Abdul Karem Ahmed Al Tuwayti | Abdul Karem Ahmed Al Tuwayti | al-Qaeda | Southeast Asia | 20031126 | |||||
Abdul Khaliq Ahmed Saleh al-Baidhani | Abdul Khaliq Ahmed Saleh al-Baidhani | al-Qaeda | Home Front: WoT | 20050715 | |||||
Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah | Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah | al-Qaeda | Terror Networks | 20031014 | |||||
Abou Houdhaifa Ahmed Essaoui | Abou Houdhaifa Ahmed Essaoui | Armed Islamic Group | Down Under | 20031028 | |||||
Abrar Ahmed | Abrar Ahmed | Lashkar-e-Taiba | India-Pakistan | 20060811 | Link | ||||
Abu Abdullah Ahmed al-Oram | Abu Abdullah Ahmed al-Oram | al-Qaeda | Iraq-Jordan | 20050831 | |||||
Abu Ahmed | Abu Ahmed | Palestinian Liberation Front | Syria-Lebanon-Iran | 20040404 | |||||
Abu Ahmed | Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades | Israel-Palestine-Jordan | 20051101 | Link | |||||
Abu Ahmed | Al-Badr | India-Pakistan | 20060903 | Link | |||||
Afzal Ahmed | Afzal Ahmed | Islami Jamiat Talaba | India-Pakistan | 20051227 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Abahri | Ahmed Abahri | al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades | Israel-Palestine-Jordan | 20051118 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Abdel Fattah Safi | Ahmed Abdel Fattah Safi | Popular Resistance Committees | Middle East | 20040207 | |||||
Ahmed Abdel Rahman | Ahmed Abdel Rahman | Fatah | Israel-Palestine | 20010913 | |||||
Ahmed Abdel Razzaq | Ahmed Abdel Razzaq | Iraqi Insurgency | Iraq-Jordan | 20040313 | |||||
Ahmed Abdel Sattar | Ahmed Abdel Sattar | al-Qaeda | Fifth Column | 20031119 | |||||
Ahmed Abdel Wahab | Ahmed Abdel Wahab | Hamas | Middle East | 20020714 | |||||
Ahmed Abdul Karim Al Saadi | Ahmed Abdul Karim Al Saadi | Usbat Al Ansar | Syria-Lebanon | 20030716 | |||||
Ahmed Abdul Qadoose | Ahmed Abdul Qadoose | Jamaat-e-Islami | India-Pakistan | 20030304 | |||||
Ahmed Abdul Qudus | Ahmed Abdul Qudus | al-Qaeda | India-Pakistan | 20030325 | |||||
Ahmed Abdul Quduse | Ahmed Abdul Quduse | Jamaat-e-Islami | India-Pakistan | 20030305 | |||||
Ahmed Abdul Rahman Saqer Al-Fadhli | Ahmed Abdul Rahman Saqer Al-Fadhli | Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula | Arabia | 20031207 | |||||
Ahmed Abdullah | Ahmed Abdullah | Jamatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh | Bangladesh | 20060403 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Abdullah Ali | Ahmed Abdullah Ali | al-Qaeda | Britain | 20060830 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Abdulnabi | Ahmed Abdulnabi | Yemeni Islamic Jihad | Arabia | 20030701 | |||||
Ahmed Abdulnabi | Aden-Abyan Islamic Army | Arabia | 20030701 | ||||||
Ahmed Abed-Rahman | Ahmed Abed-Rahman | Fatah | Israel-Palestine | 20011219 | |||||
Ahmed Abi-Bakr | Ahmed Abi-Bakr | Lashkar-e-Taiba? | Fifth Column | 20030905 | |||||
Ahmed Abou Elmaati | Ahmed Abou Elmaati | al-Qaeda in North America | Great White North | 20040710 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Abou al-Baraa | Ahmed Abou al-Baraa | Salafist Group for Call and Combat | Africa North | 20060202 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Abu Hawila | Ahmed Abu Hawila | Fatah | Israel-Palestine | 20040213 | |||||
Ahmed Abu Kamasha | Ahmed Abu Kamasha | Janjaweed | Africa: Horn | 20040626 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Abu Sajjad al-Gharawi | Ahmed Abu Sajjad al-Gharawi | Iraqi Insurgency | Iraq | 20060703 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Abu-Ali | Ahmed Abu-Ali | Lashkar-e-Taiba | Home Front | 20030627 | |||||
Ahmed Abu-Ali | al-Qaeda | Home Front: WoT | 20040618 | Link | |||||
Ahmed Abu-Laban | Ahmed Abu-Laban | Islamic Faith Society | Europe | 20060209 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Aishtawi | Ahmed Aishtawi | Hamas | Middle East | 20030825 | |||||
Ahmed Akkari | Ahmed Akkari | Islamic Society of Denmark | Europe | 20060209 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Al-Dakheel | Ahmed Al-Dakheel | Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula | Arabia | 20030729 | |||||
Ahmed Al-Ghamdi | Ahmed Al-Ghamdi | al-Qaeda | Iraq-Jordan | Saudi | Deceased | Cannon Fodder | 20050701 | ||
one-time medical student and son of a Saudi diplomat. In December 2004, he climbed into a truck in Mosul and blew himself up. | |||||||||
Ahmed Al-Ghamdi | al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula | Arabia | Saudi | Deceased | Cannon Fodder | 20030602 | |||
One of the 9-11 hijackers (flight 175) | |||||||||
Ahmed Alhaznawi | Ahmed Alhaznawi | al-Qaeda | 20020323 | ||||||
Ahmed Ali Abu Hidrah | Ahmed Ali Abu Hidrah | Aden-Abyan Islamic Army | Arabia | 20051125 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Ali Abu Hidrah | Islamic Army of Aden | Arabia | 20051125 | Link | |||||
Ahmed Alnami | Ahmed Alnami | al-Qaeda | Home Front: WoT | Saudi | Deceased | Cannon Fodder | 20020318 | ||
9-11 hijacker | |||||||||
Ahmed Ammar | Ahmed Ammar | Learned Elders of Islam | Europe | 20040521 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Aviti | Ahmed Aviti | Fatah | Middle East | 20021230 | |||||
Ahmed Ayed Faqih | Ahmed Ayed Faqih | Islamic Jihad | Middle East | 20021230 | |||||
Ahmed Azzuz | Ahmed Azzuz | Arab European League | Europe | 20060603 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Bahar | Ahmed Bahar | Hamas | Israel-Palestine | 20040613 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Bashir | Ahmed Bashir | Force 17 | Isreal-Palestine | 20020430 | |||||
Ahmed Bilal | Ahmed Bilal | al-Qaeda | Home Front | 20030918 | |||||
Ahmed Bile Ugas | Ahmed Bile Ugas | Al-Itihaad al-Islamiyyah | Africa: Horn | 20050908 | |||||
Ahmed Bin Hamoud Al-Khaldi | Ahmed Bin Hamoud Al-Khaldi | Al-Mujahidoun Al Jazeera | Arabia | 20030517 | |||||
Ahmed Bin Hamoud Al-Khaldi | Al Muwahidoun | Arabia | 20030517 | ||||||
Ahmed Brahim | Ahmed Brahim | al-Qaeda | 20020414 | ||||||
Ahmed Chowdhury Fares | Ahmed Chowdhury Fares | Suspects | Latin America | 20031205 | |||||
Ahmed Daud | Ahmed Daud | Jamatud Dawah | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20040510 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Dawud Santos | Ahmed Dawud Santos | Rajah Sulaiman Movement | Southeast Asia | 20021008 | |||||
Ahmed El Bouhali | Ahmed El Bouhali | al-Qaeda in Europe | Down Under | 20050713 | |||||
Ahmed Fadel Nazal al-Khalayleh | Ahmed Fadel Nazal al-Khalayleh | al-Qaeda in Iraq | Iraq | 20060608 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Fadhil al-Khalayleh | Ahmed Fadhil al-Khalayleh | al-Tawhid | Middle East | 20031219 | |||||
Ahmed Fathy Mehalba | Ahmed Fathy Mehalba | al-Qaeda | Home Front | 20040110 | |||||
Ahmed Ghamloush | Ahmed Ghamloush | Hezbollah | Syria-Lebanon | 20030922 | |||||
Ahmed Ghnaim | Ahmed Ghnaim | Fatah | Middle East | 20030629 | |||||
Ahmed Haj Ali | Ahmed Haj Ali | Hamas | Middle East | 20030527 | |||||
Ahmed Hamis | Ahmed Hamis | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine | Middle East | 20031029 | |||||
Ahmed Hamud Al-Khaldi | Ahmed Hamud Al-Khaldi | Learned Elders of Islam | Arabia | 20030531 | |||||
Ahmed Hannan | Ahmed Hannan | al-Qaeda USA | Home Front | 20030603 | |||||
Ahmed Hannan | Al-Qaeda | Home Front | 20021115 | ||||||
Ahmed Harby | Ahmed Harby | Islamic Faith Society | Europe | 20060209 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Hassan | Ahmed Hassan | Islamic Jihad | Middle East | 20030927 | |||||
Ahmed Hassan Kaka al-Obeidi | Ahmed Hassan Kaka al-Obeidi | Iraqi Insurgency | Iraq | 20060703 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Haza | Ahmed Haza | Fatah | Middle East | 20020725 | |||||
Ahmed Hijazi | Ahmed Hijazi | al-Qaeda | Arabia | 20050704 | |||||
Ahmed Hikmat Shakir | Ahmed Hikmat Shakir | al-Qaeda | Iraq | Iraqi | At Large | 20031115 | |||
believed to be an al Qaeda operative who abetted the USS Cole bombing and 9/11 plots, among others. Along with 9/11 hijackers Khalid al Midhar and Nawaf al Hazmi, he was present at the January 2000 al Qaeda summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was working there as an airport "greeter"--a job obtained for him by the Iraqi embassy. When he was arrested in Qatar not long after 9/11, he had telephone numbers for the safe houses of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers. He was inexplicably released by the Qataris and promptly arrested again in Jordan as he attempted to return to Iraq. | |||||||||
Ahmed Hilles | Ahmed Hilles | Fatah | Israel-Palestine | 20040211 | |||||
Ahmed HomoodAl-Khaldi | Ahmed HomoodAl-Khaldi | al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula | Arabia | 20030602 | |||||
Ahmed Hossain | Ahmed Hossain | Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh | Bangladesh | 20051229 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Huber | Ahmed Huber | Nada Management Organisation | Europe | 20031205 | |||||
Ahmed Hussein Khudayer | Ahmed Hussein Khudayer | Iraqi Baath Party | Iraq | 20030407 | |||||
Ahmed Ibrahim A. Alhaznawi | Ahmed Ibrahim A. Alhaznawi | al-Qaeda | Terror Networks | 20021008 | |||||
Ahmed Ibrahim Bilal | Ahmed Ibrahim Bilal | al-Qaeda | Home Front | 20030919 | |||||
Ahmed Ibrahim al-Haznawi | Ahmed Ibrahim al-Haznawi | al-Qaeda | Home Front | 20031117 | |||||
Ahmed Idris Nasreddin | Ahmed Idris Nasreddin | al-Qaeda | Terror Networks | 20031115 | |||||
Ahmed Idris Nasreddin | Malaysian Swiss Gulf and African Chamber | Iraq | 20031030 | ||||||
Ahmed Idris Nasreddin | Nasreddin Group International Holding Ltd. | Europe | 20050701 | ||||||
Al Taqwa is an association of offshore banks and financial management firms that have helped al-Qaida shift money around the world | |||||||||
Ahmed Idris Nasreddin | Nascoservice | Europe | 20050701 | ||||||
Al Taqwa is an association of offshore banks and financial management firms that have helped al-Qaida shift money around the world | |||||||||
Ahmed Idris Nasreddin | Amana Holdings | Europe | 20050701 | ||||||
Al Taqwa is an association of offshore banks and financial management firms that have helped al-Qaida shift money around the world | |||||||||
Ahmed Idris Nasreddin | Al Taqwa Bank | Europe | Nigerian | At Large | Money Man | 20050701 | |||
Al Taqwa is an association of offshore banks and financial management firms that have helped al-Qaida shift money around the world | |||||||||
Ahmed Idris Nasreddin | Nasco Nasreddin Holding | Europe | 20050701 | ||||||
Al Taqwa is an association of offshore banks and financial management firms that have helped al-Qaida shift money around the world | |||||||||
Ahmed Idris Nasreddin | Nascotex SA | Europe | 20050701 | ||||||
Al Taqwa is an association of offshore banks and financial management firms that have helped al-Qaida shift money around the world | |||||||||
Ahmed Idris Nasreddin | Nasco Investment | Europe | 20050701 | ||||||
Al Taqwa is an association of offshore banks and financial management firms that have helped al-Qaida shift money around the world | |||||||||
Ahmed J. Al-Kandari | Ahmed J. Al-Kandari | al-Qaeda | Arabia | 20030601 | |||||
Ahmed Jamal | Ahmed Jamal | al-Qaeda | Down Under | 20051031 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Jan | Ahmed Jan | Jaish-e-Mohammad | India-Pakistan | 20020224 | |||||
Ahmed Javed Khawaja | Ahmed Javed Khawaja | Jamaat-e-Islami | India-Pakistan | 20030301 | |||||
Ahmed Javed Khawaja | al-Qaeda | India-Pakistan | 20030315 | ||||||
Ahmed Javed Khwaja | Ahmed Javed Khwaja | al-Qaeda | India-Pakistan | 20030527 | |||||
Ahmed Jawed Khawaja | Ahmed Jawed Khawaja | al-Qaeda | India-Pakistan | 20030409 | |||||
Ahmed Jibril | Ahmed Jibril | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -- General Command | Syria-Lebanon | 20031007 | |||||
Ahmed Jibril | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command | Syria-Lebanon-Iran | 20020619 | ||||||
