A year after the death of its iconic leader Osama bin Laden at the hands of US special forces, Al Qaeda is making an operational comeback, notably in North Africa and Syria. The suicide bombings hitting Damascus and Idlib in the last 24 hours were the work of Al Qaeda in Iraq – AQI, whose operatives have been pouring into Syria in the last two weeks, DEBKAfile reports, fully armed with quantities of explosives. They quickly join up with the hundreds of al Qaeda fighters from Libya present at the Free Syrian Army training camps in southeast Turkey.
Without US intervention, al Qaeda will be able to use Syria for attacking its neighbors too.
First Syrian rebel seaborne attackDamascus sources admit a firefight between Syrian troops andt Syrian rebels landing near Latakia in in three commando inflatables. Both sides suffered fatalities. DEBKAfile: The boats were most likely dropped from a Turkish ship.
Iran threatens UAE over three Gulf islandsIf a war breaks out over the three Persian Gulf islands occupied by Iran, the United Arab Emirates which claims them will be the first to suffer serious damage, says Tehran
Military steps by US, Israel, Iran01 May. The US, Israel and Iran embarked on significant military steps Tuesday, May 1, refuting US media reports of a lessening in war tensions over Iran: Shortly after Israel launched a big war exercise on its northern borders with Syria and Lebanon, Iran’s border guards initiated naval drills along its southern coast where nuclear facilities, Revolutionary Guards bases and oilfields are situated.
Monday, Israel started building a defensive wall 10-meter high, 2 kilometer-long along its border with Lebanon to protect the Israeli population and highways in northern Galilee from sniper fire. According to intelligence received, the Lebanese Shiite Hizballah plans to lash out against Israel in the hope of recovering its waning popular support as a result of its tight bonds with the hated Bashar Assad. A week after the F-22 squadron was deployed in the Gulf, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, special assistant to President Obama and senior director for European affairs at the National Security Council, disclosed Monday that the completion of the initial phase of the US-backed missile network in Europe would be announced at the NATO summit meeting in Chicago on May 20.
Without US intervention, al Qaeda will be able to use Syria for attacking its neighbors too.
First Syrian rebel seaborne attackDamascus sources admit a firefight between Syrian troops andt Syrian rebels landing near Latakia in in three commando inflatables. Both sides suffered fatalities. DEBKAfile: The boats were most likely dropped from a Turkish ship.
Iran threatens UAE over three Gulf islandsIf a war breaks out over the three Persian Gulf islands occupied by Iran, the United Arab Emirates which claims them will be the first to suffer serious damage, says Tehran
Military steps by US, Israel, Iran01 May. The US, Israel and Iran embarked on significant military steps Tuesday, May 1, refuting US media reports of a lessening in war tensions over Iran: Shortly after Israel launched a big war exercise on its northern borders with Syria and Lebanon, Iran’s border guards initiated naval drills along its southern coast where nuclear facilities, Revolutionary Guards bases and oilfields are situated.
Monday, Israel started building a defensive wall 10-meter high, 2 kilometer-long along its border with Lebanon to protect the Israeli population and highways in northern Galilee from sniper fire. According to intelligence received, the Lebanese Shiite Hizballah plans to lash out against Israel in the hope of recovering its waning popular support as a result of its tight bonds with the hated Bashar Assad. A week after the F-22 squadron was deployed in the Gulf, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, special assistant to President Obama and senior director for European affairs at the National Security Council, disclosed Monday that the completion of the initial phase of the US-backed missile network in Europe would be announced at the NATO summit meeting in Chicago on May 20.
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