. Six other terrorists, carrying heavy and light weapons, ran into the police base.

March 20—Afghanistan—Terrorists threw an ­explosives-packed bottle that exploded when it hit the ground at a Nowruz ceremony, killing 2 policemen and the head of the province’s media center in Kandahar Province and injuring 7 other people.

March 20—Afghanistan—Four Taliban gunmen entered Kabul’s luxury Serena hotel near the presidential palace at 8:30 p.m. and killed 9 civilians. Two terrorists made their way to the hotel’s Silk Road Restaurant, took a seat at a table, and ordered apple juice. One man yelled “don’t kill us. We’re Afghans.” The terrorists then fired on diners celebrating the eve of the Persian New Year, shooting ­execution-style Sardar Ahmad, 40, an Afghan journalist with the French news agency Agence ­France-Presse, his wife and 2 children in the head. Ahmad ran the Kabul Pressistan media company; he joined AFP in 2003 as the agency’s senior reporter in Kabul. The other gunmen killed several others in the hotel. A ­dual-national ­Bangladeshi-American, 2 Canadians, an election observer from Paraguay identified as Luis Maria Duarte, and an Indian also died. The foreign ministries of New Zealand and Pakistan denied reports that their citizens died. Six people were wounded, includ-ing Ahmed’s youngest son, who underwent emergency surgery, a foreigner, 2 policemen, a hotel guard, and an Afghan lawmaker. The dead included 4 women and 2 children. Guards returned fire, killing the 4 terrorists during a 3-hour gun battle. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the attack targeted a delegation of senior foreigners and Afghans, and established that “our people, if they decide to attack any place, they can do it.” Police said the ter­rorists appeared to be 18 years old, and were armed with small pistols they had hidden in their shoes. 14032001

March 20—Mali—French troops killed 40 AQIM terrorists in the north in recent weeks.

March 20—Turkey—Three gunmen killed a man and stole his van, then shot at security forces at a roadblock on a highway in Nigde Province, killing a soldier and a police officer. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan deemed the incident a “terror act.” Two gunmen were captured.

March 20—Cyprus—A Cypriot appeals court upheld the conviction of ­Swedish-Lebanese citizen and Hizballah member Hossam Taleb Yaacoub for helping to plan attacks against Israelis on Cyprus. He had been found guilty in 2013 on 5 of 8 charges, including participation in a criminal organization, and sentenced to 4 years. He was represented by attorney Antonis Georgiades.

March 20—Nigeria—A bomb went off at Nguro­soye’s village market, killing 32 people, most of them traders; 29 died at the scene, another 3 in the hospital. Ngurosoye is near the Sambisa forest in Borno State bordering Cameroon.

March 21—China—A powerful rat poison killed 2 children and sickened 30 at the Jiajia Kindergarten in Yunnan Province’s rural Qiubei County. It was not clear whether the poisoning was intentional.

March 21—Israel—The Israeli military uncovered the biggest tunnel yet discovered running from the ­Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said the “terror tunnel” was hundreds of yards inside Israel to be used for terrorist attacks or kidnapping soldiers and civilians. Authorities found cement walls, an electric generator and tools. Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida claimed the tunnel was old. “Our mujahedeen worked to fix it. The enemy’s allegations about intelligence efforts behind the discovery are a big lie.”

March 21—Iraq—At least 28 people died in attacks around Baghdad.

A suicide bomber crashed his truck into a police brigade headquarters in Injan, leading to a firefight between other terrorists and police officers. During the attack, 9 police officers, including brigade commander Brigadier Ragheb ­al-Omari and his assistant, died.

A suicide bomber set off his explosive belt at a funeral in Ramadi for Nasir ­al-Alawani, a leader in the ­anti–al-Qaeda Sunni Sahwa militia, who was killed the previous day. The explosion killed 9 and injured 25.

Gunmen fired on an army checkpoint near Sa­marra, killing 4 soldiers and kidnapping 9 other soldiers.

Two car bombs went off in Dibis, near Kirkuk, killing 3 and injuring 14.

A roadside bomb exploded amidst a military convoy in Beiji, north of Baghdad, killing one officer and 2 soldiers.

March 21—Egypt—CBC Television reported that masked gunmen tied up a guard, poured gasoline on trucks carrying cooking gas cylinders, then torched the trucks’ garage in ­al-Barageel, southwest of Cairo, injuring 2 people.

March 21—U.S.—Following his arrest by the FBI, Daniel Harry Milzman, 19, a Georgetown University sophomore from Bethesda, Maryland, was charged in federal court with possessing a biological toxin after he admitted to making ricin in his dorm room. A judge ordered him held pending a hearing. He learned how to make ricin via the Internet on his iPhone, then purchased ingredients at Home Depot and a plant store. He said he wore a mask while making the powder. He had shown the ricin in a bag to his dorm advisor, who called school authorities, who in turn called the police. He had produced the ricin the previous month, put it in plastic bags sealed with hockey tape, and stored it in his McCarthy Hall dorm room. On the morning of March 19, authorities visited his dorm room in the 3700 block of O Street, NW. He was represented by attorney Danny Onorato. Georgetown media relations director Rachel Pugh said Milzman would not be permitted to return to the university, observing, “The possession or manufacturing of illegal substances are issues we take very seriously and are violations of the university’s student code of conduct.” On March 31, federal Chief Judge Richard W. Roberts said Milzman was to remain in jail pending trial, overruling a magistrate judge’s order that would have allowed Milzman to enter an inpatient psychiatric treatment program. Roberts was concerned that Milzman had learned about ricin from “Breaking Bad,” in which ricin is used against an adversary, not to commit suicide; Milzman thus posed a threat to the community.

March 22—Iraq—A roadside bomb exploded during the morning in a commercial street in Tikrit. A car bomb then hit police officers responding to the first blast, killing 5 police officers and 2 civilians and injuring 18 people.

Police said a Kurdish lieutenant in Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s guard shot dead Mohammed Bedwei, the head of a local radio station, at a checkpoint near his east Baghdad home. The shooter was arrested.

A suicide car bomber crashed into a security check­point near Adeim, 60 miles north of Baghdad, killing 3 civilians and 3 police officers.

A roadside bomb went off at a military checkpoint near Mosul, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 3 others.

Gunmen killed Basra police Colonel Madhi Ashour, head of the crime investigation department, as he was walking near his house.

March 22—Philippines—Forty Philippine intelligence agents in Aloguinsan Township in Cebu Province arrested 7 Maoist rebels, including Benito Tiam­zon, 63, chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines, and his wife, Wilma Austria, CPP secretary general, as they were traveling in 2 vans between hideouts. They were charged with involvement in the 1985 murders of 15 people whose remains were found in a mass grave in 2006 in Leyte Province. Military chief of staff General Emmanuel Bautista said they were arrested “for their crimes against humanity, including multiple murders.” Authorities confiscated 4 pistols, ammunition, 2 grenades, 4 laptop computers, 16 cell phones and documents. The CPP called for their release, claiming that the Tiamzons were consultants in stalled peace talks in Norway and were granted temporary immunity from arrests under a 1995 accord with the government. The list of 75 rebel consultants was placed in a Dutch vault in 1996; by 2011, the 2 disk­ettes had been damaged and could not be read. Government peace negotiators said she was ineligible because she escaped from jail in 1989 and jumped bail.

March 22—Libya—Gianluca Salviato, 48, an Italian engineer working for Ravellni in Tobruk, was reported missing. His car was found abandoned in a street. Italian news agency ANSA reported that he was inspecting work on a sewage system. The Italian Foreign Ministry said he was freed on November 15, 2014, thanks to work by the ministry, intelligence services, and embassy in Libya. 14032201

March 23—Kenya—Three gunmen fired inside the Joyland Church in Mombasa’s Likoni suburb, killing 2 people and injuring 10 before escaping; another 4 died in the hospital. On March 28, Mombasa County police chief Robert Kitur said police had killed 2 suspects in a gun battle in Likoni.

March 24—Greece—Police conducted a controlled detonation of a bomb found outside a western Athens tax office in the Korydallos neighborhood after nighttime warning calls to a TV station and news website. No injuries or damages were reported. Anarchists/leftists were suspected.

March 24—Yemen—AQAP was suspected in a dawn attack on a Central Security Forces checkpoint in ­al-Rayda in southeastern Hadramawt Province that killed 22 troops and wounded the only survivor, who feigned death. The attack began when a suicide car bomb went off. The gunmen then ran into the compound. Most of the dead were killed in their sleep at a nearby dorm. The gunmen, who arrived in between 4 and 10 cars with stolen military license plates, fired heavy machineguns and torched an armored vehicle and a car.

Yemen’s newly-appointed Interior Minister Major General Abdou Hussein ­el-Terb suspended Brigadier General Fahmi Mahrous, in charge of security in Hadramawt, Colonel ­Abdel-Wahab ­al-Waili, CSF commander, and Major Youssef Baras, commander of the attacked checkpoint.

March 24—Morocco—Rabat authorities, at the request of Spanish authorities, arrested a French citizen on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist recruitment network that was dismantled on March 14.

March 24—Afghanistan—Taliban gunmen attacked a police checkpoint in Daram Ser district in Helmand Province from 2 sides. During the gun battle, 2 policemen and one Taliban died. Authorities arrested 5 Taliban members after reinforcements arrived.

March 24—Egypt—Following a 2-day trial in which the defense was silenced, an Egyptian court in Minya sentenced 529 defendants to death regarding a fatal attack on a police station. The government claimed many of them were Muslim Brotherhood members.

March 24—U.S.—At 11:20 p.m., a civilian got through security at Naval Station Norfolk (Virginia) Pier 1 and boarded destroyer USS Mahan. He grabbed the service pistol of the petty officer of the watch who was standing guard, then fatally shot an arriving security sailor (initial reports said 2 sailors died) before security personnel shot and killed him. He had proper security—a ­TSA-issued Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)—only to get onto the base.

March 24—Nigeria—Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released a video in which he threatened ­all-out war on Maiduguri.

March 25—Nigeria—Two suspected Boko Haram members crashed their car bomb into a police highway patrol van on a highway near Maiduguri, killing 5 police officers and 3 civilians who were passing by. Many pedestrians and commuters were injured.

March 25—Afghanistan—During the afternoon, 2 Taliban suicide car bombers set off their explosives outside a Kabul election office in Karte Char neighborhood. Five other gunmen ran into the building, killing 4 people, including a candidate for the provincial council, an election worker, a civilian, and a police officer. At least 70 people were trapped in the building. In a 4-hour standoff, another 4 people, including 2 police officers, were wounded. The building is near the home of president candidate Ash­-raf Ghani Ahmadzai, who was not at home at the time.

Three gunmen wearing suicide vests attacked the ­government-owned Kabul Bank in Kunar Province, killing 6 policemen and wounding 3 others who were guarding the premises in Asadabad. Two gunmen set off their explosives; police killed the other terrorist in a 2-hour gun battle. No injuries were reported to the bank employees or customers, including 7 policemen who were there to collect their monthly salaries.

Dozens of Taliban gunmen firing rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns attacked an Afghan border outpost in Khost Province. Two police border guards and 5 terrorists died in the at-tack.

A suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest near a group of people playing a ­polo-type sport called Buzkashi in Kunduz Province, killing 5 people. The target might have been a local former muja­hi­deen commander who survived the attack.

March 25—Yemen—Gunmen kidnapped an Italian citizen and his driver working for the UN Development Program in Sana’a. Yemen troops freed them in Marib Province, 100 miles away from the kidnapping, later that day. The Interior Ministry said it had arrested accomplices. 14032501

March 25—Iraq—At least 29 people died in attacks across the country.

In the afternoon, gunmen attacked an army post in Tarmiyah, killing 8 soldiers and wounding 13.

During the night, a suicide bomber crashed his tanker truck into a northeast Baghdad security checkpoint, killing 6 soldiers and 3 civilians and injuring 21 people.

A roadside bomb went off amidst the convoy of Sunni parliamentarian Salim ­al-Jubouri in Baghdad’s Ghalibiya district, killing 2 bodyguards and wounding 7 other people.

A car bomb went off in a commercial street in western Baghdad, killing 4 and wounding 12.

A bomb went off near a market in Baghdad’s ­al-Rahseed suburb, killing one person and wounding 5.

Gunmen fired on an army checkpoint in Mosul, killing 5 soldiers.

March 26—U.S.—After deliberating for 51/2 hours, a jury in Manhattan’s Federal District Court found Sulaiman Abu Ghaith guilty of helping al-Qaeda terrorists conspire to kill Americans and other terrorist activities. He faced a life term at sentencing on September 8.

March 26—UK—British prosecutors charged Rifleman Ryan McGee, 19, from 5th Battalion the Rifles, with terrorism and explosives offenses. He was detained at an army base in Germany in 2013 after a suspicious device was found at a UK address in November. Prosecutors said he had a copy of the “Anarchist Cookbook” and had made a bomb. A hearing was set for April 2 at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

March 27—Lebanon—Two masked gunmen on a motorcycle killed army officer Fadi Jbaili in Tripoli in a morning attack.

Later that day, the Lebanese armed forces announced that soldiers killed Sami Atrash, who was suspected of involvement in the murder of soldiers, preparing car bombs, helping Syrian rebels, and firing mortar shells at Lebanese villages. He shot at soldiers attempting to arrest him in Arsal, near the Syrian border.

March 27—Philippines—The Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front signed the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro peace accord that gave largely Muslim areas of southern Mindanao more political autonomy. The MILF agreed to lay down arms and end its demand for a separate state.

March 27—Iraq—A car bomb went off after sunset in Baghdad’s Azamiyah area, killing 12 and wounding 28.

Minutes after the first bomb, another bomb went off in a nearby market, killing 7 and wounding 27.

A bomb on a shopping street in Baghdad’s Aamiri­yah district killed 3 and injured 15.

A bomb went off on a commercial street in southwestern Baghdad, killing 4 and wounding 14.

March 27—Egypt—Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis (Champions of Jerusalem) threatened in an Internet posting to attack workers and contractors building a security wall around ­el-Arish in the northern Sinai Peninsula, deeming it part of a “repressive siege.”

March 28—Iraq—Three bombs went off together at the entrance to the market in northern Baghdad’s Sulaikh district, killing 4 and wounding 16.

March 28—Lebanon—Gunmen fired on the car of soldier Butrous Baya, a member of the country’s internal security force, killing him. The car went into the Abu Ali river near Tripoli.

March 28—India—Three gunmen wearing Indian military uniforms fired on a car in the Dayalchak area in ­Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing the driver and a passenger and wounding 3 passengers. The terrorists hijacked the car, and tried to crash into an Indian army artillery unit 20 miles away, sparking a 3-hour gun battle in which the 3 gunmen and a soldier were killed.

March 28—Israel—The Army discovered 2 armed suspects tampering with the security barrier along the Golan Heights border with Syria and shot them. 14032801

March 28—Afghanistan—The Taliban attacked the offices of the ­California-based Roots of Peace charity in the ­Kart-e-Char neighborhood of southwestern Kabul, killing 2 Afghans—a girl and a driver. The terrorists set off a car bomb, then 3 gunmen attacked the building, taking 25 foreign residents hostage. Some were injured by shattered glass. The hostages were freed when Afghan security forces arrived. The Taliban said the Roots of Peace guesthouse was a foreign “church used to convert Afghans.” The nonprofit has no stated religious affiliation, and concentrates on turning minefields into vineyards and orchards. 14032802

March 28—CAR—Jihadis were suspected in a grenade attack on a funeral in Bangui that killed 9 people, including several children. Two other people died in an ensuing firefight.

March 28—Pakistan—During the night, gunmen on a motorcycle shot at a car carrying Express News anchorman Raza Rumi in Lahore, killing his driver before escaping. Rumi was unhurt. He was leaving his office.

March 29—Pakistan—A roadside bomb hit a security force vehicle in Quetta, killing a teen girl and wounding 18 people. No one claimed credit. Baluchis were suspected.

March 29—Afghanistan—Five gunmen wearing burqas fired rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns at the main Independent Election Commission compound in Kabul. All 5 died in a 4-hour gun battle in which 2 police officers were injured.

March 29—Lebanon—An Ahrar ­al-Sunna in Baalbek Brigade suicide car bomber hit a Lebanese Army checkpoint near Arsal near the Syrian border during the evening, killing 3 soldiers and wounding 4. The Sunni extremists said on Twitter that the bombing was a “heroic operation that targeted the crusader army in Arsal” to avenge the army’s killing of a colleague in an arrest on March 27, and for Hizballah’s anti–Damascus actions. Respondents said the group “should not think it will not be punished for killing innocents in Syria.” Another poster observed, “As long as Sunnis in Lebanon are targeted, be assured we will respond.”

March 29—Kenya—A bombmaker died when his device exploded prematurely in the kitchen of a 2-bedroom ­first-floor Nairobi apartment. Police were searching for 3 men seen running from the ­3-storey building. A suspicious landlord had told them to leave by the end of the month.

March 30—Kenya—In the morning, police in Lamu found a grenade at the African Independent Pentecostal Church of East Africa.

March 30—Pakistan—Al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn posted a video on a jihadi’s YouTube and Twitter accounts to announce the death of its representative in Syria, Abu Khalid ­al-Suri, who was killed in a suicide attack in Aleppo, Syria, in February. He said that the group would avenge his death. Gadahn claimed he had served under ­al-Suri in Afghanistan. The jihadi’s Internet moniker is Sticky Bomb. Although he did not name the group, Gadahn elliptically suggested that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) was responsible, observing, “The fingers of accusation have been pointed at a group that is known for its extreme nature and radical behavior, and its tyranny and its going against the people of Islam and jihad in Syria, and the scholars and knowledgeable ones from among the mujahideen everywhere.” Gadahn “cannot confirm nor deny the accusations that are directed at the aforementioned group for this sinful attack and condemnable crime,” and advocated “a comprehensive investigation.” Gadahn claimed that Abu Khalid was “a deputy to” Abu Musab ­al-Suri (Mustafa Setmariam Nasar), who remained in prison.

March 30—Afghanistan—A remotely-detonated roadside bomb killed an ISAF service member as his convoy neared Qalat, capital of Zabul Province, and injured 3 other troops.

On April 2, 2014, the governor of ­Sar-i-Pul Province, Abdul Jabar Haqbeen, announced that Taliban gunmen kidnapped and soon killed 9 people, including Hussain Nazari, a candidate for a seat in the provincial council. They were kidnapped 3 days earlier while traveling to the provincial capital. Authorities recovered 4 bodies and found one wounded man. Police were searching a remote area for the bodies of 5 others, including Nazari. Authorities were told that he and 2 other victims were beheaded.

March 30—Iraq—Gunmen fired on troops at a checkpoint near Mosul, killing 7 soldiers.

A suicide car bomber hit the main ­al-Houz bridge near Ramadi, killing 5 and wounding 7. Parts of the bridge fell into the Euphrates River.

A bomb hit the entrance of an outdoor market in southern Baghdad’s Youssifiyah suburb, killing 4 shoppers and wounding 9.

March 30—Nigeria—A 2-hour morning gun battle at the Abuja headquarters of the State Security Services during a failed jailbreak attempt near the presidential Aso Rock villa killed 21 people. The press said a detainee shot a guard with a smuggled pistol, although SSS spokeswoman Marilyn Ogar said he tried to hit a guard with his handcuffs at 7 a.m. and that 2 “service personnel” were seriously injured.

In a nighttime attack, jihadis burned down the military quarters and destroyed a cellphone tower in Ngelzarma in Yobe State while killing 3 police officers and 2 soldiers.

March 30—Egypt—Gunmen ambushed a military bus carrying policemen in Sheik Zuwayed on the road to Rafah on the border with Gaza, killing the soldier driving the bus and injuring 3 police of-ficers.

March 31—Germany—Authorities arrested 3 people in raids on 10 apartments in Berlin, Frankfurt and Bonn believed holding suspected supporters of a jihadi group in Syria. One person was arrested in each city. Five of the apartments housed 5 people suspected of belonging to or supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Detainees included

• Fatih K., 35, a German man accused of membership in the ISIL and another group between July to September 2013, fighting with paramilitary units and helping produce propaganda.

• Fatih I., 26, a Turk suspected of joining ISIL in September 2013. He returned to Germany in January 2014. After returning to Germany in January, he is believed to have been assigned to raise money for the group and apparently planned to return to Syria, prosecutors said in a statement.

• Karolina R., 27, a ­German-Polish woman suspected of supporting the group by making payments totaling 4,800 euros ($6,600).

The 3 could face charges of membership in, or support for, a terrorist group.

March 31—Nigeria—Amnesty International reported that attacks by jihadis and reprisals by security forces killed at least 1,500 people in the first quarter of 2014 in northeastern Nigeria.

March 31—Nigeria—A Muslim youth mob torched St. Rita Catholic Church and tried to destroy an attached school in Funtua in Katsina State for an alleged insult to the Prophet Muhammad in a school exam question.

March 31—Afghanistan—During the night, Taliban gunmen abducted Hussain Nazari—a candidate running for a seat in a provincial council—and 7 members of his entourage as they were traveling in a taxi to ­Sar-i-Pul, capital of ­Sar-i-Pul Province. Elders in the area were negotiating with the kidnappers.

Gunmen elsewhere in Afghanistan killed 18 people.

A suicide bomber set off his vest when police spotted him in Logar Province, killing one police officer and wounding 3 policemen.

Four policemen died when their vehicle hit a roadside mine also in ­Sar-i-Pul Province.

A roadside bomb killed 8 family members, including 2 sons and a brother, of Mohammed Omar, an anti–Taliban commander in Kunduz Province. Omar was not in the vehicle.

A roadside bomb in Kunduz Province killed senior police official Islam Hussain, who was alone in his vehicle.

Four civilians, including a 12-year-old boy, died when their motorcycle hit a roadside bomb near Gardez in Paktia Province Monday.

March 31—Kenya—Three bombs went off during the evening at 2 restaurants and the exterior of a ­mother-child health clinic in Nairobi’s “Little Mogadishu,” Eastleigh neighborhood, which has a large ethnic Somali population. At least 6 died and 25 were wounded. Two bombs went off within 200 yards of each other. One collapsed the first floor of a restaurant, injuring Peter Gakuye, who was at the counter of the Sheraton hotel (no relation to the chain) at 7:30 p.m. Authorities arrested more 657 people.

March–April 2014—Libya—On June 29, 2014, Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa announced that 2 Tunisian diplomats—embassy employee ­Mohammed Ben Cheikh and diplomat Laroussi Kontassi—were released by their kidnappers and were returning by plane to Tunis. They were kidnapped in March and April by Shebab ­al-Tawhid (Youth of Oneness), which demanded the release of Libyans being held on terror charges in Tunisia. Tunisian Foreign Minister Mongi Hamdi said there were no negotiations with the kidnappers. 14039901, 14049901

April—Philippines—Ten Abu Sayyaf gunmen claiming to be police officers kidnapped German citizens Stefan Okonek, a 71-year-old cardiologist, and Henrike Dielen, 47, from a yacht between Malaysia’s Sabah State on Borneo Island and the western Philippine province of Palawan. They were taken by boat to Sulu Province, where AS was holding other hos­tages. The group demanded a ransom and withdrawal of German support for airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. In mid–October, the kidnappers allowed Okonek to talk to radio station DXRZ interviewers, telling them, “They pushed me inside this hole and I’m sitting with 10 men around me all day, 24 hours a day. I don’t get enough to eat. I have lost already 20 pounds and I am very weak.” On October 17, 2014, the group released them on Jolo Island hours after threatening to behead one if no ransom payment was made. Abu Sayyaf spokes­man Abu Rami told radio station DXRZ in Zamboanga City that his group received 250 million pesos ($5.6 million) in ransom from an undisclosed donor. He also claimed the 2 were released to a negotiator in Patikul township on Jolo Island. On November 5, AP reported that the freed captives had identified at least 5 of their kidnappers, who would soon face criminal charges. Among the kidnappers was Moammar Askali, alias Abu Rami. Okonek told the news media, “I was handcuffed, put in a hole or tied to a tree. For almost 3 days, I was punched, kicked and one of the kidnappers even tried to break my left finger.” 14049902

April—Czech Republic—On June 12, 2014, German prosecutors charged Harun P., 26, with membership in a terrorist organization after he went to Syria in September to fight with Junud ­al-Sham jihadi forces, involvement in manslaughter, and attempted incitement to murder. Prosecutors say he joined a February operation to free fighters from a government prison in which 2 Syrian soldiers died. He allegedly unsuccessfully urged the murder of 2 people who wanted to bring their 16-year-old relative to Germany, because he feared she would inform on him. He was arrested in Prague in April and returned to Germany.

April—Czech Republic—Prague authorities arrested a Lebanese and 2 Ivory Coast citizens attempting to sell weapons to undercover U.S. law enforcement officials posing as members of a Co­lombian terrorist group. On September 22, 2015, Prague’s Municipal Court approved their extradition to the United States to face terrorism charges. In July, a Czech lawyer for the Lebanese suspect Ali Taan Fayad, alias Ali Amin, was reported missing in Leba­non together with 4 other Czechs and their Leba­nese driver, who was identified by Lebanese media as Taan’s relative.

April 1—Yemen—AQAP attacked a security checkpoint at Wassab, Damar Province, killing a soldier. They moved on to Hudayda, where security forces found them, sparking a 2-hour gun battle in which 2 soldiers and 2 terrorists died. Authorities arrested 4 AQAP members.

April 1—Thailand—Gunmen killed a man—Wasan Kamwong, 52—and wounded 2 men and 2 women during an attack on a bus and a flatbed truck carrying ­anti-government protesters to their camp in central Bangkok. The women were on a bus and the men were guards for the Student and People’s Network for the Reform of Thailand protesters on a sound truck. The group is a militant faction of the People’s Democratic Reform Committee, which wants Prime Minister Yingluck to resign.

April 1—Iraq—A suicide car bomber crashed into a convoy of army vehicles in Tikrit, killing 5 soldiers and wounding 11.

Gunmen fired at an army checkpoint in Mosul, killing 2 soldiers.

A gunman killed a soldier manning a checkpoint in Mosul.

April 1—Nigeria—Several bombs went off near an oil depot of the ­state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. at Mulai, 3 miles outside Maiduguri. Soldiers detonated 3 vehicles carrying explosives by shooting at them; a fourth vehicle bomb apparently was set off by a suicide bomber. Defense Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade said 6 suicide bombers and 15 civilians died and 5 soldiers and 12 civilians were wounded. The bombs damaged the perimeter fence of the Peace-FM radio station located opposite an oil depot and fuel station. Authorities arrested a surviving terrorist. Eight other vehicles were destroyed.

April 1—Kenya—Attorney Mbugua Mureithi said that his client, Abubakar Shariff Ahmed, a radical Islamic leader who had been sanctioned by the United States and the United Nations for supporting ­al-Shabaab, was shot dead with an unidentified man near Mombasa’s Shimo la Tewa prison.

April 2—Yemen—AQAP claimed credit for an attack on an army complex in Aden that killed 6 soldiers and one civilian. The group set off a car bomb then fired on troops, who fired back, killing 10 terrorists. Two other terrorists were arrested. AQAP said it intended to “destroy the joint operations room for U.S. drones.”

April 2—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide bomber wearing a military uniform passed through several checkpoints before attacking the entrance to the Interior Ministry compound in Kabul, killing 6 police officers. The bomb went off near a bank used by police officers.

April 2—Egypt—Two bombs planted in a tree went off less than a minute apart outside an engineering facility at Cairo University, killing Egyptian Brigadier General Tariq ­al-Mirgawi, police chief of the criminal unit in West Giza, and 5 other people and wound-ing 7 others, including 4 civilians and 3 senior police officers, among them Major General ­Abdel-Raouf ­el-Sirafy, deputy chief of police in Giza Province. A third bomb in another tree exploded 2 hours later at the university’s main gate, causing no casual-ties.

April 2—Iraq—A suicide bomber set off his explosive belt amongst recruits waiting in line at the gate of the Riyadh military base, killing 5 army recruits and injuring 14 recruits.

A bomb went off in a commercial street in Madain, killing 2 and wounding 6.

A bomb went off in a commercial street in western Baghdad, killing one person and wounding 5.

April 2—U.S.—At 4:30 p.m., Ivan Lopez, 34, an enlisted soldier being treated for ­post-traumatic stress disorder, fired a .45-caliber Smith and Wesson ­semi-automatic pistol at fellow soldiers at the Medical Brigade building at Fort Hood, killing 3 people and wounding 16, all of them soldiers. He hopped into his vehicle, then entered another building. When a female officer confronted him in the parking lot, drew her weapon and fired, he fatally shot himself in the head. NBC News reported that military officials believed the attack was related to a dispute at the motor pool and that he acted alone. Lopez was assigned to a Sustainment Brigade as a truck driver. He had earlier claimed to have a traumatic brain injury. He suffered from behavioral problems, anxiety and PSTD. He had recently purchased the weapon locally and had not registered it with the base. He had grown up in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, where he joined the National Guard in 1999. He served for a year in the mid–2000s in a peacekeeping mission in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. He joined the Army in 2008. He had served in Iraq for 4 months in 2011 but had not seen combat. He arrived in Fort Hood with his wife and 4 children in February 2014 after serving in Fort Bliss, Texas.

The dead soldiers were identified as

• Sergeant Danny Ferguson, 39, who was engaged to be married, had recently returned from Afghanistan. He grew up in Mulberry, Florida, and graduated from Mulberry High School in 1993.

• Sergeant Carlos A. Lazaney, 38, from Agua­dilla, Puerto Rico, planned to retire from the military in 7 months after serving 20 years, having enlisted at age 18 after graduating from high school. He was survived by his wife and family.

• Sergeant Timothy Owens, 37, an Army counselor who had served in Iraq. He was raised in Ef-­fingham, Illinois, and was married in August 2013, having earlier raised 2 teens.

Those wounded included Major Patrick Miller, 32, of Allegany, New York, who was hit in the abdomen; and Sergeant Jonathan Westbrook, who was hit 4 times in the chest and arm.

On April 4, the Washington Post reported that an argument with the human resources staff in his unit led to his firing on them. He had requested a leave of absence to attend to matters related to his mother’s death in November, but was told to come back the next day.

April 2—Malaysia—Six or 7 suspected members of Abu Sayyaf kidnapped Gao Hua Yuan, 28, a Chinese woman from Shanghai, and a 40-year-old Filipina hotel receptionist from a dive resort in the Singamata Reef Resort in the Semporna district of eastern Sabah state on Borneo Island, then escaped in a wooden speed boat. The gunmen were armed with pistols and rifles; 4 wore masks. The diving area is near the southern Philippines. On April 4, AP reported that the kidnappers had moved the women to Simunul, an island township in ­Tawi-Tawi Province in the Philippines. On April 2, 2014, the kidnappers demanded a 500 million peso ($11.3 million) ransom for the release of the Chinese tourist. On April 25, Philippine security officials said the hos­tages had been moved to an Abu Sayyaf jungle hideout in Sulu Province. 14040201

April 2—Iraq—Government troops killed 40 ­al-Qaeda–inspired “terrorist attackers” of a military base in Youssifiyah. One army officer was killed during the ­several-hour clash.

April 3—Pakistan—In the morning, a 4-pound roadside bomb went off on the route of the convoy of former President Pervez Musharraf, 70, who had returned home in Islamabad from the military hospital in Rawalpindi. No one was hurt. No one claimed credit. Musharraf had already made it home when the bomb went off; the convoy had left 20 minutes early.

April 3—Russia—A roadside bomb went off in Chechnya after an armored infantry vehicle rolled over it, killing 4 servicemen and injuring 7 troops during a reconnaissance operation near Yandi, 25 miles from Grozny.

April 3—Iraq—A car bomb went off near the Hillah home of Ali ­al-Maliki, a Shi’ite candidate running in the upcoming election, killing a civilian ­passer-by and wounding several people. He and his family were unharmed. He was part of the bloc led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri ­al-Maliki.

April 4—Iraq—Three mortar shells hit a military base in Musayyib in the morning, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 9.

A roadside bomb near Samarra hit a military convoy, killing an army intelligence officer and a soldier near the city of Samarra, 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad.

A bomb went off at an outdoor market in eastern Baghdad, killing 2 and wounding 8.

April 4—Afghanistan—Mid-level veteran Afghan police officer Naqibullah fired multiple AK-47 rounds into the car window of 2 foreign journal-ists, killing German photographer Anja Niedringhaus, 48, who worked for the Associated Press, and wounding Kathy Gannon, 60, a Canadian reporter, as they were traveling in a convoy of election workers delivering ballots in eastern Khost Province. The convoy had arrived at the government headquarters of Tani district. Niedringhaus was part of a team of AP photographers who earned a Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for their coverage of the Iraq War. Naqibullah was transferred to Khost 3 months earlier. He walked to the car, yelled “God is Great,” and fired into the back seat at the journalists. He surrendered to colleagues and was taken into custody; authorities transferred the unit commander in chains to Kabul on April 8. Gannon sustained 3 hits in the wrists and shoulder. Gul Mohammad, counterterrorism director in Khost, said Naqibullah claimed the attack was in revenge for a January 15 airstrike in the Ghorband district of Parwan Province that killed 12 civilians and 4 Taliban. The Interior Ministry doubted the story, saying Naqibullah was in a Parwan area far from the airstrike. Mohammad then said Naqibullah admitted being inspired by a lawmaker and a cleric who called for jihad against Americans and other foreigners, observing “Thank God I didn’t kill any Muslims.” Authorities said Naqibullah was in his late 20s and was married in January. Afghan central government authorities began interrogating Naqibullah on April 9.

On July 23, 2014, 6 judges at the Kabul District Court convicted Naqibullah of murder and treason and sentenced him to death. They also sentenced him to 4 years in prison for shooting and wounding Gannon. Naqibullah denied judges’ claims that he had traveled to Pakistan to be trained by terrorists, saying he only received medical care while there.

On March 28, 2015, AP reported that the Supreme Court ruled that former Afghan police unit commander Naqibullah, who was convicted of murdering AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus and wounding AP correspondent Kathy Gannon, should serve 20 years in prison. Naqibullah was sentenced to death by Afghanistan’s Primary Court on July 22, 2014. He appealed the sentence to the Appeals Court, which decided on January 6, 2015, to commute the punishment to 20 years in prison. Naqibullah then appealed that reduced sentence to the country’s Supreme Court. 14040401

April 4—Israel—Hour after Palestinians fired rockets and sniper fire into Israel, Israeli jets hit 7 Hamas “terror sites” in 3 locations in the Gaza Strip, including training sites, injuring 4 Hamas members and 2 other people. None of the Palestinian attacks caused injuries.

April 4—Yemen—Gunmen used bombs, ­rocket-propelled grenades, and machine guns in an attack on a military post near the oil fields in the el-Wadi district in Hadramawt Province, killing 4 soldiers and an army officer and wounding 5 people. AQAP was suspected.

April 4–5—Cameroon—During the late night and early morning, gunmen drove 2 cars and 5 motorcycles to Tchere village, 37 miles from the Nigerian border, then kidnapped Italian priests Giampaolo Marta and Gianantonio Allegri and Canadian nun Gilberte Bissiere, 80, working as missionaries. The priests were assigned from the Vicenza diocese in northeast Italy. Boko Haram operates in the area. They were freed on June 1, 2014. 14040402

April 5—Internet—Ayman ­al-Zawahiri’s latest web posting called for an investigation into the killing of Abu Khaled ­al-Suri, his senior representative in Syria and founder of Ahrar ­al-Sham, on February 23 when 2 suicide bombers blew themselves up in his Aleppo compound. Many observers had blamed a rival militia, and he elliptically accused the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, led by Abu Baker ­al-Baghdadi, of “sedition.” “All Muslims should not help anybody who blows up the headquarters of the holy fight-ers, or who sends them car bombs and human bombs…. Whoever commits such sins, should remember that he is fulfilling for the enemies of Islam what they were unable to achieve on their own with all their resources.” He approved of a call for the Nusra Front to oversee Islamic arbitration over ­al-Suri’s death.

April 5—Nigeria—Gunmen killed 20 worshippers in a mosque in Buni Gari during dawn prayers.

April 5—Iraq—During the afternoon, a bomb exploded when soldiers were searching a ­booby-trapped farmhouse in Garma, near Fallujah. Minutes later, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria gunmen fired on soldiers responding to the bombing. At least 17 soldiers were killed and 24 wounded in the attack. The gunmen stole several of the soldiers’ vehicles. Security forces later killed 20 ISIS gunmen.

A roadside bomb hit a military convoy north of Baghdad, killing 3 soldiers and wounding 7.

During the night, a roadside bomb hit a military patrol in southern Baghdad, killing 3 soldiers and wounding 2.

April 6—Iraq—Gunmen broke into Latifiyah homes at dawn, kidnapping and later killing 6 men via gunshot wounds to the head. The bodies were found in remote farmland.

A suicide bomber crashed his fuel tanker into Tikrit’s police headquarters, killing 3 police officers and wounding 13.

A bomb went off in a commercial area in Maidan, killing 2 civilians and injuring 5.

Just before sunset, a bomb went off in a commercial street in Baghdad’s northeastern Husseiniyah suburb, killing 4 and wounding 11.

April 6—Thailand—Suspected jihadis set off 4 bombs in Yala, killing one person and wounding 24. A car bomb exploded at a furniture store, burning nearby homes and causing numerous casualties. Another bomb exploded on a motorcycle; a third blew up an ATM.

April 6—Algeria—The Defense Ministry announced that the army had fatally shot a female terrorist during a sweep in Jijel, where they seized several guns and ammunition and destroyed computers and telephones.

April 6—UK—A man broke into central London’s Cumberland Hotel and attacked 3 women from the United Arab Emirates with a hammer. The women sustained head and facial injuries; one was in critical condition, while the other 2 were in serious condition. The women, all in their 30s, and 3 children were asleep in adjoining rooms when he broke in. Metropolitan Police were treating the case as attempted murder.

April 6—Bahrain—Explosives went off in a car in the Adliya tourist area in Manama, setting the vehicle on fire.

April 6—Venezuela—Three masked gunmen kidnapped Venezuelan TV journalist Nairobi Pinto, chief of correspondents for the Globovision news channel, in Caracas during the afternoon at the entrance to the building where she lives. She was freed on April 14 in Cua, Miranda State. The kidnappers never contacted her family.

April 7—Iraq—A suicide car bomber crashed into a police checkpoint in Samarra, killing 5 people, including 3 policemen, and injuring 11 people.

April 7—Syria—In the early morning, a masked gunman killed Dutch priest Father Francis Van Der Lugt, 72, inside a garden of the Jesuit monastery in Homs’s Bustan ­al-Diwan neighborhood. He had lived in Syria since 1964. He earned a doctorate in psychiatry and spoke fluent Arabic. The ­state-run SANA news agency blamed “terrorists.” 14040701

April 7—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide bomber in a minivan set off his explosives at a convoy of NATO troops in the Maywand district of Kandahar Province. No serious casualties were reported. 14040702

A roadside bomb killed 15 civilians from Uruzgan Province, including a woman, and severely injured 4 other people traveling in 2 SUVs that had been diverted from a main road after the minivan attack in the Maywand district of Kandahar Province.

April 7—Lebanon—In a 2-hour gun battle in the Mieh Mieh Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon pitting Fatah against Ansarullah, 7 people, including the commander of an armed group, died and 10 people were injured. The rivals used heavy machineguns and ­rocket-propelled grenades. The dead included Ah­mad Rashid, commander of the “Return Brigades” affiliated with Fatah, and his bodyguard.

April 7—Somalia—Gunmen in Mogadishu airport killed 2 consultants at the Galkayo Airport in Puntland, Somalia. They were working for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s ­counter-piracy program that examines money transfers from pirate attacks. The UK Foreign Office said one of the workers was British. President Francois Hollande’s office said the other victim was a French citizen. 14040703

April 7—Egypt—Police arrested Tharwat Salah Shehata, a senior aide to Ayman ­al-Zawahiri, in an apartment in the 10th of Ramadan district in Sharqiya in the Nile Delta. Authorities said he had trained jihadis in eastern Libya. He was a member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and was sentenced to death for an assassination attempt on a former prime minister in the 1990s. In 2001, his group merged with ­al-Qaeda. The UN lists him as an ­al-Qaeda affiliate.

April 7—Pakistan—The paramilitary Frontier Corps said it had killed at least 30 terrorists in Khuzdar, a mountainous region southeast of the Baluch capital. Ten soldiers were wounded.

April 8—Pakistan—A bomb went off in a railway car parked in a station in Sibi in Baluchistan Province, killing 16 and wounding 35. The train had stopped during its travel from Quetta to Rawalpindi. Federal Minister for Railways Saad Rafiq suggested that a woman left explosives on the train car before it arrived at the station. The separatist United Baluch Liberation Army claimed credit, saying it was retaliating for an operation against the UBLA in the province that killed 30 militants.

April 8—Germany—German authorities banned the Orphaned Children Project—Lebanon, which had raised $4.5 million for the ­Hizballah-linked Sha­hid Foundation since 2007 and raided 19 locations in 6 German states, seizing 40 boxes of evidence, ­including Hizballah materials, kilograms of gold coins, and 2 bank accounts containing $90,000.

April 8—Libya—Authorities found the ­bullet-riddled body of Ali bin Taher, who ran the Islamic State Army, on a farm near Derna. The group was believed responsible for assassinations of policemen and judges. He was believed to have been killed the previous night. He was freed from jail in 2011 after the anti–Qadhafi revolution.

April 8—Philippines—Mohagher Iqbal of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front announced that the group had formed a political party, the United Bangsamoro Justice Party.

April 8—Kenya—Minister of Security Joseph ­Ole-Lenku said 82 Somalis were deported following recent terrorist attacks in Nairobi and Mombasa. The 82 were in the country illegally and/or lacked documentation. Police spokesman Masoud Mwinyi said police detained more than 3,000 people and held them in a Nairobi sports stadium, but held only 447 for further questioning. At least 69 were charged in court with various offenses.

April 8—Lebanon—The National News Agency reported that a gunman ambushed an army patrol in the Akkar region during the night, killing 2 soldiers and then shooting himself to death. His uncle and a local mayor tried to talk him into surrendering before he took his own life.

April 8—U.S.—The FBI arrested Islamic convert Shannon Maureen Conley, alias Halima, 19, at Denver International Airport when attempting to board a flight to Germany and on to Istanbul, Turkey, en route to Syria to join the jihadis, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Colorado. Federal prosecutors said she intended to go to Adana, Turkey to meet Y.M., who wanted to marry her and send her into Syria. Officials said she had mental health issues, according to a July 3, 2014, NBC News report, which quoted her parents telling authorities that she “believed she, as a Muslim, needed to marry young and be confrontational in her support of Islam. She conceded her knowledge of Islam was based solely on her own research that she conducted on the Internet.” She was charged with provision and attempted provision of material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, specifically the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). She was held without bail at the area county jail in federal custody. Authorities found CDs by U.S.-born AQAP cleric Anwar ­al-Aulaqi among her belongings. The FBI became aware of her extremism in November 2013 after she alarmed employees of Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada, a suburban Denver church, by wandering around and taking notes on the layout of the campus. In 2007, a gunman killed 2 missionary workers at the church. The nurse’s aide told the FBI that she intended to live with an ISIS soldier, identified as Y.M. from Tunisia, she met online, participate in attacks (using her training as a U.S. Army Explorer) and put her medical expertise to work, according to court documents. NBC News reported on September 4, 2014, that she was an accused ISIS recruit who also was the only woman apprehended as of that date. On September 10, 2014, Conley pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to ­provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization under a plea deal that required her to help investigators and provide information about people in Colorado and elsewhere looking to help terrorists abroad. She faced up to 5 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine. She was represented by public defender Robert Pepin. Judge Raymond P. Moore ordered a full psychiatric evaluation of Conley.

April 8–10—Central African Republic—Gun battles pitting Christians and Muslim members of the disbanded Seleka rebel alliance killed 30 in Dekoa. Many civilians died when Muslims fired into a crowd they mistakenly believed were Christians.

April 9—Pakistan—An 11-pound bomb hidden in crates of guava fruit exploded outside an Islamabad fruit and vegetable market in the early morning, killing 22 and injuring more than 80. Pakistani Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid denied responsibility.

April 9—Central African Republic—Two French soldiers were injured by a grenade. 14040901

April 9—Iraq—A bomb went off in a commercial area in Numaniyah, followed by a second car bomb targeting first responders. The bombs killed 5 and injured 17.

A car bomb went off on Baghdad’s Nidhal Street, killing 4 and wounding 11.

A car bomb in Baghdad’s northern Kazimiyah district killed 5 and injured 9.

Car bombs went off in Sadr City and the areas of Shaab, Shammaiya, Karrada and Maamil in Baghdad, killing 13 and wounding 42.

A car bomb went off in Baghdad’s Jadiriyah commercial area, killing 3 and wounding 8.

Mortars hit Sabaa ­al-Bour, killing 4 civilians and wounding 13.

April 9—Russia—FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov told the press that that intelligence agencies from the United States, Austria, France, Germany and Georgia had helped Russia to target terrorists planning to attack the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, held on February 7–23 in Sochi.

April 9—India—Maoist rebels ambushed government soldiers returning to base after escorting election officials to polling stations in Sukma district in central Chhattisgarh State, killing 3 troops and wounding 3 soldiers.

April 9—Egypt—The U.S. designated Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis a foreign terrorist organization.

April 9—Peru—President Ollanta Humala announced that security forces had arrested 24 leaders of the political wing of the Shining Path, including Alfredo Crespo, the lawyer of its imprisoned leader Abimael Guzman, Walter Humala, a singer and guitarist who has called for Guzman’s release, and the president’s cousin. During a 2-year investigation leading to the arrests, police had determined that the ­self-described ­Marxist-Leninist-Maoist MOVADEF members were behind terrorism and financing terrorism through drug trafficking. MOVADEF was formed in 2009. It ran candidates in 2010 regional elections without winning a single race.

April 10—Greece—A car bomb exploded at 6 a.m. outside a Bank of Greece building in Athens, causing damage but no injuries. Two anonymous calls at 5:11 a.m. to a website and a newspaper gave a 45-minute warning of a 75-kilogram (165 pound) bomb. Later that day, a 5-year bond issue was scheduled to be announced. On April 25, the anarchist Revolutionary Struggle posted on a leftist website its claim that it was protesting harsh austerity policies.

April 10—Pakistan—Gunmen fired at a truck in Jamrud region en route to Afghanistan with gasoline for NATO forces, killing a driver and wounding another. 14041001

April 10—Egypt—Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis (Champions of Jerusalem) posted a 16-minute online video showing suicide bomber Imam Mahfouz, alias Abu Mariam, attacking a security headquarters in Mansoura that killed 16 people in December 2013. The group said the bomber had been injured in demonstra­tions against former President Mohammed Morsi’s overthrow by Egypt’s military. Abu Mariam wore a white robe and sat next to Kalashnikov assault rifles, observing, “Those of the military are who are killing Muslims … must be killed. We kill as they killed.”

April 11—Egypt—Soldiers ambushed and killed Nour Hamdeen, a leader of Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis.

April 11—Egypt—The state news agency MENA reported that police killed 2 gunmen who tried to set fire to a police station in the Nile Delta.

April 11—Afghanistan—At 2 p.m., a suicide bomber killed ­pro-government tribal elder Gul Babri and wounded 3 civilians in the market of the Jani Khil district in Paktiya Province.

April 11—Pakistan—Gun battles between Taliban factions lead to the deaths of 23, according to a senior Taliban commander; the press reported intelligence officials tallied 43 dead.

April 11—Mali—French military spokesman Remi Libessart told the press that soldiers had unearthed 12 mortar shells, 30 rockets and other munitions buried in the desert 20 miles northwest of Timbuktu.

April 11—Philippines—At the start of a gun battle with 200 Philippine troops, some of the more than 60 gunmen led by Abu Sayyaf commander Puruji Indama in Basilan’s Unkaya Pukan township hid in a school. The clash killed 3 terrorists and wounded 2. The gunmen wounded 20 soldiers. Indama was wanted for kidnapping a former Australian soldier, who was freed in 2013 after 15 months of being held in the jungle and a ransom payment. Indama was believed responsible for the beheadings of 10 marines in Basilan in 2007.

April 11—Sri Lanka—Defense Ministry spokesman Brig. Ruwan Wanigasooriya told the media that Sri Lankan soldiers had killed 3 men in a jungle in the Padaviya area of northern Mullaittivu district who were attempting to revive the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam separatist group after 5 years of dormancy. The spokesman said the trio was given instructions by 2 ­Europe-based Tamil Tiger leaders, who told them to recover cached weapons, restart the intelligence network, organize cadres, and pick potential targets.

April 11—Central African Republic—The UNHCR said Christian militias were attacking people trying to flee the country. The refugee agency registered 4 wounded refugees in Cameroon; 3 were hacked with machetes and one had been shot.

April 11—Iraq—Deputy Prime Minister Saleh ­al-Mutlaq escaped an assassination attempt. Gunmen wearing uniforms of the Iraqi army’s 9th Division and driving military vehicles fired on his convoy west of Baghdad in the Abu Ghraib area, injuring 3 guards. The attackers escaped. ­Al-Mutlaq and fellow Sunni lawmaker Talal ­al-Zobaie were inspecting flood damages to the area after terrorists from an ­al-Qaeda-splinter group shut off a water dam near Fallujah. A military spokesman disputed that it was an assassination attempt.

A roadside bomb exploded near a minibus outside Mosul, killing one civilian and wounding 6.

April 11—Bahrain—A homemade bomb wounded a policeman in the village of Daih.

April 12—India—Indian Maoist rebels set off a land mine, killing 5 election officials and 2 bus drivers and injuring 5 people traveling from Kutru to Bijapur before planned voting there next week. The rebels fired on the bus after the bomb went off, but fled into the forest when paramilitary forces fired on them.

Maoist rebels ambushed the vehicle of paramilitary soldiers, killing 5 soldiers and 2 civilians and injuring 3 soldiers in the remote Darbha Forest in the central state of Chhattisgarh.

April 12—Yemen—AQAP ambushed special forces troops after they returned to their base in Bayda Province, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 5 others.

Two suspected AQAP gunmen on a motorcycle killed a security officer in Sana’a. They stole his weapon and fled.

April 12—Pakistan—Jihadis kidnapped 100 Qamberkhel tribesmen from a tribal festival on the border of Orakzai and Khyber tribal regions. Following negotiations with tribal elders, the kidnappers freed more than 90 of them the next day, but continued to hold 7 influential individuals. A tribal elder said no demands were made.

April 12—Iraq—A parked car bomb exploded in a commercial area in Baqouba, killing 4 and wounding 16.

A roadside bomb hit a police patrol in Tarmiyha, killing one and wounding 6.

April 12—Philippines—Marines on patrol in the woods near a hill in Patikul, Sulu Province, engaged in a 30-minute firefight with 30 Abu Sayyaf terrorists, wounding several of them.

April 12—China—The official Xinhua News Agency reported that Abdubasit Ablimit, 17, a Uighur, tried to grab weapons from police at a checkpoint in Xinjiang region twice during the night before police shot him to death.

April 13—Iraq—A car bomb exploded when a joint Iraqi army and police patrol drove through a busy commercial area in Mosul, killing 5 civilians and 5 security personnel and wounding 12 people.

A suicide car bomber crashed into a security checkpoint in Dibis, killing 6 and wounding 15.

April 13—U.S.—At 1 p.m., just before Passover, physician Dr. William Lewis Corporan, and grandson Reat Griffin Underwood, a 14-year-old Eagle Scout, both Christians, were shot to death in their car in the parking lot of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City. A few blocks away, the gunman then killed Terri LaManno, 53, a Catholic who worked as an occupational therapist at the Children’s Center for the Visually Impaired in Kansas City, at the parking lot of the nearby Village Shalome assisted living community in Overland Park, Kan., south of Kansas City, where LaManno was visiting her mother. Yelling “Heil Hitler,” the gunman fired at 5 people, but missed 2. He had asked people if they were Jewish before he fired. He carried a shotgun, handgun, and possibly an assault weapon, according to police. Underwood, a high school freshman, was trying out for a student singing competition.

Police arrested Frazier Glenn Miller, alias Frazier Glenn Cross, 73, who was a former “grand dragon” of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, in an elementary school parking lot. Miller smiled as he was arrested. He was booked into the Johnson County jail after 8:30 p.m. on suspicion of premeditated ­first-degree murder. He was held on a preliminary charge of ­first-degree murder. Prosecutors intended to pursue ­hate-crime charges. On April 15, he was charged with one count of capital murder for the deaths of William Lewis Corporan and Reat Griffin Underwood and one count of ­first-degree premeditated murder for the death of Terri LaManno. He was held on a $10 million bond, and ordered to appear in court on April 24. Federal charges could be added. He faced a life sentence or the death pen­alty.

The Southern Poverty Law Center said that he was well known in extremist circles. He left high school to begin a 20-year Army career that included 2 tours in Vietnam and 13 years with the Green Berets before being discharged in 1979 for his KKK membership. He then joined the neo–Nazi group The Order. He ran the Carolina Klan before the SPLC sued him “for operating an illegal paramilitary organization and using intimidation tactics against African Americans.” He then founded the Klan group White Patriot Party, ignoring the terms of the suit’s settlement. He was convicted of criminal contempt in 1986 and served 6 months in prison. In 1987, police arrested 4 Klansmen, including Miller, in an Ozark mobile home, with a cache of weapons, according to the SPLC. Police seized hand grenades, automatic weap­ons and thousands of rounds of ammunition. He later pleaded guilty to a weapons charge. He then was indicted for plotting to obtain stolen military weapons and planning robberies and the assassination of SPLC founder Morris Dees. In a plea deal, he testified against 14 KKK leaders in a sedition trial in Arkansas in 1988 and was sentenced to 5 years, serving 3. He was convicted in North Carolina for running a paramilitary camp. He ran in the Democratic primary for North Carolina governor in 1984, as a Republican for a state Senate seat in 1987, for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006 and the U.S. Senate in 2010, running ads that called on whites to “take the country back” from Jews and “mud people.” He began publishing the racist tabloid The Aryan Alternative in 2005.

April 13—Philippines—Security forces captured a wanted Abu Sayyaf gunman near Zamboanga City, Basilan Province.

April 13—Afghanistan—During the night, the Taliban ambushed an “uprising unit” of anti–Taliban militiamen patrolling in Andar district in Ghazni Province, killing 3 and wounding 3.

April 13–14—India—Troops and rebels conducted a 20-hour gun battle in Srinagar in ­Indian-controlled Kashmir in which 2 gunmen died and 2 police officers were injured. Authorities cordoned off a neighborhood where the terrorists were believed to be hiding.

April 14—Nigeria—A bomb believed hidden inside a vehicle exploded at 6:45 a.m. in the Nyanya Motor Park bus station in the suburbs of Abuja, killing 75 and wounding 141 commuters. The bomb also destroyed 16 luxury coaches and 24 minibuses. Among the wounded was Mimi Daniels, who sustained arm injuries. President Goodluck Jonathan blamed Boko Haram. Among the dead was the brother of bus driver Tunji Adeniran, bank worker Mohammed Ochai. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau posted a ­Hausa-language video on April 19 claiming credit and threatening more attacks. “We are in your city, but you don’t know where we are…. Yes, we are the ones who carried out the attack in Abuja.”

April 14—Nigeria—In a nighttime raid, suspected jihadis posing as soldiers in military fatigues kidnapped at least 129 female students from the Chibok government Secondary School for Girls, on the edge of the Sambisa Forest in Borno State. After loading the girls on trucks, the terrorists shot to death a soldier and police officer guarding the school. Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima offered a $300,000 reward for information leading to the girls’ release. By April 16, 8 remained in captivity, according to initial armed forces announcements which were later retracted. Shettima said 4 students—aged between 16 and 18—jumped off the back of a truck and 10 escaped into the bush when the extremists asked them to cook and then did not pay attention. The next day, Asabe Kwambura, the school’s principal, told AP that only 14 of the girls had returned to the school. Reports conflicted for several days as to the number of girls who remained kidnapped. On April 18, 2014, Borno State Education Commissioner Musa Inuwo Kubo told the Associated Press that 24 more girls had escaped, some jumping off the back of a truck and others running into the Sambisa Forest, 30 miles away from the school. By April 21, parents said 234 girls had been kidnapped, not the 85 first reported by education officials. Boko Haram was believed responsible. On April 30, Halite Aliyu of the ­Borno-Yobe People’s Forum said the kidnapped girls were being sold into forced marriage with Boko Haram terrorists for 2,000 naira ($12) and that some were held in Cameroon and Chad.

On May 2, the Washington Post reported that the number of abductees had risen to more than 300 who had been taking exams, with 276 still missing. Several sources provided conflicting figures. On May 5, CNN and Agence ­France-Presse quoted Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau speaking in a ­one-hour video in which he admitted, “I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah…. They are slaves and I will sell them because I have the market to sell them…. There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell. He commands me to sell. I will sell women. I sell women. Girls, you should go and get married,” he said. “What do you know about human rights? You’re just claiming human rights, but you don’t know what it is.” The Associated Press reported on May 5 that an intermediary said Boko Haram was ready to negotiate, but that 2 girls died of snakebite and 20 were ill. The Christian girls were forced to convert to Islam.

On May 6, a 16-year-old girl who escaped told the Associated Press that men in uniform told them during the raid, “Don’t worry, we’re soldiers. Nothing is going to happen to you.” The gunmen then torched all of the food at the school. On May 7, Nigerian authorities offered a $310,000 reward for information leading to the rescue of the girls.

International social media included a Twitter campaign, featuring U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, with the hashtag #bringbackourgirls.

On May 12, Boko Haram released a 17-minute video in which Shekau said that he would free the girls in exchange for the release of BH prisoners. The video showed 100 of the girls, whom he said had converted to Islam, wearing veils and praying. They ­recited “Al-Fatiha”—the first chapter of the Quran—in Arabic. He said, “These girls have become Mus­lims. We will never release them until after you ­release our brethren.” Three girls said they had converted. The Nigerian government said relatives, teachers, and classmates had identified 54 of the girls in the video.

Western governments, including the U.S., offered technical assistance in negotiations and tracking.

Nigerian Air Marshal Alex Badeh said on May 26, 2014, that the schoolgirls had been found, but using a rescue force could get them killed.

On June 30, 2014, Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade said the armed forces had rolled up a terrorist intelligence cell and arrested Babuji Ya’ari, a businessman who “participated actively” in Boko Haram’s abduction of hundreds of children in Chibok on April 14, 2014. Olukolade said Ya’ari had used his membership in an anti–BH vigilante group as a cover for his actions on behalf of BH. Information obtained from Ya’ari led to the arrests of 2 women—one a spy and arms procurer and the other a paymaster.

By July 22, 2014, 11 of the parents had died. Seven fathers were among the 51 bodies found after an attack on Kautakari village near Chibok. Four other parents died of heart failure, high blood pressure and other illnesses that the community blamed on trauma due to kidnappings. Some had been spotted in Cameroon and Chad.

On September 20, 2014, CNN reported that Nigerian government officials and the International Committee of the Red Cross were talking with Boko Haram about swapping 30 imprisoned commanders of BH for the more than 200 Chibok school girls kidnapped in April. The officials met 4 times in mid–August with 2 senior members of Boko Haram in Abuja. A negotiator told CNN, “The 2 Boko Haram negotiators assured the ICRC and government negotiators that the girls were never raped, were never used as sex slaves and were never sexually assaulted.” The prisoners include Kabiru Sokoto, a senior Boko Haram commander convicted in December 2013 of terror charges related to the Christmas Day bombing of a church in Madallah in 2011.

On September 25, 2014, AP reported that Boko Haram freed one of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls at Mubi in northeast Adamawa State, but the 20-year-old was too traumatized to identify herself. Observers believed she was the daughter of a Chad­ian carpenter who moved to Chibok several years earlier.

On October 17, 2014, the Voice of America reported that Boko Haram and the Nigerian government were in talks to free the remaining 200+ female hostages. Boko Haram’s Danladi Ahmadu, who is in Saudi Arabia, said the girls are “in good condition and unharmed.” The military announced a deal for the girls that would include a ceasefire. On October 31, 2014, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released a video in which he denied agreeing to a ceasefire and observed “The issue of the girls is long forgotten because I have long ago married them off.”

On July 8, 2015, Boko Haram offered to free the 200 kidnapped young women and girls from the Chibok boarding school in exchange for the release of jailed BH members. The group had offered in 2014 to the former government of President Goodluck Jonathan a swap of 219 girls for 16 BH detainees.

On October 15, 2015, Fox News reported that one of the kidnapped Chibok girls escaped from a Boko Haram stronghold in the Sambisa Forest in Borno State near Chad, although the military disputed her account. She told The Vanguard, “All of us were forced to become Muslims but kept in camps far from each other. You can only see and recognize those in your camp as any of us who refused being Islamized was either beheaded or shot at point blank range.” She said the rest of the girls were held in 6 border towns near Lake Chad.

April 14—Austria—Austrian police announced a search for 2 girls, aged 15 and 16, who left 2 farewell letters saying “we have gone to Syria to fight for Islam. We will meet in Paradise.” Their families were Bos­nian immigrants. The duo flew to Adana, Turkey, then disappeared.

April 14—Philippines—Police commandos raided an Abu Sayyaf hideout in Zamboanga City, killing 2 terrorists and arresting 6 others. A policeman was wounded. Police detained 3 terrorists during the raid, then nabbed 3 others in a ­mop-up raid in the town. Police seized 4 pistols and 3 grenades.

April 14—Israel—A gunman fired on Israeli motorists near the Tarqumiya crossing checkpoint between Israel and the southern West Bank, killing a 40-year-old man and wounding his wife and 9-year-old son in 2 separate cars. The attacks took place a day before Passover. The next day, Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of the ­Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, said the attack outside Hebron “brought back life to the path of resistance. We tell the enemy and anyone who thinks he is able to tame the West Bank … the West Bank will be the future point of our struggle with the enemy.” On June 23, 2014, Shin Bet and the Israeli Defense Forces said they had arrested Ziad Awad, 42, a Hamas operative in the West Bank, and his 18-year-old son. Ziad Awad was among 1,000+ prisoners freed in 2011 in exchange for a captive Israeli soldier held by Hamas.

April 14—Syria—A ­Hizballah-owned TV channel reported that 3 of its journalists were killed in an attack in a Christian town.

April 15—Libya—In a morning attack, masked gunmen in civilian clothes and driving 2 cars fired at the vehicle of Jordanian Ambassador Fawaz ­al-Etan in Tripoli near the Jordanian Embassy, wounded the driver, then kidnapped ­al-Etan. On April 25, 2014, Jordan released Libyan detainee Mohammed ­al-Darsi, who was serving a life sentence after being convicted in 2007 for planning a suicide bombing of Amman’s Queen Alia International Airport. Attorney Moussa ­al-Abdallat said that ­al-Darsi was transferred to Libya on April 25. ­Al-Etan was freed in good health and returned home to Amman, Jordan on May 13 in the same plane that flew ­al-Darsi to Tripoli. 14041501

April 15—Yemen—AQAP was blamed when gunmen assassinated Hussein Dayan, deputy governor of ­al-Bayda Province, as he was leaving his home for his office.

April 15—Afghanistan—Five gunmen kidnapped Afghan deputy public works minister Ahmad Shah Wahid as he was driving to work in Kabul, wounding his driver. They ran his car off the road, forced him into their 4-wheel-drive vehicle, and escaped. The 50-something Wahid learned engineering and road construction in Italy. He was deputy minister for 4 years, having earlier worked in the ministry overseeing road reconstruction.

April 15—Egypt—A bomb went off near a traffic police post at the ­al-Galaa bridge in central Cairo’s Dokki neighborhood, injuring 2 police officers and one civilian.

April 15—Albania—Police arrested a 30-year-old man for recruiting men to join jihadis fighting in Syria. He faced a 10-year prison term. In March, police arrested 7 Albanian Muslims, including 2 imams, on similar charges.

April 15—Yemen—CNN ran clips from an AQAP video of AQAP leader ­al-Wuhayshi addressing 100 terrorists, calling for attacks on the U.S. “We must eliminate the cross…. The bearer of the cross is America!”

April 15—Ethiopia—In the early morning, gunmen fired on a public bus carrying 28 residents in the Banishangul Gumuz region, killing 9 people and wounding 7. Egypt views nearby construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam as a threat to the flow of the Nile River.

April 16—Iraq—Two suicide bombers crashed their cars into security checkpoints at the military operation command in Ramadi, killing 5 soldiers and 3 police officers and wounding 14 people.

April 17—Iraq—In a morning attack, gunmen raided a military base outside Mosul. A suicide bomber set off his truck at the facility’s gates. Gunmen then fired from stolen military Humvees. In the gun battle, 10 soldiers and 8 terrorists died and 12 soldiers were wounded.

Mustafa Mounir, 19, was killed in a car bomb attack in Baghdad. Mourners chanted slogans against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (during his funeral procession in Najaf).

April 17—Kenya—The government deported 91 Somalis to Mogadishu, following the deportation of 82 Somalis the previous week.

April 17—U.S.—U.S. Judge Petrese B. Tucker in a court in Philadelphia sentenced Mohammad Hassan Khalid, 21, to 5 years in prison for soliciting fighters for jihad. He had earned a scholarship to Johns Hopkins University. His family had emigrated to Baltimore from Pakistan. He joined jihadi chat rooms by age 15, conversing with Coleen LaRose, alias Jihad Jane, from Pennsylvania, and other extremists.

April 17—Afghanistan—The Taliban stopped a car carrying several Afghan police officers on the road in Wardak Province from Kandahar to Kabul, kidnapped 11 policemen, and killed 4 of them. Wardak Province deputy police chief Lutfullah Zaryab said the remaining 7 escaped. Provincial spokesman Attahullah Khugyani said there were only 5 policemen in the vehicle, and one escaped. The Taliban claimed it kidnapped and killed 7.

April 17—Afghanistan—Three ­low-level Taliban ­inmates serving time for planting roadside bombs escaped during the night from a prison in Faryab Province, killing 3 guards with smuggled weapons including grenades and a pistol. A fourth Taliban died in a ­shoot-out with guards.

April 17—Nigeria—Terrorists wielding machetes, knives and clubs wounded scores of delegates at a meeting of the All Progressives Congress, the country’s main opposition coalition, in Kaduna. Scores were hospitalized. One terrorist hacked off the arm of a man carrying a ballot box. Scores of people were hospitalized. The terrorists ran off with ballot boxes for the election of ward leaders for Kaduna State. Police arrested several people.

April 17—U.S.—The federal trial in New York began of Abu Hamza ­al-Masri, alias Mustafa Kamal Mustafa, who was charged with conspiracy to kidnap 16 Westerners, including Americans, in Yemen in 1998 and planning to establish a terrorist training camp in rural Oregon in 1999. ­Al-Masri had pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of terrorism in 2012. He faced life in prison. The prosecution said authorities found weapons and gas masks were found at ­al-Masri’s London mosque, that he had given the ­Yemen-based kidnappers satellite phones and instructions, and that he provided 2 men to Oregon with money and instructions on ­throat-slitting, shooting and building silencers as part of the terrorist training regimen. Joshua Dratel served as the defense attorney.

April 17—Thailand—During the night, gunmen raided a rubber plantation in Bannang Sata district in Yala Province, killing suspected jihadi Muktar ­Ali-mama, 31, and his 6-year-old son. Police had no suspects. Police said ­Ali-mama was a member of an insurgent group and was wanted on murder charges. The child died from gunshot wounds in his head and left leg.

April 17—Thailand—During the evening, suspected jihadis remotely detonated a bomb in a gas canister hidden in the parking lot of a stadium in Sungai Padi district in Narathiwat Province, injuring a police officer and a civilian.

April 17—Pakistan—Two Pakistanis working for UNICEF were kidnapped in Karachi during the evening. They were freed on April 21. 14041701

April 17–18—South Sudan—The UN reported that a ­2-day Nuer mob attack on a UN peace keeping mission’s camp in Bor in Jonglei State killed 58 people and injured 100 others. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said “the assailants, a mob of armed civilians, came to the base under the guise of peaceful demonstrators intending to present a petition…. The armed mob forced entry on to the site and opened fire on the internally displaced persons sheltering inside the base.”

April 18—Iraq—The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant set off a car bomb during the morning in a shopping area of Baghdad’s ­al-Ameen neighborhood, killing 3, including Mustafa Mounir, 19, and injuring 5.

April 18—Pakistan—Cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz named a ­one-room library in Jamia Hafsa, a girls’ madrassa in Islamabad, in honor of Osama bin Laden. Aziz serves as a prayer leader at Islamabad’s Red Mosque, at which a 2007 raid by the army killed dozens of extremists. A sign on the library’s door reads in Arabic, “Maktaba Osama bin Laden Shaheed” (Library Osama bin Laden, the Martyr).

April 18—Egypt—Ajnad Misr (Egypt’s Soldiers) set off a bomb at a traffic post in Lebanon Square in central Cairo’s Mohandessin District during the night, killing a policeman and wounding another.

April 18—Northern Ireland—Tommy Crossan, 43, a senior Irish Republican Army ­hard-liner, was shot to death in Belfast. In 2011, former comrades in his splinter group threatened to kill him. Gunmen brought him to a fuel depot overlooked by houses and shot him in the head and body at close range. A Catholic priest was called to give him the Last Rites. Authorities blamed the Continuity IRA.

Crossan had served 5 years in prison for a 1999 gun attack on a Belfast police station. He was commander of the Continuity IRA prisoners. British Protestant prisoners poured a pot of scalding water on him.

In 2008, he received a suspended sentence for the attempted extortion of a businessman. In 2009, Continuity IRA colleagues accused him of using their organization as a front for Belfast robberies. They said he was spotted meeting British intelligence agents in a Protestant part of Belfast.

On April 19, police in Northern Ireland arrested a 26-year-old man for questioning.

April 19—Internet—In an ­as-Sahab audio interview posted on the radical Islamist website Hanein, Ayman ­al-Zawahiri encouraged jihadis to attack the Egyptian army and security forces, but counseled against harming civilians. He complained that the Islamist ­al-Nour Party was guilty of deceit by supporting the ­military-supported interim government and secular constitution. He also talked about drones and Syria. “The upper hand is for the one who does not withdraw from his land. Who has withdrawn from Iraq, and who has not? Who has withdrawn from Afghanistan and who has not?” He claimed ­al-Qaeda “is expanding…. ­Al-Qaeda is scattered in all the Islamic world and among the oppressed.”

April 19—Internet—An ­al-Shabaab Internet video posting threatened, “We will blow you up, until we finish you off.” “It’s not that Westgate was enough. There are still hundreds of men who are wishing for such an operation.”

April 19—Yemen—A Yemeni military official told the press that a U.S. drone targeted a car carrying AQAP terrorists in ­al-Bayda Province’s Sawmaa area, killing 9 terrorists. The press said 6 civilians in a nearby car were killed or wounded.

April 19—Pakistan—Gunmen wounded Hamid Mir, a famous TV talk show host on the private broadcaster Geo, near Karachi Airport. A gunman fired on Mir’s car. Others chased him on motorcycles, hitting him 3 times in the stomach and upper legs. In 2013, a bomb was placed under his car.

April 19—Bahrain—A car bomb killed 2 people and wounded one person in Mughsha, west of Manama. Authorities later identified them as Ahmed ­al-Mesgen, 16, and Ali Abbas, 18, who were wanted by the police in connection with the ongoing uprising in the country.

A bomb was thrown at security officials trying to quench a tire fire, wounding 3 men.

April 19—Iraq—Two bombs went off in Baghdad’s Sunni neighborhood of Dora during the morning, killing 4 shoppers and wounding 8. That night, 3 more bombs in the area killed 5 and wounded 10.

A roadside bomb in Tarmiyah killed 2 soldiers on patrol and wounded 5.

A suicide bomber killed 5 soldiers and wounded 8 at a checkpoint in Mishada.

April 19—Algeria—At 10 p.m., jihadis hiding on both sides of a road ambushed an Algerian military convoy near the village of Iboudraren in Kabylie’s mountains, killing 16 soldiers. Eleven soldiers died immediately from automatic weapons fire on their military bus; 5 others later died of their injuries. The soldiers were returning to their base in Tizi Ouzou from securing polling stations for the presidential election, which was won by incumbent president ­Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Security forces killed 3 gunmen.

April 20—Egypt—In a firefight on a desert road between Suez and Cairo, gunmen killed police Captain Ashraf Badeer ­al-Qazaz and a central security force conscript who were part of a joint security patrol that had tried to stop a suspicious ­4-wheel drive vehicle.

April 20—Thailand—Two ­drive-by jihadi gunmen on a motorcycle on a rural road in the Bannang Sata District of Yala Province fired on a pickup truck, killing 3 people, including a 54-year-old man, his 49-year-old wife and their 2-year-old granddaughter, and injuring their 12-year-old grandson in the ear.

April 20—Myanmar—Gun battles between government troops and Kachin rebels killed at least 22 people during April. On April 4, the Kachin Independence Army ambushed an army column in the Man Wein Gyi region. ­Follow-up operations by the military included the capture of a rebel camp and the deaths of 14 government troops and 8 rebels.

April 20—Iraq—Two car bombs exploded in Sama­wah, killing 7 shoppers and wounding 17.

Gunmen attacked a private Shi’ite college in Baghdad’s eastern Ur neighborhood. A suicide bomber set off his explosive belt at the main gate. Three terrorists attacked the back gate. The terrorists killed 4 police officers and one teacher, and wounded 18 people. Security officers fired back, killing all of the terrorists. Hours later, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed credit, accusing the college’s professors of teaching students to “curse” the Prophet Muham-mad and training them to “fight” Sunnis in Iraq and Syria.