Ahmed Jibril | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command | Israel-Palestine | 20040424 | Link | |||||
Ahmed Kabir | Ahmed Kabir | Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh | Bangladesh | 20051206 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Kaya | Ahmed Kaya | Jemaah Islamiyah | Southeast Asia | 20040402 | |||||
Ahmed Kaya | Eeman Institute | Southeast Asia | 20040402 | ||||||
Ahmed Khadr | Ahmed Khadr | al-Qaeda | Great White North | 20030208 | |||||
Ahmed Khadr | Human Concern International | Great White North | 20030208 | ||||||
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani | Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani | al-Qaeda | Afghanistan/South Asia | In Jug | 20050912 | Link | |||
Ahmed Khalfan Ghilani | Ahmed Khalfan Ghilani | al-Qaeda | India-Pakistan | 20051206 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Khawaja | Ahmed Khawaja | al-Qaeda | India-Pakistan | 20030128 | |||||
Ahmed Kurad | Ahmed Kurad | As-Salah | Israel-Palestine | 20040321 | |||||
Ahmed Laidouni | Ahmed Laidouni | al-Qaeda | Europe | 20040526 | Link | ||||
Ahmed M. Al-Kandari | Ahmed M. Al-Kandari | al-Qaeda | Arabia | 20030601 | |||||
Ahmed Mahmoud | Ahmed Mahmoud | Muslim Brotherhood | North Africa | 20030102 | |||||
Ahmed Masoud | Ahmed Masoud | Aden-Abyan Islamic Army | Arabia | 20011012 | |||||
Ahmed Mefraj | Ahmed Mefraj | Palestinian Authority | Israel-Palestine | Palestinian | 20020308 | ||||
Ahmed Mehdi | Ahmed Mehdi | al-Qaeda | Home Front: WoT | 20050704 | |||||
Ahmed Mikati | Ahmed Mikati | al-Tawhid? | Syria-Lebanon | 20031223 | |||||
Ahmed Mohammad Ibraheem | Ahmed Mohammad Ibraheem | al-Qaeda | Afghanistan | 20030925 | |||||
Ahmed Mughrabi | Ahmed Mughrabi | al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade | Israel-Palestine | Palestinian | Captured | Recruiter | 20020527 | ||
Israel suspects Mughrabi of recruiting the perpetrators of the suicide bombing in Rishon Lezion which killed two Israelis and the March suicide bombing in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Yisrael in which 10 people were killed | |||||||||
Ahmed Muhammad Younis al-Ahmed al-Muwali | Ahmed Muhammad Younis al-Ahmed al-Muwali | Iraqi Insurgency | Iraq | 20060703 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Mussa | Ahmed Mussa | Hamas | Middle East | 20021029 | |||||
Ahmed Nacer | Ahmed Nacer | al-Qaeda | Europe | 20061002 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Nacer | Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat | Europe | 20061003 | Link | |||||
Ahmed Naveed Khawaja | Ahmed Naveed Khawaja | al-Qaeda | India-Pakistan | 20030409 | |||||
Ahmed Nazal Khalayleh | Ahmed Nazal Khalayleh | al-Qaeda | 20020101 | ||||||
Ahmed Nimir | Ahmed Nimir | Hamas | Middle East | Palestinian | Big Shot | 20030504 | |||
Ahmed Omar Abdel Rahman | Ahmed Omar Abdel Rahman | al-Qaeda | India-Pakistan | 20030302 | |||||
Ahmed Omar Saeed Shaikh | Ahmed Omar Saeed Shaikh | Jaish-e-Mohammad | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20020219 | |||||
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh | Omar Saeed Sheikh | al-Qaeda | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20040509 | Link | ||||
Omar Saeed Sheikh | Jaish-e-Muhammad | India-Pakistan | 20030424 | ||||||
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh | Jaish-e-Mohammad | India-Pakistan | 20050731 | ||||||
Omar Sheikh | Harkat-ul-Jehad Islamia | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20020122 | ||||||
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh | al-Qaeda | Afghanistan/South Asia | In Jug | 20030502 | |||||
Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh | Jaish-e-Muhammad | India-Pakistan | 20040125 | ||||||
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh | Jaish e-Mohammad | Britain | 20030502 | ||||||
Ahmed Omar Sheikh | Ahmed Omar Sheikh | Harkat-ul Ansar | India-Pakistan | 20020127 | |||||
Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh | Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh | al-Qaeda | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20050725 | |||||
Ahmed Omer Sheikh | Ahmed Omer Sheikh | al-Qaeda | India-Pakistan | 20060305 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Ottaman Muhammad Shafik Bader | Ahmed Ottaman Muhammad Shafik Bader | Hamas | Middle East | Palestinian | At Large | 20031202 | |||
a senior Hamas member who planned, recruited and dispatched terrorists to infiltrate Israeli communities and carry out shooting and bomb attacks against Israeli citizens in the West Bank and Jerusalem. | |||||||||
Ahmed Qadoos | Ahmed Qadoos | Jamaat e-Islami | India-Pakistan | 20030308 | |||||
Ahmed Qorei | Ahmed Qorei | Palestinian Authority | Israel-Palestine | Palestinian | 20020609 | ||||
Ahmed Quddus | Ahmed Quddus | Jamaat e-Islami | India-Pakistan | 20030303 | |||||
Ahmed Quddus | al-Qaeda | India-Pakistan | 20030302 | ||||||
Ahmed Qurei | Ahmed Qurei | Fatah | Israel-Palestine-Jordan | 20051214 | |||||
Ahmed Qurei | Palestinian Authority | Israel-Palestine | Palestinian | 20020215 | |||||
Ahmed Qureia | Ahmed Qureia | Palestinian Authority | Israel-Palestine | Palestinian | 20020404 | ||||
Ahmed Raad | Ahmed Raad | Lashkar-e-Taiba | Down Under | 20051109 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Raissouni | Ahmed Raissouni | League for an Islamic Future | North Africa | 20021130 | |||||
Ahmed Rashid | Ahmed Rashid | Lashkar-e-Jhangvi | India-Pakistan | 20060401 | |||||
Ahmed Ressam | Ahmed Ressam | al-Qaeda | Algerian | In Jug | 20040108 | ||||
Stopped entering the USA from Canada on his way to boom LAX | |||||||||
Ahmed Ressam | al-Qaeda | Home Front: WoT | In Jug | 20020116 | |||||
Ahmed Saadat | Ahmed Saadat | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine | Israel-Palestine | 20030226 | |||||
Ahmed Sadat | Ahmed Sadat | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine | Israel-Palestine | 20020429 | |||||
Ahmed Saeed | Ahmed Saeed | Lashkar-e-Jhangvi | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20050921 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Saeed Abdur Rehman Khadr | Ahmed Saeed Abdur Rehman Khadr | al-Qaeda | Great White North | 20040126 | |||||
Ahmed Saeed Khadr | Ahmed Saeed Khadr | al-Qaeda | Afghanistan | 20020905 | |||||
Ahmed Saeed al-Kadr | Ahmed Saeed al-Kadr | al-Qaeda | 20020319 | ||||||
Ahmed Sahagi | Ahmed Sahagi | al-Qaeda | Terror Networks | 20030119 | |||||
Ahmed Sahgi | Ahmed Sahgi | Jemaah Islamiyah | Southeast Asia | 20031126 | |||||
Ahmed Said Abry | Ahmed Said Abry | Dhinureyin Islamic Foundation | East/Subsaharan Africa | 20030531 | |||||
Ahmed Said Khadr | Ahmed Said Khadr | Health and Education Project International | India-Pakistan | 20031015 | |||||
Ahmed Said Khadr | al-Qaeda | Afghanistan | Egyptian-Canadian | Deceased | 20031017 | ||||
Ahmed Said Khadr | Human Concern International | India-Pakistan | 20031015 | ||||||
Ahmed Said Khadr | Al Jihad | India-Pakistan | 20031015 | ||||||
Ahmed Saker | Ahmed Saker | Popular Resistance Committees | Middle East | 20031016 | |||||
Ahmed Salim Swedan | Ahmed Salim Swedan | al-Qaeda | Africa: Subsaharan | Kenyan | At Large | Mid-level Hard Boy | 20040630 | Link | |
36-year-old Kenyan on the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists. | |||||||||
Ahmed Salim Swedan | al-Qaeda in Africa | Africa: East | Kenyan | At Large | Big Shot | 20030826 | |||
At large as of 2005-05-25 | |||||||||
Ahmed Sari Hussein | Ahmed Sari Hussein | Hezbollah | Israel-Palestine | 20040309 | |||||
Ahmed Shah ibn Sharif | Ahmed Shah ibn Sharif | Jamatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh | Bangladesh | 20060403 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Shawqi al-Kubaissi | Ahmed Shawqi al-Kubaissi | Iraqi Insurgency | Iraq | 20060703 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Shibi | Ahmed Shibi | Fatah | Middle East | 20021029 | |||||
Ahmed Usaid | Ahmed Usaid | Harakat ul-Mujahideen | Fifth Column | 20030905 | |||||
Ahmed Wahabe | Ahmed Wahabe | Hamas | Great White North | 20031211 | |||||
Ahmed Wali Al Muqarrab | Ahmed Wali Al Muqarrab | al-Qaeda | Afghanistan | 20030925 | |||||
Ahmed Walid Raguib al-Baz | Ahmed Walid Raguib al-Baz | Palestine Liberation Front | Iraq | 20030320 | |||||
Ahmed Watban Ibrahim al-Hassan al-Tikriti | Ahmed Watban Ibrahim al-Hassan al-Tikriti | Iraqi Insurgency | Iraq | 20060703 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Yassin | Ahmed Yassin | Hamas | Israel-Palestine | 20040510 | Link | ||||
Ahmed Yassin | Islamic Jihad | Middle East | 20020822 | ||||||
Ahmed Zaoui | Ahmed Zaoui | Islamic Front for Salvation | Terror Networks | 20021217 | |||||
Ahmed Zaoui | al-Qaeda | 20021214 | |||||||
Ahmed Zaoui | Armed Islamic Group | Terror Networks | 20031028 | ||||||
Ahmed Zarabib | Ahmed Zarabib | Salafist Group for Call and Combat | Africa North | 20060202 | Link | ||||
Ahmed al-Abed | Ahmed al-Abed | Aqsa Martyrs Brigades | Israel-Palestine | 20040326 | |||||
Ahmed al-Hawashi | Ahmed al-Hawashi | Supreme Council of Global Jihad | Terror Networks | 20030813 | |||||
Ahmed al-Jaabari | Ahmed al-Jaabari | Hamas | Israel-Palestine-Jordan | 20051227 | Link | ||||
Ahmed al-Kalaylah | Ahmed al-Kalaylah | al-Qaeda | Middle East | 20021215 | |||||
Ahmed al-Khalayleh | Ahmed al-Khalayleh | al-Tawhid | Europe | 20030516 | |||||
Ahmed al-Khalayleh | al-Qaeda | Iraq | 20051117 | Link | |||||
Ahmed al-Khaldi | Ahmed al-Khaldi | Learned Elders of Islam | Arabia | 20030529 | |||||
Ahmed al-Khaldi | Al Muwahidoun | Arabia | 20030603 | ||||||
Ahmed al-Najjar | Ahmed al-Najjar | Egyptian Islamic Jihad | Terror Networks | 20020912 | |||||
Ahmed al-Wash | Ahmed al-Wash | al-Qaeda | Down Under | 20040322 | |||||
Ahmed bin Hamid al-Khaldi | Ahmed bin Hamid al-Khaldi | Supreme Council of Global Jihad | Terror Networks | 20030813 | |||||
Ahmed bin Hmud al-Khaldi | Ahmed bin Hmud al-Khaldi | al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula | Arabia | 20030531 | |||||
Ahmed bin Nasser al-Dekhiel | Ahmed bin Nasser al-Dekhiel | Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula | Arabia | 20030804 | |||||
Ahmed ibn Abdul Rahman Al-Fadli | Ahmed ibn Abdul Rahman Al-Fadli | al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula | Arabia | 20040424 | Link | ||||
Akhlaq Ahmed | Akhlaq Ahmed | Lashkar e-Jhangvi | India-Pakistan | 20030831 | |||||
Akhlaq Akhlas Ahmed | Akhlaq Akhlas Ahmed | al-Qaeda | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20050830 | |||||
Al-Iyadyyih Ahmed Mohammed Al-Sayyad | Al-Iyadyyih Ahmed Mohammed Al-Sayyad | al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula | Arabia | 20030602 | |||||
Ali Ahmed Jar Allah | Ali Ahmed Jar Allah | Yemeni Islah Party | Arabia | 20030427 | |||||
Ali Ahmed Jarallah | Ali Ahmed Jarallah | Yemeni Islah Party | Arabia | 20040101 | |||||
Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman al Bahlul | Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman al Bahlul | al-Qaeda | 20040228 | ||||||
Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman al-Bahlul | Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman al-Bahlul | al-Qaeda | 20040224 | ||||||
Ali Youssef Ahmed Moghrabi | Ali Youssef Ahmed Moghrabi | al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades | Isreal-Palestine | 20020527 | |||||
Aref Ahmed | Aref Ahmed | al-Qaeda | Home Front: WoT | 20040304 | |||||
Asad Ahmed Munshi | Asad Ahmed Munshi | Harkat-e-Jehadi Islami | India-Pakistan | 20020216 | |||||
Ashfaq Ahmed | Ashfaq Ahmed | Lashkar-e-Taiba | Down Under | 20040418 | Link | ||||
Atiq Ahmed | Atiq Ahmed | Jaish-e-Mohammed | India-Pakistan | 20030901 | |||||
