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Suicide bomber in failed attack on Indonesia police

Agence France-PresseJune 3, 2013 00:00

A suicide bomber riding a motorbike on Monday attacked a police station in a central Indonesian town known as a terror hotbed, but failed to claim any casualties in the explosion, police said. The man forced his way into the main police station in Poso, on Sulawesi island, and detonated the explosives between the entrance and a mosque in the compound, said local police spokesman Soemarno.

Army thwarts suicide attack on gas export terminal in Yemen

Agencia EFEJune 2, 2013 15:46

Sana'a, Jun 2 (EFE).- The Yemeni army on Sunday thwarted a suicide attack with a truck bomb against an important natural gas export terminal in southwestern Yemen, the Defense Ministry said. The Al Qaeda terrorist network was behind the attack, the ministry said. The suicide bomber managed to blow up the truck he was driving near an entrance to the port in the Belhaf zone, in the southwestern province of Shabua, a security official told Efe.

Leading Sunni Muslim cleric calls for "jihad" in Syria

Thomson ReutersJune 1, 2013 17:45

DOHA (Reuters) - Leading Sunni Muslim cleric Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi on Saturday called for jihad (Muslim holy war) in Syria in response to the military intervention by Shi'ite Lebanese group Hezbollah in the civil war there, according to his website. It said Qaradawi had "called on all those able to undertake jihad and fighting to head to Syria to stand by the Syrian people who are being killed at the hands of the regime and are now being killed at the hands of what he called the party of Satan". (Reporting by Sami Aboudi)

U.N.: May was Iraq's deadliest month in over 5 years

Agencia EFEJune 1, 2013 13:32

Baghdad, Jun 1 (EFE).- May was the deadliest month in Iraq in more than five years with 1,045 people killed in acts of terrorism and violence, up from 712 violent deaths in April, the United Nations' mission in that country said in a statement Saturday. A total of 2,397 people were wounded in May due to escalating sectarian violence. Baghdad was the hardest-hit province in terms of numbers of victims and attacks, according to the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, which did not indicate the casualty figures for the capital city.

Yemen air raids kill 7 'Qaeda' members: local official

Agence France-PresseJune 1, 2013 09:20

Two air strikes that targeted two vehicles in south Yemen on Saturday killed seven suspected members of Al-Qaeda and wounded two more, a local official said. The deaths came on the same day suspected members of the extremist group shot dead a senior air force officer. Saturday's attacks by the Yemeni air force hit the two vehicles on the outskirts of the town of Mahfad in Abyan province, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The official said Al-Qaeda-linked militants were seen evacuating the casualties and transferring them to a local medical centre.

Yemen gunmen kill air force officer

Agence France-PresseJune 1, 2013 07:01

Unidentified assailants shot dead a senior Yemeni air force officer on Saturday in the eastern province of Hadramawt, where Al-Qaeda remains active despite a government crackdown, a security official said. The gunman sped off on the back of a motorbike after killing Colonel Yahya al-Umayssi, commander of the air force detachment at the town of Seiyun, in the inland north of the province, an official said. A witness said that both assailants were masked but that the gunman removed his mask before opening fire, saying: "In the name of God, Allah is great," as he did so.

Iran more active in sponsoring terrorists: U.S. report

Kyodo News InternationalMay 31, 2013 00:03

The U.S. State Department said Thursday that Iran has become more active in its state sponsorship of terrorism and that more than half of the world's terrorist attacks in 2012 occurred in three countries -- Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan. "A marked resurgence" was noted in Iran's state sponsorship of terrorism through the Ministry of Intelligence and Security and the Lebanon-based Shiite Islamist militant group Hezbollah, the Country Reports on Terrorism in 2012 said.

Iran's sponsorship of terrorism sees "marked resurgence" : U.S.

Thomson ReutersMay 30, 2013 20:00

By Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran's sponsorship of terrorism overseas underwent "a marked resurgence" in 2012, reaching levels not seen in 20 years, the U.S. State Department charged on Thursday in its annual report on trends in political violence. The report cited a series of actual and planned attacks in Europe and Asia linked to Hezbollah, Iran's Lebanon-based ally, including a July 2012 bombing in Bulgaria that killed five Israeli citizens and a Bulgarian, and wounded 32 others.

Baghdad bombs kill 16 in Sunni-Shi'te bloodletting

Thomson ReutersMay 30, 2013 09:01

By Kareem Raheem BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least seven bombs battered Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim neighborhoods across Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 16 more people in the worst wave of sectarian violence since civil war five years ago. The bloodletting reflects increasing conflict between Iraq's majority Shi'ite leadership and the Sunni minority, many of whom feel unfairly treated since the 2003 fall of strongman Saddam Hussein, a Sunni.

Iraq attacks kills 28

Agence France-PresseMay 29, 2013 18:30

Attacks including a bombing against a bridal party killed 28 people in Iraq on Wednesday, officials said, the latest in a wave of violence that the government has failed to rein in. Violence has killed more than 570 people in Iraq so far in May and over 1,000 in less than two months, according to AFP figures based on security and medical sources. The government's public response has so far been limited to speeches, a shakeup of senior security officers and announcing a series of vague new measures relating to security.