A car bomb in Iskandariyah killed 3 civilians and wounded 12.

A bomb went off during the night in ­al-Rashed, killing 3 and wounding 6.

April 20–21—Yemen—The government announced an ongoing ­pre-dawn operation by Yemeni commandos and drone strikes by U.S. forces in the Mahfad mountains between Abyan, ­al-Bayda and Shabwa Province had killed at least 55 AQAP terrorists, including foreigners and 3 senior AQAP leaders, among them Munnaser ­al-Anbouri. The raid included strikes on an AQAP training camp in Wadi al-Khila, 280 miles south of Sana’a, where the Su­preme Security Committee said the terrorists were “preparing to launch attacks against Yemeni and foreign interests in the area…. These strikes destroyed the training facility completely and killed both Yemeni and foreign members.”

April 21—Iraq—A suicide bomber crashed his car into a police checkpoint in Suwayrah, killing 5 police officers and 7 civilians and wounding 19 people.

A suicide car bomber crashed into an army checkpoint in Madain, killing 3 soldiers and 2 civilians and wounding 12 other people.

A roadside bomb hit a military patrol near Mi­shahda, killing an Iraqi soldier and wounding 3.

Drive-by gunmen fired on people in Latifiyah, killing a civilian and wounding 2.

During the evening, 4 bombs went off throughout Baghdad, killing 14 and wounding 40.

In a nighttime attack in Daqouq village outside Kirkuk, gunmen in military uniforms attacked a polling center. They claimed they were there to conduct a search, but then turned their guns on the guards, killing 10, 8 of whom were village resi-dents.

April 21—Somalia—Somali legislator Isaq Mohamed Rino was killed when an ­al-Shabaab bomb planted under his car exploded in Mogadishu’s Hamarweyne neighborhood. Mohamed Ali, a lawmaker traveling with Rino, was injured.

April 21—Israel—Hamas was suspected of firing a missile from the Gaza Strip at Israeli troops patrolling the border and 7 rockets into the south on the last day of Passover, causing no injuries. Israeli retaliatory airstrikes hit Hamas targets, wounding 4 Hamas members. Hamas claimed 7 airstrikes hit training centers.

April 21—India—Rebels were suspected of shooting to death 2 village elders and a victim’s son in ­India-controlled Kashmir in hopes of scaring away voters. In one attack, terrorists broke into the home of a Batgund village headman, killing him and his adult son. They then killed a village official in Amlar.

April 21–22—Yemen—Gunmen on motorcycles killed 4 senior security officers, including 3 colonels, 2 in the intelligence agency and one in the military police in Sanaa, and a deputy security chief in Harib.

April 22—Central African Republic—Uganda-led African Union troops captured Lord’s Resistance Army lieutenant Charles Okello following a firefight in which 10 civilians, including 7 children, were freed from their rebel kidnappers.

April 22—Pakistan—Gunmen ambushed a police patrol outside Peshawar, killing 5 police officers and a civilian. Police gave chase, killing some attackers in a ­shoot-out.

A bomb on a motorcycle exploded near a police van in Charsadda, killing 2 bystanders. Some 20 police officers were wounded in the 2 attacks.

April 22—Afghanistan—The Taliban denied responsibility for the afternoon shooting death of prominent campaign worker Esmatullah, who was returning to his home in Logar Province after visiting a friend. Esmatullah was also known as Commander Tor for his role in the struggle against the 1990s Soviet occupation. His 2 bodyguards were wounded. He was an election observer for presidential candidate Abdul Rab Rassoul Sayyaf, a prominent Islamic cleric.

April 22—Afghanistan—The Taliban attacked a police checkpoint in Ghorak District in Kandahar Province during the night, killing 5 police officers.

April 22—Somalia—Two ­al-Shabaab gunmen killed Somali legislator Abdiaziz Isaq Mursal as he stepped out of his home in Mogadishu’s Madina district.

April 23—Netherlands/Syria—The Dutch AIVD intelligence agency’s annual national security report noted that more than 100 Dutch citizens left the country in 2013 to fight as jihadists in Syria; 10 died, including one as a suicide bomber. Thirty had returned home.

April 23—Mali—A UN security vehicle at an air strip in Kidal hit a mine, injuring a Chadian soldier with the UN peacekeeping force. 14042301

April 23—Egypt—Police Brigadier General Ahmed Zaki was killed when a bomb went off under his car in a western Cairo suburb. He was on his way to his office in the 6th of October suburb. Two conscripts were injured. Ajnad Misr (Egypt’s Soldiers) claimed credit, saying it was retaliating for the killings and arrests by government forces of supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Gunmen shot to death police Lieutenant Ahmed Saad during a raid on a terrorist hideout in the Borg ­al-Arab district of Alexandria. In the ­shoot-out, a terrorist was killed and a second arrested. Authorities confiscated 2 explosive belts, machine guns and homemade bombs.

April 23—Iraq—A car bomb exploded during the night in Bay Boukh, a village inhabited by families from the Shabak ethnic group, near Mosul, killing 9 people and wounding 30.

April 23—Kenya—Nairobi police stopped a suspicious car at a traffic light and were bringing the occupants in for questioning when the car exploded just outside a police station’s main gate, killing 4 people, including 2 police officers.

April 23—Thailand—Gunmen in northern Bang­kok shot to death a ­pro-government activist and poet who opposed a law that punishes critics of Thailand’s monarchy.

April 23–24—Thailand—During the night, gre­nades exploded at the Daily News newspaper compound headquarters in northern Bangkok’s Lak Si district and the Administrative Court near an ­anti-government protest site in northern Bangkok, causing no injuries.

April 24—South Sudan—Gunmen fired guns and ­rocket-propelled grenades at a convoy of barges on the Nile River that were being used by the UN to deliver food and fuel to Malakal, injuring 4 people, including peacekeepers and barge crew. Military and rebel leaders denied responsibility.

April 24—Afghanistan—At 9:50 a.m., Aynuddin, an Afghan Public Protection Force police guard, fired his Kalashnikov rifle and shot to death 3 American male physicians and wounded an American female nurse in the left hand and chest before shooting himself (other reports said security guards shot him) at the front gate of the CURE hospital in downtown western Kabul near the ­hollowed-out ruins of Darulaman Palace. The dead included Dr. “Jerry” Uma­nos, 57, from Michigan (he was a graduate of the author’s Livonia Bentley High School in 1974) and Chicago, a trainer of pediatricians in Afghanistan who had worked for 7 years in Kabul. Dr. Umanos had worked for 16 years at Chicago’s Lawndale Christian Health Center before going to Afghanistan. He was meeting with a father and son—Jon Gabel, who lectured at Kabul University, and his father—who were also killed. The younger Gabel taught computer science and managed a small health clinic. Jon Ga­bel’s wife, an American nurse, was wounded. His mother was unharmed. The ­non-profit CURE runs hospitals and programs in 29 countries. CURE staff performed surgery on the gunman, who had been on the protection force for 18 months. 14042401

April 24—Yemen—Two U.S. Embassy officers getting haircuts at Sana’a’s Taj barbershop killed 2 suspected AQAP gunmen who exited their pickup truck and attempted to kidnap them. The gunmen were carrying an AK-47 assault rifle and a stun gun. The Americans jumped into their SUV and escaped. The New York Times claimed that the Americans were a CIA officer and a lieutenant colonel with the Joint Special Operations Command. The Embassy employees left the country. The Times cited a Yemeni official who said the gunmen were part of a kidnapping ring involved in killing a French citizen in May, kidnapping a Dutch couple in 2013, trying to kill a German diplomat in April 2014, and attacking Sana’a’s central prison in February 2014. Yemeni authorities tracked down the group’s leader, Wael Abdullah ­al-Waeli, killing him in a ­shoot-out in Sana’a on May 7. Yemeni Interior Ministry spokesman Colonel Mohamed ­al-Qaidi said the kidnappers pretended to be policemen. 14042402

April 24—Pakistan—Pakistan conducted airstrike against 2 suspected insurgent hideouts in the Tirah Valley in the Khyber tribal region, killing 37 suspected terrorists and wounding 18. Ground troops were also involved against the terrorists believed behind a bombing at an outdoor fruit and vegetable market near Islamabad that killed 22 people.

April 24—Pakistan—A suicide bomb exploded in downtown Karachi, killing prominent police officer Shafiq Tanoli and 3 others. He had survived other assassination attempts. He had actively campaigned against terrorists. He was meeting friends and relatives at a store near his home. A teen boy was suspected.

April 24—Iraq—A suicide car bomber crashed into a police checkpoint at one of the entrances to Hillah during morning rush hour, killing 11 people, including 7 civilians and 4 police officers, wounding 27 people, and damaging 15 cars.

April 24—India—Gunmen ambushed a bus near Shikaripada village in eastern Jharkhand State, killing 5 paramilitary soldiers and 3 polling officials carrying voting machines used in the nationwide election. They initially set off a roadside land mine, then fired on the bus.

Gunmen fired on another bus 40 miles south of Srinagar in ­Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing an Indian polling official and wounding a poll officer, 2 paramilitary soldiers and a police officer.

April 24—Yemen—Yemeni Ambassador to the UN Jamal Benomar told reporters that President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and Shi’ite Houthi tribal rebels agreed to discuss the rebels’ “disarmament, demobilization and reintegration.”

April 25—Iraq—Three bombs, including the final one by a suicide bomber, went off within 10 minutes at an afternoon campaign rally of 10,000 supporters of the ­Iranian-backed Shi’ite Asaib Ahl ­al-Haq group gathered at eastern Baghdad’s Industrial Stadium, killing 31, including 10 group members, and wounding more than 30. The first bomb exploded while men and women in Arab medieval costumes were enacting a short play on the 7th century martyrdom in Karbala. The group had been addressed by cleric Sheik Qasi (or Qais) ­al-Khazali, who had spent years in U.S. detention but was released after he was handed over to the Iraqi government. The group’s followers had attacked U.S. soldiers before their withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 and claimed responsibility for the 2007 kidnapping of a British contractor along with his 4 guards. The group sends fighters to Syria to join Assad loyalists. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant said that the bombings aimed to avenge killings of Sunnis by Shi’ite militias. The next day, Qais ­al-Khazali told the press “The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant considers the Asaib Ahl ­al-Haq as its enemy and that’s an honor for us. Our blood will not have been shed in vain and what happened will not go unpunished.” He claimed his security guards killed 2 ­would-be suicide bombers at the rally and that one parliamentary candidate was killed in the bombings.

Hours later, a senior Sunni politician in Basra was shot dead in an apparent revenge attack.

April 25—Thailand—Jihadis were suspected when a bomb went off at a fishing competition at a beach in Pattani Province’s Saiburi District, killing 3 policemen and wounding 17 people, including 7 police officers.

April 25—Pakistan—A powerful bomb exploded in Karachi’s upscale residential Clifton neighborhood, killing 4 people, wounding 25, 5e critically, and badly damaging several vehicles and a nearby ­multi-storey building.

April 25—India—Late in the day, Indian troops and police surrounded Karewa Malino village outside Srinagar, Kashmir, then raided a rebel hideout. In the ensuing clash, 3 rebels and 2 soldiers died. The battle died down during the night when 2 gunmen and 2 soldiers, including an Army officer, died, but re­started in the morning, during which the third gunman died and the rebel safe house was destroyed.

April 26—Central African Republic—At least 40 Seleka gunmen attacked a hospital in Nanga Boguila, killing 22 people, including 3 local Medecins Sans Frontieres workers who were meeting with several dozen local village chiefs. The gunmen had demanded money. 14042601

April 26—Iraq—Police found 9 unidentified bodies, some with bullet wounds, in several Sunni and Shi’ite districts of Baghdad.

Drive-by gunmen fired on civilians in a Sunni section of western Baghdad’s ­al-Amil neighborhood, killing 2 people and wounding 3.

A bomb went off during the afternoon inside a small restaurant in eastern Baghdad’s ­al-Nasir District, killing 4 people and wounding 11.

April 26—Internet—In the second part of his interview posted on Hanein with ­as-Sahab, Ayman ­al-Zawahiri called on Muslims “to capture Westerners—and especially the Americans, as much as they can—to exchange them for our captives” in various prisons. He said the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has “all the right to use force against the injustice they are facing” regarding the military government. “The secularists and the army attacked them with Gulf money, American planning, Israeli incitement and crusader plotting.” Regarding Yemen, he said that some affiliated with “the Islamist movements” have “conspired” with Yemen’s government “by participating or remaining silent to the American presence and its repetitive aggression against the Yemeni peo-ple…. It is the mujahedeen and the people of ardency from among the Yemeni people and its scholars, its ­true-born and its chiefs and their sheikhs [who will prevail].”

April 27—Iraq—Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan Ibrahim told the media that security forces conducted a dawn ambush against an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant convoy of fuel tankers trying to illegally enter Iraq from Syria, killing 8 drivers.

April 27—Iraq—A car bomb at an outdoor fruit and vegetable market in Baghdad’s Sadr City killed 10 and wounded 22 in an evening attack.

April 28—Pakistan—A bomb went off during classes at a Karachi madrassa, killing 3 Sunni seminary students and wounding 10.

April 28—Malaysia—Authorities detained 9 suspected Malaysian terrorists, aged between 25 and 55, in several locations near Kuala Lumpur and in northern Kedah State bordering Thailand. The suspects were held under Malaysia’s Security Offenses Act on charges of planning terrorist attacks in Malaysia and abroad. National police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said those arrested were linked to terrorist cells abroad. He said some had received terrorism training and held secret fundraising meetings.

April 28—Egypt—Judge Said Youssef sentenced to death 683 alleged supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, including Mohamed Badie, the Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader. He then reduced 492 of the death sentences handed to 529 defendants in a similar case in March, commuting most of them to life imprisonment.

An Egyptian court banned the April 6 youth movement that helped orchestrate the 2011 uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak. Leaders of April 6, including Ahmed Maher and Mohammed Adel, remained in jail for lacking a police permit to conduct a demonstration.

April 28—Iraq—At least 46 people died in attacks on polling stations used by soldiers and security forces 2 days before civilian voting in national parliamentary elections.

In the Kurdish town of Khanaqin, Diyala Province, near the Iranian border, a suicide bomber set off his explosives amongst Kurds performing a traditional dance, killing at least 25 and injuring 35, many of them critically. In the audience was Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd who was being treated in Berlin since December 2012 following a stroke.

In Tuz Khormato, a suicide bomber on foot attacked a checkpoint leading to a polling center, killing 6 security personnel and wounding 4.

A suicide bomber hit a checkpoint at a polling center in Kirkuk, killing 6 policemen and wounding 7.

A bomb went off in a Kirkuk street, killing a civilian and injuring another civilian.

A bomb exploded at a polling center in Baghdad’s western Mansour area, killing 3 troops and wounding 4.

A suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt among soldiers gathering at a checkpoint near a voting center in Baghdad’s northern Azamiyah neighborhood, killing 4 soldiers and wounding 13.

A bomb exploded next to security forces leaving a balloting center in Habbaniyah, killing a soldier and wounding 5 policemen.

Two suicide bombers walked up to a polling center in Mosul’s southern Zeindan area. Guards shot to death one attacker. The second blew himself up, wounding 5 security personnel.

A bomb exploded in a security convoy, wounding 3 accompanying journalists in Mosul.

The next day, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for the wave of attacks.

April 28—Afghanistan—Two NATO service mem­bers died in an attack in the east. 14042801

April 28—Yemen—Would-be kidnappers tried to stop the car of 2 German diplomats in Sana’a’s Hadda neighborhood, opened fire and injured one of the Germans. 14042802

April 29—Libya—A bomb went off in the morning in front of the Special Forces barracks near Benghazi airport, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 2.

April 29—Iraq—Two bombs hit an outdoor market in ­al-Saadiyah, 90 miles northeast of Baghdad, killing 17, including 4 women and 2 children, and wounding 42. One bomb was in the center of the main vegetable and meat market; the second went off near the exits.

A bomb exploded just before sunset in a police patrol in Baghdad’s southwestern Radwaniyah suburb, killing 2 policemen and wounding 4 others.

A bomb went off at a small Abu Ghraib market, killing 2 and wounding 8.

Two mortar shells crashed into a residential area in Sabaa ­al-Bour, killing 2 people and wounding 8.

A mortar shell hit a residential area in Baghdad’s western Ghazaliyah district, killing one person and wounding 11.

April 29—Bahrain—A criminal court convicted and sentenced 3 men and female activists Nafisa ­al-Asfoor and Rayhana ­al-Musawi to 5 years in prison each on terrorism charges related to an attempt to bomb the 2013 Formula One race. No explosives were detonated at the 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix race.

April 29—Greece—Police bomb disposal experts destroyed a parcel bomb packed with nails and bolts that was sent to the Itea police station, 110 miles west of Athens. A label said the parcel contained religious books.

April 29–May 1—Yemen—Tanks, jet fighters, and soldiers attacked southern AQAP strongholds for 3 days, killing 25 terrorists, including an Uzbek, Abu Mussalam ­al-Uzbeki. A dozen soldiers also died in the offenses in the southern provinces of Abyan in Mahfed mountainous region and Shabwa.

April 29–30—Philippines—During a battle between Philippine troops and Abu Sayyaf for control of the group’s training and storage camp in Patikul township, 14 Abu Sayyaf members and one marine were killed and 19 marines were wounded. Followers of Abu Sayyaf leader Radullan Sahiron were expected to conduct further attacks.

April 30—Iraq—A roadside bomb killed 2 women walking to a polling station.

A bomb hit an army patrol in Dibis, wounding 5 soldiers.

A bomb in Diblis hit a car transporting election commission employees, killing 2.

A police officer near a polling center in Beiji tackled a suicide bomber, dampening the effects of the blast. The heroic officer died and 11 people were injured.

Police shot and killed a ­would-be suicide bomber near a polling center in Mosul.

Several mortar shells exploded near Anbar polling centers, wounding 2 people.

April 30—Senegal—Salif Sadio, leader of the armed wing of the Movement of the Democratic Forces, a Casamance separatist group, declared a ceasefire.

April 30—China—At 7 p.m., explosions killed 3 and injured 79 people at the Urumqi South railway station in Xinjiang Province. Xinhua reported that one explosion was centered on luggage on the ground between the station’s exit and a bus stop. Chinese CCTV reported that individuals also attacked crowds with knives, deeming it a terrorist act. The next day, the Chinese government claimed 2 religious extremists had strapped bombs to their bodies. Among the injured was Peng, a 57-year-old woman who had just left the train when a bomb went off, and a man named Liu. Xinjiang’s regional government’s website said one of the suspects was a 39-year-old man from southern Xinjiang. Chinese President Xi Jinping was completing a ­4-day tour of Xinjiang when the bombs went off. On May 18, the official Xinhua News Agency said that the East Turkistan Islamic Movement was responsible. Xinjiang’s publicity department claimed that the attack was planned and directed outside China by ETIM member Ismail Yusup, who ordered 10 “partners” in Xinjiang to prepare for the attack about a week before it happened. Xinhua said the 10 set off explosives and slashed people. Two terrorists died and 8 were arrested.

May 19, 2014, the official China Daily newspaper and other state media reported that the government had asked Interpol for the arrest of Ismail Yusup, a member of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement, and other Turkic Uighur ethnic separatists believed behind the April 30 attack on a train station. The Xin­jiang Daily newspaper said Yusup formed an extremist group in 2005 and began conspiring with members of ETIM in 2012, joining it in 2013 after fleeing a Chinese arrest warrant.

On December 8, 2014, China Central Television and AP reported the Urumqi Intermediate People’s Court sentenced 8 people to death for leading terrorist groups and conducting 2 attacks that killed 46 people in April and May in Xinjiang. Five others received suspended death sentences. The April 30 train station attack killed 3 people, including the 2 terrorists. Two men were sentenced to death for that attack. They said that they were instructed by a man outside China to carry out the attack. CCTV said the man was connected to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement.

April 30—Afghanistan—Gunmen from the Haq­qani network attacked a security post in Ali Shir District of Khost Province during the night, killing 2 national police and 2 border police. Police killed 3 attackers and captured one following a 2-hour gun battle.

May—Libya—British citizen David Bolam, a teacher and director at the Benghazi European School (other reports called it the International School Benghazi), was kidnapped. He appeared in a video on August 28, asking British Prime Minister David Cameron to free him. On September 7, 2014, the Army of Islam posted a 53-second video of Bolam asking the UK for a prisoner exchange or other diplomatic initiative to secure his release. He was freed on October 4, 2014. The media speculated that local political factions arranged his release. 14059901

May—Cameroon—Boko Haram was suspected when 10 Chinese construction workers were kidnapped from their base in Waza in the country’s Far North region. On October 11, 2014, Cameroon’s government announced that 27 hostages, including 10 Chinese construction workers and the wife of a vice prime minister, had been freed. 14059902

May 1—India—Two bombs went off in 2 coaches of the ­Bangalore-Guwahati Express train that had pulled into one of the country’s busiest train stations at Chennai, killing a 22-year-old woman when the bomb exploded under her seat and injuring 14 people. Police questioned a suspect.

May 1—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide car bomber attacked a checkpoint at an entry gate from Parwan Province into Panjshir Province, killing 6 police and 7 civilians, most of whom were in a bus.

May 1—Nigeria—A car bomb went off during the night at a checkpoint in Abuja, killing 20 people and wounding 66 just before the city was scheduled to host the World Economic Forum on Africa on May 7–9. A man ran from the car just before it blew up, burning 6 cars. Police found 3 unexploded bombs. Among the injured was Obiora Enebike, hit in the head and one hand. On May 3, Nigerian police detained 8 suspects, including foreigners, in Abuja. 14050101

May 1–2—India—Bodo tribal separatists were suspected when ­black-masked gunmen fired on Muslim villagers and torched their homes, killing 29 Muslims, including 6 women and 8 children, during 2 days of attacks in remote northeastern India. The separatists are a faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland, according to regional police inspector general L.R. Bishnoi. The National Democratic Front of Bodoland denied involvement and blamed the government for the attacks.

In a late night attack on May 1, 8 gunmen fired on villagers sitting in a courtyard, killing 4 and injuring 2.

At midnight, more than 20 ­black-hooded gunmen broke into 2 homes and fired on the occupants, killing 7 people in Kokrajhar district. Mohammed Sheikh Ali, 28, lost his mother, wife and daughter in the attack.

In an evening attack on May 2, gunmen raided a village in the western Baksa district and set fire to 40 Muslim homes. Authorities found 11 ­bullet-riddled bodies on May 2, and another 7 on May 3. They also found 3 children hiding in a nearby forest.

On May 3, 2014, police arrested 22 suspects. The next day, police said they had killed 2 suspects and arrested 8 forest guards in connection with the case. Four suspects threw a grenade and shot at policemen who raided them in a forest near Tejpur. Two suspects escaped.

May 1—Cameroon—Gunmen believed to be from the Central African Republic kidnapped 16 people in the border town of ­Garoua-Boulai. It was not clear whether the kidnappers were Christian militia or jihadis. Cameroonian soldiers went into CAR and freed the hostages on May 5. 14050102

May 1–5—Central African Republic—During 5 days of fighting between jihadis and Christian militia in Mala, at least 22 civilians were killed, according to local parliamentarian Augustin Freddy Ndoukou­louba.

May 2—Iraq—In the afternoon, a suicide bomber crashed into a security checkpoint near Dujail, killing 5 police officers and wounding 6 people.

May 2—Mali—Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot to death Sidati Ag Baye at his home in Kidal. AQIM was suspected in the nighttime attack. Several months earlier, he had alerted security forces to a bomb left on the Kidal Airport runway.

May 2—Nigeria—The U.S. Embassy warned that “groups associated with terrorism” might be planning “an unspecified attack” on a Sheraton Hotel in Lagos.

May 2—Libya—In the morning, dozens of gunmen fired machineguns and mortars at a security forces headquarters in Benghazi, killing 6 army commandos and 3 police officers and wounding 24, many in the chest and abdomen. Three soldiers and a police officer were missing. Authorities blamed Ansar ­al-Shariah jihadis and other “criminal groups” for the ­hour-long attack in which some of the corpses were butchered and burned. The government said several gunmen were either killed, wounded, or arrested. Authorities said the gunmen appeared to be trying to steal a car loaded with weapons and ammunition that had been seized the previous evening from a member of the Libya Shield militia.

Later that day, a car bomb killed a soldier driving his vehicle in Benghazi.

May 2—Switzerland—The Federal Criminal Court of Switzerland in Bellinzona sentenced ­Iraqi-born Kurdish refugee Karwan Mohammad Abdulkarim, 35, to 3 years and 3 months and his younger brother, Mustafa Mohammad Abdulkarim, 28, to a 2-year suspended sentence for membership in a criminal organization and forgery. The brothers, who lived in Basel, were involved with ­Norway-based jihadi cleric Najmaddin Faraj Ahmad, alias Mullah Krekar, who set up a group that used websites to publish videos from Ayman ­al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden.

May 2—Egypt—A bomb exploded at a police post near a courthouse in eastern Cairo’s Heliopolis district, killing an officer and wounding 3 others, according to state media.

In the evening, a Lada Niva car without license plates exploded near a subway station in Cairo’s Ramses district, killing the car driver. A second person fled. The Interior Ministry said it was not determined whether it was a car bomb or someone threw a bomb at a moving car.

In the Sinai, a suicide bomber stepped out on a highway in ­el-Tor in front of an approaching bus, killing one passenger and wounding 3 others, including bus driver Saad Sulieman. His bus was transporting Egyptian workers to Sharm ­el-Sheikh and other Sinai tourist resorts further south.

Another bomber dressed in traditional Bedouin dress approached an army checkpoint in ­el-Tor, claiming to ask directions. When a soldier asked him to leave, he blew himself up, killing a soldier and wounding 5. The Health Ministry later reported that a second person died.

On May 4, Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis claimed credit on jihadi websites, vowing, “we will not rest until we achieve retribution for the blood and honor of the Muslims.” They said Egyptians should “rebel against this oppressive and tyrannical regime.”

May 2—Internet—Al-Qaeda’s American spokesman Adam Gadahn, alias Azzam the American, posted a video on jihadi websites that said the U.S. colluded with Egypt military officers in a “bloody secular and fascist coup” that ousted President Mohammed Morsi because it “protects the borders of the Jewish state.”

May 2—Yemen—Late in the day, gunmen killed Army Colonel Sanad Badr in his car in Aden.

May 3—Somalia—Al-Shabaab claimed credit after a bomb exploded as a government vehicle drove near it at a key junction in Mogadishu, killing 5 and wounding 6. Senior police officer Abdikafi Hilowle was believed to be the target. He was killed.

Police were tipped off that a bomb was planted in the car of a Somali legislator, foiling the plot.

May 3—Iraq—Gunmen in 3 pickup trucks fired on a security checkpoint manned by Sahwa military in Tarmiyah, killing 4 Sahwa Sunnis and injuring 5 Sahwa and 2 civilians.

May 3—Kenya—A bomb in a minibus exploded at a bus stop in Mwembe Tayari in Mombasa, killing 3 and injuring 60, twenty critically. A second bomb went off near the Reef Hotel beach resort in Nyali, causing no casualties. On May 5, Deputy President William Ruto blamed judges who approved bail for terrorist suspects, including Jamal Mohammed Awadh and Suleiman Mohammed Sayyed, who died conducting the bombings. Their families denied his claims, saying the duo were victims who were working at the bus stop at the time of the blasts, not instigators. Ruto said 22 other terrorism suspects were out on bail. He noted that Fuad Abubakar Maswab apparently fled to Somalia while out on $116,000 bail. Maswab and 2 Britons—Samantha Lewthwaite and Jermaine Grant—were accused of planning attacks during Christmas and New Year’s in 2011.

May 3—Yemen—AQAP announced on Twitter that Ali bin Likra ­al-Kazimy died following the military raid on an AQAP camp in Mahfad (variant Mahsad) earlier in the week.

A car bomb exploded during the morning outside an intelligence building in Mukalla, Hadramawt Province, injuring 2 soldiers and one ­passer-by.

May 3—Nigeria—Gunmen killed 4 villagers in the Maiduguri suburbs just before dawn.

Defense Ministry spokesman General Olukolade told the press that Usman Mecheka, a Chadian “operating with the terrorists around Lake Chad” was detained after trying to obtain a ransom from herdsmen and farmers. 14050301

May 4—Malaysia—Police spokesman Datin Asmawati said police had detained 11 people in Selangor and Kedah on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks and having links to overseas terrorists.

May 4—Nigeria—Two Dutch men and a Dutch woman—Erhard Leffers, Jandries Groenendijk and Marianne Vos—were kidnapped in the Niger River Delta region en route to inspect a hospital built by the Chevron Corporation. They had traveled without a police escort. On the evening of May 11, the 3 Dutch hostages were rescued unharmed. Two suspects were arrested. Netherlands Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Joanne Doornewaard said the Dutch government was not involved in any ransom negotiations. 14050401

May 5—Pakistan—Thirty gunmen attacked a NATO supply convoy en route to Afghanistan from Jamrud in the northwestern Khyber tribal region during the morning, killing 2 drivers and wounding 3 people. The attackers set fire to 3 trailers and 5 military ­mini-trucks loaded on them. 14050501

May 5—Afghanistan—During the night, a roadside bomb killed 4 policemen and wounded 4 others in Herat Province.

May 5—Yemen—AQAP ­drive-by gunmen fired from a car in Sana’a in the morning, killing Mohammed Qawza of the Defense Ministry’s linguistics institute.

A roadside bomb hit a military bus in Sanaa’s Old City, injuring 2 ­passers-by.

Drive-by gunmen fired from a car at 3 French security guards working with the European Union mission, killing one and wounding another. The trio was walking on a street near the French Embassy and near the residence of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. 14050502

May 5—Iraq—A car bomb went off near a restaurant frequented by members of the security forces in Tuz Khormato, killing 3 people, including 2 soldiers, and wounding 17.

Drive-by gunmen killed an Industry Ministry employee on a highway in eastern Baghdad.

Gunmen killed an ­off-duty policeman who was walking near his house in western Baghdad’s Baiyaa neighborhood.

May 5—Bahrain—Gasoline bombs damaged several shops and a market near a police station in Sitra. Police stopped a firebomb attack on a police post in the Shi’ite community.

May 5—Nigeria—Boko Haram was suspected when jihadis dressed in military uniforms drove into a village in armored personnel carriers and killed between 100 and 300 people in a 12-hour raid on Gamboru Ngala, on Nigeria’s border with Cameroon, according to ThisDay newspaper. The terrorists torched shops and homes and fired ­rocket-propelled grenades, bombs, and guns into crowds in an outdoor marketplace and escaping from their burning homes. They bombed the roof of a police building, killing 14 officers who were inside. Gamboru resident Abuwar Masta said some of the victims were traders from Chad and Cameroon. 14050503

May 6—Malaysia—Abu Sayyaf was suspected when 5 gunmen in military fatigues entered the Wonderful Terrace Fish Farm in Sabah State on Borneo island before dawn and kidnapped Chinese fish farm manager Yang Zailin, 34. Police believe he was taken to the Mindanao region in the Philippines via boat. Two gunmen carried M16 rifles, according to authorities. Police exchanged fire with the gunmen at a nearby island; the gunmen escaped. Police detained 19 fish farm workers for questioning. The hostage, who was from Guizhou Province, was freed on July 10, 2014. 14050601

May 6—China—Police shot and wounded a man who knifed passengers late in the morning at the Guangzhou Railway Station, injuring 6.

May 6—Afghanistan—A police vehicle drove over a remotely-detonated roadside bomb in Obe District of Herat Province, killing 3 police officers and wounding 2. Police arrested an individual with the remote control.

Around midnight, a vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Herat Province’s Shindand District, killing 9 and wounding 2, all members of the same family.

May 6—Thailand—Bombs at a police station and a 7–11 store in Hat Yai injured 9 people. The 7–11 bomb wounded 2 men and 3 women. Fifteen minutes later, a bomb hidden in a pickup truck went off in the parking lot at the main Hat Yai police station, injuring 4 and causing a large fire that damaged several vehicles and buildings.

May 6—Syria—During the night, Ali ­al-Nuaimi of the Nusra Front and his wife died when a roadside bomb went off as they were traveling near the town of Busra ­al-Sham in southern Daraa Province.

May 6—Iraq—A car bomb exploded at an army patrol in western Baghdad, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 5 others.

A roadside bomb hit an army convoy in Jurf ­al-Sakhar, killing 3 soldiers and wounding 6 others.

May 6—Nigeria—CNN and Reuters reported that a resident of Warabe village claimed that armed men in vehicles kidnapped 8 more girls.

May 6—Saudi Arabia—Authorities detained 59 Saudis, a Palestinian, a Yemeni and a Pakistani with alleged links to ­al-Qaeda terrorists in Yemen and Syria. They were suspected of planning attacks on government installations and foreign interests and to assassinate security officials, Saudi clerics, and senior government officials. Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour ­al-Turki said 35 Saudis had been released from detention and were awaiting trial on ­security-related charges. Authorities monitored the group for months via the Internet and found a workshop for making advanced electronic circuits for detonators, communication surveillance tools and equipment for forging official documents.

May 7—Yemen—The U.S. Embassy announced it was closing its doors to the public indefinitely because of a growing terrorist threat.

May 8—Syria—The Islamic Front claimed credit for bombing the Carlton Citadel Hotel in a ­government-controlled section of Aleppo, leveling it and several other buildings and killing at least 50 people, including 14 soldiers. The government claimed the terrorists had tunneled under Aleppo and planted explosives. The Sham News Network activist group said government troops were based in the hotel. The Islamic Front had bombed the hotel in February 2014, partially collapsing the building.

May 8—China—At 2 p.m., police in Aksu shot to death a person who attacked them with knives and explosives when they stopped his car at a roadblock. They detained a second suspect. The individuals threw a bomb at a patrol car. An auxiliary police officer was seriously injured.

May 8—Pakistan—A roadside bomb killed 9 paramilitary soldiers and wounded several troops guarding a convoy of trucks carrying water supplies near Miran Shah in North Waziristan.

Gunmen fired on a military checkpoint in South Waziristan, killing a soldier.

A bomb on a bicycle went off at a bazaar in Quetta, killing one person and wounding 12.

May 8—Iraq—In the evening, a bomb exploded in a cafe in Baghdad’s northeastern Husseiniyah suburb, killing 4 and wounding 8.

Two hours later, a bomb exploded in a commercial street in Baghdad’s southern Dora district, killing 2 and wounding 5.

In a nighttime bombing of a wedding party in Baghdad’s Abu Dashir neighborhood, 3 people died and 7 were wounded.

A roadside bomb exploded near an outdoor Youssifiyah café, killing 3 and wounding 9.

A bomb exploded near a security checkpoint in northeastern Baghdad, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 5 people, including 3 civilians.

A gunman on a motorcycle fired on pedestrians in a Madain street, killing one and wounding 4.

May 8—Libya—Gunmen intercepted the car of Ibrahim Senussi, Libya’s intelligence chief in charge of the country’s eastern sector, in front of the Central Benghazi Medical Center, then shot him in the head, neck and chest, killing him. The killers escaped. Senussi had served as a colonel in Qadhafi’s intelligence service, but joined the rebels in the 2011 revolution.

May 8—Yemen—During the night, authorities killed 2 AQAP terrorists from Marib Province.

A security official told the official SABA news agency that 2 ­al-Qaeda members who are French nationals of Tunisian descent were arrested while trying to flee Yemen from Hadramawt Province. French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal confirmed the arrest announcement the following day.

May 8—Malaysia—Police in Kuala Lumpur arrested a 34-year-old east African man suspected of ­al-Shabaab involvement. He was wanted by Interpol for ­terrorism-related activities.

May 9—Afghanistan—At 5 a.m., between 100 and 150 Taliban gunmen attacked a remote police checkpoint in Bala Boluk district in western Afghanistan, wounding 11 police officers and forcing 25 police officers and army troops to abandon the area. The Taliban seized a tank and a pickup truck. Seventy police and army reinforcements recaptured the site. Authorities said 6 terrorists died and 18 were wounded. ­Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi claimed credit.

May 9—India—Police arrested Ramlal Anand College of New Delhi English professor G.N. Saibaba for alleged membership in the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) and recruiting people for the group. He was brought to Mumbai for investigation. Police from western Maharashtra State’s Gadchiroli district traveled to New Delhi to arrest him.

May 9—Yemen—AQAP ambushed Defense Minister Mohammed Nasser Ahmed’s motorcade as it was returning from a visit to strategic areas and an AQAP base recaptured by the army in Mahfad. He was not injured. The ­would-be assassins fled, but 3 died and 2 were wounded and captured. Three troops were injured.

Troops in an army post in Meyfaa, Shabwa Province killed a ­would-be suicide car bomber.

AQAP bombed an oil pipeline in Marib Province and cut off electricity supplies to Sana’a.

The military and security officials said that some foreign fighters, including Westerners, were killed or arrested in the previous week’s clashes, including Taymour ­al-Dagestani, an al-Qaeda expert in explosives and suicide attacks.

SABA quoted local officials who claimed that 7 attacks by ­al-Qaeda were foiled over the past few days, including 6 car bombs mostly targeting military leaders and installations. However, one bomb exploded in Shabwa, killing 3 soldiers.

The High Committee of Yemeni Security announced that security forces killed AQAP leader Mohammed Saeed ­al-Shabwani and a companion during a nighttime gun battle near the presidential palace in Sana’a. Police told CNN he was involved in the kidnapping and murder of policemen and foreign citizens. Three other people in his car were arrested; 2 were injured.

May 9—Nigeria—Jihadis blew up a bridge that links the states of Adamawa and Borno, killed several people, and abducted the wife and 2 children of a retired police officer during the night in Liman Kara.

May 10—Iraq—In the afternoon, a suicide car bomber crashed into the security checkpoint in Dujail, killing 6 security force members and a civilian and wounding 15 people.

A bomb at an outdoor market in Tarmiyah killed 4 and wounded 17.

A bomb exploded near a patrol of Sahwa militiamen in Dawr, killing 3 and wounding 2.

During the evening, a car bomb exploded near a kebab restaurant in Baghdad’s Habibiya neighborhood, killing 5 and wounding 14.

May 10—Egypt—The chief prosecutor charged 200 suspected members of the ­al-Qaeda–inspired Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis group (Champions of Jerusalem) with carrying out 51 terrorist attacks that killed 40 policemen and 15 civilians, training with Hamas in the Palestinian Gaza Strip, and fighting against the Syrian regime. At least 98 defendants were at large. Among the attacks listed was the January 2014 bombing of Cairo’s security headquarters that killed 6, a failed assassination attempt against the interior minister in September 2013, the December 2013 attack on the security headquarters in Mansoura that killed 16, mostly policemen, and the assassination of a senior police officer.

May 10—Yemen—Yemeni forces killed 7 AQAP suspects in Shabwa and Abyan.

AQAP in Shabwa kidnapped 5 local tribesmen with whom they were formerly allied.

May 11—Iraq—During the night, gunmen attacked the military barracks in Ayn ­al-Jahish outside Mosul, killing 20 troops; 11 were bound and shot in the head at close range. The troops had been guarding an oil pipeline and a nearby highway.

Drive-by gunmen in Adeim fired from their car on Sahwa militiamen, killing 7.

Gunmen attacked a joint checkpoint for Iraqi police and the Sahwa outside of Mosul, killing 3 police officers and a Sunni militiaman.

Gunmen stormed the Youssifiyah home of a Sahwa member, killing him, his brother, and his son.

May 11—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide car bomber hit an Afghan army vehicle in the Maywand district of Kandahar Province, killing 5 civilians and wounding 36, including 4 Afghan soldiers.

May 11—Egypt—Gunmen attacked an army convoy south of Sheikh Zuwayed in Sinai Peninsula, killing a soldier and wounding a second before fleeing. They were believed to be members of Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis (Champions of Jerusalem).

May 11—Yemen—A suspected AQAP suicide car bomber drove very near a police station in Mukalla, Hadramawt Province, argued with officers to draw more of them into the kill zone, then set off his explosives, killing 11 police officers and the civilian cook and wounding 15 during the lunch hour.

Security forces in Sana’a battled with suspected AQAP gunmen near the presidential palace. Three civilians died in the crossfire.

Defense Ministry forces battled AQAP in Hadramawt and Shabwa Provinces, killing 2 AQAP terrorists and wounding one. Abu Mohammed ­al-Hadrami was killed in Hadramawt, and Yahia Baruwais died in Shabwa. AQAP gunman Said Bawazeer, alias Abu Fatima, was wounded in Hadramawt.

May 11—Internet—Abu Mohammed ­al-Adnani, spokesman of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, posted an audio on jihadi websites criticizing al-Qaeda leader Ayman ­al-Zawahiri for supporting a rival Nusra Front jihadi group in Syria. He said ­al-Zawahiri was responsible “for shedding Muslim blood” and called him to abdicate and allow a new election [something one does not often see in terrorist groups}. “We call on you to undo your fatal mistake … because you are the one who kindled sedition, you are the one who will extinguish it…. Isn’t there any wise Muslim on earth to be chosen by Muslims as a leader … ending this fragmentation and discord? He would be the one to form this new court … this is the solution and there is no other one.” He also said ­al-Zawahiri should urge Muslims to fight against Egypt’s renegade army, the army of (Egyptian leader ­Abdel-Fattah) ­el-Sissi the new pharaoh.” While bin Laden “managed to maintain the unity of the Muslim world and you scattered it.”

May 12—Somalia—Al-Shabaab was suspected when a suicide car bomber hit a crowded business district in Baidoa, killing 11, including 3 soldiers, and injuring 20 in what was believed to be an attack on a former governor.

May 12—Nigeria—Jihadis destroyed a bridge linking Nigeria to neighboring Chad, where it has hideouts in mountain caves.

May 12—Iraq—Gunmen fired on an army checkpoint in Latiifyah, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 5.

A mortar attack killed one person and wounded 7 in Youssifiyah.

Two police officers died when trying to defuse a bomb in Jurf ­al-Sakhar.

Drive-by gunmen fired from their car at pedestrians in Madain, killing 2.

Among the dead was Ali Jamal, 23, who died in a bombing. He was buried in Najaf.

During the night, a roadside bomb went off next to a military convoy near Tarmiyah, killing 3 soldiers and wounding 5.

Later that night, a car bomb killed 4 and wounded 17 in Baghdad’s northeastern Shaab district.

May 12—Afghanistan—The Taliban began its spring offensive, named Khaybar, after the 629 ad battle in which Muslims in ­present-day Saudi Arabia attacked a Jewish settlement near Medina.

At 3 a.m., 4 rockets hit the NATO base at Bagram, causing minor damage to equipment and a building.

Taliban gunmen attacked Jalalabad’s provincial justice ministry building at 9 a.m. The 3 gunmen shot to death 2 police guards, then took over the 2-storey building. A suicide bomber set off his explosive vest. Authorities surrounded the building with 3 armored cars. Police killed the other 2 attackers after a 4½-hour gun battle. Authorities found 5 dead civilians, including 3 elderly employees of the office, and another 7 wounded. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid emailed reporters to say that the group was retaliating for harsh rulings by the justice ministry against the Taliban.

In Jalalabad, gunmen attacked a police vehicle and set off a roadside bomb, wounding 6 people, including 2 policemen.

The Taliban attacked a checkpoint on Helmand Province’s Sangin District, killing 9 police officers.

Rockets landed on the grounds of Kabul international airport, causing no damage.

A Taliban rocket hit a market in Parwan Province’s Siagred District, killing 2 civilians and wounding 4.

Gunmen on motorbikes attacked police checkpoints outside Ghazni, killing 2 women and a policeman and wounding 2 policemen and 6 civilians, including 3 children.

May 12—Yemen—An airstrike hit a car carrying AQAP terrorists in Marib Province’s Husoun ­al-Jalal area in Abieda Valley, killing 6 terrorists.

May 12—China—An evening explosion on a bus in Yibin, Sichuan Province, killed Yu Yuehai, 51, and hospitalized 77 passengers and rescuers. Twelve people were seriously or critically injured, including a child who suffered severe burns. Police later said the dead man had ignited the fire.

May 13—Central African Republic—The French presidency office announced that Camille Lepage, 26, a French photojournalist covering the CAR conflict, was killed in a village near Bouar. “All means necessary will be used to shed light on to the circumstances of this murder and to find her killers,” the French presidency announced. French peacekeepers found her body in a vehicle used by Christian militia fighters. She had tweeted a week earlier that she was embedding with the anti–Balaka Christian militia that was fighting Seleka jihadis. She grew up in Angers, France, and had worked in Juba, South Sudan. Her work ran in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Le Monde and Liberation. 14051301

May 13—Mali—Three UN peacekeepers were wounded when their vehicle hit a landmine in the morning near their base in Kidal. They were taken to Gao for medical treatment. 14051301

May 13—France—In a dawn raid, police in Strasbourg arrested 6 suspected jihadis for recently traveling to fight in Syria. Europe-1 radio earlier reported that the raids were part of an investigation of 14 young men who had told their parents they were going on vacation in December but instead went to southern Turkey and onward to Syria.

May 13—Yemen—A Yemeni air strike hit 3 AQAP trucks carrying weapons and ammunition, including artillery equipment, en route from Shabwa to Marib governorate, killing 8 people, including 3 drivers and 5 suspected AQAP terrorists.

May 13—Iraq—A car bomb exploded in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood during the morning, killing 4 and wounding 6. A second Sadr City car bomb hit several homes, killing 2 people and wounding 7.

A car bomb went off in a commercial street in Baghdad’s eastern Jamila district, killing 3 people and wounding 10.

A car bomb exploded near a traffic police office in eastern Baghdad, killing 4 people, including a traffic policeman, and wounding 7, including Haithem Kadhum, owner of a juice shop in Jamila, who was hit in the shoulder as he drove home to check on his family, who might have been hit by the earlier bomb.

A car bomb exploded at a downtown Baghdad square, killing 2 people and wounding 8.

A car bomb hit a commercial street in Baghdad’s Shi’ite eastern district of Ur, killing 5 people and wounding 11.

A car bomb exploded near an outdoor market in Baghdad’s eastern Shi’ite suburb of Maamil, killing 3 and wounding 14.

In the afternoon, a car bomb exploded near a market in Baghdad’s southern Dora district, killing 5 and wounding 12.

May 13—Nigeria—Vigilantes from Kalabalge village killed and detained scores of Boko Haram terrorists suspected of planning another attack. During the morning, they ambushed 2 trucks carrying gunmen, detaining 10 and killing scores, according to a security official.

May 14—Iraq—Drive-by gunmen in 2 cars fired on a police checkpoint in Adeim, killing 8 police officers and wounding 3.

A roadside bomb missed a military convoy in a town south of Baghdad but killed 3 civilians.

A suicide car bomber crashed into a police station’s gate in Hit, Anbar Province, killing 2 police officers and wounding 3.

May 14—Yemen—Continued fighting in the south between AQAP and government forces left 42 people dead. AQAP attempting to retake Azzan conducted a 3-hour dawn attack in Shabwa Province, killing 12 soldiers before being repelled by the army, which killed 30 terrorists, including 6 local leaders. Yemeni spokesmen said AQAP used child soldiers.

Drive-by gunmen shot to death a senior intelligence official in front of his Mukalla house.

May 14—Afghanistan—In the early morning in eastern Kabul, a bomb magnetically attached to an Afghan army vehicle exploded, killing a soldier and wounding a woman and a child.

A rocket hit a residential neighborhood in Ghazni, killing a woman and wounding a child.

Five Taliban gunmen wearing suicide vests attacked a border police outpost in Kandahar, killing 3 police officers as well as the 5 terrorists and wounding 5 police officers.

May 14—Nigeria—Boko Haram conducted another attack in Chibok, leading to a firefight that killed a dozen soldiers. Angry troops then fired on the vehicle of 7 Division commanding general Major General Ahmadu Mohammed at Mailamari Barracks in Maiduguri who had come to pay his respects to the fallen. The troops said he had forced them to march into a dangerous area, rather than allow them to rest in a local village. Mohammed was not injured.

May 15—Syria—Times of London war correspondent Anthony Loyd and photographer Jack Hill were beaten during an attempted kidnapping by individuals hired to help the journalists across the border. The journalists had completed an assignment in Aleppo when the gunmen turned on them. The gunmen shot Loyd in the legs. The Islamic Front intervened and got the duo and their expediter into Turkey. 14051501

May 15—Iraq—A car bomb exploded in a parking lot in Baghdad’s Karrada commercial area, killing 4 civilians and 3 policemen and wounding 21 people.

Minutes later, a suicide bomber set off his explosives belt at the main gate of an office affiliated with the Higher Education Ministry, killing 2 policemen and 2 civilians and injuring 12 people.

Gunmen at a fake checkpoint outside Baghdad shot to death 5 ­off-duty officers ranking from lieutenant to colonel.

At dusk, a car bomb near a Sadr City outdoor market killed 8 and wounded 17.

Gunmen attacked the Youssifiyah home of a Sahwa fighter, killing him, his wife, son, sister, and a cousin.

The next day, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant posted on a website its claim of responsibility for the Baghdad attacks as retaliation for the military operations against Fallujah. “We tell the spiteful Shi’ites and their government … that our lions are craving the taste of your flesh and blood.”

May 15—Pakistan—A motorcycle bomb went off outside an Islamabad restaurant, wounding 15.

May 16—China—A suicide bomber ran into a village Communist Party committee meeting in Anhui Province, setting off his explosives and killing himself and another person while injuring 4. He had unsuccessfully sought government welfare.

May 16—Iraq—Drive-by gunmen fired from their car at a Sahwa checkpoint near Balad, killing 3 militiamen and wounding 4.

A roadside bomb hit a Sahwa patrol north of Baghdad, killing 2 and wounding 4.

A suicide car bomber crashed into the gate of an army barracks in Mosul, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 4.

May 16—Kenya—Two bombs went off at a Nairobi market, killing 10 people and wounding 70. One bomb exploded next to a ­mini-van used for public transportation.

Hundreds of British citizens were evacuated from Mombasa after warnings of a pending jihadi attack.

May 16—Colombia—The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN) announced a May 20–28 ceasefire, bracketing Colombia’s presidential election of May 25.

Four suspected FARC members died when a bomb went off prematurely, according to Patricia Velez, mayor of Planadas. The dead included 3 adults and a minor.

May 17—Iraq—A bomb exploded at an outdoor market in Tarmiyah, killing 5 shoppers and wounding 14.

May 17—Egypt—A bomb exploded at an election rally in the Cairo district of Ezbet ­el-Nakhl for Egyptian presidential candidate ­Abdel-Fattah ­el-Sissi, wounding 4 people, including 2 policemen.

May 17—Nigeria—Police arrested a man with explosives strapped to his body. He told police that many terrorists had been ordered to plant bombs around churches and public areas in Jos. Two car bombs hit Jos on May 20, killing 46.

May 18—Iraq—A bomb exploded at an outdoor market in Baghdad’s eastern Maamil suburb, killing 3 shoppers and wounding 7.

A bomb a commercial street in western Baghdad killed 2 and wounded 7.

At sunset, a bomb went off at a Mahmoudiyah outdoor market, killing 4 and injuring 12.

A car bomb hit an army patrol in Mosul, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 4.

During the night, gunmen with silenced weapons attacked an eastern Baghdad apartment, killing 3 ­off-duty policemen.

May 18—Nigeria—A nighttime car bomb explosion in front of a bar near Gold Coast Street in Kano’s mostly Christian Sabon Gari (“Strangers’ Quarters” in the Hausa language) district killed 4 people plus the bomber and wounded 7. On May 19, police defused another car bomb in Kano’s mud city project. The station wagon was loaded with gas cylinders, fuel and electrical components of improvised explosive devices.

May 18—Mali—Separatist Tuareg rebels attacked a Kidal government building, killing 8 soldiers, injuring 25 soldiers, and taking 30 hostages. The government later said 28 gunmen were killed and 62 injured.

May 18—Myanmar—Members of the Student Activists from Mandalay kidnapped 2 23-year-old Chinese contractors at the Wanbao Mining Company’s Letpadaung copper mine. The kidnappers demanded a halt to the project in Monywa, a township in Sagaing region. “The Chinese workers will be released if they halt the Letpadaung project and if they remove the barbed wire and allow us to work on our farmland,” said Htay Myint, a farmer from nearby Hsede village. The workers were carrying out a land survey for the joint venture between a Myanmar ­military-controlled holding company and China’s Wanbao Mining Copper Ltd., a unit of weapons manufacturer China North Industries Corporation. The government sent a negotiations team. On May 19 at 6 p.m., the 2 workers were freed after being held for more than 30 hours. Local mine manager Myint Thein said that the 2 were not harmed, although they were tied up with rope. He said the company had not granted any of the demands. 14051801

May 19—China—On May 19, 2014, the official China Daily newspaper and other state media reported that the government had asked Interpol for the arrest of Ismail Yusup, a member of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement, and other Turkic Uighur ethnic separatists believed behind the April 30 attack on a train station. The Xinjiang Daily newspaper said Yusup formed an extremist group in 2005 and began conspiring with members of ETIM in 2012, joining it in 2013 after fleeing a Chinese arrest warrant.

May 19—Kenya—Al-Shabaab claimed credit for ambushing 4 vehicles transporting khat, killing 12 people, including 3 police reservists. Police responding to the attack drove into the ambush; 2 police vehicles were destroyed. 14051901

May 19—U.S.—After deliberating for more than 12 hours, a federal jury in New York found London mosque leader Abu Hamza ­al-Masri, 56, guilty of all 11 criminal counts of aiding kidnappers during a 1998 kidnapping in Yemen; sending a young recruit to jihadists in Afghanistan; violating U.S. sanctions against the Taliban; and attempting to establish an al-­Qaeda–style training camp in Bly, Oregon. He was represented by attorney Jeremy Schneider. Among the prosecution witnesses were James Ujaama, Saajid Badat and former hostage Mary Quin. He faced a life sentence.

May 19—Egypt—Three ­drive-by gunmen killed 3 Egyptian riot policemen and wounded 9 during an overnight rally in Cairo by 250 Islamist students from the religious ­Al-Azhar University.

Suspected terrorists bombed a natural gas pipeline south of ­el-Arish in the Sinai Peninsula during the night, causing a fire. Valves were immediately closed to stop gas flow.

May 20—Pakistan—The Pakistani ­Taliban-affiliated Shehryar Mehsud group abducted Chinese tourist Hong Xudong in Daraban near the Dera Ismail Khan District in northwestern Pakistan. Authorities found his passport, bicycle and belongings on May 20. Police believed he entered Pakistan via India in April. The group’s commander, Abdullah Bahar, phoned the AP to say Hong was in a “safe place” and the group would call for release of their colleagues in Pakistani prisons. The Associated Press said that Babar later died in a drone strike. Hong entered Pakistan from India in April 2014. On May 24, 2015, the Taliban splinter Jaish ­al-Hadeed (Contingent of Steel) released a video showing Hong asking for help in obtaining his freedom. On August 22, 2015, Pakistani troops freed Hong. 14052002

May 20—Uganda—Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony named one of his sons, Salim Saleh, born in the 1990s, the group’s commander. Saleh had run Kony’s security guard.

May 20—UK—Kingston Crown Court convicted Mashudur Choudhury, 31, of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts for going to Syria in October 2013 to join a terrorism training camp then enter the fight against the Assad regime. He was arrested at Gatwick Airport that month upon his return to London. The married father of 2 said he and 4 others from Portsmouth went to Syria to escape from family problems. In a text message, his wife had said, “Go die in battlefield. Go die, I really mean it just go. I’ll be relieved. At last. At last.” Sentencing was scheduled for June 13.

May 20—Nigeria—Two car bombs exploded within a half hour, hitting a bus terminal and the Terminus market in Jos during the afternoon, killing 118 people and wounding 64. Boko Haram was suspected. Some rescue workers were killed in the second explosion, which might have been a bomb or a gas canister set alight by the first bomb. The van holding the first bomb was parked for hours in the market place, leading suspicious vendors to report it to police, who apparently did not respond. Another bomb went off at the Abuja shoe market.

Nigeria quietly asked the U.N. Security Council committee monitoring sanctions against ­al-Qaeda to add Boko Haram to the list, imposing an arms embargo and asset freeze.

May 20—Iraq—In a nighttime attack, gunmen ambushed a minibus carrying ­off-duty soldiers near Suleiman Beg, killing 8 and wounding 4.

A car bomb in a town north of Baghdad killed 2 people.

A car bomb in a residential area in Hillah killed 3 and wounded 8.

May 20—France—Police in Morteau and the ­Saone-et-Loire region arrested 4 people linked to a web posting 10 days earlier by a ­self-professed “terrorist group” claiming ties to the “Blood and Honor C18” movement (C18 refers to “Combat,” 1 and 8 are letters of the alphabet used to refer to Adolf Hitler’s initials). The site included a photo of 8 masked gunmen holding automatic and other weapons and a threat of unspecified attacks.

May 20—Afghanistan—Villagers in Nawbahar District of Zabul Province found the bodies of 8 murdered police officers—7 local, and one from the national force—who had been kidnapped 2 weeks earlier during a Taliban attack on their convoy. Their bodies were ringed with explosives.

May 20—Libya—During the afternoon, hooded gunmen kidnapped a Chinese engineer in Benghazi. He was found unconscious along a road hours later. A hospital declared him dead of gunshot wounds. 14052001

May 20—China—The Xinjiang Supreme Court announced that lower courts in the region had convicted and sentenced 39 people to prison for organizing and leading terrorist groups, inciting ethnic hatred, ethnic discrimination and illegally manufacturing guns. Maimaitiniyazi Aini, 25, was sentenced to 5 years in prison for inciting ethnic hatred and ethnic discrimination for comments he made in 6 chat groups involving 1,310 people. A Uighur man was jailed for 15 years after he preached jihad to his son and another young man. The court said, “Violent terrorism has become a major threat to ethnic unity and social stability in Xinjiang…. We must eliminate from the root the soil where violent terrorist thoughts should grow by severely cracking down on the criminal activities of spreading terrorism audios and video.”

May 20–21—Nigeria—Boko Haram attacked 3 Nigerian villages during the evening and early morning, killing 48 people. One of the villages was near Chibok, site of the kidnapping of 300 schoolgirls in April. One of the villages was Alagamo, where Boko Haram set fire to ­thatch-roofed mud huts.

May 20–21—Afghanistan—The Taliban killed 10 policemen and 3 civilians in attacks in several provinces as part of what it deemed its spring offensive, named Operation Khaibar, after a battle from the time of the Prophet Muhammad.

The group ambushed several police checkpoints in Badakhshan Province; an ensuing gun battle killed 6 policemen in Yamgan District on May 20 and 21. Five Taliban died and 3 policemen were wounded.

Taliban wearing burqas fired machine guns and ­rocket-propelled grenades at a district base in Laghman Province’s Alingar area, killing 4 policemen, while sustaining an undisclosed number of casualties.

May 21—Pakistan—Pakistan announced that air­strikes from its jet fighters and helicopter gunships in Mir Ali killed 60 terrorists, including senior commanders and foreigners, and wounded 30.

A bomb on a motorcycle exploded outside an office belonging to the Pakistani paramilitary forces in Karachi, wounding 7 civilians.

May 21—Afghanistan—A suicide bomber set off his explosives inside a district building in Hasarak, Nangarhar Province, killing 2 civilians and wounding 7 other people, including a senior district official Abdul Khaliq, said Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the spokesman for the provincial governor.

A bomb hidden in a bag exploded in a bazaar in Faryab Province’s Pashtun Kot district, killing a woman and injuring 8 civilians.

A sticky bomb attached to a local private bus wounded a woman in Parwan Province’s Bagram district.

May 22—China—At 7:50 a.m., 2 drivers crashed their SUVs into shoppers in the Cultural Palace open air street market in Urumqi, threw nearly a dozen bombs, then set off their car bombs, killing 39 and wounding more than 90. Four suspects died at the scene. Police detained a suspect that evening 150 miles south of Urumqi. A witness said the vehicles had flags with what “seemed like Uighur writing,” according to Xinhua. Another witness heard 15 explosions. One of the vehicles stopped briefly, blocked by bodies and debris. The 2 SUVs then crashed ­head-on into each other.

Two flights by Juneyao Airlines from Shanghai to Urumqi diverted to Lanzhou and Nanjing airports after receiving bomb threats.

On December 8, 2014, China Central Television and AP reported the Urumqi Intermediate People’s Court sentenced 8 people to death for leading terrorist groups and conducting 2 attacks that killed 46 people in April and May in Xinjiang. Five others received suspended death sentences. In the May 22 attack, 4 men crashed 2 SUVs into a crowded Urumqi market and threw explosives, killing themselves and 39 others. State media had originally blamed a 5-member terrorist group. CCTV said 6 people were sentenced to death for the attack and charges of terrorism, use of explosives and endangering public safety. It did not explain why the number of suspects grew.

May 22—Tunisia—Police announced the arrests earlier in the week of 8 people suspected of plotting terrorist attacks against “sensitive institutions and security figures” and being trained in Libya in the use of weapons and explosives.

May 22—Somalia—Al-Shabaab senior leader Fuad Shongole broadcast a speech on the group’s radio station, threatening jihad in Kenya, Uganda, “and afterward, with God’s will, to America…. America is waging a war in the Horn of Africa because they are responsive to the Quran verses saying that the Islamic flag will fly in every corner of the world…. We swear by the almighty Allah that we’ll move the war into Kenya, so let’s see who suffers most…. If one Somali girl is killed by their soldiers in Somalia, we shall murder their girls at home.”

May 22—Iraq—Bombings killed 29 people and wounded dozens, mostly Shi’ite pilgrims en route to the shrine of Imam Mousa ­al-Kazim, an 8th-century saint.

A parked car bomb exploded near pilgrims in Baghdad’s eastern Ur neighborhood, killing 10, including 7 children under 14 years old, and wounding 25 people.

A parked car bomb exploded in Baghdad’s western Mansour neighborhood, killing 9 and wounding 26.

A suicide car bomber hit pilgrims in central Baghdad, killing 5 and wounding 18.

A suicide car bomber drove into a checkpoint in Mishahda, killing 3 policemen and 2 civilians while wounding 11 others.

May 22—France—Paris prosecutors opened a preliminary terrorism probe of Souad Merah, sister of Mohammed Merah, who killed 7 people in southwest France in 2012, on suspicions that she fled to Syria as part of a terrorist enterprise. Toulouse police raided her home after she disappeared with her young children days earlier.

May 22—Egypt—Drive-by gunmen fired on the vehicle of Shadi ­al-Menaie, leader of Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis, killing him and 3 colleagues in central Sinai.

May 23—Afghanistan—Gunmen fired machine guns and ­rocket-propelled grenades from a house in Herat Province at the Indian Consulate. Police killed 2 of the 3 gunmen. 14052301

May 23—Yemen—Soldiers killed 15 AQAP gunmen, including 2 Saudis, who used car bombs in a nighttime attack against an army headquarters, the central security headquarters, the Central Bank building, the traffic police department, the post office and the agricultural bank in Sayoun in Hadramawt Province. Ten soldiers died. Defense officials said AQAP leader Jalal Baliedy led dozens of terrorists who drove several SUVs into the city at various points. Authorities said Baliedy ran AQAP in the port town of Zanzibar in ­south-central Yemen and also led AQAP’s “The Hungry Lions.” 14052302

May 24—Somalia—Al Shabaab set off a car bomb at the parliament building in Mogadishu. A suicide bomber and other gunmen then rushed the building. A soldier tried to stop the suicide bomber, but was killed. Authorities killed the 6 terrorists. Two members of parliament were wounded in the gun battle.

May 24—Thailand—A bomb went off at a super store in Pattani Province. Nine bombs at 4 7–11 convenience stores, 2 gas stations and 3 other civilian locations in the area killed 3 people and hospitalized 60 others.

May 24—Nigeria—A suicide bomber failed to reach his target in Jos during the night. He dropped a bag containing explosives, which detonated, killing him and 2 people at an outdoor theater showing a European soccer cup final.

May 24—Belgium—French citizen Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, shot into the Jewish Museum in Brussels, killing 3 people and seriously injuring another. He was arrested on May 30, 2014, in Marseille as he disembarked from a bus from Amsterdam; police seized a revolver, a retractable Kalashnikov automatic weapon like that used in the Brussels attack, a large quantity of ammunition, and his confessor video. One of the guns was wrapped in a white sheet with the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. On June 4, he resisted extradition, demanding a French trial. The suspect also had Algerian citizenship. Nemmouche, who was born in northern France, had 7 criminal convictions, including attempted robbery, and spent 7 years in prison. He was radicalized in prison, then left for Syria 3 weeks after being freed from jail in 2012. His travel included stops in Brussels, London, and Istanbul before arrival in Syria, where he spent a year. Prosecutors said he tried to film the Brussels attack, but his camera failed. A video found in his clothes included a voiceover referring to the “attack in Brussels against Jews.” Belgian police raided locations in the Courtrai region, where he was believed to have spent time, questioning 2 residents. Nemmouche was represented by attorney Apolin Pepiezep, who said Nemmouche fought with jihadis in Syria. The next hearing was scheduled for June 12. On June 26, 2014, a Versailles court ordered Mehdi Nemmouche to be extradited to Belgium. Attorney Apolin Pepiezep said he would appeal.

On July 11, 2014, Mehdi Nemmouche’s lawyer said he would no longer fight extradition from France to Belgium, having received guarantees that he would not be sent to a third country. On July 29, 2014, he was extradited to France. On July 30, he was charged with “murder in a terrorist context.” On Decem-ber 9, 2014, Agnes ­Thibault-Lecuivre, spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s office, announced that ­police in Marseille arrested 3 men and 2 women regarding the Museum attack. 14052401

May 25—Djibouti—During the night, 2 Somali suicide bombers—one man, one veiled woman—attacked the La Chaumiere restaurant in Djibouti city, killing 3 people and wounding 15, according to the Djiboutian news agency ADI. The restaurant is frequented by soldiers from the European Union Naval Force and the African Union. The British government said several western nationals were among the casualties. Spain’s Defense Ministry said 3 of its military personnel were wounded. The German Foreign Ministry said 3 Germans were injured; all were civilian members of the European Union’s ­anti-piracy mission EUCAP NESTOR. 14052501

May 25—Iraq—A car bomb went off during the night in front of a liquor store in Kirkuk’s western ­al-Wasiti neighborhood, killing 12 people and injuring 29.

May 25—Syria—An American suicide bomber, Moner Mohammad ­Abu-Salha, alias Abu Hurayra ­Al-Amriki, set off a truck bomb on a hillside in Jabal ­Al-Arba’een, near Ariha in Idlib Province in northern Syria. Jihadis released a video of the attack entitled “the American martyrdom from ­al-Nusra Front.” Abu Farouk al Shamy, spokesman for the rebel Suqour ­al-Sham Battalion, told CNN that his group and the ­al-Nusra Front were responsible. The jihadis said 4 vehicle bombs were involved in the attack; Amriki’s vehicle had 17 tons of explosives, including artillery shells, and was the largest vehicle. The group said the bombing destroyed the ­al-Fanar restaurant, which was frequented by Syria soldiers.

The bomber was born on October 28, 1991, in Palm Beach, Florida. He was suspended in high school for fighting with classmates who made derogatory remarks about his mother’s Islamic clothes. He studied physical therapy at Indian River State College in Fort Pierce in 2010 and 2011 and Seminole State College of Florida in 2012. He had kept his family in the dark, sending them ­e-mails saying he was in Jordan.

Abu Hurayra was a companion of Mohammed and the narrator of Hadith.

On July 25, 2014, the Nusra Front’s ­al-Manara ­al-Baydha media arm released a video of him, saying in broken Arabic, “I want to rest in the afterlife, in heaven. There is nothing here, and the heart is not resting. Heaven is better. When people die they either go to heaven or hell. There is happiness beyond explanation.” The video said 2 of the other 3 bombers in May 25, 2014, were foreigners; one was from the Maldives. 14052502

May 25—Yemen—Yemen announced that its soldiers had killed 5 AQAP terrorists, including Saleh ­al-Tays, in raids on hideouts in the Arhab region. Six soldiers died in the clashes.

May 26—Morocco—The Interior Ministry announced the arrests of 3 individuals on charges of recruiting fighters and funding groups linked to ­al-Qaeda that are fighting against the government in Syria. Judicial police arrested 2 men in Fez for collaborating with agents on the ­Turkey-Syria border to recruit fighters. A third man was arrested in Mrirt for pirating bank cards to send money to such groups. The Ministry told the press, “Al-Qaeda continues to target Morocco, especially with Moroccan fighters that have received military training abroad and return to the country to commit terrorist acts.”

May 26—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a motorcycle into a bus carrying soldiers and civilian employees who were returning home from a military base in eastern Kabul, killing 2 Afghan Defense Ministry staffers—one officer, one civilian—and wounding 9. Shopkeeper Mohammad Shakor said bomb hit the bus on a bumpy dirt road near a grave yard, near a stop where 4 women passengers had gotten off.

May 26—China—Xinhua reported that police in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region’s Hotan, Kashgar and Aksu prefectures raided 23 “terror and religious extremism groups and caught over 200 suspects,” the majority of them Uighurs. Authorities seized more than 200 explosive devices.

May 27—Iraq—A suicide bomber set off his suicide belt in a Shi’ite mosque in downtown Baghdad’s Shorja market during noon prayers, killing 19 and injuring 36.

A bomb exploded in an outdoor vegetable market in Baghdad’s Sadr City, killing 2 civilians and wounding 5.

A bomb hit a police patrol in Baghdad’s southern Dora district, killing 2 police officers and wounding 6 other people.

May 27—China—Police in Xinjiang foiled a bomb plot and arrested 5 people.

May 28—Afghanistan—Gunmen fired machine guns and a mortar on a U.S. Consulate car traveling in a convoy on airport roads in Herat, injuring 2 Americans who were later treated at a Spanish hospital in the city. 14052801

May 28—Syria—Lebanese security officials announced the death of Fawzi Ayoub, alias Abu Abbas, a commander of Lebanese Hizballah, in fighting against the Assad regime the previous week. A Twitter account by pro–Hizballah media arm Mouqa­wama confirmed the death of the dual ­Lebanese-Canadian citizen. He made the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorists” list after his indictment by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in eastern Michigan on August 5, 2009, on charges of “willfully and knowingly” using and attempting to use “a false, forged or counterfeit U.S. passport in order to gain admittance into the state of Israel for the purpose of conducting a bombing on behalf of Hizballah.” Israel arrested him in June 2002 on charges that he entered the country with an intent to organize Palestinians attacks. He was released in 2004 in a prisoner exchange between Israel and Hizballah.

May 28—Tunisia—At least 15 gunmen in a pickup truck attacked the Kasserine home of Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou, killing 4 guards, following the arrests of suspected Islamist radicals on May 25. On June 13, 2014, AQIM said it was avenging the jailing of young jihadis and attacks against AQIM in local mountains. Ben Jeddou was not at home at the time.

May 28—Central African Republic—Gunmen attacked the Notre Dame de Fatima church, killing 17 people, including a priest and a 15-year-old boy who died at the hospital. The church was housing 9,000 internally displaced people.

May 28—Iraq—A suicide car bomber rammed a police checkpoint in Baghdad’s northern Kazimiyah district, killing 5 police officers and 4 civilians and wounding 35.

Bombs in Tuz Khormato residential areas killed 4 civilians and wounded 7.

A bomb exploded in Abu Ghraib, killing 2 civilians and wounding 3.

Attacks in Baghdad’s northeastern Husseiniyah suburb killed one civilian and wounded 3.

Gunmen killed a lawyer driving through the eastern New Baghdad neighborhood.

A parked car bomb exploded on a commercial street in Baghdad’s western Jihad neighborhood, killing 5 civilians and wounding 12.

A parked car bomb exploded in a commercial area in Baghdad’s eastern ­al-Ameen neighborhood, killing 4 civilians and wounding 14.

A bomb went off in a parking lot in Baghdad’s Sadr City, killing 3 civilians and wounding 12.

May 28—China—The Higher People’s Court of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region sentenced 55 people on terror charges, including intentional homicide, separatism, and organizing, leading and participating in terrorist activities, in a stadium filled with 7,000 spectators in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang Province. Three, including Abulimiti Abdullah, were sentenced to death for the murder “with extreme cruelty” of a family of 4, including a 3-year-old girl, in Yining City, using blades and axes, on April 20, 2014.

May 29—Afghanistan—Roadside bombings killed 4 people.

In the morning, a roadside bomb hit the car of Manzurullha, intelligence chief of Aqcha district in northern Jawzjan Province, killing him and his bodyguard, and wounding 3 others traveling with them. Authorities blamed the Taliban.

Two roadside bombs exploded within minutes in Kandahar, killing an Afghan police man and wounding 4 others. The first bomb hit a police car moving down a street, killing an officer and wounding 2. The second bomb hit first responders, wounding 2 more police officers.

May 29—Iraq—Bombings across the country killed 54 people. Most of the attacks took place in Baghdad and Mosul.

May 29—Spain—The National Court sentenced Saudi national Mudhar Hussein Almalki, 53, to 8 years in prison for of membership in a terrorist organization and for using the Internet from his Valencia home to spread terrorist ideology with the aim of training militants for at least 6 years. He was arrested in 2012. He had legally resided in Spain and had no criminal record.