Azzam al Ahmed | Azzam al Ahmed | Palestinian Authority | Middle East | Palestinian | 20020703 | ||||
Bashir Ahmed | Bashir Ahmed | Harkat-ul-Mujahedeen al-Almi | India-Pakistan | Pakistani | Arrested | Tough Guy | 20030125 | ||
charged with murder, terrorism, and conspiracy in connection with the suicide attack which killed 11 French engineers and two Pakistani bystanders in Karachi | |||||||||
Benjamin Ahmed Mahmud | Benjamin Ahmed Mahmud | al-Qaeda | India-Pakistan | Arrested | Minion | 20020614 | Link | ||
Accomplice of Jose Padilla | |||||||||
Bilal Ahmed | Bilal Ahmed | Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh | Bangladesh | 20051215 | Link | ||||
Bilal Ahmed | Jaish-e-Mohammad | India-Pakistan | Pakistani? | Deceased | Controller | 20020712 | |||
alias Mehmood Bhai, district commander of Jaish-e-Mohammad. The commander was zapped in a three-hour battle near Handwara township. | |||||||||
Binyam Ahmed Muhammad | Binyam Ahmed Muhammad | al-Qaeda | Home Front: WoT | 20051108 | Link | ||||
Col. Shawki Abed Ahmed | Col. Shawki Abed Ahmed | Iraqi Baath Party | Britain | Iraqi | Big Shot | 20030424 | |||
Signed a Jan. 14, 2003, document, written on Republican Guard stationary with its Iraqi eagle and "Trust in Allah," calls for the "Manager of the security department, in the name of President Saddam Hussein, to order a gratuity to be issued to Mr. George Galloway of British nationality in the amount of three million dollars only." The document states that the money is in return for "his courageous and daring stands against the enemies of Iraq, like Blair, the British Prime Minister, and for his opposition in the House of Commons and Lords against all outrageous lies against our patient people...." | |||||||||
Dr. M Khan Mehmoud Ahmed Kathia | Dr. M Khan Mehmoud Ahmed Kathia | al-Qaeda | India-Pakistan | Pakistani | Arrested | Runner | 20030409 | ||
medical doctor suspected of linkages with al-Qaida of Osama bin Laden | |||||||||
Emad Abdelwahid Ahmed Alwan | Emad Abdelwahid Ahmed Alwan | al-Qaeda | North Africa | 20021223 | |||||
Emad Abdelwahid Ahmed Alwan | Salafist Group for Call and Combat | North Africa | Yemeni | Deceased | Big Shot | 20030605 | |||
a leader of the al-Qaida network for northern and western Africa | |||||||||
Farid Ahmed Piracha | Farid Ahmed Piracha | Jamaat-e-Islami | Afghanistan-Pak-India | 20051102 | Link | ||||
Faris Ahmed Jamaan Al-Shuwail Al-Zahrani | Faris Ahmed Jamaan Al-Shuwail Al-Zahrani | Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula | Arabia | 20031207 | |||||
Farooq Ahmed Qasid | Farooq Ahmed Qasid | Lashkar-i-Toiba | Afghanistan-Pak-India | 20051025 | Link | ||||
Farooq Ahmed Qasid | Lashkar-e-Taiba | Afghanistan-Pak-India | 20051031 | Link | |||||
Faruque Ahmed | Faruque Ahmed | Harkatul-Jihad | Bangladesh | 20060411 | Link | ||||
Fayyaz Ahmed | Fayyaz Ahmed | Hizbul Mujahideen | India-Pakistan | 20040118 | |||||
Fuad Ahmed | Fuad Ahmed | Islamic Jihad | Middle East | 20030113 | |||||
Ghaidah Ahmed Souidah | Ghaidah Ahmed Souidah | al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula | Arabia | 20030602 | |||||
Gulzar Ahmed | Gulzar Ahmed | Jaish-e-Muhammad | India-Pakistan | Pakistani | Front Man | 20030708 | |||
Jaish spokesman in Multan | |||||||||
Gulzar Ahmed Tantrey | Gulzar Ahmed Tantrey | Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami | India-Pakistan | 20011213 | |||||
Hafez Ahmed Kadir Mainuddin | Hafez Ahmed Kadir Mainuddin | Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh | Bangladesh | 20060101 | Link | ||||
Hafiz Hussain Ahmed | Hafiz Hussain Ahmed | Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20050721 | |||||
Hafiz Hussain Ahmed | Jamaat-e-Islami | India-Pakistan | 20030531 | ||||||
Hafiz Hussain Ahmed | Jamiat-Ulema-e-Islam (Fazal) | India-Pakistan | 20020707 | ||||||
Hafiz Hussain Ahmed | Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal | Afghanistan/South Asia | Big Shot | 20020309 | |||||
Hafiz Hussain Ahmed | Pak-Afghan Defence Council | India-Pakistan | 20020831 | ||||||
Hafiz Hussain Ahmed | Jamaatud Dawa | India-Pakistan | 20030718 | ||||||
Hafiz Hussain Ahmed Sharodi | Hafiz Hussain Ahmed Sharodi | Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam | Afghanistan/South Asia | Big Shot | 20011003 | ||||
Hafiz Shoaib Ahmed | Hafiz Shoaib Ahmed | Lashkar-e-Jhangvi | India-Pakistan | 20031118 | |||||
Hamed Abderrahman Ahmed | Hamed Abderrahman Ahmed | Taliban | Europe | 20051005 | Link | ||||
Hamid bin Ahmed al-Rifaei | Hamid bin Ahmed al-Rifaei | Islamic Forum for Dialogue | Arabia | 20011028 | |||||
Hanief Ahmed Dar | Hanief Ahmed Dar | Lashkar-e-Taiba | Afghanistan-Pak-India | 20051116 | Link | ||||
Hassan Ahmed | Hassan Ahmed | Lashkar e-Jhangvi | India-Pakistan | 20030608 | |||||
Helkoard Ahmed | Helkoard Ahmed | Ansar Al-Islam | Terror Networks | 20030505 | |||||
Hosssam Ahmed Hammad | Hosssam Ahmed Hammad | Hamas | Israel-Palestine-Jordan | 20040602 | Link | ||||
Hussain Ahmed | Hussain Ahmed | Harkat-e-Jehadi Islami | India-Pakistan | 20020216 | |||||
Hussam Ahmed Nimer Hamdan | Hussam Ahmed Nimer Hamdan | Hamas | Middle East | 20020807 | |||||
Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi | Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmound al Qosi | al-Qaeda | Home Front: WoT | 20050724 | |||||
Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi | al-Qaeda | 20040228 | |||||||
Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi | al-Qaeda | 20040224 | |||||||
Ibrahim Ahmed al-Hamdi | Ibrahim Ahmed al-Hamdi | Lashkar-e-Taiba | Fifth Column | 20040117 | |||||
Ijaz Ahmed | Ijaz Ahmed | Lashkar-i-Jhangvi | India-Pakistan | 20030913 | |||||
Imad Nassar Ahmed Amarah | Imad Nassar Ahmed Amarah | al-Qaeda in Iraq | Iraq-Jordan | 20050706 | |||||
Imam Maulana Syed Ahmed Bukhari | Imam Maulana Syed Ahmed Bukhari | Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind | India-Pakistan | 20030310 | |||||
Imtiaz Ahmed | Imtiaz Ahmed | Lashkar-e-Taiba | Afghanistan-Pak-India | 20051116 | Link | ||||
Imtiaz Ahmed Mujahid | Imtiaz Ahmed Mujahid | Markazi Jamiat-e-Ahle Hadith | 20051224 | Link | |||||
Imtiaz Ahmed Mujahid | Ahle Haidth Youth Force | India-Pakistan | 20051224 | Link | |||||
Israr Ahmed | Israr Ahmed | Tanzeem Islami | India-Pakistan | 20030908 | |||||
Israr Ahmed | Tablighi Jamaat | India-Pakistan | 20030908 | ||||||
Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl | Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl | al-Qaeda | Terror Networks | 20040502 | Link | ||||
Jameel Ahmed | Jameel Ahmed | Jamiat-ul-Mujahedin | India-Pakistan | 20030128 | |||||
Jamil Ahmed | Jamil Ahmed | Jamiat-ul-Mujahedeen | India-Pakistan | 20030316 | |||||
Javed Ahmed Mir | Javed Ahmed Mir | Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front | India-Pakistan | 20031120 | |||||
Javed Ahmed Mir | Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front | India-Pakistan | 20051228 | Link | |||||
Keis Ahmed Nasura | Keis Ahmed Nasura | Tanzim | Middle East | 20030114 | |||||
Khalid Ahmed | Khalid Ahmed | al-Qaeda | India-Pakistan | 20030926 | |||||
Khalil Ahmed | Khalil Ahmed | Lashkar-e-Jhangvi | India-Pakistan | 20060223 | Link | ||||
Khamis Ahmed Ali | Khamis Ahmed Ali | Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades | Israel-Palestine | Palestinian | Deceased | Cannon Fodder | 20020117 | ||
Killed in shootout near near the Askar camp | |||||||||
Khorshed Uddin Ahmed | Khorshed Uddin Ahmed | Jamaatul Mujaheddin Bangladesh | Bangladesh | 20051225 | Link | ||||
Khurram Ahmed | Khurram Ahmed | Hizb ut Tehrir | India-Pakistan | 20020809 | |||||
Latif Ahmed | Latif Ahmed | Hizbul Mujahideen | India-Pakistan | 20020326 | |||||
Mahdi Ahmed al-Sumaidai | Mahdi Ahmed al-Sumaidai | Iraqi Insurgency | Iraq-Jordan | Iraqi | 20040628 | Link | |||
Mahmoud Diyab al-Ahmed | Mahmoud Diyab al-Ahmed | Iraqi Baath Party | Iraq | 20030809 | |||||
Mahmud Ahmed Uda | Mahmud Ahmed Uda | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine | Israel-Palestine | 20020406 | |||||
Majdi Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim Abdullah Al-Khabrani | Majdi Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim Abdullah Al-Khabrani | al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula | Arabia | 20030607 | |||||
Malla Halkord Ahmedi | Malla Halkord Ahmedi | Ansar al-Sunnah | Iraq | 20060703 | Link | ||||
Mansour Mohammed Ahmed Faqih | Mansour Mohammed Ahmed Faqih | al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula | Arabia | 20031231 | |||||
Mansour Muhammad Ahmed Faqeeh | Mansour Muhammad Ahmed Faqeeh | Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula | Arabia | 20031207 | |||||
Manzoor Ahmed Chinioti | Manzoor Ahmed Chinioti | Learned Elders of Islam | India-Pakistan | 20040221 | |||||
Manzoor Ahmed Chinioty | Manzoor Ahmed Chinioty | Jamiat-Ulema-e-Islam (Fazal) | India-Pakistan | 20020707 | |||||
Manzoor Ahmed Ganai | Manzoor Ahmed Ganai | Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen | India-Pakistan | 20020603 | |||||
Maqsood Ahmed Salfi | Maqsood Ahmed Salfi | Jamiat Ahle-Hadith | India-Pakistan | 20020809 | |||||
Maulana Ahmed Khan | Maulana Ahmed Khan | Tanzeem-e-Ittehad-e-Ulema | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20050829 | |||||
Maulana Ahmed Khan | Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20050829 | ||||||
Maulana Mohammad Ahmed Ludhanvi | Maulana Mohammad Ahmed Ludhanvi | Millat-e-Islamia Pakistan | India-Pakistan | 20030421 | |||||
Maulana Muhammad Ahmed Madani | Maulana Muhammad Ahmed Madani | Jamia Muhammadi Trust | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20050718 | |||||
Maulana Muhammad Ahmed Madani | Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20050718 | ||||||
Maulana Nur Ahmed | Maulana Nur Ahmed | Jamatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh | Bangladesh | 20060403 | Link | ||||
Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani | Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani | Muthidda Majlis-e-Amal | India-Pakistan | 20020829 | |||||
Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani | Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20050715 | ||||||
Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani | Jamiat-e-Ulema Pakistan | India-Pakistan | 20060321 | Link | |||||
Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani | Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal | India-Pakistan | 20020816 | ||||||
Maulvi Ahmedullah | Maulvi Ahmedullah | Taliban | Afghanistan | 20031220 | |||||
Maulvi Wakik Ahmed Mutawakkil | Maulvi Wakik Ahmed Mutawakkil | Taliban | Afghanistan | 20040302 | |||||
Mehmoud Ahmed Ghaznavi | Mehmoud Ahmed Ghaznavi | Millat-e-Islamia Pakistan | India-Pakistan | 20030421 | |||||
Mofeed Faisal Ahmed Abduljaleel Farae | Mofeed Faisal Ahmed Abduljaleel Farae | al-Qaeda | Iran | 20031107 | |||||
Mohamed Ahmed Miftah | Mohamed Ahmed Miftah | Faithful Youth | Arabia | 20051206 | Link | ||||
Mohamed Ahmed Saleh Fulayfel | Mohamed Ahmed Saleh Fulayfel | al-Qaeda affiliate | Africa: North | 20050705 | |||||
Mohamed Ahmed Saleh Fulayfel | al-Qaeda | Africa: North | 20050801 | ||||||
Mohammad Ahmed | Mohammad Ahmed | al-Qaeda | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20050906 | |||||
Mohammad Jihad Ahmed Jibril | Mohammad Jihad Ahmed Jibril | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine | Israel-Palestine | 20020520 | |||||
Mohammed Ahmed | Mohammed Ahmed | Hamas | Middle East | 20021208 | |||||
Mohammed Ahmed Al-Chalabi | Mohammed Ahmed Al-Chalabi | Takfir wal Hijra | Middle East | 20031025 | |||||
Mohammed Ahmed Salah Felifel | Mohammed Ahmed Salah Felifel | al-Qaeda | Africa: North | 20050815 | |||||
Mohammed Ahmed al-Chalabi | Mohammed Ahmed al-Chalabi | Supreme Council of Global Jihad | Terror Networks | 20030813 | |||||
