
World View: Mali Hotel Terror Attack Highlights al-Qaeda’s Strength in Africa
Contents: Terror groups compete for credit for Mali hotel attack; Mali hotel terror attack highlights al-Qaeda’s strength in Africa

Contents: Terror groups compete for credit for Mali hotel attack; Mali hotel terror attack highlights al-Qaeda’s strength in Africa

Contents: ISIS claims credit for suicide attack on Hezbollah in Beirut Lebanon; Commodities and stocks continue to plunge

Contents: Egypt’s army starts ‘The Martyr’s Right’ operation in North Sinai; Turkey’s troops enter northern Iraq to hunt PKK after terror attacks; Violence spreads in cities across Turkey; Pro-government mobs in Turkey storm Hurriyet offices for alleged Erdogan misquote; Turkey appears to be approaching civil war.

Contents: Egypt’s military brings the Sinai ‘100 pct under control’ in 2nd day of fighting; Israeli general says that Hamas is supporting terrorist group in Sinai; ISIS attack on Hamas pushes Hamas and Egypt closer together; Possible panic in China’s stock markets

Both Israeli and Egyptian authorities believe that Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group that rules the Gaza Strip, is working with an Islamic State-affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula to facilitate terror attacks in the region.

Contents: Egypt in a ‘state of war’ in northern Sinai; Israel approves Egypt’s military buildup in Sinai; Kuwait in ‘state of war’ with ISIS, will require nationwide DNA testing

Gunmen killed two members of the Egyptian tourist police force and injured a conscript in front of the Giza Pyramids outside of Cairo on Tuesday.

Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, a jihadist group formally affiliated with the Islamic State, has claimed responsibility for two mortar shells launched at Hamas targets in Gaza. The attack follows a growing war of words triggered by mass arrests of ISIS supporters by the Palestinian terror group.

Greece and Germany are eyeball to eyeball on bailout crisis; Libya chaos threatens to reopen bitter rift between Qatar and Egypt; Ethnic Chinese Kokang burst into violence in northern Burma (Myanmar)

Greece bailout talks collapse in acrimony; Egypt faces two-front war with airstrikes in Libya; Muslim versus Muslim wars in the Mideast continue to grow; Iraq army preparing to recapture Mosul from ISIS

The government of Egypt has designated the Al Qassam Brigades– the armed wing of the Gaza-ruling Palestinian terror group Hamas– as a terrorist organization.

Spain’s far left Podemos party hopes to copy success of Greece’s Syriza party; Egypt’s al-Sisi blames foreign countries for terrorist attacks; Houthis use live fire against protesters in Yemen

Hezbollah backs down from war with Israel; Clashes between Nusra front and Free Syrian Army spreading in Syria; Jundallah takes credit for massive mosque attack in Pakistan; Egypt’s military begins ‘wide military offensives’ in North Sinai; Greece clashes with eurogroup ‘No more bailout, no more troika!’; In Denmark you are now paid to take out a mortgage

Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, now known as the Sinai Province after pledging loyalty to the Islamic State (ISIS), has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on Thursday throughout the Sinai that resulted in the deaths of dozens.

ISIS-linked terrorists kill dozens in Egypt’s northern Sinai; Russia looks to Greece as an ally against EU sanctions; Greece forces compromise in planned new EU sanctions against Russia