May 30—Northern Ireland—A firebomb went off in the lobby of the Everglades Hotel in Londonderry at midnight. A quick evacuation was called, and no one was injured. Witnesses saw a masked man throw a bag next to the reception desk, announce that he was from the IRA, and warned that the bomb would detonate in 30 minutes. The bomb went off as a British Army remotely-controlled robot was examining it.

May 30—West Bank—At 10:30 a.m., Israeli border police at a military checkpoint at Tapuah Junction south of Nablus in the West Bank arrested a Palestinian man in his 20s wearing a suicide belt. Authorities said he was wearing a coat in 77 degree weather. Told to open his jacket and lift his shirt, he revealed 12 steel pipes connected with wires. Bomb techs detonated one of the tubes.

May 30—Nigeria—Gunmen fired from nearby hills and killed Idrissa Timta, emir of the town of Gwoza, as he was traveling with 2 other emirs—Ali Ibn Ismaila Mamza, emir of Uba, and Abdullahi Ibn Mu­hammadu Askirama, emir of Askira—to the funeral of an emir in Gombe State. His companions were unharmed. A police escort was shot and injured. Boko Haram was suspected.

May 30—Central African Republic—Thousands of protestors in Bangui attacked the base of African Union MISCA peacekeepers.

May 30—Melilla—At 4 a.m., Spanish police arrested 6 Spanish men on suspicion of recruiting and sending 26 jihadis—24 Moroccans and 2 Spaniards—for terrorist groups in Syria, Mali and Libya. The cell’s suspected leader, Benaissa Laghmouchi Baghdadi, 42, had returned to Spain after fighting in Syria for 8 months and training in a terrorist camp in northern Mali, according to Spain’s Interior Ministry. Five other detainees were Mustafa al-Lal Mohamed, 42; Kamal Mohamed Dris, 32; Rachid Abdel Nahet Hamed, 37; Mohamed Mohamed Benali, 26; and Mustafa Zizaoui Mohand, 26. Arraignments were scheduled for June 2.

May 31—Afghanistan—During the morning, a roadside bomb went off next to 2 cars in Giro district in Ghazni Province, killing 12 civilians, including 7 women, 2 men, and 3 children. The victims were going to a wedding.

May 31—U.S.—The FBI arrested naturalized U.S. citizen Mufid Elfgeeh, 30, a Rochester, New York, business owner from Yemen, for plotting to kill U.S. troops. Prosecutors said he purchased 2 handguns and 2 suppressors as part of a plan to kill members of the U.S. armed forces returning from war as well as Shi’ites in Rochester, New York. He faced 2 counts of receiving and possessing an unregistered firearm silencer. He entered no plea during a June 2 court appearance. He was represented by public defender Mark Hosken. Investigators found tweets supporting ­al-Qaeda, violent jihad and Sunni insurgent groups in Syria. The affidavit said that the Bureau found a Walther PPK .32-caliber handgun and a Glock 26, 9 mm handgun, both with functional silencers affixed to the barrels, 2 boxes of .32-caliber ammunition, and 2 boxes of 9-millimeter ammunition. After Elf­geeh, who operates Halal Mojo and Food Mart in Rochester, paid an informant $1,050, he was arrested. He faced 10 years in prison for each silencer and the possibility of a $250,000 fine. An FBI informant taped a December 2013 conversation in which Elf­geeh told him, “I’m thinking about doing something here to be honest with you. I’m thinking about just go buy a big automatic gun from off the street or something and a lot of bullets and just put on a vest or whatever and just go around and start shooting.” The plan changed in March 2014 to killing soldiers in a solo shooting, “It could be right now in the daytime, and I could be … like this guy here or something…. I could just go back and wait for him to when he leave to go to his garage, and just walk up slowly, boom, boom, boom, inside his garage.” Regarding a confessor video, he told the informant, “Once we do 5 or 10 already, 15, something like that … then we gonna say something.” Elfgeeh was held at Monroe County Jail. A bail hearing was scheduled for June 16, 2014.

May 31—Yemen—AQAP gunmen fired machine guns into the car of a Yemeni intelligence officer in Lahej Province, killing Colonel Nasser ­al-Issai.

May 31—Pakistan—The Taliban attacked several Pakistani military posts along the Afghan border. Pakistan responded with airstrikes, including some into Afghanistan, killing 16 gunmen. Afghan officials said 5 civilians died in the airstrikes.

June—UK—On September 22, 2015, AP reported that a jury in London convicted ­red-haired extremist Mark Colborne, 37, who write in his diary of plans to conduct a cyanide attack on “non–Aryans” and shooting Prince Charles with a ­high-powered rifle. He compared himself to Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik and collected chemicals and books on poisons. He was arrested in June 2014, but a trial jury did not reach a verdict.

June—Syria—The Islamic State released hostage Danish photojournalist Daniel Rye Ottosen, 25, after his family paid a ­multimillion-euro ransom. He smuggled out letters from fellow hostages. 14069901

June 1—Nigeria—Reuters reported that a bomb went off at 6:45 p.m. at a television viewing center for football in Mubi in Adamawa State, killing numerous people. Boko Haram was suspected.

The same night, Boko Haram fired on people in Madagali.

June 2—Nigeria—Boko Haram gunmen wearing military uniforms killed at least 200 civilians in 3 Borno State villages. Local witnesses said that although the military had been tipped off by the Gwoza local government, it did not intervene in the attacks against Danjara, Agapalwa, and Antagara. The gunmen drove up in Toyota Hilux pickup trucks and told the civilians they were soldiers “and we are here to protect you all.” The residents came to the town square, then were fired upon by gunmen yelling “Allahu akbar.”

June 2—Iraq—At least 15 people were killed and dozens wounded in attacks around the country.

A parked car bomb exploded in a Najaf commercial area, killing 6 and wounding 13.

A suicide car bomber hit an army checkpoint in Mishahda, killing 3 soldiers and 2 civilians and injuring 14 people.

A parked car exploded in a commercial area in Iskandariyah, killing 2 and wounding 10.

A car bomb in Nasiriyah killed a civilian and wounded 18.

A bomb in an outdoor market in Mahmoudiyah killed one person and injured 3.

June 2—Afghanistan—In the morning, a remotely-detonated motorcycle bomb hit a minibus carrying workers from a Turkish EMTA construction company to work in eastern Nangharhar Province’s Beh­sud district, killing 3 Turkish engineers and wounding a fourth. 14060201

June 2—Afghanistan—Four Taliban suicide bomb­ers attacked the district governor’s compound in southern Helmand Province’s Ghreshk district, kill­ing 3 Afghans, including 2 police officers and a civilian government employee and wounding 2 policemen and 2 civilians working at the compound. One attacker set off his explosives at the gate, while the other 3 ran inside, where they were shot to death by policemen.

June 2—Afghanistan—A NATO service member died in an attack in eastern Afghanistan. 14060202

June 2—Afghanistan—Gunmen kidnapped Indian Jesuit priest Alexis Prem Kumar, 47, from Tamil Nadu State in southern India. He was visiting a school for refugees in Sohadat in Herat Province. He served as Afghanistan country director for Jesuit Refugee Services, an educational charity working with displaced and impoverished communities. He had worked in Afghanistan since 2011. On June 5, Afghan security forces arrested 3 Taliban members involved in the kidnapping and questioned them about hideouts. On February 22, 2015, AP reported that James Stapleton, a Jesuit Refugee Service spokesman in Rome, announced that Kumar had been released and returned to India. 14060203

June 2—U.S.—Following a 3-day manhunt, the FBI arrested San Francisco social media expert and political consultant Ryan Kelly Chamberlain, 42. The next day, he was charged with one count of possession of an illegal destructive device, which carries a 10 year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine. The FBI found ­bomb-making components in his Polk Street apartment. An FBI spokesman said “FBI bomb technicians believe that the circuit board described above was designed to serve as a remote control, allowing detonation of the device from afar…. They further believe that the device was designed to maim or kill a human being or human beings.” The San Francisco Chronicle reported that a bag in his apartment contained the detonator, ball bearings, screws and a model rocket engine. He posted on Facebook an apparent suicide note entitled “Goodbye,” observing he experienced depression “for as long as I can recall… So much was broken from this past ­year-and-a-half, and from moments way back before that… I guess it was just insurmountable, and the time’s up.” FBI documents unsealed on June 6 indicated that Chamberlain obtained lethal toxins albrin, nicotine, and ground rosary peas from such Internet sites as Black Market Reloaded.

June 3—Afghanistan—During the evening, 4 Af­ghan police officers were killed and another wounded when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in southern Helmand Province. They were returning from an operation in Sangin district.

June 3—U.S.—The FBI in Minneapolis announced that it was investigating whether local men had left Minnesota to join the jihad in Syria and was asking members of the local Somali community with relevant information to call 763–569–8020.

June 3—Nigeria—Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade denied local newspaper reports that said courts martial found 10 generals and 5 other senior officers guilty of providing arms and information to Boko Haram. Leadership newspaper said 19 officers were found guilty of “being disloyal and for working for the members of the sect.”

June 3—Iraq—During the night, a suicide bomber in Anbar Province hit a Sahwa militia patrol in a camp for refugee families, killing 8, including 2 Sahwas, 3 guards, and 3 women and wounding 14. One of the dead militiamen was Mohammed Khamis Abu Risha, nephew of tribal leader Ahmed Abu Risha, whose brother led the formation of the original Sahwa until he was assassinated in 2007.

June 3—Guantanamo Bay—Pentagon legal authorities approved 5 war crimes charges against Guantanamo Bay prisoner Abd ­al-Hadi ­al-Iraqi, believed to be 53, accused of plotting roadside bombing attacks in Afghanistan as an al-Qaeda commander. Military rules called for his arraignment within 30 days. He faced life in prison on charges of denying quarter, which involves refusing to allow the enemy to surrender; treachery, defined under international law as pretending to be a civilian to carry out attacks; attacking protected property for orchestrating attacks on a military medical helicopter; attempted treachery and conspiracy. The charge of attacking protected property carries a 20-year maximum sentence. The native of Iraq had been at Gitmo since April 2007. Prosecutors said he oversaw al-Qaeda operations against U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq and was involved in the failed al-Qaeda assassination plot against Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. Charging documents said he was involved in roadside bombings and suicide attacks in Afghanistan that killed civilians and members of the mili-tary from the U.S., Canada, Germany and other nations.

June 4—Pakistan—A suicide bomber walked up to a truck carrying Pakistani military personnel near Islamabad, killing 2 lieutenant colonels on their way to work and 3 civilian pedestrian ­passers-by.

June 4—Afghanistan—A bomb hidden in a thermos bottle was detonated remotely at a market in Maymana, Faryab Province, killing 3 civilians—a woman and 2 men—and wounded 12 civilians, including 4 women and a child. A person wearing a burqa left the thermos at a shop in the market.

June 4—Libya—Three masked gunmen wearing civilian clothes killed Michael Greub, 42, a Swiss national who had worked for 7 years for the Red Cross in Iraq, Sudan, and Yemen. They fired on his car at a checkpoint after he left a meeting in Sirte. Greub had headed the ICRC delegation in Misrata since March 2014. 14060401

June 4—Libya—A suicide car bomber set off his explosives at the gates to the Benghazi compound of General Khalifa Hifter, who had been leading ­anti-jihadi operations. He was unharmed, but the bomber killed 4 others and wounded 3, including Libyan Air Force Chief of Staff Saqr ­al-Garoushi, who was hospitalized.

June 4—Germany—German prosecutors filed terrorism charges against Ismail I., a Lebanese man accused of belonging to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and training and fighting for ISIL in Syria in 2013, and 2 suspected accomplices. His brother, Ezzeddine I., and German national Mohammad Sobhan A. were charged with supporting ISIL and with procuring equipment and money. Prosecutors said ISIL had Ismail return to Germany to obtain money, medicine and military supplies. He and a suspected accomplice were arrested on a German highway in November 2013 en route to Syria.

June 4—Northern Ireland—Sean Kelly, 48, pleaded guilty to helping run an IRA firearms training camp and plotting an attack on a prison governor. A Belfast judge postponed sentencing until the trial of 3 others who were arrested with Kelly in March 2012 in a County Tyrone forest near the firing range. The trio denied involvement. Kelly’s attorneys said he would plead guilty to 6 of 10 charges against him, including possessing a rifle, ammunition and other firearms; involvement in weapons training; and gathering information for a potential gun attack on a prison governor at his home.

June 4—Iraq—At least 25 people died in bombings in Baghdad and northern and southern Iraq.

Two parked car bombs exploded near a police building and a market in Kirkuk, killing 8 people, including a police officer and 7 civilians and wounding 9 people.

A parked car bomb exploded in a commercial area in northern Baghdad, killing 4 civilians and wounding 12.

A bomb hit a passing police patrol in Baghdad’s western Mansour neighborhood, killing 2 civilians and wounding 7 people.

A roadside bomb in Taji killed 2 policemen and wounded 3.

A bomb hit a police patrol in Arab Jabour, killing a policeman and injuring 6 others.

A car bomb in a commercial area in Hillah killed 8 civilians and wounded 28.

June 5—Iraq—In the morning, dozens of gunmen in SUVs attacked security checkpoints and police stations in Samarra, killing 7 security officers. The army responded with helicopter gunships, kill­ing several attackers.

June 5—Austria—Authorities arrested a 41-year-old ­Chechnya-born Islamic preacher on suspicion of recruiting at least 8 young Chechen men living in Austria to fight in Syria for the ­al-Nusra Front. Prosecutors said 4 were believed to have died in Syria. Profil magazine said 2 others were missing.

June 5—Nigeria—Boko Haram gunmen were suspected of kidnapping 20 women and 3 young men who tried to intervene from a Garkin Fulani nomadic settlement near Chibok at noon. The gunmen forced the women to enter their vehicles, then drove away.

June 5—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb killed a police chief and 2 other officers on a demining mission in the Waghaz district in the southern Ghazni Province. They were removing a Taliban roadside bomb when a mine hidden beneath it exploded, also injuring another policeman.

Gunmen on a motorcycle fired on a car carrying Afghan army personnel in Herat, killing 2 army officers and wounding 3 others.

Enemy fire killed a soldier from the International Security Assistance Force in eastern Afghanistan.

June 5—Yemen—During the morning, AQAP attacked an army post in Shabwa Province’s Beehan area, killing 11 soldiers and a civilian and wounding 5 soldiers.

June 5—China—Six Xinjiang courts sentenced 81 people on terrorism charges including organizing, leading or participating in a terrorist organization, murder and arson. Nine were sentenced to death; 3 were given suspended death sentences, which usually are commuted to life in prison. Xinjiang television said 68 were charged with organizing, leading or participating in a terrorist organization, murder, assault, arson, and making or transporting explosives and firearms. The other 13 were charged with ethnic discrimination and distributing materials promoting ethnic hatred.

The Xinjiang regional government website said another 29 “violent terrorist criminal suspects” were arrested on charges of incitement to separatism, organizing mobs to disturb social order, operating an illegal business, incitement to ethnic hatred, and ethnic discrimination.

June 5—Pakistan—Drive-by gunmen shot to death Ashiqullah Mehsud, a senior commander in the ­Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), in the village of Urmuz in North Waziristan. He was viewed as a suicide bombing “mastermind” of the Pakistan Taliban and as a successor to Qari Hussain Mehsud, the group’s explosives expert. He reportedly recruited children as suicide bombers. Days earlier, a TTP faction had announced it was splitting over ideological differences regarding such “un–Islamic” practices as attacks in public places, extortion and kidnappings.

June 6—Afghanistan—Two bombs hit the convoy of leading Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah, killing 6 civilians and wounding 22 but not harming Abdullah, who went on to address a campaign rally, saying his “vehicle was destroyed, but fortunately we escaped it unharmed. Unfortunately a number of our security guards were wounded in the incident, but thankfully their injuries are not so serious.” The Interior Ministry said a suicide bomber and a roadside bomb were involved; Kabul Police Chief Mohammed Zahir said 2 suicide bombers—one in a vehicle, one on foot—were involved.

June 6—Iraq—At least 27 people died in attacks throughout the country.

In the morning in Tahrawa village, inhabited by Shabaks, 2 car bombs killed 7 people and wounded 43.

Gunmen attacked an army ammunition depot in Mosul, killing 6 soldiers and wounding 5 before troops could repel the attackers.

Battles for control of Mosul neighborhoods left 7 security forces and 16 gunmen dead. The gunmen withdrew.

During the evening, mortar shells hit several houses in Sabaa ­al-Bour, killing 7 and wounding 20.

June 6—Congo—During the night, gunmen attacked Mutarule, near Bukavu, killing 34, including women and children at a local church, and injuring 27 people. Survivors blamed the ­Burundi-based FNL rebel group; the government credited a cattle dispute.

June 6—Northern Ireland—Police in north Belfast arrested a 38-year-old Northern Ireland man with running an IRA faction. Arraignment in Londonderry was set for June 9 on charges of directing terrorism and IRA membership.

June 6—Philippines—Gunmen on a motorcycle killed Nilo Baculo, Sr., 67, who anchored a program at local radio station dwIM, in Oriental Mindoro’s Calapan City. He was 25th journalist killed in the Philippines since 2010 and the 143rd since 1986. Baculo claimed in 2008 that elected officials planned to assassinate him after he reported that they were involved in narcotics trafficking, according to his attorney, Harry Roque.

June 6—Germany—The Hamburg regional court ordered the release of Marie Emmanuelle Verhoeven, alias “Commander Anna,” 54, a French woman accused of involvement in the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front’s 1991 murder of Chilean politician Jaime Guzman, leader of the conservative Independent Democratic Union, a conservative Chilean party. Chile had requested extradition so she could face charges of murder, forming a terrorist organization and grievous bodily harm resulting in death. She was arrested in January 2014 while boarding a flight from Hamburg to Dubai. She had been wanted for almost 2 decades.

June 7—Iraq—At least 52 people were killed in attacks across the country, mostly in commercial streets in Baghdad’s Shi’ite neighborhoods during a ­one-hour bombing spree.

During the night, a bomb went off in Baghdad’s western Baiyaa district, killing 9 people and wounding 22.

Later that evening, 7 car bombs throughout Baghdad killed at least 41 people and wounded 62.

A roadside bomb in western Baghdad killed 2 people and wounded 6.

Gun battles in Mosul killed 21 police officers and 38 Sunni gunmen.

June 7—Iraq—Gunmen stormed Anbar University in the morning, killing 3 police officers and briefly holding dozens of students hostage in a dorm before escaping a gun battle with authorities several hours later. Among the hostages was Ahmed ­al-Mehamdi, who said the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant gunmen were dressed in black, ordered everyone to stay in their rooms, but took some students away.

On June 9, Sabah ­al-Karhout, head of Anbar’s provincial council, told Ramadi reporters that gunmen still held 15 staff members from Anbar University in a campus building. The gunmen also stole more than $10 million from the university safe.

June 8—Iraq—In a morning attack, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest at the gate of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan office in Jalula. A few minutes later, a car bomb went off near the building as first responders were arriving. The bombs killed 19 people, including a senior police officer and 4 of his bodyguards, injured 65, and damaged several homes and cars. ISIL said in an Internet posting that it was retaliating for the detention of Muslim women by authorities in the ­self-ruled Kurdish region in northern Iraq.

June 8—Spain—Police at Madrid airport arrested suspected ETA member Maria Jesus Elorza Zubizarreta as she arrived from Venezuela. She was wanted on a European arrest warrant issued December 2006 by French judicial authorities. Her ETA unit was believed behind the murder of several Spanish security forces before she escaped to France in 1984, where she was believed to have worked on ­bomb-making before moving to Venezuela.

June 8—Pakistan—Officials announced that suicide bombers had killed 23 Shi’ite pilgrims in the southwest.

June 8—Pakistan—The Pakistani Taliban laid siege for 5 hours to a terminal used for VIP flights and cargo at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport, leaving up to 36 dead. Ten gunmen with explosives vests, some wearing Airport Security Force uniforms, set off bombs and fired machine guns and rocket launchers in 2 locations in the terminal, killing 18 people, including 11 airport guards. The group said it was avenging the November drone strike that killed Hakimullah Mehsud, the group’s leader. Authorities killed the 10 terrorists, some of whom appeared to be Uzbeks. The next day, 7 bodies of trapped airport workers were found in the burned building, raising attack death toll to 26. On June 11, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan also claimed credit, saying it was avenging Pakistani army airstrikes in the tribal regions. 14060801

June 8—U.S.—At 11:22 a.m., a married man and woman, apparently white supremacists, shot police officers Alyn Beck, 41, and Igor Soldo, 31, who were lunching at CiCi’s Pizza. The 2 then grabbed the officers’ weapons, ammunition and badges, yelling, “This is a revolution.” They covered the officers’ bodies with a Revolutionary ­War–era Gadsden flag, which features a yellow background with a coiled snake above the words, “Don’t tread on me.” The flag has also been associated with the Confederacy and the Tea Party. They also placed a swastika on the victims’ bodies. The killers then ran to a Las Vegas Walmart. At 11:27 a.m., Amanda Miller fired, killing Joseph Wilcox, 31, an armed civilian who confronted them. Police fired on the duo. Amanda Miller shot her husband, Jerad Miller, 31, then killed herself. The Las Vegas Sun said neighbors claimed the duo often expressed racist, ­anti-government views, offering conspiracy theories, bragging about their gun collection, and suggesting that they would attack authorities when the time was right. Police found swastikas in their apartment, where they had moved in January. She had worked at a Hobby Lobby in Las Vegas. Jerad Miller had a conviction of felony vehicle theft in Washington state, and a criminal record in Indiana.

June 8—Afghanistan—At night, 3 suicide bombers attacked a parking lot at a police base in eastern Behsud district in Nangarhar Province, killing a guard and torching 25 trucks. A suicide car bomber set off his explosives at the parking lot’s entrance, allowing 2 terrorists to run in and shoot at guards, who killed the attackers.

June 9—Afghanistan—Suicide bombers and gunmen stormed a court building in eastern Jalalabad.

June 9—Iraq—A suicide truck bomber crashed into a checkpoint leading to the offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the nearby Kurdistan Communist Party in Tuz Khormato. A second truck bomb was remotely detonated when first responders arrived. The bombs killed 22 people, wounded 150, and destroyed several houses and cars.

Gunmen fired on a security checkpoint in Kanaan, killing 4 soldiers and 2 police officers.

Gunmen fired into the office of a realtor in western Baghdad, killing him.

A bomb killed a government employee in eastern Baghdad.

A bomb exploded on a boat, destroying a bridge on the Euphrates River linking a road between Fallujah and southeastern Baghdad, but causing no casualties.

At sunset, a suicide bomber drove his tanker truck into the gate of a military unit in Mosul, killing 3 soldiers and wounding 15.

During the night, a car bomb in Sadr City killed 4 and wounded 9.

A few minutes after the Sadr City bomb, 2 more bombs in 2 other Baghdad districts killed 3 and wounded 7.

On July 3, 2014, AP and Turkey’s Dogan news agency reported that ISIL kidnappers released 32 Turkish truck drivers held since June 9 after the attack in Mosul. The wife of Ramazan Simsek, one of the abducted drivers, told AP that her husband had confirmed their release. Nihal Simsek, whose son was also captured, said the drivers were heading toward Arbil, Iraq and would soon arrive in Turkey.

June 9—Yemen—Attacks on power lines between Sana’a and Marib left the entire country without electricity.

June 10—Iraq—Islamic State of Iraq and Syria gunmen seized control of Mosul, including the provincial government headquarters, 2 television stations, the airport and the prisons, after soldiers and police dropped their weapons and uniforms and fled. The terrorists freed nearly1,000 prisoners. The next day UN ­Secretary-General Ban ­Ki-moon condemned the kidnapping of Turkey’s consul general and 48 diplomats in Mosul. 14051001

June 10—Iraq—Gunmen kidnapped 31 Turkish truck drivers hauling fuel. The ISIS was suspected of taking them from an electricity plant in Nineveh Province. By June 12, ISIS was holding 80 Turks in Mosul, and Turkish officials were negotiating directly with them. On June 20, 2014, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said 4 Turks who were abducted along with several other foreign workers while traveling from the city of ­Al-Dour to Kirkuk, had been freed on June 19. 14061002

June 10—Iraq—Roadside bombs went off at a Baqouba cemetery during a funeral, killing 31 and injuring 28.

June 10—China—Police shot to death Zhang Zeqing, who had served time for robbery and illegal gun making, after he took 50 elementary school students and a teacher hostage in the Hubei Province city of Qianjiang. He agreed to trade the hostages for the deputy mayor of nearby Haokou, but was shot after he poured gasoline over the official. Authorities said Zhang had a knife and explosives.

June 10—Pakistan—Three Pakistani Taliban gunmen attacked a security training facility outside Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport, sparking a ­shoot-out with police and army troops. The gunmen attacked at 2 entrances. Two gunmen fired at a hostel for female employees on the academy grounds, then escaped into local slums.

June 10—Georgia—The Belarus KGB ended a hijacking of a flight from Kutaisi, Georgia into Minsk. A Georgian citizen threatened in a note to set off a bomb on the plane unless the pilots agreed to divert it to a European destination. He allowed the pilots to land in Minsk, where the KGB negotiated with the hijacker for an hour before arresting him. No one was hurt 14061002

June 10—Kenya—Gunmen killed moderate Muslim leader Sheik Mohamed Idris, chairman of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya, as he left a Mombasa mosque in the early morning.

June 11—Israel—Gunmen fired a rocket from the Gaza Strip into Israel, causing no injuries when it exploded on a road.

June 11—Philippines—Local security forces raided a slum near Manila’s international airport, capturing Khair Mundos, a senior Abu Sayyaf commander in southern Basilanon, on the U.S. ­most-wanted terrorist list. He admitted receiving ­al-Qaeda funds to finance bombings in the country. An original leader of Abu Sayyaf, he served the group as a combat trainer, spiritual leader and a plotter of bombings and ransom kidnappings. The U.S. Department of State in 2009 offered a $500,000 reward for his capture; Manila chipped in a $27,200 reward. He had been captured in 2004, but escaped in 2007. His 2 brothers were also Abu Sayyaf members. In 2012, he was wounded but escaped a police raid near southern Zamboanga city where he was training 2 dozen Abu Sayyaf recruits. Police killed 5 gunmen and rescued a kidnapped Chinese engineer in one of the huts in the area.

June 11—Iraq—A car bomb exploded among Shi’ite pilgrims en route to Karbala, killing 4 people and wounding 10.

A car bomb in a town south of Baghdad killed 3 and wounded 12.

A suicide bomber set off his explosive belt inside a tent in Sadr City where tribesmen were meeting to solve a tribal dispute, killing 24 and wounding 41.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant took control of Tikrit. The Provincial Governor was missing.

June 11—Central African Republic—A gun battle pitting Muslims against Christians in Bambari killed 21 people, including 2 who were publicly executed in front of a courthouse. The violence began when villagers killed 2 Muslim men on a motorcycle in Liwa. ­Vengeance-seeking Muslim Seleka rebels attacked Liwa and Bambara, throwing grenades and burning more than 100 houses.

June 11—Mali—A car bomb went off at a checkpoint at a UN camp in Aguelhoc in the Kidal region, killing 4 people, including Chadian peacekeepers and Malian soldiers. 14061101

June 11—Libya—A suicide car bomber hit a checkpoint manned by troops loyal to rogue General Khalifa Hifter outside Benghazi, wounding 3 people.

June 11—Iraq—On September 20, 2014, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced that the 49 Turkish hostages held by the Islamic State had been freed. The Anadolu news agency said no ransom had been paid and “no conditions were accepted in return for their release.” Freed hostage Alptekin Esirgun told Anadolu that militants held a gun to Consul General Ozturk Yilmaz’s head and tried to force him to make a statement. Former hostage Alparslan Yel said the kidnappers “treated us a little better because we are Muslims. But we weren’t that comfortable. There was a war going on.” Anadolu reported that the hostages were held in 8 separate locations in Mosul and that their locations were monitored by drones and other means.

June 12—Germany—German prosecutors charged Harun P., 26, with membership in a terrorist organization after he went to Syria in September to fight with Junud ­al-Sham jihadi forces, involvement in manslaughter, and attempted incitement to murder. Prosecutors say he joined a February operation to free fighters from a government prison in which 2 Syrian soldiers died. He allegedly unsuccessfully urged the murder of 2 people who wanted to bring their 16-year-old relative to Germany, because he feared she would inform on him. He was arrested in Prague in April and returned to Germany.

June 12—UK—The 3-judge appeals court ruled that a criminal trial can be held largely in secret on national security grounds because the case of 2 terrorist suspects was “exceptional,” and should be heard without the public present in court. The defendants were identified initially as AB and CD, and later as Erol Incedal and Mounir ­Rarmoul-Bouhadjar. Incedal was charged with preparing an act of terrorism; ­Rarmoul-Bouhadjar with other terrorism offenses.

June 12—Syria—State media and activists said a car bomb exploded in the ­pro-government Wadi Dahab neighborhood in Homs, killing 7 people, including 5 civilians, and injuring 25.

June 12—Israel—Three Jewish seminarians, Gilad Shaar, 16, Eyal Yifrach, 19, and U.S. citizen Naftali Fraenkel, 16, were reported missing while hitchhiking in the West Bank. The grandparents of Fraenkel moved to Israel from Brooklyn, New York, in 1956. He was born and raised in Israel, occasionally visiting the U.S. Most of his cousins, aunts, and uncles live in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Monsey, and elsewhere in New York state. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas terrorists kidnapped them; one of the missing teens called police to say they were kidnapped. Israeli forces detained more than a dozen people for questioning. Three groups claimed credit, including one with links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. A branch of an ­al-Qaeda splinter group said it was avenging the killing of 3 gunmen in a battle with Israeli security forces earlier in the year. Another statement credited the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad group. By June 15, Israeli troops in the West Bank had arrested 80 Palestinians, 60 of them Hamas members, others supporters of Islamic Jihad. Hamas praised “the heroes who are behind the kidnapping” but did not claim credit. Israel arrested another 41 Palestinians in the West Bank on June 17, bringing the detainee tally to more than 200. On June 26, 2014, Shin Bet said Hamas activists Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Aisheh from Hebron were responsible. Qawasmeh, born in 1985, and Abu Aisha, born in 1981, had served time in Israeli prisons. They were missing since the kidnapping was reported. Hamas officials said the brothers and wives of the 2 men had been taken into custody; the women were released. Abu Aisheh’s father, Omar, said Israeli forces arrested 7 family members, including 2 other sons, and raided the family’s homes 8 times. Amer is married and is the father of 3 small boys. He spent 7 months in Israeli custody in 2005. One of Amer’s brothers was killed by Israel in 2005; he had been throwing a bomb at Israeli troops at the time.

On June 29, Palestinians reported that the Israeli military had questioned the wife of Marwan Qawasmeh and that Amer Abu Aisha’s father had been arrested.

On June 30, 2014, the Israeli army said that civilian volunteers had located the bodies of the abducted teens beneath a pile of rocks near the village of Halhul, in an open area close to Hebron, in the West Bank. Israeli forces reacted quickly, conducting numerous raids against Hamas. The IDF shot death a Hamas member when he threw a grenade at them during an arrest in the West Bank.

On July 2, 2014, following the funeral of the 3 kidnapped teens, CNN reported the discovery of the burned body of Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khe­dair, 17, in a forest near Jerusalem early that morning, sparking clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Shuafat neighborhood. An hour earlier, a Palestinian teen was shoved into a car in Jerusalem’s Beit Hanina neighborhood. Palestinian media charged that settlers kidnapped Mohammed Abu Khedair, 17. At least 50 Palestinian demonstrators, 15 police officers, and 2 civilians were injured in the clashes following the discovery. As of July 6, 6 Jewish young male suspects, including several minors, from Jeru­salem, Beit Shemesh, and the West Bank settlement of Adam, had been arrested in Khedair’s killing. An autopsy indicated that he had been burned alive. Police found a car used by the suspects, as well as security camera footage that captured the abduction. By July 7, 3 of the suspected vigilantes confessed to Khedair’s murder. Israel’s Channel 10 TV said the suspects were the son and 5 grandsons of a prominent rabbi in Jerusalem. It said 2 suspects used the rabbi’s car for the kidnapping without his knowledge. On November 30, 2015, a Jerusalem court found 2 Israeli minors guilty of killing Khedair.

Police also learned of the attempted kidnapping on July 1 of a young child in the same east Jerusalem neighborhood as Khedair’s kidnapping, and suggested that the cases were linked.

On August 21, 2014, Saleh Arouri, a senior Hamas leader, told a conference in Turkey that the ­al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas carried out the “heroic operation” to set off a new Palestinian uprising. “It was an operation by your brothers from the ­al-Qassam Brigades,” with the goal of exchanging the hostages for Palestinian prisoners held by Is-rael.

On September 23, 2014, AP reported that Israeli special forces stormed a West Bank hideout in Hebron in the morning and killed 2 ­well-known Palestinian Hamas militants, Amer Abu Aisheh and Marwan Qawasmeh, suspected in the kidnap/murder, during a gun battle on the ground floor of the 2-storey building. Israeli authorities arrested 3 other Qawasmeh family members. In Qatar, Hussam Badran, spokesman for Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, praised the dead terrorists on his Twitter account, saying “The martyrdom of Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Aisheh came after a long life full of jihad sacrifice and giving. This is the path of resistance, which we all are moving in.”

On January 6, 2015, the BBC reported that an Israeli military court sentenced Hamas member Hussam Qawasmeh, 40, to 3 life terms for the abduction and murder of 3 Israeli teenagers in the West Bank on June 12, 2014. Qawasmeh was also fined $63,000 in compensation to the victims’ families. He was arrested in July 2014 while attempting to cross into Jordan. Prosecutors told the Israeli Supreme Court that he organized the abduction and obtained $50,500 from Hamas to purchase weapons for the operation. Interrogators said he admitted burying the victims’ bodies on a plot of land he owned, then destroyed evidence. On December 31, 2014, an Israeli military court convicted him of 3 counts of accessory to ­murder, membership of a group that committed ­murder, 2 counts of bringing enemy funds into the country, one count of carrying out activities for Ha-mas, one count of arms dealing, 2 counts of obstruction of justice and one count of sheltering wanted individuals. 14061201

June 13—Yemen—Yemeni troops attacked a car ­carrying AQAP terrorists in Shabwa Province, kill-ing all 4. The troops then raided a nearby terror-ist arms warehouse, destroying cars and materiel and injuring several other gunmen in the Hibban region.

June 13—France—The government expelled to Tunisia a 28-year-old Tunisian it said ran a recruitment operation in the Grenoble area that sent jihadis to Syria.

June 14—Ukraine—Ukrainian officials blamed pro–Russian separatists in the shootdown of an Il-76 military transport plane that killed all 49 service personnel—9 crew and 40 paratroopers—on board. The plane was approaching Luhansk airport when it was hit by a ­shoulder-fired Igla missile. Alexei Topo­rov, defense spokesman for the Luhansk People’s Republic, said the shootdown occurred after Ukrainian “occupiers” refused to abandon the Luhansk airport.

June 14—Pakistan—Christian parliamentarian Handery Masieh was shot to death by his guard during a meeting with supporters from the ruling National Party outside his Quetta home. One of Masieh’s nephews was wounded. The killer escaped.

June 14—Israel—Gunmen fired a rocket from Gaza into southern Israel, causing no injuries.

June 14—Yemen—A suspected drone strike on a car killed all 5 AQAP passengers, including suspected AQAP leader Musaad ­al-Habashi, in a mountainous area in ­al-Saied in Shabwa Province.

June 14—China—Reuters cited China News Service state media reports that Zhang Wei, 36, an ethnic Tibetan official in charge of preserving social stability, was shot dead in a mountainous area of the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of China’s Sichuan Province in southwestern China the previous week. Zhang was killed while leading a team returning from an assignment to keep order among villagers during the harvest of valuable caterpillar fungus. Police offered a 500,000 yuan ($80,500) bounty for leading to the capture of Xue Xia, 35, a Tibetan man suspected in the case.

June 14—Afghanistan—Afghan officials said 47 people were killed during the election; they included 20 civilians and an election commission worker. Government forces killed 60 terrorists.

A roadside bomb hit a minibus in Aybak, Samangan Province, killing 6 women, a child, and 4 men. The dead included 4 election workers.

The Taliban cut off the fingers of 11 people in Herat Province to punish them for voting.

Police raided a Kandahar building, killing 2 ­would-be Taliban suicide bombers. Another 2 blew themselves up, killing 3 police officers and wounding 2.

June 14—Iran—Lamenting the situation in Iraq, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told the press “democracy says a country should be ruled by the ballot box, but terrorism says it is the box of ammunition that rules.”

June 14—Spain—Police in Ponferrada arrested Maria Osorio Lopez, a member of the banned Galician Resistance, who had earlier been sentenced to 7 years in jail for belonging to a violent separatist group and falsifying documents for terrorist purposes. The group seeks independence for the northwestern Galicia region.

June 14—Germany—Police arrested a 30-year-old Frenchman on charges of “supporting a terrorist organization” by fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Syria. He was wounded in fight-ing in Syria. Police said he had appeared in the group’s propaganda videos. France requested extradition.

June 14—Egypt—Islamic gunmen fired on the vehicle of wealthy Coptic Christian surgeon Wadei Ramses, wounding and them abducting him in ­el-Arish. Hours later they demanded a 10 million Egyptian pound ($1.4 million) ransom.

June 15—Nigeria—Reuters reported that police in southern Imo State defused 3 bombs found at a Christian church. Six people were arrested later that week.

June 15—Yemen—A masked gunman fired on a bus carrying 20 military hospital staff—nurses, pharmacists, cleaners and others—in Aden’s Sayla commercial district just before rush hour, killing 8 people, including 2 women, and wounding 12, 5 seriously. The gunman escaped in a car. AQAP was suspected.

June 15—Pakistan—The Pakistani government said that overnight airstrikes killed 150 terrorists, including Uzbeks, in the northwest tribal regions near the Afghan border.

June 15—Iraq—Bombings in Baghdad killed at least 15 people.

June 15—Sri Lanka—During nighttime attacks, mobs from Bodu Bala Sena (Buddhist Power Force) threw Molotov cocktails, defaced mosques, and looted homes and businesses in the Muslim towns of Darga Nagar, Aluthgama, and Beruwala, killing 3 Muslims and seriously wounding 51.

June 15—China—During the evening, 3 individuals armed with knives and axes ran into a card room in Hotan city in Xinjiang Province, attacking people playing chess. The civilians fought back and sent out an alarm, which drew local shopkeepers to the area, encircling the attackers. Armed security forces killed 2 attackers and wounded and arrested the third. Four civilians were wounded.

On June 22, 2014, China Central Television showed teenage suspect Mu’er Zhati (Xinhua News Agency corrected the name to Murzahti, age 19) confessing and apologizing in Uighur, and saying he had been influenced to conduct jihad. Xinhua said his accomplices were Abduzahir and Abdughappar.

June 15–16—Kenya—Dozens of al-Shabaab members, including several in minivans that arrived at 8 p.m., attacked hotels, a police station, a bank and other locations in coastal Mpeketoni for several hours during the night and early morning. More than 60 people died, including non–Muslims who could not answer questions about Islam and those who did not speak Somali. Two hotels were torched, as were other buildings and at least 20 cars. The gunmen fled into the nearby Boni Forest.

Anne Gathigi told the press, “They came to our house at around 8 p.m. and asked us in Swahili whether we were Muslims. My husband told them we were Christians and they shot him in the head and chest.” John Waweru added that the gunmen killed his 2 brothers, who did not speak Somali. “My brothers who stay next door to me were killed as I watched. I was peeping from my window and I clearly heard them speak to my brothers in Somali and it seems since my brothers did not meet their expectations, they sprayed them with bullets and moved on.”

Moving on to the Breeze View Hotel, the gunmen segregated the genders and told the women to watch as they killed the men, saying they were avenging Kenyan soldiers’ actions in Somalia.

The government attributed the attack to a gang paid by politicians, despite al-Shabaab claims of responsibility.

On June 20, 2014, Kenya’s Interior Ministry said security forces shot to death 5 suspects. Police re­covered 3 AK-47 assault rifles and ammunition. 14061501

June 16—Egypt—Jihadis kidnapped Coptic Christian merchant Gamal Shenouda near his ­el-Arish home in a daytime attack.

June 16—Spain—The Spanish Interior Ministry announced the morning arrest in Madrid of 8 people suspected of recruiting jihadis to fight for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Iraq and Syria. Nine jihadis had already traveled to the war zone. The next day, police said they were holding 10 people, including 8 Moroccans or men born in Morocco, an Argentine, and a Bulgarian. The Ministry said the cell was headed by Moroccan Lahcen Ikassrien, an individual living in Spain who was held in Gitmo after his 2001 arrest in Afghanistan. He was extradited to Spain in 2005, and acquitted for lack of evidence in 2006.

June 16—Israel—During the night, the Israeli Army shot one of several Palestinians trying to set fire to the fence surrounding a West Bank Jewish settlement. He was treated in a Ramallah hospital with gunshot wounds to the chest and stomach.

June 16—Malaysia—Two Filipino gunmen kidnapped a 32-year-old Malaysian fish breeder and his Filipino worker from a fish farm on Borneo island in a morning attack. Police reported that the hostages were taken to the southern Philippines via speedboat. The Filipino hostage jumped off the boat and escaped. Abu Sayyaf was suspected. 14061601

June 16—Afghanistan—The Taliban set off a roadside bomb in Kandahar Province that killed 5 family members, including 3 children.

June 16—Pakistan—Pakistani jets bombed 6 terrorist safe havens in the Shawal area of North Waziristan, killing 37 terrorists. Authorities also killed 7 terrorists trying to escape from Mir Ali in North Waziristan. Government snipers killed 3 terrorists trying to set roadside bombs near Miran Shah. Three soldiers were injured in gun battles with the terrorists.

Gunmen set off a roadside bomb, killing 6 Pakistani soldiers and wounding 3.

The Pakistani Taliban warned international investors, foreign airlines and multinational organizations to leave the country or be targeted as supporters of the government. Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said the group would torch the mansions of the country’s rulers in Islamabad and Lahore.

June 16—Kenya—Al-Shabaab attacked Majembeni village during the night, killing 9 people. On June 20, 2014, Kenya’s Interior Ministry said security forces shot to death 5 suspects. Police recovered 3 AK-47 assault rifles and ammunition. 14061602

June 16—Philippines—Security forces captured Abu Sayyaf terrorists Jimmy Nurilla and Bakrin Haris in a raid on their hideout in Sangali village in the port city of Zamboanga. One terrorist escaped. Authorities seized explosives and rebel documents. Authorities believed Nurilla was involved in several kidnappings, including the 2011 kidnappings of U.S. citizen Kevin Lunsmann, then 14, and Warren Rich­ard Rodwell, a former Australian soldier who was freed near southern Pagadian city in March 2013 after 15 months of jungle captivity.

June 16—Iraq—During the night, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant gunmen attacked a police station in an attempt to spring detainees, all suspected Sunni terrorists, from its jail. Reports differed. One account said at least 44 detainees died when Shi’ite militiamen turned their guns on the prisoners during the fighting in the ­al-Kattoun district near Baqouba, capital of Diyala Province. Iraqi military spokesman Lt. Gen. Qassim ­al-Moussawi said that 52 detainees held at the station died from mortars fired by the attackers. Nine attackers were killed.

June 17—Syria—A car bomb in went off near the offices of the Nusra Front and the separate group Ahrar ­al-Sham in Shmeitiyeh, Deir ­el-Zour Province, killing 5 people, including a local Ahrar ­al-Sham commander and an Islamic judge affiliated with the Nusra Front.

An Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant suicide bomber set off his explosive belt outside the home of a rival rebel commander in Huwayej, Deir ­el-Zour Province, wounding him and killing 2 of his sons, the Observatory said.

June 17—Ukraine—Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said investigators were exploring whether terrorism was involved in an explosion at a Ukrainian state gas company Naftogaz pipeline carrying Russian natural gas in the Poltava region across Ukraine to Europe. The previous day, Russia cut gas supplies to Ukraine because of a clash regarding price and overdue payments. No injuries were reported.

June 17—Iraq—A bomb in Sadr City killed 10 people.

June 17—France—In morning raids, authorities in the Gard and Vaucluse region arrested 4 French citizens, including 2 women, and 2 men who had spent time in Syria, as part of the ongoing terrorism investigation. A judge wanted to question them for alleged criminal association in view of preparing a terror act.

June 17—Nigeria—A suicide bomber detonated a tricycle taxi bomb at an outdoor World Cup viewing center in Damaturu during the night, killing at least 7 people and critically wounding at least 15. The blast went off at the start of the ­Brazil-Mexico match.

June 17–18—U.S.—Police in central Texas arrested 2 men on charges of attempting “to provide material support to terrorists” who were fighting in Syria. On June 17, authorities at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston detained Michael Wolfe, alias Faruq. Police arrested Rahatul Ashikim Kahn, 23, at his home in the Austin suburb of Round Rock on various terrorism charges, including “committing violent jihad,” according to court documents unsealed on June 18. The criminal complaint said, “Wolfe planned to travel to the Middle East to provide his services to radical groups engaged in armed conflict in Syria.” The affidavit said he told an informant in May 2014 that he and his wife planned to give part of their $5,000 tax refund to her mother, with the rest fi­nancing his travel to Syria. The detainees faced 15 years in prison. A detention hearing was scheduled for June 20.

June 18—Guantanamo Bay—The U.S. arraigned Abd ­al-Hadi ­al-Iraqi, 53, on war crimes charges. He was accused of being an ­al-Qaeda commander who worked with Taliban forces in Afghanistan to attack U.S. and allied forces, organizing suicide and roadside bombings that violated international rules of war. He faced life in prison.

June 18—Iraq—Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said it had received reports that ISIL had kidnapped 60 foreign construction workers, including some 15 Turks, who were building a hospital near Kirkuk. The private Dogan news agency said the other hostages were from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Turkmenistan, citing a worker who had been freed by the gunmen. 14061801

June 18—Iraq—India’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said 40 Indian citizens working for Tariq Noor ­al-Huda, a Turkish construction company in Mosul, were kidnapped. Gurprender Kaur told the media that her brother, one of the abductees, phoned her on June 15 to say that the workers were alone, in trouble and needed help. AP reported on November 28, 2014, that Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj believed that 39 workers abducted in June 2014 by the Islamic State group in Mosul were alive despite claims by one who escaped that the others had been killed. They were employed by a Turkish construction company. 14061802

June 18—Somalia—A remotely-detonated bomb hidden in a doctor’s car went off in Mogadishu’s Keysaney Hospital’s parking lot, killing the doctor and a nurse and wounding a female patient waiting for an operation. The hospital is run by the Somali Red Crescent Society and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

June 18—Germany—Germany’s annual report on extremist activities logged 473 xenophobic attacks in 2013, up from 393 in 2012, rising to the highest level since 2006. Membership in ­far-right groups dropped to 21,700 from 22,150, but those believed potentially violent remained at 9,600 people. The far left included 27,700 extremists, down from 2012’s 29,400, including 6,900 believed potentially violent, again down from the previous year’s 7,100. Salafists rose from 4,500 in 2012 to 5,500 in 2013.

June 18—Yemen—Security forces in Hodeida Province arrested ­Abdel-Rahman Shoueib, aka Abu Musab, an AQAP leader involved in orchestrating abductions of foreigners and looting banks. The government said he led an attack on a checkpoint that killed 2 soldiers in April.

Authorities in Sana’a arrested 3 suspected ter­rorists in a hotel who were allegedly planning an attack.

June 18—Nigeria—Reuters quoted government officials as saying that Boko Haram planned to attack Abuja with ­bomb-laden petrol trucks.

June 18—Sudan—Gunmen kidnapped 25 Sudanese relief workers in North Darfur. Twenty were freed that day; 2 others were freed a fortnight later. Still held was a Sudanese who worked for UNICEF and 2 others who worked for the Irish humanitarian agency GOAL. On July 19, 2014, AP reported that the trio were freed unharmed. 14061803

June 19—India—Senior police officer Abdul Ghani Mir said authorities conducted a raid on Hizbul Mujahideen rebels in Buchoo village in the ­Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, killing 3 rebels. Two soldiers were wounded in the clash.

June 19—Afghanistan—In an early morning attack, 3 Taliban suicide bombers hit NATO fuel trucks in a parking lot of the NATO outpost near the Torkham border crossing in eastern Afghanistan, destroying 37 trucks. One attacker set off his explosives; police guards killed the other 2 terrorists. 14061901

June 19—Philippines—A dawn gun battle between the government and Abu Sayyaf in the jungles outside Patikul in Sulu Province killed 6 soldiers and a marine and wounded 24 marines and soldiers. The soldiers were hit by mortar fire at a base that also injured 13, 3 seriously. Ten terrorists died. The terrorists were believed led by Hairullah Asbang, believed responsible for recent ransom kidnappings.

June 19—Nigeria—The government said that security forces had killed 10 Boko Haram members in Borno State.

June 20—Lebanon—A suicide car bomber set off his explosives near a police checkpoint in the eastern town of Dahr ­el-Baidar, killing a police officer and wounding 20, including 6 police officers. The checkpoint was at the entrance to eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley on a busy highway that links Beirut and Damascus, Syria. The convoy of Major General Abbas Ibrahim, chief of the General Security Directorate, had driven past the site minutes earlier. No one immediately claimed credit. Security forces raided 2 hotels in Beirut’s Hamra district in searches for suspected terrorists, detaining 30 people, some of whom had entered Lebanon carrying Arab passports. Among the detainees were 12 ISIS members arrested at a West Beirut hotel in the city’s business district. They were suspected of plotting to assassinate parliamentarian Nabih Berri, leader of Lebanon’s Amal movement, a Shi’ite political party allied with Hizballah.

June 20—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb killed 3 U.S. troops and a working dog in southern Afghanistan. 14062001

June 20—China—Blade-wielding assailants stabbed 2 police officers guarding a security checkpoint in a village in Qaraqash County, Xinjiang Province. Village chief Atawulla Qasim told Radio Free Asia that the attackers moved to a room where 3 police officers were sleeping, locked the door from outside, poured gas into the room through a chimney, and set fire to it. All 5 officers died. Chinese authorities labeled the perpetrators as inhumane terrorists.

June 21—Nigeria—Gunmen kidnapped 60 girls and women and 31 boys from villages, including Kummabza, in northeast Nigeria. Four villagers were killed. Security forces denied that the kidnappings occurred.

Scores of Boko Haram gunmen attacked 4 other villages near Chibok, leaving 33 villages, 6 vigilantes, and 24 Boko Haram terrorists dead.

On July 7, 2014, Chibok local government chairman Pogu Bitrus said that 63 kidnapped women and girls escaped on July 3 and 4 while their abductors were attacking a military barracks and police headquarters in Damboa.

June 21—Somalia—A bomb planted under the seat of a car killed Yusuf Keynan when he turned the ignition. He was going to work at Mustaqbal radio in Mogadishu.

June 21—China—Terrorists rammed their truck into a police building and set off explosives in Kashgar prefecture in Xinjiang Province’s southwest, wounding 3 police officers. Police shot dead the 13 assailants. No civilians were hurt, according to the Tianshan website.

June 21—Yemen—AQAP was suspected when 2 gunmen on a motorcycle shot to death Brigadier General Abdullah ­al-Mehdar, a member of the committee assigned to restructure the armed forces, in front of his Sana’a home. He was seriously injured in a bombing in front of his home in 2013 and was flown to Jordan for treatment.

June 22—Israel—An explosive device fired from Syria hit a civilian water tanker in the area of Tel Hazeka, near the Quneitra border crossing in the ­Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, killing a 15-year-old boy and wounding 2 other people. The tanker was doing work for the Israeli Defense Ministry and was driving along a fence that Israel had built along the Syrian border.

June 23—Bangladesh—Judge Ruhul Amin in a court in Dhaka sentenced 8 people, including the leader of the banned group Harkatul Jihad, Mufti Abdul Hannan, to death for their roles in a bombing at a Bengali New Year’s celebration concert in a Dhaka park in April 2001 that killed 10 people and injured dozens. A younger brother of a Cabinet member of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia was also sentenced to death. Six others were sentenced to life. Four defendants were tried in absentia. Defense attorney Faruque Ahmed planned to appeal.

June 23—China—Chinese authorities announced that they had broken up 32 terror groups, arrested more than 380 suspects, and confiscated hundreds of explosive devices, tons of explosive material and computers and books about terrorism and religious extremism, in Xinjiang region in the previous month.

June 23—Iraq—Gunmen attacked a police convoy transporting inmates from a prison in Hilla to a prison north of Baghdad. During the gun battle, 71 prisoners, 5 police officers, and 5 terrorists were killed.

June 23—United Arab Emirates—The State Security Circuit at the Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi convicted 7 people of participation in a group linked to ­al-Qaeda, recruiting people to join the terrorist group’s Nusra Front affiliate in Syria, and collecting money to finance terrorism abroad. One defendant was sentenced to life in prison; the other 6 were sentenced to 7 years. Two of the latter were fined $272,000. One defendant was convicted in absentia. Two others charged were acquitted for lack of evidence. The defendants were ordered to be deported after serving their sentences.

June 23—Nigeria—A bomb went off at the medical School of Hygiene in Kano, killing 8 and wounding 12. A suspect was detained and his vehicle was held for inspection. Boko Haram was suspected.

June 23—Central African Republic—A Christian anti–Balaka militia attacked the village of ­Ardo-Djobi in the morning, killing 18 Fulani tribe members. One militiaman died.

June 23—Iraq—Sabah ­Al-Nouman, spokesman for Iraq’s counterterrorism service, told CNN that 2 senior Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) leaders—Algerian citizen Abu Omar ­al-Baghdadi and Abu Hafsa, the ­self-proclaimed governor of Tikrit—were killed in evening airstrikes in Tikrit.

June 24—Lebanon—After midnight, a suicide car bomber hit a checkpoint near the Abu Assaf café in Beirut’s Shatila neighborhood, killing security officer ­Abdul-Karim Hodroj and injuring 20 people watching the World Cup soccer matches.

June 24—Iraq—The ­state-run Iraqiya news agency said that Iraqi special forces killed Abu Qutada, an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) leader who led the attacks against the Baiji refinery in Salaheddin Province.

June 24—Afghanistan—Gunmen threw hand gre­nades and fired at a police checkpoint near a bazaar in Obey District in Herat Province, killing 2 police officers and 2 civilians and wounding 2 police officers and 5 civilians.

Three terrorists died during the night when a roadside bomb they were planting in the Domanda district in eastern Khost Province exploded prematurely.

June 24—Pakistan—During the evening, a gun-man fired 5 bullets at Pakistan International Air-lines Flight PK756, an Airbus A310 carrying 178 passengers from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as it was coming in to Peshawar airport, killing female passenger ­Matnoon Bibi, 50, and wounding 2 other people. 14062401

June 24—Iran—Gunmen killed 3 Iranian border guards, including a border outpost commander, on nighttime patrol in western Kermanshah Province, on the Iraqi border. Iran blamed an unspecified “terrorist group.”

June 24—Nigeria—During the night, Boko Haram overran a military checkpoint in the northeast, killing 21 soldiers and taking others hostage.

June 24—Ukraine—Pro-Russian separatists shot down a Ukrainian military helicopter using a ­shoulder-fired missile, killing 9 servicemen in an attack in Slovyansk.

June 24—Worldwide—The UN Environment Program said that environmental crimes, including elephant tusk poaching and selling illegal charcoal, were financing terrorists, criminals, and militias. UNEP said ­al-Shabaab netted $38 million to $56 million from illegal charcoal annually. The Lord’s Resistance Army made $4 million to $12 million tracking in ivory. Illegal logging netted $30 million to $100 billion annually.

June 25—Morocco—The Interior Ministry announced it had arrested 6 men in Fez, including one earlier detained for terrorism. The cell was recruiting Moroccans to fight for extremist groups in Iraq and Syria.

June 25—Yemen—Drive-by gunmen assassinated intelligence Colonel Khaled ­al-Khawlani in front of his Sana’a house. He was investigating AQAP cells suspected of being behind recent abductions and killings of foreigners.

June 25—Egypt—Bombs went off at 3 subway stations in central and northern Cairo and under a car outside a court building in the upscale Heliopolis district, injuring 8. Authorities accused the Muslim Brotherhood. In one of the subway attacks, one of the injured was a man who carried the explosive in his backpack. In another, the bomb was hidden in a garbage can. Sniffer dogs found other bombs outside the court building and in a fourth metro station.

June 25—India—Maoist rebels were suspected when 2 trains derailed in eastern Indian, killing 4 people. Eleven coaches of the Rajdhani Express passenger train, which was carrying 500 passengers from New Delhi to Dibrugarh, went off the tracks near Chha­pra, Bihar State, killing 4 injuring 8. A second freight train derailed in nearby Motihari, causing no casualties.

June 25—Afghanistan—A remotely-detonated bomb hidden in a push cart went off in the morn-ing near the governor’s building in Dawlat Abad district, Faryab Province, killing 4 and wounding 13 civilians.

Two rockets landed near Kabul airport during the night, wounding 4 civilians, including a woman, inside a house that was hit. The second rocket caused no damage when it landed in an open area.

Attacks by 600 Taliban in Helmand killed 35 civilians.

June 25—Nigeria—An explosion in the Emab Plaza shopping mall in Abuja’s upscale Wuse 11 suburb killed 22 people, including Suleiman Bisalla, Muhammad Maina Bissala, and artist Abba Kura, and wounded 17, including Donald Chikason, who was burned. One person’s leg was amputated. Boko Haram was suspected. A guard argued with the car bomber before he could drive inside the mall, probably preventing further casualties. Soldiers shot and killed a suspect escaping on a power bike; police arrested a second suspect. Nigerians were gathering to watch the ­Nigeria-Argentina World Cup match.

June 25—Iraq—A suicide bomber set off his explosives around sunset at an outdoor market in Mahmoudiya, killing 13 people and wounding 25.

June 25—China—The Xinjiang government announced sentences by courts in 11 counties and cities in the Kashgar region of 113 people in 69 cases to jail terms ranging from 10 years to life for terrorist activities and other crimes. Those sentenced had Uighur names. Charges included “being involved in organizing, leading and participating in a terrorist organization, inciting ethnic hatred and ethnic discrimination,” bigamy, drug trafficking, and robbery. Four people received life sentences, 2 of them for organizing and leading terror groups after they viewed terrorism materials, spread extreme religious thoughts and plotted terror activities, according to Tianshan.net. A man operating a Kashgar cutlery shop was sentenced to 10 years for selling 2 hatchets, 2 kitchen cleavers and 2 daggers to a man who used them in an attack that killed 2 and injured one person. The knife vendor destroyed the relevant sales registration book and was convicted of harboring criminals. Another man was sentenced to 10 years for forwarding to 7 friends private messages allegedly inciting ethnic hatred and racial discrimination.

June 25—Lebanon—A Saudi terrorist suspect set off his bomb as General Security Directorate forces raided his 4th-floor room in the Duroy Hotel in central Beirut’s Raouche district during the night. Eleven people, including 3 security officers, were wounded. The explosion started a fire on the third floor. His Saudi accomplice survived and was arrested. The 2 entered Lebanon using Saudi passports on June 11. The ­al-Qaeda–inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed credit on June 27, and said dozens of terrorists were planning similar attacks. On July 20, 2014, Lebanese special forces raided an apartment complex, killing Monzer ­al-Hassan, a dual ­Swedish-Lebanese citizen wanted in the attack. Authorities believe ­al-Hassan transported explosives to 2 Saudi Arabian suicide bombers. The national news service said ­al-Hassan was killed in a ­shoot-out; a jihadi website said he set off a suicide belt. Elsewhere, Lebanese forces arrested Hussam ­al-Sabbagh, a dual ­Lebanese-Australian citizen, whom state media said was responsible for “terrorist acts.” 14062501

June 26—Philippines—The U.S. Pacific Command announced it was deactivating the Joint Special Operations Task Force Philippines (JSOTF-P), which had aided the Philippines in combating Abu Sayyaf during the previous decade. ­JSOTF-P had provided advice, training, military equipment and intelligence, including drone surveillance.

June 26—Yemen—AQAP came from 3 directions in an early morning attack on the Sayoun Airport in Hadramawt Province and bombed the facility’s air control tower. At least 15 people died. A plane en route to Dubai from Sana’a was caught in the crossfire.

A suicide car bomb destroyed large parts of an adjacent ­date-processing plant, killing at least 9 civilians, including 2 children and a woman. Police believed he was targeting a nearby military barracks, but was stopped by security forces.

Meanwhile, AQAP members in ­pick-up trucks shelled the main post office, setting parts of the building on fire. Security guards forced them to flee.

Authorities said that the combined attacks killed 6 soldiers and wounded several others.

June 26—Afghanistan—A NATO service member was killed in an attack in the south. 14062601

June 26—Libya—Salwa Bugaighis, a lawyer and rights activist, died from a bullet to the head during the evening in Benghazi. Hours earlier, she had voted in Libya’s parliamentary elections.

June 26—Somalia—A suicide bomber and gunmen attacked the Amalow Hotel in ­Bulo-Burte, killing 3 people. African Union troops are housed in the hotel in central Somalia. An ­al-Shabaab suicide bomber and gunmen attacked the hotel in March, killing 5 people. 14062602

June 28—Egypt—A homemade bomb placed in a government telecommunication building under construction in Cairo’s 6 October district went off, kill­ing a girl, wounding her mother, the wife of the building’s guard, and damaging a mobile communication tower, cutting off access for 800 clients.

Gunmen killed 2 civilians during the evening in ­el-Arish in the northern Sinai Peninsula. The terrorists fired outside a police officer’s home as he was escorting 2 repairmen outside the front door. The officer was unharmed.

June 28—Israel—Six rockets were fired from Gaza during the evening. Two hit a Sderot factory, setting it on fire.

June 28—Yemen—Yemeni soldiers foiled a morning AQAP attack on a military hospital in Hadramawt Province, sparking a ­one-hour gun battle in which 4 terrorists and 2 soldiers died.

June 29—Somalia—Al-Shabaab was suspected in the killing of 3 soldiers in Mogadishu.

June 29—Nigeria—Gunmen fired on worshippers and set on fire 4 churches (including the Protestant Church of Christ in Nigeria, the Pentecostal Deeper Life Bible Church and Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa, which is Hausa for Church of the Brethren in Nigeria, founded by missionaries from Illinois in the 1920s) in Kwada village, a few miles from Chibok. Boko Haram was suspected. Thirty bodies were recovered. The terrorists next attacked Kautikari, shooting villagers and burning down homes.

June 29—Israel—The Israeli army intercepted 2 rockets fired out of Gaza. Meanwhile, Gaza gunmen fired at Israeli soldiers operating along the Gaza border. Israeli forces fired back, killing a member of Hamas’s military wing.

June 29—Thailand—Separate ­drive-by shootings in Yala and Pattani Provinces killed one soldier and one civilian.

June 29—Iraq/Syria—Abu Mohammad ­al-Adnani, spokesman for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, announced that its shura council had established a Muslim caliphate in the area it controlled, and named its caliph as Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi, leader of ISIS. The group would now be known as the Islamic State. The group’s announcement came at the start of Ramadan, and on the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, which led to the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, the last caliphate. At least 12 million people lived in territory the group had taken over in battles with the Syrian and Iraqi regimes, but the group claimed suzerainty over the world’s 1.2 billion Muslims. ­Al-Adnani said on an Internet audio posting that all Muslims were subject to its authority, observing “Indeed, it is the state. Indeed, it is the khliafah. It is time for you to end this abhorrent partisanship, dispersion, and division, for this condition is not from the religion of Allah at all. And if you forsake the State or wage war against it, you will not harm it. You will only harm yourselves…. The legality of all emirates, groups, states and organizations becomes null by the expansion of the caliph’s authority and the arrival of its troops to their areas. Listen to your caliph and obey him. Support your state, which grows every day.”

June 30—Thailand—Just before dawn, after the start of Ramadan, gunmen fired rifles at a mosque in the Panare District in Pattani Province where a dozen Muslims were praying, killing a 66-year-old man and injuring a 47-year-old man with gunshot wounds in his arm and leg. The gunmen escaped.

June 30—Israel—Terrorists fired 14 rockets from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel in the morning, damaging 2 homes. Two Israelis were treated at hospital for shock.

June 30—Somalia—A remotely-detonated land mine went off at a business center in northern Mogadishu, killing a soldier and a civilian woman, tearing roofs off shops and destroying business stalls.

June 30—Egypt—Three homemade bombs went off less than 20 yards away from the walls of the Ittihadiya presidential palace in the upscale Heliopolis district in eastern Cairo, killing 2 senior police officers and injuring 10 other people. The first bomb slightly wounded 3 street cleaners. The other 2 went off when first responders arrived and a bomb squad was trying to defuse the bombs, killing a police colonel and a lieutenant colonel, and wounding 7 other people. A fourth bomb was defused. On July 1, Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt) claimed credit.

June 30—Mali—A UN peacekeeper died and 6 were injured, 3 seriously, when their vehicle struck a land mine 30 kilometers west of Timbuktu. UN Secretary General Ban ­Ki-moon said the peacekeepers were from Burkina Faso. 14063001

June 30—Iraq—Three mortar rounds wounded 9 people when they landed near the gate of a Shi’ite shrine in Samarra.

June 30—U.S.—A California court sentenced Sinh Vinh Ngo Nguyen, 25, of Garden Grove, to 13 years in federal prison. He pleaded guilty in December 2013 to attempting to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization. He had told an undercover FBI agent of his plans to conduct jihad and travel to Pakistan to train with ­al-Qaeda. In his plea agreement, he said he met someone he believed to be al ­al-Qaeda recruiter several times between August and October 2013. Nguyen agreed to go to Pakistan via Mexico to train 30 ­al-Qaeda members for an ambush on coalition troops. Psychiatrists said he had a personality disorder and was in treatment, according to his lawyer.

June—Iraq—The UN reported that more than 2,400 people were killed in Iraq in June, the highest monthly total for 2014.

June—Iraq—On September 3, 2014, Human Rights Watch reported that the Islamic State killed between 560 and 770 Iraqi soldiers they captured when they overran Camp Speicher, an air base near Tikrit.

Late June–early July—Nigeria—A female suicide bomber blew herself up in front of a military camp in Gombe.

July—Nigeria—Boko Haram kidnapped German citizen Robert Nitsch Eberhard. He was a teacher in northeastern Nigeria. On January 21, 2015, ABC News reported that he was freed, saying, “Until the last minute I did not know if I will survive or I will not survive. It was for me a big problem because there was darkness, totally dark and then you see nobody around you and this is a big problem to say if I will survive or I will not survive.” He said he was kept in a dirty room and had lost 110 pounds. “You had a long time where nobody talks with you. Nobody.” German ambassador to Cameroon ­Klaus-Ludwig Keferstein said “We are very grateful to Cameroon government that we could find a solution to the problem of this hostage taking.” 14079901

July 1—Northern Ireland—Northern Ireland prosecutors dropped murder charges against Sean Mc­Veigh, 33, in connection with an Irish Republican Army fatal shooting in November 2012 of prison guard David Black, 52, as he drove to work. His attorneys said they would sue Northern Ireland’s police and prosecution office over his 2 months’ imprisonment awaiting trial. He was arrested in February 2014. In April 2014, a Belfast judge granted him bail, saying the evidence against him was weak.

July 1—Nigeria—Boko Haram was suspected when a bomb exploded at 8 a.m. under a load of charcoal in a pickup van in a Maiduguri market, killing 56. Witnesses saw about 50 bodies. Five cars and a few tricycle taxis were damaged by fire.

July 1—Norway—Norwegian intelligence service spokesman Martin Bernsen told the media it was searching for Bastian Vasquez, ­Norwegian-born Muslim suspected of “joining and/or supporting” ISIL in Syria. He was earlier suspected of threatening the lives of the Norwegian prime minister and members of the royal family before he went to Syria. Officials said he was in a video clip apparently released by ISIL the previous weekend that depicted the bombing of a Syrian police station.

July 1—Tunisia—A bomb killed 4 soldiers and 2 police officers.

July 2—Tunisia—A mine killed 4 soldiers who were chasing jihadis in Kef region’s Mount Ouergha near the Algerian border.

July 2—Lebanon—Two terrorists on a motorcycle threw a grenade into a Tripoli coffee shop, wounding 4.

July 2—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide bomber set off his explosives next to an Afghan military bus, killing 8 air force members and one civilian, and wounding 20 other people, many of them military personnel on the bus. He failed to gain entry to the bus, which was at a bus stop for army troops near Kabul University.

July 2—Gaza—In the evening, 8 rockets were fired at southern Israel, causing no casualties or damage.

July 2—Israel—Judge Jacob Zaban announced on November 30, 2015, the convictions of 2 Israeli youths of kidnapping, beating, and burning alive Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdeir, 16. The court delayed the verdict for Yosef Haim Ben David, 31, the third and chief suspect in the case, due to a ­last-minute insanity plea. The court found the 2 Israeli minors guilty in July 2014. The sentencing of the 2 was expected in mid–January 2016. Ben David was represented by attorney Asher Ohayon. Attorney Avi Himi represented one of the youths, who were 16 at the time of the attack.

July 3—Egypt—A suspected jihadi was killed when his homemade bomb went off prematurely in Kirdasah, west of Cairo. The bomb wounded another man.

A small bomb exploded near an air force hospital in Cairo, causing no injuries.

Bombs went off at a police station and a railway station in Assiut, causing no injuries.

July 3—Somalia—Drive-by ­al-Shabaab gunmen killed Somali parliamentarian Mohamed Mohamud Heyd and his bodyguard and injured another lawmaker and a parliamentary aide in Mogadishu. The victims were on their way to attend a parliamentary meeting in Mogadishu when their car was fired on near the presidential palace.

July 3—Iraq—India’s Foreign Ministry said gunmen kidnapped nearly 50 Indian nurses from a Tikrit hospital, forcing them into 2 buses.

July 4—Yemen—A suicide car bomber hit the Yemeni side of the ­al-Wadia border post with Saudi Arabia, killing a Yemeni soldier and wounding another. Other gunmen fled in 2 cars toward Saudi Arabia, killing 4 Saudi border guards, including a Saudi border guard commander. Saudi border guards killed 3 gunmen and arrested another. Saudi Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour ­al-Turki said that border guards suspected that one or 2 gunmen escaped. On July 8, ­al-Turki said 6 Saudi members of AQAP who are on a wanted list were behind the attack. One was arrested; 5 remained at large. He said the attack killed 6 soldiers while 5 terrorists died. 14070401

July 4—Nigeria—The Nigerian military claimed it had killed 53 gunmen who tried to attack bases and police stations in Damboa in Borno State. Five soldiers and a senior officer died; several others were wounded. Boko Haram was suspected.

Authorities arrested 3 women for secretly recruiting members for the female wing of Boko Haram. Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, director of defense information, said they enticed “them with male suitors who are mainly members of their terror group, for marriage.”

July 4—Bahrain—A bomb went off in Eker, killing police officer Mahmood Fareed.

July 5—Somalia—An ­al-Shabaab car bomb exploded at a checkpoint near the parliament building in Mogadishu, killing 4 people, including soldiers and refugees from an internal refugee camp near the check point. Troops had ordered the driver out of the car; he then set off the bomb, which also wounded 7 children from the camp.

July 5—Libya—A bomb went off in the car of a Libyan commando as he was driving in Benghazi, killing him and injuring his son’s hand and face.

July 5—Libya—Gunmen kidnapped 3 foreigners, including Marco Vallisa, 53, an Italian construction worker affiliated with the Italian building group Piacentini Costruzioni, Bosnian Petar Matic and Emilio Gafuri from Macedonia, in Zuwara (variant Zuara). AFP reported that Italian aid workers Vanessa Mar­zullo and Greta Ramelli were believed kidnapped. The discrepancy in names could be a garble. The trio worked for an Italian construction firm in Zuwara, near the Tunisian border. Authorities arrested a Libyan suspect. On July 7, Macedonia’s Foreign Ministry said a Macedonian—Miljazim Gafuri, 29—and a Bosnian engineer were found by Libyan authorities. On November 13, 2014, AFP reported that Vallisa was freed.

Reuters and CNN reported on December 31, 2014 that the Nusra Front released a video showing Italian citizens Greta Ramelli, 20, and Vanessa Marzullo, 21, who were kidnapped in July. One held a sign dated December 17, 2014. One read from a prepared statement in English, “We supplicate our government and its militaries to bring us back home before Christmas. We are in big danger and we could be killed. The government and its militaries are re­sponsible (for) our lives.” The 2 aid workers had been working on humanitarian projects in Aleppo. 14070501

July 5—Afghanistan—The Taliban set fire to 400 fuel tanker trucks, many belonging to NATO forces, in a parking lot near Kabul. Truck driver Juma Gul, 35, told the media, “We couldn’t tell if the attackers were Taliban or other people. They were dressed in uniforms. We couldn’t understand what was happening. They were shooting toward the drivers and they were setting the tankers on fire. The gunmen were targeting any of the drivers who wanted to return to their trucks.” 14070502

July 6—Kenya—Al-Shabaab attacked 2 Kenyan coastal counties during the night, killing 22 people. ­Al-Shabaab claimed it had killed 50. Spokesman Sheikh Abdiaziz Abu Musab told Somalia’s Radio Andalus “Our fighters came back their base unharmed after the attacks.”

Fifteen gunmen killed 13 people after midnight at a trading center in Malamandi village in Hindi town in Lamu County.