Mohammed Younis al-Ahmed al-Muwali | Mohammed Younis al-Ahmed al-Muwali | Iraqi Insurgency | Iraq | 20060703 | Link | ||||
Moinuddeen Ahmed Hameed | Moinuddeen Ahmed Hameed | al-Qaeda affiliate | Home Front | 20030905 | |||||
Mostaq Ahmed | Mostaq Ahmed | Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh | Bangladesh | 20051215 | Link | ||||
Mousa Ahmed Jaberi | Mousa Ahmed Jaberi | al-Qaeda | Iran | 20031107 | |||||
Mualana Ahmed Umer | Mualana Ahmed Umer | Harkat-ul Jihad-e-Islami | India-Pakistan | 20030327 | |||||
Mujeeb Ahmed | Mujeeb Ahmed | Hizbul Mujahedeen | India-Pakistan | 20060103 | Link | ||||
Mukhtar Ahmed | Mukhtar Ahmed | Lashkar-e-Jhangvi | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20050921 | Link | ||||
Mullah Wakil Ahmed | Mullah Wakil Ahmed | Taliban | Afghanistan | 20031006 | |||||
Mumtaz Ahmed Rathore | Mumtaz Ahmed Rathore | Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front | India-Pakistan | 20051228 | Link | ||||
Munir Ahmed | Munir Ahmed | Lashkar-e-Jhangvi | India-Pakistan | 20031108 | |||||
Mushtaq Ahmed | Mushtaq Ahmed | Jundullah | India-Pakistan | 20060315 | Link | ||||
Mushtaq Ahmed | Hizbul Mujahedin | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20051003 | Link | |||||
Mushtaq Ahmed Khan | Mushtaq Ahmed Khan | Jamaat-e-Islami | Afghanistan/South Asia | Pakistani | At Large | 20040610 | Link | ||
MMA provincial naib ameer | |||||||||
Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar | Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar | Jaish-e-Mohammad | India-Pakistan | 20020302 | |||||
Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar | Al-Omer Mujahideen | India-Pakistan | 20020727 | ||||||
Mustafa Ahmed | Mustafa Ahmed | al-Qaeda | 20020605 | ||||||
Mustafa Ahmed al-Hisawi | Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi | al-Qaeda | India-Pakistan | 20030531 | |||||
Mustafa Ahmed al Hawsawi | al-Qaeda | Terror Networks | 20030306 | ||||||
Mustafa Ahmed Hawsawi | al-Qaeda | Terror Networks | 20030624 | ||||||
Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawawi | al-Qaeda | Home Front | 20031231 | ||||||
Mustafa Ahmed al-Hisawi | Al-Hisawi Co | Arabia | 20040405 | ||||||
Mustaq Ahmed | Mustaq Ahmed | Lashker-e-Taiba | India-Pakistan | 20030101 | |||||
Nafiu Baba Ahmed | Nafiu Baba Ahmed | Supreme Council of Global Jihad | Terror Networks | 20030813 | |||||
Nafiu Baba Ahmed | Learned Elders of Islam | East/Subsaharan Africa | Nigerian | Big Shot | 20021202 | ||||
secretary general of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria | |||||||||
Naseemuddin Ahmed | Naseemuddin Ahmed | Kahuta Research Laboratories | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20040411 | |||||
Naseer Ahmed Roohi | Naseer Ahmed Roohi | Taliban | Afghanistan | 20030309 | |||||
Naseer Ahmed Rohi | Taliban | Afghanistan | 20030104 | ||||||
Naseer Ahmed Roohi | Jamiat-ul-Shabab-ul Muslimeen | Afghanistan | 20020929 | ||||||
Nasiu Baba Ahmed | Nasiu Baba Ahmed | Supreme Council for the Implementation of Sharia in Nigeria | Africa: Subsaharan | 20040219 | |||||
Nasser Ahmed al-Fuhaid | Nasser Ahmed al-Fuhaid | Learned Elders of Islam | Arabia | 20030529 | |||||
Nazir Ahmed Qasid | Nazir Ahmed Qasid | Lashkar-i-Toiba | Afghanistan-Pak-India | 20051025 | Link | ||||
Nazir Ahmed Qasid | Lashkar-e-Taiba | Afghanistan-Pak-India | 20051031 | Link | |||||
Nazir Ahmed Yatoo | Nazir Ahmed Yatoo | Hizbul Mujahedin | India-Pakistan | 20011214 | |||||
Noor Ahmed | Noor Ahmed | Lashkar e-Jhangvi | India-Pakistan | Pakistani | Deceased | Cannon Fodder | 20030718 | ||
Exploded in an attack on a Shiite Muslim mosque that killed 48 people | |||||||||
Omar Ahmed Khadr | Omar Ahmed Khadr | al-Qaeda | Home Front: WoT | 20051111 | Link | ||||
Ossman Awad Hamid Ahmed | Ossman Awad Hamid Ahmed | al Qaeda in Iraq | Iraq | 20051211 | Link | ||||
Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz | Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz | al-Qaeda | Arabia | 20030831 | |||||
Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz | Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz | Saudi Princes | Middle East | 20020723 | |||||
Qari Ahmedullah | Qari Ahmedullah | Taliban | Afghanistan/South Asia | Afghan | Deceased | Big Shot | 20011006 | ||
Taliban's intelligence chief | |||||||||
Qazi Ahmed Hussain | Qazi Ahmed Hussain | Jamat-e-Islami | India-Pakistan | 20011217 | |||||
Qazi Hussain Ahmed | Qazi Hussain Ahmed | Tehrik Hurmat-i-Quran | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20050629 | |||||
Qazi Hussain Ahmed | Mutthida Majlis-e-Amal | India-Pakistan | 20060327 | Link | |||||
Qazi Hussain Ahmed | Muthidda Majlis-e-Amal | India-Pakistan | 20020829 | ||||||
Qazi Hussain Ahmed | Jamaat-e-Islami | India-Pakistan | Pakistani | At Large | 20050806 | ||||
Qazi Hussain Ahmed | Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal | Afghanistan/South Asia | Pakistani | At Large | 20050715 | ||||
Qazi Hussein Ahmed | Qazi Hussein Ahmed | Supreme Council of Global Jihad | Terror Networks | 20030813 | |||||
Qazi Hussein Ahmed | Jamaat-e-Islami | India-Pakistan | 20030305 | ||||||
Qazi Hussein Ahmed | Jamaat-i-Islami | Terror Networks | 20050729 | ||||||
Rabee Ahmed Al-Oweiti | Rabee Ahmed Al-Oweiti | Lebanese Hizbullah | Middle East | 20021224 | |||||
Rabei Osman Ahmed | Rabei Osman Ahmed | al-Qaeda in Europe | Europe | 20050716 | |||||
Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed | Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed | al-Qaeda in Europe | Europe | Egyptian | In Jug | Mid-level Hard Boy | 20040608 | Link | |
Ahmed was arrested in Italy. Involved in Madrid train bombings. | |||||||||
Rabiah Ahmed | Rabiah Ahmed | Council on American Islamic Relations | Home Front: WoT | 20040405 | |||||
Raees Ahmed | Raees Ahmed | Jaish-e-Mohammed | India-Pakistan | 20030901 | |||||
Raheem Ahmed Mohammad Ata | Raheem Ahmed Mohammad Ata | al-Qaeda | Afghanistan | 20030925 | |||||
Rana Sultan Ahmed | Rana Sultan Ahmed | Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam | India-Pakistan | 20040217 | |||||
Rashid Ahmed Abdul Malik | Rashid Ahmed Abdul Malik | Lashkar e-Taiba | India-Pakistan | Indian? | Arrested | Tough Guy | 20030524 | ||
picked up in connection with bomb blast on a Karjat-bound train at Mulund railway station that killed 11 people and injured 70 others | |||||||||
Rhuhel Ahmed | Rhuhel Ahmed | al-Qaeda | Britain | 20040310 | |||||
Rifai Ahmed Taha | Rifai Ahmed Taha | Egyptian Islamic Jihad | Terror Networks | 20011111 | |||||
Rown lazher Bin Khalifa Bin Ahmed | Rown lazher Bin Khalifa Bin Ahmed | al-Qaeda | India-Pakistan | 20031210 | |||||
Ruhal Ahmed | Ruhal Ahmed | Taliban | Afghanistan/South Asia | British | Captured | Cannon Fodder | 20020129 | ||
from Tipton, West Midlands - was detained in Kandahar after being tricked to leave a hospital where he was holed up with grenades, believing he was to be handed over to the International Red Cross | |||||||||
Ruhal Ahmed | al-Qaeda | Britain | 20040310 | ||||||
Sabbir Ahmed Dulal | Sabbir Ahmed Dulal | Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh | Bangladesh | 20060321 | Link | ||||
Saeed Ahmed | Saeed Ahmed | Kahuta Research Laboratories | India-Pakistan | 20031231 | |||||
Said Ahmed Mohammed Hardan | Said Ahmed Mohammed Hardan | Fatah Tanzim | Israel-Palestine | 20040425 | Link | ||||
Said Saggar Ahmed | Said Saggar Ahmed | al-Qaeda in Africa | Africa: East | 20030808 | |||||
Said Saggar Ahmed | al-Qaeda | Africa: Subsaharan | Kenyan | In Jug | 20031129 | ||||
charged with conspiracy related to the November 2002 car bomb attack that killed 15 people, including three Israeli tourists. They are also charged in connection with a near-simultaneous, but failed, attempt to shoot down an Israeli aircraft taking off from an airport in nearby Mombasa. | |||||||||
Sajjad Ahmed | Sajjad Ahmed | Lashkar-i-Jhangvi | India-Pakistan | Pakistani | Arrested | Tough Guy | 20020722 | ||
planning to assassinate police officers who had been involved in a crackdown against the LJ | |||||||||
Salim Ahmed Hamdan | Salim Ahmed Hamdan | al-Qaeda | Home Front: WoT | Yemeni | In Jug | 20050724 | |||
former Osama bin Laden driver, confined at Gitmo | |||||||||
Sameer Mohammed Ahmed al-Hada | Sameer Mohammed Ahmed al-Hada | al-Qaeda | Arabia | Yemeni | Deceased | Cannon Fodder | 20020213 | ||
Fumbled a grenade and killed himself in Sanaa. | |||||||||
Sami Ahmed | Sami Ahmed | Iraqi Insurgency | Iraq-Jordan | 20040304 | |||||
Sarfaraz Ahmed | Sarfaraz Ahmed | Jamaat-e-Islami | Afghanistan/South Asia | Pakistani | At Large | 20050815 | |||
Sarmad Ahmed | Sarmad Ahmed | al-Qaeda | Arabia | 20040411 | |||||
Sartaj Ahmed | Sartaj Ahmed | D Company | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20040405 | |||||
Shabbir Ahmed | Shabbir Ahmed | Lodi mosque | Home Front: WoT | Pakistani | In Jug | 20050810 | |||
Shabbir Ahmed | Lashkar-e-Jhangvi | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20040314 | ||||||
Shabbir Ahmed | al-Qaeda | Home Front: WoT | 20050810 | ||||||
Shabbir Ahmed Shah | Shabbir Ahmed Shah | Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party | India-Pakistan | 20060919 | Link | ||||
Shadi Mahmud Ahmed Shurfa | Shadi Mahmud Ahmed Shurfa | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine | Israel-Palestine | 20020406 | |||||
Shah Ahmed Noorani | Shah Ahmed Noorani | Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Pakistan | India-Pakistan | 20031212 | |||||
Shah Ahmed Noorani | Jamiat ulema-e-Pakistan | India-Pakistan | 20010927 | ||||||
Shah Ahmed Noorani | Milli Yakjehti Council | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20020321 | ||||||
Shah Ahmed Noorani | Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan | India-Pakistan | 20040202 | ||||||
Shah Ahmed Noorani | Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal | India-Pakistan | 20031212 | ||||||
Shah Ahmed Noorani | Jamiat Ulema Pakistan | India-Pakistan | 20020107 | ||||||
Shah Ahmed Noorani | Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal | India-Pakistan | 20031118 | ||||||
Shahbuddin Ahmed Musa | Shahbuddin Ahmed Musa | Jamaatul Mujahidin Bangladesh | Bangladesh | 20060211 | Link | ||||
Shaikh Mohammad Ahmed | Shaikh Mohammad Ahmed | Harkatul Mujahideen Al Aalmi | India-Pakistan | 20020709 | |||||
Shakil Ahmed | Shakil Ahmed | Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh | Bangladesh | 20060228 | Link | ||||
Shamasuddin Ahmed | Shamasuddin Ahmed | Hizbul Mujahideen | India-Pakistan | 20020130 | |||||
Shamim Ahmed | Shamim Ahmed | Harkatul Mujahideen Al-Almi | India-Pakistan | 20040122 | |||||
Shamim Ahmed | Lashkar-e-Jhangvi | India-Pakistan | 20040120 | ||||||
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed | Sharif Sheikh Ahmed | Council of Islamic Courts | Africa Horn | Somali | 20060625 | Link | |||
Shehzad Ahmed | Shehzad Ahmed | Lashkar-i-Jhangvi | India-Pakistan | 20020722 | |||||
Sheik Ahmed Abu Halabiya | Sheik Ahmed Abu Halabiya | Learned Elders of Islam | Middle East | 20031027 | |||||
Sheik Ahmed Al Hawashi | Sheik Ahmed Al Hawashi | Learned Elders of Islam | Terror Networks | 20021003 | |||||
Sheik Ahmed Salim Swedan | Sheik Ahmed Salim Swedan | al-Qaeda | India-Pakistan | Kenyan | Controller | 20020916 | |||
said to have purchased the truck used in the bombing of the United States Embassy in Tanzania in 1998 | |||||||||
Sheikh Ahmed Lemo | Sheikh Ahmed Lemo | Learned Elders of Islam | Home Front | 20020708 | |||||
Sheikh Ahmed Saleem | Sheikh Ahmed Saleem | al-Qaeda | India-Pakistan | 20061002 | Link | ||||
Sheikh Ahmed Saleem | Al Qaeda | India-Pakistan | 20020713 | ||||||
Sheikh Ahmed Salim | Sheikh Ahmed Salim | al-Qaeda | Terror Networks | 20020904 | |||||
Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan | Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan | al-Qaeda | 20020904 | ||||||
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin | Sheik Ahmed Yassin | Hamas | Middle East | Palestinian | Deceased | Supremo | 20030821 | ||
Founder and spiritual guide of Hamas. Helizapped. | |||||||||
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin | Hamas | Israel-Palestine | Palestinian | Deceased | Supremo | 20030225 | |||
Founder and spiritual guide of Hamas. Helizapped. | |||||||||
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin | Islamic Jihad | Israel-Palestine-Jordan | 20051027 | Link | |||||
Sheikh Moalim Ahmed | Sheikh Moalim Ahmed | Islamic Court | Africa Horn | 20060815 | Link | ||||
Sheikh Rashid Ahmed | Sheikh Rashid Ahmed | Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20050731 | |||||
Shuaeb Ahmed Meer Boury | Shuaeb Ahmed Meer Boury | Ahl-Alhadeeth Central Association in Britain | Britain | 20030903 | |||||
Sidi Ahmed Habiballah | Sidi Ahmed Habiballah | Salafist Group for Call and Combat | North Africa | 20030605 | |||||
Sultan Hashem Ahmed | Sultan Hashem Ahmed | Iraqi Baath Party | Iraq | 20030407 | |||||
Sultan Hashim Ahmed | Sultan Hashim Ahmed | Iraqi Baath Party | Iraq | 20030919 | |||||
Talal Anbar Ahmed Anbari | Talal Anbar Ahmed Anbari | Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula | Arabia | 20031207 | |||||
Talal ibn Anbar Ahmed Al-Anbari | Talal ibn Anbar Ahmed Al-Anbari | al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula | Arabia | 20040424 | Link | ||||
Talib Ahmed Kareem | Talib Ahmed Kareem | al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula | Arabia | 20030602 | |||||
Tangail Shoeb Ahmed | Tangail Shoeb Ahmed | Jamaat ul Mojahideen Bangladesh | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20050927 | Link | ||||
Tanveer Ahmed Ansari | Tanveer Ahmed Ansari | Lashkar-e-Taiba | India-Pakistan | 20060731 | Link | ||||
Tariq Ahmed | Tariq Ahmed | Jaish-e-Muhammad | India-Pakistan | 20021218 | |||||
Tariq Ahmed Dar | Tariq Ahmed Dar | Lashker-e-Taiba | Afghanistan-Pak-India | 20051116 | Link | ||||
Tariq Ahmed Dar | Lashkar-e-Taiba | Afghanistan-Pak-India | 20051113 | Link | |||||
Tazim Ahmed | Tazim Ahmed | Hizbul Mujahideen | India-Pakistan | 20031208 | |||||
Usman Ahmed | Usman Ahmed | Lashkar-i-Jhangvi | India-Pakistan | 20030913 | |||||
Uthman Awad Hamid Ahmed al-Jubouri | Uthman Awad Hamid Ahmed al-Jubouri | al Qaeda in Iraq | Iraq | 20051211 | Link | ||||
Zahoor Ahmed | Zahoor Ahmed | Jaish-e-Mohammed | India-Pakistan | 20030901 | |||||
Zamir Ahmed Latif Chaabiwala | Zamir Ahmed Latif Chaabiwala | Lashkar-e-Taiba | India-Pakistan | 20060731 | Link | ||||
Zubair Ahmed | Zubair Ahmed | al-Qaeda | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20050830 | |||||
Zubair Ahmed | Lashkar-i-Jhangvi | India-Pakistan | 20030913 | ||||||
Zubair Ahmed Gondal | Zubair Ahmed Gondal | Islami Jamiat Talba Pakistan | Afghanistan/South Asia | 20040517 | Link |
Africa Horn |
Ex-Somali President Rejects Al-Shabaab Allegations, Cites Security Corruption |
2025-05-30 |
Not so much sympathetic as creating insurance against the possibility that Al Shabaab might win, I suspect. Just like the party in power. It’s the culture, right? [Garowe] Former Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on Wednesday strongly rejected recent government accusations that opposition groups are sympathetic to al-Shabaab![]() , dismissing the claims as baseless and politically motivated. Speaking at a political conference in Mogadishu, Sheikh Sharif said the allegations were an attempt to silence dissenting voices and undermine legitimate political opposition. He accused the federal government of trying to derail dialogue and reconciliation efforts by branding critics as murderous Moslems. "These accusations are meaningless and only serve to stifle the voice of the people," said the former president, calling for political maturity and openness to dialogue among all stakeholders. Sharif also sounded the alarm over widespread corruption within Somalia’s security institutions, particularly the armed forces, arguing that it has severely weakened their ability to combat the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab insurgency. "If corruption within the security sector is not addressed, the country’s stability and development will be at serious risk," he warned. The former leader urged Somali political actors to come together in open dialogue to find lasting solutions to the country’s worsening political crisis and ongoing armed conflict. "Dialogue is the only key to saving Somalia," Sheikh Sharif said. "We must all recognise the importance of unity and work towards peace." He stressed the need for accountable leadership and inclusive governance, saying the Somali people deserve transparency, justice, and political stability. Such pious sentiments. Wednesday’s conference also discussed the broader political landscape, including opposition concerns over President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s push for elections without a consensus. Opposition leaders called for a united front to challenge what they described as a unilateral and exclusionary process.The political climate in Somalia continues to deteriorate as President Mohamud’s term nears its final year, with tensions rising over electoral disagreements and governance challenges. |
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
US reopens ambassador’s residence in Syria, suggests non-aggression pact with Israel |
2025-05-30 |
[IsraelTimes] Raising flag in Damascus, American envoy Tom Barrack says Israel-Syria conflict solvable through dialogue, as Washington rolls back Assad-era sanctions The US ambassador to ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , Tom Barrack, who has also been appointed special envoy to Syria, arrived to inaugurate the residence, Syrian state-run news agency ...and if you can't trust the state-run news agency who can you believe?... SANA reported. On Thursday, speaking to Saudi channel Al Arabiya in Damascus, Barrack described the long-standing conflict between Syria and Israel, who have technically been at war since 1948, as a "solvable problem" through dialogue, proposing a "non-aggression agreement" between them. Rooters reported earlier this week that Israel and Syria are in direct contact and have, in recent weeks, held face-to-face meetings aimed at calming tensions and preventing conflict in the border region. Washington hasn’t formally reopened its embassy in Damascus, which closed in 2012 after protests against the government of strongman president Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... were met by a brutal crackdown and spiraled into civil war. Assad was unseated in December in a lightning rebel offensive. But Barrack’s visit and the raising of the flag were a significant signal of warming relations. Washington was initially circumspect about Syria’s new leaders, led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former leader of an Islamist bad boy group that the US still lists as a terrorist organization. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... US President Donald Trump’s administration, encouraged by two US allies in the region, Saudi Arabia ![]() and Turkey, has shown increasing openness to Damascus in recent weeks. Trump held a surprise meeting with al-Sharaa in Riyadh earlier this month, and the US has begun to roll back decades of sanctions slapped on Syria under the Assad dynasty. The US State Department posted a statement on X on Thursday attributed to Trump announcing Barrack’s appointment as envoy to Syria. "Tom understands there is great potential in working with Syria to stop Radicalism, improve Relations, and secure Peace in the Middle East. Together, we will Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN!" the statement said. Barrack thanked Trump in an X post for "your bold vision, empowering a historically rich region, long oppressed, to reclaim its destiny through self-determination." |
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USS Truman Executed Largest-Ever Carrier Airstrike on ISIS in Somalia on Feb 1 |
2025-05-30 |
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… from Carrier Air Wing 1 dropped around 125,000 pounds of precision-guided munitions on ISIS cave networks southeast of Bosaso. Key ISIS figures, including recruiter Ahmed Maeleninine, were killed. Related: Ahmed Maeleninine 03/07/2025 U.S. pledges more support to Somalia's Puntland in ISIS war Ahmed Maeleninine 03/05/2025 Somalia: Puntland forces seize ISIS headquarters in mountains Ahmed Maeleninine 02/27/2025 Somalia: Puntland Forces Discover ISIS Leadership Bunker in Bold Strike Against Militant Stronghold |
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EU sanctions Syrian militia groups over deadly violence against Alawites | |
2025-05-29 | |
[IsraelTimes] The EU imposes sanctions on three Syrian militia groups and two of their leaders for serious human rights abuses over their alleged involvement in deadly ethnic violence in March, an official document showed. All three are units in Turkey’s Syrian National Army. The Sultan Sulaiman Shah Brigade, the Hamza Division and the Sultan Murad Division, as well as the heads of the first two kkgroups, were added to Brussels’ sanction list for their “part in the violence in the coastal region of Syria, targeting civilians and especially the Alawite community,” the EU’s official journal reads.
“In relation to the wave of violence that took place in Syria’s coastal region in March 2025, the Council has introduced new restrictive measures under the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime, targeting two individuals and three entities for serious human rights abuses,” the EU Council said in a statement. Included in the sanctions list are Mohammed Hussein al-Jassim (Abu Amsha) and Seyf Boulad Abu Bakr, the notorious commanders of the Turkish-backed Suleiman Shah Brigade and Hamza Division, respectively, as well as their associated factions and the Sultan Murad Division. The SNA is a coalition of militias backed by Turkey that have largely been integrated into the Syrian defense ministry. Throughout the course of the Syrian civil war, they have been complicit in attacks on minority communities such as Kurds and Alawites. The EU accused all three factions of “targeting civilians and especially the Alawite community, including by committing torture and arbitrary killings of civilians,” stressing that they are “therefore responsible for serious human rights abuses.” The measures are binding and directly applicable in all EU member states. In March, violence erupted in Alawite-majority areas after armed groups, many loyal to ousted president Bashar al-Assad, launched attacks on forces allied with the government, prompting Damascus to respond with force. Around 1,500 people, mainly Alawite civilians, were killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which said most of the casualties were caused by government or government-affiliated forces. Two weeks ago, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Damascus to exclude those with records of abuse from the Syrian security forces - referring to SNA militants - and said the fighters continue to detain and extort civilians in northern Syria. Syria’s new authorities have faced backlash, particularly from the Kurds, for appointing militia figures complicit in serious human rights abuses against the community. Sharaa’s interim government, headed by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, has faced repeated criticism for its treatment of minority groups, with many Syrians and foreign powers fearing it will impose strict religious rule, posing a threat to Kurds, Druze, Christians, and Alawites. The violence heightened concerns over the future of these populations. On May 20, the EU officially decided to lift all economic sanctions on Syria. “The Council has also removed 21 entities from the EU list of those subject to the freezing of funds and economic resources,” the Council said on Wednesday. “Several of these entities are banks, including the Central Bank of Syria, or companies operating in key sectors for Syria’s economic recovery.” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas hailed the decision, saying it comes at a “historic” time to safeguard Syria’s economic recovery. “The EU has stood with the Syrian people throughout the last 14 years, and it will continue to do so. Today the EU reaffirms its commitment as a partner for the transition,” Kallas said. | |
