The State Department has ordered a mandatory evacuation of all non-essential staff from Lahore, Pakistan after a threat against the consulate according to CNN.
The diplomats were moved to the capital city of Islambad. The state department also issued a travel warning for Americans. Continue reading
A drone strike in Yemen Thursday has killed six al-Qaeda terrorists in one of the organization’s former strongholds according to a Yemeni military official.
The drone strike is the 6th in the last 10 days as actions have been taken by the U.S. and Yemeni military in light of reports al-Qaeda was planning a massive terrorist attack against infrastructure and oil pipelines. Continue reading
A pair of U.S. drone strikes killed al-Qaeda terrorists in Yemen overnight as officials urged all Americans to immediately leave the country.
The four terrorists killed in the air strike were not on Yemen’s 25 Most Wanted list that was released on Monday. Continue reading
Embassies across the middle east remain closed because of terrorist chatter that concerned many officials in Washington.
“This is the most serious threat that I’ve seen in the last several years,” Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) told NBC. “Chatter means conversation among terrorists about the planning that’s going on – very reminiscent of what we saw pre-9/11.” Continue reading
U.S. intelligence officials are dealing with the most credible terrorist threat in years as 19 diplomatic posts in the Middle East and Africa remain closed through this upcoming Saturday. Continue reading
The U.S. has closed 21 embassies and consulates around the world through next week due to intelligence reports that say a major terrorist attack is planned by al-Qaeda.
The State Department said that closing the embassies for the rest of this week instead of just the weekend was due to “an abundance of caution” related to the initial threat. Continue reading
Iraqi officials say hundreds of inmates have escaped from two Iraqi prisons after gunmen stormed the complexes.
Abu Ghraib west of Baghdad and Taji to the north were both assaulted late Sunday night. Continue reading
Two Spanish aid workers for the group Doctors Without Borders were rescued from their Islamic terrorist captors Thursday.
Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut were kidnapped in Kenya in 2011 by al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist group based in Somalia. The abduction of the two women along with others in a short span led the Kenyan government to launch a military assault on the terror group in Somalia. Continue reading
Al-Qaeda has released a statement that the group’s #2 leader in Yemen has been killed in a U.S. drone strike.
Saeed al-Shihri had survived multiple drone strikes including one last year that the Yemeni government said had killed him. The new report is the first time at Al-Qaeda has confirmed the death of al-Shihri. Continue reading
Five people have been confirmed dead with the death toll likely to rise after Islamic terrorists conducted a homicide bombing raid on African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu, Somalia. Continue reading