Terrorists killed another 9 during an attack on the police station in Gamba in Tana River County. The terrorists carjacked a truck, killed its 3 occupants, and drove to the police station. Among the dead were 5 non–Muslim inmates at the police station and a police officer. Five other police officers were wounded. Three other prisoners escaped with the gunmen. One person was missing from Gamba. 14070601-02

July 6—Uganda—Paddy Ankunda, spokesman for the Uganda People’s Defence Forces, told the press that gunmen from a local militia used guns and crude weapons to kill 17 people, including 3 police officers and 5 soldiers, in attacks on 3 police stations and a military barracks in western Uganda. He said 41 terrorists were killed and 12 captured during the evening raids. The attackers stole 13 guns from the police stations they raided. He said the raiders were not connected to the jihadi rebel group ­ADF-NALU, which attacked the local population in the late 1990s and early 2000s before it fled into the jungles of the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. On July 7, Ugandan military spokesman Lt. Ninsiima Rwemijuma said 60 attackers were killed and another 80 were arrested. 14070603

July 6—Israel—Gaza terrorists fired more than 15 rockets and mortars into Israel, causing no injuries. 14070604

July 7—Afghanistan—Gunmen attacked a police vehicle, killing the Sher Ahmad district police chief and 4 other policemen and wounding another officer in Herat Province’s Farsi district.

July 7—Lebanon—A Lebanese military prosecutor charged 28 Islamic State members with planning “terrorist suicide attacks with explosive belts and car bombs” in Lebanon and belonging to the group. Only 7 were in detention, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency. They all could face the death penalty.

July 7—Central African Republic—Jihadis killed 17 people and wounded 10 in the St. Joseph Cathedral of Bambari, a Catholic church compound that was housing thousands of displaced civilians.

July 7—Israel—At least 200 rockets and mortars were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel during the weekend, including nearly 100 on July 7. Iron Dome defense systems knocked down 12 rockets. Israel conducted dozens of Operation Protective Edge air strikes, hitting nearly 100 targets in Gaza and killing 8 Palestinian activists, among them 8 Hamas gunmen killed in a tunnel packed with explosives.

July 7—Iraq—An Islamic State mortar killed Major General Najim Abdullah Ali, commander of the Iraqi Army’s 6th Division, who was at his headquarters in Ibrahim Bin Ali, a Sunni Muslim town 10 miles from central Baghdad, leading the defense of Baghdad’s western suburbs.

July 8—Israel—Fifteen rockets were fired from Gaza toward southern Israel, including Ashdod and Ashkelon. The Iron Dome missile defense system knocked down 5 projectiles. Debris fell onto the German cruise ship AIDAdiva as it was departing Ashdod port; none of the 2,700 vacationers and crew were injured and the ship went on to Crete. The military knocked down homes of Hamas militants identified as Eiad Sakik, Abdullah Hshash, Samer Abu Daka, and Hassan Abdullah. AP filmed Abu Daka and Abdullah’s demolished homes in the Khan Younis area of the Gaza Strip. The Israel Defense Forces also hit 3 militant compounds, 18 concealed rocket launders, a Hamas command center, and other infrastructure. 14070801

July 8—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide bicycle bomber set off his suicide vest at a medical clinic and killed 16 people, including 4 Czech International Security Assistance Force troops on patrol in Bagram, 2 Afghan police officers, and 10 civilians, and injuring 8 people, including a child. On July 14, the Czech Defense Ministry announced the death of a 5th soldier. 14070802

July 8—Israel—The Israeli military foiled an attempt by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to infiltrate a military base in southern Israel by sea, killing 4 Hamas attackers who had come ashore with hand grenades and assault rifles. An Israeli soldier was slightly injured.

July 8—Somalia—An ­al-Shabaab car bomber set off his explosives outside the presidential palace in Mogadishu. Gunmen dressed as government troops and armed with grenades then ran into the building, firing on guards. Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed and the speaker of parliament were inside the complex, where the gunmen split into different groups. Government troops and African Union peacekeepers retook the building after a 2-hour firefight. A police officer told the media he saw 9 bodies. 14070803

July 8—Kenya—Gunmen torched houses at a wild­life conservancy camp on the coast.

July 9—Iraq—Three car bombs exploded in a courthouse in Hilla, killing 5 and wounding 17.

July 9—Pakistan—Pakistani security forces captured Taliban commander Adnan Rashid, a former air force officer who was linked to a 2003 assassination attempt by a suicide bomber who tried to ram the car of former President Pervez Musharraf near Islamabad. Authorities raided a home in Shakai in the South Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan, capturing Rashid and 3 others. He was hiding at the home after fleeing from North Waziristan. Rashid was later convicted for the 2003 assassination attempt and imprisoned, but escaped during a 2012 jail break by the Pakistani Taliban. He was involved in several other terrorist attacks in Pakistan.

July 10—Thailand—Gunmen on a pickup truck killed 3 police officers, including a deputy district police commander, in Yala Province’s Krong Penang district. A local Muslim leader standing in front of a mosque was wounded.

July 10—China—Seven Xinjiang courts sentenced 32 people for downloading and spreading violent Internet content that authorities have blamed for inspiring a recent string of deadly attacks. Three, including Alijujiang Siyitiwumaier and Xiadawuti Maimaiti, were sentenced to life on charges of organizing and leading a terror group in Urumqi that relied on such content. The other 29 people were sentenced to 4 to 15 years. The Xinjiang Daily said that the defendants used cell phones and the Internet to download and spread audio clips and videos inciting separatism and religious extremism.

July 10—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb killed 7 police officers in Ghor Province’s Charsada District, sparking a 4-hour gun battle in which 8 Taliban terrorists died.

In the morning, the Taliban attacked a convoy of ­de-miners traveling through Herat Province near the Iranian border, killing 6 people and kidnapping 2 ­de-miners. The ­de-miners work for the ­UK-based HALO trust. 14071001

July 10—Philippines—The New People’s Army, wearing army uniforms, kidnapped 4 police officers from a police station in Alegria town in Surigao del Norte Province. Three terrorists died and 2 policemen were wounded in the ensuing gunfight. The NPA captured 6 police firearms. The kidnappers freed their hostages before dawn on July 29, 2014, in a remote village in Kitcharao town in Agusan del Norte.

July 11—France—Following a 15-day trial, a Paris court convicted 9 people of belonging to a terrorist network wrapped up in 2010 that trained in Afghanistan and planned attacks in France. The court sentenced the individuals to 2 to 8 years in prison. Three were tried in absentia; one was held in Turkey, 2 were at large. The prosecution had requested 10-year sentences for criminal association with a terrorist band in view of an attack.

July 11—Kenya—Gunmen attacked coastal Pandanguo village in Lamu County, locking up men praying in a mosque, stealing medical supplies from a local dispensary and seizing 6 rifles from police reservists.

July 11—Nigeria—Boko Haram was suspected of bombing a major bridge on a road between Maiduguri and Biu during the night, limiting access to base camps in the Sambisa Forest where scores of kidnapped girls were believed to be held captive.

July 11—Iraq—A suicide bomber killed 28 people in Kirkuk.

July 12—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb exploded under a civilian car, killing 8 people in Kandahar Province. Panjwayi District Police Chief Sultan Mohammad blamed the Taliban.

A bomb struck a vehicle in Jalalabad, killing a civilian and a police officer.

July 12—Pakistan—Just before dawn, 60 gunmen snuck across the Afghan border to attack an army post in the Ghakhi area of the Bajur tribal region, killing a Pakistani Army captain and 2 soldiers and injuring a soldier and a civilian cook.

July 12—Kenya—Two gunmen killed prominent businessman Mohamed Shahid Butt after their car blocked his vehicle in Mombasa. Butt was facing ­terrorism-related charges. Butt had picked up his son at the airport. In 2013, he appeared in court regarding allegations by authorities of incitement and funding ­terror-related activities.

July 12—Iraq—Gunmen wearing military uniforms and street clothes killed 35 people, including 29 women, in an attack on several apartments in the Zayona residential complexes being used as a brothel in eastern Baghdad. Residents blamed the Shi’ite Asa’b Ahl ­al-Haq organization, which denied that it had members in the city. The attackers left a message on a door: “This is the fate of any prostitution.”

A roadside bomb went off near a police convoy in Kirkuk, wounding 3 police officers.

July 12—Afghanistan—During the night, gunmen attacked Afghan police and army checkpoints in Aliangar district in eastern Laghman Province, killing 6 police officers and one soldier. Security forces returned fire, killing 15 gunmen.

Gunmen killed 3 police officers during a nighttime attack on a checkpoint in Shindand district in Herat Province.

In a nighttime attack, a Taliban suicide car bomber wounded 3 NATO troops in Nangarhar Province’s Behsud district.

July 12—Algeria—A remotely detonated bomb went off during the night, killing 3 soldiers and 4 local guards in Ain Kercha on a truck en route to their base.

July 13—Afghanistan—During the morning, gunmen attacked a police checkpoint in Shindand district in Herat Province, killing one police officer. Police killed 4 gunmen.

July 13—Egypt—Gunmen fired mortar rounds during the evening at a military post in ­el-Arish, killing a soldier and 7 civilians, including a 10-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy, in a residential complex in the ­al-Salam district. A supermarket, pharmacy and a residential building also were hit. Another 24 people were wounded, including an 11-year-old girl.

July 14—Mali—French soldier Dejvid Nikolic, 45, from the Genie 1st regiment, was killed in a suicide attack during a reconnaissance mission 60 miles from Gao. 14071401

July 15—Somalia—Authorities arrested more than 200 suspects in an attempt to stop a wave of ­al-Shabaab attacks in Mogadishu.

July 15—Israel—No one was injured when 3 rock-ets fired from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel.

July 15—Philippines—Shortly after dawn, dozens of Marxist New People’s Army gunmen attacked Manobo tribesmen in a village of Prosperidad town in Agusan del Sur Province after dawn, kicking off a 2-hour clash that left dead 12 gunmen and 4 tribesmen. Additional fighting upped the total dead NPArs to 18. A soldier died when troops tried to block escape routes.

July 15—Afghanistan—A car suicide bomber set off his explosives near a market and a mosque in Urgun in Paktika Province, killing 89 people, wounding 42, and destroying more than 20 shops and dozens of vehicles. The Taliban denied responsibility.

Hours earlier, the Taliban remotely detonated a bomb planted along the median of a main road in Kabul, hitting a minivan carrying 7 employees of the media office of the presidential palace on their way to work, killing 2 and wounding the other 5, including the driver. One passenger was unharmed.

A bomb went off on a parked motorbike in Kandahar, killing 2 police officers.

The Taliban attacked a post on the Pakistani border in Khost Province, killing 7 police officers, including a district ­counter-terrorism director, and 6 border guards. In the ensuing gun fight, 34 gunmen and a local man died. Local authorities said most of the gunmen were Pakistanis. 14071501

July 15—China—A bus exploded at 7:30 p.m. after it pulled into a stop in Guangzhou, killing 2 people and injuring 32 others, 8 critically. Police arrested a 25-year-old man with the surname Ou who was originally from Hunan Province. On January 28, 2015, AP reported that Bao Laixu admitted from his hospital bed as he was wheeled into a People’s Court room that he set a fire on the bus to take revenge against society and kill himself after his tuberculosis relapsed. In the fire, he suffered extensive burns and his ankles were amputated. Two other passengers remained hospitalized.

An explosion at 1:45 p.m. in a parking structure outside the airport in Xining, capital of Qinghai Province, slightly injured a cleaner.

July 15–16—Yemen—Two days of gun battles between Shi’ite Houthi rebels and Sunni tribesmen in Jouf Province killed at least 35 fighters on both sides.

July 16—Greece—In a lunchtime ­shoot-out that wounded 4 people in Athens’s Monastiraki district, near Syntagma Square and historic Plaka district, police arrested Nikos Maziotis, 43, and were searching for his wife, Panagiota Roupa. The duo fled in June 2012 following their release from jail in 2011 after serving the maximum 18 months in ­pre-trial detention. Maziotis and Roupa were convicted in absentia in 2013 and sentenced to 25 years for participation in Revolutionary Struggle. In January 2014, authorities announced a 1 ­million-euro ($1.3 million) reward for information leading to each of the couple’s arrest. He was wanted for 2 bank robberies since his disappearance. Those wounded included Maziotis, who was hit in the left shoulder, an Australian tourist who was hit in the leg, a German man with minor wounds, and a police officer. Maziotis fired 8 times at police and was wearing a wig. 14071601

July 16—Nigeria, Cameroon—Boko Haram was believed responsible for kidnapping a German development worker and 2 children of a Muslim cleric in northeastern Nigeria and neighboring Cameroon. Gunmen kidnapped a German worker from his car at a technical skills training center in Gombi, Ada­mawa State, as he drove to work. Local residents said he had repaired wells at his own expense. On October 31, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in an Internet video that the group was considering killing the German, who was “always crying.” He said they could “hack him or slaughter him or shoot him.”

Meanwhile, Cameroon’s state radio said Boko Haram kidnapped 2 teenage children of a lead-ing Muslim cleric from their home in Limani, near the border with Nigeria. It was the first reported Boko Haram kidnapping of Cameroonian citizens. 14071602-03

July 16—Tunisia—Dozens of gunmen believed linked to AQIM attacked 2 army posts in Mount Chaambi in the east while soldiers held a Ramadan feast, killing 14 soldiers and wounding 20. The Oqba Ibn Nafaa brigade claimed credit for the nighttime attacks on its Facebook page. The terrorists fired rocket launchers and automatic rifles. Tunisia instituted a crackdown on ­jihadi-leaning mosques and radio stations, websites, and TV stations publishing jihadi messages.

July 16–17—Pakistan—Pakistani police conducted a 10-hour gun battle with terrorists planning to attack the home of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, killing 2 terrorists.

A roadside bomb killed 6 people in Hangu. A smaller, nonlethal bomb had attracted first responders to the scene.

July 17—Libya—Gunmen kidnapped Martin Galea, 42, a retired Maltese armed forces captain, as he was being driven to work as a ­health-and-safety professional for an oil company outside Tripoli, and was taken to an undisclosed location. He was freed on July 28, 2014, and flown back to Malta, whose government had contacted the kidnappers. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said the Maltese government paid no ransom. 14071701

July 17—Afghanistan—The Taliban fired rockets during a morning attack near Kabul International Airport. Authorities fired back, killing all 6 gunmen. The terrorists had seized 2 buildings under construction a few hundred yards away from the airport, using explosives, ­rocket-propelled grenades and machineguns. An Afghan security officer was wounded. No planes were damaged.

July 17—Philippines—Abu Sayyaf was suspected in the kidnapping of 3 aid workers and a companion in remote Talipao in Sulu Province where they were checking on families who received aid and working on another ­anti-poverty project. The government had withheld ­anti-poverty funds, leading the villagers to pressure the kidnappers to free the foursome. The group freed the hostages on July 23, 2014. No ransom was paid. A military official said armed relatives of a hostage threatened the family of an Abu Sayyaf member.

July 17—Libya—Gunmen killed female parliamentarian Fareha ­al-Barqawi near a gas station in Darna. Her husband had been a political prisoner under Qadhafi.

July 17—Netherlands/Ukraine—A Buk ­surface-to-air missile shot down Malaysia Airlines flight 17 when it was flying at 32,000 feet over Torez in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, crashing it in eastern Ukraine. Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, said “terrorists” were responsible for the deaths of 280 passengers and 15 crew on the B-777. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on his website, “We do not exclude that the plane was shot down and confirm that the Ukraine Armed Forces did not fire at any targets in the sky.” Passengers included 192 Dutch citizens, 44 Malaysians, including the 15 flight crew members, 28 Australians, 12 Indonesians, 10 British citizens, 4 Belgians, 4 Germans, 3 citizens of the Philippines, 3 Vietnamese, an American, a Canadian, a New Zealander, and one person from Hong Kong. More than 100 were attending an AIDS conference. 14071702

July 18—Pakistan—Gunmen attacked a security checkpoint in Jamrud in the Khyber tribal region before dawn. Eight security forces and 4 terrorists died.

A roadside bomb hit a police vehicle in Peshawar, killing an officer and wounding 2 others.

Drive-by gunmen fired on police officers breaking their daylong fast during Ramadan, killing 3 policemen and a ­passer-by in Peshawar. The terrorists stole the victims’ firearms and fled.

July 18—Nigeria—Boko Haram attacked Damboa before dawn, firing ­rocket-propelled grenades and tossing bombs into houses, killing more than 100 villagers.

Hundreds of villagers in 9 areas in Askira Uba fled after receiving letters from Boko Haram threatening to attack.

July 18—Kenya—Al-Shabaab attacked a 52-seat bus during the night at Corner Mbaya, 3 miles from coastal Witu in Lamu County, killing 2 security officials and 5 civilians. Many passengers escaped into a nearby forest. ­Al-Shabaab said it was sending a message that Kenya could not stop its operations on the coast, observing, “The attack was carried out in response to the Kenyan government’s claim that all the areas that have recently been subject for attacks were secured after having deployed troops.” 14071801

July 19—Iraq—A suicide bomber crashed into a checkpoint in Baghdad’s Shi’ite Abu Dashir neighborhood, killing 9, including 4 police officers, and wounding 19 people.

Three car bombs went off within 10 minutes in the Bayaa, Jihad and Khazimiyah neighborhoods of Baghdad, killing 15 people and wounding 42.

A car bomb exploded near a bus stop in Baghdad’s Khazimiyah district, killing 3 and wounding 15.

The Islamic State claimed credit, saying 2 attacks in Baghdad were carried out by suicide bomb­ers Abu ­al-Qaaqaa ­al-Almani and Abu ­Abdul-Rahman ­al-Shami. The names indicate they were German and Syrian, respectively. The Islamic State said the other 2 attacks were parked car bombs. It said the bombings targeted Iraqi security forces and armed Shi’ites fighting the Sunni jihadi offensive.

July 19—Egypt—An hour before sunset, 20 gunmen in ­weapon-mounted vehicles fired ­rocket-propelled grenades at a border guard post in the western desert governorate of Wadi ­el-Gedid, on the Farafra Oasis Road, near the Libyan border, killing 21 troops and wounding 5. Three terrorists died. One rocket hit an ammunition warehouse, setting off an explosion. Authorities later seized 2 unexploded car bombs. The next day, a wounded soldier died, raising the death toll to 22.

July 19—Israel—Hamas gunmen wearing Israeli military uniforms emerged from one of their smuggling tunnels and fired an ­anti-tank missile at an army jeep, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 4. Soldiers fired back, killing one gunman; the rest escaped back to the Gaza Strip. Another Israeli died in a rocket strike on a Bedouin camp near Dimona. Another soldier was believed to have been captured. Hamas showed the military ID number of Sergeant Oron Shaul.

July 20—Nicaragua—Gunmen attacked 2 buses in northern Nicaragua carrying Sandinista National Liberation Front supporters home after a party marking the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship on July 19, 1979, killing 5 people and wounding 24. One attack occurred on the Pan American Highway around 1 a.m. in Las Calabazas, where 2 men and 2 women were shot to death. The second attack occurred north of Matagalpa on a road between San Ramon and El Jobo; one man died.

July 20—Iraq—During the night, mortars hit Shi’ite neighborhoods in Mahmoudiya, killing 11 civilians and wounding 31.

A roadside bomb went off during the night, hitting an army patrol in Baghdad’s western suburb of Abu Ghraib, killing 2 soldiers and 3 volunteers who fought the Sunni jihadi attackers. Eight people were injured.

July 20—Kenya—Gunmen fired in the Soweto coastal slum during the night, killing 3 people.

July 20—Afghanistan—Two policemen turned their guns on their colleagues at a checkpoint in Shahid Asass District in southern Uruzgan Province, killing 4 Afghan policemen and wounding another. The attackers fled.

July 21—Afghanistan—A suicide bomber hit a police convoy in Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, en route to Sangin District, killing a policeman and a civilian and injuring 8 policemen and 7 civilians.

July 21—Egypt—Masked jihadis were suspected of shooting to death Sheik Ashtewi Maraheel and Hassan ­al-Baiera, both from the Sawarka Bedouin tribe of the northern Sinai, in 2 ­post-sunset attacks at their homes in Rafah.

July 21—Philippines—Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement rebels attacked army troops in 2 adjacent towns in Maguindanao in the southern Philippines, sparking gun battles that killed 17 gunmen and a soldier and wounded 3 soldiers.

July 21—Honduras—The ­half-naked body of Channel 3 television reporter Herlyn Espinal, 32, was found a day after he was reported missing. He had been shot twice and hidden behind a rock on the side of a highway. Police detained a suspect.

July 22—Afghanistan—In a morning attack, a Taliban suicide bomber crashed his motorcycle into the gates in front of a police compound housing foreign advisers in Kabul, killing 4 foreign security guards and wounding 6. The compound includes the office of the deputy minister for ­counter-narcotics in Kabul.

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July 22—Israel—After a Hamas rocket landed a mile from Ben Gurion Airport, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration banned U.S. airlines from flying to/from there for 24 hours. A house in Tel Aviv’s Yehud suburb was destroyed and one person was slightly injured.

July 22—Iraq—During the night, an Islamic State suicide car bomber crashed into a police checkpoint at the entrance to Baghdad’s Khazimiyah District, killing 31 people, including 13 civilians en route to the Shi’ite Imam ­al-Khadim Shrine and wounding 58 others, more than half of them civilians, during the final days of Ramadan. The group said in an internet posting that the bombing was “in response to the hostility of the (Shi’ite-led) government” of Prime Minister Nouri ­al-Maliki and his “criminal militias, who spare no effort in fighting Islam and Muslims.”

Two mortar rounds landed near a police station in Baghdad’s Sabi ­al-Bore neighborhood, killing 3 policemen and wounding 4 others.

July 22—Philippines—The government deported Australian Islamic preacher Robert Cerantonio, alias Musa, for being an “undocumented foreign national” after the Australian government canceled his passport. He was suspected of links to ISIS terrorists based on YouTube videos showing him advocating jihad and urging local Muslims to support jihadis in the Middle East. Four Filipino Bureau of Immigration and Deportation agents were on his flight to Melbourne, Australia. He was arrested a fortnight earlier in ­Lapu-Lapu, Cebu Province, but faced no formal charges. The Australian Federal Police said that his postings were “offensive and disturbing” but did not violate Australian law.

July 23—Afghanistan—A pedestrian suicide bomber attacked the Chardara police district chief in Kunduz, killing a police officer and wounding 3.

July 23—Somalia—Drive-by ­al-Shabaab gunmen killed parliamentarian Saado Ali Warsame, who also was a popular singer of Somali folk music, and her driver when they pulled up near her car as she was being driven to a hotel in Mogadishu’s Hodan district. She was the first female legislator killed by the group.

July 23—Nigeria—Two bombs in Kaduna killed 39 people. A boy threw a bomb at Sheik Dahiru Bauchi, who gave an annual Ramadan speech to thousands of faithful in an outdoor service. He often preached against Boko Haram’s violence. The boy was killed. Two and a half hours later, the second bomb appeared aimed at opposition leader and former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, who was unharmed in an explosion in a Kaduna marketplace that destroyed more than 50 vehicles. By July 24, 5 more victims died, raising the death toll to 44.

In a midnight attack in Borno State, gunmen in military uniforms raided the Biu farming village near Damboa, killing a dozen people, including traditional leader Alhaji Ibrahim Dawi, who was shot in the head and died on the way to the hospital.

July 23—Canada—Canadian citizen Hasibullah Yusufzai, 25, became the first person charged under a new ­anti-terrorism law for allegedly leaving Canada in January 2014 to join jihadi fighters in Syria. The law criminalizes terrorist travels. He was charged with committing an offense for the benefit of a terrorist group or being directed by or associated with such a group. He remained at large.

July 24—Afghanistan—Gunmen in Herat killed 2 Finnish female aid workers associated with the International Assistance Mission. Two men on a motorcycle fired on the women’s taxi. The taxi driver was held for questioning. 14072401

July 24—Iraq—Gunmen fired mortar rounds at dawn at a prison in Taji, north of Baghdad. Prison officials thought it was the start of a jailbreak, and loaded the prisoners into a convoy, which was then attacked with roadside bombs and gunfire, setting off a clash that killed 52 prisoners and 8 guards and wounded 8 soldiers and 7 prisoners.

July 24—Iraq—The Islamic State placed explosives around the tomb of Jonah inside a Sunni mosque called the Mosque of the Prophet Younis in Mosul, destroying it via remote detonation.

July 24—Nigeria—Boko Haram was suspected when a bomb hidden in a discarded refrigerator in Kano exploded, killing one person and injuring 8.

July 24—Philippines—Soldiers raided an Abu Say­yaf hideout in Ungkaya Pukan township on Basilan island, killing 3 Abu Sayyaf members believed to have been involved in the July 12, 2011, kidnapping of American citizen Gerfa Yeatts Lunsmann and her then 14-year-old son. Two government militiamen were killed and 2 others were wounded in the raid, which targeted Abu Sayyaf ­sub-leader Sulaiman Ajanti, who was allegedly behind atrocities in Basilan and Zamboanga City. Ajanti and 2 of his followers were killed. Five gunmen were wounded.

July 24—Afghanistan—A bomb in Mirugol Kalay in Kandahar Province killed Staff Sergeant Benjamin G. Prange, 30, of Hickman, Nebraska, and Pfc. Keith M. Williams, 19, of Visalia, California.

July 25—Afghanistan—During the night, the Tali­ban stopped minibuses carrying 30 passengers from Kabul to western Ghor Province, identified 14 Hazara Shi’ite passengers, including 3 women, bound their hands, walked them away, and shot them dead by the side of the road. The dead included an engaged couple and 2 relatives.

July 25—Libya—Two gunmen kidnapped political activist ­Abdel-Moaz Banoun from his car in Tripoli. He was critical of the militias and has urged that they be disbanded. He has also called for a unified police and army. The Operation Room of Libya’s Revolutionaries, said on its Facebook page that “troops arrested ­Abdel-Moaz over allegations that he served under Gadhafi” and “instigated rallies against” the Islamic militias.

July 25—Egypt—Gunmen fired on the vehicle of 2 security officers in ­el-Arish, killing them before escaping. On July 29, Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis claimed responsibility on its official Twitter account and on a jihadi website, saying, “The 2 are responsible for safeguarding the borders with Zionist entity and tightening the siege of our people” in Gaza. It said the dead were Brigadier General Mohammed Abed Rabbu ­al-Sawarka, commander of the central border security sector, and Brigadier General Amr Fathi Saleh Amara, in charge of the armed forces in the town of Sheikh Zuwayed sector. The group published a picture of a handgun it said was Amara’s personal weapon.

July 25—Afghanistan—Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar warned that a bilateral security pact allowing nearly 10,000 American troops to stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014 to help train Afghan security forces and conduct counterterrorism operations would lead to more fighting. He observed, “We believe the war in Afghanistan will come to an end when all foreign invaders pull out of Afghanistan and a holy Islamic and independent regime prevails here. Presence of limited number of troops under whatever title it may be will mean continuation of occupation and the war.” He also condemned Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.

July 25—Iraq—Gunmen traveling in 10 black SUVs seized Riyadh ­al-Adhdah, the head of the Baghdad Provincial Council, who had previously been jailed on terrorism charges, from his Baghdad home. It was not clear whether he was arrested or kidnapped. Four bodyguards were also taken. In 2012 ­al-Adhdah, a medical doctor and member of the Iraqi Islamic Party, was jailed for 8 months on terrorism charges. The gunmen released him and his bodyguards the next day.

July 25—Thailand—A vehicle bomb exploded in a commercial district in Yala Province, killing 2 people and wounding dozens of other civilians.

July 25—Germany—Authorities arrested dual ­German-Turkish citizen Ufuk C., 21, at Munich airport as he tried to ­re-enter Germany. On Febru-ary 10, 2015, federal prosecutors charged him with joining the ­al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat ­al-Nusra in Syria. Prosecutors claimed he traveled in March 2014 via Turkey to Syria, met ­al-Nusra, and planned to “die in battle as a martyr.” He was accused of undergoing weapons and tactics training with the group, serving as a guard, and appearing in an Internet propaganda video.

July 26—Afghanistan—A bomb hidden in a motorcycle killed 4 civilians and wounded 4 in the Marjah district of Helmand Province.

The Taliban attacked 15 checkpoints in Kandahar Province, killing 6 police officers, including a district police chief.

A bomb went off in Kabul, killing an army officer and wounding his driver.

Gunmen on motorcycles killed 2 Army officers in Herat.

July 26—Egypt—The chief prosecutor charged 20 suspected members of Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt) with conducting terrorist attacks that killed 7 and wounded more than 100. The office of the prosecutor said the terrorists set off explosives around police stations and security checkpoints. Six defendants were at large.

Soldiers killed 12 terrorist suspects and arrested 11 others in the northern Sinai.

Gunmen fired a rocket that hit a house in Sheikh Zuwayed, killing 3 civilians and wounding 9.

July 26—Iraq—Police announced the discovery in Baghdad of 4 men in their 30s, and the bodies of 5 men, including 2 in military uniform, in Taji. All had been shot to death and were handcuffed.

July 26—Tunisia—Some 40 gunmen killed 2 soldiers in an ambush and wounded 6 others in the Kef region to the north of Mount Chaambi near the country’s border with Algeria.

July 26—Libya—The U.S. temporarily suspended operations in its embassy in Tripoli and sent its 158 diplomatic staff and military personnel to Tunisia. The State Department advised all Americans to leave the country immediately.

July 27—Afghanistan—Six Taliban wearing suicide vests attacked the home of provincial police chief General Abdul Razeq in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar Province, killing a civilian and a border policeman before being shot dead by police. The terrorists launched the attack from a school building. Razeq was not harmed.

July 27—Cameroon—In the early morning, Boko Haram was suspected in the kidnapping of 17 people, including Francoise Agnes Moukouri, the wife of Cameroon’s Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali, as well as a local traditional chief in an attack on her home in the Far North Region. Five people died in the attack on the border town of Kolofata when the terrorists set fire to the residence and stole safes and vehicles. Officials claimed that 200 gunmen attacked Ali’s residence, although he was away. On Octo-ber 11, 2014, Cameroon’s government announced that 27 hostages, including Moukouri and a local religious leader, had been freed. 14072701

July 27—Yemen—An AQAP car bomb killed 2 soldiers in an attack on an army post. Soldiers foiled 2 other AQAP car bomb attacks on army camps, killing 3 terrorists in Abyan Province.

July 27—Nigeria—A suicide bomber killed 5 people and injured many others inside the St. Charles Catholic Church in Kano’s predominantly Christian Sabon Gari district. Police Commissioner Aderenle Shinaba said 3 suspected Boko Haram terrorists were arrested.

A 15-year-old female suicide bomber set off her explosives near a temporary university site, killing only herself.

Another bomb was discovered at a mosque before it detonated.

July 27–28—Iraq—Fourteen ­bullet-riddled bodies of men between 25 and 40 years old were dumped in the streets in Baghdad. They were all shot in the head and chest. Some were blindfolded with their hands bound. Others had been tortured.

July 27—Thailand—During the night, terrorists set off a ­radio-controlled bomb on a road near an army base in Pattani Province’s Sai Buri district, as a group of soldiers were finishing their guard duty at a mosque and returning to the base. The explosion killed a 12-year-old girl and wounded 2 soldiers and 5 civilians, including a 7-year-old girl and her 1-year-old sister.

July 27—Nigeria—Terrorists bombed 2 mosques in Yobe State, killing 13 and wounding 35 during the night, at the end of Ramadan. One bomb went off at 7:30 p.m. by a mosque near the palace of a local emir. Minutes later, another bomb went off. No one claimed credit, but Boko Haram was suspected.

July 28—United Nations—In a presidential statement unanimously approved by its 15 members, the U.N. Security Council strongly condemned any sale of oil from Syria or Iraq by Jabhat ­al-Nusra or the Islamic State. The statement expressed “grave concern” at reports that the groups had seized oilfields and pipelines in Syria and Iraq. It noted concern that oilfields or infrastructure controlled by terrorist organizations “could generate material income for terrorists, which would support their recruitment efforts, including of foreign terrorist fighters, and strengthen their operational capability to organize and carry out terrorist attacks.” The Security Council reminded all countries “that they are required to ensure that their nationals and any persons within their territory not engage in any commercial or financial transactions” with Jabhat ­al-Nusra and the Islamic State terrorist groups, “notably with respect to oil in Syria and Iraq.”

July 28—Nigeria—A female suicide bomber hit a gas station in Kano, killing at least 3 people. She was in queue with other women, waiting to buy cooking kerosene.

A bomb exploded across from a Shoprite supermarket in Kano, causing no injuries.

July 28—Philippines—About 40 to 50 Abu Sayyaf gunmen armed with assault rifles attacked 50 Filipino civilians traveling in 2 vans on a road in a coastal village in Talipao town in predominantly Muslim Sulu Province to celebrate the end of Ramadan with their families. The terrorists killed 21, including at least 6 children and an 83-year-old man, and wounded 11 other civilians, including 4 children, including a 3-year-old boy. Four of the dead belonged to a Talipao civilian security force called the Barangay Police Action Team. Other victims were engaged in a “rido” clan feud with the Abu Sayyaf. Six of the dead were aged 2 to 15. Surnames suggested that many of the victims were related. The next day, the 3-year-old boy and his father died from their injuries, raising the death toll to 23. Six villagers remained hospitalized.

July 29—China—The official Xinhua News Agency reported that a mob wielding knives attacked a police station and government offices in Elixku township in Xinjiang Province before moving on to Huangdi neighboring township in Shache (Yarkant) county near the city of Kashgar, attacking civilians and smashing vehicles. Xinhua said the terrorists killed 37 civilians and police “gunned down 59 terrorists.” Xinhua said the attack’s “mastermind … had close connections with the terrorist organization” the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. On October 13, 2014, AP reported that a Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Province court sentenced to death 12 people blamed for the terrorist attacks. Another 15 people were sentenced to death with a ­2-year reprieve. Nine people received life sentences. Another 20 defendants received terms of 4 to 20 years.

July 29—Nigeria—Boko Haram was suspected when terrorists forced outnumbered and outgunned guards off a bridge, then blew it up, killing 8 people.

July 29—Russia—The Pulkovo airport in St. Petersburg was briefly evacuated because of an anonymous bomb threat that was telephoned at 1:30 p.m.

July 29—Germany—In the early morning, petrol bombs were thrown at a synagogue in Wuppertal, causing no damage or injuries. Police arrested an 18-year-old male of indeterminate citizenship. Police were looking for 2 other suspects.

July 29—Egypt—Egyptian troops killed 7 suspected terrorists and arrested 5 as part of an ongoing offensive in the Sinai Peninsula. Three terrorists died in a firefight; the other 4 died when they tried to attack a house in Rafah. Five gunmen were arrested and 5 were wounded; it was unclear if the 5 were the same people.

July 29—Afghanistan—A suicide bomber set off explosives in his cap while bowing to kiss the hand of Hashmat Khalil Karzai, killing the powerful cousin of outgoing Afghan President Hamid Karzai and wounding another person. The attack followed morning prayers for the Muslim holiday of Eid ­al-Fitr in a reception room at the Karzai family home in the district of Karz in Kandahar Province.

July 29—Libya—Gunmen kidnapped parliament member and former prime minister Mustafa Abushagur from his Tripoli home, but freed him hours later on July 30. Abushagur is a U.S.-Libyan dual national who became the first prime minister to be elected after the 2011 overthrow of Moammar Qadhafi. He failed to form a government and was subsequently ousted.

July 29–30—Pakistan—Pakistani security forces in northwestern Dir tribal region foiled an overnight ­cross-border attack by 70 terrorists on a border post, killing 6 terrorists and wounding 9 others. The rest escaped back to Afghanistan.

July 30—Egypt—Three suspected jihadis died when a bomb they were carrying in their car went off by accident in the early morning in ­el-Saf in Giza Province.

July 30—China—After dawn prayers, assailants murdered ­pro-government Muslim cleric Jume Tahir, 74, in Xinjiang Province. Police killed 2 suspects and captured another at noon. Tahir was imam of the 600-year-old Id Kah mosque, China’s largest, in Kashgar since 2003. He served as vice president of the Chinese Islamic Association and a member of the National People’s Congress. Police identified the suspects as Uighurs: Turghun Tursun, Memetjan Remutillan and Nurmemet Abidilimit. They attempted to resist arrest with knives and axes. It was unclear which of them were killed. On September 29, Tianshan Net reported that a Kashgar court convicted Gheni Hasan and Nurmemet Abidilimit of organizing and leading a terrorist group plus intentional homicide, and sentenced them to death. Atawulla Tursun was convicted of participating in the terror group and sentenced to life in prison.

July 31—Mali—Malian military spokesman Modibo Traore announced that French military forces had arrested Yoro Ould Daha, who was with the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) that controlled Gao for nearly a year. He was detained earlier in the week at his home. He had announced the death of French hostage Gilberto ­Rodriguez-Leal, who was captured in November 2012 while traveling in Mauritania and Mali. He also took credit for the kidnapping of 5 aid workers who were later released.

July 31—China—Lanxi County (in Heilongjiang Province) police spokesman Wang Yan’an said 2 people were killed and one injured in 2 shooting incidents that took place 3 hours apart.

July 31—Iraq—Hizballah said commander Ibrahim Mohammed ­al-Haj was killed earlier in the week while on a “jihadi mission” in Iraq.

July 31—Nigeria—A female teenage suicide bomber attacked graduates at a polytechnic school in Kano. Security guard Isa Ahmed told the media that he saw 6 bodies after the explosion. Ibrahim Ado Daneji said his brother died from his injuries. Boko Haram was suspected.

August—Iraq—On April 8, 2015, the Islamic State freed 216 Yazidis, including 40 children, after kidnapping them in Sinjar in August 2014. General Hiwa Abdullah, a peshmerga commander in Kirkuk, said most of the hostages were in poor health and showed signs of abuse and neglect.

August—Syria—NPR reported that IS threatened to kill 2 Japanese hostages if a $200 million ransom was not paid within 72 hours. The Washington Post identified the hostages as Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa, 42. In August 2014, a Japanese citizen believed to be Yukawa, a private military company operator, was kidnapped after going to Syria to train with militants, according to his blog. Goto is a Japanese freelance journalist who went to report on Syria’s civil war in 2014. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, on travel in the Middle East, said, “Their lives are the top priority.” The threat was made on a video released by the Islamic State’s ­al-Furqan media arm. An individual believed to be the British citizen Jihadi John said, “To the prime minister of Japan: Although you are more than 8,000 and 500 kilometers (5,280 miles) from the Islamic State, you willingly have volunteered to take part in this crusade. You have proudly donated $100 million to kill our women and children, to destroy the homes of the Muslims … and in an attempt to stop the expansion of the Islamic State, you have also donated another $100 million to train the [apostates].” Speaking to the Japanese people, the terrorist said, “Just as how your government has made the foolish decision to pay $200 million to fight the Islamic State [ISIS], you now have 72 hours to pressure your government in making a wise decision, by paying that $200 million to save the lives of your citizens.” Abe said he would send Yasuhide Nakayama, a deputy foreign minister, to Jordan to resolve the hostage crisis. On Janu-ary 24, Fox News reported that an IS video claimed it had killed Yukawa and demanded a prison exchange for the other. ­On-camera reporter Catherine Herridge said IS tweets said both hostages were killed. 14089901

August—Lebanon/Syria—On December 1, 2015, AP and UPI reported that the ­al-Nusra Front released in Arsal, Lebanon, 3 truckloads of 16 Lebanese soldiers and policemen held hostage since August 2014 in a swap brokered by Qatar. The rebels received 13 prisoners—5 women and 8 men—including Saja ­al-Dulaimi, a former wife of the Islamic State’s leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi. Saja ­al-Dulaimi was detained in 2014 when she and her current Palestinian husband illegally entered Lebanon from Syria with forged identity cards. She said she and ­al-Baghdadi had been divorced for 6 or 7 years, and she planned to live in Turkey. Among the hos­tages was Suleiman Dirani. The Islamic State group refused to negotiate on the 9 captives it still held.

August 1—China—The official Xinhua News Agency reported that police killed 9 suspected terrorists in a confrontation in Hotan Prefecture in Xinjiang Province.

August 1—Libya—A bomb planted in the building flattened Benghazi’s main police building after jihadis overran an army barracks and claimed control of the city.

August 1—Indonesia—Gunmen ambushed a passing 17-vehicle army motorcade in Pirime subdistrict of Lanny Jaya District in Papua Province, wounding 2 soldiers before the troops killed 5 terrorists. The soldiers were hunting terrorists who killed 2 police officers and wounded 4 others in Lanny Jaya on July 27.

August 1—Somalia—Two gunmen killed parliamentarian Sheikh Aden Mader as he left a Moga­dishu mosque.

August 1—Gaza—Hamas was believed to have kidnapped Second Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, 23, who hailed from the central Israeli town of Kfar Saba, during fighting with terrorists who emerged from Gaza tunnels. One of the terrorists set off an explosives vest, killing 2 soldiers. The terrorists then grabbed Goldin and escaped back into Gaza through a tunnel. Israel announced on August 3 that Goldin was dead.

August 2—Iraq—A suicide car bomber crashed into a group of Iraqi soldiers in Balad, north of the capital, killing 8 soldiers and wounding 23.

August 2—Lebanon—Syrian rebels raided the border town of Arsal, killing 10 Lebanese soldiers and kidnapping 13 others. The gunmen attacked a municipal building and an army checkpoint. Three civilians died defending the police station. The Nusra Front posted on its website video of 13 captured Lebanese soldiers and police officers who parroted their defections from the army and Hizballah.

The National News Agency said the army had earlier detained Syrian citizen Imad Ahmad Jomaa, a Nusra Front member, who was being brought to a Lebanese hospital for wounds sustained in a Syrian military ambush in the Qalamoun region that killed 50 opposition fighters, according to local activists.

On August 30, 2014, Reuters reported that the Islamic State beheaded Lebanese Sunni soldier Ali ­al-Sayyed, who was one of 19 captured when they seized a Lebanese border town earlier in August. Hours later, the Islamic State released a second video of 9 other hostage soldiers asking their families to demand the release of jihadis in government jails.

On August 31, the Nusra Front kidnappers released 5 of the soldiers, saying they were released because they were Sunnis.

On September 14, the kidnappers posted a ­2-part, 20-minute video of the hostages, at least 8 of whom were held by the Nusra Front. Others were being held by the Islamic State, which had beheaded 2 hostages. Lebanon negotiated for the soldiers’ release through mediation by Qatari officials. The Nusra Front demanded the release of accused jihadis from Lebanese jails, plus a ransom. They also demanded that the Lebanese Shi’ite group Hizballah stop fighting for Syrian President Bashar Assad.

On September 20, 2014, the family of Mohammed Hamiyeh, a Lebanese soldier kidnapped by the Nusra Front in Syria, said their son had been killed; a video posted on the Internet showed him being shot to death. In the video, the hostage was kneeling in what appears to be an orchard, swaying as he tries to breathe, pleading that Hizballah fighters must leave Syria or otherwise his captive comrades would be killed. “I am paying the price now, and all of my friends will die, all of them,” he sobbed. A masked terrorist then shot him in the back of the head. A captive Lebanese policeman then was shown handcuffed, pleading with the Lebanese government to speed up negotiations or he would be killed next. The Nusra Front tweeted that it was open to negotiations for release of the 7 Lebanese soldiers and policemen it held.

On November 28, 2014, police used water cannons to break up a protest Friday by relatives of 20 kidnapped Lebanese soldiers who had been held by the Islamic State and Nusra Front since August. They had killed 3 of the captives, beheading 2. Friday’s protest came a day after Nusra Front threatened to kill one of the soldiers if the government refused to release jihadi prisoners from Lebanese jails.

On December 5, 2014, the Nusra Front issued a Twitter video saying it had shot to death Lebanese soldier Ali Bazzal that night in retaliation for the detention of the wife and children of jihadi leaders, including the wife and daughter of IS emir ­al-Baghdadi and the wife and 2 children of Anas Sharkas, alias Abu Ali ­al-Shishani. Shishani said one of his children was 4 years old and the other was a baby. The Nusra Front said it would kill more hostages and attack their families if the detainees were not released.

On December 19, 2014, a ­French-speaking jihadist threatened to execute the Lebanese soldiers held hostage, saying 3 prominent anti–IS Lebanese politicians would be responsible for their deaths. AFP was given the video by Salafist cleric Wissam ­al-Masri, who is mediating the release of 25 police and soldiers held by IS and the ­al-Nusra Front. In the video, 3 men in blue uniforms hold knives to the throats of hostages. The speaker said the politicians supported Hizballah, observing, “To the allies of France in Lebanon—[former Prime Minister Saad] Hariri, [Christian leader Samir] Geagea and [Druze leader Walid] Jumblatt—the Islamic State is at war with Hizballah, which is meddling in the affairs of Muslims in Shams [Syria] and has killed our women and our children. You are certainly criminals, but you have added to your crimes today by your collaboration with Hizballah and your transformation of the Lebanese army into a mere puppet in the hands of Hizballah, with which it oppresses Sunnis. You are therefore responsible for the fate of your fellow citizens. Their future, their life and death, depends on your next decision.” 14080201

August 2—Melilla—Spanish police in Melilla arrested 2 female Spaniards, one a minor, who planned to travel from Morocco to Iraq or Syria to enlist in the Islamic State jihadist group. The elder woman was Fauzia Allal Mohamed, 19.

August 3—Somalia—Terrorists remotely detonated a bomb hidden in piles of garbage in Mogadishu, killing 3 female street cleaners who were trying to remove bags of rubbish from a street corner and injuring 7 other women.

A government firing squad executed 3 men convicted of terrorism charges. One of the executed men was convicted of assisting a July attack on the presidential palace in which 5 people were killed. In an interview with ­state-run television, the man said he had worked for 2 years for ­al-Shabaab.

August 4—Lebanon—Late in the day, gunmen attacked a delegation of clerics sent to mediate between the Lebanese army and Syrian terrorists that took over Arsal, wounding in the leg prominent Sunni Sheik Salem ­al-Rafei of the Association of Muslim Scholars. Also wounded were Sheik Jalal Kalash, who was injured severely and was treated at a Beirut hospital, and another delegation member.

August 4–5—South Sudan—The Mabanese Defense Forces militia killed at least 6 South Sudanese aid workers over 2 days in the Upper Nile State close to the South ­Sudan-Sudan border. All victims were members of the Nuer ethnic group, the same heritage of former vice president and current rebel leader Riek Machar. One aid worker died on Au-gust 4, 2 were killed in Bunj on August 5, and the other 3 in an ambush. A seventh was missing and presumed dead.

August 5—Mexico—Gunmen burned 4 ­Coca-Cola delivery trucks in the township of Arcelia in Guerrero State that is often the site of narcotics gang turf battles. 14080501

August 5—Lebanon—In the early morning, gunmen fired at a bus carrying soldiers in Tripoli, wounding 7.

August 5—Philippines—The Associated Press quoted a police report indicating that during questioning, Abu Sayyaf commander Khair Mundos, who was captured on June 11, admitted that the group relies on extortion and kidnappings. He added that Marwan, a senior Malaysian terrorist, survived a 2012 airstrike and was hiding with a jihadi group in the south.

August 5—Afghanistan—At 12:30 p.m., Rafiqullah, a ­2-year veteran of the Afghan Army who was ­wearing an Afghan army uniform, fired his PKM machine gun from a bathroom window overlooking a meeting of NATO troops at the Marshal Fahim National Defense University in Camp Qargha military base west of Kabul, killing Major General Harold J. Greene, 55, the ­highest-ranked U.S. officer to be slain in combat since 1970 in the Vietnam War and wounding 18 people, including German Brigadier General Michael Bartscher, 3 Afghan Army officers (including 2 generals), and 11 U.S. troops. The shooter was killed. Greene’s widow is an Army colonel. Greene, a 34-year Army veteran, was deputy commanding general of Combined Security Transition ­Command-Afghanistan. He was reviewing the status of the training facility, sometimes call Sandhurst in the Sand. He had earned a PhD in materials science from the University of Southern California. On December 4, 2014, a U.S. Central Command report concluded that the killer was not a Taliban member, but a disgruntled private who attacked a “target of opportunity.”

In a separate incident in Paktia Province, an Af­ghan police guard was killed after he fired on NATO troops near the governor’s office.

In a third insider attack, an Afghan police officer drugged his colleagues at a checkpoint, then killed 7 of them in Tirin Kot, Uruzgan Province. He stole their weapons and fled in a police car. Authorities said he had Taliban connections.

A police car struck a roadside bomb in Nouristan Province, killing 3 officers.

Two roadside bombs in Sari Pul Province killed 3 people, including a district police chief and his driver. 14080502–03

August 5—Egypt—Gunmen attacked a police checkpoint in the Dhabaa area in Matrouh Province, killing 5 police officers and torching their vehicle. Four terrorists died in the gun battle.

August 6—Iraq—Car bombs went off in 2 Bagh-dad neighborhoods during the night, killing 51 people.

Two car bombs went off in the Sadr City shopping area, killing 31 people.

Another car bomb in the nearby area of Ur in Baghdad killed 11 people.

Two other car bombs went off in southeastern Baghdad, killing 9 people.

Police found 8 ­bullet-riddled and handcuffed corpses around Baghdad. Six were in Taji, 12 miles north of Baghdad. All of the men were between 25 to 35 years old. Police found the bodies of a man and woman, in the southeastern district of Zafaraniyah.

August 6—Belgium/Netherlands—Belgian police arrested 2 Dutch citizens of Turkish ancestry at Zaventem Airport during the evening as they returned from Turkey. Dutch authorities confiscated USB sticks and jihadist propaganda in raids of 4 locations in The Hague, Netherlands, where the men lived. Belgian authorities found weapons and body armor in a search in Brussels. Belgian prosecutors said the duo were suspected of membership in a terrorist group, illegal weapons possession “in a terrorist context,” and financing terrorism. The suspects appeared before an investigative judge in Dendermonde, Belgium, on August 7.

August 6—Nigeria—Boko Haram members dressed in military fatigues and riding vehicles in the same colors took over the northeastern town of Gwoza, overwhelming soldiers based in the area before attacking civilians. The whereabouts of the new Emir of Gwoza, Muhammed Idrissa Timta, were unknown; BH was seen going to his residence. He had succeeded his father, whom BH killed in May.

August 6—Yemen—The Defense Ministry announced that the army halted AQAP’s assault on Sayoun in Hadramawt Province, arresting several terrorists, including Saudis, killing 18 terrorists, and losing 2 soldiers. The next day, the army killed another 7 AQAP terrorists.

August 7—Iraq—A suicide car bomber crashed into a Baghdad checkpoint, killing 17 people, including 7 civilians, and wounding 25 in the Kazimiyah neighborhood.

August 7—Afghanistan—The Taliban killed 4 policemen at a police checkpoint in Sangin district in Helmand Province during the night.

August 8—Yemen—AQAP stopped a bus carrying soldiers to a vacation in Sana’a from Sayoun, checked IDs, pulled soldiers out of the bus, and killed 15 soldiers in the main market in the ancient city of Shibam in Hadramawt Province. The terrorists beheaded the bodies, according to witness Naser Mahfouz.

Meanwhile, 3 suspected Yemeni AQAP terrorists were killed in an airstrike on their house in the Obeida Valley in Marib Province.

August 8—U.S.—During a hearing in a federal court in Philadelphia, Afghan doctor Hayatullah Dawari, 62, was charged with immigration fraud for not documenting his association with ­Hizb-e-Islami Gulbuddin in his 2013 application for U.S. citizenship. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams said he was a HIG member in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Prosecutors said he was to receive a book in January sent from Pakistan with a secret message that included a coded message directing an action. The FBI intercepted the book. Dawari was represented by attorney Nino Tinari. Dawari pleaded not guilty and was held without bail. He faced 20 years in prison and deportation.

August 10—Saudi Arabia—The official Saudi Press Agency reported that the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh convicted 4 Saudi men of disobeying the king by fighting in conflicts abroad (specifically Syria), forging passports and coordinating for others to join foreign conflicts and sentenced them to prison sentences ranging from 4 to 34 months. Earlier in the year, the government made it illegal to fight abroad, and set 20-year sentences.

August 10—Nigeria—Boko Haram kidnapped 20 females and 77 young men in Doron Baga and surrounding villages in the Kukawa area in Borno State near the border with Chad. The gunmen forced the hostages onto speed boats in Lake Chad, which borders Nigeria, Chad, Niger, and Cameroon. The terrorists reportedly killed 28 people in the raid and injured 25 others, then torched scores of homes. On August 15, AP reported that Chadian soldiers stopped the terrorists at the border, killing most of the kidnappers and freeing most of the hostages. 14081001

August 11—Australia—An Australian newspaper published a photograph on Twitter by convicted terrorist Khaled Sharrouf, 33, of his 7-year-old son, who was raised in Sydney, holding the severed head of a Syrian soldier. It was captioned, “That’s my boy!” The photo was believed taken in Raqqa, Syria, which the Islamic State had declared the capital of the caliphate. Sharrouf used the passport of his brother, Mostafa Sharrouf, to leave Australia in December 2013 with his wife and 3 sons to fight in Syria and Iraq. He was among 9 Muslim men accused in 2007 of stockpiling ­bomb-making materials and plotting terrorist attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. He pleaded guilty to terrorism offenses and was sentenced in 2009 to 4 years in prison. Australian police announced in July 2014 that they had arrest warrants for Sharrouf and former Sydney resident Mohamed Elomar for “terrorism-related activity” after Sharrouf posted on Twitter photographs of Elomar holding the severed heads of 2 Syrian soldiers.

On August 13, 2014, the Daily Telegraph reported that Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott admitted lapses in the country’s border security after a ­second suspected jihadi, this one a 19-year-old from Sydney, flew to the Middle East using a brother’s pass­port. The individual was detained upon arrival in the UAE and deported. He appeared in a Sydney court on August 13 on charges of using an Australian passport that was not issued to him. He did not apply for bail and was placed into custody.

August 12—Afghanistan—Three policemen died when their patrol vehicle rolled over a bomb in the road in Bahrami Shahid District in Gazni Province. A fourth police officer was injured. The Taliban was suspected.

A NATO service member died in an attack in eastern Afghanistan. 14081201

August 12—Libya—Masked gunmen killed Tri­poli’s police chief, Col. Mohammed Sweissi, after he left a meeting in Tripoli’s Tajoura neighborhood, then kidnapped 2 of his associates.

August 13—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb hit a car in Helmand Province, killing 4 civilian passengers.

August 14—Morocco—Police arrested 9 people for fundraising and recruiting volunteers to fight for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. The group operated in Tetouan, Fez and Fnideq, a small town near the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Police said some of the recruits planned to return home to conduct bombings. The Interior Ministry said that 1,212 Moroccans belong to terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria; 100 were arrested on their return.

August 14—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb hit a police car in Laghman Province’s Badpakh district in the morning, killing 3 police officers and injuring another 4 police officers. No one claimed credit.

August 15—Nigeria—Reuters reported that Boko Haram was suspected of kidnapping 97 boys and men in a raid on Doron Baga, a sandy fishing village near the shores of Lake Chad, forcing them onto trucks, burning several houses, killing 6 older men, wounding 5 other people, then fleeing. At least 47 member of the Hadeija clan were missing and believed abducted.

August 15—United Nations—The UN Security Council, citing Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, unanimously adopted a ­British-sponsored resolution that imposed sanctions on 6 men for recruiting or financing foreign fighters. The resolution also demanded that the Islamic State and all ­al-Qaeda–linked groups end violence and disarm and disband immediately. The sanctions included a global travel ban and asset freeze on 4 who either recruited or helped finance ­al-Nusra—Abdelrahman Mouhamad Zafir ­al-Dabidi ­al-Jahani, Hajjaj Bin Fahd ­al-Ajmi, Said Arif and Abdul Mohsen Abdallah Ibrahim ­al-Charekh. Hamid Hamad Hamid ­al-Ali was blacklisted for helping finance ­al-Nusra and the Islamic State. Abou Mohamed ­al-Adnani was blacklisted for financing and perpetrating acts supporting the Islamic State group. The U.S. had earlier imposed sanctions against ­al-Jahani and ­al-Ajmi. The U.S. Department of the Treasury said ­al-Jahani, an Islamic State spokesman, fought in Syria and worked with terrorists in Pakistan to obtain heavy weapons and trainers for al-Qaeda. The Department also said ­al-Ajmi agreed to finance ­al-Nusra if it placed Kuwaitis in leadership positions. Arif, an ­ex–Algerian army officer, escaped house arrest in France in 2013. He was believed to recruit foreign fighters for ­al-Nusra in France and northern Africa. ­Al-Charekh, a Saudi, reportedly led ­al-Qaeda operations in Syria. UN diplomats said ­Al-Ali, a Kuwaiti, bought arms and equipment for ­al-Nusra and paid for travel for foreign fighters.

August 15—Afghanistan—Gunmen kidnapped 5 members of the International Committee of the Red Cross who were delivering sheep to local villages in Herat Province. 14081501

August 16—Central African Republic—Muslim Seleka gunmen killed 34 people during the previous week in attacks on remote villages.

August 16—Iraq—Islamic State terrorists killed more than 80 Yazidi men in Kocho village, then abducted their wives and children and took them to Tal Afar, which the group controls.

August 16—Mali—A suicide attacker killed 2 members of the UN peacekeeping mission and wounded 7 others on patrol in Ber in the Timbuktu region. 14081601

August 17—Yemen—One soldier and 4 AQAP terrorists died in a gun battle at a terrorist safe house in Hadramawt Province. Authorities arrested 5 AQAP members in the nighttime raid.

August 18—Egypt—Gunmen killed an Egyptian policeman on patrol and wounded another north of Cairo. The 2 patrolmen had approached a ­suspicious-looking car parked by the side of the road in Gharbiya Province, when the gunmen opened fire.

August 18—Syria—The Associated Press reported that the Islamic State had beheaded and shot 200–700 Shueitat tribesmen from eastern Syria during the previous fortnight.

August 19—Syria—Lebanese Hizballah planted a bomb in the car of a senior Islamic State explosives expert, killing Abu Abdullah ­al-Iraqi in Syria’s rugged Qalamoun region near the Lebanese border. Three other IS terrorists died in the ensuing gun battle. 14081901

August 19—Saudi Arabia—A Saudi court sentenced a man to death and 13 others to prison terms of 4 to 30 years for attacking government buildings, residential compounds and planning an assault on the U.S. and UK embassies. The Saudi Press Agency said that they were part of a 50-member terrorist cell that plotted to assassinate senior government officials and smuggled heavy weapons into the country from Iraq.

August 19—Syria—A ­London-accented masked spokesman for the Islamic State said in a video posting that the group had beheaded U.S. photojournalist James Foley, 40, in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes in Iraq. The video showed Foley saying that U.S. was “my real killers.” The video ran a clip of President Obama’s August 7 announcement that he had authorized U.S. airstrikes against the group in Iraq. Foley had disappeared on November 22, 2012, in Taftanaz, Syria, near the Turkish border.

A second hostage, identified as U.S. journalist Steven Joel Sotloff, then appeared in the video. The terrorist spokesman said “the life of this American citizen, Obama, depends on your next decision.” Sotloff, a freelancer who worked for several news organizations, disappeared in Syria around August 13, 2013, while covering Syria’s civil war. The group also posted a Twitter note on Sotloff, a Miami native who wrote for Time, The National Interest, and the Christian Science Monitor.

In November 2013, the terrorists used ­e-mail to demand a ransom of 100 million euros ($132.5 million) from both Foley’s family and GlobalPost for Foley’s release. The parents of the Rochester, New Hampshire, native wanted to negotiate, but the U.S. rejected negotiating with terrorists. The group also demanded the release of unnamed Muslim prisoners.

U.S. officials announced that a rescue operation in Syria earlier in the summer by special forces had failed to find the hostages. The team killed several terrorists; one of the team was slightly injured.

The British press dubbed the spokesman Jihadi John, who was believed to lead 3 British IS jihadis who guard foreign hostages. The BBC’s Frank Gardner reported that hostages had nicknamed them John, Paul and Ringo. The Guardian reported that he may have negotiated with 8 Western families for release of hostages, and was involved with the IS release of 2 Spanish journalists.

Fellow hostage Didier Francois told Europe 1 Radio that the British terrorists disliked Foley, particularly after finding out that his brother served in the U.S. Air Force. They performed mock executions of Foley, at one point forcing him into a crucifixion position against a wall in April 2014, according to the Wall Street Journal.

On August 12, 2014, Foley’s family received its final ­e-mail from IS, which the GlobalPost published: “HOW LONG WILL THE SHEEP FOLLOW THE BLIND SHEPPARD… As for the scum of your society who are held by us, THEY DARED TO ENTER THE LION’S DEN AND WHERE EATEN! … Today our swords are unsheathed towards you, GOVERNMENT AND CITIZENS ALIKE! AND WE WILL NOT STOP UNTILL WE QUENCH OUR THIRST FOR YOUR BLOOD…. You and your citizens will pay the price of your bombings! The first of which being the blood of the American citizen, James Foley! He will be executed as a DIRECT result of your transgressions toward us!”

The group posted a separate message threatening to attack Americans “in any place” in response to U.S. airstrikes. “We will drown all of you in blood.”

Authorities were investigating several British jihadis, including London rapper Abdel Majed Abdel Bary, who traveled to Syria to fight with ISIS, as the spokesman. Bary’s Egyptian father was suspected of involvement in the August 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. He was extradited to New York in 2012 to face trial, charged with conspiring with members of ­al-Qaeda to kill Americans and attack American facilities abroad.

The Washington Post reported on August 28, 2014, that the Islamic State had waterboarded 4 hostages, including Foley, in Raqqah, Syria. 12112201, 13089901

August 20—Nigeria—Police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu said the force was looking for 35 policemen who were missing after 2 attacks on police training camps in Borno State, one on August 7 and the ­follow-up on August 20. The second attack spurred a ­several-hour gun battle.

August 20—Northern Ireland—Police in Londonderry arrested 4 people—men aged 46 and 35, and women aged 44 and 21—suspected of organizing an Irish Republican Army campaign that sent at least 10 letter bombs during the past year. All were detected and dismantled safely. Targets in Northern Ireland and England included police commanders, a prison governor, a state prosecutor’s office, British Army recruitment centers, and Northern Ireland’s secretary of state.

Hours later, masked men loaded a suspected bomb on to a truck and ordered the driver to park it outside the city’s police headquarters. Police evacuated a nearby school and businesses.

August 20—Afghanistan—A suspected Taliban member killed a coalition service member by stabbing him in the neck near Kabul international airport in the morning. Hours later, police arrested ­low-level Taliban commander Abdul Fatah Jahadwal, who confessed. 14082001

August 20—Egypt—Residents of Sheikh Zuwaid in the Sinai Peninsula found 4 beheaded corpses of civilian men kidnapped 2 days earlier while traveling in a car in the town. The government blamed jihadis.

August 20—Gaza Strip—Hamas claimed an Israeli airstrike killed the wife and at least 2 children of Mohammed Deif, head of the ­al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing. Among the dead was his 7-month-old son, and one of his daughters. Another daughter was missing in the rubble. He was not killed.

August 21—Gaza Strip—CNN reported that an overnight Israeli airstrike on a house in Rafah, southern Gaza, killed Mohammed Abu Shamala, Raed ­al-Attar and Mohammed Barhoum, 3 of the 15-member military council of the ­al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, and 7 civilians. ­Al-Attar was the commander of the ­al-Qassam Brigades in Rafah. The Israeli Defense Forces said on Twitter that ­al-Attar played a “major role” in the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2006.

August 21—Malaysia—Ayob Khan Mydin, the police ­counter-terrorism division’s deputy chief, told Reuters that 19 suspected Malaysian terrorists loyal to the Islamic State bought aluminum powder, which is often used as an ingredient in bombs, for proposed attacks on a Danish Carlsberg brewery in Petaling Jaya near Kuala Lumpur and on local pubs. He said the attacks were still at the “discussion” stage. It would be the first time local ­IS-inspired terrorists conducted an attack in Malaysia. Seven were charged under ­anti-terrorism and weapons law. The other dozen were released for lack of evidence tying them to specific plans for an attack or to join the banned Islamic State. The 19 suspects were arrested between April and June, and included a municipal council member, religious students and a food stall worker. They were aged from 20 to 54.

Malaysian officials were concerned that its citizens were joining the IS jihad in Iraq and Syria, pointing out that Malaysian citizen Ahmad Tarmimi, a 26-year-old factory worker, was believed to have car-ried out a suicide attack at a police station in Iraq in May.

August 21—Saudi Arabia—The official Saudi Press Agency reported that a Saudi court sentenced 18 men of undisclosed nationalities to prison terms of 10 months to 25 years for financing terrorism, collecting information about compounds where foreigners reside, providing hideouts for fugitives and possessing unlicensed weapons. They were part of a 50-person cell that conducted attacks to overthrow the kingdom a decade earlier.

Earlier in the week, the Riyadh court sentenced 31 other cell members for their role in deadly attacks, sentencing 3 to death and the rest to prison.

August 21—Kuwait—Police questioned 2 men designated by the U.S. Treasury Department as financiers of terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria. A police officer told the Associated Press that Shafi ­al-Ajmi was detained on August 17 and Hajaj ­al-Ajmi was detained the evening of August 20, both after returning from abroad. Attorney Mohammed ­Al-Jumia told the AP that his clients only raised charitable donations for Syrians.

August 22—Morocco—Authorities arrested 2 suspected members of the Islamic State group who had connections to foreign extremists and were planning to train in Syria with the group before returning to carry out attacks in Morocco.

August 22—France—The Paris prosecutor’s office was investigating 2 girls, aged 15 and 17, for allegedly planning to join jihadis in Syria. One hailed from Tarbes in the southwest, the other from Lyon.

August 22—Iraq—A suicide bomber set off his explosives in the Sunni Musab bin Omair Mosque during Friday prayers. Islamic State gunmen then fired on worshipers in Imam Wais village in Diyala Province, killing 70 and wounding 17. The terrorists planted bombs, hampering response efforts. Four Shi’ite militiamen were killed and 13 wounded by the bombs.

August 22—Gaza—Gunmen killed 18 alleged spies for Israel. Gunmen shot 11 alleged informants, including 2 women, at the Gaza City police headquarters in the morning. They then lined up and shot 7 men behind the ­al-Omari mosque after midday prayers. The previous day, an Israeli airstrike on a southern Gaza house killed 3 senior Hamas military leaders. Earlier in the week, an airstrike killed the wife and 2 children of Mohammed Deif, chief of the Hamas military wing.

August 22—Israel—Aaron Sofer, 23, an ­ultra-Orthodox religious student from Lakewood, New Jersey, went missing during a hike with a friend in the Jerusalem Forest. Some media reports suggested he was kidnapped. He had been at the Rabbi Tzvi Kaplan rabbinical yeshiva since 2013. His body was found near Ein Karem village on August 28. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said “There is no suspicion of foul play,” but offered no further details on how he died.

A mortar shell hit 2 cars in the parking lot of Nahal Oz, a small farming community near Gaza, killing a 4-year-old boy. Israel said the mortar was fired from next to a UN school serving as a shelter for Gazan refugees.

Five Israelis were hurt in several rocket strikes, one of which damaged a synagogue.

August 22—Kenya—Police announced they were holding Hassan Hanafi, a senior ­al-Shabaab member who was wanted in Somalia for the killing of journalists. He was arrested in early August, initially claiming to be Yusuf Hassan Abdisalam Yusuf. Somalia requested extradition. He held authentic Kenyan identification documents, which he fraudulently obtained. He entered Kenya on March 14 for treatment of old wounds he sustained from a bombing of an airstrip in 2011 which left him badly scarred and with shrapnel in his body.

August 22—Philippines—A woman wielding a pistol tried to enter the Philippine presidential Malacanang palace and demanded to see President Benigno Aquino III. She was disarmed and handed over to Manila police.

August 23—Iraq—Bombings in Baghdad and Kir­kuk killed at least 42 people.

A suicide bomber crashed into the gates of the Iraqi intelligence service in Baghdad’s Karrada district, killing 6 civilians and 5 security personnel and injuring 24.

Three bombs hit a crowded commercial district in Kirkuk, killing 31 people and wounding dozens.

Authorities believed a sticky bomb in Irbil injured 3 people.

August 23—China—The ­government-run Tianshan Net news portal said that 8 convicted terrorists were executed in Xinjiang. Three men were convicted of plotting a deadly assault in Beijing in 2013 in which the attacker—with his mother and wife as passengers—drove a sports utility vehicle through crowds, killing themselves and 3 bystanders, said. The others were convicted of attacking police, bomb making, murder and arson. All 8 had ­Uighur-sounding names.

August 23—Syria—The Nusrah Front’s media arm, al-Manara ­al-Baydha, released a video showing 8 bearded Lebanese policemen and a soldier captured by the group earlier in August. The hostages said they would be killed if Hizballah did not withdraw its fighters from Syria. The kidnappers also called for the release of detainees held in Lebanon, some of whom were charged in connection to bombings that killed and wounded dozens of people over the past year. Lebanon’s ­Sunni-affiliated Association of Muslim Scholars tried to mediate the hostages’ release. Lebanese army commander Jean Kahwaji told ­An-Nahar newspaper that 20 soldiers were missing.

August 23—Nigeria—Boko Haram overran the church compound and rectory of the St. Denis Parish in Madagali, turning it into a headquarters. The Reverend John Bakeni, secretary of the Maiduguri Roman Catholic diocese, told the press, “Things are getting pretty bad. A good number of our parishes in Pulka and Madagali areas have been overrun in the last few days.”

August 24—Afghanistan—Two prisoners and a child died during an attempted Taliban prison break in Zabul Province. Explosives went off near a prison wall when a child triggered them; it was not clear whether the child did so intentionally. Two Taliban prisoners then tried to grab guards’ weapons, but were shot to death. Two guards were wounded.

August 25—Nigeria—Boko Haram leader Abuba­kar Shekau released a video in which he announced that the city of Gwoza had been added to its Islamic Caliphate.

August 25—Iraq—An Islamic State suicide bomber at the Shi’ite Imam Ali Mosque in eastern New Baghdad killed 15 and wounded 32 following noon prayers.

Two Islamic State car bombs went off near a crowded restaurant in Baghdad’s Utaifiya commercial district, killing 15 people and wounding 21.

A car bomb in Karbala killed 12 civilians and wounded 31.

Two car bombs went off in 2 districts in Hillah, killing 11 and wounding 26.

August 26—Iraq—A car bomb went off during morning rush hour near outdoor pet and vegetable markets and a traffic police office in a commercial area in mostly Shi’ite eastern New Baghdad, killing 11 people and wounding 31.

August 26—South Sudan—Rebel commander Peter Gadet said his group had shot down a UNMISS Mi-8 cargo helicopter in rural Bentiu after he had warned the UN to stay out of the area. Three Russian crew members died in the crash brought on by a ­rocket-propelled grenade, according to the government. There was one injured survivor. The rebels said the UN aircraft transported government troops. 14082601

August 26—Syria—American citizen Douglas Mc­Authur McCain, 33, died the previous weekend fighting for the Islamic State against the ­al-Nusra Front in the Aleppo suburbs. He was a Minneapolis convert to Islam and a Robbinsdale Cooper High School friend of Troy Kastigar, who died in Somalia in September 2009 while fighting for ­al-Shabaab. McCain lived in Kastigar’s house in 2000–2001. Both had minor criminal records, including charges of disorderly conduct, traffic violations and giving false names to police officers. 14082602

August 27—Pakistan—Maulana Qasim Khurassani announced that his group had broken from the Pakistani Taliban and created the ­Jamaat-ul-Ahrar.

August 27—Internet—Jihadis released a 22-minute video, named as “Part 1” of an interview of American suicide bomber Moner Mohammad ­Abu-Salha, alias Abu Hurayra ­al-Ameriki, saying that he fled to Syria in 2013 because he believed he was under FBI surveillance. He praised the lectures of Anwar ­al-Aulaqi. “I went back to my home state, which is Florida. I stayed with my friend’s family. And it was no good. The reason I had to stay with them is that the state I was in, I finally realized I was being watched … [I went to Florida] to throw [the FBI] off, to make them think I was somewhere else in the United States…. I put my [faith] in Allah. In a lecture, Anwar ­al-Aulaqi said when you make [a journey for jihad] it’s like a cliff, jump off the cliff and you don’t know if the water is deep or shallow. Don’t know if there’s rocks or if it’s going to be very deep. You just have to jump and put your faith in Allah that it’s going to be deep and you won’t be harmed, that you’re going to be safe after you land in the water.”

August 27–28—Netherlands/Germany—Dutch police announced the arrests of 2 men suspected of recruiting people to fight in Syria and Iraq. One man was picked up in The Hague, Netherlands, on August 27; a second man was detained in Germany on August 28. A woman from The Hague was arrested on August 28 in Germany on suspicion of incitement and spreading hate online aimed at provoking a terror act.

August 28—Golan Heights—At 7:30 a.m., 150 Nusra Front gunmen detained 44 Fijian UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights; 81 Philippine peacekeepers were trapped in Ar Ruwayhinah and Burayqah. On August 30, some 35 peacekeepers were escorted out of the UN encampment in Breiqa by Irish and Filipino forces on board armored vehicles. On August 31, 40 Filipino peacekeepers escaped their Rwihana outpost after a 7-hour gun battle with the gunmen.