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Another 1812. How Russia got Moldova the day before the Patriotic War |
2025-05-29 |
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Igor Ivanenko [REGNUM] The year 1812 is naturally associated in our historical memory with the First Patriotic War. But on the eve of Napoleon's Great Army's attack on Russia and four months before the Battle of Borodino, our country won a victory on another front. ![]() On March 28, 1812, in Bucharest, the Russian Empire signed a treaty with the Ottoman Empire, according to which the Turks handed over to us the lands between the Dniester, Prut and Danube. The new territory was called "Bessarabia" - now this is Moldova and the southwestern "corner" of the Odessa region. Thus ended the next, eighth Russian-Turkish war - and the same Bonaparte had a significant role in this clash of neighbors. FRENCH INTRIGUE At the beginning of the 19th century, Russia, involved in the wars of the European allies with Napoleonic France, did not make plans for Bessarabia. Following the precepts of Grigory Potemkin, our country actively developed trade with the Ottoman Empire. Order in the south was guaranteed by the Treaty of Jassy in 1791. This treaty was concluded following the results of the previous, 7th Russo-Turkish War and was the fruit of victories of two geniuses of the Catherine era - the commander Alexander Suvorov and the administrator, Prince Potemkin-Tavrichesky. Russia then secured Crimea and Novorossiya for itself and acquired the territory between the Southern Bug and the Dniester, where the "southern capital", Odessa, appeared on the site of the Turkish fortification of Khadzhibey. Beyond the Dniester began the lands of the Moldavian Principality, a state with its capital in the city of Iasi (now in Romania). Chisinau was a provincial town, Bender and Akkerman (Belgorod-Dnestrovsky) were Turkish fortresses. In those years, Bessarabia was the name given to the southern steppe part between the Dniester, Prut and Danube rivers - in Tatar, this region was called Budzhak. The Moldavian rulers, the hospodars, who sat in Iasi were vassals of the Turkish sultan. Just like the hospodars of another trans-Danubian principality, Wallachia, whose capital was Bucharest. But the Treaty of Iasi changed the order beyond the Danube. Moldavia and Wallachia effectively fell into Russia's sphere of influence. By the mid-2000s, the pro-Russian hospodars, Alexander Muruzi and Constantine Ypsilanti, were in power in both parts of what would become Romania. Turkey and Russia maintained peaceful and almost allied relations. In 1798–1800, a Russian-Turkish squadron under the command of Fyodor Ushakov undertook an expedition to the Greek Ionian Islands, from where the French were expelled. But the European agenda spoiled everything. On November 20 (December 2, new style) 1805, the famous battle of the "three emperors" took place on the field near Austerlitz: Napoleon's marshals defeated the commanders of the Austrian Emperor Franz II and our Alexander I. The fact that Russia was drawn into a European war, and that military fortune rarely smiled upon our army at that time, did not go unnoticed by our southern neighbors, Turkey and Persia. The Persian Shah declared war on Russia back in 1804 (this campaign ended in 1813 with the complete defeat of the Persians). And Napoleon's triumph at Austerlitz prompted the Turkish Sultan to begin weaving anti-Russian intrigues. Relations between France and Turkey were much better than they are today; Paris had been considered an ally of Istanbul since the 16th century. So the Sultan followed the lead of his European partners: in early 1806, Napoleon sent Marshal Horace Sebastiani as ambassador to Istanbul, who convinced Sultan Selim III to remove the pro-Russian rulers of Wallachia and Moldova. This was a flagrant violation of the Treaty of Jassy and a challenge to Tsar Alexander. And when the Turks closed the Bosphorus and Dardanelles to the passage of Russian warships, war became inevitable. RESETTING THE TRUCE In November 1806, the Russian army crossed the Dniester and, as if reluctantly, occupied the border fortresses of Khotin, Bendery and Akkerman. The Turks did not offer serious resistance at that time. And Russia acted according to the logic that Vladimir Medinsky recently recalled : at the first stage of the conflict, we offered the enemy to end the war on lenient terms. Petersburg showed in every way that the presence of its troops in the Bessarabian possessions of the Ottoman Porte and the eastern districts of vassal Moldova was temporary. But gradually the fighting became more intense, and Russia began to consider the Danubian principalities as compensation for the costs incurred. Moreover, an important part of the Franco-Ottoman military plans was the invasion of the Russian Black Sea region via the Dniester. The full-flowing Danube could have become a much more reliable border line. The course of the Turkish campaign was again influenced by European affairs. In 1807, Alexander I was forced to sign the Peace of Tilsit with Napoleon. The campaign of 1808-09, which France waged against Austria, did not start very well for Bonaparte. The Emperor of the French, in order to secure the support of his "new friend", Alexander, even supported our claims to Bessarabia, Moldavia and Wallachia. But soon fortune smiled on Napoleon again, and he forgot about his promises to Russia. At the same time, the French still had cordial agreement with the Turks. Our European "ally" continued to support our Asian enemy. CURATOR OF THE "ISTANBUL PROCESS" By the beginning of 1811, it became clear that things were heading towards a new direct clash with France. Our country ignored Napoleon's anti-English sanctions - the continental blockade, so the French emperor decided to "punish" Russia. In view of the inevitable war with the first army of Europe, the protracted campaign on the Danube had to be ended. Mikhail Kutuzov, who arrived in the Danube Army in April 1811, was given a very difficult task: to achieve peace in the shortest possible time with fewer forces than the enemy (45 thousand Russians against 75 thousand Ottomans), and even with territorial gains. In June–September 1811, Kutuzov carried out the brilliant Ruschuk-Slobodzeya operation, as a result of which the main part of the advancing Turkish group was blocked on the left (Russian) bank of the Lower Danube. Having good connections in Istanbul from his diplomatic work there, Kutuzov promptly began preliminary negotiations with his old acquaintance, the Grand Vizier Ahmed Pasha. The parties agreed on a new border along the Siret and Danube rivers. In this case, the core of the Moldavian Principality with the cities of Iasi and Galati would come under Russian control. But French intrigues again prevented this from becoming a reality. Napoleon sent a message to the Sultan about his readiness to take back the possessions ceded to Russia by the Ottomans after his victory over Russia and hand them over to restored Poland. The "too accommodating" group of Turkish negotiators was replaced, and after a pause in the conference, a final agreement was reached on the Prut-Danube demarcation. Kutuzov could not insist on the Siret border, since the French invasion was approaching. The ratification of the Treaty of Bucharest by Alexander I took place on June 23, 1812. The day before the start of the Patriotic War. SPECIAL STATUS Bonaparte was very annoyed by this turn of events - the defeat and withdrawal of the Turks from the war gave Russia new territories. But due to French intervention, Russia was able to annex only the sparsely populated eastern outskirts of the Moldavian Principality, to which the name of its southern "corner" was extended - Bessarabia. The native Moldavian lands, with the bulk of the population of the principality, did not go to the Russian Empire. Such a course of events will be fatal for subsequent attempts to create a Russian Moldova: Chisinau will never become an equivalent replacement for Iasi. In the area between the Dniester, Prut and Danube rivers, Russia received a conglomerate of several outlying districts of the Moldavian Principality, former Ottoman fortress cities, and the steppe possessions of the Nogais. The absolute majority of Turks and Nogais left the area between the rivers during the fighting. Therefore, the question of settling the sparsely populated region with a loyal Christian population immediately arose, as well as the question of local government. Both of them were resolved in the spirit of Catherine II's policy of settling Transnistria, annexed by the Treaty of Jassy in 1791. At one time, the empress ordered that Moldavian boyars with their peasants be attracted to the Dniester "especially near the Moldavian borders, for the most convenient population of these". The boyars themselves were recommended to be appointed to administrative positions. Moldovans made up a very significant part of the broad stream of immigrants that poured into the Bessarabian region of Russia, formed in 1812, from the Ottoman possessions. In the fifth year of Bessarabia's stay in the empire, the region's population almost doubled, reaching 492 thousand people. Moldovans then made up 78% of the region's inhabitants. Later, the migration process was balanced by the influx of Slavs from the internal provinces of Russia and from Bulgaria, which was under Turkish rule. At first, the Bulgarians included the culturally close Orthodox Turks - the Gagauz, who had migrated from Dobrudja (the Black Sea coast beyond the Danube). Thus, the Bulgarian city of Bolgrad and Gagauzia appeared in southern Bessarabia. On the issue of power, two currents immediately emerged - "Moldavian" and "imperial". Moreover, the first included not only ethnic Moldovans. They were united by the perception of the Bessarabian region as a fragment of Greater Moldova. The "imperialists" advocated the unification of local laws with all-Russian norms and the integration of Moldavian boyars who had entered Russian service into the all-imperial elite. The "pro-Moldavian" trend was patronized by the actual head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Greek Ioannis Kapodistrias, the future first ruler of independent Hellas. Kapodistrias considered Bessarabia as a base for the fight against the Ottomans in the Danubian Principalities. But most importantly, Alexander I himself was inclined to favor the special status of Bessarabia. He saw the new territory as an autonomy, similar to the recently created Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Finland. More precisely, such a third "state in personal union" could be Greater Moldova with its center in Iasi. The Bessarabian region of the time of Alexander I - if we draw a parallel with Soviet history - played the role of Transnistria in 1924-40, where the Bolsheviks created the Moldavian