On September 2, 2014, Fiji’s military commander, Brigadier General Mosese Tikoitoga, said that Syrian Nusra Front rebels issued 3 demands for the release of 45 Fijian peacekeepers: deletion from the UN terrorist list, delivery of humanitarian aid to Damascus, and compensation for 3 of its members killed in a ­shoot-out with UN officers. The UN sent hostage negotiators to Syria to take over discussions from military leaders. Tikoitoga named the 45 detained soldiers, whom he said are led by Captain Savenaca Siwatibau Rabuka. On September 11, 2014, the kidnappers released the 45 Fijian peacekeepers. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said “no demands were made and no concessions were made. No ransom was paid.” Qatar said it helped mediate the negotiations.

August 28—Syria—The Islamic State posted videos of its executing 160 Syrian troops it had captured. At least 120 had been grabbed on August 27 near the Tabqa air base; another 40 were taken prisoner at other bases in the Hamrat region near Raqqa city.

August 28—Egypt—The ­al-Qaeda–inspired Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis (Champions of Jerusalem) group posted a 30-minute online video showing the beheading of 4 men in the Sinai Peninsula accused of spying for Israel. Their bodies were found earlier in August. The group said information from the foursome led to Israeli drone strikes that killed its members, including Khaled ­el-Menaei, the brother of the group’s leader Shadi ­el-Menaei. Egyptian authorities said Khaled and others were killed in clashes with security forces in late July.

August 29—Germany—Authorities detained Meh­met D., a 45-year-old Turkish man, on charges of membership in a foreign terrorist organization, on suspicion that he was a regional leader of the banned Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) separatist group. He was accused of leading the PKK’s operations in central Germany since January 2013 under the pseudonym Kahraman, and its northern German operations since later that year. Prosecutors said his responsibilities included coordinating fundraising, business activities and propaganda.

August 29—Iraq—Hour-long gun battles in Latifiyah between Iraqi soldiers and the Islamic State killed 14 terrorists and 4 soldiers.

August 29—UK—Britain raised the terror threat level from substantial to severe, the ­second-highest of 5 levels, meaning that a terrorist attack is considered highly likely, although there was no specific information on a threat.

August 29—France—The Paris Prosecutor’s Office said it was investigating a 14-year-old French girl from Quimper in Brittany for planning to carry out jihad. She faced 5 years in a juvenile prison. She was in contact via social networks with 2 other girls, aged 15 and 17, who lived in other regions in France.

August 30—Iraq—A suicide car bomber crashed into an army checkpoint in Youssifiyah, killing 11 people, including 4 soldiers, and wounding 24 people. Several cars were burned.

Hours later, a roadside bomb hit an army patrol in Latifiyah, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 5 others.

August 30—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide truck bomber set off his explosives at the National Directorate of Security’s Jalalabad headquarters, killing at least 2 NDS employees and setting off an ­hour-long gun battle with security forces. Najibullah Kamawal, a senior provincial health official, said 6 bodies had been brought to the hospital and 45 people were wounded.

In the early morning, Taliban gunmen stopped a vehicle and killed 9 male Baluchi laborers in Farah Province on their way to the Iranian border. Four other men were wounded.

August 30—Austria—Police in Haidenreichstein near the Czech border detained a 29-year-old Chechen man suspected of having fought with jihadis in Syria as he was planning to leave the country.

August 31—Somalia—In the morning, an ­al-Shabaab suicide car bomber attacked Mogadishu’s high security Godka Jilacow prison, a key interrogation center for Somalia’s intelligence agency and where many suspects were believed to be held. Gunmen then attempted to get inside the prison, throwing grenades. Guards fired back. The 7 terrorists, 3 soldiers, and 2 civilians died in the gun battle.

September—Iraq—On October 24, 2014, AP quoted 3 Iraqi officials who claimed that the Islamic State had used bombs with chlorine ­gas-filled cylinders during fighting with security forces and Shi’ite militiamen in the towns of Duluiya and Balad north of Baghdad in September. Some 40 troops and militiamen showed symptoms consistent with chlorine poisoning, such as difficulty in breathing and coughing.

September—Libya—Tunisian journalists Sofiene Chourabi and Nadhir Ktari disappeared and were believed to have been kidnapped. Captured terror-ists later said that they were killed by the Islamic State. On May 19, 2015, Tunisian Foreign Minister Taieb Baccouche said that they could still be alive. 14099901

September 1—Iraq—During the night, a car bomb exploded on a commercial street in Baiyaa, killing 9 and wounding 20.

September 1—Nigeria—Nigerian troops announced that they had killed about 70 Boko Haram terrorists when the group attacked Bama in the morning using armored tanks and trucks.

September 1—Yemen—AQAP in Hadramout Province executed 3 men accused of helping the U.S. with drone strikes, saying, “The greatest help they give to the crusaders against the holy warriors is the placing of trackers for American spy planes.”

September 1—Somalia—The Pentagon announced that U.S. drones fired missiles at 2 ­al-Shabaab vehicles near Barawe in a forest near Sablale district, killing 6 ­al-Shabaab terrorists. On September 5, the Pentagon confirmed the death of Mukhtar Abu Zubeyr, alias Ahmed Abdi Godane, 37, ­al-Shabaab’s leader since December 2007, who was in one of the 2 vehicles leaving a meeting of the group’s top leaders.

September 1—Philippines—Relying on an informant’s tip, police arrested 3 linked to a group that was planning to set off firebombs at Manila’s international airport and a major mall in the city to protest the government’s alleged “soft” stance in its territorial dispute with China. Authorities seized 4 homemade incendiary devices from their car at one of the airport’s parking lots. One bomb was to go off at a parking lot restroom; the other 3 were aimed at a shopping mall that is owned by ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs. Authorities said the “ultra-rightist” albeit “misguided group” planned to strafe the Chinese Embassy in Manila and a building owned by a company operating a power plant that allegedly employed Chinese workers illegally. The 4 were to be charged with possession of explosive materials, a ­non-bailable offense. The Justice Department also was considering filing conspiracy to commit terrorism charges against 3. Rommel Vallejo, head of the ­Anti-Organized Crime Division of the National Bureau of Investigation, said each firebomb consisted of a firecracker with an 8-second wick taped to a plastic bottle containing gasoline.

September 1—Afghanistan—The Taliban attacked an army post in Herat Province’s Chishti Sharif district, sparking a gun battle that killed 10 Taliban and 4 Afghan soldiers.

September 2—Mali—Four UN peacekeepers were killed and 15 wounded—6 seriously—when their convoy hit a mine as they were returning from Kidal. 14090201

September 2—Egypt—A remotely-detonated underground roadside bomb hit an armored police ­vehicle traveling in ­el-Wefaq in the Sinai Penin-sula, killing 11 policemen, including an officer, and wound­ing 2 officers. Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis claimed responsibility days later in a video showing its preparation and execution as jihadis shouted “God is great.”

September 2—Tunisia—Six masked gunmen raided the Kasserine home of parliamentarian Mohammed Ali Nasri, a member of the Nida Tounes (Tunisia’s Call) secular party, early in the morning. He fled to the second floor and leaped across to a neighbor’s home, breaking his leg. The Interior Ministry said the attackers came from Mount Salloum, a hideout of ­al-Qaeda linked jihadis who have attacked Tu­ni­sian security forces. No arrests were reported.

September 2—Afghanistan—A suicide car bomber drove into a group of Afghan security forces in Nangarhar Province’s Ghani Khil district in the morning, killing 3 policemen and wounding a civilian and a local policeman.

September 2—Saudi Arabia—During the previous several days, police arrested 88 men suspected of being part of an ­al-Qaeda cell that was plotting attacks inside and outside the country. At least 59 detainees had previously served prison sentences for similar offenses. Three men were Yemenis, 84 were Saudis, and one remained unidentified.

September 3—Denmark—Police detained a man and 2 women on suspicion of supporting the Islamic State, in violation of the country’s ­anti-terror laws. Authorities seized 100,000 kroner ($18,000) during the raid. Ali Daghim, 35, of Palestinian descent, said he sold 20 car bumper stickers, each costing 50 kroner ($9), which he said had nothing to do with the IS group. He denied supporting IS, saying the logo on the ­black-ribbon stickers—white Arabic text on a black background—is used by many Muslims, including the terrorist group. They faced preliminary charges of financially supporting a terrorist organization and could be sentenced to 10 years in prison if convicted.

September 3—Somalia—The government offered amnesty to ­al-Shabaab members, giving them 45 days to take up the offer.

September 3—Nigeria—The UN High Commissioner for Refugees reported that more than 10,000 Nigerian refugees had fled from northeast Nigeria into Cameroon, trying to escape Boko Haram’s efforts to establish an Islamic Caliphate. Another 1,700 Cameroonians also left their homes to go further inland since Boko Haram began attacking their villages. In one attack, BH slit the throats of 3 people found in a Catholic Church in the Cameroonian village of Assighassia. The UNHCR said Cameroon hosted about 39,000 Nigerian refugees and Niger some 50,000, in addition to an estimated 645,000 Nigerians displaced within Nigeria.

September 3—Afghanistan—A midnight Taliban attack by terrorists wearing Afghan army uniforms led to the deaths of 5 Afghan soldiers and 6 Taliban terrorists in the west.

September 3—Bosnia-Herzegovina—Some 200 Bosnian police in 17 locations around the country detained 16 people suspected of “recruiting (Bosnian) nationals for Syria and Iraq and funding and organizing their travel,” “participating in armed conflicts in Syria and Iraq where they fought alongside radical terrorist groups and organizations,” and funding other Balkan men to join IS jihadis there. Police seized weapons, ammunition, computer equipment, telephone cards and propaganda materials.

September 3—Egypt—Gunmen shot to death an ­off-duty 32-year-old police first sergeant who was walking home after work in ­el-Arish in the Sinai Peninsula.

September 3—Saudi Arabia—The official Saudi Press Agency reported that the Specialized Criminal Court sentenced an American, a Yemeni, and 22 Saudis to prison on charges of creating a terrorist cell and planning to attack foreigners in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain and oil pipelines, financing terrorism, embracing “deviant ideology,” disobeying the king, using the media to support terrorism, providing shelter to wanted people and training for combat. Sentences ranged from 2 to 27 years. The American was sentenced to 17 years; 6 of the years were for ­cyber-crimes. He was to be deported after finishing his sentence. Years served would be counted. The Saudis were banned from travel after their prison release.

September 3—Internet—Al-Qaeda leader Ayman ­al-Zawahiri posted a 55-minute online video in which he announced creation of an ­India-based wing of the group to spread Islamic rule and “raise the flag of jihad” across the subcontinent. The new group “is the fruit of a blessed effort of more than 2 years to gather the mujahedeen in the Indian subcontinent into a single entity … which was part of the Muslims’ territories before it was occupied by the infidel enemy.” He also pledged loyalty to Taliban leader Mullah Omar. He said creation of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent was a glad tiding for Muslims “in Burma, Bangladesh, Assam, Gujarat, Ahmedabad, and Kashmir” and said the new wing would rescue Muslims there from injustice and oppression. He called for unity among jihadis and criticized “discord,” a term used in describing Islamic State clashes with rival jihadi organizations in Syria. He also warned “If you said that you are doing jihad to defend the sanctities of the Muslims, then you must not transgress against them or their money or honor, and not even transgress your mujahideen brothers by word and action. Discord is a curse and torment, and disgrace for the believers and glory for the disbelievers. If you say that by your jihad you do not want but the pleasure of Allah, then you must not race for governance and leadership at the first opportunity.”

Essam Omar, head of the new Qaedat ­al-Jihad, released an audio with ­al-Zawahiri’s video, saying that Jews and Hindus were “apostates of India” who will “will watch your destruction by your own eyes.” He said the group would “storm your barricades with cars packed with gunpowder” to avenge the region’s “injustice toward Muslims.”

September 3—Tunisia—Sofiene Chourabi, host and producer of Tunisia’s First TV, and Nadhir Ktari, a photographer, went missing and were presumed kidnapped. They were freed on September 7 thanks to the intervention of the Tunisian Ambassador to Libya. The duo were taken hostage again on September 8, 2014. On January 8, 2015, UPI reported that they were executed by an Islamic State group in Libya. IS posted a photo showing the journalists walking with a gunman wearing camouflage and a scarf over his face. The group posted to jihadi websites that the IS had “applied the law of Allah” against the duo, whom IS said were fighting religion and spreading corruption. 14090301, 14090801

September 4—Iraq—NBC News reported that 3 senior members of the Islamic State, including Abu Hajar ­al-Sufi, an aide to Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi, were killed in a U.S. airstrike in Mosul. An airstrike killed an explosives operative and the military leader of the nearby town of Tel Afar, according to the Iraqi Defense Ministry.

September 4—Iraq—Islamic State gunmen kidnapped 50 men from Tal Ali village, 170 miles north of Baghdad. The men were loaded onto trucks and driven away.

September 4—Afghanistan—Reuters reported that the Taliban conducted a dawn attack that included 2 truck bombings on a government compound in Ghazni, killing 18 people, including 10 policemen asleep in their nearby quarters, and wounding 200, including 17 policemen. At least 21 gunmen died in a gun battle with police. The bombings destroyed Ghazni’s city library and 2 museums. One truck bomb targeted the local office of domestic intelligence, while the other targeted the police force’s sleeping quarters. The Interior Ministry said 2 civilians were killed.

A NATO service member was killed in an attack in eastern Afghanistan.

September 5—Iraq—A roadside bomb hit a convoy of a militiamen in Iskandariyah, killing 4 fighters and wounding 7.

A bomb exploded near an outdoor market in Bagh­dad’s Shi’ite district of Obeidi, killing 3 shoppers and wounding 12.

A car bomb exploded on a commercial street in Baghdad’s mainly Shi’ite Zafaraniyah district, killing 7 people and wounding 15.

Islamic State terrorists killed Sunni tribal chief Maiser ­al-Waqaa and 2 brothers in the village of ­al-Houd, south of Mosul. He ran in parliamentary elections earlier in 2014 but failed to win a seat.

September 5—Tunisia—Interior Ministry spokes­man Mohammed Ali Aroui announced the arrest of 12 men accused of planning attacks to disrupt the October 26 elections. Authorities seized a ­4-wheel drive vehicle near the border with Libya filled with rockets, ­assault-rifle ammunition and explosives destined for Mount Chambi. The SUV was heading from the Ben Guerdane border town to Sidi Bouzid, where the suspects were arrested.

September 5–6—Nigeria—Hundreds of Boko Haram gunmen in stolen military armored personnel carriers, trucks and motorcycles took over Gulak, an administrative headquarters of Adamawa State and the nearby towns of Duhu, Shuwa, Kirshinga and others along Nigeria’s northeastern border with Cameroon.

Further north, soldiers fought off rebels advancing on Maiduguri and attacked the rebels’ camp at a village outside Kondudga, killing dozens of terrorists.

September 6—Syria—The Washington Post reported that the Islamic State issued a video challenging Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying “This is a message to you, oh Vladimir Putin, these are the jets that you have sent to Bashar, we will send them to you, God willing, remember that. And we will liberate Chechnya and the entire Caucasus, God willing. The Islamic State is and will be and it is expanding God willing. Your throne has already teetered, it is under threat and will fall when we come to you because Allah is truly on our side.” Russia’s only naval facility on the Mediterranean is in the Syrian port of Tartus.

September 6—Lebanon—The Islamic State released a video showing that it had beheaded Abbas Medlej, 20, a kidnapped Lebanese soldier. Another 2 dozen Lebanese soldiers remained hostages of the group. They had been seized in Arsal in August 2014. 14089901

September 6—Somalia—Al-Shabaab commander Abu Mohammed announced that the group had unanimously selected Ahmad Umar, alias Sheikh Ahmad Umar Abu Ubaidah, to succeed Ahmed Abdi Godane, who was killed by a U.S. airstrike earlier in the month. “Avenging the death of our scholars and leader is a binding obligation on our shoulders that we will never relinquish nor forget no matter how long it takes.”

September 6—Germany—German authorities arrested 3 German men arriving at Frankfurt airport from Kenya on suspicion of membership in ­al-Shabaab. They were identified as Steven N., 26, Abdullah W., 28, and Abdulsalam W., 23. The trio went to Somalia in 2012 and 2013 to join ­al-Shabaab, and received weapons and combat training.

September 6—Pakistan—The news media initially reported that the Pakistani Taliban attacked a naval dockyard in Karachi. Three terrorists and a sailor died and 7 sailors were injured. Seven terrorists were arrested. Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said some naval officials helped them to carry out the ­attack, which was revenge for an ongoing army operation in the North Waziristan tribal region. On September 19, 2014, CNN reported that the newly-formed al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent had infiltrated Pakistan’s navy and tried to hijack the Pakistani navy vessel PNS Zulfiqar which it would use to launch rocket attacks on American ships in the Indian Ocean. AQIS spokesman Usama Mahmoud said on Twitter that the Pakistani naval officers could be likened to U.S. Army Major Nadal Hasan, who was convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood during a November 5, 2009, rampage. Mahmoud said the attack would avenge the “bloodshed of Muslims” from Afghanistan to Syria and U.S. control and superiority over “ours straits, our channels and our waters.” AQIS posted a picture and schematic of the Pakistani naval ship on Twitter, saying, “These mujahideen had taken control of the Pakistani ship, and they were advancing towards the American fleet when the Pakistani army stopped them. As a result, the mujahideen, the lions of Allah and benefactors of the Ummah, sacrificed their lives for Allah, and the Pakistani soldiers spoiled their hereafter by giving up their lives in defense of the enemies of the Ummah the Americans.” Later, authorities raided a Quetta safe house, arresting 3 naval officials who were trying to escape to Afghanistan.

September 6–7—Cameroon—On September 9, Cameroon’s state media claimed that the armed forces killed 100 Boko Haram terrorists who traveled from Nigeria to attack Fotocol across the border over the weekend.

September 7—Iraq—Gunmen kidnapped Raad ­al-Azzawi, a cameraman for Iraq’s Salahuddin Television. In September 2014, the Islamic State threatened to kill the father of 3 for refusing to join the group. On October 10, 2014, AP reported that the Islamic State killed him in Tikrit.

September 7—Democratic Republic of Congo—Sister Lucia Pulici, 75, Sister Olga Raschietti, 82, and Sister Bernadetta Boggian, 79, all Italian members of the Xaverian Missionary Sisters of Mary, were beaten and killed with a knife in their convent in the Kamenge area of Bujumbura. At least one was beheaded. Reports conflicted as to whether they were raped. They had lived in Burundi for the last 7 years, offering health care, spiritual and social support to the local communities. They had served in Africa for more than 50 years, spending most of the time in the Congo. On September 12, police said Christian Butoyi Claude, 33, confessed, saying the convent was built on his family’s land. He had 2 keys the sisters used to enter the convent and a mobile phone belonging to one of the sisters, according to the police.

September 7—Gaza Strip—On July 9, 2015, Israeli military authorities released a gag order to announce that 2 Israeli citizens were being held in the Gaza Strip; at least one of them was held by Hamas. On September 7, 2014, Ethiopian immigrant Avraham Mangisto, from Ashkelon, “independently” crossed into the Gaza Strip through a gap in the border fence. The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories said that he was being held “against his will” by Hamas. It said “Israel has appealed (to) international and regional interlocutors to demand his immediate release and verify his ­well-being.” Channel 2 TV reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Lior Lotan, a retired Israeli army colonel, was handling negotiations to return Man­gisto to Israel. The TV station said Mangisto was depressed following the death of his brother. The second man being held was an Arab Bedouin citizen of Israel from the Negev desert.

September 7—Somalia—Al-Shabaab was believed to have fired mortar shells into Mogadishu’s Hamarjajab residential neighborhood, wounding 5 residents.

September 7–9—Internet—The Islamic State threatened Twitter staffers, calling on U.S.- and ­Europe-based lone wolves to assassinate employees. One posting said “#The_Concept_of_Lone_Wolf_Attacks The time has arrived to respond to Twitter’s management by directly attacking their employees and physically assassinating them!! Those who will carry this out are the sleepers cells of death.”

September 8—Iraq—A roadside bomb injured the mayor of Haditha and Anbar Province’s Governor Ahmed ­al-Dulaimi.

A suicide bomber killed 16 people at a tribal gathering north of Baghdad.

September 8—China—The Associated Press reported that at least 323 people died in ­Xinjiang-related violence since April 2013. Nearly half of those deaths were inflicted by police.

September 8—Afghanistan—In an evening attack on police headquarters in Arghistan District in Kandahar Province, a Taliban suicide bomber killed district police chief Abdul Manaf and his 2 guards and wounded 6 other police officers.

September 8—Somalia—An ­al-Shabaab suicide bomber set off his car bomb next to a convoy of African Union troops moving near 2 minibuses in the Elasha Biyaha settlement in Lower Shabelle, killing 12 civilians and wounding 2 soldiers. A second suicide car bomber crashed into a convoy escorting Abdifatah Shaweye, the Mogadishu intelligence commander, who was in the area to inspect the scene of the first blast, slightly wounding him and causing no deaths.

September 8—Chile—Chilean officials said a bomb apparently exploded at 2 p.m. in a Santiago subway, injuring 14 people, including a cleaning woman who lost a finger. The Fire Department Commander said fragments flew from a fire extinguisher placed in a trash bin in front of a food stall at the Los Militares subway stop. Two suspects escaped in a car.

At least 28 bombs exploded in Santiago since January 1, 2014. Several anarchist groups claimed credit, demanding freedom for 2 anarchists imprisoned in Spain.

On September 18, Chilean officials arrested 2 men and a woman who were part of an anarchist cell. One of them was suspected of carrying out the subway attack, while the other 2 were suspected of acting as accomplices. They were also believed involved in the July 12 bombing of a Santiago subway station that caused damage but no injuries.

The anarchist Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire claimed credit, but said it tried to avoid casualties, observing, “We called (the emergency number) more than 10 minutes before the blast, waiting for police to react by evacuating, but they ignored it, detonating the device and causing several injuries, which we lament. Our target was not consumers or workers, but the structures, properties and enforcers of power … a shopping mall for the bourgeoisie.”

The Anarchist Revolution Current wrote on Facebook: “Anarchism is a response of the oppressed class to the injustices of capitalism. That’s why no anarchist action can be directed toward harming workers. We repudiate the explosion in the shopping area next to the subway station.”

September 9—Austria—Police prevented a 14-year-old girl and a 15-year-old girl from going to Syria or Iraq to join jihad, returning them to their parents in Vienna. The mother of a third girl in Graz notified police that they tried to persuade her daughter to join them in the Mideast.

September 9—Iran—Border guards detained 3 foreigners traveling through Iran believed planning to join IS jihadis in Iraq. Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said Afghan and Pakistani nationals were arrested.

September 9—Egypt—The Cairo Criminal Court convicted Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed ­el-Beltagy, ultraconservative cleric Safwat Hegazy and 2 Muslim Brotherhood physicians of kidnapping, unlawfully detaining and torturing 2 police officers in a makeshift tent last summer and leading a terrorist organization. Hegazy and ­el-Beltagy were sentenced to 20 years in prison. The physicians were sentenced to 5 years in prison.

September 9—U.S.—U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke resentenced Jose Padilla to 21 years, up from the earlier 17-year sentence, saying the original term was too lenient. He was convicted in 2007 on charges of supporting ­al-Qaeda and terrorism conspiracy. He was arrested by the FBI in 2002 on an ­al-Qaeda mission to detonate a radioactive “dirty bomb” inside the U.S. Those accusations were later dropped and Padilla was added to another terrorism case.

September 9—UK—Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers announced that the British government had nullified confidential letters sent to 187 Irish Republican Army fugitives as part of Northern Ireland’s peace process, saying that they will not protect recipients from arrest for outstanding crimes.

September 9—Syria—A suicide bomber killed Hassan Aboud, leader of the ultraconservative rebel group Ahrar ­al-Sham as its leaders were meeting in Ram Hamdan in Idlib Province. Another 40 ­members of the group, including 4 other leaders, also died.

September 10—Australia—Police arrested 2 men, Agim Kruezi, 21, an unemployed resident of Logan, and Omar Succarieh, 31, a driver from Brisbane, for preparing to fight in Syria, recruiting jihadists and raising money for the Nusra Front, an ­al-Qaeda offshoot. Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Gaughan said 180 police took part in the raids on 9 properties in Brisbane and Logan. The duo were charged in a Brisbane court on September 11 with making preparations for incursions into Syria with intentions of engaging in hostile activity. Kruezi was charged with recruiting people to engage in hostile activities for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Succarieh was charged with providing funds to Jabhat ­al-Nusra (the Nusra Front). They did not enter pleas or request bail. They were remanded in custody to appear in the same court in October. Succarieh is the older brother of an Australian car bomber who died in Syria in 2013.

They were linked to the iQraa Islamic Center in Logan, which was among the properties raided. The center is a ­not-for-profit book and clothing store, as well as a cafe, and has been linked in the media to jihadists. Police seized a “significant amount of electronic data,” a firearm and some crossbows.

On October 17, 2014, the Brisbane Magistrates Court charged Kruezi in an Australian court with transporting a firearm and possessing machetes, knives, balaclavas and military fatigues in preparation for a terrorist act. The duo were joined in court by Louis Maestracci, 32, of Logan, who was charged with dealing with money that could have been used to fund terrorist operatives overseas. Maestracci was free on bail. None entered a plea. Magistrate John McGrath adjourned charges against all 3 until December 19. Kruezi and Succarieh faced potential life prison sentences.

September 10—Iraq—Two car bombs killed 14 people, including 3 traffic policemen, and injured 46 near pet and vegetable markets in southeastern New Baghdad.

September 10—France—During the night, authorities at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport arrested Mourad Fares, 30, a “particularly dangerous” recruiter of young jihadis for the civil war in Syria, according to the Interior Ministry. He was detained in Turkey on August 16, 2014. He hailed from ­Thonon-les-Bain in the foothills of the Alps. He visited Syria in July 2013, establishing links to the predecessor of the Islamic State group, the most brutal among myriad jihadi organizations, then the ­al-Qaeda–linked Nusra Front, according to the Interior Ministry. The Ministry said his role was “determining” in cases in Toulouse and in Strasbourg. A judicial investigation was opened in July, when an international arrest warrant was issued.

September 10—Lebanon—Gunmen attacked a camp for 200 Syrian refugees, setting tents afire. The attack was attributed to individuals seeking revenge after the Islamic State beheaded Abbas Medlej, one of several Lebanese soldiers they had kidnapped.

Drive-by shooters in the northeastern village of Qaa injured 2 Syrians.

Gunmen on a motorcycle fired during the night at a gathering of Syrian refugees without wounding anyone, causing no injuries.

A Syrian in Bar Elias was hospitalized after being stabbed in the back.

A car owned by a Syrian was firebombed in Zawatar. 14091001–05

September 11—Iraq—A car bomb went off on a commercial street in Diwaniyah, killing 6 people and wounding 16.

A car bomb hit a bus stop in Karbala, killing 3 and wounding 12.

A car bomb exploded near a restaurant in Najaf, killing 5 people and wounding 12.

Shortly before sunset, a bomb killed 3 people and wounded 14 near restaurants in Baghdad’s Bayaa district.

September 12—Nigeria—The government announced that its soldiers had killed scores of jihadis as they advanced on a town near Maiduguri. Among the terrorists killed in Konduga was a commander known as Amir, a suicide bomber, and a Boko Haram video journalist.

September 12—Morocco—Authorities dismantled a terrorist recruiting network in Fez.

September 12—U.S.—Eric Frein was believed to have ambushed a Pennsylvania State Police barracks, killing Corporal Byron Dickson. On November 13, 2014, he was charged with terrorism. He had earlier been charged with ­first-degree murder after telling his captors that it was an “assassination.” Police found a letter on a thumb drive addressed to Mom and Dad in which he said that only a revolution “can get us back the liberties we once had.”

September 13—Syria—The Islamic State released a video showing the beheading of British aid worker David Cawthorne Haines, 44, who was kidnapped in Syria in March 2013. At the end of a previous video showing the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff, the group had threatened to kill Haines. In the Haines video, entitled “A Message to the Allies of America,” the group threatened to kill Alan Henning, another British hostage. Haines’s murderer appeared to be the same man speaking with an East London accent as in the previous videos announcing the killings of Americans James Foley and Steven Sotloff. He told the UK government that its alliance with the U.S. will only “accelerate your destruction” and will drag the British people into “another bloody and unwinnable war.”

September 13—Uganda—The U.S. Embassy in Kampala warned U.S. citizens “Today Ugandan authorities reported the discovery of an ­al-Shabaab terrorist cell in Kampala, Uganda. We remain in close contact with our Ugandan counterparts as investigations continue into what appears to have been planning for an imminent attack. We urge that you exercise all possible caution, remaining at home or in a safe location until the all clear is issued. At this point we are not aware of specific targets, and the Ugandan authorities have increased security at key sites, including Entebbe International Airport.” By September 15, authorities had arrested 19 Somali suspects and seized explosives at a Kampala hotel and a flat in the Kisenyi slum.

September 13—Syria—The Associated Press reported that the Khorasan Group, working with the Nusra Front, were planning on attacking U.S. aviation. AP said they were sent by al-Qaeda head Ayman ­al-Zawahiri to recruit Europeans and Americans to board U.S.-destined planes with bombs designed by ­Yemeni-based AQAP bombmakers.

September 14—Mali—A UN vehicle hit a land mine near Aguel’hoc, killing a Chadian soldier and injuring 4 others. 14091401

September 15—Iraq—During the afternoon, a roadside bomb hit a Sahwa antiterrorist patrol in Madain, killing 3 vigilantes and one civilian.

Later that day, a sticky bomb attached to a minibus exploded in Baghdad’s Abu Dashir district, killing 4 passengers and wounding 6 people.

September 15—Germany—The Frankfurt trial began of Kreshnik Berisha, 20, a German who once played for a Jewish football club, on charges of membership in the Islamic State. Days earlier, Germany banned Islamic State symbols and propaganda. Prosecutors said that in 2013 he went to Syria, where he fought with IS before returning to Germany 5 months later. He faced 10 years in prison for membership in a foreign terrorist organization.

September 15—Afghanistan—A man wearing an Afghan National Army uniform fired on ISAF members in western Afghanistan. 14091501

September 16—Afghanistan—At 8:10 a.m., a Taliban suicide bomber exploded his small car next to an armored International Security Assistance Force vehicle in a military convoy on Kabul International Airport Road near the U.S. Embassy and the Su­preme Court compound in Kabul, killing 3 troops—2 Americans soldiers and Polish Sergeant Rafal Celebudzki, 38, who was driving a vehicle—injuring 16 civilians and 5 soldiers, and damaging 17 civilian cars. Celebudzki had served in Iraq. He was the 44th Polish soldier killed in Afghanistan. 14091601

In the east, an individual in an Afghan army uniform shot and killed an ISAF soldier.

September 16—Egypt—In the morning, a bomb hidden deep under the asphalt of a highway killed 5 Egyptian police conscripts and an officer in Wadi Halfa near Rafah in the Sinai Peninsula. The victims were part of a joint police and army explosives detection force that was passing by.

September 16—Pakistan—Terrorists crossed the border from Afghanistan and attacked a Pakistani army post in the North Waziristan tribal region. The ensuing ­shoot-out killed 11 jihadis and 3 soldiers. Authorities captured a gunman. 14091602

September 16—Colombia—National Police General Rodolfo Palomino said that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia bombed a truck carrying 14 police officers on a road in Tierradentro in Cordoba Province, killing 7 police officers and seriously injuring 5. Two officers were unharmed.

September 16–17—France—Interior Minister Ber­nard Cazeneuve announced the arrests of 5 people in Lyon suspected of membership in a ring that recruits young women to join jihadis in Syria.

September 17—Canada—CBCNews reported that Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh, a man police called the ringleader of a group accused of plotting attacks in Canada, pleaded guilty to explosives possession with the intent to cause harm as part of a terrorist conspiracy. Justice Colin McKinnon sentenced him to 24 years, minus time served, in a plea agreement in an Ottawa court. He thus was to spend 18 years in a federal prison. He was one of a trio of men charged with ­terrorism-related counts after a 2010 RCMP investigation. Misbahuddin Ahmed, an Ottawa ­X-ray technologist, awaited sentencing after he was found guilty in July 2014 of conspiring to knowingly facilitate a terrorist activity and participating in the activities of a terrorist group. Former London, Ontario, pathologist Khurram Sher, whose voice was recorded in police surveillance, was found not guilty in August 2014 of planning terrorist activity.

As part of the plea, Alizadeh admitted attending a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan in 2009 for 2 months, receiving training in the use of firearms and assembling ­remote-controlled improvised explosive devices (IEDs). He smuggled back violent propaganda videos, instructional materials on constructing triggering devices and 56 electronic circuit boards designed specifically to remotely detonate IEDs. He maintained contact with Kurdish insurgents linked to the Taliban and a man who helped foreigners receive terrorist training in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They communicated via ­pay-as-you-go cellphones and payphones plus a public library Internet account under a false name. Upon returning to Canada, Alizadeh sought to start his own group in Ottawa. He met with Ahmed in February 2010 and attempted to radicalize him. In July 2010, the 2 men also met with Sher and attempted to recruit him. Alizadeh solicited money in Canada to help his brother in Iran buy a ­rocket-propelled grenade device. A police search of Alizadeh’s apartment revealed a President’s Choice grocery bag containing a partially-assembled circuit board for an IED with 7 components soldered on.

September 17—Afghanistan—The Taliban killed 6 Afghan policemen and wounded 6 other police officers in an ambush in Herat Province. Eight Taliban died in the fight.

September 17—Iraq—The Islamic State released a 52-second video entitled “Flames of War” warning the U.S. that jihadis await it in Iraq if President Barack Obama sends troops there. The professionally-produced video showed jihadis blowing up tanks, wounded American soldiers and others about to killed.

September 17—Iraq—The Islamic State kidnapped rights lawyer Samira Salih ­al-Nuaimi from her home after allegedly posting messages on Facebook that were critical of IS’s destruction of Mosul religious sites. IS publicly killed her in Mosul on September 25 after finding her guilty of apostasy in a ­self-described sharia court. The UN Assistance Mission in Iraq said IS tortured her for 5 days before murdering her. “By torturing and executing a female human rights lawyer and activist, defending in particular the civil and human rights of her fellow citizens in Mosul, ISIL continues to attest to its infamous nature, combining hatred, nihilism and savagery, as well as its total disregard of human decency,” Nickolay Mladenov, the UN envoy to Iraq, said.

September 17—Lebanon—Gunmen crossed the border with Syria and kidnapped soldier Kamal ­al-Hujairi, who was visiting his parents’ farm outside Arsal. The ­state-run National News Agency said the terrorists also stole several cows. 14091701

September 17—Finland—Prosecutors charged 4 people with financing terrorism by collecting thousands of euros to fund terrorist activities by ­al-Shabaab from 2008 to 2011. This was the first terrorism case file in Finland. One defendant was charged with recruiting members for ­al-Shabaab. If convicted they could face up to 8 years in prison.

September 17—France—French judges threw out ­terrorism-linked charges against 9 members of the exiled Iranian opposition group ­Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, closing an 11-year-old case.

September 17—Iraq—After sundown, a suicide bomber drove his car into an abandoned build-ing used by security forces in Tarmiyah, killing 5 soldiers, 3 police officers and 16 members of security forces.

An explosion on a commercial street in Baghdad’s Khazimiyah district killed 3 people and injured 8.

September 17—Nigeria—Two suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers killed 15 students and hospitalized 34 at the Federal College of ­Education-Kano. Four men in a tricycle taxi opened fire when security guards insisted on searching the vehicle. One attacker ran to a filled lecture hall and set off his bomb. A second set off his bomb outside another lecture hall.

Meanwhile, the armed forces claimed to have killed 100 jihadis in a battle at Konduga, 28 miles from Maiduguri, the previous week.

September 17—Saudi Arabia—The 21-member Council of Senior Religious Scholars, the country’s most senior body of religious scholars, issued a fatwa that deemed terrorism a “heinous crime” and saying perpetrators including Islamic State jihadis deserve punishment in line with Islamic law. The fatwa condemned the Shi’ite Houthi rebel group in Yemen and Saudi Hizballah.

September 18—Mali—A roadside bomb went off under a car carrying Chadian troops north of Aguel’hoc, near Kidal, killing 5 UN peacekeepers and wounding 3. 14091801

Earlier in September, 4 UN peacekeepers died and several were wounded when their convoy hit a mine in the same region. Another mine killed a peacekeeper earlier in the week.

September 18—Australia—Some 800 state and federal police arrested 15 people in raids on more than 2 dozen locations in Sydney, Logan, and Brisbane after receiving intelligence that a terrorist attack on Australian soil was planned. One person was charged with serious ­terrorism-related offenses and was scheduled to appear in court. A few days earlier, the government had raised its terrorism threat level from “medium” to “high” on a ­4-tier scale on the advice of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization. Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced that “exhortations” were coming from an Australian who is senior in the Islamic State to support networks in Australia to “conduct demonstration killings.” The next day, 2 men were charged in connection with a terror plot to carry out a public beheading of a randomly chosen person, then drape the victim in an Islamic State flag. A 24-year-old man from Merrylands was charged with possession of ammunition without a license and unauthorized possession of a prohibited weapon. He was released on bail and ordered to appear in court the following week. A second man, Omarjan Azari, 22, of Sydney, was charged with conspiracy to commit acts in preparation of a terrorist act and financing terrorism. Mohammad Ali Baryalei, 33, believed to be Australia’s most senior member of the Islamic State, was named as a ­co-conspirator. Police issued an arrest warrant for Baryalei, a former Sydney nightclub bouncer. Two women were issued notices to appear later in court. Nine detainees were released. Police assumed security at Parliament House in Canberra, announcing that the building, “government and government people” had been identified as targets.

September 18—Iraq—A bomb killed 4 and wounded 10 on a shopping street in northwest Baghdad’s Toubachi neighborhood.

A bomb exploded near a Baghdad car repair shop, killing 3 and wounding 8.

A bomb at a Baghdad wholesale produce market killed 3 and wounded 11.

A roadside bomb hit an army patrol in Baghdad, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 4.

Mortar shells landed on houses in southern Baghdad, killing 3.

A suicide bomber rammed his car into a security checkpoint in Baghdad’s Khazimiyah district, while other terrorists fired 3 mortar shells in different parts of the district, hitting houses and a bus station, wounding 31 people.

A bomb went off in Baghdad during the night, killing 6 and wounding 15.

September 18—Yemen—Shi’ite Houthi rebels attacked the Sana’a headquarters of Yemeni state television and Iman University. At least 120 people were killed in fighting in the capital.

September 18–19—Libya—Assassins killed 10 rights activists, journalists, and members of the security forces in the country’s east. The dead included 2 activist bloggers and 4 current and former military and police officers. Three other people survived assassination attempts in Benghazi.

September 19—U.S.—At 7:20 p.m., Omar Jose Gonzalez, 42, armed with a Spyerdco VG10 knife, jumped the White House fence, ran 70 yards across the North Lawn, opened the unlocked front double doors of the North Portico, entered the vestibule, overpowered a Secret Service officer, sprinted past a stairway that leads up half a flight to the first family’s living quarters, reached the doorway to the Green Room, and walked along a first floor corridor before an ­off-duty Secret Service agent tackled him on the far southern side of the 80-foot-long East Room. His folding knife had a 31/2-inch serrated blade. His family members said that the Texan was a homeless Iraq War veteran with PTSD. His public defender said he had served 3 tours in Iraq; his former stepson said he was a sniper for 6 years with Army Special Forces. Prosecutors said he had 800 rounds of ammunition, 2 hatchets and a machete in his car, which was parked blocks away. The president and his daughters had heli­coptered from the South Lawn 10 minutes earlier en route to Camp David.

The former resident of Copperas Cove, Texas, was taken for evaluation to the psychiatric ward at George Washington University. He told arresting agents he was worried that the “atmosphere was collapsing” and he needed to get the president to tell the people. He had been living in his car for the last 2 years.

The next day, he appeared before D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff, accused of entering a restricted building or grounds while carrying a dangerous or deadly instrument. The case was transferred to U.S. District Court on September 22, when he appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola on one charge of unlawfully entering a restricted building or grounds while carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon. He was represented by Assistant Public Defender Margarita ­O’Donnell, who noted that her client had no convictions, no arrest warrants, tested negative for drug use and had served 18 years in the U.S. armed forces. He was also represented by Assistant Federal Public Defender David Bos. The judge ordered Gonzalez held until October 1, 2014, pending revocation of bond by authorities in an unrelated July 19 incident in Wythe County, Virginia, where he was arrested while allegedly carrying a ­sawed-off shotgun, 2 sniper rifles, an as-sault rifle, a ­bolt-action rifle, one ­sawed-off and one intact shot gun, 5 handguns, more than 7 loaded magazines of ammunition, and a map of the Washington area with the Masonic Temple in Alex­an-dria, Virginia, circled and a line pointed toward the White House, according to a local prosecutor. On August 25, Secret Service officers saw Gonzalez carrying a hatchet in the back waistband of his pants along the south fence of the White House and questioned him.

The Army announced that Gonzalez served from 1997 until his discharge in 2003, and again from 2005 to December 2012, when he retired on disability. The Army identified him as a cavalry scout, serving in Iraq from October 2006 to January 2008. He had also been posted to Fort Hood, Texas and Joint Base ­Lewis-McChord in Washington state.

On October 1, 2014, Gonzalez pleaded not guilty to all charges during a 20-minute court appearance. U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson of the District ordered him held in jail without bond. A federal grand jury charged Gonzalez with one federal felony count of entering a restricted building or grounds while carrying a deadly weapon—a knife—as well as D.C. charges of carrying a dangerous weapon outside a home or business and unlawful possession of ammunition. The federal charge carried a prison sentence of 10 years and the D.C. counts up to 5 years and one year in prison, respectively. Judge Robinson ordered that Gonzalez undergo a mental competency screening before October 21.

Secret Service Director Julia Pierson resigned on October 1 amid a Congressional uproar.

September 19—Iraq—A parked car bomb exploded near the ­al-Mubarak mosque in Baghdad’s Karradah district, killing 9 people and wounding 18.

Two car bombs killed 9 and wounded 23 in 2 outdoor markets in Baghdad; one exploded in Baghdad’s Shi’ite Nahrawan suburb, the other in the Baghdad’s Shi’ite Bayaa district.

A car bomb exploded in a parking lot in Mahmoudiyah, killing 3 and wounding 10.

A motorcycle bomb exploded near a gun shop in Kirkuk, killing 10 and wounding 14.

The Islamic State announced formation of a police force in Mosul, saying, “The Islamic State has restored the Islamic police system and has assigned hundreds of mujahedeen to protect the Muslims and their properties.”

September 19—Paraguay—Army Colonel Victor Urdapilleta told the news media that 3 members of the newly formed Agrupacion Campesina Armada fighters died fighting a joint police, military and ­anti-drug unit 270 miles north of Asuncion. The group was formed 2 months earlier, splitting from the Paraguayan People’s Army rebels, which specialized in kidnappings for ransom in the name of political change to help the rural poor. It has killed 3 members of the military, 13 police officers and 22 civilians since it formed in 2008.

September 19—Germany—Authorities in Berlin arrested a 40-year-old man suspected of having traveled in January 2014 to Syria, where he underwent weapons and explosives training before taking part in combat operations for the Islamic State in Syria’s civil war. The man returned to Germany in August.

September 19—Germany—Federal prosecutors charged a man and 2 women with supporting the Islamic State. Karolina R., 25, a German and Polish citizen, is married to an Islamic State member. She was accused of using an intermediary to provide IS with 1,100 euros ($1,400) worth of cameras and accessories to produce propaganda videos in October 2013. Prosecutors said she traveled to Syria and delivered 3 more cameras and 5,000 euros in cash. After she returned in December 2013, prosecutors said she sent another 6,000 euros, some raised with help from the other 2 people charged, Germans ­Ahmed-Sadiq M., and Jennifer Vincenza M., both 22.

September 19—Lebanon—Terrorists set off a roadside bomb near a passing Lebanese Army truck near Arsal across from the Syrian border, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 3. Jihadis were blamed.

Lebanese police questioned 3 Syrians who entered the country illegally on suspicion of a connection to the Islamic State’s beheading of a Lebanese soldier.

September 20—Egypt—An Egyptian court convicted and sentenced 5 people to death on charges of forming a terrorist group and attacking a church, killing a policeman. MENA reported that 2 others received life sentences. The group began attacking Christians and security forces in October 2013. Three defendants were tried in absentia.

September 20—Lebanon—The ­state-run National News Agency reported that a suicide car bomber set off his explosives at a Hizballah checkpoint near the border town of Khreibeh during the evening, killing 3 people. The ­Hizballah-run television station reported that he did not kill anyone.

September 20—Germany—Authorities arrested 2 suspected ­al-Shabaab members—German-Tunisian dual citizen Mounir T., 30, and German citizen Abdiwahid W., 22—after they landed at Frankfurt airport. They were detained in Kenya in August and deported to Germany.

September 20—Argentina—Reuters quoted Argentine President Cristina Fernandez as saying during her Vatican visit that the Islamic State had threatened her because of her friendship with Pope Francis and for recognizing Israel and Palestine.

September 20—U.S.—In the afternoon, another ­would-be intruder was arrested for trespassing after trying to get onto the White House grounds. Kevin Carr, 19, from Shamong, New Jersey, approached a White House gate on foot, then showed up a little while later in his car at another gate at 15th and E Streets, NW. He entered the vehicle screening area and refused to leave. Authorities did not treat this incident as seriously as the previous day’s ­fence-jumper case.

September 20, October 12, October 24—Central African Republic—On November 26, 2014, Came­roonian special forces freed 15 Cameroonians and Polish priest Mateusz Dziedzic who were being held by Democratic Front of the Central African People rebels in the Central African Republic. Lieutenant Leonard Kamdika of the rebel group claimed that the kidnappers freed the hostages, including 10 Central Africans, as a gesture of goodwill in their efforts to win the freedom of their leader, who is jailed in Cameroon. The rebels earlier were linked to Seleka, a coalition of Muslim armed groups that ousted the president last year. The 15 Cameroonians were abducted in the eastern region by CAR rebels between September 20 and October 24; the priest was kidnapped on October 12. ­Congo-Brazzaville’s President Sassou Nguesso acted as a mediator. Poland’s Pontifical Mission Societies said the Democratic Front of the Central African Republic had been responsible for Dziedzic’s kidnapping, and had hoped to exchange the priest for FDPC leader Abdoulaye Miskine. Miskine, a Seleka, was arrested in Came­roon in September 2013 on suspicion of planning to launch attacks against CAR from Cameroon. 14092001, 14101202, 14102402

September 20–21—China—Chinese state media, including news portal Tianshan Net, reported that 50 people, including 40 assailants, were killed and many others were wounded in a series of explosions over the weekend at 2 police stations, a produce market and a store in Luntai county in the far western region of Xinjiang, in what officials deemed a severe terror attack. The attack killed 2 police officers, 2 police assistants and 6 bystanders, and 54 others were in-jured. During police actions, 40 assailants were either shot dead or died in explosions. Police captured 2 ­attackers. Police determined that one of the dead men, Maimaiti Tuerxun, was responsible for the attack.

September 21—Egypt—The Soldiers of Egypt (Ajnad Misr) claimed credit for setting off a roadside bomb at 10:45 a.m. at a police checkpoint near the back gate of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry in Cairo, killing 2 senior policemen—Lieutenant Colonels Khaled Saafan and Mohammed Abu Sreeah—and wounding 7 people, including other police officers. Ajnad Misr said it attacked “officers of the criminal apparatus” deeming the incident “a new penetration operation to reach the foreign ministry’s perimeter and plant the explosive device.” It warned that the attacks would continue until “the ruling tyrants fall and God’s Shariah is established … and that when a hero dies he will be replaced by several heroes who will follow his path.”

September 21—Iraq—Three mortar shells hit a residential section of Sabaa ­al-Bour, a town north of Baghdad, killing 6, including a 12-year ­old-boy, wounding 17, and damaging several cars.

A bomb went off on a commercial street in Baghdad’s Shaab district, killing 4 and wounding 11.

A bomb went off at night on a commercial street in Baghdad’s Bayaa district, killing 3 and wounding 7.

September 21—China—The Tianshan news portal reported that several explosions went off at 5 p.m. in 3 locations in Luntai County in Xinjiang Province, killing 2 and injuring many others.

September 21—Algeria—During the night, the former ­al-Qaeda splinter group Jund ­al-Khilafah (Soldiers of the Caliphate) kidnapped French citizen Herve Gourdel, 55, in the Tizi Ouzou region and posted an Internet video in which it warned French President Francois Hollande that it would execute the hostage if France did not end its air strikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq within 24 hours. Gourdel appeared in the video flanked by 2 armed masked men and said he was taken hostage by the group on September 21.

Gourdel was a mountain guide from Nice, France, and was hiking with 2 friends through the Djura Djura mountains in Algeria’s rugged Kabylie area when he was abducted. The trio had spent the night at a ski lodge near Tikdjda, 65 miles from Algiers. The terrorists released his 4 Algerian companions.

On September 24, an Internet video showed his decapitation. The killers also swore their allegiance to Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi, head of the Islamic State.

The Jund ­al-Khilafah group broke away from AQIM in recent weeks and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. It was led by Abdelmalek Gouri, alias Khaled Abu Slimane, 36, a veteran ­al-Qaeda commander from central Algeria who was behind a series of bloody attacks on Algerian soldiers. Gouri’s gang killed 14 soldiers in April 2014 in an ambush near the kidnapping site.

The U.S. embassy in Algiers renewed its travel warning for Algeria, saying Americans should “exercise vigilance.”

On September 30, Algerian Justice Minister Tayeb Louh said that some of the terrorists had been ­identified. Ministry spokeswoman Amina Had-dad added that the case was being handled by the Algiers Tribune and arrest warrants had been issued on charges of kidnapping, illegal detention and murder.

On November 26, 2014, Minister of Justice Tayeh Louh told journalists that in October, soldiers in a military operation killed one of the Jund ­al-Khilafah terrorists who beheaded Gourdel.

On December 11, 2014, Justice Minister Tayeb Louh said a second Jund ­al-Khilafah kidnapper was killed by the army.

The Ministry of Defense announced on Decem-ber 23, 2014, that during a nighttime operation, it had killed Gouri and 2 other terrorists in Isser, near Boumerdes, in the Kabylie region. He was visiting his parents 25 miles from Algiers. Gouri had joined jihadis nearly 20 years earlier, rising to become a senior AQIM commander in Algeria until he split from AQIM to form Jund ­al-Khilafah and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. He had served in prison in the late 1990s before leaving for training in Lebanon.

On January 25, 2015, Reuters reported that Moroccan authorities said they arrested a suspected Algerian member of the Caliphate Soldiers responsible for kidnapping and beheading Herve Gourdel. The individual was arrested in Beni Drar, near the Moroccan border city of Oujda. A companion fled. The Interior Ministry said the detainee “was carrying dangerous substances, telecommunication devices … and guns.” 14092101

September 21—Algeria—The Defense Ministry announced that in a late night operation in the Kabylie region, the army had killed Mahmoudi, alias Le Mancho, a senior terrorist with AQIM links, deeming him a “leading terrorist responsible for many crimes” who had been fighting since the 1990s.

September 21—Syria—In a 42-minute Internet audio in Arabic released by Islamic State media arm ­al-Furqan, IS spokesman Abu Mohammed ­al-Adnani called on Muslims around the world to kill civilian citizens of the 40 members of the U.S.-led coalition seeking to destroy it. “Oh, believer, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons and troops of the tyrants. Strike their police, security and intelligence members…. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European—especially the spiteful and filthy French—or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that joined a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be.” People should prevent their sons from joining U.S.-trained rebels to fight IS. Jihadis would make them “dig their graves with their own hands and have their heads cut off and homes destroyed.” Adnani warned the targeted civilians: “You will not feel secure even in your bedrooms…. We will strike you in your homeland, and you will never be able to harm anyone afterwards.” Among those believed threatened were citizens of the U.S., France—singled out as “spiteful and filthy”—Canada, Australia and Egypt. He observed that the U.S. and Europeans started “the transgression against us … and will pay a great price.” The IS called on jihadis in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula to target security forces and behead captured soldiers. The audio did not mention the UK. Russia went unmentioned, although the group referred to the Chechen jihadis.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told the media “This threat to kill civilians, added to the execution of hostages and to the massacres, is yet another demonstration of the barbarism of these terrorists, justifying our fight without truce or pause. France is not afraid because it is prepared to respond to their threats.”

September 22—Iraq—A car bomb on a busy Baghdad commercial district killed 10 people and wounded 25. Other suicide bombings in Sijir killed 40 soldiers. Another 68 Iraqi soldiers were captured in Sijir.

September 22—Turkey—Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned leader of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), said through his attorney Mazlum Dinc, “I call on all Kurdish people to start an ­all-out resistance against this ­high-intensity war” against the Islamic State, which is fighting Kurdish forces in Syria. “Not only the people of Rojava [Syrian Kurdistan] but also all people in the north (Turkey) and other parts of Kurdistan should act accordingly.”

September 22—Spain—In an ­hour-long spree, a man stabbed 5 people—including a Chinese person, a Moroccan, a Pakistani, a Spaniard and a person from an unspecified South American country—in daylight in Lleida, leaving the knife in the back of the 5th victim. One person was in critical condition; the other 4 in serious condition. The next day, police arrested a 21-year old Spaniard who admitted to the attacks and was taken to a hospital for medical and psychiatric tests. Police said he appeared to attack his victims at random.

September 23—Chile—A court ordered 3 alleged anarchists held on suspicion of planting at least 4 bombs, including one that injured 14 people at a shopping area near a subway stop earlier in the month.

September 23—Pakistan—A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of the deputy commander of the paramilitary Frontier Corps, Brig. Khalid Javed, as he was driving on a busy road in Peshawar, killing 5 people and wounding 29 others. He was unharmed, but a soldier and 4 bystanders died. “This suicide car bombing in Peshawar seems to be a reaction to the ongoing military operation against Pakistani Taliban and foreign militants in North Waziristan,” he told the AP.

September 23—Australia—An Australian Federal Police officer and a Victoria State police officer, who were part of a Joint Counter Terrorism Team Police, shook hands with Numan Haider, 18, outside southeast Melbourne’s Endeavour Hills Police Station in relation to an ongoing terrorism investigation. The man then stabbed the 2 police officers before one of them shot him dead. Police found a second knife on Haider’s body. Police had cancelled his passport a week earlier on national security grounds. He had displayed what appeared to be an Islamic State flag at the Dandenong Plaza shopping center at 4 p.m. on September 18. He had come to police attention 3 months earlier. Pundits suggested that the terrorist was inspired by a statement issued by Islamic State spokesman Abu Muhammad ­al-Adnani calling on Muslims to use all means to kill a “disbelieving American or European—especially the spiteful and filthy French—or an Australian or a Canadian” or others whose countries are trying to disable the group. On September 25, Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Ken Lay said Haider might not have been acting alone.

September 23—Syria—Starting at 3:30 a.m., the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates conducted airstrikes on the Islamic State’s (Daesh) headquarters in Raqqa and other locations in eastern Syria. The coalition used land- and ­sea-based U.S. aircraft plus 47 Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from the USS Arleigh Burke and USS Philippine Sea, operating in international waters in the Red Sea and the northern Persian Gulf. U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps fighter jets, drones and bombers participated. This was the first time the U.S. used F-22 Raptor stealth aircraft in combat.

U.S. warplanes conducted 8 sorties in Aleppo to disrupt an “imminent attack plotting against the United States and Western interests,” including subways in Paris and the U.S.—according to media reports that were quickly denied by FBI and New York officials—by the Khorasan Group, a network of ­al-Qaeda veterans “with significant explosives skills,” according to Army General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The airstrikes hit training camps, an explosives and munitions production facility, a communication building and command and control facilities.

CNN reported that the Khorasan planned to use a bomb made of a nonmetallic device, toothpaste container, and clothes dipped in explosive material, possibly to be placed on airplanes or other targets.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 70 ISIS militants were killed and more than 300 were wounded.

September 23—U.S.—Suleiman Abu Ghaith was sentenced to life in prison.

September 24—Uganda—Authorities charged 10 suspects of Somali origin, including a woman, with belonging to a terrorist group and aiding terror activities following their arrest in a raid on a suspected ­al-Shabaab cell. They included 9 Somali citizens and a Kenyan, all accused of being active members of ­al-Shabaab from 2010.

September 24—Jordan—A ­3-judge panel in Jordan’s State Security court unanimously acquitted Omar Mahmoud Mohammed Othman, alias Abu Qatada, 53, of involvement in a plot to target Israeli and American tourists and Western diplomats in Jordan in 2000 “because of the lack of convincing charges against him,” said Judge Ahmed Qattarneh. Abu Qatada was represented by attorney Husein Mubaidin. While in custody in Jordan, Abu Qatada became an influential critic of the Islamic State.

September 24—France/Turkey—Suspected French jihadis Abdelouahab el-Baghdadi, Imad Djebali and Gael Maurize turned themselves into police in ­Caylar, after a ­mix-up in which they went to Syria and then were sent home by Turkey without the knowledge of French police. French authorities had earlier incorrectly stated that the trio was detained at Orly Airport, later admitting that they had flown to Marseille, passed through a customs check and walked away free. Turkey detained them for visa violations.

On September 27, 2014, a French judge filed preliminary charges of criminal association involving a terror group against the trio who went to Syria and returned home after turning themselves in to Turkish border police. Djebali’s lawyer, Pierre Dunac, told AP that trio returned after growing disillusioned about jihadist groups—including their mistreatment of civilians. The 3 went free earlier in the week following an erroneous transfer between Turkish and French police, but turned themselves in on September 24. El-Baghdadi is a ­brother-in-law of Mohamed Merah, a jihadi who killed 7 people in France in 2012 before police killed him in a ­shoot-out. Imad Djebali reportedly knew Merah for years.

September 24—Iraq—Islamic State gunmen hiding in orchards fired machine guns in an ambush of a convoy of Shi’ite militia traveling on a road in Babilan village north of Baghdad, killing 19 and wounding 39 people.

Three bombings in commercial areas of Baghdad killed 7 people and wounded dozens.

September 24—Czech Republic—President Milos Zeman told the news media that his office had received a threatening letter protesting his government’s decision to help Kurdish forces in Iraq fight the Islamic State group. Police were analyzing a white powder that was contained in the letter. The Czech Republic sent the Kurdish military in Iraq 500 metric tons of ammunition and planned to help train Kurd­ish police.

September 24—Pakistan—A drone fired 4 missiles at a vehicle carrying Uzbek and local jihadis 500 yards from the Afghan border in Datta Khel in North Waziristan, killing 10 of them.

September 24—Nigeria—The Nigerian Defense Ministry said it had killed hundreds of Boko Haram jihadis, and that hundreds more had surrendered in Nigeria and Cameroon. Cameroon’s Defense Ministry spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck said more than 300 Boko Haram fighters surrendered there in the past 3 weeks.

September 24—Nigeria—Defense spokesman Chris Olukolade claimed that Boko Haram fighter Mohammed Bashir, alias Abubakar Shekau, alias Abacha Abdullahi Geidam, alias Damasak, died in fighting in Konduga, Borno State. He had used ali­ases, and sometimes posed as Abubakar Shekau, whom the military said had died. The military had claimed Shekau, BH’s commander, had died in July 2009 and in late June 2013. Some observers suggested that he died in 2003, and that his name was used by 2 successors, including Abdullahi Damasak, who was succeeded on his death by a Mustapha Chad.

September 24—Germany—German authorities arrested a 21-year-old man from Muelheim an der Ruhr on suspicion of preparing acts of violence after he returned in August 2014 from a long stay in Syria and claimed he spent time there with the Islamic State. He was suspended from a vocational college at the start of 2014 after showing up with a prayer rug and attempting to “proselytize” among fellow students. Authorities searched his apartment and arrested him after noticing “peculiar behavior.”

September 24–25—Syria—U.S.-led airstrikes hit Syrian oil installations held by the Islamic State during the night, killing 19 people. NPR reported that the Islamic State earned $5–6 million daily smuggling refined oil from 11 Syrian oil fields.

September 25—Turkey—The U.S. Embassy urged Americans to be vigilant against possible terrorist ­attacks in Turkey’s eastern and southeastern provinces in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State, noting that although there was no information about any specific threats, the possibility of terrorist attacks in Turkey “remains high.”

September 25—Egypt—An Egyptian court sentenced telecommunications engineer Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, alias Hakeem ­al-Masry, 28, an alleged ­al-Qaeda ­bomb-maker with ties to AQAP and ­al-Shabaab, to life in prison. Prosecutors said he joined al-Qaeda in 2009, and was arrested in Kenya for being in the country illegally before being handed over to Egypt.

September 25—Chile—Sergio Guillermo Landskron Silva, 29, died when a homemade bomb detonated in his hands at 1 a.m. in downtown Santiago. His brother, Bastian Landskron, doubted that his sibling was involved in planting a bomb, saying he was a drug addict who did not live with the family and had no friends. Prison records indicated Sergio Landskron had completed a 5-year sentence for theft and had been free since June.

Officials announced that anarchists had planted 200 bombs in the city in the past decade, 30 of them in 2014.

September 25—UK—The Metropolitan Police counterterrorism command raided 18 homes, businesses and community centers in London and Stoke on Trent and arrested 9 men, aged 22 to 51, on suspicion of membership in banned organizations and supporting and encouraging terrorism. Among them was Anjem Choudary, a former leader the banned ­al-Muhajiroun.

September 25—Malaysia—Police detained 3 Muslim men under the Security Offenses Act on suspicion of wanting to go to Syria to join the Islamic State. Police arrested the trio at Kuala Lumpur international airport while waiting for a flight to Turkey, which would be a gateway to Syria. The trio included an architect and a technician, both aged 26, and a 46-year-old shopkeeper. Authorities said the 3 were recruited through Facebook and other social media sites and were in contact with Malaysians fighting in Syria. Police continued their search for 5 jihadi suspects, including a former lecturer and a sundry shop owner, believed to be leaders of a local jihadi group that is recruiting, training and sending Malaysians to fight in Syria and Iraq.

September 25—Afghanistan—The Taliban beheaded 12 family members of local and national police and torched some 60 homes during attacks on several villages Arjistan district in Ghazni Province. The Taliban also set off a car bomb in front of an encampment where 40 police were posted.

September 25—Morocco—A Moroccan court handed down sentences of 3 to 5 years to 4 men convicted of recruiting people for terrorist groups.

September 25–26—Spain/Morocco—Spanish and Moroccan authorities dismantled a ­cross-border cell in the Spanish enclave of Melilla and the neighboring Moroccan city of Nador to recruit jihadis to fight for the Islamic State. Spain’s Interior Ministry said the cell’s leader cell coordinated with his brother, a former Spanish soldier with expertise in arms and explosives who had joined the Islamic State. He originally was with the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) in 2012 in Mali. Moroccan officials said the cell also had contacts with AQIM and that the cell’s leader was suspected of involvement in the theft and trafficking of stolen cars to raise funds for the Islamic State.

September 26—Afghanistan—Reuters reported that 700 Taliban attacked Ajrestan district in Ghazni Province, killing dozens of people in 5 days of fighting. A suicide car bomber hit a police checkpoint in the morning before provincial authorities lost ­contact with the district’s police force. At least 100 people were killed, including 15 who were be-headed.

September 26—U.S.—Reuters reported that following a 6-week trial, a jury in the U.S. District Court in Riverside, California found Sohiel Omar Kabir, 36, guilty of conspiring to provide material support and resources to al-Qaeda and conspiring to kill officers and employees of the U.S. government. They also convicted Ralph Deleon, 25, of the same charges, plus conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping or maiming overseas. Kabir was acquitted of conspiring to commit murder, kidnapping, or maiming overseas. The jury was unable to reach unanimous verdicts on 2 other charges against Deleon. The duo faced life in prison without the possibility of parole when they are sentenced in February 2015. Prosecutors showed that Kabir introduced Deleon and another defendant, Miguel Alejandro Santana Vidriales, to radical Islamist theology in 2010 and, after traveling to Afghanistan in 2012, encouraged them to follow him there to join al-Qaeda. In 2012, Deleon and Santana recruited defendant Arifeen David Gojali to join them overseas to commit violent jihad. Prosecutors said that Santana, Deleon and Gojali trained at firearms and paint ball facilities in southern California to prepare. The FBI arrested Deleon, Santana and Gojali in November 2012 while the trio planned to drive to Mexico, then fly to Afghanistan. Kabir was taken into custody by American military personnel in Afghanistan. Santana and Gojali previously pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing. The ­Afghan-born Kabir was a naturalized U.S. citizen. Deleon is a lawful permanent resident and citizen of the Philippines.

September 26—UK—British police arrested an 11th man on suspicion of assisting an offender in connection with an ongoing terrorism investigation.

September 26—U.S.—Alton Nolen, alias Jah’Keem Yisrael, 30, a recent Islamic convert, after being fired from a Vaughan Foods processing plant in Moore, Oklahoma, drove to the plant’s entrance, beheaded Colleen Hufford, 54, with a knife and stabbed Traci Johnson, 43, several times before being shot twice by Vaughan Foods President Mark Vaughan, a reserve sheriff’s deputy and the company’s chief operating officer. Employees said Nolen had recently started trying to convert several employees to Islam. Nolen had served time in prison in Oklahoma and was on probation for assault and battery on a police officer. His religious tattoos included one referencing Jesus and one in Arabic that means “peace be with you.” He was charged with ­first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon. His Facebook page included a photo of fighters holding weapons and ­all-caps messages about Islam and quotations from the Quran, such as “AMERICA SO CALL HELPS IRAQ (WHICH NOT)—WELL WHY CANT U HELP THE GAZA CITIZENS AGAINST ISRAEL LOL … I UPLOAD THIS PIK BECAUSE AMERICA AND ISRAEL ARE WICKED. WAKE UP MUSLIMS!!!”

Nolen had a long rap sheet. CNN affiliate KOKI reported Nolen was arrested in 2006 when an officer saw him throw a bag of crack cocaine and a bag of marijuana out of a vehicle window as the officer pulled him over for traffic violations. Nolen was put on probation. In 2010, a state trooper stopped Nolen for an expired tag and discovered he had outstanding warrants. Trooper Betsy Randolph, told CNN that he started struggling after she handcuffed one wrist. Nolen ran and was arrested after a 12-hour manhunt. “He kept looking over his shoulder because he knew I wanted to shoot him, but obviously I couldn’t shoot him in the back. If there had been any way to know the things he is alleged to have done a few days ago I would have killed him when I had a chance.” Nolen was convicted of cocaine possession with intent to distribute in 2011. Governor Mary Fallin blocked parole in 2012. Nolen was in jail until March 2013 for possession of a controlled substance, escaping confinement and resisting an officer.

September 27—Iraq—A car bomb exploded in Mahmoudiyah, killing at least 10 people and wounding 24.

A roadside bomb hit an Iraqi military convoy in Tarmiyah, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 5.

September 27—Yemen—AQAP claimed credit for firing a rocket near the U.S. Embassy in Sana’a, wounding several embassy guards and destroying an armored vehicle. AQAP said a drone attack had wounded children in ­al-Jawf Province the previous day. Authorities said a man on a motorcycle fired the missile, but it caused no casualties and hit a building 2 blocks from the U.S. Embassy. 14092701

September 28—Spain—National Court judge Javier Gomez Bermudez ordered Mohamed Said Mohamed, a Spaniard from Melilla, detained on suspicion of membership in the Islamic State. Gomez said the suspect had a previous criminal record for violent armed robbery and there is evidence he was planning to travel to Syria or Iraq to fight for the Islamic State; 2 members of his group had already joined the Islamic State.

September 28—Pakistan—A bomb rigged to a motorcycle killed 8 people, including 3 children, and wounded 17 in a refugee camp housing internally displaced people outside Hangud. The people were displaced by a conflict in the tribal region of Orakzai. The Pakistani Taliban was suspected.

September 28—Yemen—An AQAP suicide car bomber rammed into a field hospital 100 miles northeast of Sana’a run by Shi’ite Houthi rebels, 7 and wounding 24, 3 critically.

September 28—Syria—In a 25-minute audio posting, Nusra Front leader Abu Mohammed ­al-Golani said the group would fight back against airstrikes and warned that the conflict would reach Western countries joining the alliance. “We will use all that we have to defend the people of Syria … from the Crusader alliance…. And we will use all possible means to achieve this end…. This is what will cause the battle to be transported to the hearts of your own homes; because Muslims will not stand idly by and watch Muslims be bombed and killed in their countries, while you are safe on your countries. The price of war will not be paid by your leaders alone. You will pay the biggest price…. Those of our men who were targeted in the shelling … the effect of their loss will be witnessed by the entire conflict, not just on the [Nusra] Front alone.”

September 29—Germany—Early in the morning, an unidentified person threw a Molotov cocktail onto the steps of a side entrance of Berlin’s Reichstag parliament building but failed to start a fire after the liquid sputtered out. The attacker ran away. No injuries were reported.

September 29—Belgium—Some 46 suspects went on trial on charges of leading or being members of the Sharia4Belgium terrorist organization that allegedly recruited fighters for jihadi groups in Syria. Only 9 defendants were in court; several others were believed to be fighting in Syria or have died there. The purported leader, Fouad Belkacem, alias Abu Imran, 32, appeared in court. He faced a maximum sentence of 15 to 20 years. Prosecutors said Sharia4Belgium had links with ­like-minded groups in the UK, the Netherlands, France and Germany. They sought a 15-year sentence for Belkacem. On October 8, John Maes, his lawyer, told the Belga news agency that calling on Belgians to fight in Syria was no different from the feminist activities of Femen and Pussy Riot.

September 29—Netherlands—Judges in 2 courts ruled that 2 men suspected of fighting in Syria or recruiting fighters for Syria must remain in jail.

September 29—Syria—A Syrian Islamic State fighter, Abu Talha, 28, told CNN that airstrikes were having little effect because, “We’ve been ready for this for some time. We know that our bases are known because they’re tracking us with radars and satellites, so we had backup locations…. We have revenues other than oil. We have other avenues, and our finances are not going to stop just because of oil losses…. They thought they knew everything. But thank God, they don’t know anything. And God willing, we will defeat the infidels. They hit us in some areas, and we advance in others. If we are pushed back in Iraq, we advance in northern Syria. These strikes cannot stop us, our support or our fighters.”

Islamic State defector Abu Omar, 29, told CNN, “they almost entirely emptied out the headquarters. Some equipment they hid in civilian neighborhoods. Some they hid underground.” He observed that Western IS members were important. “The French, they have so much control—they’re even more extreme than we are. They come from France, but it’s as if they have been part of the ‘Islamic State’ for years.” He left behind his wife and 3-year-old son to join IS. He grew disenchanted with the brutality. “I used to hope that they would fix their mistakes. If they had, it wouldn’t be like this…. I saw a 70-year-old sheikh killed in front of me. The ‘Islamic State’ can’t continue like this…. There are a lot of youth who are joining—14, 15 years old. Maybe my voice can make them think again.”

September 30—Australia—In the early morning, Australian Federal Police and state Victoria Police counterterrorism squads raided 7 properties in the Melbourne suburbs of Seabrook, Kealba, Meadow Heights, Broadmeadows and Flemington, collecting a large amount of electronic data and capping off an 8-month investigation. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that Hassan ­el-Sabsabi, 23, had been handcuffed and taken into custody for providing $12,000 to a U.S. citizen to travel to Syria to fight alongside the jihadis. He appeared in court on 6 counts of intentionally making funds available to a terrorist organization, including the Islamic State and the Nusra Front. He did not enter a plea or apply for bail. ­El-Sabsabi and the American knew each other via social media. An FBI tip sparked an 8-month investigation that generated data from 25,000 pages of material from social media accounts and 500 telephone calls and messages. ­El-Sabsabi was represented by attorney Trieu Huynh. ­El-Sabsabi faced life in prison. On October 27, 2014, Magistrate Lance Martin of the Melbourne Magistrates Court refused to grant bail on 7 counts of providing an unidentified American with $12,000 in 2014 to fund his travel to Turkey and then Syria. El-Sabsabi faced 25 years in prison. Magistrate Martin said El-Sabsabi was a flight risk who could commit another offense. El-Sabsabi told police, “For me, it is not a crime…. I give this person money because I see him defending my innocent brothers and sisters.” Prosecutors quoted him as telling police when he was arrested at his home. Telephone intercepts showed El Sabsabi expressing support for the Islamic State. He was represented by attorney Rob Stary. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for February 3, 2015.

September 30—Iraq—A car bomb exploded in northwestern Baghdad, killing 8 and wounding 15.

A car bomb in Baghdad killed 7 and wounded 21.

A mortar attack in Baghdad killed 7 and wounded 13.

A car bomb in Karbala killed 4 civilians and 2 police officers and wounded 16 people.

A car bomb exploded in Iskandariyah, killing 5 civilians and wounding 13 others.

Attacks in Baghdad and outside Najaf killed 14 civilians.

Late September—Indonesia—Police arrested 3 suspected jihadis at Kuala Lumpur International Airport as they were about to board a flight to Turkey.

October—Syria—On January 20, 2015, NPR reported that IS threatened to kill 2 Japanese hostages if a $200 million ransom was not paid within 72 hours. The Washington Post identified the hostages as Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa, 42. In August 2014, a Japanese citizen believed to be Yukawa, a private military company operator, was kidnapped after going to Syria to train with militants, according to his blog. Goto, a Japanese freelance journalist, went to report on Syria’s civil war in 2014 and was reported missing in October 2014. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, on travel in the Middle East, said, “Their lives are the top priority.” The threat was made on a video released by the Islamic State’s ­al-Furqan media arm. An individual believed to be the British citizen Jihadi John said, “To the prime minister of Japan: Although you are more than 8,000 and 500 kilometers (5,280 miles) from the Islamic State, you willingly have volunteered to take part in this crusade. You have proudly donated $100 million to kill our women and children, to destroy the homes of the Muslims … and in an attempt to stop the expansion of the Islamic State, you have also donated another $100 million to train the (apostates).” Speaking to the Japanese people, the terrorist said, “Just as how your government has made the foolish decision to pay $200 million to fight the Islamic State [ISIS], you now have 72 hours to pressure your government in making a wise decision, by paying that $200 million to save the lives of your citizens.” Abe said he would send Yasuhide Nakayama, a deputy foreign minis-ter, to Jordan to resolve the hostage crisis. On Janu-ary 24, Fox News reported that an IS video claimed it had killed Yukawa and demanded a prison exchange for the other. ­On-camera reporter Catherine Herridge said IS tweets said both hostages were killed.

On January 24, 2015, Newsweek reported that the Islamic State released a video in which Japanese hostage Kenji Goto Jogo said it would free him in exchange for Jordanian prison Sajida ­al-Rishawi. The group had earlier asked for $100 million each for Goto and Haruna Yukawa, who was beheaded earlier that day. Goto said “They no longer want money. So you don’t need to worry about funding terrorists. They are just demanding the release of their imprisoned sister Sajida ­al-Rishawi. It is simple. You give them Sajida and I will be released…. You bring them their sister from the Jordanian regime and I will be released immediately. Me for her.”

Newsweek reported that in 2005, ­al-Rishawi and her husband attacked a Radisson hotel in Jordan, but only his explosives detonated. She was arrested after fleeing. During a televised confession, she said her husband was the mastermind of the double suicide bombing plan. She was sentenced to death. She was believed linked to al-Qaeda, but some relatives might have Islamic State connections. The Jordanian government believes Abu Musab ­al-Zarqawi, a leader of ­al-Qaeda in Iraq whose group later became IS (after ­al-Zarqawi’s death), planned the 2005 hotel attack. His deputy was ­al-Rishawi’s brother. ­Al-Zarqawi in turn was linked to IS leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi.

On January 27, 2015, the Islamic State was believed to have posted an online message warning that Japanese hostage Kenji Goto and Jordanian pilot 1st Lieutenant Mu’ath ­al-Kaseasbeh had less than “24 hours left to live.” The message demanded that Jordan release Sajida ­al-Rishawi within 24 hours. The message said Goto had “24 hours left to live and the pilot has even less.” ­Al-Kaseasbeh’s Jordanian F-16 plane went down near Raqqa, Syria in December. Goto was seized in late October 2014 apparently while trying to rescue Haruna Yukawa, who was captured in August 2014 and purportedly beheaded in January 2015. The mother of another Jordanian prisoner, Ziad ­al-Karboli, told the AP that her family was told that the Islamic State also was seeking his release. AP reported that ­al-Karboli, an aide to a former ­al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, was sentenced to death in 2008 for killing a Jordanian citizen. UPI added that the message was entitled “The second public message of ‘Kenji Goto Jogo’ to his family and the government of Japan,” and included Goto saying, “I’ve been told this is my last message, and I’ve also been told that the barrier of extracting my freedom is now just the Jordanian government delaying the handover of Sajida,” referring to Sajida ­al-Rishawi. “Tell the Japanese government to put all their political pressure on Jordan. Time is now running very short. It is me for her. What seems to be so difficult to understand? She has been a prisoner for a decade, and I’ve only been a prisoner for a few months. Her for me. A straight exchange.” He added, “any more delays … will mean they’re responsible for the death of their pilot, which will then be followed by mine.” The Islamic State captured Jordanian pilot Moaz ­al-Kasasbeh on December 24, 2014, after his F-16 plane came down over Syria. “I only have 24 hours to live…. Please don’t leave us to die. The ball is now in the Jordani-ans’ court.” On January 28, AP and ABC News reported that the Islamic State released an ­English-language audio purportedly by Goto extending the deadline for ­al-Rishawi’s release to sunset the next day or Jordanian pilot Mu’as ­al-Kasaseabeh would be killed.

On January 31, 2015, the Washington Post reported that the Islamic State released a video, entitled “A Message to the Government of Japan,” showing a ­British-accented individual beheading Goto. The terrorist says, “Abe [Japan’s Prime Minister], because of your reckless decision to take part in an unwinnable war, this man will not only slaughter Kenji, but will also carry on and cause carnage wherever your people are found. So let the nightmare for Japan begin.” 14109901

October 1—Afghanistan—In the early morning, 2 pedestrian Taliban suicide bombers hit 2 buses carrying Afghan National Army soldiers in Kabul, killing 11 and wounding 21. The first bomb went off in west Kabul, killing 7 and wounding 15. The second suicide bomber hit a bus in northeastern Kabul, wounding 6. There was no explanation of the difference in numbers. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said new President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai’s Bilateral Security Agreement with the U.S. had given the Taliban “more morale…. They need to give more sacrifices to make their homeland free.” The group separately labeled the treaty an “American plot” and observed “such fake documents will never hold back the lawful jihad.”

October 1—UK—Prosecutors dropped terrorism charges against Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was scheduled to stand trial the next week on 7 counts relating to the war in Syria. A judge at London’s Central Criminal Court acquitted him of all charges after prosecutors said new evidence meant “there is no longer a realistic prospect of conviction in this case.” He had been in prison since his February 2014 arrest. He was detained in Pakistan in 2002, then sent to Guantanamo in 2003. He was released without charge from Gitmo in 2005.

October 1—Syria—The ­Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Islamic State beheaded 9 Kurdish fighters, including 3 women, who were captured in fighting for the northern Syrian town of Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, near the ­Syria-Turkey border. Social media networks showed women’s heads placed on a cement block in the northern Syrian city of Jarablous.

Two bombs went off near an elementary school in Homs, killing 32 people, including 10 children, and injuring 115 people. One bomb exploded while the children were leaving school; the second hit the first responders.

October 1—Spain—At 5 a.m., a bomb exploded outside the Baralla town hall in Galicia, causing substantial damage to the building and nearby houses but no injuries. Spain’s Interior Ministry blamed the separatist Galician Resistance, a small but vio-lent group that seeks independence for the region. No group claimed credit and no warning call was made.

October 1—Iraq—A car bomb exploded near pet and vegetable markets in Baghdad, killing 15, wounding 40, and damaging several cars.

Earlier that day, a suicide car bomb crashed into a police checkpoint on a highway south of Baghdad, killing 4 civilians and 3 policemen and wounding 24 people.

October 1—Yemen—SABA reported that terrorists set off a bomb inside the car of Yemeni military intelligence officer Nasser Megrih, killing his son, Ameen, on the sea road linking the Almansoura and Khour Maksar districts. Megrih works within the 4th military zone. AQAP was suspected.

October 2—India—On December 5, 2014, AP reported that during the night in a village in Assam, Assam Police and the Indian National Investigation Agency arrested Shahnor Alom, a key suspect behind the October 2 explosion that killed 2 bombmakers in Burdwan, West Bengal, which borders Bangladesh. He also was a possible member of the group that planned to assassinate Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and stage a coup there. Alom was a member of the banned ­Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Ban­gla­desh, which is active in eastern India. Alom was arrested in a relative’s home in Nalbari district. He was scheduled to appear in a Guwahati court on December 6. Police arrested Alom’s 36-year-old wife on similar charges in Guwahati on November 8. The ­Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen had been quiet since it set off nearly 500 bombs almost simultaneously on one day in 2005 across Bangladesh. 14100201

October 2—Afghanistan—In the morning, a Taliban suicide bomber hit an army minibus taking soldiers to work in Kabul, killing 3 Army officers and wounding 7.

October 2—Pakistan—A bomb exploded under a seat on a ­mini-bus in the Peshawar suburbs, killing 7 passengers and wounding 4 people.

October 2—Egypt—The army killed Mohammed Abu Sheeta, a leader of the ­al-Qaeda–inspired group Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis, in Rafah. The government claimed that he had led the kidnapping of Egyptian soldiers to obtain the release of his detained brother. Soldiers found an underground field hospital and a store packed with explosives.

October 2—Greece—Police destroyed a suspicious parcel containing gunpowder and batteries that was discovered in the mail room of the Athens Stock Exchange. Trading was unaffected.

Greek police later raided safe houses in Athens and Thessaloniki, arresting 6 suspects, seizing weap­ons and ammunition, and foiling an attack planned by leftist terrorists for October 4 against the headquarters of the country’s ruling ­center-right New Democracy party, on the day it planned to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Police arrested and jailed Greek citizen Antonis Stamboulos, 31, on ­terror-related charges, including membership in a terrorist organization. He was accused of being an associate of Nikos Maziotis, a leader of the ­far-left Revolutionary Struggle, which has previously planted bombs and fired a ­rocket-propelled grenade at the U.S. embassy. Stamboulos sent a message after his arrest to a ­far-left website proclaiming himself a revolutionary anarchist.

Authorities found a list of potential targets, including ship owners, the chairman of Greece’s industry federation and the chairman of the country’s largest soccer club, Olympiakos.

October 2—Venezuela—Congressman Robert Serra, 27, an attorney and rising star the ruling socialist party, was stabbed to death in his home. Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres deemed the attack “an intentional homicide, planned and executed with great precision.” Serra was elected to Congress in 2010 as a member of the ruling party after organizing youth to counter student protests in 2007. Neighbors found his body and that of Maria Herrera in his house in the working class La Pastora district of Caracas during the night. A neighbor became suspicious after seeing 2 large white motorcycles with their motors running in front of the house and the doors to the home open.

October 2—Nigeria—Agence ­France-Presse said it had obtained a 36-minute Boko Haram video that featured a man who appeared to be Abubakar Shekau, whose death had been reported the previous month. ”Here I am, alive. I will only die the day Allah takes my breath. Some people asked you if Shekau has 2 souls. No, I have one soul, by Allah.” The video also showed the beheading by ax of a pilot of a Nigerian Air Force jet that the group claimed to have shot down. The pilot said he was a wing commander, and had not seen the ­co-pilot since the shootdown. Two pilots and an Alpha jet had been missing since September 11. It also showed a man being stoned to death for adultery under sharia law.

October 2–3—Libya—Several terrorist attacks in Benghazi killed 24 soldiers and wounded 120. Two suicide bombers crashed into positions manned by troops loyal to renegade General Khalifa Hifter, whose loyalists were cornered in Benghazi’s Benina airport, killing 7 troops and wounding 12 people. Local media reported that other suicide bombers used ambulances packed with explosives. A spokes­man for the February 17 Brigade, part of an Islamist coalition, said 10 of its fighters were wounded in the airport battles.

October 3—Peru—The Shining path was suspected of firing assault rifles before dawn on 4 vehicles carrying 28 police officers near Machente in Ayacucho region, killing 2 police officers and wounding another. The convoy was transporting ballot boxes for the October 5 regional and municipal elections.

October 3—Iraq—The Islamic State fired a rocket launcher at an Iraqi Mi-35 helicopter that crashed outside Beiji, home to the country’s largest oil refinery, killing the 2 pilots.

October 3—Syria—The Islamic State released a video showing the beheading of British hostage Alan Henning, 47, whom it had kidnapped on December 26, 2013, after his aid convoy had crossed into Syria from Turkey. 13122602

October 3—Mali—CNN reported that heavily armed men on motorcycles ambushed a convoy of UN peacekeepers near Menaka in Gao region, killing 9 Nigerien soldiers. 14100301

October 4—Pakistan—A ­remote-controlled bomb exploded under a moving bus at a bus station in Kohat in northwest Pakistan, killing 5 and wounding 3. Hundreds of passengers in the station were on their way to celebrate Eid ­al-Adha.

A suicide bomber set off his explosives at a checkpoint near a livestock market in Quetta’s Shi’ite-dominated Hazara Town neighborhood, killing 5, including a woman, wounding 20 people, including 2 women and 4 children, and damaging the school’s outer wall and 2 vehicles. Authorities found the severed head of the bomber at a nearby girls’ school. The explosion also partly damaged the outer wall of the school and 2 vehicles.

October 4—Iraq—The Islamic State attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint in Mansouriya, killing 4 people and injuring 14.

An Islamic State roadside bomb hit an Iraqi military convoy in Tarmiyah, killing 3 civilians and 2 soldiers and wounding 8 people.

October 5—Russia—Russian news agencies, Reu­ters and AP reported that a suicide bomber wearing a police uniform and presenting police identification killed 4 police officers and injured 4 others at a metal detector at the entrance to a concert hall during a planned celebration of Grozny’s city day holi-day, which is also the birthday of pro–Kremlin Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. A police officer told RIA, “Police officers who were manning metal detectors at the entrance of the concert hall noticed a suspicious young man. When the police officers decided to check the individual, the man blew himself up.”

October 5—Iraq—The Islamic State publicly killed 6 Iraqi soldiers—one in uniform and 5 in civilian clothes—in Hit, 85 miles west of Baghdad, by lining them up against a wall and shooting each in the head. The terrorists later bombed a police station.

October 5—Egypt—MENA reported that authorities in Port Said arrested 4 Egyptians who confessed to recruiting fighters for the Islamic State in Syria. Another 4 Egyptians were already in Syria.

October 5—Lebanon—The ­al-Qaeda affiliate Nusra Front attacked Hizballah positions along the Syrian border, killing 8 Hizballah members, 4 on each side of the border. The Nusra Front captured the Ein ­el-Saa observation post before Hizballah took it back 2 hours later. It was unclear how many casualties the Nusra Front sustained. 14100501

October 6—Japan—Public broadcaster NHK and Kyodo News service reported that Tokyo Metropolitan Police investigators questioned a 26-year-old male Hokkaido University student and several men who shared a house with him regarding alleged plans to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State. The student is on leave of absence from the school. Police believe he responded to a poster at a ­used-book store in down­town Tokyo, offering positions for “work in Syria.” Police searched the house and the bookstore but did not arrest the men. The penalty for preparing and plotting for private combat is up to 5 years in prison.

October 6—Indonesia—AP reported that Chep Hernawan, 63, owner of hotel and manufacturing companies, claimed to have been named the leader of the Indonesian affiliate of the Islamic State during a meeting on March 16. He claimed he had overseen the travels of scores of fighters to Syria and Iraq. Police were unable to charge him with a crime when he was arrested recently. He was linked to Bahrumsyah, who in July 2014 appeared in an Islamic State propaganda video with other Indonesians in Syria.

October 6—U.S.—CNN reported that the FBI arrested Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, at ­O’Hare International Airport over the weekend. He was accused of attempting to provide aid to the Islamic State, according to a statement by the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Illinois on Octo-ber 6. He was charged with one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. He had a ­round-trip ticket from Chicago to Istanbul. He told the FBI and his parents that he would not return and would join the Islamic State. In a search of Khan’s home in Bolingbrook, Illinois, the FBI found documents expressing support for the Islamic State and jihadis. He faced 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Khan told FBI agents that a person he met online had given him a phone number to call upon arrival in Istanbul.

October 7—Egypt—Egyptian soldiers killed 16 mem­bers of Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis and arrested 4 of its leaders in raids against hideouts in 3 villages south of Sheikh Zuweyid and in the Mahdiya village near Rafah, on the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.

October 7—UK—London police conducted several raids, arresting 4 suspected Islamic terrorists, 2 aged 20 and 2 aged 21, on suspicion of preparing or instigating acts of terrorism inside the UK, possibly for the Islamic State. Police fired a stun gun at a 21-year-old suspect. One suspect had traveled to Syria; one was a medical student. On October 9, 2014, CNN reported that a 5th man was arrested on suspicion of planning an act of terrorism. On October 13, Scotland Yard arrested 3 more men, aged 21 to 25, in central London on suspicion of being “concerned, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.” Two of the 5 earlier arrested were released the same day. Police searched a business in west London and planned to search 4 northwest London residences. On October 17, 2014, British authorities charged Tarik Hassane, 21; Suhaib Majeed, 20; Nyall Hamlett, 24; and Momen Motasim, 21; with terror offenses including obtaining a gun, conducting surveillance on a police station and taking an oath of allegiance to IS. The Metropolitan Police force said the men were charged with preparing acts of terrorism between July 8 and October 7. Prosecutors said they took an oath of allegiance to the banned Islamic State group, obtained a Baikal handgun and ammunition and used Google Street View to surveil a police station and an army barracks in west London. Police said the men “considered, discussed and decided to act on the fatwa of al-Adnani.” Abu Mohammed ­al-Adnani is an Islamic State spokesman. Authorities charged Nathan Cuffy, 25, with a firearms offense. Police said that the group planned to shoot and kill police officers or soldiers on the streets of London. Prosecutors also said the group kept an image of 2 Metropolitan Police officers and possessed jihadi material, including articles with images of the beheading of ­American-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff. Judge Emma Arbuthnot scheduled their next hearing for October 27.

October 7—Israel/Lebanon—The Israeli Defense Force said that 2 soldiers on patrol on the Lebanese border were wounded by an explosive.

October 7—Lebanon—A homemade bomb exploded, killing a Lebanese soldier.

October 7—Iraq—A car bomb exploded in Baghdad’s ­al-Mashtal commercial neighborhood, killing 13, most of them civilians, and wounding 31, many of them police officers.

October 7—Libya—A gunman in a car in Derna killed Osama ­al-Mansouri, a politician who led a political group that opposes Islamic militants controlling the city and advocates autonomy for the east.

October 7—Syria—The Syria Deeply independent news site reported that Islamic State’s media office had issued rules for journalists in the Deir ­al-Zour region, including:

1. Correspondents must swear allegiance to the Caliph [Abu Bakr] ­al-Baghdadi … they are subjects of the Islamic State and, as subjects, they are obliged to swear loyalty to their imam.

5. Journalists are allowed to cover events in the governorate with either written or still images without having to refer back to the IS media office. All published pieces and photos must carry the journalist’s and photographer’s names.

6. Journalists are not allowed to publish any reportage (print or broadcast) without referring to the IS media office first.

7. Journalists may have their own social media accounts and blogs to disseminate news and pictures. However, the IS media office must have the addresses and name handles of these accounts and pages.

Al-Arabiya, al-Jazeera and Orient were deemed “channels that fight against Islamic countries,” and journalists are forbidden from working with them.

October 7—Mali—Eight rockets hit a joint ­UN-French base in Kidal during the afternoon, killing a UN peacekeeper from Senegal and slightly injuring 2 other Senegalese peacekeepers. 14100701

October 7—Cameroon—The Voice of America reported that Cameroonian soldiers killed 8 suspected Boko Haram members disguised as Nigerian refu­gees who had crossed the border, when BH attacked a Cameroonian military jeep on patrol in a refugee camp near the Amchide border village. Several real Nigerian refugees and Cameroonian citizens were also killed in the battle. 14100702

October 8—Afghanistan—A suicide car bomber set off his explosives near the house of the former police chief in Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, killing 5 people and wounding the former police chief and 18 others. The Taliban was suspected.

October 8—Iraq—The Islamic State used a ­shoulder-fired missile to shoot down an Iraqi military Bell 407 attack helicopter near the Beiji refinery, killing the pilot and ­co-pilot.

October 8—Yemen—AQAP was suspected of conducting 6 car bomb attacks on security bases and government offices in Baida Province that killed 32 people, including 3 civilians, 14 troops and 15 terrorists. Targets included the province’s security headquarters, a special forces camp, an intelligence agency office, a government communication office and an Education Ministry administrative building.

October 8—France—Anti-terrorism prosecutors suspected an 11-member family, including a grandmother, had left the country to participate in jihad in Syria after they disappeared from their Nice homes.

October 8—Philippines—Two men on a motor­cycle fired a grenade at the main gate of a Protes-tant United Church of Christ in the Philippines church in Pikit town in North Cotabato Province in the south, injuring at least 4 congregants, 2 critically. The terrorists escaped. Muslim rebels were suspected.

October 8—South Africa—The body of Noureddine Fatmi, first secretary in charge of consular affairs at the Moroccan Embassy, was found stabbed to death in the guesthouse where he was staying.

October 9—Yemen—In the morning, a suicide bomber set off his explosives belt as he approached a security checkpoint run by Houthi rebels on Tahrir Street in Sana’a, killing 47 and injuring 75, including 6 children who were critically wounded. The Houthis were about to conduct a protest rally against the new prime ministerial choice, Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak. At least 4,000 Houthis participated in the rally.

Another suicide car bomber crashed into a security outpost in Mukalla, killing 20 soldiers and wounding 15.

October 9—Malaysia—Just before dawn, a grenade was thrown outside a night club in the Bukit Bintang tourist area in Kuala Lumpur, killing a Malaysian man and wounding 12 others, including a Singaporean man, a Thai man and 4 Chinese women who were hospitalized. Authorities attributed the explosion to a gang fight. Police found a second unexploded hand grenade under a car.

October 9—UK—Mounir ­Rarmoul-Bouhadjar, 26, one of 2 terrorist suspects facing a secret trial in London in a few days, pleaded guilty to possessing a document entitled “bomb making.” Fellow defendant Erol Incedal, 26, still faced charges of preparing a terrorist act and possessing ­bomb-making instructions. ­Rarmoul-Bouhadjar was to be sentenced at the end of the trial. At the opening of his trial on October 14 in London’s Central Criminal Court, prosecutors said that Incedal had the address of former Prime Minister Tony Blair in his car. Incedal was arrested in October 2013. Prosecutors told the court on October 15 that police had discovered a checklist labeled “Plan A” on top of a wardrobe in the bedroom of Incedal’s home. It listed, “3 to 4 workers, 2 tennis [rackets], one month’s surveillance, rent nearby flat, transport, assess security, assess risk, legitimacy, action etc.” On October 27, Incedal denied plotting indiscriminate ­Mumbai-style shootings or to attack a “significant” individual.

October 9—Iraq—A suicide car bomber attacked a police security checkpoint in Baquoba in the afternoon, killing 9, including several policemen, and wounding 11 people.

October 9—Central African Republic—Gunmen attacked a UN convoy in Bangui in the evening, killing one peacekeeper, severely wounding another, and slightly injuring 7. 14100901

October 9—Lebanon—AFP reported that gunmen on a motorbike killed a Lebanese soldier in the Akkar region.

October 10—Central African Republic—Gunmen fired at UN peacekeepers monitoring an 8 p.m. protest by 300 youths near the Bangui Airport, wounding 6 constables. The protestors were calling for the resignation of transitional President Catherine ­Samba-Panza. 14101001

October 10—Afghanistan—A ­remote-controlled bomb placed on a bicycle exploded in Khost, killing 2 police officers and a civilian and wounding 3 policemen and another civilian.

Late that afternoon, a roadside bomb exploded under a civilian vehicle in Chora District in Uruzgan Province, killing 3 civilians and injuring 11.

October 11—Iraq—A car bomb exploded at a check­point at the entrance to the ­al-Shaula neighborhood in northern Baghdad, killing 7 people and wounding 18. Another suicide car bomber hit a security checkpoint in ­al-Shaula, killing 18 and wounding dozens.

At night, a car bomb exploded at a checkpoint at the entrance of ­al-Kadhimyah in northern Baghdad, killing 13 people, including 3 police officers, and wounding 28.

A car bomb exploded in Baghdad’s ­al-Mashahda neighborhood.

Soldiers killed 4 Islamic State terrorists, including an Indonesian citizen, who were attempting to attack the Camp Speicher military base in Tikrit. The terrorists tried to conduct a suicide truck bombing, but guards killed them before they could get into the camp. 14101002

October 11—Algeria—The Army killed 5 suspected jihadis in the mountainous Lakhdaria region.

October 11—UK—London Mayor Boris Johnson British told the Daily Telegraph that counterterrorism forces were monitoring “thousands” of potential extremists in the city.

October 11—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide bomber wearing a police uniform set off his explosives inside a police headquarters in Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, killing an officer and wounding 3 others. The terrorist walked into the compound but was stopped before entering a building where a security meeting was being conducted.

Gunmen killed 2 Afghan truck drivers working for a local construction company on a road in Bak district, Khost Province.

October 12—Iraq—A roadside bomb hit a convoy in Ramadi, killing Brigadier General Ahmed ­al-Dulaimi, the police chief of Anbar Province.

An Islamic State suicide bomber set off his explosive belt at the gate of a compound for Kurdish Asayish security forces and a Kurdish political party. Two suicide car bombers then drove into the compound and set off their explosives near a government building. The attacks killed 58 security force members and injured 107 people in Qara Tappah in eastern Diyala Province. The Islamic State said 3 foreign jihadis were the bombers. 14101201

October 12—Afghanistan—Two gunmen wearing police uniforms opened fire in a police headquarters in northern Balkh Province, killing 2 officers. Police intercepted and killed the terrorists at the second security gate of the police headquarters in ­Mazar-e-Sharif. Nine policemen were wounded during the gun battle.

The Taliban attacked a police checkpoint in the Monogai district of Kunar Province. In the gun battle, 3 police officers and 6 Taliban terrorists died and 3 police officers and 6 terrorists were wounded.

Terrorists fired a rocket in the Alishing district of Laghman Province, killing 3 construction company workers.

A suicide car bomber in Sayed Abad District in Wardak Province killed 3 civilians and 3 army soldiers and injured 6 civilians and 2 soldiers.

October 12—Somalia—A remotely-detonated car bomb exploded outside the Aroma café in Moga­dishu, killing 15 people and wounding 8. ­Al-Shabaab was suspected.

A Somali television reporter was hit by 3 shots fired by gunmen as he tried to flee.

October 12—Syria—CNN reported that the Islamic State’s 4th edition of its 56-page Dabiq ­English-language online magazine included an article “The revival (of) slavery before the Hour,” which claimed that kidnapping women as sex slaves was consistent with Islam, observing, “One should remember that enslaving the families of the kuffar—the infidels—and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of the Shariah, or Islamic law.” This included female members of the Yazidi sect, an ethnic Kurdish minority.

The magazine also included an article by an Islamic State captive, British journalist John Cantlie, who wrote that he expected to be killed soon, and “unless something changes very quickly and very radically, I await my turn.” The group’s video included him mentioning the beheading of British aid worker David Haines, but not that of Alan Henning.

October 12–13—Afghanistan—The Taliban ambushed local troops in Laghman Valley in the mountains of Kohistanat District in ­Sar-e-Pul Province, killing 20 soldiers and 2 police officers in fighting that spread over 2 days. Another 8 troops were wounded and 7 were reported captured.

October 13—Afghanistan—At 7 a.m., a Taliban suicide car bomber crashed into a NATO convoy on the Jalalabad Road outside Kabul, killing at least one person and wounding 3. The road wends between a U.S. military base and a housing compound for U.N. and other international contractors and aid workers. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Majahid tweeted that the target was a foreign military convoy.

A suicide bomber hit an Afghan army patrol in Nangarhar Province, killing 2 Afghan civilians and wounding 6 others, including an Afghan army officer.

October 13—Iraq—A suicide car bomber crashed into a police checkpoint in Baghdad’s Habibiya ­district, killing 15 and wounding 34 during the celebration of the Eid ­al-Ghadeer holiday, which commemorates the Shi’ite Imam Ali, the Prophet Mu­hammad’s cousin and ­son-in-law.

A car bomb exploded near a bus stop in northern Baghdad, killing 11 and wounding 22.

A bomb went off in a vegetable cart in Sadr City, killing 4 and wounding 18.

The Islamic State took credit for 2 bombings in Baghdad that killed 44 people.

October 14—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb went off under a civilian vehicle in western Kabul, killing 2 civilians and wounding 3 others.

The National Directorate of Security arrested Anis Haqqani, a brother of the network’s leader, and Hafiz Rashid, a senior commander of the network, in a special operation in Khost Province. NDS said Anis Haqqani was an expert in computers and use of propaganda through social networks. He served as a deputy to his brother, network leader Sirajuddin Haqqani.

October 14—Pakistan—The chief spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban and 5 regional commanders declared allegiance to the Islamic State and its chief, Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi and apparently renounced fealty to the Afghan Taliban’s supreme leader, Mohammad Omar. Shahidullah Shahid, the chief spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, said, “I show allegiance to the commander of faithful, Caliph Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi Qureshi al Hussaini, and will listen and obey every order of you and will follow your orders regardless of what circumstances may be.”

October 14—Saudi Arabia—CNN reported that a gunman fired at the car of American contractors stopped at a Riyadh gas station, killing a contractor and wounding another. Police wounded and arrested the gunman. The Americans worked for Vinnell Arabia, an American defense contractor supporting the Saudi Arabia National Guard. Vinnell Arabia is partly owned by Northup Grumman Corporation. The gunman, Abdulaziz Fahad Abdulaziz Alrashid, had been fired earlier for ­drug-related offenses.

October 14—Iraq—An Islamic State suicide car bomber crashed into a Baghdad police checkpoint in northern Khazimiyah neighborhood, killing 23, including Shi’ite parliamentarian Ahmed ­al-Khafaji, and wounding 52. IS said ­al-Khafaji was a politician who “long fought the Muslims and waded deep in their blood.”

October 14—Germany—The Interior Minister for the German state of Hesse, Peter Beuth, confirmed that on May 1, Hassan M., 24, a Salafi, had left for Syria, despite being under limited house arrest and wearing an electronic ankle tag. In December 2013, he was fitted with the tag after being investigated for serious bodily harm and burglary.

October 14—Tunisia—Interior Ministry spokes­man Mohammed Ali Aroui announced that authorities stopped a car bomb assassination plot against politician Ahmed Nejib Chebbi and arrested 12 people, including a woman, Fatma Zouaghi, who allegedly had financed the plot and was running the media arms of the banned Ansar ­al-Sharia militant group.

October 14—Egypt—A homemade bomb exploded in the night near a Cairo courthouse and a subway station, injuring 12, just after a court was sentencing 7 jihadis, all but one in absentia, to death for killing 25 soldiers in 2013. The jailed jihadi was Adel Ibrahim, alias Adel Habarra, who was previously convicted in connection to bombings in the Red Sea resort of Taba in 2004. Authorities said he was a senior member of Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis. A final ruling was scheduled for December 6.

October 14—Afghanistan—During the night, Taliban gunmen killed district chief Mohammad Anwar Khan and a security guard in Helmand Province’s Nad Ali district and wounded 6 police officers.

October 14—UK—Hampshire police arrested Mustakim Jaman, 23, of Portsmouth. On October 26, 2014, AP reported that British police charged him with the preparation of terrorist acts. An October 27 court date was set.

October 15—Malaysia—Police in central Selangor State said over the last 3 days they had detained 14 Muslims, including 2 women, suspected of being linked to the Islamic State. The detainees included a student, a chef, an engineer, a graphic designer and a housewife. Three were believed to be leaders of a cell responsible for recruiting, sponsoring and sending Malaysians to fight in Syria. One ran a Facebook page to attract followers and recruited female students at local universities. A 34-year-old suspect who returned to the country in April after joining the jihadis in Syria for a few months acted as an adviser to encourage Malaysians to fight there. An engineer who worked as a civilian servant was suspected of sponsoring Malaysians to travel to Syria and was linked to 3 other jihadis who joined Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines. Police said 5 detainees were from the same family and were believed to have been readying to go to Syria to join the Islamic State. Police seized books on jihad and militant activities in a raid on one of their homes.

October 15—Germany—Yemeni citizen Faisal bin Ali Jaber filed suit with an administrative court in Cologne against the German government for permitting the U.S. to use Ramstein Air Base to conduct drone strikes, including one that killed his ­brother-in-law, preacher Salim bin Ahmed Ali Jaber, and nephew, policeman Waleed, in a Yemeni village in August 2012. He was represented by Kat Craig, legal director of Reprieve, and a second human rights group.

October 15—Somalia—A car bomb went off near the presidential palace while children walked by, killing 5 people and wounding 7, most of them children leaving a video arcade during the evening in Mogadishu.

October 15—Congo—Beni Mayor Nyonyi Bwana Kawa said Allied Defense Forces rebels from Uganda crept into houses and attacked civilians, killing at least 30 people.

Lt. Col. Felix Prosper Basse, spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping mission, said Allied Defense Forces gunmen from Uganda killed 9 people in Oicha in North Kivu Province. The ­Maimai-Simba group kidnapped 40 women and 7 boys the previous week.

October 15—Yemen—Sunnis were suspected of throwing a grenade at a house used as the Houthis’ neighborhood headquarters in Sana’a during the night, killing 2 Houthis and wounding 2 more.

During the night, gunmen killed Shi’ite Zaydi Colonel Ali Zeid ­al-Dhary in Sana’a.

October 15—Syria—Lebanese cameraman Samir Kassab and Mauritanian reporter Ishak Mokhtar, both of whom worked for Sky News Arabia, were kidnapped by the Islamic State while working near Aleppo. 14101501

October 16—Ireland—Two girls aged 1 and 11 were seriously burned in the night after a gasoline bomb was thrown through the living room window of their family home in Waterford. Police arrested a man in his mid–20s on suspicion of involvement. Gangland activity was suspected.

October 16—Austria—Austrian police arrested a 20-year-old man and his 33-year-old partner for training with radical Islamic fighters in Syria. Germany requested extradition on terrorism charges. The 2 were on a train en route to Germany. Police handed an 8-year-old traveling with the duo to childcare authorities.

October 16—Egypt—During the evening, 2 bombs went off behind a mosque in Tanta during the Sufi Festival of Sheikh ­el-Sayyed ­el-Baddawi, wounding 11 with flying shrapnel. Police disarmed a third device.

October 16—Iraq—Terrorists killed at least 50 people and wounded dozens.

The Islamic State simultaneously detonated 2 parked car bombs in a commercial area in Baghdad’s Dolaie neighborhood, killing 16 civilians and wounding 35 others. IS said it was targeting Iraqi soldiers and Shi’ite militiamen allied with them.

At 2:30 p.m., a suicide car bomber crashed into a police checkpoint in Baghdad’s Talibiyah neighborhood, killing 12 people, including 7 police officers and 5 civilians, and wounding 28 people.

A car bomb went off on a commercial street in Baghdad’s Hurriyah district, killing 6 civilians and wounding 16.

Five mortar rounds hit a residential area in Baghdad’s northern Shula neighborhood, killing 6 civilians and injuring 21.

Before sunset, a car bomb went off at the Shi’ite part of Mahmoudiya, killing 7 and wounding 12.

A roadside bomb hit an army patrol south of Baghdad, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 4.

A bomb exploded near shops in downtown Baghdad, killing 3 and wounding 4.

October 16—Internet—The Islamic State released a video in Syria in which 3 alleged Europeans said they would fly the IS flag over the White House and avenge ”every drop of blood spilt” by the U.S.-led coalition. The speakers claimed to be Abu Abdullah from the UK, Abdul Wadoud from France, and Abu Dauoud from Germany. Abu Abdullah, speaking English and Arabic, observed, “We will chop off the heads of the Americans, chop off the heads of the French, chop off the heads of whoever you may bring.” Abu Dauoud, speaking German and Arabic, advised, “Do not sit with the filth…. My dear brothers, come home. Come home, to the land of the Muslims, to the Islamic State, to the Islamic caliphate. Support us. Support your homeland, with your numbers, with your presence. And fight in the path of Allah.” He said “filthy” Chancellor Angela Merkel sent “gifts to Israel.” Bild said he was a convert from ­North-Rhine Westphalia. Abdul Wadoud, speaking in French and Arabic, called President Francois Hollande of France “you French swine!” The trio also pilloried President Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

October 16—Yemen—Two suicide bombers killed nearly 70 people. One hit an ­anti-government rally by Houthi supporters.

October 16—Ireland—Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams denied that he had covered up ­child-abuse crimes by a Belfast officer of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Mairia Cahill, ­grand-niece of Joe Cahill, a founding commander of the modern Provisional IRA, appeared alongside former foreign minister Micheal Martin, who leads opposition party Fianna Fail, outside Ireland’s parliament to accuse Adams of conspiring to suppress her reports of being raped by IRA commander Martin Morris from Adams’s home district in 1997, when she was 16. In 2012, Morris was charged with IRA membership and 13 counts of sexual assault. Another 4 individuals were charged with IRA membership based on her claim that they interrogated her several times in 1999 and 2000 about her accusations against Morris. Prosecutors withdrew the case earlier in 2014. Adams’s brother was convicted in 2013 of raping his daughter when she was aged 4 to 9 and received a 16-year prison sentence. Adams admitted knowing of those crimes for 2 decades but not telling police.

October 16—Sudan—Gunmen attacked Ethiopian soldiers guarding a water borehole in Korma, North Darfur, killing 2 peacekeepers serving in the joint United ­Nations-African Union force; a third later died from his injuries.

October 17—Syria—CNN quoted the ­London-based Syrian opposition group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as indicating that the Islamic State had 3 MiG fighter jets at the ­al-Jarrah military airport east of Aleppo in northern Syria, and were being trained how to fly by former Iraqi air force pilots. On October 21, Syrian Information Minister Omran ­al-Soubi told Syrian TV that the Syrian air force had bombed the jets as they were landing at the air base, destroying 2 jets. The terrorists hid the third jet.

October 17—Lebanon—AFP reported that gunmen fired on a military bus, killing Jamal Jean Hashem, a teen soldier, as the bus was going to the soldier’s post in the northern Akkar region.

October 17—Congo—Governor of North Kivu Province Julien Paluku said that 22 people were hacked to death with machetes by suspected rebels of the Ugandan Islamic group, the Allied Democratic Forces in Erengeti, near the town of Beni. The dead included a Congolese soldier, 3 civilian men, 10 women and several children.

October 17—Nigeria—The chief of the defense staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, announced that the government and Boko Haram had agreed to an immediate ceasefire that would include release of the 200+ schoolgirls kidnapped on April 14, 2014. Government sources said the talks were held with Danladi Ahmadu, Boko Haram’s secretary general. On October 31, 2014, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released a video in which he denied agreeing to a ceasefire and observed “The issue of the girls is long forgotten because I have long ago married them off.”

October 17–18—Nigeria—CNN reported that Boko Haram was suspected in 5 attacks on 2 villages and a town near the border with Niger, killing dozens and kidnapping others. Gunmen ambushed travelers in Shaffa in Borno State, killing 8 and kidnapping others. Gunmen also attacked Waga village in Adamawa State, abducting several residents, including women. Gunmen also attacked Abadam, near Niger, killing several residents. An attack on Dzur village in the morning killed 8 people. Gunmen also attacked 3 small towns in the Michika area of Adamawa State.

October 18—Yemen—Shi’ite Houthi rebels attacked the home of a local politician from the rival Islamist Islah party, killing 2 of his relatives in the Yarim in Ibb Province. Eight terrorists and 2 bystanders died in a gun battle. The politician was not at home.

A roadside bomb hit a convoy bringing rebel reinforcements to battle Sunni tribesmen in Yarim and Ibb city, killing 4 rebels.

Eight people died in gun battles between AQAP and the Houthis.

October 18—Afghanistan—A suicide car bomber set off his explosives in the suburbs of Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand Province, killing 2 Afghan police officers and a soldier and including a civilian and 5 soldiers.

A roadside bomb in Khost Province killed a district police chief and wounded 3 police officers and a civilian.

October 18—Germany—Police in Aachen arrested Tunisian citizen Kamel Ben Yahia S. and Russian national Yusup G. on suspicion of supporting the Islamic State and searched the homes of 13 others. Police temporarily detained one of the latter suspects. The Tunisian was accused of providing clothing worth over 1,100 euros ($1,400) and 3,400 euros in cash to IS, and smuggling a 17-year-old boy from Germany to Syria to join it. The Russian was accused of participating in the smuggling. Police also searched the homes of 7 suspected Ahrar ­al-Sham supporters; Ahrar ­al-Sham is an ultraconservative Syrian rebel group.

In the secondary searches, police detained ­German-Moroccan dual national Mounir R., for also giving to IS with clothing worth 1,100 euros ($1,400) and transferring 1,000 euros to an IS member in Syria. He was believed to have planned to leave for Syria soon. Police also detained Lebanese national Kassem el-R. for organizing the delivery of military clothing and boots to Ahrar ­al-Sham.

October 18—Kenya—Kenyan soldiers killed 5 ­al-Shabaab bombers who were attempting to cross into Kenya from Ethiopia in a car carrying explosives and 6 suicide vests. Authorities seized 100 kilograms of TNT from the vehicle which was intercepted at Dolo along Kenya’s border with Ethiopia. The car had Kenyan registration. The terrorists were prevented from entering Kenya at another border location. 14101801

October 19—Pakistan—Gunmen killed 8 people and injured another in Punjab Province. The dead were poultry workers who had been kidnapped in Baluchistan Province. Two others were freed unharmed.

October 19—Egypt—A roadside bomb hit an army vehicle traveling south of ­el-Arish in the Sinai, killing 7 troops, including 2 officers, and seriously wounding 6 others. The troops were on their way to a natural gas pumping station to search for suspected jihadi activities.

October 19—Iraq—CNN reported that a suicide bombing of a Shi’a mosque in Baghdad’s predominantly Shi’a ­al-Harithyia neighborhood killed 21 and injured 25.

October 19—Afghanistan—The Taliban was suspected in attacks on several army checkpoints in eastern and southern Afghanistan that killed at least 4 troops and wounded several people. The 4 soldiers died in Logar Province. Four attackers died in attacks on police checkpoints in Gezab District in Uruzgan Province.

October 19—South Sudan—U.S. Ambassador Charles Twining said a South Sudanese soldier fired 2 bullets at close range from a military motorcade into an armored U.S. Embassy follow car traveling behind his car at 7:30 p.m. The South Sudanese motorcade was carrying Vice President James Wani Igga. South Sudan army spokesman Col. Philip Aguer said the guard was arrested. No one was injured.

October 20—Nigeria—On October 24, 2014, the Los Angeles Times reported that Boko Haram was suspected of kidnapping 40 women from Gavya and killing 26 people. ThisDay newspaper said 60 women and girls were abducted. Nigerian news reports added that gunmen attacked the villages of Waga Mangoro and Garta in Adamawa State a day after the ceasefire announcement, and attacked Pelachiroma on October 20

AP reported that the extremist Islamist militia calls itself Jamaatu Ahlis Sunna Lidda Awati ­Wal-Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram.

October 20—Iraq—Four car bombs exploded in commercial areas and parking lots near government offices in the Shi’ite city of Karbala, killing 26 and wounding 55.

A suicide bomber hit a Shi’ite mosque in Baghdad after noon prayers, killing 17 and wounding 28.

October 20—Yemen—A suicide car bomber hit the house of Abdullah Idris, a top local official with the party of ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was used by Shi’ite Houthi rebels in the Raad area in Baydah Province south of Sanaa, killing at least 10 and injuring 15.

October 20—Canada—Martin Couture Rouleau, 25, of ­Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, whom Royal Canadian Mounted Police said had become radicalized, struck 2 members of the Canadian Forces armed services with his car in a Montreal suburban mall parking lot. The Islamic convert died a few hours after being shot after a car chase in ­Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. During the police chase, Rouleau lost control of his car, which rolled over several times. He exited the car and was shot. Police found a knife on the ground. The next day, Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent, 53, from Canadian Forces Base ­Saint-Jean Garrison, died of his injuries. One of the murdered soldiers had been in uniform.

Rouleau started a ­water-pressure cleaning company in ­St-Jean-sur-Richelieu in 2012 with 2 other people. He converted in 2013. Police had recently seized his passport after learning that he intended to go to Syria. RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson told the news media, “He was part of our investigative efforts to try and identify those people who might commit a criminal act traveling abroad for terrorist purposes.” Police said Rouleau sat in his car in the parking lot outside a veterans’ support center for 2 hours before the hit and run.

October 21—U.S.—CNN reported that German authorities at Frankfurt airport stopped 3 American teenage girls—2 sisters of Somali descent, aged 15 and 17, and a 16-year-old friend whose family is Sudanese—before they could go to Syria via Turkey to join the Islamic State. They were believed to be between 15 and 17 years old. They were flown back to a Denver suburb after their parents tipped off the FBI, who flagged their passports.

October 21—Syria/Australia—The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Abdullah Elmir, alias Abu Khaled, 17, who ran away from Australia to join jihadists in Iraq and Syria in June 2014, reappeared in a video issued by the Islamic State, vowing to “not stop fighting.” He was shown wielding a rifle and saying to Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott “To Tony Abbott, I say this. These weapons that we have, these soldiers, we will not stop fighting. We will not put down our weapons until we reach your lands and until we take the head of every tyrant and until the black flag (of the Islamic State group) is flying high in every single land.” Elmir’s family lives in the southwestern Sydney suburb of Bankstown. He had told them in June that he was going fishing, later phoning his mother to say that he was in Turkey about to “cross the border.”

October 21—Afghanistan—In the morning, the Taliban remotely detonated a roadside bomb under a military bus carrying army troops to the Defense Ministry in Kabul, killing 4 soldiers and wounding 6 soldiers and 6 civilians.

October 21—Iraq—In the afternoon, 2 car bombs exploded in the Habaybina restaurant in the ­Shi’ite-majority district of Talibiya in eastern Baghdad, kill­ing 8 people and wounding 20.

A bomb hit an outdoor market in the southern district of Abu Dashir, a mostly Shi’ite neighborhood in Baghdad, killing 4 and wounding 9.

A bomb exploded near a small restaurant in central Baghdad, killing 5 and wounding 12.

A bomb went off at a commercial street in Madain, killing 2 and wounding 4.

October 22—Syria—Othman Abu ­al-Qiyan, an Israeli Bedouin believed to be in his late 20s, who worked as a hospital intern in the minority Arab village of Hura, was reported to have died in Syria fighting for the Islamic State. He was to begin further study at Beersheba’s Soroka hospital in May when he vanished after claiming that he was going on vacation in Turkey with a cousin, Shafiq, who also vanished. He then phoned his family from Syria, telling them where he left his belongings and saying he would meet them next in paradise. They later received an anonymous call in August saying that he had been killed in U.S. air raids against the Islamic State. Observers suggested that he was radicalized while studying in Jordan or was recruited online. Shin Bet arrested Abu ­al-Qiyan’s brother, Idris, on suspicion of aiding him.

October 22—Israel—Gunmen on the Egyptian side of the border fired an ­anti-tank missile and gunshots at an Israeli military vehicle in the southern Negev Desert, wounding 2 soldiers—a female officer and a male soldier. 14102201

October 22—Canada—At 10 a.m., homeless Quebec native Michael ­Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, a masked, ­black-clad gunman, fired 4 shots, killing Army Reserve Corporal Nathan Cirillo, a guard at the tomb of the unknown soldier at Canada’s National War Memorial, then walked into the Parliament Building, firing 30 more shots (several of the shots might have been from responding guards), initially in the foyer, then a minute later in a hallway near the entrance to the library. A plainclothes constable who was working security at Parliament was shot in the leg. ­Zehaf-Bibeau, a recent Islamic convert, was shot to death by the ceremonial sergeant at arms, Kevin Vickers, 58. Shots were also fired at the nearby Rideau Centre mall in Ottawa. At least 3 people were hospitalized from the attacks. Parliament was locked down. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police asked people to “stay away from windows and off roofs.” Ottawa Police Constable Marc Soucy said, “We believe there is more than one” gunman, but police later said the terrorist acted alone.

Zehaf-Bibeau was born in Montreal as Michael Joseph Hall on October 16, 1982, to a Libyan businessman father and Canadian mother who divorced in 1999. His mother serves as deputy chairwoman of the immigration division of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, where she had worked since 1990 as a refugee protection officer, legal adviser and manager of operational support. ­Zehaf-Bibeau worked as a miner and a laborer while battling drug addiction in Calgary and Vancouver. In 2004, he was charged in Quebec with drug possession, pleaded guilty, and sentenced to 60 days. In 2011, he was found guilty of uttering threats in Vancouver and sentenced to a day in jail; he was found not guilty of a robbery charge. In a December 2011 psychiatric evaluation prior to the trial in Vancouver, ­Zehaf-Bibeau said “he wants to be in jail as he believes this is the only way he can overcome his addiction to crack cocaine.” The assessment said, “He has been a devoted Muslim for 7 years and he believes he must spend time in jail as a sacrifice to pay for his mistakes in the past…. I am unable to find any features of signs of a mental illness. Although he seems to be making an unusual choice, this is insufficient basis for a diagnosis of mental disorder.”

The killer’s rap sheet included convictions for assault, robbery, drug and weapons offenses, and other crimes.

A police commissioner said his “email was found in the hard drive of somebody who was charged with a ­terrorist-related offense.” He was believed to have connections to other jihadis in Canada, including Hasibullah Yusufzai, who went to fight in Syria. ­Zehaf-Bibeau had hoped to travel to Libya—from where his father hailed—but was unable to get a passport. He had complained that Vancouver’s Masjid ­al-Salaam mosque, which he attended in 2011, was too liberal and inclusive, according to Assam Rashid, spokesman for the British Columbia Muslim Association. He was told not to return.

He visited the U.S. 4 times, including in 2013.

He had been in Ottawa since October 2, staying at the Ottawa Mission shelter.

On October 26, 2014, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Bob Paulson said the killer had prepared a confessor video outlining his ideological and political motives.

AP reported on March 6, 2015, police released a cellphone video Michael ­Zehaf-Bibeau recorded before the attack, saying he was protesting Canada’s military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq. “This is in retaliation for Afghanistan and because Harper wants to send his troops to Iraq…. So we are retaliating, the Mujahedin of this world. Canada’s officially become one of our enemies by fighting and bombing us and creating a lot of terror in our countries and killing us and killing our innocents. So, just aiming to hit some soldiers just to show that you’re not even safe in your own land, and you gotta be careful. Thank you.” RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson said ­Zehaf-Bibeau used the Internet and payphones to stay in contact with people in Ottawa and in British Columbia. The autopsy toxicology report showed ­Zehaf-Bibeau, a crack addict, was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

October 22—Israel—Abdel-Rahman Shaloudi, 21, a Palestinian man from East Jerusalem with a history of anti–Israel violence, crashed his car into a crowded train station near the national headquarters of Israel’s police force in Jerusalem, killing Haya Zissel Brau, a 3-month-old baby girl and wounding 8 people. The driver exited the car and tried to escape before he was shot by a police officer. The driver lived in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. The killer was in serious condition and later died of his injuries. He has served time in Israeli prison on terrorism charges. The baby was a dual ­Israeli-American citizen. Israeli police deemed the incident a “terrorist attack.” On October 26, Israeli police said Ecuador­ean tourist Karen Mosquera, 22, died of her wounds. She had been completing converting to Judaism in Israel. At Shaloudi’s funeral, youths carrying his casket chanted “God loves him because he is a shahid (martyr).” 14102202

October 22—Denmark—The Copenhagen City Court acquitted 10 men accused of terror financing for providing money to the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which the U.S. and European Union consider a terrorist organization. The court ruled that the prosecution failed to prove that 130 million kroner ($22 million) transferred to Kurdish organizations between 2009 and 2012 went to the PKK.

October 22—Egypt—A rudimentary bomb exploded outside Cairo University, injuring 10 people, including 6 policemen (4 officers and 2 conscripts) and 4 civilians.

A Cairo court sentenced 12, including Muhammad Jamal ­el-Kashif, designated as a terrorist by the U.S. State Department and on a UN sanctions list of individuals suspected of links to ­al-Qaeda, to life in prison on charges of plotting attacks against police, military, foreign missions and ships passing through the strategic Suez Canal. Thirteen others were sentenced to between 7 and 15 years in prison. One was acquitted.

El-Kashif was arrested in 2012 in Egypt. He was accused of setting up training camps for jihadis in Egypt and Libya. He was released from an Egyptian prison in 2011. The State Department designated him a terrorist in 2013, noting that he had trained in Afghanistan in the late 1980s and returned to Egypt in the 1990s. ­El-Kashif developed links to various ­al-Qaeda–related groups in the region, including AQAP. The UN said he was involved in the deadly attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012.

October 22—UK—London’s Metropolitan Police arrested a 25-year-old woman in Bedfordshire, north of London, on suspicion of planning a terror act. Police raided 2 properties as part of the investigation. A 32-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attending a place used for terrorist training. Two London addresses were searched.

To date, police said they had made 220 terrorism arrests in 2014.

October 22—Nigeria—Reuters reported that Boko Haram was suspected in the kidnapping of 25 girls in a nighttime attack on a remote town in northeastern Nigeria. The victims included 3 daughters of John Kwaghe and 2 daughters of Dorothy Tizhe. The kidnappers forced all females to go with them, but later released the older ones.

A bomb hidden in a bag exploded during the night at a bus station in Azare in Bauchi State, killing at least 5 and wounding 12. Boko Haram was suspected.

October 22—U.S.—During the night, Dominic Ade­sanya, 23, of Bel Air, Maryland, jumped the White House north fence and was immediately stopped by 2 Secret Service K-9s, Hurricane and ­Jordan. The dogs were sent to a local vet for treatment of bruises sustained when the perpetrator kicked and hit them. Authorities said Adesanya has mental health problems; his father said his son is paranoid and hears voices. He was arrested 2 months earlier on a misdemeanor for a previous White House security breach. He was charged with 2 counts of felony assault on a police officer for attacking the K-9 dogs, 4 counts of resisting and unlawful entry, and one count of making threats. He was unarmed at the time of his arrest. During a 5-minute court hearing on October 27, he was charged with unlawfully entering the restricted grounds of the White House and harming 2 law enforcement dogs and ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation and treatment for 45 days.

October 23—U.S./Afghanistan—The AP reported that Irek Hamidullan, a Russian believed to have led several attacks in 2009 that killed or wounded U.S. troops, who was held since 2009 at the Parwan prison near Bagram Air Base, was flown to the U.S. to be prosecuted in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia. He was wounded in 2009 firefight. He was the first foreign combatant captured in Afghanistan to be sent to a U.S. trial. He had also fought against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Authorities believed he was in his mid–50s. U.S. officials suggested he had links to Chechen jihadis.

October 23—Pakistan—Four gunmen riding 2 motorcycles fired on a minibus carrying Shi’ite Hazaras outside a vegetable market in the Quetta suburbs, killing 8, including 6 men on the minibus and another 2 they chased down, and injuring 2 other people on the bus.

Hours later, a bomb rigged to a motorcycle exploded near an army patrol 2 kilometers away from the shooting site, killing 2 civilians and wounding 10 other people, including 2 paramilitary soldiers.

At dusk, a suicide bomber set off his explosives vest next to a bullet proof car carrying Maulana Fazlur Rehman, chief of the ­Taliban-linked Jamiat ­Ulema-e-Islam religious party, killing 2 people and wounding several others. Rehman had just addressed a rally of thousands of supporters in Quetta; he survived this and 2 earlier assassination attempts.

October 23—U.S.—CNN reported that ­self-radicalized Islamic convert Zale H. Thompson, 32, attacked 4 rookie New York City police officers in Queens, who were posing for a photo, with an 18.5-inch-long metal hatchet, leaving one officer in critical condition. He hit Officer Joseph Meeker, 24, in the right arm and Officer Kenneth Healey, 25, in the head. The untouched officers shot him to death. A 29-year-old female bystander was struck by a bullet in her lower back. The attacker had been hiding behind a bus shelter. They said he had a criminal record in California and had been discharged from the Navy for misconduct. Police later said it was a terrorist attack by an individual who had converted 2 years earlier. The unemployed attacker apparently was not ­affiliated with any group, but his social media postings showed views that were “anti–Western, ­anti-government and in some cases ­anti-white,” according to the police. His recent Internet searches were for beheadings, al-Qaeda, ISIS and al-Shabaab.

October 23—Denmark—In separate morning raids, police arrested 2 men in possession of one kilo-gram of explosive material. Authorities believed the incidents were not ­terrorism-related. Police found 2 packs of 500 grams of explosives in the apartment of a 33-year-old man of Pakistani descent. The other suspect, aged 31, had ties to the Danish military.

October 23—Tunisia—Early in the morning, police arrested 2 men armed with assault rifles in Kebili following a clash that killed a bystander. Interior Ministry spokesman Mohammed Ali Aroui said the men were planning a terrorist attack.

The Ministry of Defense announced that a bomb went off near a military patrol in the mountainous Kef region near the Algerian border, causing no injuries.

October 23—Nigeria—Boko Haram killed 17 people in the village of Ndongo.

October 23–24—Tunisia—Authorities surrounded the home of a terrorism suspect in the Oued Ellil suburb of Tunis, starting a ­shoot-out that killed one security officer and injured several people, including another police officer. Police were negotiating for the release of women and children—family members of the gunmen—held inside the house. Interior Ministry spokesman Mohammed Ali Aroui said the gunmen wanted to disturb the scheduled October 26 election. On October 24, authorities stormed the home, ending a 24-hour standoff that left 5 women and one man dead. In the morning raid, one gunman died and another was captured. A child and a security forces member were wounded. Interior Ministry spokesman Mohammed Ali Aroui said all the dead were “terrorists.” Arouri said that the women were planning on traveling to Syria to join extremist groups and that one of them held the child in her arms while shooting at the soldiers. The mother of the children and another man were arrested. Aroui said the hideout was discovered after the father of the children was arrested with another man in Kebili on October 23 while carrying assault rifles and planning terrorist attacks.

October 24—Afghanistan—In the morning, gunmen fired on a car carrying 7 civilians traveling through Khogyani district in Nangahar Province, killing 5 and wounding 2. The Taliban was suspected.

October 24—Nigeria—Gunmen kidnapped a German man working for the ­Nigeria-based construction company Julius Berger and killed another German construction expert as they were being driven to work in Ogun State. On October 30, AP reported that the hostage was freed. There was no announcement of a ransom. 14102401

October 24—Egypt—At 3:30 p.m., a car bomb, possibly set off by a suicide bomber, hit a checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula. A mortar round and ­rocket-propelled grenades hit a tank carrying explosives and ammunition, causing a secondary explosion at an army post in ­el-Arish in an area called Karm ­el-Qawadis. Roadside bombs hit 2 army vehicles carrying rescuers, seriously wounding a senior officer. The attacks killed 31 people and wounded 28, several critically. The National Defense Council declared a 3-month state of emergency in areas near borders with Israel and the Gaza Strip in the northern part of Sinai Peninsula and ordered a 3-hour curfew, and closed the Rafah crossing. On November 14, 2014, AP and the New York Times the next day reported that Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis issued a 30-minute video in which it claimed credit, saying, “this is just the beginning” and calling Egypt’s President ­Abdel-Fattah ­el-Sissi a “tyrant, and servant of the Jews.” The group said it was the Sinai Province franchise of the Islamic State. The apparent suicide bomber said in a confessor statement, “We will be the swords that cut off your heads.”

October 24—Turkey—The Istanbul consulates of Canada, Belgium and Germany were evacuated after receiving suspicious packages. Seven people from the Canadian consulate were hospitalized after one of them opened a package and was exposed to a yellow powder. Eventually, more than 30 staff members of the consulates were hospitalized. The U.S. consulate in Istanbul also received an envelope with the yellow powder, but was not evacuated. The French and Hungarian consulates also received the packages; 6 Hungarians were hospitalized on October 26. On October 27, Turkey’s Health Ministry announced that the packages tested negative for anthrax, ricin, botulism, tularemia and a plague bacteria. The next day, Health Ministry Undersecretary Eyup Gumus said the material was similar to chalk dust.

October 24—Nigeria—AFP reported that during the night gunmen kidnapped Osio Agama, whose sister Diezani ­Alison-Madueke leads Africa’s largest oil industry, as she approached her car in the oil hub of Port Harcourt.

October 24–25—Nigeria—SkyNews reported that Boko Haram was suspected in the kidnappings of 30 children, including 11-year-old girls, in Mafa in Borno State.

October 25—Iraq—In the afternoon, a suicide bomber set off his explosives belt at a meeting of Shi’ite militiamen in Taji, killing 8 of them and wounding 17 people.

October 25—Afghanistan—Gunmen attacked several checkpoints in Wardoj District, Badakhshan Province, killing 4 police officers and wounding 7.

Two roadside bombs in in Maiwand district in Kandahar Province killed 4 civilians and injured 8.

October 26—Brazil—A gunman shot to death Robson Diego de Moura Soares, 20, who was waiting in line to enter a polling station at a public school in Rio Grande do Norte State to vote in the presidential election. The killer fled. Police Sergeant Alfredo Carneiro told the G1 news portal that the 2 men apparently belonged to rival gangs in Mossoro. Dias Toffoli, president of the Superior Electoral Tribunal, said that the killing was not related to the election.

October 27—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide bomber set off his explosives vest and blew up a car at a prosecutor’s office compound in Kunduz city. Three gunmen then stormed the compound, killing 17 prosecutors, 2 police officers, and a civilian and wounding 10. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the attack was punishment for recent death sentences handed to Taliban prisoners.

October 27—Iraq—Reuters reported that a suicide car bomber driving a military Humvee hit a checkpoint manned by Iraqi troops and ­pro-government Shi’ite militiamen near Jurf ­al-Sakhar south of Baghdad, killing 27 and wounding 60.

The IS attacked policemen and Shi’ite militiamen in ­al-Mansuriyah, killing 6 members of the Iraqi security forces.

During the night, a car bomb hit shops and restaurants in downtown Baghdad, killing 14 and wounding 23.

October 27—Syria—IS released its 5th video of hostage John Cantlie.

October 27—Jordan—Security forces arrested jihadi ideologue Abu Mohammed ­al-Maqdesi after calling on rival militant groups to unite against an international coalition that has been carrying out airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. He was charged with violating the country’s ­anti-terrorism law. He was represented by attorney Moussa ­al-Abdallat. ­Al-Maqdesi was picked up 4 months after serving 5 years in prison.

October 28—Australia/Iraq—The Islamic State released a second YouTube video of Australian runaway Abdullah Elmir, 17, called the Ginger Jihadist by the media, wearing Arabian clothing and holding an assault rifle and standing on the bank of the Tigris River in Mosul, Iraq. He left his Sydney home in June 2014, telling his family he was going fishing.

October 28—Austria—State prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Michaela Obenaus announced the arrest in St. Poelten, west of Vienna, of a 14-year-old boy on suspicion of planning to place a bomb in a busy Viennese train station. The Austrian citizen of Turkish descent had lived in Austria for 8 years and could be charged with membership in a terrorist organization. The individual told police that he wanted to fight with jihadis, had researched building a bomb on the Internet and had mentioned Vienna’s downtown Westbahnhof rail station as a possible target.

October 28—Pakistan—Gun battles between jihadis and security forces led to the deaths of 21 gunmen and 8 Pakistani soldiers in the Khyber tribal region. Several other terrorists were wounded in the Spinqamar area of North Waziristan. Troops seized 146 tons of explosives, thousands of weapons and a large cache of ammunition.

October 28—Peru—Police arrested Lebanese citizen Mohamed Hamdar, 28, after he entered the country with false documents. Authorities said he was a Hizballah member. Police found traces of explosives on his possessions. On November 13, 2014, Judge Angel Mendivil ordered him held for 18 months for investigation. Hamdar denied that he had any violent intention and said he did not belong to Hizballah. He claimed investigators tried to coerce a confession.

October 28–29—India—Army spokesman Lt. Col. N.N. Joshi announced that 2 gunmen were killed on October 28 and an army officer and suspected rebel died the next day in fighting in a forested area in the Handwara region of Kashmir.

October 29—Israel—A gunman on motorcycle shot and seriously wounded Yehuda Glick, a U.S.-born ­hard-line Jewish activist who called for greater Jewish access to a sensitive Jerusalem holy site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. Glick was coming out of a conference promoting Jewish access to the holy site, a hilltop compound in Jerusalem’s Old City. The gun-man approached him, addressed in “heavy ­Arabic-accented Hebrew,” fired at ­point-blank range and escaped. The incident set off battles between masked stone throwers and Israeli riot police in Jerusalem. The next day, Israeli police shot and killed the Palestinian gunman, Moatez Higazi, at his home in the Arab side of Abu Tor after he fired on police. Higazi was a jihadi who was recently freed from prison. Police arrested his brother and father. 14102901

October 29—Mali—During a morning operation against an armed terrorist group linked to AQIM in the Kidal region’s Adrar des Ifoghas massif, a French air command parachute sergeant died.

October 29—Iraq—The Islamic State lined up and shot to death 30 men in Hit’s ­al-Bakir district. Many were Sunni militia and security forces.

A roadside bomb hit an army patrol in a town south of Baghdad, killing 3 soldiers and wounding 7.

A later bomb exploded on a commercial street in Baghdad’s Ur district, killing 2 and wounding 8.

October 30—Niger—In the morning, gunmen simultaneously attacked a prison, a refugee camp for Malians, and a Niger security forces patrol near the border with Mali, killing 9 security forces. The gunmen freed numerous prisoners, possibly includ-ing Tuareg separatists. Four security forces were wounded in the attacks; 3 others were reported missing.

October 31—United Nations—A UN report said that fighters from more than 80 countries working with ­al-Qaeda associates in Syria and Iraq “form the core of a new diaspora that may seed the threat for years to come.” It said there were 15,000 foreign terrorists in Syria and Iraq. The report was submitted to the UN Security Council. The report warned that use of social media gives the Islamic State a “cosmopolitan” appearance.

October 31—Germany—The criminal police office in Hesse State announced the arrest of a suspected 49-year-old Spanish member of ETA in Mannheim. He was suspected of being a senior logistical expert and was accused of acquiring and producing explosives. He was earlier convicted by France of membership in a terrorist organization and preparing attacks. German authorities said he would be extradited to France.

October 31—Iraq—Bombs hit markets near Baghdad, killing 15 people.

A bomb exploded at noon at a sheep market in the western Baghdad suburb of Suweib, killing 5 people and injuring 13.

A bomb hit a commercial street in Baghdad’s western Radhawniyah suburb, killing 2 people and wounding 9.

A bomb went off at an outdoor market in Madain, killing 4 and wounding 11.

A bomb hit an outdoor market in Youssifiyah, killing 4 and wounding 10.

The UN mission in Baghdad said 1,273 Iraqis were killed in violence in October. They included 856 civilians and 417 members of Iraq’s security forces. Attacks wounded another 2,010 Iraqis. At least 379 civilians were killed in Baghdad alone. This compared to the UN’s September figures of 1,119 Iraqis killed.

October 31—United Nations—The UN Security Council issued a press statement citing its “deep outrage” at the killings, kidnapping, rapes and torture by the Islamic State group in Iraq, noting that some of the actions “may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity.” The Council called on the international community to increase its support of Iraq’s government and security forces.

October 31—UK—The Foreign Office issued a general terror warning to all British travelers overseas because of fears that they could be targeted by the Islamic State seeking revenge for coalition actions.

October 31—Nigeria—Boko Haram leader Abuba­kar Shekau released a video in which he denied agreeing to a ceasefire and observed “The issue of the girls is long forgotten because I have long ago married them off. They are in their marital homes…. We have not made ceasefire with anyone…. We did not negotiate with anyone…. It’s a lie. It’s a lie. We will not negotiate. What is our business with negotiation? Allah said we should not…. Don’t you know the over 200 Chibok schoolgirls have converted to Islam? They have now memorised 2 chapters of the Koran.” He threatened to kill a German hostage seized in July in Adamawa State, saying BH could “hack him or slaughter him or shoot him.”

Three bombs went off in a bus station in Gombe during the night, killing 8 people.

October 31–November 1—Yemen—Shi’ite Houthi rebels attacked the Islamist Islah Party headquarters in Ibb Province, killing 4 guards and blowing up the building during an overnight battle.

November 1—Israel—Reuters quoted Israeli military spokesman ­Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner claiming that a mortar fired from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel, causing no injuries.

November 1—Iraq—Reuters quoted Albu Nimr tribal chief Sheikh Naeem ­al-Ga’oud as saying that the Islamic State had killed 300 tribal members in the past few days. IS killed 48 members of the tribe on October 30. Fifty members were killed near Tharthar Lake near a desert area in Anbar Province on October 31; the bodies of another 35 were found in a mass grave near Ramadi the next day. Ga’oud said 40 men, 6 women, and 4 children were killed in Tharthar Lake. The 35 bodies were handcuffed and blindfolded. IS also kidnapped 17 people.

A truck bomb went off at a vegetable market in Yusufiya, killing 13 people.

A bomb went off in Baghdad’s Doura neighborhood, killing 7, including 4 police officers.

November 2—Pakistan—A suicide bomber set off 11 pounds of explosives at a Pakistani paramilitary checkpoint on the eastern Wagah border with India, killing 60 people and wounding more than 100. Hundreds of people were returning from a military parade outside Lahore. Paramilitary forces provincial Director General Tahir Javed said 3 soldiers died. The dead also included 10 women, 7 children, and 8 members of a single family. UPI reported that Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a Pakistani Taliban splinter group, claimed credit, as did the Pakistani Taliban’s Jundullah faction. ­Jamaat-ul-Ahrar spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said the bomb­ing was “revenge of the killing of those innocent people who have been killed by Pakistan Army, particularly of those who have been killed in North Waziristan.”

November 2—Iraq—Iraqi officials said a car bomb exploded among tea and water tents serving Shi’ite pilgrims celebrating Ashura religious commemorations in southwest Baghdad’s ­al-Ilam area, killing 14 and wounding 32.

A roadside bomb hit an army patrol in Baghdad’s western suburb of Abu Ghraib, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 4.

A bomb in a commercial street in Baghdad’s ­al-Ameen district killed 3 people and wounded 4.

November 2—Philippines—Twenty Abu Sayyaf gunmen killed 6 soldiers who were guarding a road project on the outskirts of a farming village in Sumisop town on the island province of Basilan. During the 45-minute gun battle, one soldier was wounded. The attackers were led by AS commander Radzmi Jannatul.

November 2—Mali—A bomb went off in Almoustrate, near the town of Bourem, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 4 others.

November 2—Afghanistan—A gunman fired through the window of a classroom at Kandahar University, seriously wounding Abdul Qadeem Patyall, 32, the area’s deputy governor who was studying to become a teacher. He later died in the hospital.

Gunmen shot to death Judge Abdul Majid, who was on his way home from a mosque in Feroz Koh, capital of Ghor Province.

A bomb exploded in the main bazaar of Gardez in Paktia Province, killing 3 civilians and wounding 14.

November 2—Nigeria—Gunmen freed 145 inmates from a prison in central Kogi State. One inmate died in the nighttime attack. By November 3, 12 escapees were recaptured. Boko Haram was blamed.

November 3—Egypt—A bomb near Egyptian troops demolished houses in Rafah on the border with the Gaza Strip, causing no casualties. Egypt was creating a 500-yard-wide buffer zone to halt weapons smuggling along the 13-kilometer border.

November 3—Iraq—The Islamic State publicly killed 36 Sunni tribesmen, women and children.

November 3—Nigeria—A Boko Haram suicide bomber hit a religious procession by the moderate Muslim Brotherhood in Potiskum, capital of Yobe State, killing himself and 32 civilians. Muslim Brotherhood members detained 2 suspects—one a policeman—and refused to hand them over to the military. When the crowd beat the suspects with fists and wooden clubs, soldiers fired several shots into the air, killing a Muslim Brotherhood member. The crowd then handed the suspects over to the police. At least 119 people, mainly women and children, were injured in the bombing.

November 3—Australia—Shi’ite religious leader Rasoul al-Mousawi, 47, was hit by a shotgun blast in the face and shoulder in a ­drive-by shooting outside the Husainiyah Nabi Akram Center in suburban Greenacre outside Sydney. A witness said that men in the car had driven past the center several times before the shooting, calling out “IS lives forever” and “Shi’a dogs.”

November 3—Saudi Arabia—The official Saudi Press Agency said that during the night, masked gunmen fired pistols and machine guns, killing 5 and wounding 9 in an apparent sectarian attack on the Shi’ite minority in the village of ­al-Dalwah in ­al-Ahsa Province. The victims were inside a Shi’ite shrine marking Ashoura, which commemorates the 7th-century death of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. On November 24, Interior Minister spokesman Mansour ­al-Turki said the attack was planned by a 77-person Islamic State cell which received orders from abroad. He said police killed 2 Saudis and one Qatari and seriously injured a Saudi resisting arrest, and arrested the others.

November 4—Syria—Human Rights Watch claimed that the Islamic State tortured and abused Kurdish children captured in May near the northern Syrian town of Kobani. HRW had interviewed several of the more than 150 Kurdish boys abducted from Kobani as they were returning home after taking school exams in Aleppo. Some 50 of the Kurds escaped early in their captivity, while the rest were released in batches—the last coming on October 29. Four children who were held in Manbij said the terrorists beat them with a hose and electric cable.

November 4—Turkey—UPI reported that at 9:30 a.m., Kurdish politician Ahmet Karakas was stabbed 7 times in the neck, leg and stomach as he prepared to enter the pro–Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) headquarters in Ankara. Police arrested a suspect.

November 4—Yemen—On November 5, CNN reported that a drone strike killed 9 terrorists, including Shawki ­al-Badani, whom the U.S. State Department named a “specially designated global terrorist” in June, and Nabil ­al-Dahab, a senior member of the Salafist group Ansar ­al-Sharia. The State Department said ­al-Badani was an AQAP leader who was reportedly assigned to target the U.S. Embassy in Sana’a. He was also implicated in the May 2012 suicide bombing that killed more than 100 Yemeni soldiers and a summer 2013 plot that led to the closure of 19 U.S. diplomatic posts in the Middle East and Africa.

November 5—Nigeria—During a 12-hour gun battle between soldiers and Boko Haram in Malum Fatori, at least 16 civilians and dozens of BH members were killed.