ASSR with the aim of returning the territory between the Prut and the Dniester captured by the Romanians. In the "Temporary Rules" for the governance of Bessarabia, drawn up by Capodistrias and adopted in 1812, the Regional Council copied the structure of the Divan (government) of the Moldavian Principality. It was specifically stipulated that Moldavian boyars should constitute the majority of its members. The symbolic special status of the Bessarabian region was confirmed by the coat of arms approved in 1817, on which the imperial double-headed eagle was adjacent to an ox's head - the ancient symbol of the rulers of Moldova. PUSHKIN'S LAWS The first civil governor of the region, the Moldavian boyar Scarlat Sturdza, when appointing district police chiefs, emphasized the priority of local laws and customs over Russian ones. The latter were allowed to be addressed only when it was not possible to find the necessary article in the Moldavian codes. But the laws of the feudal principality were quite archaic, and they had to be modernized on the fly. In 1821, Kapodistrias brought in an official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who had been sent into exile to the south to develop a new Civil Code of Bessarabia. The "seconded" official's name was Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. “I occupied him with translating into Russian the Moldavian laws written in French,” Pushkin’s immediate superior, Infantry General Ivan Inzov, reported to Kapodistrias The poet's contribution to the drafting of the Moldavian Civil Code was rather symbolic - in essence, the work was done by the Greek scholar, lawyer Pyotr Manega. But Pushkin's Bessarabian impressions gave Russian literature the brilliant poem "Gypsies". As for the dispute between the supporters of the "Moldavian" and "imperial" paths of development of Bessarabia, the "imperialists" clearly won. The reason was simple - it was necessary to defeat corruption, which, together with the deeply rooted Ottoman administrative customs, interfered with the normal management of the new territory. The Moldavian Sturdza was replaced as governor by the German Ivan (Johann) Harting in order to restore order. He began the Russification of office work and legal proceedings, and appointed Russian officials to the post of district police chiefs. The dispute was settled in 1823 by Alexander I, who was disappointed with the results of the experiment on broad autonomy for the Kingdom of Poland. The annexation of the Danubian principalities (including the part of Greater Moldavia that remained abroad) was highly questionable. Later, in the late 1850s, with the help and participation of Western powers, the Moldavian Principality (with Iasi, but without Bessarabia) would unite with Wallachia into a state called Romania. And in the late 1820s, Bessarabia was united with Novorossiya into a single governorate-general with its capital in Odessa, headed by the viceroy Count Mikhail Vorontsov. The exiled Pushkin's move from Kishinev to Odessa was connected precisely with these changes in the viceroyal apparatus. The poet, as is well known, did not have a high opinion of the failed capital of the "grand principality of Moldavia": "Cursed city of Kishinev! / The tongue will tire of scolding you. / Someday on the sinful roof / Of your soiled houses / Heavenly thunder will certainly strike..." Decades later, Chisinau would become a thriving Novorossiysk city, one of the important centers of the south, adorned with a monument to Pushkin by Alexander Opekushin, a "twin" of the Moscow monument. But that's a completely different story. |
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Syria's Sharaa launches ''battle for reconstruction'' in Aleppo |
2025-05-29 |
[NEWARAB] Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Tuesday urged Syrians to join the "battle for reconstruction" as he spoke at an event in the northern city of Aleppo, which has been heavily damaged in regime bombing during the war. The event, titled "Aleppo, the Key to Victory", was held at the Aleppo Citadel's amphitheatre to mark the "victory of the Syrian revolution" and the city's liberation from Assad regime control. Aleppo was the first city to fall in a rebel offensive in November and December, which eventually led to the collapse of the former regime and flight into exile of Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... "Oh, great Syrian people, the battle of reconstruction has just begun. Let us all join hands and seek God's help to create a bright future for a venerable country and a deserving people," al-Sharaa said. "Our war with the tyrants has ended and our battle against poverty has begun." The interim president paid tribute to the sacrifices of the people of Aleppo, which fell to rebel forces for the first time in December 2024 - shortly before the Assad regime's collapse. Parts of Aleppo, particularly a former rebel stronghold in the city's east, were destroyed in regime offensives and years of regime bombing. Abeer Fares, an official in the Public Relations Office of the Political Affairs Department, told The New Arab's Arabic-language sister site, al-Araby al-Jadeed, that the event was not only a celebration of Aleppo's liberation but also a way of raising support for the families of those killed in the uprising from the city. The event was also attended by figures who took part in the Syrian revolution and have now joined the state's security apparatus. Among them was Mohammed Fawaz Qalb, a fighter from Hayaat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ![]() 's (HTS) elite Red Headbands Brigade which participated in Aleppo's liberation. |
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Rojava, Damascus reach agreement on al-Hol camp |
2025-05-28 |
[Rudaw] The Kurdish authorities and the Syrian interim government have reached an agreement to empty the notorious al-Hol camp from Syrians and return them to their homes, a Kurdish official said on Monday. Lovely. And how will HTS keep them from returning to jihad? The official Facebook page of the Kurdish-led Democratic Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria (DAANES), on Monday cited Sheikhmous Ahmed, who oversees all internally displaced persons (IDP) and refugee camps in Rojava, as saying that a meeting was held between Rojava and Damascus officials earlier in the week. They agreed to "establish a joint mechanism for evacuating Syrian families from al-Hol camp and returning them to their original areas."A delegation from the US-led global coalition against the Islamic State ![]() Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) also took part in the meeting. A delegation from the Syrian government visited al-Hol camp on Saturday, according to local media. The delegation consisted of ten people and was the first visit to the camp by the interim government. They were also joined by representatives from the US-led global coalition against ISIS. Ahmed was possibly referring to the same delegations. Syrian interior ministry spokesperson told Rudaw on Saturday that as per the landmark agreement between Mazloum Abdi, chief of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa in March, Damascus will assume the control of all areas in Rojava, including al-Hol camp. He added that they want to ensure the al-Hol camp is no longer a source of unrest and extremism. "Now, it will become a comprehensive societal rehabilitation dossier targeting the victims and families of individuals who joined ISIS," he said. Al-Hol camp in Hasaka province is infamous for its squalid conditions and has been branded a breeding ground for terrorism. Iraqis and Syrians make up the majority of the nearly 40,000 ISIS-linked people who have been held at the camp since the defeat of the group in 2019. There are also people in the camp from around the world who had traveled to join the so-called ISIS caliphate. The DAANES in January announced that its doors are open to the "voluntary return" of Syrians in the camp to their hometowns. Iraq has been repatriating its nationals in groups, putting them through a rehabilitation program before they return to their original homes. |
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Israel and Syria holding face-to-face meetings at border to calm tensions |
2025-05-28 |
[IsraelTimes] Syrians represented by border governor Ahmad al-Dalati, Israel by unnamed security officials; talks are on ‘absence of war,’ not normalization, for now Israel and Syria are in direct contact and have in recent weeks held face-to-face meetings aimed at calming tensions and preventing conflict in the border region between the two longtime foes, five people familiar with the matter said. The contacts mark a significant development in ties between states that have been on opposite sides of conflict in the Middle East for decades, as the US encourages the new Islamist rulers in Damascus to establish relations with Israel and Israel eases its strikes on Syria. They also build on back-channel talks via intermediaries since Salafist tough guys Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... toppled Syrian strongman Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Horror of Homs... in December, said two Syrian and two Western sources, as well as a regional intelligence source familiar with the matter. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject for two nations with no official ties and a history of enmity. The direct talks and their scope have not been previously reported. On the Syrian side, the sources said contacts have been led by security bigshot Ahmad al-Dalati, who was appointed governor of the province of Quneitra, which borders the Golan Heights, after the fall of Assad. Earlier this week, Dalati was also put in charge of security in the southern province of Sweida, home to Syria’s Druze minority. Rooters could not determine who participated on Israel’s side, though two of the sources said they were security officials. Three of the sources said there had been several rounds of in-person meetings in the border region, including in territory controlled by Israel. Israel’s foreign ministry and Syrian officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Earlier this month, Syrian interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa confirmed indirect talks with Israel that he said were aimed at calming tensions, a striking admission that followed a Rooters report that the UAE was mediating such talks. Israeli military operations in Syria have escalated since Assad’s fall, with Jerusalem saying it will not tolerate an Islamist hard boy presence in southern Syria. Israel has bombed what it says are military targets across the country, and Israeli ground forces have entered southwestern Syria, where they are currently stationed in a number of outposts in a buffer zone in the Golan Heights. The Jewish state has also cautioned against swift recognition of the new government in Syria, expressing deep skepticism about Sharaa, who until recently had a $10 million bounty on his head from the US. But the strikes and the criticism have subsided in recent weeks. On May 14, a meeting between US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... and Sharaa in Riyadh upended decades of US Syria policy, and signaled to Israel’s government that it should work to reach understandings with Sharaa. The regional intelligence source described Trump’s engagement with Sharaa as a pivotal part of a realignment in US policy that upset Israel’s post-Assad strategy of exploiting Syria’s fragmentation. TENSIONS DOWN IN SWEIDA The relative calm in May has also seen a reduction in tensions around Sweida, which saw days of bloody festivities between Druze armed factions, some of which have