November 5—Tunisia—Gunmen attacked a bus carrying soldiers and their families in the mountainous northwest region near ­el-Kef, killing 4 service members and wounding 11 people.

November 5—Israel—Ibrahim ­al-Akari intentionally crashed his car into a crowded train platform in east Jerusalem, jumped out of the vehicle and attacked police with a crowbar. The car hit the train platform, then rammed into cars. He was shot and killed by police. On November 20, Israeli police gave demolition notices to families of 2 recent attackers: Ibrahim ­al-Akari and Moataz Hijazi, who seriously wounded an Israeli activist for greater Jewish access to a sensitive Jerusalem holy site.

November 5—Egypt—Shortly before midnight, a bomb exploded on a train traveling in the Nile Delta north of Cairo, killing 4, including 2 police officers, and wounding 9.

During the night, a bomb exploded on a commuter train in Cairo’s ­al-Marg suburb, wounding 3.

November 5—Syria—CNN credited a U.S. airstrike with killing David Drugeon, 25, a French bombmaker for the Khorasan Group, in Sarmada near Idlib. He was also linked to core al-Qaeda in Pakistan. He was believed involved in efforts to make bombs from clothing dipped in explosive solution and explosives concealed in personal electronics, which would be used in aviation attacks. He was born in 1989 in a ­blue-collar and immigrant neighborhood near Vannes on the Atlantic coast of Brittany. His father, a bus driver, and his Catholic mother, a secretary, divorced when he was 13. At age 14, he converted and changed his name to Daoud. By 2010, he had visited Egypt several times to learn Arabic and Islam. In April 2010, he left France for the last time, traveling via Cairo for the tribal areas of Pakistan, to join the jihad against U.S. forces in Afghanistan. CNN quoted French intelligence indicating the he joined the small al-Qaeda subgroup known as ­Jund-al-Khalifah in the Miran Shah area. He learned bombmaking in Pakistan, and changed his name to Souleiman. He left Pakistan in 2013–2014 and traveled to Syria to join Khorasan. U.S. officials told CNN he facilitated the movement of fighters to and from Europe, and in planning attacks in Europe.

November 5—Colombia—AP reported on November 5 that 300 Nasa Indians on their ­self-governed reservation in the southwestern department of Cauca detained 7 Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) members and planned to bring them to justice for the killing of 2 tribe members. They faced time in the stocks or forced labor for killing 2 tribe members on November 5 while removing banners commemorating the death 3 years ago of FARC leader Guillermo Leon Saenz, alias Alfonso Cano, during a military assault. AFP reported that at the end of the November 9 trial in front of 3,000 Nasa Indians, an indigenous court convicted 7 FARC members of murder and sentenced them to 40–60 years in jail and 20 lashes. The 60-year sentence went to Carlos Ivan Silva, who confessed to the murders. Four received 40 years for having “fired indiscriminately on other members of the community.” Two teens were sentenced to 20 lashes and were to be held at a rehabilitation center until age 18, at which point a new assembly would reconsider their cases.

November 6—Iraq—A suicide car bomber crashed into an army checkpoint near ­al-Baghdadi, killing 5 soldiers and wounding 12.

A bomb exploded at a commercial street in Baghdad’s western Ghazaliyah district, killing 4 and wounding 8.

Gunmen fired from a car on an army checkpoint in Baghdad’s western Abu Ghraib suburb, killing 2 soldiers.

November 6—Egypt—During the morning, a bomb exploded near the infrequently used ­al-Quba presidential palace in Cairo, slightly injuring a woman.

November 6—Nigeria—Reuters reported that Boko Haram was suspected when intruders arrived in 6 ­pick-up trucks at a cement factory owned by Lafarge subsidiary Ashaka Cement, fired weapons, and stole dynamite from a quarry. No one was injured.

The Voice of America reported that the Nigerian army released 42 suspected Boko Haram members after clearing them of involvement in attacks. They included 3 foreigners from Chad, Cameroon and Burkina Faso. The group had been arrested during military raids over the past 3 years.

November 6—UK—British police arrested Nadir Ali Sayed (variant Syed), Yousaf Shah Syed and Haseeb Hamayoon 3 days before Remembrance Sunday, an important annual national tribute to Britain’s war dead. Sayed had purchased a ­foot-long chef’s knife, which he claimed was a gift for his mother. On November 20, they appeared in London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with planning terrorism acts that reportedly included a plot to behead a member of the public. The men, aged 19 to 27, were remanded in custody. They did not apply for bail. On December 14, 2015, AP reported that Sayed, 22, was convicted at London’s Woolwich Crown Court of planning an Islamic ­State-inspired knife attack in London. The jury had deliberated for more than 50 hours. Prosecutors said he was obsessed with beheadings and the killing of British solider Lee Rigby in 2013. He tried to go to Syria in early 2014 but was prevented from leaving the country. Prosecutor Max Hill said an IS fatwa “inspired the defendant to plan his own attack in this country, emulating the attack on Lee Rigby.” Sayed recorded a video showing himself stamping on a poppy, the symbol of wartime remembrance, indicating his “attitude to the poppy as the remembrance image in this country.” Jurors failed to reach a verdict on Haseeb Hamayoon, 29, and Sayed’s 20-year-old cousin Yousaf Syed. The 2 men faced a retrial. Nadir Syed was to be sentenced at a later date.

November 7—Israel—Reuters reported that small explosions hit the homes and vehicles of officials from President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement in the Gaza Strip, causing minor damage but no injuries. One of the bombs went off at the wooden stage where Fatah planned a November 11 commemoration of the 10th anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death. A letter left at the scene of one bombing was signed by Islamic State, but Fatah doubted their involvement.

November 7—UK—Sky News reported that police in west London and the Thames Valley arrested 4 men, aged 19–27, suspected of preparing ­jihadi-related terrorists acts. A 27-year-old was arrested on a west London street during the night. Two others were picked up in London’s western area; the 4th in High Wycombe.

November 7—Nigeria—The Voice of America reported that bombs planted on 2 motorcycles exploded at an ATM in Azare in Bauchi State, killing 8 and injuring many others.

November 7—Pakistan—Two roadside bombs went off minutes apart, hitting a minibus and a motorcycle in the Mohmand tribal region, killing 5 minivan passengers and the motorcyclists and injuring 4 people. Among the dead were members of an anti–Taliban militia.

Following a nighttime battle after dozens of terrorists attacked a security checkpoint in the Spin Qamar area in Pakistan’s Khyber tribal region, soldiers found 17 bodies of gunmen in 3 different locations the next day.

The ­Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan named Moham-mad Khurassani as its new spokesman, replacing Shahi­dullah Shahid, who in October announced his ­allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi.

November 7—Egypt—Abu Osama ­al-Masri, leader of the ­Sinai-based Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis (Champions of Jerusalem), released an audio on the group’s Twitter account saying his group kills Egyptian soldiers because they were killing Muslims. “This is advice for you: … Pull your sons from the ranks of the apostate army … or order them to leave it to rescue them from death…. Come to Sinai to see … what your sons have done.”

November 7—Iraq—Late in the day, a suicide truck bomber crashed into the convoy of Police Lieutenant General Faisal Malik during an inspection tour of troops in Beiji, killing Malik and 7 police officers and wounding 15 people.

November 8—Iraq—Two car bombs exploded on a commercial street in Baghdad’s Amil neighborhood, killing 8 people and wounding 16.

A car bomb exploded in a commercial area of Baghdad’s Sadr City, killing 11 and wounding 21.

A car bomb exploded in a commercial street lined with restaurants in ­al-Aman in southeastern Baghdad, killing 9 and wounding 18.

A car bomb exploded on a commercial street in Baghdad’s ­al-Karadah district, killing 7 people and wounding 21.

A bomb exploded near a fruit and vegetable market in Yousifiya, killing 2 and wounding 4.

A car bomb exploded in Zafaraniya in southeastern Baghdad, killing 6 and wounding 13.

November 8—Mali—The French military said its Operation Barkhane in late October had killed 24 jihadis in Kidal in northern Mali. One French soldier died in the fighting. Soldiers seized materials used to make suicide bomber vests.

November 8—Iraq—Airstrikes hit senior Islamic State leaders in Qaim in Anbar Province, across the border from Bukamal, Syria. Several IS leaders, including 2 regional governors, were killed and a convoy of 10 trucks was destroyed. Among the dead was the IS ruler (wali) of Anbar Province, Abu Muhannad ­al-Sweidawi, and the head of Deir ­al-Zour Province in Syria, Abu Zahra ­al-Mahamdi. ­Al-Sweidawi had served in Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Army, later joining al-Qaeda. He had been detained by U.S. forces but later released, according to New York Times reporting.

On November 9, 2 Iraqi officials and state television reported that an airstrike wounded Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi.

November 9—Afghanistan—A suicide bomber walked into Kabul’s police headquarters and got within meters of the office of Chief of Police General Mohammad Zahir Zahir before setting off his explosives at 9 a.m. Zahir was not in the 3rd floor office at the time. Sediq Sediqqi, spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said “The man was wearing a civilian suit and had a file in his hand and the suicide vest under his clothes. He was asking police directions to the chief of police’s office, saying he had papers to deliver to him. This is the procedure for anyone who wants to meet with the chief of police, so the police sent him in the right direction.” Zahir’s chief of staff, Colonel Mohammad Yasin, was killed and 7 others were wounded, including a small child.

Two hours earlier, a bomb exploded under an Afghan Army vehicle in Kabul, causing no casualties. The Taliban claimed credit.

November 9—Syria—AFP reported that gunmen shot to death 5 nuclear engineers—4 Syrians, one Iranian—who were on a bus in Barzeh in northern Damascus near the research center where they worked. 14110901

November 9—Libya—Two car bombs exploded in Shahat, near Bayda, where Bernardino Leon, an envoy from the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) was meeting with Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah ­al-Thinni. Senior security officials were also meeting in the city. Two suspects from Darna were arrested. Jihadis from Darna pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in October.

November 9—Egypt—The ­Sinai-based Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis pledged allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi in an audio speech posted late Sunday on Ansar’s official Twitter account and a jihadi website. The unknown speaker in the recording said Ansar decided to join the Islamic State group, “whose emergence resembles a new dawn raising the banner of monotheism.” He observed that ­al-Baghdadi was “chosen by God” to establish a new caliphate after “Muslims suffered decades of humiliation…. Therefore, we have no alternative but to declare our pledge of allegiance to the caliph … to listen and obey him … and we call on all Muslims to pledge allegiance to him.” He called on Egyptians to fight “the tyrant,” apparently referring to President ­Abdel-Fattah ­el-Sissi. “What are you waiting for, after your honor has been aggressed upon and your sons’ blood has been shed at the hands of this tyrant and his soldiers?”

November 10—Northern Ireland—Police raided a suspected meeting of the outlawed Continuity IRA faction at a house in Newry and arrested 7 Irishmen, aged 30 to 75. On November 17, the group was charged with membership in Continuity IRA. A judge ordered them held without bail. Three suspects lived in British Northern Ireland, the other 4 in Ireland. Prosecutors introduced audio recordings of their private discussions produced covertly by MI5. Six men were charged with planning terrorist acts and conspiring to procure weapons. Five were charged with directing terrorism, a charge normally levied against suspected commanders.

November 10—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide attacker wearing a police uniform infiltrated the police headquarters in Logar Province’s capital of Puli Alim, then killed 6 police officers, including their commander, and wounded a civilian.

A bomb on a motorbike exploded near a police vehicle in Nangahar Province, killing 3 police officers.

November 10—Nigeria—Boko Haram was suspected when a suicide bomber wearing a school uniform and carrying a rucksack killed 48 students at a high school assembly in Potiskum. At least 2,000 students were attending the morning’s weekly assembly at the Government Technical Science College when the bomb went off at 7:30 a.m. At least 79 students were admitted to the hospital. Musa Ibrahim Yahaya, 17, was treated for head wounds at the general hospital. Many injuries required amputations. The overcrowded hospital sometimes put 2 victims in a single bed.

November 10—Israel—A Palestinian from the West Bank city of Nablus stabbed an Israeli soldier in a downtown Tel Aviv train. The soldier was reported to be in grave condition.

Later that day, a Palestinian stabbed 3 Israelis at a West Bank bus stop. A security guard shot the assailant.

November 10–11—Yemen—Shi’ite Houthi rebels attempted to establish their authority at Sana’a international airport, including interfering with airport affairs and trying to search passengers. An overnight clash with security personnel killed 4 people, including 3 security guards and a Houthi and wounding 2 guards and an airport employee.

November 11—UK—The jury in the Incedal trial was dismissed after 5 days of deliberation. On November 17, the court announced that the previous week a jury had found Incedal guilty of possessing a ­bomb-making document likely to be useful to a terrorist. The jury failed to reach a verdict on a related charge. He was to be retried in early 2015.

November 11—Pakistan—Gunmen attacked a security checkpoint in the northwestern Orakzai tribal region, killing 3 paramilitary soldiers. Other soldiers chased and killed several terrorists.

In Salarzai in the northwestern Bajur tribal area, a roadside bomb killed 2 police officers who were preparing to supervise a polio vaccine campaign scheduled to begin the next day.

A roadside bomb in Quetta went off when a local court judge passed by, killing a boy and wounding 25 people.

November 11—Iraq—In the afternoon, a suicide car bomber crashed into a military outpost in the northern Baghdad district of Tarmiyah, killing 7 soldiers, including the post’s commander, a major, and 2 other officers, a captain and lieutenant and wounding 13 others. Three other bombs in Baghdad killed 9 and injured 24.

November 11–12—New Zealand—UPI reported that during the week, suspicious packages mentioning ebola were delivered to the U.S. Embassy in Wellington, the country’s Parliament, and the New Zealand Herald newspaper in Auckland. The packages to Parliament and the Herald were found on November 11. The Embassy, closed during the celebration of Veterans Day, reported the package to police the morning of November 12, saying “a suspicious package was identified during the normal mail screening process.” Auckland police said the Herald received a small bottle of liquid with a document referencing ebola. Parliament received a small plastic bottle with some liquid inside. 14111101

November 12—Germany—Prosecutors detained 2 suspected supporters of the Islamic State and the Syrian rebel organizations Ahrar ­al-Sham and Junud ­al-Sham. Mirza Tamoor B., 58, a Pakistani, was arrested in the Cologne area following accusations that he helped take 2 fighters from Germany to the jihadi groups in Syria as well as providing 3,200 euros ($4,000) and a vehicle. Authorities in Cologne also arrested German citizen Kais B.O., 31, for recruiting fighters for terror groups since 2013. Prosecutors say that 3 men joined terrorist groups in Syria at his instigation. Police also raided the western German homes of 6 other suspected accomplices.

November 12—Pakistan—Jundullah spokesman Fahad Marwat said an Islamic State delegation had visited Jundullah’s leaders earlier in the week in southwestern Baluchistan Province to determine how to unite Pakistani jihadi groups.

Jundullah is a faction of the Pakistani Taliban (Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan).

November 12—Iraq—A suicide car bomber crashed into an army checkpoint in the Youssifiyah district south of Baghdad, killing 6 soldiers and injuring 16 people, including 10 civilians and 6 soldiers.

A car bomb exploded among shops in Baghdad’s upscale Mansour district, killing 6 civilians and wounding 13. A few minutes later, a suicide bomber attacked the entrance of a nearby police station as officers were rushing out to the site of the first attack, killing 5 and injuring 10, all policemen.

November 12—Libya—UPI reported that 2 car bombs exploded at an intersection in front of an oil institute and near the intelligence headquarters in Tobruk, killing 3 and hospitalizing 21.

A bomb exploded at an air base used for civilian flights in ­al-Bayda, home of the Libyan government, killing 4 people.

November 12—Nigeria—Police Deputy Superintendent Ibrahim A. Gambari reported that at 12:45 p.m., a female suicide bomber set off her explosives outside the library of the Federal College of Education at Katongora, in the west Nigerian state of Niger, killing herself and injuring 3 people. It was the first attack in the state in more than 2 years.

November 13—Morocco—The Interior Ministry arrested 4 French citizens in Marrakech and Laayoune suspected of being jihadis. One man was of Polish origin; another of Rwandan origin. There were suspected of being linked to terrorist organizations. One suspect had engaged in “suspicious travel” to Egypt and Yemen and was known for his extremist rhetoric. Another had gathered information on public buildings.

November 13—Germany—DPA reported that the Duesseldorf state court convicted and sentenced 4 men of membership in an ­al-Qaeda terrorist cell that planned a bombing. Moroccan citizen Abdeladim ­el-Kebir, 33, was sentenced to 9 years for membership in a terrorist organization as the group’s ringleader. Two accomplices convicted of membership in ­al-Qaeda were given 7 years and 51/2 years in prison. A 4th man convicted of supporting the terrorist organization received 41/2 years. Prosecutors said ­El-Kebir and 2 others were making a bomb for an attack in Germany and were experimenting with explosives and detonators. They were arrested in 2011. The 4th man provided money and logistical assistance.

November 13—Egypt—Masked jihadis set up roadblocks with pickup trucks in the Sinai and halted vehicles with troops or policemen. In Sheikh Zuweyid, they dragged 3 soldiers out of their car and killed them. In a second attack in Rafah, they pulled 2 policemen from their vehicle and shot them to death. All 5 were ­off-duty and wearing civilian clothing.

A stun grenade/sonic bomb exploded in a train that had arrived at Cairo’s Ramses subway train station from the Nile Delta. Sixteen people were injured in the resulting stampede.

November 13—Libya—Car bombs exploded nearly simultaneously at the closed embassies of Egypt and the United Arab Emirates in Tripoli, causing some damage to the buildings. No injuries were reported.

November 13—UK—Judge Nicholas Hilliard sentenced Amal ­el-Wahabi to 28 months in prison after convicting her of trying to send 20,000 euros (nearly $16,000) in cash to her jihadi husband who was fighting in Syria after joining the Islamic State in July 2014. The court said she knew her husband was engaged in violent extremism and that the cash she was sending would be used for that purpose. Officials found the cash hidden in the underwear of a friend who had agreed to take the money on a flight to Turkey.

November 13—Internet—Six days after he was reportedly wounded in an airstrike, Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi posted a 17-minute audio recording in which he said the Islamic State would fight the “crusader campaign” to the last man. He noted, “God has ordered us to fight. For that reason the soldiers of the Islamic State are fighting … they will never leave fighting, even if only one soldier remains. They will never leave fighting, because they reject humiliation.” He said Muslims must “explode the volcanoes of jihad everywhere,” specifically killing “apostates” in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. It was not announced when the recording was made, but he mentioned events since the airstrike, including several pledges of allegiance by jihadi groups in Libya and Egypt. He said the coalition against him was failing, observing, “They thought and they estimated, they planned and they conspired, and they prepared to hit the Islamic State, and then they emerged with a failed plan that was to shell the sites of the Islamic State, and its brigades and its vehicles and its soldiers to halt its advance … but quickly the failure of this plan was apparent. Soon the Jews and Crusaders will be forced to descend to earth, and to send its ground forces to its end and destruction, by God’s will…. And here is Obama, sending another 1,500 troops, claiming they are advisors, because the strikes of the Crusaders that continue night and day on the sites of the Islamic State have not halted its advance.” He predicted that his group would “reach Rome,” a jihadi symbol of Europe.

November 13—Syria—The Islamic State and the ­al-Qaeda affiliate Nusra Front agreed to fight foes together in Syria during a meeting at a farm house in Atareb, west of Aleppo in northern Syria on November 2, according to a senior Syrian oppositionist and a rebel commander. The 4-hour meeting began at midnight. The meeting also was attended by the Khorasan Group, Jund ­al-Aqsa, and Ahrar ­al-Sham.

November 13—Syria—CNN reported that the Islamic State planned to mint its own currency in gold, silver and copper to break from the “tyrant’s financial system.” They planned to issue 2 gold, 3 silver and 2 copper coins, removing Muslims from a “global economic system that is based on satanic usury.”

November 13—Nigeria—Members of Boko Haram arrived in pickup trucks and motorcycles and by 4 p.m. had taken control of Chibok. Thousands of residents fled. The Nigerian Army claimed on November 16 that it had reclaimed the town.

November 13—India—Central Reserve Police Force Inspector General Nalin Prabhat said that during an ­all-night clash between rebels and authorities in ­Indian-controlled Kashmir, 2 rebels and a civilian died.

November 13—Afghanistan—A suicide bomber hit a foreign convoy in the Behsood District of Jalalabad, killing an Afghan civilian and injuring another Afghan civilian. No foreign troops were harmed.

November 13—Turkey—On December 5, 2014, the Washington Post reported that Jordanian authorities detained suspected Libyan al-Qaeda member ­Abd-al-Baset Azzouz, whom the U.S. in September had designated as a global terrorist and who might have been involved in the September 11, 2012 attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi. The U.S. Department of State said that he had lived in the UK and Afghanistan. He left the UK, where he had been briefly detained, in 2009 for Pakistan and Afghanistan. AQ leader Ayman ­al-Zawahiri in 2011 sent him to mobilize 200 members in Libya. State added, “He is considered a key operative capable of training ­al-Qaeda recruits in a variety of skills, such as IED [improvised explosive device] construction.” Turkish news media said he was captured on November 13 in Yalova, Turkey, 100 miles south of Istanbul, and that he was later deported to Jordan. Turkey’s Daily Sabah newspaper credited the CIA for providing tipoff information.

November 14—Nigeria—A car bomb exploded at a gas station on a main road in Kano, killing 6 people, including 3 police officers.

November 14—Afghanistan—A NATO service member was shot to death by a gunman in northern Afghanistan. At least 61 coalition forces, 45 of them Americans, had been killed in the country during 2014.

November 14—Philippines—In a gun battle between Philippine troops and Abu Sayyaf in Talipao in Sulu Province, 5 soldiers and 9 terrorists died and 26 soldiers and 30 gunmen were wounded. Another soldier was missing. Troops were chasing 300 Abu Sayyaf members who broke into smaller groups and fled. The gunmen were believed to be led by Radulan Sahiron, a ­one-armed Abu Sayyaf commander in his 70s. Military officials said another Abu Sayyaf group was led by Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan, who was behind the kidnapping of 2 German tourists who were freed on October 17 after a ransom payment. A government report said Sawadjaan shared the ransom with other Abu Sayyaf commanders, including Puruji Indama, who planned to use the money and borrow some more from Sawadjaan to purchase a number of lightweight artillery ­anti-tank weapons.

November 14—Lebanon—A roadside bomb exploded near an army patrol in Arsal near the Syrian border, wounding 3 soldiers. A second patrol exchanged fire with gunmen, who later escaped into the mountains. The army found 2 other 15-kilogram bombs nearby. One was safely detonated and troops were trying to dismantle the other one.

November 14—Iraq—A nighttime car bombing in the busy Gorayaat market area in northern Baghdad killed 15 and injured 34.

Three other bombs went off in Baghdad, mostly in Shi’ite areas, killing another 19 and wounding 46.

November 15—Afghanistan—Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported that the Taliban attacked security checkpoints in the Dowkalan area of Nari district in Kunar Province at 5 a.m. Three border policemen and 10 gunmen were killed and 2 border police and 10 Taliban were wounded, according to Xinhua. Tasnim said foreigners were among the dead and injured in the 5-hour battle.

November 15—Morocco—The Interior Ministry announced the arrest of 5 suspected jihadis in Marrakech. Three had links to the Islamic State in Syria. The other 2 promoted “terrorist” ideas, such as conducting attacks in the country using suicide belts.

November 15—United Arab Emirates—The UAE Cabinet designated 83 groups as terrorist organizations, but excluded Lebanese Hizballah and Ha-mas. The definition of terrorism was broader than many, including the ­Washington-based Center for ­American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim American Society, Serbian ­non-profit group CANVAS and the Houthi movement in Yemen. The complete list included:

The UAE Muslim Brotherhood

Al-Islah (or Da’wat ­Al-Islah)

Fatah ­al-Islam (Lebanon)

Associazione Musulmani Italiani (Association of Italian Muslims)

Khalaya ­Al-Jihad ­Al-Emirati (Emirati Jihadist Cells)

Osbat ­al-Ansar (the League of the Followers) in Lebanon.

The Finnish Islamic Association (Suomen ­Islam-seurakunta)

Alkarama organization

Al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM or Tanzim ­al-Qa idah fi Bilad ­al-Maghrib ­al-Islami)

The Muslim Association of Sweden (Sveriges muslimska forbund, SMF)

Hizb ­al-Ummah (The Ommah Party or Nation’s Party) in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula

Ansar ­al-Sharia in Libya (ASL, Partisans of Islamic Law)

Det Islamske Forbundet i Norge (Islamic Association in Norway)

Al-Qaeda

Ansar ­al-Sharia in Tunisia (AST, Partisans of Sharia) in Tunisia

Islamic Relief UK

Dae’sh (the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State, ISIS, ISIL)

Harakat ­al-Shabaab ­al-Mujahideen (HSM) in Somalia (Mujahideen Youth Movement)

The Cordoba Foundation (TCF) in the UK

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

Boko Haram (Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’Awati ­Wal-Jihad) in Nigeria

Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) of the Global Muslim Brotherhood

Jama’at Ansar ­al-Shari’a (Partisans of Sharia) in Yemen

Al-Mourabitoun (The Sentinels) group in Mali

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (Taliban Movement of Pakistan)

The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) organization and groups

Ansar ­al-Dine (Defenders of the faith) movement in Mali

Abu Dhar ­al-Ghifari Battalion in Syria

Jama’a Islamia in Egypt (AKA ­al-Gama’at ­al-Islamiyya, The Islamic Group, IG)

The Haqqani Network in Pakistan

Al-Tawheed Brigade (Brigade of Unity, or Mono­theism) in Syria

Ansar Bait ­al-Maqdis (ABM, Supporters of the Holy House or Jerusalem) and now known as Wilayat Sinai (Province or state in the Sinai)

Lashkar-e-Taiba (Soldiers, or Army of the Pure, or of the Righteous)

Al-Tawhid ­wal-Eman Battalion (Battalion of Unity, or Monotheism, and Faith) in Syria

Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt) group

The East Turkistan Islamic Movement in Pakistan (ETIM), also known as the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), Turkistan Islamic Movement (TIM)

Katibat ­al-Khadra in Syria (The Green Battalion)

Majlis Shura ­al-Mujahideen Fi Aknaf Bayt ­al-Maqdis (the Mujahedeen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem, or MSC)

Jaish-e-Mohammed (The Army of Muhammad)

Abu Bakr ­Al-Siddiq Brigade in Syria

The Houthi Movement in Yemen

Jaish-e-Mohammed (The Army of Muhammad) in Pakistan and India

Talha Ibn ‘Ubaid-Allah Company in Syria

Hizballah ­al-Hijaz in Saudi Arabia

Al-Mujahideen Al-Honoud in Kashmor/India (The Indian Mujahideen, IM)

Al-Sarim Al-Battar Brigade in Syria

Hizballah in the Gulf Cooperation Council

Islamic Emirate of the Caucasus (Caucasus Emirate or Kavkaz and Chechen jidadists)

The Abdullah bin Mubarak Brigade in Syria

Al-Qaeda in Iran

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)

Qawafil ­al-Shuhada (Caravans of the Martyrs)

The Badr Organization in Iraq

Abu Sayyaf Organization in the Philippines

Abu Omar Brigade in Syria

Asa’ib Ahl ­al-Haq in Iraq (The Leagues of the Righteous)

Council on ­American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

Ahrar Shammar Brigade in Syria (Brigade of the Free Men of the Shammar Tribe)

Hizballah Brigades in Iraq

CANVAS Organization in Belgrade, Serbia

The Sarya ­al-Jabal Brigade in Syria

Liwa Abu ­al-Fadl ­al-Abbas in Syria

The Muslim American Society (MAS)

Al Shahba’ Brigade in Syria

Liwa ­al-Youm ­al-Maw’oud in Iraq (Brigade of Judgment Day).

International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS).

Al Ka’kaa’ Brigade in Syria

Liwa Ammar bin Yasser (Ammar bin Yasser Brigade)

Ansar ­al-Islam in Iraq

Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe

Sufyan Al Thawri Brigade

Ansar ­al-Islam Group in Iraq (Partisans of Islam)

Union of Islamic Organizations of France (L’Union des Organisations Islamiques de France, UOIF)

Ebad ­ar-Rahman Brigade (Brigade of Soldiers of Allah) in Syria

Jabhat ­al-Nusra (Al-Nusra Front) in Syria

Muslim Association of Britain (MAB)

Omar Ibn ­al-Khattab Battalion in Syria

Harakat Ahrar ­ash-Sham Al Islami (Islamic Movement of the Free Men of the Levant)

Islamic Society of Germany (Islamische Gemeinschaft Deutschland)

Al-Shayma’ Battalion in Syria

Jaysh ­al-Islam in Palestine (The Army of Islam in Palestine)

The Islamic Society in Denmark (Det Islamiske Trossamfund, DIT)

Katibat ­al-Haqq (Brigade of the Righteous)

The Abdullah Azzam Brigades

The League of Muslims in Belgium (La Ligue des Musulmans de Belgique, LMB)

November 16—Afghanistan—AP and Reuters reported that a car bomber attempted to crash into the car of prominent female parliamentarian Shukria Barakzai, 42, en route to work in Kabul, then set off his explosives, slightly wounding her and killing 3 people, including a young girl, and injuring a dozen others. Barakzai’s driver was also hospitalized. She had been a lawmaker for 10 years and focused on women’s rights and media freedom. She is a close ally of new President Ashraf Ghani.

November 16—Iraq—A bomb went off near a police patrol in Baghdad’s Radwaniya suburb, killing 2 police officers and wounding 5.

A roadside bomb went off on a commercial street in Baghdad’s Hay Jami’a neighborhood, killing 3 and wounding 9.

The Islamic State set off a car bomb at one of the first checkpoints at Baghdad International Airport, hitting a convoy of 3 UN vehicles passing by. No one in the convoy was wounded, but the blast injured 5 other people and caused extensive damage to cars in the parking lot. The group said the attacker was Abu Muawiya ­al-Falluji, who was targeting Americans leaving the airport.

November 16—Israel—A Palestinian was believed responsible for stabbing a Jewish man in his 30s in downtown Jerusalem. The man was stabbed in his upper body with a screwdriver. The assailant escaped.

November 16—Nigeria—A female suicide bomber hit a market in Azare, 125 miles south of Bauchi, killing 13 people and injuring 65.

November 16—Philippines—UPI reported that a bomb exploded at a pedestrian overpass near a school in Kabacan, a farming town in North Cotobato Province, killing one person and wounding at least 16 people, 4 critically. Soldiers defused 2 nearby bombs. Police suspected a splinter of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

November 16—Colombia—The government called off peace talks after the 34th front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia kidnapped Army General Ruben Dario Alzate, 55, and 2 civilians, including attorney Gloria Urrego, who were traveling by motor boat along a remote river in western Colombia to survey an energy project. A fourth soldier fled from the afternoon attack. Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon said that the government had contacted the International Red Cross to mediate. The ­American-educated Alzate commanded the 2,500-man Titan Task Force, which is comprised of army and marine personnel sent to combat the rebels and drug traffickers in the remote swamps surrounding Quibdo. On November 19, the president’s office said it would return to peace talks with FARC after FARC releases the general, 2 civilians, and 2 soldiers captured in a separate incident. Their release was announced in Havana by Rodolfo Benítez of host nation Cuba, and Rita Sandberg of Norway, the guarantors of the peace talks. UPI reported on November 25 that the FARC had released Colombian soldiers Cesar Rivera and Jonathan Diaz. The International Committee of the Red Cross said, “They were transported in a helicopter with the ICRC logo to Tame, Arauca, where they were handed over to representatives of the Army.” The general, attorney Gloria Urrego, and Army Corporal Jorge Rodriguez Contreras remained hostages. On November 30, FARC ruling secretariat member Pastor Alape released General Alzate, an Army corporal, and attorney Urrego to the International Committee of the Red Cross. On December 1, Alzate resigned, saying he did not follow mili­tary protocol when he went up the ­FARC-controlled river without a bodyguard and in civilian clothes.

November 16—Northern Ireland—Shortly before midnight, the IRA was suspected of firing a rocket at a police patrol on the edge of Ardoyne, Belfast. The projectile exploded against the side of an armored vehicle, causing no injuries.

In Londonderry IRA extremists revoked their threat to kill 11 community safety workers for trying to talk youths away from involvement in crime, because they cooperate with police as part of their jobs.

November 17—Iraq—A car bomb exploded on a commercial street in eastern Baghdad’s Meshtal neighborhood, killing 8 and wounding 15.

A car bomb exploded on a commercial street in Baghdad’s western Amiriya district, killing 6 people and wounding 16.

November 17—Kenya—Some 500 police raided 2 Mombasa mosques, arresting 251 people and confiscating 8 grenades and a pistol. Police killed one person who tried to throw at grenade at them at the Masjid Musa mosque. Some of the detainees were believed linked to ­al-Shabaab. The government indefinitely closed 4 mosques for suspected terror activities.

Joshua Muteti, a local church pastor, died of a machete blow to the back of his head as Muslim gangs seeking revenge beat and stabbed people, killing 3 others.

November 17—U.S.—CNN reported that jailed al-Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui hand wrote 2 notes while in the supermax federal prison in Florence, Colorado in which he claimed that Saudi Embassy officials were involved in a plot to shoot down Air Force One to assassinate Bill Clinton and/or Hillary Clinton during a trip to the United Kingdom. He also said that while he was taking flying lessons in Norman, Oklahoma, he met with a Saudi prince and princess and that she “gave me money,” and funded the 9/11 hijackers. He also said that he was attacked in prison on orders of fellow jailed terrorist Ramzi Yousef, who wanted to stop him from testifying against the Saudis. Moussaoui requested new lawyers and to be moved out of the ­H-unit within the prison, which he calls a “Saudi stronghold.” In 2006, prominent psychiatrist Michael First told jurors that Moussaoui also suffers from paranoid and grandiose delusions and disorganized thinking. Moussaoui’s 2 sisters were diagnosed with forms of schizophrenia and took drugs to control their symptoms. Moussaoui’s father had been hospitalized in France with bipolar disorder.

November 17—Ireland—Dublin police charged 2 men with IRA activities following weekend raids in which police confiscated handguns, a ­sawed-off shotgun, a Kalashnikov assault rifle and ­bomb-making equipment.

November 17—U.S.—The Washington Post reported that federal authorities arrested and charged Heather Elizabeth Coffman, 29, of Henrico County, Virginia for making a false statement regarding an offense involving international or domestic terrorism. Authorities said she posted on Facebook statements supportive of the Islamic State and offered to help an undercover FBI agent connect someone with the terrorist group in Syria. She was represented by attorney Mark Henry Schmidt, who said she was born and raised in the United States, lived with her parents and cared for her 7-year-old child. The FBI affidavit said she told the undercover agent that she had earlier arranged for her “husband” to travel to Turkey so he could meet with IS facilitators and go to Syria, but the man backed out. The FBI began investigating her in April 2014. On June 23, she posted 2 images with the text: “We are all ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq & Sham,” according to the affidavit. On June 28, she posted, “I love ISIS!” according to the affidavit, which also noted her telling her sister, “My dad is a little angry because I got her into all this jihad stuff.” An FBI undercover agent contacted her in July, later telling her of an individual who wanted to join the jihad in Syria. Coffman offered to broker a meet-ing with an IS facilitator. Two Bureau agents interviewed her on November 13 at her workplace in Glen Allen, Virginia, where she denied that the undercover agent had expressed support for the IS or other terrorist organizations, according to the affidavit. She appeared in a Richmond federal court on November 17 and was ordered held until a November 19 hearing.

November 17—Pakistan—Reuters reported that Fahad Marwat, spokesman for Pakistani Taliban splinter group Jundallah (variant Jundullah), announced that the group had pledged support for the Islamic State after meeting a 3-man IS delegation led by al-Zubair ­al-Kuwaiti. Marwat said, “They (Islamic State) are our brothers, whatever plan they have we will support them.”

November 18—Yemen—Local Islamist Islah Party senior leader Mansour ­al-Haidary was killed when a bomb attached to his car door went off in Taiz. Several suspects were arrested. His party was battling Houthi rebels.

November 18—Saudi Arabia—The Saudi Arab News website reported that a Saudi court convicted 8 men for several lethal attacks against foreigners in 2003 in Riyadh and in Eastern Province in 2004 that killed nearly 40 people, including a June 2004 assault near Riyadh that killed 36 ­year-old BBC cameraman Simon Cumbers and paralyzed BBC correspondent Frank Gardner. The group also murdered an Italian hostage. Three terrorists were sentenced to death; 5 to 25–30 years. They were part of an 86-member cell that recruited for al-Qaeda.

November 18—Afghanistan—In a morning attack, a Taliban suicide truck bomber crashed into the front gate of a Kabul compound housing foreigners, killing 4, including 2 security guards, and wounding 3 civilians. Two gunmen attempted to break into the compound, which is administered by the Hart secur-ity services company. No NATO personnel were harmed. 14111801

A roadside bomb hit a van in Khost Province, killing the female driver and wounding 13 people, including children.

November 18—Israel—In the morning, 2 Palestinian men wielding knives and axes attacked a synagogue in the ­ultra-Orthodox Har Nof area of West Jerusalem and killed 4 immigrants to Israel: Rabbi Aryeh Kopinsky, 43; Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, 58; Rabbi Kalman Ze’ev Levine; and Rabbi Moshe Twersky, 59; and wounded 8 other people, including 2 police officers, one of whom later died of his wounds. Three of the men killed in the attack were dual ­Israeli-American citizens, and the fourth was Rabbi Goldberg, a dual ­British-Israeli citizen. Police shot and killed the terrorists, one of whom had a handgun. The terrorists were cousins from East Jerusalem. In the evening, authorities raided the terrorists’ Jabal Mukaber neighborhood and arrested 9 people. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri posted, “The operation in Jerusalem is a response to the killing of [bus driver] Yousuf ­al-Ramouni and the other ongoing crimes by occupiers in Jerusalem.”

Terrorist cousins Udai Abu Jamal, 21, and Ghassan Abu Jamal, 27, were believed to be linked to the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the ­Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), whose terrorist exploits span decades. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorized demolition of their homes. Ghassan worked at a clothing shop in a Jewish area of Jerusalem. He was married and the father of 2. He had never been arrested. Udai was an unmarried interior decorator with no police record.

Rabbi Twersky grew up in Boston and was the son of Rabbi Isadore Twersky, who founded Harvard University’s Center for Jewish Studies, and the grandson of Joseph B. Soloveitchik, one of the most influential Jewish theologians of his generation. After he moved to Israel in 1990, he led the Torat Moshe Yeshiva, which teaches ­post-high school students from ­English-speaking countries. He was survived by his wife, Miriam, 5 children and 10 grandchildren.

Rabbi Levine was born Cary William Levine in Kansas City, Missouri. He studied the Torah and Talmud at the University of Southern California. He came to Israel in his 20s and taught at a Jerusalem sem­inary. He was survived by his wife, 9 children and 5 grandchildren.

Rabbi Kupinsky studied at a suburban Detroit yeshiva before coming to Israel. He was survived by his wife and 5 children.

Rabbi Goldberg came to Israel in 1993 from Liverpool, UK. He left behind his wife, 6 children and grandchildren. 14111802

November 18—Czech Republic—An envelope mailed from Slovenia to Interior Minister Milan Chovanec was found by the National Institute for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Protection to contain “a ­cyanide-like material in a ­life-threatening amount.” The envelope, which was intercepted before anyone was exposed, did not contain a message. In September, the foreign ministry and the presidential office received suspicious letters but with no poison. AP reported on December 15, 2015, that a court in Koper, Slovenia acquitted Italian citizen Ivan Cernic, 25, of terrorism charges for sending the envelope to the Czech finance minister, but convicted him of drug trafficking and counterfeiting and sentenced him to 15 months in prison. The prosecution announced it would appeal. Cernic had been arrested in Slovenia. 14111803

November 18—Egypt—A mortar round killed 7 members of a prominent Bedouin family in the village of Negah Shabana south of Rafah in North Sinai. The Army then killed 3 jihadis. A 65-year-old woman was hospitalized with shrapnel injuries.

November 19—Iraq—At noon, a suicide car bomber set off explosives in front of the main entrance of the Irbil governorate building in downtown Irbil, killing 5 people, including 4 police officers, and injuring 29. The bomber failed to enter the historic citadel grounds. UPI reported that investigators later suggested that the bomber was a woman. One victim told Kurdish news site Rudaw that, “I saw a woman in black headscarf who had parked her Honda car on the wrong lane of the street, she moved a little forward and the explosion happened.” Irbil Governor Nawzad Hadi blamed the Islamic State.

November 19—Somalia—Al-Shabaab gunmen shot to death ­Somali-American engineer Abdullahi Ali Anshur, 60, who was helping the Mogadishu government with urban planning and drainage systems. He had come to Somalia from Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2013. The gunmen stopped his vehicle, then fired into it. Anshur had graduated from California State University and UCLA. 14111901

November 19—Afghanistan—In the second attack on a foreign compound in Kabul in a week, 4 Taliban terrorists were killed in a 9 p.m. attack on the Green Village compound. A suicide car bomber set off his explosives at the gate. Police killed the other 3 terrorists in a gun battle. 14111902

November 19—U.S.—CNN, St. Louis NewsChannel 5, the St. Louis ­Post-Dispatch, and the New York Post reported that New Black Panther members Brandon Orlando Baldwin, alias Brandon Muhammad, and Olajuwon Davis, alias Olajuwan Ali, 22, were indicted on November 19 and arrested on November 20 on charges that they had planned to place a bomb in the observation deck of the St. Louis Gateway Arch and kill St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch, who handled the Michael Brown case, and Ferguson, Missouri Police Chief Tom Jackson. They were accused of lying to clerks at Cabela’s ­outdoor-gear store in Hazelwood to buy 2 .45 caliber pistols between November 1 and 13, 2014. The duo pleaded not guilty to federal charges of aiding and abetting the making of a false written statement made in connection with a firearms purchase. Police said they were surveilling the duo for 2 months. A hearing was scheduled for December 17. Olajuwon was represented by John Lynch. Baldwin was assigned a federal public defender.

November 20—Czech Republic—Tests of a suspicious envelope mailed to Finance Minister Andrej Babis determined that it contained poison. The tests were performed by the National Institute for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Protection. The envelope was intercepted before anyone was exposed.

November 20—Nigeria—Muhammed Gava of the Nigeria Vigilante Group said Boko Haram killed 45 villagers in an attack in Azaya Kura in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno State. The terrorists arrived in several trucks, then destroyed homes and stole food and livestock.

In a separate attack, Abubakar Gamandi, head of the fish traders association, told AFP that “Scores of Boko Haram fighters blocked a route linking Nigeria with Chad near the fishing village of Doron Baga on the shores of Lake Chad on Thursday and killed a group of 48 fish traders on their way to Chad to buy fish.” Al-Jazeera said the terrorists arrived on motorbikes, shooting people and slitting throats of others.

November 20—Syria—UPI reported that the Islamic State has released a video encouraging Muslims in France to join the group. Four purportedly French men urge those in France to travel to Iraq and Syria or encourage jihadis to “operate within France…. Terrorize them and do not allow them to sleep due to fear and horror…. Do whatever you can to humiliate them,” IS member Abu Salman ­al-Faranci says. A masked man added, “We disbelieve in you and your passports … and if you come here we will fight you.” Some men burned French passports.

November 20—Pakistan—The separatist United Baluch Liberation Army set off a bomb that derailed several cars of a train near Dasht in southwest Pakistan, wounded at least 8 people and heavily damaged the train tracks, according to railway official Suhail Ahmed. The train was going from Rawalpindi to Quetta. UBLA said it was retaliating for the recent abduction of their activists by government security forces.

November 20—Iraq—Reuters reported that Radwan Taleb ­al-Hamdouni, the Islamic State’s leader in Mosul, and his driver were killed in an afternoon air strike.

A suicide bomber hit a truck on a bridge near Ramadi, killing 3 policemen and 2 civilians and destroying the ­al-Faraj bridge.

November 20—Pakistan—Reuters reported that a nighttime drone strike killed 6 suspected foreign and local jihadis and wounded 3 in Mada Khel village of the North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border.

Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) spokesman Usama Mahmoud said 2 of its members had been killed in a strike (it was not clear whether it was the same strike). He identified them on Twitter as Pakistani nationals Dr. Sarbaland, alias Abu Khalid, and Major Sheikh Adil Abdul Qadus, a former Pakistani army major who owned the home where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was arrested. Sarbaland’s 2 young sons were also killed.

November 20—U.S.—Authorities at Guantanamo Bay announced that 5 detainees were transferred to Slovakia and Georgia. Salah Mohammed Salih ­al-Dhabi; Abdel Ghaib Ahmad Hakim, alias ­Abd-al-Hakim Ghalib Ahmad ­al-Hag; and Abdul Khaled ­al-Baydani were sent to Georgia. Hashim Bin Ali Bin Amor Sliti and Husayn Salim Muhammad ­al-Mutari Yafai went to Slovakia. Hakim was represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights. Yemeni citizen Hakim had been detained for more than 10 years.

November 20—Northern Ireland—Police found a loaded assault rifle in a car they stopped. They arrested the 29-year-old driver and detained 3 other men aged 27, 29, and 46 in homes during the night. The 4 were questioned at the police interrogation center west of Belfast about membership in an Irish Republican Army faction.

November 20—Congo—North Kivu Governor Julien Paluku said that 9 bodies were recovered from an attack committed near Beni in which 50–80 people were killed.

November 20—Israel—Reuters reported that Shin Bet arrested 4 Palestinian members of Hamas suspected of planning to assassinate Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman with an ­anti-tank rocket while he drove to his Jewish settlement in Nokdim in the occupied West Bank. The plot began during the ­July-August war in Gaza. During Shin Bet interrogation, 3 Hamas members said they hoped to “relay a message to the State of Israel that would bring about an end to the Gaza war.” The suspects did not enter a plea when indicted by an Israeli military court.

November 21—Pakistan—A ­Tehrik-e-Taliban bomb attached to a motorcycle hit an army vehicle outside Peshawar, killing 2 soldiers and injuring 2 soldiers and 2 police officers.

November 21—Yemen—Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) denounced the Islamic State for declaring a caliphate in Syria and Iraq and its plans to further expand its area of control. AQAP spiritual guide Sheikh Harith ­al-Nadhari, said IS is “driving a wedge” among jihadi groups and should have sought “consultation” with other jihadis groups. His message was posted on one of its official Twitter pages.

November 21—Netherlands—UPI reported that Dutch officials extended the detention of “Aicha,” a Dutch teen Muslim convert who went to Syria in February to marry ­Dutch-Turkish jihadi Omar Yilmas, who once served in the Dutch army. She was charged with joining a terrorist organization and faced 30 years in prison.

November 21—U.S.—The Miami Herald reported that Guantanamo Bay officials transferred to the Saudis detainee Muhammed Zahrani, 45, who had been held there for 12 years without charge. He arrived at Gitmo on August 5, 2002, and had been held as an indefinite detainee. In 2010, a federal task force declared him too dangerous to leave the prison because he was a follower of Osama bin Laden and devoted to ­al-Qaeda. On October 3, 2014, a national security parole board downgraded the level of threat he posed and endorsed his repatriation, citing his “candor with the board about his presence on the battlefield, expressions of regret and desires for a peaceful life after Guantanamo.”

November 22—Kenya—At dawn, 20 ­al-Shabaab gunmen hijacked a bus 31 miles from Mandera en route to Nairobi, singled out 28 non–Muslims—including 19 men and 9 women—from the 60 passengers, and killed them in retaliation for raids by Ken­yan security forces carried out earlier in the week on 4 mosques in Mombasa. The terrorists demanded that people recite verses from the Koran, and shot those who could not recall the Muslim declaration of faith. The driver initially did not stop at the checkpoint, so the terrorists fired guns and a ­rocket-propelled grenade into it. Some of the dead were civilian servants heading to Nairobi for Christmas. Kenyan authorities gave chase into Somalia, and reported the next day that they had killed 115 ­al-Shabaab members. 14122201

November 22—Egypt—UPI cited the Egyptian government as indicating that a man killed himself accidentally during the night while laying explosives near a train station in Wasta on the ­Fayoum-Beni Suef railway line in southern Egypt. Bomb techs defused 3 more bombs found along the ­Aswan-Cairo line.

November 22—Yemen—PRI reported Gregory Johnsen, a BuzzFeed journalist and scholar focused on Yemen, earlier in the year avoided being kidnapped by escaping out of a taxi he had been forced to enter by 2 gunmen. 14999901

November 22—UK—The International Business Times reported that 2 London jihadists, Abu Abdullah ­al-Habashi, 21, and Abu Dharda, 20, were believed to have died fighting for the Islamic State in Kobani, Syria. ­Al-Habashi had appeared in at least 2 IS propaganda videos. The BBC said he grew up in north London in a ­UK-Eritrean family, and converted to Islam at age 16. Dharda grew up in west London of ­British-Somali parents. He traveled to Syria via Turkey in December 2013.

November 22—Saudi Arabia—The official Saudi Press Agency reported that a gunman wounded a Dane in Riyadh during the afternoon. On Decem-ber 2, the ­al-Battar Media Foundation, an Islamic State supporter, released a video showing the shooting of Thomas Hoepner. A gunman fired 5 times into Hoepner’s vehicle as he drove home from work at the ­Denmark-based dairy cooperative Arla Foods, wounding him in the shoulder. On December 11, 2014, Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour ­al-Turki said police had arrested 3 Saudis suspected of wounding the Danish citizen. He said the “perpetrators of the vicious attack” had ties to the Islamic State and had trained for 2 weeks. ­Al-Turki said police have arrested the driver, the shooter and the man who filmed the attack. 14122202

November 22—Afghanistan—Gunmen attacked an army base in Nuristan Province on the Pakistani border. During the 3-hour gun battle, a soldier and 8 terrorists died.

A car bomb exploded in Jalalabad in Nangarhar Province, killing a civilian and wounding 2 others.

November 22—Lebanon—On December 2, 2014, the Lebanese daily As-Safir reported that about 10 days earlier, authorities had detained the wife and suspected son of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi, and 2 other children and a Chechen woman, at the Madfoun checkpoint near a border crossing with Syria. The duo were carrying fake identification cards. A Lebanese military official said she is a Syrian citizen. AP reported that ­al-Baghdadi’s first wife was believed to be Iraqi citizen Saja ­al-Dulaimi, who was reportedly held by Syrian authorities and freed in a prisoner exchange with the Nusra Front earlier in 2014. On December 3, Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan denied that the detainee was a wife of Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi, adding that she is the sister of Omar Abdul Hamid ­al-Dulaimi, a terror suspect being held in Iraq. A senior Lebanese military official countered with a claim that she said she was ­al-Baghdadi’s wife during her interrogation. He also said authorities have also detained, separately, Alaa, the Syrian wife of senior Nusra Front leader Anas Sharkas, who is also known as Abu Ali ­al-Shishani. On December 4, Lebanese Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk said DNA tests confirmed that the detained child was al-Baghdadi’s 9-year-old daughter and her detained mother was married to ­al-Baghdadi 6 years ago for 3 months and is no longer married. The Minister cleared up the confusion, saying the Chechen woman was Sharkas’s wife. Leba­nese police formally arrested Saja ­al-Dulaimi on December 9, 2014.

November 23—Philippines—Marine Captain Maria Rowena Muyuela said that Army troops and marines killed at least 5 Abu Sayyaf gunmen and seized their camp in a village near Sumisip town in Basilan Province. No military casualties were reported. Soldiers found a shotgun, ammunition and rebel documents.

November 23—Iraq—A morning car bomb attack at an outdoor market in Youssifiyah killed 7 and wounded 16.

November 23—Germany—Hans-Georg Maassen, head of the domestic intelligence agency, told Welt am Sonntag newspaper that authorities know of 550 people from the country who have traveled to Syria and Iraq to join jihadis, and “about 60 of these people coming from Germany so far have been killed or killed themselves—at least 9 of them in suicide attacks.” Maassen says authorities believe about 180 radicals have returned to Germany.

November 23—UK—Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard ­Hogan-Howe told the BBC that 5 terror plots were foiled in 2014.

November 23—Afghanistan—A suicide bomber walked into a crowd of fans and set off his explosive vest at an afternoon ­inter-district volleyball tournament in Paktika Province’s Yahyakhail District, kill­ing 50 people, including 10 members of the local police force, among them a police commander, and wounding 63, among them 17 children aged between 8 and 14 years old. The bomber approached the police commander, shook his hand, then shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) and set off his explosives.

November 24—Afghanistan—Reuters reported that at 9 a.m., a magnetic bomb attached to a bicycle exploded near a NATO convoy in eastern Kabul, killing 2 U.S. soldiers and 3 civilians and injuring an Afghan civilian.

A bomb attached to a motorcycle went off in a market in Kunduz Province, killing 6 and wounding 5. 14112301

November 24—Yemen—The Interior Ministry warned that several members of ­al-Shabaab had entered the country with plans to attack government and foreign institutions.

November 24—UK—Home Secretary Theresa May said Britain faces its ­greatest-ever threat from terrorism and that a new Counterterrorism and Security Bill offered measures to control suspects, strengthen online scrutiny and prevent insurance companies from paying terrorist ransoms. She said authorities had stopped 40 terrorist plots since the July 2005 London transit bombings.

November 24—Israel—In a nighttime attack, an Arab stabbed a Jewish man outside the old city of Jerusalem. The victim was hospitalized in moderate to serious condition. One suspect was arrested. The government deemed the incident a terrorist attack.

November 24—Northern Ireland—Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said a party had delivered a list of suspected IRA rapists and child abusers to police. The list included men who fled from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland after being accused of sexual crimes. He told Ireland’s RTE that the list “came to me anonymously. It was left in my letterbox at home in Belfast.”

November 24—United Nations—UN sanctions expert Yotsna Lalji told a meeting of the UN Security Council’s ­Counter-Terrorism Committee that $120 million in ransom was paid to terrorist groups between 2004 and 2012, and that the Islamic State received between $35 million and $45 million in ransom payments in 2014. ­Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula received $20 million in ransom between 2011 and 2013. ­Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb received $75 million over the past 4 years. Boko Haram in Nigeria and ­al-Shabaab “have collected millions of dollars over the past years.” Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines has received $1.5 million in ransom.

November 24—Nigeria—Boko Haram was suspected when gunmen killed 20 people in evening attacks on Kamtahi and Galtimari villages near Chibok.

November 24—Syria—The Islamic State was suspected when malicious software was sent to a Syrian dissident activist group in Raqqa. The recipient, suspecting a ­booby-trap, forwarded the message to Bahaa Nasr of Cyber Arabs, which provides online security training. In turn, the ­e-mail was sent to Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, where researchers said it could ferret out a victim’s Internet Protocol address.

November 25—Afghanistan—Reuters reported that early in the morning, the Taliban set off a remotely-detonated roadside bomb under an Afghan National Army minibus in Kabul’s suburbs, injuring 7 Afghan army soldiers.

An individual threw a hand grenade in the Wazir Akbar Khan diplomatic quarter in the center of Kabul a few hours later, causing no casualties. Police arrested a suspect. 14112501

November 25—Mali—A roadside bomb exploded under an armored car from a military detachment escorting the convoy of Minister of Rural Development Bokary Treta to Bourem, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 4 others. Treta was unharmed. The convoy returned to Gao.

November 25—Yemen—The army freed 8 hos­tages, including 7 Yemeni soldiers and a Saudi, in a raid on an AQAP hideout near the ­al-Annad military air base in the south. The U.S. provided logistical support. The army killed 7 AQAP terrorists. One soldier was slightly wounded. It was unclear when the hostages were taken. A senior U.S. defense official later said that the rescue team was looking for an American military instructor and a Briton held in a cave, but they were moved elsewhere before the commando raid. 14112502

November 25—Lebanon—Hizballah announced the exchange of 2 unnamed members of the Nusra Front for Hizballah member Imad Ayad, who was recently captured in Syria.

November 25—Nigeria—Boko Haram was suspected when 2 teenaged female suicide bombers wearing full hijabs set off their explosives in a crowded market in Maiduguri, killing at least 70, according to AFP. The first bomber killed 3 women. The second screamed when first responders arrived and killed the rest.

November 25—U.S.—CNN reported that federal prosecutors in Minneapolis charged Abdi Nur, 20, and Abdullah Yusuf, variant Abdullahi Yusuf, 18, with conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the Islamic State. Yusuf was arrested by the FBI 6 months after he was stopped while attempting to leave for Turkey and was scheduled to appear in court. Nur was at large. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin said, “As charged, these 2 young men conspired to join ISIL and travel from Minnesota to the Middle East to engage in a campaign of terror.” The FBI was tipped off by a Minneapolis passport office worker who became suspicious during an April interview about Yusuf’s application for an expedited passport for travel to Turkey. Yusuf had no firm travel plans, a vague explanation of where he got the $1,500 application fee, and displayed suspicious behaviors. In looking into Nur’s request for an expedited passport, the FBI found references on his social media about jihad, and of seeing one of his contacts “in the afterlife.”

In December 2014, U.S. District Judge Michael Davis said he would consider releasing Yusuf if there was a plan for Somali elders and community leaders to help monitor his actions. On January 15, 2015, AP reported that Yusuf’s attorneys proposed that he be freed pending trial if he promised to participate in courses by the nonprofit group Heartland Democracy that are part of its program that promotes civic involvement. A hearing was scheduled for January 16, 2015. The defense proposal requires that Yusuf participate in actions aimed at helping disaffected young people connect with their communities. Yusuf lived in Inver Grove Heights. He faced a 15-year sentence. He was represented by attorney Jean Brandl.

November 26—Moldova—Prosecutors questioned 5 people believed to be violent protestors after the upcoming weekend’s parliamentary elections after authorities found pistols, grenade launchers, military uniforms, plans to attack unnamed institutes and large sums of money during house searches. Authorities identified 15 Moldovan and Russian members of an outlawed ­Russian-backed organization that is plan­ning unrest after the elections if pro–European parties win. A university professor suspected of recruiting students and an officer with access to classified information and weapons were among the suspects.

November 26—Yemen—At dawn, Shi’ite Houthis attacked and occupied the palace of the ­al-Ahmar tribe in the northern Sana’a district of Hassaba, sparking a clash that killed 6 guards and one attacker and injuring 4 ­al-Ahmar fighters and 4 Houthis.

November 26—Pakistan—Two gunmen killed 4 health workers, including 3 women, in an attack on a polio vaccination team in Quetta. The 4 were waiting for a police escort.

November 26—Iraq—A car bomb went off during the night in a commercial street in Baghdad’s Sadr City, killing 7 and wounding 15.

A bomb went off near a southern Baghdad outdoor market, killing 3 and wounding 7.

November 26—Bulgaria—Deputy Prosecutor General Borislav Sarafov charged Muslim imam Ahmed Mussa, 5 other men and one woman with spreading Islamic State war propaganda. Police in several cities found many shirts and banners with the Islamic State logo, along with evidence that the detainees helped west­ern Europeans on their way to join the Islamic State.

November 26—Colombia—The government unearthed the remains of former M-19 leader Carlos Pizarro who was assassinated when an assailant opened fire with a machine gun inside an airliner in midflight 25 years earlier while Pizarro was running for president. The government also dug up the remains of the gunman in Bogota’s Central Cemetery to determine whether bodyguards assigned by the state to protect Pizarro were involved in the murder.

November 27—India—AFP reported that heavily armed gunmen attacked an army patrol near a base in Arnia in Indian Kashmir, 4 kilometers from the border with Pakistan, killing one soldier and 3 civilians and injuring 2 soldiers during a 6-hour gun battle. Authorities killed 3 terrorists who entered an “abandoned bunker” which Indian forces then surrounded. An Indian Army officer said the attackers crossed over from Pakistani territory.

November 27—West Bank—Shin Bet uncovered a Hamas network in the West Bank and arrested 30 Hamas members planning car bombings, kidnapping of Israelis and attacking Jerusalem’s light rail station and its largest Teddy soccer stadium, among other targets. The men were trained and recruited in Jordan and Turkey. Authorities seized rifles, ammunition, and explosives. In Qatar, Hamas spokesman Husam Bardan said, “We are proud of our resistance enterprise and we are proud of every single fighter in our movement.” Shin Bet said the arrests were made in September after explosive devices were detonated on August 31 in the West Bank, sparking the full investigation.

November 27—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide car bomber crashed his Toyota Corolla into a British Em­bassy armored jeep as it passed by the 9th District police zone between eastern Kabul and Jalalabad city, killing 6 people, including the Afghan driver, 3 other Afghans, and a British diplomat and wound-ing 33 civilians, including a second British security guard and 5 children. Twelve vehicles were damaged. 14112701

The Taliban conducted a 45-minute attack on Kabul’s upscale Wazir Akbar Khan district, which contains numerous foreign embassies and compounds housing international agencies and companies—as well as the homes of some senior Afghan government officials. Witnesses heard 3 explosions and gunfire near the compound of the development agency International Relief and Development. The Taliban said it was aiming at a guesthouse occupied by foreigners. Deputy Interior Minister Mohammad Ayoub Salangi said a Nepalese guard was wounded and 3 terrorists were killed, 2 by Nepalese guards; the third was a suicide bomber. 14112702

November 27—Northern Ireland—Police arrested and interrogated Bobby Storey, 58, Northern Ireland chairman of the Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party and a prominent Irish Republican Army veteran about the IRA’s 1972 abduction, killing and secret burial of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of 10 whose remains were found near an Irish beach in 2003. He was freed without charge. Storey was jailed for 20 years on numerous charges and convictions and was believed to have become the IRA’s intelligence chief.

November 27—Nigeria—A roadside bomb exploded in a village outside Mubi in Adamawa State, killing 5 Nigerian troops and injuring 7 who were on a routine patrol. Boko Haram was suspected.

November 28—Afghanistan—A 14-hour Taliban assault at the former British Camp Bastion in southern Helmand Province killed 6 soldiers and wounded 7. More than 20 Taliban, including 7 suicide bomb­ers, died.

A suicide car bomber killed 2 police officers and wounded 2 in an attack on their vehicle in Helmand Province’s Nawzad district.

A bomb went off during Friday prayers at a mosque in Nangahar Province, injuring 31 people.

November 28—Saudi Arabia—The Arab News reported that Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour ­al-Turki told reporters that 12 percent of people who had been involved in the Mohammed Bin Naif Counseling and Care Center terrorist rehabilitation programs had relapsed and returned to activities related to terrorism.

November 28—U.S.—At 2:25 a.m., Larry McQuilliams, 49, fired 100 bullets at the Austin, Texas, Police Department headquarters, the Mexican Consulate and a federal courthouse before an officer fatally shot a suspect, and then noticed he was near a possible explosive device inside a suspicious vehicle and wearing a suspicious vest. No police officers were injured. Authorities later said McQuilliams might have died from a ­self-inflicted gunshot wound. His motives were unclear. Police said McQuilliams also tried to set the consulate on fire using small cylinders of fuel used by campers. McQuilliams had a criminal record. 14112801

November 28—Nigeria—Boko Haram was suspected when 3 bombs went off in Kano’s Central Mosque during a sermon by the city’s chief imam, killing 120 and injuring 150. Three men, wearing explosives and armed with AK-47s, arrived in a Toyota Sienna van and fired on people fleeing the mosque. A mob apprehended and killed the men at the scene of the attack.

November 28—UK—A court sentenced British soldier Ryan McGee, 20, to 2 years for making a nail bomb with 181 metal screws and bits of glass in his home in the greater Manchester area of northwest England. Police found the bomb during a search in November 2013. He was preparing for deployment in Germany when he was arrested. McGee had an interest in the ­far-right English Defense League and had watched videos of executions conducted under a swastika flag.

November 28—Iraq—In the morning, a bomb exploded near a market in the Husseiniyah section of Baghdad, killing 4 and wounding 9.

A bomb hit an outdoor market in the Sabaa ­al-Bour area, killing 3 and wounding 12.

Drive-by gunmen fired from a car at army checkpoint in Tarmiyah, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 2 others.

November 28—China—Xinhua reported that an attack at a “food street” in Shache County in Xinjiang region killed 15, including 11 assailants, and injured 14. The Tianshan news portal said the assailants used explosives, knives and at least one vehicle.

November 28—Austria—Some 500 police officers arrested 13 people in homes and mosques in Vienna, Graz, and Upper Austria Province following a 2-year investigation. The detainees were suspected of recruiting fighters for radical Islamic groups in the Middle East. Police found “terroristic propaganda material,” an unspecified amount of cash and stored computer data.

November 28—India—AFP and The Press Trust of India reported that Indian engineering student Areeb Majeed, 23, who left with 3 friends (including Fahad Sheikh, who jumped from a job in Kuwait to join IS) in late May to join the Islamic State in Iraq, had returned after the IS relegated him to cleaning toilets, fetching water, and doing other menial jobs. He told his parents he wanted to come home after sustaining a bullet wound that received minimal medical attention. Upon returning to India via Mumbai airport, he was arrested by India’s National Investigation Agency and charged with terrorist offenses.

November 28—Egypt—Gunmen in 2 separate incidents killed 2 senior Egyptian Army officers and wounded 2 Army conscripts.

Authorities dismantled 7 bombs around the country.

November 29—Israel—Jewish extremists were suspected of jumping a fence, breaking into the Max Rayne Hand in Hand School for Bilingual Education in West Jerusalem during the night, setting fire to a ­first-grade classroom, and writing racist graffiti such as “Death to Arabs” and “There is no coexistence with cancer.” on the walls of one of the few ­Arabic-Hebrew bilingual schools in Israel. They set alight story books, toys and crayon drawings, then failed to light a second classroom on fire. On December 15, Israeli police arrested a member of the Jewish extremist ­right-wing Lehava group in connection with the attack.

November 29—Saudi Arabia—The official Saudi Press Agency reported that a Saudi man stabbed a Canadian citizen who was shopping in a mall with his family in Eastern Province. The attacker was arrested. Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State were suspected. 14112901

November 29—Afghanistan—The Taliban attacked the Kabul offices of the Redlands, ­California-based Partnership in Academics and Development foreign aid group, killing Werner Groenwald, 46, its South African leader; his son ­Jean-Pierre, 17; and daughter Rode, 15; and an Afghan worker. One terrorist set off his explosive vest; 2 others were killed in a po-lice ­shoot-out. One attacker wore a police uni-form. The Los Angeles Times said the Taliban claimed the office was a center for Christian conversion. 14112902

November 29—India—Home Minister Rajnath Singh said to the heads of Indian police, paramilitary and intelligence agencies at a meeting in Guwahati, “Pakistan is continuously engaged in destabilizing India, but says ­non-state actors are behind the acts of terror. I want to ask Pakistan if its ­Inter-Services Intelligence is also a ­non-state actor.”

November 29—Afghanistan—The Taliban attacked the former British Camp Bastion in southern Helmand Province. The ensuing gun battle killed at least 6 Afghan soldiers and 20 Taliban and wounded 10 Afghan soldiers.

A suicide bomber hit a military base in Helmand Province’s Sangin district, killing 5 soldiers and wounding 8.

November 29—Iran—During the night, 2 terrorists on a motorbike threw acid in the face of Dr. Siamand Anvari, head of Tehran’s Ziaian hospital, as he was on his way home. At least 4 women were attacked with acid in Isfahan in October. Police arrested 4 suspects in those cases.

November 30—Tunisia—During the night, jihadis kidnapped a National Guard member who was driving with his brother in the northwest near the Algerian border. His brother was released. The next day, authorities found the hostage’s beheaded body in northwest el-Kef Province.

November 30—Syria—Reuters and Haaretz reported that an Islamic State website claimed that it had kidnapped Gil Rosenberg, 31, a ­Canadian-Israeli woman. The Kurdish YPG, which battles the Islamic State in Syria, said earlier in November that she was YPG’s first female foreign recruit and was fighting against IS. Other sources later claimed that if IS had a female hostage, it was not Rosenberg. UPI said that she immigrated to Israel from Canada, where she had been a civilian pilot, and entered Israel in 2006. She served for 2 years with the Israeli Defense Forces. UPI also said she served 3 years in prison in the U.S. for an international lottery scam. 14113001

November 30—Spain—A bomb threat was made against American Airlines flight 67 carrying 200 people from Barcelona. The plane landed safely at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. No bomb was found. 14113002

November 30—Iraq—A bomb exploded near a small restaurant in northwestern Baghdad, killing 4 and wounding 9.

A bomb exploded at a wholesale fruit and grocery market in a southern Baghdad suburb, killing 3 and wounding 12.

November 30—Egypt—An Egyptian court designated the Islamic State group a terrorist organization and its affiliates, including Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis (Champions of Jerusalem), and banned it in the country.

Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis claimed it conducted more than 10 attacks in the previous 4 weeks, including bombing 6 army and police armored vehicles, killing 7 police officers and conscripts, and destroying the home of a man accused of being an army spy.

Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis, alias The Sinai Province, also claimed it had killed U.S. oil worker William Henderson, 58, who worked for the ­Texas-based energy company Apache Corporation and Qarun Petroleum Company, a joint venture with Egypt. It posted photos of his passport and 2 ID cards on its Twitter account. The Enid News & Eagle in northwestern Oklahoma published an obituary for a Wil­liam Henderson in August. 14113003

November 30—U.S.—UPI reported that the FBI and Army issued warnings to U.S. military personnel around the world that the Islamic State had encouraged supporters to find U.S. soldiers and “shoot up [at their homes] and slaughter them.” The federal bulletin added, “We also request members of the military review their online social media presence for any information that might attract the attention of violent extremists. Use caution and practice operational security when posting.”

December—Nigeria—AFP reported on Febru-ary 20, 2015, that a group of 158 women and children abducted by Boko Haram in Katarko village in Yobe State in December 2014 were reunited with their families. The group included 62 married women; the rest were children. Husbands of 16 of the women were killed by Boko Haram during the attack.

December—Iraq—The Guardian reported on April 21, 2015, that air strikes in December 2014 killed deputy Islamic State chief Abu Muslim ­al-Turkmani and the leader of IS military operations in Iraq.

December 1—Afghanistan—The Taliban was suspected when a suicide bomber hit a funeral attended by 1,000 people, many of them police and local officials, killing 2 police officers and 7 civilians and injuring more than 20 other people according to Taj Mohammed Taqwa, chief of the Burka district in the Baghlan Province north of Kabul.

Gunmen shot to death 3 border police officers in Kandahar Province’s Spin Boldak District.

A remotely detonated bomb hit a market in Logar Province’s capital, injuring several Afghan soldiers.

December 1—Nigeria—Bombings in Maiduguri and Damaturu killed 77 people.

Two female suicide bombers hit a crowded market in Maiduguri, killing 16. Two other female suicide bombers hit the same market the previous week, killing 70.

The Daily Beast and the Premium Times news website reported that bombs and gunfire were heard in Damaturu at 4 a.m., destroying the ­rapid-response police base, several university buildings, and a hospital residential compound. The subsequent gun battle killed 33 police officers, 6 soldiers, and 20 Boko Haram members, the latter who were attempting to seize the governor’s office, which includes a military armory. The Hospital Management Board said 2 doctors were killed and 3 abducted in the attack on their residential compound. An Air Force fighter jet and a helicopter gunship strafed and bombed the attackers, driving them off.

Boko Haram was suspected when gunmen bombed a prison in southwest Ekiti State, freeing more than 300 prisoners.

December 1—Yemen—Suspected AQAP gunmen set off roadside bombs against 2 Yemeni army patrols on a main road in Abyan Province, killing 4 soldiers and wounding 3.

December 1—West Bank—A Palestinian woman stabbed and slightly wounded an Israeli civilian at the West Bank Gush Etzion junction near Jerusalem. Security forces shot and wounded the attacker.

December 1—India—Maoist rebels attacked Central Reserve Police Force troops, killing 13 paramilitary soldiers in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh State.

December 1—Ireland—Forensic experts searched for the unmarked grave of Joe Lynskey, a Belfast IRA intelligence officer who disappeared in 1972 and was believed to have been killed and secretly buried by the IRA in County Meath bogland northwest of Dublin near where remains of another ­long-missing IRA victim were found on October 1. The IRA said Lynskey was having an affair with the wife of a jailed IRA member.

December 1—Iraq—Iraqi officials said the Islamic State killed 15 Iraqi police at a checkpoint on the Syrian border.

December 1—Northern Ireland—Police increased pre–Christmas security in response to growing reports of IRA bombing planning.

December 1—India—A fire of suspicious origin destroyed St. Sebastian’s Catholic Church in a northeast suburb of New Delhi. The Delhi Catholic Archdiocese said that “mischief” was suspected, noting “The entire interior, including the Altar, the Holy Bible and Cross were reduced to ashes.” Forensic samples smelled of fuel. The church was built in 2001.

December 1—Kenya—Al-Shabaab set off a grenade and fired on a hotel in Wajir in the north, killing one person and wounding 13. 14120101

December 1—United Arab Emirates—An individual wearing a traditional black robe, ­full-face veil and gloves stabbed to death American school teacher Ibolya Ryan, 47, in a fight in a public restroom at the upscale Boutik Mall on Reem Island in Abu Dhabi. Police confiscated a sharp tool. The victim was married with 11 ­year-old twins and had previously lived in Colorado. Ryan obtained her job via the Vancouver, British ­Columbia-based Footprints Recruiting, which said she started teaching in the UAE in August/September. She was a Hungarian who was born in Romania and studied to be a teacher in the U.S. and Europe. The attacker fled in a car that carried several knives and ­walkie-talkies. She then left a homemade bomb at the home of a 46-year-old ­Egyptian-American Muslim doctor in the Corniche area. One of his sons found the device as he walked to sunset prayers. Police dismantled the bomb, which she had hidden in a suitcase. The bomb included small gas cylinders, a lighter, glue, and nails. On December 4, CNN reported that authorities had arrested an Emirati woman of Yemeni descent believed to be 37.

On March 1, 2015, AP reported that UAE Attorney General Salem Saeed Kubaish said the case of Alaa Bader Abdullah, a woman accused of stabbing to death Ibolya Ryan, had been referred to the country’s Federal Supreme Court. The defendant faced multiple charges, including the “deliberate killing” of Ryan, attempted murder over the bomb plot and committing crimes “with terrorist intent.”

On June 29, 2015, the Associated Press, the Abu ­Dhabi-based The National newspaper, and the state news agency WAM reported that the UAE’s Federal Supreme Court sentenced to death Emirati woman Alaa Baer Abdullah ­al-Hashemi, 30, a mother of 6 accused of murdering Ibolya Ryan with a butcher knife. Police said she attacked the American solely by nationality to create chaos, and had planted a bomb outside another American’s house. ­Al-Hashemi was also convicted of sending money to ­al-Qaeda in Yemen and publishing information with the intent to harm the reputation of the UAE. On July 12, 2015, AP reported that the UAE executed ­al-Hashemi following the approval of the president, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan. 14120102

December 2—Ukraine—Newsweek reported that Patriot, a store that sells symbols of Ukrainian heritage in Odessa, was destroyed in a nighttime explosion of a 200-gram bomb placed under one of the building’s windows. A neighboring dental clinic sustained minor damage and a parked car’s back windows were blown out. The Central Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Odessa region deemed it an “act of terrorism.” No group claimed responsibility. The store owner, who was inside the building, was not injured.

December 2—Kenya—At 12:30 a.m., 50 heavily armed ­al-Shabaab members walked into a mining quarry camp in the Koromey area on the outskirts of Mandera town in Mandera County in northern Kenya near the Somali border as workers were sleeping. The terrorists demanded that each recite the Shahada, an Islamic creed declaring oneness with God. They killed 36 non–Muslim quarry workers with shots to the back of their heads. The terrorists escaped. ­Al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Moha­mud Rage said it was avenging Kenya’s troop presence in Somalia and alleged atrocities committed by the Kenyan army there, including a recent airstrike.

Soon after the attack, President Uhuru Kenyatta fired his Interior Minister, accepted the resignation of national police chief David Kimaiyo, and named opposition politician and retired army general Joseph Nkaissery to be the new Interior Minister. 14120201

December 2—Afghanistan—The Taliban fired machine guns and ­rocket-propelled grenades in attacks on several guard posts in northwestern Badghis Province, killing 6 Afghan soldiers. Three terrorists also died.

The Canadian embassy warned Canadians to leave Afghanistan, saying the “threat to foreigners, including Canadians, from terrorist and criminal violence is extremely high. If you are already in Afghanistan, you should leave,” and travelers to the country are “taking a serious risk.”

The U.S. embassy said a van disguised as a Red Cross ambulance was “allegedly planning to conduct a [car bomb] attack against Western convoys or facilities in the Wazir Akbar Khan” diplomatic area.

December 2—Lebanon—Dozens of gunmen ambushed an army patrol in a remote region of Ras Baalbek near the border with Syria, killing 6 soldiers and wounding one.

December 2—Nigeria—The Nigeria Vigilante Group, a civilian defense group, manning a roadblock, stopped a teenage female suicide bomber heading toward the Maiduguri market. She lifted her hijab, showing explosives strapped to her abdomen.

December 2—Egypt—A criminal court sentenced 188 people to death for involvement in a “massacre” of 11 policemen in August in Kerdasa, west of Cairo, pending approval from the country’s top religious official, after which the court was to issue a final verdict.

December 3—Afghanistan—Gunmen attacked a police checkpoint in Jawzjan Province’s Darzab District in the early morning, killing 4 local policemen, including Police Chief Mohammad Nahim. Authorities blamed the Taliban.

December 3—Somalia—A suicide bomber crashed into a 4-vehicle UN convoy near Mogadishu airport, killing 3 people, including an army officer who had tried to stop the vehicle, and damaging 2 UN vehicles. No UN casualties were reported. 14120301

December 3—Lebanon—A Lebanese military bomb tech was killed and 2 others were wounded while dismantling a bomb on the outskirts of Arsal near the Syrian during the morning. Troops found the bomb during a search following the previous day’s ambush near Ras Baalbek.

December 3—Yemen—A car bomb exploded near the Sana’a home of newly-arrived Iranian Ambassador Hossein Niknam, killing 6 people, including a security guard and his son, wounding 12, damaging several buildings, and putting a hole in the residence. Niknam was not at home at the time. A senior Interior Ministry official said AQAP was suspected. 14120302

December 3—India—Six suspected rebels and an army officer were killed in a clash near the line of control dividing Kashmir. Another soldier was wounded. Soldiers had intercepted the rebels who were crossing into the Indian side of the disputed Himalayan region from the Pakistani section in the Handwara region, according to Indian Army spokes­man Lieutenant Colonel Nitin N. Joshi.

Suspected rebels threw a grenade at a group of paramilitary soldiers and police in the Pulwama are, injuring 4 soldiers, a policeman and a civilian.

December 3—Israel—A 16-year-old Palestinian stabbed 2 Israeli shoppers in a supermarket in Mishor Adumim, east of Jerusalem in the West Bank before a private security guard shot him. The victims were moderately wounded, according to police spokeswoman Luba Samri.

December 3—Central African Republic—Government spokesman Modibo Bachir Walidou said Muslim Seleka diehards had attacked government officials who were taking up their posts earlier in the week, seriously wounding 3 with gunshots.

December 4—Russia—Just after midnight, 15 gunmen carjacked 3 cars in Shalazhi village, then drove 30 miles to a checkpoint in Grozny, where they killed 3 traffic police officers. Five of them then occupied the 10-storey Press House, which security services, police, and emergency services personnel quickly surrounded. A jihadi claimed responsibility on the Kavkaz Center website, saying he was under orders of Chechen Islamist leader Aslan Byutukayev, alias Emir Khamzat. Authorities later stormed 2 buildings, including a school, during the gun battles that killed 25 people. Six terrorists died inside the Press House, which was destroyed by a fire that spread to a nearby market. Security forces also killed gunmen found in a neighboring 3-storey school, which was devoid of teachers and students. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said his forces had killed at least 11 gunmen during the 12-hour standoff. The National ­Anti-Terrorist Committee said 14 police officers, including a relative of Kadyrov, were killed and 36 wounded. Kadyrov said the gunmen were connected to Chechen jihadi leader Doku Umarov, who died in 2013. On December 5, Kadyrov vowed, “If a militant in Chechnya kills a policeman or any other person, the militant’s family will be immediately banished from Chechnya without the right to come back, and their house will be razed to the ground.”

December 4—UK—At dawn, police in South Wales arrested 5 people suspected of supporting banned organizations and London police rounded up 2 more suspected of terrorism offenses. Metropolitan Police arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of involvement in terrorism and a 40-year-old man on suspicion of conspiracy to pass fraudulent documents. Two of the men were hiding among illegal immigrants in the back of a truck in Dover. The Christian Science Monitor added that one of them had earlier been arrested in a roundup against the banned ­al-Muhajiroun, led by extremist preacher Anjem Chou­dary.

December 4—Nigeria—Gunmen were turned back by Nigerian police and soldiers during a 7:30 a.m. attack on the ­French-owned Ashaka Cement factory in northeast Nigeria. The subsidiary of Lafarge SA in Gombe State was attacked in November by suspected gunmen of Boko Haram, which stole large amounts of dynamite they loaded onto pickup trucks. 14120401

December 4—Iraq—A car bomb hit a line of small restaurants in Sadr City during the night, killing 11 people and wounding 25.

A second car bomb went off minutes later near a Sadr City outdoor market, killing 7 and wounding 21.

A bomb went off near a restaurant in Baghdad’s Shaab neighborhood, killing 3 and wounding 12.

A car bomb near a Kurdish district in Kirkuk killed 16 people.

December 4—Denmark—The Frederiksberg City Court in Copenhagen sentenced Sam Mansour, 54, a ­Moroccan-born Dane, to 4 years in prison for instigating and promoting terrorism on social media. In Facebook postings, he wrote “terrorism is a duty” and “we are fearful,” and urged jihadis to kill several Danes whom he had named. In 2007, Mansour, then known as Said Mansour, was convicted and sentenced to 3½ years under a 2002 ­anti-terrorism law that forbids the instigation of terrorism.

December 4—India—Gunmen threw grenades and fired automatic rifles at the artillery unit of an Indian army camp in the Uri region of Kashmir, leading to a gun battle that killed 8 Indian soldiers, including a lieutenant colonel, 3 police officers, and 6 rebels.

Gunmen conducted 3 other lethal attacks in the region, where elections were being held.

Authorities intercepted 2 suspected terrorists near Srinagar. In the following gun battle, 2 rebels died and 2 police officers were wounded.

Terrorists threw a grenade near a paramilitary bunker inside a bus station in Tral where an election campaign rally was being held, killing a civilian and wounding 6 others.

Terrorists threw a grenade at a police station in Shopian, causing no damage.

December 4—U.S.—Authorities charged that Ah­med H. Aden, 34, deliberately ran over Abdisamad ­Sheikh-Hussein, 15, with his SUV outside a Missouri Somali community center, nearly severing his legs. The boy died at a hospital in Missouri. The center had an anti–Muslim message in a rear window at the time of the attack. The FBI was investigating whether the murder constituted a hate crime. Aden was charged with murder.

December 5—Somalia—In the evening, a suicide bomber walked into a Baidoa’s National Bar and Restaurant, killing 4, including 2 journalists with ­London-based Somali TV organizations, and injuring dozens more. Ten minutes later, a suicide car bomber drove into a crowd in Baidoa, killing 7, including a local politician. ­Al-Shabaab was suspected. 14120501

December 5—Jordan—The Washington Post reported that Jordanian authorities detained suspected Libyan al-Qaeda member ­Abd-al-Baset Azzouz, whom the U.S. in September had designated as a global terrorist and who might have been involved in the September 11, 2012, attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi. The U.S. Department of State said that he had lived in the UK and Afghanistan. He left the UK, where he had been briefly detained, in 2009 for Pakistan and Afghanistan. AQ leader Ayman ­al-Zawahiri in 2011 sent him to mobilize 200 members in Libya. State added, “He is considered a key operative capable of training ­al-Qaeda recruits in a variety of skills, such as IED [improvised explosive device] construction.” Turkish news media said he was captured on November 13 in Yalova, Turkey, 100 miles south of Istanbul, and that he was later deported to Jordan. Turkey’s Daily Sabah newspaper credited the CIA for providing tipoff information.

December 5—Afghanistan—During the night, the Taliban attacked a police convoy in Jawzjan Province’s Aqcha District, killing 3 police officers and wounding 4.

December 6—Iraq—A bomb exploded during the morning at a market in the Shi’iet section of Mahmoudiya, killing 5 and wounding 12.

A bomb attached to a minibus exploded in the northeastern Baghdad suburb of Husseiniyah, killing 2 passengers and wounding 9.

A bomb exploded in eastern Baghdad near food stalls serving Shi’ite pilgrims en route to the Arbaeen religious commemoration in Karbala, killing 3 and wounding 8.

December 6—Pakistan—NPR quoted Pakistani authorities who said they had killed al-Qaeda external operations chief Adnan Shukrijumah, 39, a Saudi who was under U.S. indictment for plotting an attack on the New York City subway 5 years earlier, and 2 other terrorists in South Waziristan. The military said a Pakistani soldier was killed and another seriously wounded during the raid. Another 5 terrorists were detained. Shukrijumah was on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists List. The U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice program offered $5 million for his capture. U.S. federal prosecutors said he had recruited 3 men in 2008 to train in the Pakistani tribal region for the subway attack. A court in November 2012 sentenced to life in prison Adis Medunjanin, originally from Bosnia, for his role in the 2009 plot. Najibullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay were also sentenced. Shukrijumah studied computer science and chemistry at a community college in Florida and once held a U.S. green card. He lived in Miramar, Florida, with his mother and 5 siblings. He came to south Florida in 1995 when his father, a Muslim cleric and missionary trained in Saudi Arabia, took a post at a Florida mosque after several years at a Brooklyn mosque.

December 6—Nigeria—Gunmen freed more than 200 prisoners from the medium security prison at Tunga, in central Niger State. By the next morning, police had recaptured at least 10 escapees, according to Deputy Superintendent Ibrahim Gambari.

December 6—Egypt—The Australian government told travelers to reconsider travel to Egypt, noting “that terrorists may be planning attacks against tourist sites, government ministries and embassies in Cairo.”

December 6—Afghanistan/Pakistan—The U.S. military in Afghanistan handed over 3 Pakistani detainees to the Pakistani government. They included Latif Mehsud, a driver and confidante of Hakimullah Mehsud, the former leader of the Pakistani Taliban. U.S. forces captured Mehsud in October 2013.

December 7—Iraq—At dawn, a suicide car bomber hit the blast walls that surround the police station in the village of ­al-Salman outside the town of Tar­miyah. Gunmen then ran inside the compound, kill­ing 5 police officers and 4 civilians and wounding 11 people.

December 7—Egypt—The UK Embassy in Cairo suspended public services because of security concerns and told people not to come to the building. It reopened on December 16.

December 7—Switzerland—A man walking to morning prayers saw a broken window and fire inside the ­Islamic-Albanian cultural center in Flums in St. Gallen canton. Police suspected arson. No one was hurt. 14120701

December 7—Congo—Allied Defense Forces rebels attacked 3 villages around the town of Beni during the night, killing 34 civilians.

December 7—Saudi Arabia—Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour ­al-Turki announced the arrests in different parts of Saudi Arabia of 135 people, including 26 foreigners, among them 16 Syrians, with suspected links to terrorist groups. He said some received weapons training, fought in conflicts abroad and had been planning to carry out attacks. Others were accused of smuggling weapons into Saudi Arabia, and helping to raise money and recruit for terrorist organizations. At least 17 had links to attacks against security forces in the Eastern Province, where minority Shi’ites are centered.

December 7—Yemen—Gunmen attacked a funeral in Sana’a, firing a tribal leader aligned with former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, killing 3 bodyguards and wounding Sheikh Sagheer Bin Aziz. He had battled Shi’ite Houthis in 2010.

Gunmen battled government troops in Houta, killing a soldier and wounding 3 in a failed attack on a government building.

December 7—Pakistan—AP and CNN reported that a drone fired 2 missiles at a compound in Khara Tanga in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan, killing 5 terrorists, including Pakistani Taliban leader Omar Farooq, alias Ustad Farooq, who was believed to be in charge of al-Qaeda’s operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan and a spokesman for al-Qaeda.

December 7—U.S./Uruguay—The U.S. sent 6 Guantanamo Bay detainees to Uruguay for resettlement. Abu Wa’el Dhiab, 43, a Syrian who was on a ­long-term hunger strike; Syrian Ali Husain Shaaban, 32; Syrian Ahmed Adnan Ajuri, 37; Syrian Abdelahdi Faraj, 39; Palestinian Mohammed Abdullah Taha Mattan, 35, and Tunisian Adel bin Muhammad el-Ouerghi, 49; had been held for 12 years as prisoners with suspected al-Qaeda ties. They had been cleared for release in 2009, but the U.S. could not find a home for them.

December 8—Egypt—UPI reported that the Canadian embassy suspended operations indefinitely. The embassy’s website warned “The ability to provide consular services may occasionally be limited for short periods due to unsettled security conditions.”

December 8—Yemen—Senior AQAP military leader Nasr bin Ali ­al-Ansi denounced beheadings in response to a reporter’s question during a Twitter video interview. The reporter asked whether AQAP was copying Islamic State tactics of killing prisoners. ­Al-Ansi replied, “Filming and promoting it among people in the name of Islam and Jihad is a big mistake and not acceptable whatever the justifications are. This is very barbaric.”

December 8—Bahrain—Pubic security director Major General Tariq ­al-Hassan said Jordanian police officer Ali Mohammed Ali was killed in a “terror attack” in Damistan. The Jordanian was part of a security and training exchange agreement between the 2 kingdoms. 14120801

December 8—Israel—An Israeli court indicted Adam Everett Livix, variant Livvix, 30, an American Christian from Texas, for plotting to blow up Muslim holy places in Jerusalem, illegal weapon possession, and overstaying his visa by more than a year. He and his roommate, an Israeli soldier on active duty, tried to obtain 3 pounds of explosives. A police agent discovered the plot in October. Livix was undergoing psychiatric evaluation. The Illinois native denied the charges. Israeli police said Livvix rejected an offer from a Palestinian to assassinate President Barack Obama with a sniper rifle during a visit to the region in March 2013. He was represented by attorney Gal Wolf, who complained that Livvix was held without access to an attorney for 8 days following his arrest in November. Livvix, who posed as a former Navy SEAL, was living with his American fiancée when arrested. When police tried to arrest him at his 7th floor apartment, he tried to escape by leaping down to a 6th-floor patio. Indiana bounty hunter Willie Bryant told the AP that the detainee could be a person from Robinson, Illinois, who had jumped bond in Indiana on criminal charges. He was also wanted in the U.S. on drug charges. 14120802

December 8—Syria/Canada—PRI reported that the Islamic State ­al-I’tisaam Media Foundation released a 6-minute video on Twitter and jihadi sites in which John Maguire, alias Abu Anwar ­al-Canadi, called for Canadian Muslims to attack Canadian targets to avenge Canada’s participation in coalition battles against IS in Iraq and Syria. He went to Syria in January 2013 to join IS. He was born in Kemptville, Ontario, and moved to Ottawa as a teenager. He played guitar in a dance band and a punk band and grew up playing hockey.

December 8—Syria—Reuters reported that the Islamic State group beheaded a man in a public square in Sulouk in northern Syria after accusing him of blasphemy. The audience included children.

December 9—Yemen—Two Ansar al-Sharia suicide car bombers attacked the military headquarters in Seyoun in Hadramout Province, killing 7 Yemeni soldiers and injuring 9, several critically. Ansar, an AQAP affiliate, said, “The first vehicle targeted the main gate of the compound and the second targeted the building inside.”

December 9—UK—West Midlands Police told staff to take “additional security measures” after receiving an anonymous threat regarding a plot to kidnap and kill a police officer.

December 9—Iraq—During the visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to Baghdad, a bomb went off during the afternoon in Baghdad’s Baiyaa neighborhood, targeting Shi’ite pilgrims en route to Karbala, killing 4 and wounding 13. In the evening, mortar shells hit 3 Shi’ite areas in northern Baghdad suburbs, killing 3 and wounding 12.

December 9—Bahrain—The Interior Ministry announced that a “terrorist bombing” in Karzakan killed a Bahraini and injured an Asian man. On December 30, 2015, AP and the ­state-run Bahrain News Agency quoted Bahraini terror crimes prosecutor General Ahmed ­al-Hammadi as announcing the conviction and sentencing of 29 people by the Higher Criminal Court for the 2014 bombing that wounded several police officers and damaged police vehicles. Two defendants had their citizenship revoked. The defendants were sentenced from 5 years to life in prison. AP added on December 31 that a Bahraini defense lawyer said 23 Shi’ites were convicted, one was sentenced to death and 22 to life in prison. Seven of those convicted were in custody; the rest, including the condemned man, were tried in absentia. Attorney Jassim Sarhan was the attorney for 3 of those convicted. 14120901

December 9—Moldova—Police chief Ion Bodrug announced that during the previous week, police had detained 7 people in Chisanau and 2 other towns on suspicion of smuggling uranium and mercury via train from Russia to be used in a dirty bomb. Police found 7 ounces of uranium-238 mixed with uranium-235 and 2.2 pounds of mercury with a black market value of $2 million. Bodrug said the 7 belonged to a criminal gang and confessed. Police were working with colleagues in Russia and the Ukraine to find other gang members.

December 9—Ireland—The Dublin High Court refused early parole and ruled that Real IRA splinter group founder Michael McKevitt must serve his full 20-year prison sentence based on his 2003 conviction of “directing terror” because the government was entitled to consider him a continuing terrorist threat. His lawyers had cited McKevitt’s good behavior since his jailing, including taking classes in drama, yoga and creative writing.

December 9—Philippines—A bomb went off in the back of a Rural Transit passenger bus traveling in front of the main gate of Central Mindanao University in Maramag town in Bukidnon Province, killing 9 and wounding 20. Student passenger Ralph Quilla, 17, was wounded in the arm.

December 9—U.S.—The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its report on the CIA terrorist detention program. Writing in the Wall Street ­Journal, former CIA directors George Tenet, Porter Goss, and Michael Hayden called the report “a ­one-sided study marred by errors of fact and interpretation—essentially a poorly done and partisan attack on the agency that has done the most to protect America.” Other former senior CIA officers published the ciasavedlives.com website to provide context.

December 10—Myanmar—The ­state-run Myanma Ahlin daily reported that Kokang rebels attacked an army camp in northeast Myanmar near the Chinese border, killing 7 government troops and wounding 20 others. The rebels surrounded the camp for 2 days.

December 10—Mali—During a nighttime operation, a French and Malian military force near Gao killed Ahmed ­el-Tilemsi, a leader of the Mourabitoune jihadi group, and killed or captured 9 other terrorists. The U.S. had issued a $5 million bounty. No French troops were injured. ­El-Tilemsi was a founder of the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa that merged with followers of Mokhtar Belmokhtar to form Mourabitoune. ­El-Tilemsi led the group’s Sahel forces.

December 10—Yemen—The French Embassy temporarily closed to the public and suspended consular services, although employees kept working under enhanced security.

December 10—United Arab Emirates—The ­state-owned National and al-Ittihad newspapers reported that a security court sentenced 11 people to jail terms ranging between 3 years and life after finding them guilty of trying to set up an ­al-Qaeda affiliate, joining the ­al-Qaeda–linked Nusra Front and the conservative Muslim rebel group Ahrar ­al-Sham in Syria, and aiding rebels fighting in Syria. Four Emiratis tried in absentia received life sentences. Seven other men, including citizens of the Emirates, Syria and the Comoros Islands, received between 3- and 15-year sentences. Four other defendants were acquitted.

December 10—Iraq—A suicide bomber drove a tanker truck into a security checkpoint in Mikeshifa near Samarra, killing 9 Iraqi soldiers and Shi’ite militiamen and wounded 22.

A bomb went off near an outdoor market in Madain, killing 3 people and wounding 5.

A bomb went off on a commercial street in southern Baghdad, killing 2 and wounding 7.

A roadside bomb hit an army patrol in Abu Ghraib, killing one soldier and wounding 6.

December 10—Greece—Police, acting on a 30-minute telephoned warning, destroyed a time bomb outside a bank in the northern Aghia Paraskevi suburb of Athens. The caller said the bomb showed solidarity with Nikos Romanos, 21, an anarchist convicted of bank robbery who began a ­month-long hunger strike on November 10 because he wanted leave to attend business school classes. He was in an Athens hospital. He ended the strike on December 10 after Parliament passed special legislation that would allow him to take his course via distance learning and physical attendance using electronic tagging.

December 10—Nigeria—Boko Haram was suspected when 2 female suicide bombers disguised as customers hit the busy Kantin Kwari textile market located in the center of Kano, killing 4 and injuring 7. Witnesses had become suspicious about their attire right before the explosions.

On December 24, 2014, a 13-year-old girl told a news conference that her father gave her to Boko Haram extremists and that she was arrested after refusing to explode a suicide bomb in Kano. She allowed Boko Haram to put a suicide vest on her because she did not want to be buried alive in a BH camp. She then was sent to the Kantin Kwari market with the 2 other girls. She was injured when they set off their bombs. A taxi driver took her to the hospital. After she left the suicide vest on the passenger seat, the cabbie called police. Police Superintendent Adenrele Shinaba said she was arrested in the hospital with a leg wound.

December 11—Yemen—AQAP fired 6 Grad missiles at the U.S.-Yemeni ­al-Annan air base during the morning in retaliation for the failed rescue operation in which an American and a South African hostage were killed by AQAP. 14121101

December 11—Philippines—Gunmen in a van ambushed a ­2-vehicle convoy of Representative Vi-cente Belmonte, 60, of southern Iligan City, killing 2 of his bodyguards and a driver and injuring Belmonte and 5 other bodyguards and aides in Misamis, Laguindingan township, in Oriental Province. The convoy had just left the airport and was on the way to Iligan. The parliamentarian suggested that the attack was “politically motivated…. I have received many threats. We just don’t know who really is the mastermind.” The van was found in a nearby village. Villagers saw at least 3 men, including one in a military uniform, with rifles leaving the scene in another vehicle.

December 11—Afghanistan—At 5 p.m., a 16-year-old Taliban suicide bomber ran inside the theater of the ­French-funded Istiqlal High School, which includes a French cultural center, killing a German aid worker and injuring 15. The theater was hosting a performance of the play “Heartbeats: Silence After the Explosion,” which condemns suicide bombings. On December 20, journalist and cameraman Zubair Hatami, 22, who worked for the privately run Mitra Television, died of his wounds. 14121102

UPI reported that a pedestrian Taliban suicide bomber in the Kabul suburbs hit a bus carrying Afghan troops in the morning, killing at least 5 soldiers and injuring 12, including civilians.

December 11—Nigeria—Boko Haram was suspected when bombs exploded at the Mr. Bigs outdoor food stand and the entrance to the Terminus market in the center of Jos, killing 31.

Police detonated a bomb found in a handbag in a Kano supermarket frequented by foreigners.

Kano police arrested a teenage girl wearing an ­explosives-laden jacket.

December 11—Slovakia—An envelope containing highly toxic sodium azide was mailed to the embassy of the Czech Republic in Bratislava. 14121103

December 11—Pakistan—Police arrested Shahid Usman, in his mid–30s, commander of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent’s Karachi wing, and 4 others in Karachi, seizing weapons and 22 pounds of explosives. A senior official at the police ­counter-terrorism unit said he was planning more attacks and that “He is the Karachi chief of al-Qaeda’s newly-formed wing working under the set-up of Asim Umar, the South Asia chief of al-Qaeda.” The official said Usman lived in Defense, a wealthy neighborhood, and owned a ­car-parts dealership. “Unlike the usual militant profile, Usman comes from an affluent background.” He was previously linked to the outlawed ­Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami and had received training in Afghanistan.

December 11—Germany—Arson was suspected when fires started during the night at 3 empty buildings in Vorra scheduled to house asylum seekers. ­Anti-foreigner slogans and swastikas were painted at one site. One firefighter was slightly injured.

December 12—Gaza Strip—AFP reported that a bomb exploded at the French Cultural Centre in Gaza City during the night. It was closed on October 8 due to a fire. Police spokesman Ayman Betjeni said “this was a cowardly attack and unfortunately the second incident of this sort in … 2 months…. It seems as if there are elements who want to disturb Gaza’s security and are targeting foreigners to intimidate them and give a bad image of Gaza.” 14121201

December 12—Israel—In the afternoon, a Palestinian threw acid at a Jewish woman and her 4 girls sitting in a car in the Gush Etzion settlement south of Jerusalem in the West Bank. A ­passer-by shot and wounded the attacker, whom police then arrested and brought to a hospital. The family members were slightly injured.

December 12—Greece—Before dawn, ­drive-by gunmen on at least one motorcycle fired 54 bullets from 2 AK-47 assault rifles at the facade of the Israeli embassy. Ballistics tests indicated the guns had been used in the Popular Fighters shooting outside the German ambassador’s residence in Athens a year earlier. The Group of Popular Fighters left a proclamation claiming credit in an Athens trash bin on February 4, 2015. 14121202

December 12—Iraq—The Islamic State shot down an Iraqi EC635 military helicopter with a ­shoulder-fired rocket launcher near Samarra, killing 2 pilots.

December 12—Syria—A masked Islamic State “police force” member used a cleaver to behead 4 men in Homs Province for insulting God. Their hands were tied behind their backs.

December 12—Afghanistan—The Taliban attacked a military convoy near Bagram air base in Parwan Province, killing 2 U.S. troops. 14121203

December 12—Somalia—CNN reported that al-Shabaab kidnapped Mohamed Hussein, 45, a Koran teacher, from his Qandho home near the besieged town of Bulo Burde, 217 miles north of Mogadishu, in central Somalia. His beheaded body was found the next morning. He was the 5th person the group beheaded that week. Victims also included 2 Somali policewomen in the city of Teyeglow, located in the southwest region and 2 government soldiers near Bur Hakaba in the Bay region of southern Somalia.

December 12 or 14—Nigeria—Boko Haram gunmen in pickup trucks arrived from 2 directions in an attack that killed 35 people, including local vigilantes protecting the northeastern village of Gumsuri near Lake Chad. They abducted another 191. A local government official said “They gathered the women and children and took them away in trucks after burning most of the village with petrol bombs.” Targets included a medical center, homes, and shops. They also fired heavy machine guns.

December 13—Pakistan—Police killed 4 Taliban traveling in a vehicle near Muzaffargarh in eastern Punjab Province. Police said the terrorists were likely plotting to attack a planned Shi’ite rally to commemorate 40 days after Ashoura. Police raided a hideout and recovered dozens of grenades, rocket launchers and 4 suicide bomb vests.

December 13—Yemen—A Yemeni border guard shot to death 3 suspected jihadis wearing women’s veils as they tried to cross into Saudi Arabia with a male driver at the Hawdh area’s border crossing. Soldiers had sent the car to a police station to have policewomen check its occupants’ identities. One of the terrorists shot a soldier who had boarded the car, slightly wounding him. He returned fire with an automatic rifle, killing the 3 and injuring the driver, who later confessed that the group had planned to attack Saudi border guards by suicide bombing. 14121301

December 13—Iraq—Reuters reported that the Islamic State stormed ­al-Wafa in Anbar Province, killing at least 19 policemen and trapping others inside their police 18th brigade headquarters.

The Islamic State executed 21 Sunni tribal fighters after capturing them near ­al-Baghdadi town 2 days earlier. The bodies were dumped inside an orchard near the Islamic State–controlled town of Kubaisa.

December 13—Afghanistan—The Taliban shot to death 12 Star Link workers and wounded another 12 of the 81 employees clearing mines in Helmand Province between its Nadali and Washir districts.

Taliban gunmen assassinated Atiqullah Rawoofi, the head of the Afghan Supreme Court secretariat, outside his home in Kabul’s northwestern suburbs as he was on his way to work.

A suicide bomber, probably on foot, hit a Defense Ministry bus carrying Afghan Army personnel home in southwest Kabul, killing 6 and wounding 14.

December 13—India—The Washington Post reported that police arrested Mehdi Masoor Biswas, 24, at his small apartment in Bangalore, saying he ran a Twitter account @shamiwitness glorifying the Islamic State. He was charged with violating Internet regulations and attempting to “wage war against Asiatic powers.” He worked for a ­multi-national food company for the past 2 years, earning $10,000/year. His father worked for the state electricity company in West Bengal. Biswas became interested in 2009 in jihadi literature, retweeting information from the region of Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and Israel, and tweet translations from Arabic literature to his 17,000+ followers. Biswas told the Indian Express newspaper “somebody must have hacked my ­e-mail account. I did tell Channel 4 that I believe beheading is part of Islam. It does not mean I believe in beheading.”

December 14—Nigeria–Business Week reported that Boko Haram threatened the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, after he urged followers to defend themselves.

December 14—Saudi Arabia—The official Saudi Press Agency reported that a gunman with an assault rifle took 3 foreign workers hostage near a mosque in Riyadh during the evening. He fired on police, who freed the hostages after a gun battle that killed a Saudi security officer. The wounded gunman was arrested. A civilian and a guard were also injured. 14121401

A gunman shot to death a Saudi policeman in ­al-Awamiya, the hometown of Shi’ite cleric Nimr ­al-Nimr, a government critic who was sentenced to death in October for inciting violence and sectarian strife.

December 14—Iraq—The Guardian reported on April 21, 2015, that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi was nearly killed in an airstrike on a ­2-car convoy near Mosul on December 14, 2014. His close aide Auf Abdul Rahman ­al-Efery was killed. Baghdadi was believed to be in the second car, which was not hit.

December 15—Australia—At 9:45 a.m., ­Iran-born Man Haron Monis, 50, took 17 employees and customers hostage in the Lindt Chocolat Café in Sydney’s Martin Place plaza. The terrorist forced 2 hostages to hold up a black flag with white Arabic writing on it. It was believed to be the shahada (declaration of faith), the first of 5 pillars of Islam. Authorities evacuated the Sydney Opera House, a train station, the State Library and the U.S. Consulate General. The cafe is yards from the newsroom of Channel Seven, the nation’s ­most-watched commercial broadcaster. At 4 p.m., 3 male hostages ran through a fire exit to freedom. Soon after, 2 women wearing Lindt aprons ran from the store via the same exit. Monis claimed to be a cleric from Iran and demanded to talk to the Prime Minister. He wanted an Islamic State flag and claimed that he had planted bombs around the city. Authorities switched off the café’s lights at 9 p.m.

After 16 hours, riot police stormed the building after Monis began corralling some hostages in a section of the cafe, killing Monis. Two hostages—Tori Johnson, 34, the café’s male manager, and Katrina Dawson, 38—also died and 5 people were wounded, including a police officer who was shot in the face and a 75-year-old woman who was hit in the shoulder. Dawson, a barrister and mother of 3 young children, died of a heart attack on the way to the hospital. Two pregnant women were brought to the hospital for assessment.

Monis arrived in Australia in 1996 as an Iranian refugee. He was convicted in 2013 of sending dozens of hate mail letters to families of Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2009; he was banned from using Australian postal services and was sentenced to 300 hours of community service. He was out on bail on other charges, including being an accessory to the murder of his former wife and a 2002 sexual assault of a woman. The Sydney Morning Herald said that his girlfriend, Amirah Droudis, was charged with the murder of Monis’s wife and mother of his 2 children, Noleen Hayson Pal, 30, by stabbing her 18 times and then setting her on fire outside a home in western Sydney. The Sydney Morning Herald said he was charged with “more than 50 allegations of indecent and sexual assault” between 2000 and 2002 when he ran a clinic specializing in “spiritual consultations” that included black magic, numerology and meditation. He was due to appear in court on February 27, 2015, on the sexual assault charges.

The Washington Post reported that YouTube videos showed him wearing chains and holding a sign that reads, “I have been Tortured In Prison For My Political Letters.” Australia’s 9News said his aliases included Sheik Haron and Mohammad Hassan Manteghi and that he migrated to Australia in 1996 and was granted political asylum. His former attorney, Manny Conditsis, told ABC Australia that his client was an “isolated figure…. His ideology is just so strong and so powerful that it clouds his vision for common sense and objectiveness.”

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Monis was “well known” to authorities but “I don’t believe he was on a terror watch list at this time…. If I can be candid with you, that is the question that we were asking ourselves around the national security committee of the cabinet today…. How can someone who has had such a long and chequered history, not be on the appropriate watch lists, and how can someone like that be entirely at large in the community?”

December 15—France—Agnes ­Thibault-Lecuivre, spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s office, announced the arrests of 10 people suspected of sending jihadis to Syria. Four had been jailed for unrelated minor crimes. Most were picked up in southern France. The investigation into the ring began in December 2013.

December 16—Pakistan—Seven Pakistani Taliban gunmen wearing security uniforms and explosive vests used ladders to scale a wall and then attacked the ­military-run Army Public School and Degree College in Peshawar at 10 a.m., killing 148 people, including 132 children and 9 staff members—among them principal Tahira Qazi—and injuring 121 students and 3 staff. The terrorists initially set off a car bomb behind the school. Several hundred students escaped, but others were taken hostage. Mohammed Khurrassani, spokesman for Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, said the group had “300 to 400 people … under their custody” at one point. Among the dead was Abdullah Ali, 14. Student Abdullah Jamal, who was with 8th, 9th, and 10th graders getting ­first-aid training from Army medics, told reporters, “Then I saw children falling down who were crying and screaming. I also fell down. I learned later that I have got a bullet” in his leg. Student Amir Mateen locked a door from the inside, but the gunmen blasted their way in. Student Ahmed Faraz, 14, said that after the gunmen shouted “God is great,” one said “A lot of the children are under the benches. Kill them.” Some of the female teachers were burned alive. By 4 p.m., troops had confined the terrorists to 4 buildings. Hours later, all of the terrorists were dead. Pervez Khattak, chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, said most of those killed were between the ages of 12 and 16. Hospital officials said that at least one teacher and a paramilitary soldier were dead. Khurrassani told CNN that the attack was revenge for the killing of hundreds of innocent tribesmen during repeated army operations in provinces including South Waziristan, North Waziristan and the Khyber Agency. “We are facing such heavy nights in routine. Today, you must face the heavy night.” The terrorists left behind improvised explosive devices.

The Daily Beast reported that it phoned TTP commander Jihad Yar Wazir, who said, “The TTP is ready for a long, long war against the US puppet state of Pakistan. We are just displaced, but we are still in positions to attack wherever we want…. The parents of the army school are army soldiers and they are behind the massive killing of our kids and indiscriminate bombing in North and South Waziristan…. What about our kids and children…. These are the kids of the U.S.-backed Pakistani army and they should stop their parents from bombing our families and children…. Those kids are innocent because they are wearing a suit and tie and western shirts? But our kids wearing Islamic shalwar kamiz do not come before the eyes of the media and the west.”

The Afghan Taliban condemned the attack, saying killing innocents was un–Islamic.

The next day, the government reinstituted the death penalty for terrorist crimes.

Fox News reported on December 19 that Umar Mansoor, 36, a father of 2 daughters and a son, and volleyball fan, issued a confessor video in which he said “[The school was] preparing those generals, brigadiers and majors who killed and arrested so many fighters. If our women and children died as martyrs, your children will not escape. If you attack us, we will take revenge for the innocents.” His nickname is Nary, Pashto for Slim. The video called him the emir of Peshawar and Darra Adam Khel.

On December 21, the International Business Times reported that ­al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) posted an ­Urdu-language statement criticizing the “deeply saddening” attack, observing, “It is forbidden to target army in such places where ordinary Muslims could be harmed due to collateral ­damage…. Nobody amongst can be a momin (true believer) unless his desires don’t come under subservience to the Shariah that I have brought. Therefore, those people who attack innocent Muslims, they may name their acts anything but we consider such acts as UnIslamic and contradictory to Islamic Shariah.” AQIS “totally disassociates ourselves from this act. Fear Allah that your bullets which are supposed to hit the Kuffar [unbelievers] and Apostates, turn towards the ­non-combatant children.” Meanwhile, “jihad against America, ­Oppressive-Kufr-based System and its protectors, is an obligatory Ibadah [act of worship].” It also complained about the “traitorous” Pakistani government “oppressors” and “the Puppet army” for targeting Taliban militants and killing civilians in the Federal Tribal Areas.

Also on December 21, Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan announced that “Quite a few suspects who were facilitators in one way or the other have been taken into custody.”

On December 26, Saddam, 25, who provided lodging for the attackers, was killed in a firefight.

On January 17, 2015, AP reported that Afghan security services in recent weeks had arrested 5 foreign men near the eastern border with Pakistan in connection with the Taliban’s massacre at the Pakistani Army Public School and College.

On February 12, 2015, AP reported that Pakistan announced the arrest of 12 members of the Pakistani Taliban for involvement in the attack on a Pakistani school in Peshawar that killed 150 people. Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa said 9 members of what was believed to be a 27-member cell had been detained. Afghanistan arrested 6 of the suspects, based on tips from Pakistani intelligence. Taped confessions by 2 suspects indicated that Pakistani Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah ordered the attack and assigned commanders.

On August 13, 2015, AP reported that Pakistani military courts had sentenced 7 jihadis to death over a series of attacks, including the one on the ­army-run school. Another terrorist was sentenced to life in prison. It said 6 were members of ­Tawhid-wal-Jihad; the other 2 were from the Pakistani Taliban and ­Jaish-e-Mohammad.

On December 2, 2015, Reuters reported that Pakistan hanged 4 civilian men in Kohat’s ­civilian-run central jail for involvement in the massacre of 134 children and 17 other people at Peshawar’s Army Public School on December 16, 2014. On August 13, 2015, Hazrat Ali, Mujeeb ur Rehman, Sabeel and Maulvi Abdus Salam had been convicted as members of the Toheedwal Jihad Group (TWG), a previously-unknown faction of the Pakistani Taliban. Two others were also sentenced to death for involvement in the attack; another to life in prison. The army said the group admitted involvement in the school attack and in other plots, including attacks on Peshawar’s military airbase, fundraising for attacks and killing soldiers. Two other men were also sentenced to death and another was sentenced to life imprisonment.

December 16—Yemen—Houthis said AQAP set off 2 car bombs in the Radaa area of Baydah Province, hitting a school bus carrying female elementary school students near a rebel gathering. The Houthis said the attack killed 10 fighters and 16 students. Local tribesmen said a car bomb targeted the home of Shi’ite rebel leader Abdullah Idris.

December 16—West Bank—Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man, Mahmoud Abdalla, 20, and wounded another during an arrest operation in the Qalandiya refugee camp. The Israeli Defense Force said Palestinians threw bombs and fired at soldiers.

Israeli police arrested 10 members of a Jewish extremist group Lehava on suspicion of incitement to violent acts on a racist background. Among the detain­ees was Lehava leader Benzi Gopstein. Lehava opposes Jewish assimilation and ­Arab-Israeli coexistence.

December 16—Spain/Morocco—Spanish and Moroccan police arrested 7 suspected members of a cell that recruited women for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. The Moroccan Interior Ministry said 2 heads of the group were based in Fnideq, just outside the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, where women were transferred from Spain and indoctrinated with IS ideology. The women would become suicide bombers or marry jihadi fighters. Spanish authorities said 4 women, including a minor, were among the 5 arrested in the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla and in Barcelona.

December 17—Yemen—Houthi rebels closed Ho­deida port, preventing its director from entering his office, then attacked the offices of al-Thawra, the main state newspaper, forcing out ­Editor-in-Chief Faisal Makram.

December 17—France—Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said authorities had foiled 5 terror attacks since August 2013 and dismantled 13 networks linked to extremists in Syria.

December 17—Afghanistan—Five suicide bombers attacked the Lashgar Gah branch of the New Kabul Bank in Helmand Province, killing 10 people, including 3 policemen, and wounding 15 people, including 6 members of the Afghan security forces. One terrorist blew himself up at the front entrance. The other 4 then ran in, firing at arriving security forces, who killed the terrorists.

In the morning, terrorists attached bombs to police vehicles in Nangahar, killing a police officer and wounding 4 others.

December 17—Philippines—The Communist Party of the Philippines ordered its armed wing, the New People’s Army, to conduct a cease fire against soldiers and police on December 24–26, December 31–January 1 and during the pope’s visit on January 15–19. The Philippine armed forces earlier announced a ­month-long ­cease-fire with the communist rebels January 19, but said that operations against jihadis would continue.

December 17—Europe—The European Union General Court in Luxembourg removed Hamas from its terrorist list for “procedural” reasons.

December 17—Northern Ireland—Authorities charged suspected IRA member Joseph Pearce with supplying tipoffs on potential targets during the Continuity IRA meetings recorded by the MI5. Prosecutors and police told a Belfast court that he discussed the residences of several police officers and a prison guard, and the possibility of attacking British soldiers studying at a Northern Ireland university.

December 17—Colombia—FARC representatives at the Havana talks announced an indefinite unilateral ­cease-fire, to begin at midnight on December 20. The government rejected the offer.

December 17—Cameroon—AFP reported that Cameroon’s army claimed it had killed 116 Nigerian Boko Haram fighters who attacked an army base in Amchide on the border with Nigeria. 14121701

December 17—UK—Skynews reported that earlier in the month, police at Heathrow Airport detained a 15-year-old girl from the Tower Hamlets area in East London who was believed to be heading to Syria via Turkey to join Islamic State fighters. Police stopped the flight as the plane was taxiing on the runway.

December 17—Nigeria—A Nigerian court martial sentenced 54 soldiers to death by firing squad for mutiny, assault, cowardice and refusing to fight Islamic extremists when the soldiers refused to deploy to recapture 3 towns seized by Boko Haram in August. The men were represented by attorney Femi Falana. Five soldiers were acquitted. Charges included “conspiring to commit mutiny against the authorities of 7 Division, Nigerian Army.”

December 17—Tunisia—Four armed, bearded men appeared in a confessor video claiming credit for the 2013 assassinations of 2 Tunisian politicians in the name of the Islamic State. One of them was identified in 2013 by the Interior Ministry as Boubakr Hakim.

December 18—Northern Ireland—Authorities in Newry Magistrates Court charged 2 individuals with membership in the Continuity IRA after the MI5 recorded their conversations. Kevin Heaney, 41, was charged with receiving training in the manufacture and use of homemade bombs. Terence Marks, 54, was charged with conspiring to cause an explosion. They were denied bail.

December 18—Denmark—North Zealand police arrested a 21-year-old Danish citizen accused of spreading “extremist video material” on the Internet. He had been under surveillance since returning from Syria, where he had traveled in 2013.

A Copenhagen court issued a detention order for a 26-year-old man who in July 2014 published Facebook photos of himself posing with severed heads, apparently in Syria. He also posted statements in support of the Islamic State. Prosecutors planned to file an international arrest warrant for him.

December 18—Mali—Three UN peacekeepers were injured when a vehicle carrying Chadian troops hit a roadside bomb in Aguel’hoc, near Kidal. Chadian troops followed footprints from the scene to a house, where they arrested 2 people with heavy weapons.

December 18—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide bomber set off his vehicle bomb after his pursuers stopped his car near Kabul, killing an Afghan police officer and wounding 3 others.

December 18—Egypt—The U.S. Department of State designated as a terrorist group Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt), a Salafist group in Egypt. The group posted on its Twitter account a ­thank-you for this “blessing.” State said the group formed in January 2014 “and has since claimed numerous attacks on Egyptian security forces at government buildings, public spaces and universities, often injuring or kill­ing innocent bystanders.” In November, the group attacked Egyptian police officers and conscripts in Cairo.

December 18—Syria/Iraq—CNN and AP quoted Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey, Pentagon press secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby, and other U.S. officials as indicating that airstrikes had killed Haji Mutazz, a deputy of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi; Abd-al-Basit, a senior military emir in Iraq; and Mosul emir Radwan Talib.

December 19—Pakistan—Pakistan executed terrorists Mohammed Aqeel and Arshad Mahmood at a Faisalabad prison after the government reinstated the death penalty following the school massacre earlier in the week. The duo had been tried in military courts. Local media reported that Aqeel was convicted for a 2009 attack on army headquarters, while Mahmood was found guilty in a plot to kill former President Pervez Musharraf. The Pakistani army chief signed off on 4 more executions of convicted terrorists.

Meanwhile, the Pakistani Taliban threatened to kill more children if the executions were carried out as promised. Spokesman Mohammad Khurassani ­e-mailed reporters, “We can create a mourning situation at the homes of many army generals and politicians.”

The military announced it had killed 119 insurgents, including an Uzbek commander, in 3 offensives in the Khyber region in the previous 2 days: 62 in ground action and 57 in airstrikes.

December 19—Finland—The Helsinki District Court issued suspended sentences to 3 men and a woman for collecting 3,200 euros ($3,900) to fund ­al-Shabaab in 2008–2011. Their leader was given a 16-month suspended sentence for recruiting for ­al-Shabaab and for attempting to take children from Finland to an ­al-Shabaab training camp. The other 3 were given 5-month suspended sentences. All were of Somali descent and lived in Finland.

December 19—Northern Ireland—British army experts dismantled a ­booby-trap bomb hidden underneath the driver’s seat of an ­off-duty British soldier’s car in Portadown. Police and politicians blamed IRA ­die-hards.

December 19—Iraq—A bomb went off in the morning near a market in Baghdad’s northern district of Shaab, killing 4 people and wounding 9.

A bomb exploded at a commercial street in eastern Baghdad, killing 2 and wounding 8.

A bomb exploded near car repair shops in downtown Baghdad, killing 2 people.

A bomb went off near an industrial area in western Baghdad’s Baiyaa district, killing 3 and wounding 7.

December 19—Bahrain—The Interior Ministry announced that a bomb hit a security patrol in Bani Jamra, injuring 3 policemen.

December 19—Nigeria—In attacks on 5 villages, Boko Haram lined up 50 elderly people too feeble to flee and shot them to death at Government Day Secondary School in Gwoza. Several other elderly people were shot at Uvaghe Central Primary School.

Boko Haram attacked Damagum and Mamudo towns in Yobe State, bombing government buildings, the police station and military barracks.

Boko Haram attacked soldiers guarding a power station in Borno State, but at least 70 of them died when the guards fired back.

December 19—Israel—A Palestinian splinter group fired a rocket into Israel, which responded with an airstrike into Gaza. The Israeli government blamed Hamas.

December 19—Ethiopia—The Ethiopian Defense Ministry claimed that the pilot of an Ethiopian attack helicopter forced his ­co-pilot and technician to land in Eritrea during a routine morning training flight. 14121901

December 20—Iraq—A bomb went off on a commercial street in Madain, killing 4 and wounding 9.

A bomb went off near shops in Baghdad’s Taji suburb, killing 3 people and wounding 11.

A roadside bomb hit an army patrol in the western Baghdad suburbs, killing 3 soldiers and wounding 6.

A bomb exploded near a bakery in central Baghdad, killing 2 civilians and wounding 4.

December 20—Sweden—Two car bombs went off before dawn in the Rosengaard district of Malmo, shattering windows but causing no injuries. The district is populated by immigrants from Iraq, Kosovo, Bosnia and Lebanon. One car bomb exploded at the foot of a building, the other in a nearby parking lot.

December 20—Guantanamo Bay—The Department of Defense repatriated to their native Afghanistan Guantanamo Bay detainees Shawali Khan, 50; Khi Ali Gul, 50; Abdul Ghani, 41; and Mohammed Zahir. The first 3 had been held for nearly 12 years. They had been recommended for transfer in January 2010.

December 20—Afghanistan—The Taliban attacked a checkpoint in Jawzjan Province’s Qashtepa District, killing 7 policemen and wounding 5 others. In an ensuing gun battle, 5 terrorists died.

A vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Kunar Province’s Nari District during the night, killing 7 civilians, including 2 children, and injuring 3 other civilians.

December 20—France—Police in ­Joue-les-Tours shot to death Bertrand Nzohabonayo, 20, a French convert to Islam, after he attacked 3 police officers with a knife while yelling “Allahu Akbar.” On December 20, Burundi police arrested the attacker’s brother, Brice Nzohabonayo, 19, who was believed to have drawn his brother into radical Islam several years earlier.

December 20—Nigeria—Boko Haram released a video showing its gunmen shooting civilians lying face down in a dorm in Bama. A voiceover said they were being killed because they were “infidels.” “We have made sure the floor of this hall is turned red with blood, and this is how it is going to be in all future attacks and arrests of infidels. From now, killing, slaughtering, destructions and bombing will be our religious duty anywhere we invade.” He said that although the prophet Mohammed advised prisoners should be held, not killed, “we felt this is not the right time for us to keep prisoners; that is why we will continue to see that the grounds are crimsoned with the flowing blood of prisoners.”

Later that night, terrorists yelling “Allahu akbar” drove pickup trucks into Geidan, in Yobe State, and fired on fleeing residents before destroying the town’s 3 cell phone towers. They then broke into the local prison and freed the inmates. They threw bombs that set fires, destroying the police station, government headquarters and hundreds of vehicles at a station for ­long-distance drivers.

December 21—India—A homemade bomb exploded in the parking lot of a bus station in Imphal, capital of Manipur State, killing 3 construction workers and hospitalizing 5 other men. No one claimed credit. At least 17 separatist groups are active in the state.

December 21—Pakistan—AFP reported that Pakistan hanged 4 more terrorists, 2 days after the military signed off on their death sentences. A Faisalabad prison official announced “Ghulam Sarwar, Rashid Tipu, Zubair Ahmed and Akhlaq Ahmed have been hanged for an assassination attempt on General Pervez Musharraf,” Pakistan’s former leader.

December 21—France—AFP reported that during the evening, a 40-year-old ­French-born son of North African immigrants yelled “Allahu Akbar” (“God is greatest”) then crashed a Renault Clio into 5 groups of people in Dijon, injuring 11 people, 2 seriously. Police arrested the individual, who said he was acting for the children of Palestine. Investigators said he was born in 1974 and had been in a psychiatric hospital 157 times since 2001. Police said he was involved in a string of minor offenses in the 1990s. He claimed to be upset at the treatment of Chechen children as well.

December 22—Nigeria—UPI reported that a bomb exploded at a bus station in Gombe, killing 20 and wounding 60.

A bomb went off at a market in Bauchi State, killing 6 and injuring 19.

December 22—Italy—General Mario Parente told the media that authorities had broken up a ­neo-Fascist plot to attack immigrants, the Equitalia tax collection agency, the Italian railway, and political targets, including magistrates. He said the group had been amassing arms. Police executed 14 arrest warrants in central and northern Italy.

December 22—West Bank—Soldiers stopped a Palestinian man who planned to stab a victim in Tulkarem.

December 22—Egypt—The Interior Ministry announced that security forces killed 5 members of Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis during a raid at a farm in ­al-Sharqiya Province. Two of the suspects were wanted by the Supreme Security Court for participating in terrorist attacks. A security officer was wounded in the ­shoot-out. Police seized explosives belts for suicide attacks, a car laden with explosives and ­bomb-making material.

Four masked gunmen on a motorcycle shot and seriously wounded a 30-year-old Egyptian ­non-commissioned officer as he walked to work in east Cairo’s ­el-Marg neighborhood.

December 22—France—CNN quoted a Member of Parliament on the scene who said that the driver of a white Peugeot minivan intentionally crashed into pedestrians at a Christmas market in Nantes’s Place Royale at night, injuring 11 people, 4 seriously. The attacker then stabbed himself several times. He was hospitalized. A local prosecutor said the driver was a 37-year-old man born in Saintes, 150 miles south of Nantes.

December 23—Uganda—Gunmen on motorbikes assassinated Sheikh Abdu Kadir Muwaya, head of the Shia Muslim Community in Uganda, at his home in Mayuge. Ugandan police chief Major General Kale Kayihura said Muwaya had refused to cooperate with the ­Congo-based Ugandan extremist Allied Democratic Forces.

December 23—Pakistan—MSN reported that police killed 13 Taliban in Karachi.

December 23—Libya—AFP quoted local council chair Yussef Tebeiqa as saying that “Unidentified armed men killed Christian (Coptic) Egyptian doctor Magdi Sobhi Toufik and his wife in their house at the Jarf health centre in Sirte.” The attackers, believed to be religiously motivated, kidnapped the couple’s 18-year-old daughter, leaving her 2 younger sisters behind. Tebeiqa observed that “Money left on the table and the wife’s jewelry left at the crime scene were not touched.”

December 23—India—Members of the separatist National Democratic Front of Bodoland were suspected when gunmen using automatic weapons conducted at least 4 attacks that killed 72 and wounded a dozen more Adivasi tribal settlers in Assam State’s Kokrajhar and Sonitpur districts. Some TV stations said 40 had died. At least 30 were killed in Sonitpur district; all were Adivassi who work in tea gardens in the area.

December 23—Australia—Police arrested 2 men in an investigation of a terrorist plot to kill a random member of the public in Sydney. Authorities charged Sulayman Khalid, 20, with possession of documents designed to facilitate a terrorist attack. Authorities charged a 21-year-old with breaching a control order. Khalid made a brief appearance via video link at Parramatta Local Court in western Sydney. He did not apply for bail. His next hearing was scheduled for February 18, 2015. He faced 15 years if convicted. The 21-year-old faced 2 years in jail.

So far, 11 people had been arrested in the investigation.

The previous day, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott warned there had been a “heightened level of terror chatter” in the week since a gunman took 18 people hostage in a downtown Sydney cafe.

December 23—Yemen—CNN reported that AQAP released a 30-minute video that included a 5-second clip showing foiled “underwear” bomber, Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, with the group’s leader, Nasir ­al-Wuhayshi, and U.S.-born cleric/propagandist Anwar ­al-Aulaqi.

December 23—Gaza Strip—Reuters reported that Israeli forces on a routine border patrol killed Tayseer Asmairi, a member of Hamas’s armed wing, after snipers fired on them on the border with the Gaza Strip. 14122301

December 23—India—Closed-circuit television caught 2 masked men on a motorcycle as they threw acid on a woman in a crowded neighborhood in New Delhi, causing serious burns to her face and her right eye. The men then stole her purse.

December 23—Russia—AFP reported that the supreme court of the ­Kabardino-Balkaria region convicted 57 people on charges of terrorism, illegal arms possession, murder and armed rebellion following a ­decade-long trial over an armed raid by dozens of gunmen on the North Caucasus city of Nalchik in October 2005. During the attack, 50 people, including 35 policemen, were killed and more than 200 were injured. The attackers, armed with Kalashnikov rifles and ­shoulder-fired missiles, hit several security offices, arms shops, and other buildings. Prosecutors said the gunmen planned to create an “Islamic state” in Russia’s Caucasus. Most of the accused were sentenced to sentences ranging from 4 years and 10 months to 23 years; 5 were sentenced to life in prison. Three defendants were released because their ­pre-trial detention exceeded the length of their sentences.

December 24—Syria—AFP reported that the Islamic State claimed it fired a ­Russian-made Iqla ­heat-seeking missile to shoot down an F-16 warplane from the U.S.-led coalition near Raqqa in northern Syria. The group said it captured the Jordanian pilot, showing a photograph of his military ID card, which listed him as First Lieutenant Maaz ­al-Kassasbeh, variant Moaz ­al-Kasasbeh, born May 29, 1988. Other photos showed him carried from a body of water by 4 men, and surrounded on land by a dozen gunmen. The downing was confirmed by the pilot’s uncle, retired Jordanian Major General Fahd ­al-Kasabeh. U.S. Central Command said IS did not shoot down the plane with a missile. IS released an interview with the pilot in the December 29, 2014, edition of its online Dabiq magazine, in which he said he ejected from the plane and landed in the Euphrates River, where IS captured him. The next day, IS asked its Twitter followers on their preferences for ­al-Kassabeh’s means of execution, calling him “murtadd” (apostate). Arabic hashtags saying “suggest a way to kill the Jordanian pilot pig” and “We all want to slaughter Moaz” were re­tweeted thousands of times. Others, including Jordan’s royal family, used the hashtag “We are all Moaz,” received more repostings

On January 27, 2015, the Islamic State was believed to have posted an online message warning that Japanese hostage Kenji Goto and Jordanian pilot 1st Lt. Mu’ath ­al-Kaseasbeh had less than “24 hours left to live.” The message demanded that Jordan release Sajida ­al-Rishawi within 24 hours. The message said Goto had “24 hours left to live and the pilot has even less.” ­Al-Kaseasbeh’s Jordanian F-16 plane went down near Raqqa, Syria, in December. Goto was seized in late October 2014 apparently while trying to rescue Haruna Yukawa, who was captured in August 2014 and purportedly beheaded in January 2015. The mother of another Jordanian prisoner, Ziad ­al-Karboli, told the AP that her family was told that the Islamic State group also was seeking his release. AP reported that ­al-Karboli, an aide to a former ­al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, was sentenced to death in 2008 for killing a Jordanian citizen. On January 28, 2015, USA Today and Jordan’s ­state-run news agency Petra reported that Mohammed al-Momani, the country’s minister for media affairs and communications, said that Jordan was ready to release ­al-Rishawi for the pilot, but had not received proof of life for ­al-Kaseasbeh. It also was not clear whether Goto’s freedom would be part of the deal. On January 28, AP and ABC News reported that the Islamic State released an ­English-language audio purportedly by Goto extending the deadline for ­al-Rishawi’s release to sunset the next day or Jordanian pilot Mu’as ­al-Kasaseabeh would be killed. NPR reported on January 29 that another IS message demanded the release of ­al-Rishawi for the pilot’s life, but did not mention Goto.

On February 3, 2015, the Washington Post reported that the Islamic State’s al-Furqan media service released a 22-minute video, entitled “Healing of the Believers’ Chests,” that appears to show the death of Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath ­al-Kaseasbeh, who was set on fire in a cage by the group. He appeared to have been beaten beforehand, showing a black eye. The video threatened other Jordanian pilots by name. IS showed the video on ­big-screen televisions in Raqaa. AFP reported that Jordan announced that “The sentence of death pending on…. Iraqi Sajida ­al-Rishawi will be carried out at dawn.” On February 4, 2015, Jordan hanged 2 ­al-Qaeda prisoners, Sajida ­al-Rishawi and Ziad ­al-Karbouly, at Swaqa Prison before dawn, hours after the release of the video. ­Al-Kaseasbeh’s father called on the government to avenge his son, and officials threatened a tough response. Army spokesman Mamdouh ­al-Ameri said, “Our punishment and revenge will be as huge as the loss of the Jordanians.” ­Al-Rishawi received a death sentence for involvement in the 2005 triple hotel bombing that killed 60 people in Amman. ­Al-Karbouly was sentenced to death in 2008 for plotting terror attacks on Jordanians in Iraq. The Jordanian military said that the pilot was killed on January 3. 14122401

December 24—Iraq—A suicide bomber attacked a group of ­pro-government Sunni Sahwa (Awakening Councils) militiamen gathered to receive their monthly paychecks at a military base in Madain, killing at least 24 people, including 15 militiamen and 9 soldiers, and wounding 55.

A bomb exploded at an outdoor market in Youssifiyah, killed 4 civilians and wounding 7.

December 24—Ireland—Police arrested Pearse McCauley, an IRA veteran, on suspicion of stabbing his wife, Pauline McCauley, several times. She sustained a collapsed lung. The high school teacher was a Sinn Fein politician councilwoman from 1999 to 2012. She met and married McCauley in 2003 while he was in prison. He escaped by shooting out of a London prison in 1991 and fled to Ireland. A decade later he was convicted of killing an Irish policeman during an attempted IRA robbery. He was paroled in 2009.

December 24—Yemen—AQAP released the 13th edition of its online magazine Inspire, featuring a lead article “The Glad Tidings of Victory,” threatening attacks against Western interests, and offering 37 pages of updated instructions on fashioning homemade explosive devices. The edition, “committed to arm Muslim individuals—as well as Muslim groups,” was devoted to “Jihad on America,” calling for attacking Bill Gates, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, American personalities and American, United, Delta, British Airways, EasyJet, and Air France. The group also released a video on how to avoid being spotted by drones, suggesting using an “insulation cover” of a canvas sheet and aluminum foil painted to match local terrain. An interview entitled, “Destination airport, and Guess What’s on the Menu?” with the “AQ-Chef,” appears to be with AQAP bombmaker Ibra­him Hassan Tali al-Asiri. He calls for singleton attacks because, “It is hard to uncover, because none knows him but Allah. He has no relationship with any group or any individuals.”

December 25—Syria—On December 30, 2014, the International Business Times reported that Syrian soldiers had killed Ahmad Mohamad ­al-Ghaz’zaoui, an Australian who had been fighting for the Islamic State since arriving in Syria from Turkey in November. His family originated in a small Lebanese village.

December 25—Somalia—At lunchtime, 8 ­al-Shabaab gunmen, some wearing Somali National Army uniforms, attacked a Christmas party at the African Union’s Halane base in Mogadishu, setting off a car bomb at the entrance before initiating a firefight with troops. The base also houses several U.N and international agencies. Five terrorists died. AU Mission in Somalia spokesman Colonel Ali Aden Houmed told the media, “Our forces shot dead 3 of them, 2 detonated themselves near a fuel depot, and the 3 are believed to have escaped.” Three terrorists were later captured. Three soldiers and a civilian contractor died. In an audio posted on the ­al-Shabaab website, spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage posted an audio on the group’s website indicating that the group was retaliating for the killing of the group’s leader, Ahmed Abdi Godane, in a U.S. airstrike earlier in 2014. 14122501

December 25—Sweden—The International Business Times reported that an arsonist threw a firebomb into a mosque in Eskilstuna, an industrial city 86 miles west of Stockholm, injuring 5 of the 15 to 20 people who were inside at the time. No suspect was apprehended.

December 25—Iraq—CNN reported that a coalition airstrike killed the Islamic ­State-appointed governor of Mosul, Hassan Hassan Saeed ­al-Jabouri, alias Abu Taluut, in the village of Qayyara. He was the second Islamic State governor of Mosul killed by airstrikes. He had been in office for less than 25 days. An early December strike killed one of his predecessors, Radwan Taleb ­al-Hamdouni.

December 25—West Bank—A firebomb was thrown during the night at the car of a West Bank family, injuring a father and his 11-year-old daughter on a road near Palestinian villages.

December 25—Yemen—In a dawn attack, suspected Houthi rebels kidnapped Major General Yehia ­al-Marani, Yemen’s second highest intelligence official from his house in Sana’a. Gunmen demanded that his guards awaken him. He told his guards to lower their weapons, and accompanied the gunmen. His personal guard and driver were later released. ­Al-Marani is in charge of internal security, and for 15 years ran the intelligence department in Saada Province.

December 25—Syria—The Washington Post reported that the Islamic State was attracting families, citing the case of Siddhartha Dhar, alias Saif ­al-Islam, alias Abu Rumaysah, 31, who emigrated in November to ­IS-controlled territory in Syria with his wife, Aisha, and first 4 children, who had been born in London. He was on bail after being arrested on ­terrorism-related charges. He tweeted about the UK’s “shoddy security system.” Aisha recently had a 5th child, a son.

December 25—Egypt—Cairo police killed 2 suspected Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis terrorists in a ­shoot-out that left 3 policemen and 2 civilians injured.

An army captain and a soldier were killed in the northern Sinai peninsula.

December 26—Israel—Shortly after morning prayers at the ­al-Aqsa mosque, a Palestinian man stabbed 2 Israeli paramilitary border policemen at the Lion’s Gate entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City, injuring them lightly. The attacker stabbed an officer in the neck, a second officer in the arm, then escaped.

Israeli troops shot a Palestinian who was climbing on the Gaza Strip border fence. He was treated for a gunshot wound in the lower part of his body.

December 26—Colombia—The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia said that it had released hostage Carlos Becerra Ojeda to representatives of the International Red Cross and Cuba and Norway. The government said FARC kidnapped him earlier in December after he survived a rebel attack north of the southwestern department of Cauca.

December 27—Uganda—In a nighttime attack, gunmen on a motorbike assassinated Sheikh Mustafa Bahiiga, a Muslim scholar and the head of Tablig Muslim sect in Kampala. Ugandan police chief Major General Kale Kayihura said Bahiga had refused to cooperate with the ­Congo-based Ugandan extremist Allied Democratic Forces.

December 27—Egypt—The Middle East News Agency reported that in the early morning, 2 gunmen on a motorcycle shot to death a police corporal and injured another corporal who were guarding a bank in Sphinx Square in Giza, across the Nile from downtown Cairo. The gunmen escaped. Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis was suspected.

December 27—Somalia—Al-Shabaab senior operative Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi surrendered to Somali police in the Gedo region. Observers believed he fell out with those loyal to ­al-Shabaab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane, who was killed in a U.S. air­strike. Hersi was one of 8 top ­al-Shabaab mem-bers whom the U.S. Department of State offered a total of $33 million in rewards for information leading to their capture in 2012. His bounty was $3 million.

December 28—Syria—UPI reported that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights organization charged that the Islamic State had executed 116 foreign fighters trying to return home.

December 28—Pakistan—Gunmen killed Luqman Shahzad as he walked to an agriculture field near his village in the Gujranwala district of Punjab. He was the 11th member of the Ahmedi religious community killed in 2014. Ahmedis follow Ghulam Ahmed, an Indian religious leader who died in 1908. Many conservative Muslims view them as heretics, and a 1974 Pakistani law officially declared Ahmedis to be non–Muslim.

December 28—India—UPI reported that a bomb exploded at 8:30 p.m. near the popular Coconut Grove restaurant on Church Street in Bangalore, killing Bhavani, a 38-year-old woman, and hospitalizing at least 3 others, including one of her relatives. One victim sustained head wounds. The time bomb was wrapped in paper and contained ammonium nitrate and shrapnel. It had been set in a roadside drain an hour earlier.

December 28—Iraq—AFP reported that an Islamic State sniper was suspected in the assassination of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Brigadier General Hamid Taghavi, who had been training the army and Iraqi volunteers in Samarra.

December 28—Afghanistan—The Taliban attacked an army checkpoint in Sangin District in Helmand Province, killing 4 soldiers and wounding another 3. During the nighttime clash, 8 terrorists died.

December 28—Cameroon—Reuters reported that Cameroon’s army killed at least 41 Boko Haram terrorists in defending against attacks on 5 towns and villages, including Makari, Amchide, Limani and Achigachia, along its border with Nigeria over the weekend. The army attacked a BH base in Chogori, killing 34 terrorists. Another clash in Waza led to the deaths of 7 terrorists and a soldier. BH briefly occupied the army camp in Achigachia, but left after airstrikes.

December 29—Iraq—An Islamic State suicide bomber, disguised as a Shi’ite, blew himself up inside a funeral tent in a farming area outside Taji, killing 16 mourners and wounding 34. The funeral was for the father of 2 members of ­pro-government Sahwa (Awakening Councils) militias. The bomber was holding a religious flag and a portrait of a Shi’ite imam.

An Islamic State sniper killed retired Brigadier General Abbas Hassan Jabr, who had joined the Shi’ite Badr Brigades militia, in a gun battle in Duluiyah.

December 29—Sweden—UPI reported that an ­apparent arson fire due to flammable liquid started at 3 a.m. in a mosque in Eslov, causing some dam-age but no injuries. Fire department spokesper-son Gustaf Sandell said, “There is no possible natural explanation for this type of fire to break out by itself.”

December 29—Somalia—UPI quoted the Pen­tagon as indicating that a U.S. unmanned aircraft killed Abdishakur Tahlil, ­al-Shabaab’s intelligence chief, and 2 other ­al-Shabaab terrorists, near Saa-kow.

December 30—Afghanistan—A policeman shot to death 3 fellow officers and wounded another 5 while they ate dinner in Uruzgan Province. The gunman fled.

December 30—Nigeria—CNN reported that Boko Haram gunmen on motorcycles raided the Kautikari farming village, killing at least 15 people and burning several homes.

December 30—Libya—A suicide car bomber crashed into the outer gate of the headquarters of the internationally recognized parliament in Tobruk. No one else was killed but 18 people, including a ­parliamentarian and 3 children, were slightly in-jured.

December 31—Guantanamo Bay—NPR reported that that Pentagon had transferred 2 Tunisian and 3 Yemeni detainees to Kazakhstan after the Guantanamo Review Task Force said the men did not pose security threats. The Defense Department identified the detainees as Asim Thahit Abdullah ­al-Khalaqi, Muhammed Ali Hussein Khnenah, and Sabri Mohammed Ebrahim ­al-Qurashi, all from Yemen; and 2 Tunisians, Adel Bin Ahmed Bin Ibrahim Hkiml and Mohammed Abdul Rahman. The men had been held for more than 11 years after being detained in Pakistan for suspected ties to ­al-Qaeda or other jihadis.

December 31—Yemen—Reuters reported that a suicide bomber set off his explosives at a cultural center where students were celebrating the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, killing 33 people, including women and children, and wounding 48, in Ibb. The province is controlled by Houthis. Reports conflicted as to whether a second bomb went off at a window of ­al-Thawra, one of 2 hospitals where the bodies were taken. AQAP was suspected.

December 31—UK—SkyNews reported that at 11:30 a.m., detectives from the West Midlands ­counter-terrorism unit arrested a 25-year-old woman from north London’s Haringey area on suspicion of preparing for acts of terrorism and other ­Syria-related terror offences as she got off a flight from Istanbul at Luton Airport.

December 31—Bosnia-Herzegovina—The State Court charged that Bilal Bosnic—a Bosnian arrested in September who was a member of the nation’s Salafi community—incited others to join terrorist organizations at gatherings and on YouTube. He was charged with recruiting Bosnians to fight with Islamic militants in Syria and organizing a terrorist group.

December 31—Afghanistan—Suspected Taliban gunmen killed a policeman and 2 civilians after security forces stopped the car and motorcycle in which they were traveling. Both conveyances were loaded with explosives. Provincial police chief General Fazel Ahmad Sherzad said police suspected that they were on their way to attack government offices in Batikot district.

December 31—Philippines—A bomb exploded at the entrance of a town market in Mlang township in North Cotabato Province, killing 4 people and wounding at least 30. Most of the victims were shoppers buying fruits and horns used for ­noise-making to celebrate the new year.

December 31—Syria—The International Business Times reported that the Islamic State released a book, “Sister’s Role in Jihad,” that provides “helpful tips” to Muslim mothers on raising jihadi children. The online book calls on mothers to start training their children in the ways of jihad “while they are babies.” Mothers can foster a “jihadi spirit” by “getting military books (preferably with pictures) and other similar books, CDs, videos, and by visiting web sites along with your children, and utilizing other Internet resources.” Television is not helpful, because it results in “mental and physical loss.” Target shooting should be encouraged via playing mock war games using toy guns and toy military sets.

December 31—Nigeria—AFP reported on Janu-ary 3, 2015, that suspected Boko Haram gunmen in pickup trucks kidnapped 40 boys and young men in remote Malari village in northeast Borno State on New Year’s Eve and dragged them into the Sambisa forest. The victims were aged between 10 and 23.