Israeli backing, and Sunni Moslem fighters last month. Amid the violence, Israel had launched a series of ... KABOOM!... s, including one just outside the presidential palace overlooking Damascus, which it framed as a warning over threats against the Druze, a minority group with communities in Syria, Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... and Israel. While the direct talks are currently focused on joint security, such as preventing conflict and reducing Israeli incursions into Syrian border villages, two of the sources said they may help pave the way for broader political understandings. "For now, they are about peace, as in the absence of war, rather than normalization," said the person familiar with backchannel talks. Trump indicated after meeting Sharaa that the Syrian leader was willing to eventually normalize ties with Israel, while adding that it would take some time. Sharaa has not commented on the statement, saying instead that he supported a return to the terms of a 1974 ceasefire agreement that created a UN buffer zone in the Golan Heights. Syria’s new rulers have made repeated efforts to show they pose no threat to Israel, meeting representatives of the Jewish community in Damascus and abroad and detaining two senior members of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group, which participated in the October 7, 2023, Hamas ![]() -led attack on Israel. Additionally, Paleostinian sources said on Friday that several Iran-backed Paleostinian terror groups had left Syria altogether under pressure from the new regime. A letter sent by Syria’s foreign ministry to the US State Department last month, seen by Rooters, said "we will not allow Syria to become a source of threat to any party, including Israel." Israel has so far treated such statements with intense suspicion, due to the new leadership’s roots. |
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Gaza reports American company’s distribution complex destroyed, food packages looted; Gaza was overexcited — distribution quickly recommenced, 95 aid trucks entered Strip | |||
2025-05-28 | |||
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Gazans overrun Strip’s new aid center; operator says distribution has resumed - over 400,000 meals thus far [IsraelTimes] IDF confirms it fired shots into air, not at center itself; US-backed aid group says centers have given out 8,000 food boxes; UN says mechanism far from reaching aid targets Thousands of Paleostinians on Tuesday overran one of the newly established aid distribution sites in southern Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... ’s Rafah, only hours after the military announced the new aid mechanism, backed by Israel and the United States, began operating for the first time. Footage posted to social media showed crowds surging into the area and taking boxes of food. The IDF, which secures the area around the facility, confirmed that troops fired warning shots outside the compound, but denied reports claiming it opened fire from a helicopter or towards the center itself. A military source said an Israeli Air Force helicopter was operating over the sea at the time of the incident, but not anywhere close to the distribution site.
According to Paleostinian reports, the American security personnel charged with securing the area expeditiously departed at a goodly pace. There were no reports of casualties in the incident. The newly created Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sought to downplay the incident, saying that its American security subcontractors fell back in order to allow "a small number" of people to take food. "The needs on the ground are great. At one moment in the late afternoon, the volume of people at the SDS was such that the GHF team fell back to allow a small number of Gazooks to take aid safely and dissipate," GHF said in a statement. Before the break-in, GHF said that "approximately 8,000 food boxes have been distributed so far. Each box feeds 5.5 people for 3.5 days, totaling 462,000 meals." GHF claimed its operations have returned to normal. The military announced earlier that two out of four of the recently established sites began operating for the first time, initially delivering food packages to thousands of Paleostinian families. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... an Israeli security official also tried to downplay the incident, telling the Ynet site that none of the aid had been looted. The newly opened aid centers are operated by the GHF, an American organization that is backed by Israel, designed to bypass the UN and traditional aid agencies in a bid to keep the supplies away from Hamas ![]() The UN and other international organizations withheld much-needed backing of the GHF, arguing that its aid initiative violates humanitarian principles by requiring Gazooks to walk long distances in order to receive aid and limiting distribution to southern Gaza, a move that would forcibly displace the Paleostinian population. Footage purportedly shows thousands of Paleostinians overrunning one of the aid distribution sites in southern Gaza's Rafah a short while ago. Three of the distribution sites are located in the Tel Sultan area of southern Gaza’s Rafah, while the fourth is in the Netzarim Corridor area, south of Gaza City. The two sites that began operations on Tuesday are in Rafah. "The establishment of the distribution centers took place over the last few months, facilitated by the Israeli political echelon and in coordination with the US government," the IDF said in its first official comment on the aid sites. "This process coincided with an ongoing dialogue and cooperation with the IDF, through the Southern Command and COGAT, as well as international aid organizations, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, and the American civilian security company," it said. The IDF said it will "continue to facilitate humanitarian assistance in the Gaza Strip, while making every possible effort to ensure that the aid does not reach the hands of the Hamas terrorist organization." Images showed aid boxes included bags of rice and dried beans, as well as flour, oil, salt, and canned vegetables, many of them in Israeli packaging.
"As much as I want to go because I am hungry and my children are hungry, I am afraid," said Abu Ahmed, 55, a father of seven. "I am so scared because they said the company belongs to Israel and is a mercenary, and also because the resistance [Hamas] said not to go," he said in a message on the chat app WhatsApp. Hamas, which has in recent months faced protests by many Paleostinians who want the devastating war to end, has warned residents against accessing GHF sites, saying Israel was using the company to collect intelligence information. "Do not go to Rafah... Do not fall into the trap... Do not risk your lives. Your homes are your fortress. Staying in your neighborhoods is survival, and awareness is your protection," a statement published by the Hamas-linked Home Front said. "These schemes will be broken by the steadfastness of a people who do not know defeat," it added. "Before the war, my fridge used to be full of meat, chicken, dairy, soft drinks, everything, and now I am begging for a loaf of bread," Abu Ahmed told Rooters via a chat app. ![]() Additionally, Juliette Touma, communications director of the UN Paleostinian refugee agency, said the UN does not know what is being distributed. "We don’t have any information," she said. "We know what’s needed, we know what’s missing, and we are very, very far from that daily target." Senior US official hails GHF, blasts UN for refusing to get behind aid distribution effort [IsraelTimes] The Trump administration hails the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, while blasting the UN for refusing to cooperate with the group’s new aid distribution initiative, hours after thousands of Palestinians overran one of its sites in Rafah. “Aid is getting to the people in need, and through their secure distribution system, Israel is kept safe and Hamas empty handed,” says a statement to reporters attributed to a senior administration official. The official appears to cite GHF’s figures, stating that roughly 8,000 boxes of food have been distributed in the foundation’s first two days of operation, with each box feeding 5.5 people for 3.5 days, totaling 462,000 meals. The Trump official says GHF is managing to operate in Gaza, despite attempts by Hamas to place blockades on aid trucks. “GHF is a threat to Hamas’s longstanding system of looting the assistance intended for the people of Gaza.” “The UN and other aid agencies were wrong to criticize,” the senior Trump administration official says, making no mention of Tuesday’s mass-looting incident in one of the two distribution sites GHF has begun to operate. “These organizations echoed Hamas talking points rather than praising those who are delivering results.” While GHF was only registered this year, the Trump official says the project was born during the Biden administration but was dropped due to “bureaucratic incompetence.” The Trump administration was impressed by the idea, though, and got behind it. “We support bold, out-of-the-box efforts to make life better for Gazans. GHF is doing exactly that. And we’re proud to back their incredible mission,” the official says. US will renew push for countries to fund GHF once it demonstrates results — official [IsraelTimes] The Trump administration plans to renew its push for countries and international organizations to fund the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation once its new aid distribution initiative proves to be a success, a US official tells The Times of Israel. The US official acknowledges that European countries and other nations approached earlier this month about backing GHF did not respond “favorably.” “Countries are used to doing what they have always done,” the US official says. However, the US official is unfazed by the initial negative response from countries, who have refrained from bankrolling GHF to date. “The United States is a leader in innovation and once GHF works, others will want to share in its success,” the official adds. Asked about the overrun of one of GHF’s Rafah distribution sites by thousands of Palestinians on Tuesday, the US official downplays the incident, insisting that it lasted 20 minutes and that over 400,000 meals were fed as a result of the foundation’s work.
Israel says 95 trucks of humanitarian aid entered Gaza on Tuesday [IsraelTimes] The Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) announces that 95 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip today. Israel resumed aid deliveries to Gaza last week, after a pause since March 2. Since then, 755 trucks of aid have entered the Strip. Today’s trucks include food, medical equipment, and pharmaceutical drugs, COGAT says. The aid underwent an inspection first by Israeli authorities before entering Gaza via the Kerem Shalom crossing. Earlier, COGAT said some 400 truckloads of aid were awaiting collection on the Gazan side of Kerem Shalom. | |||
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Syrian forces arrest suspected ISIS cell near Damascus |
2025-05-27 |
[Rudaw] Syrian security forces arrested members of a suspected Islamic State![]() Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) cell near the capital Damascus, state media reported on Monday, saying the Death Eaters were planning to destabilize the region. "We carried out a qualitative and precise security operation yesterday, which resulted in the arrest of a number of members of this cell, and a quantity of light, medium, and heavy weapons were seized," Syria’s state-run SANA news agency said, citing the interior ministry. The Death Eaters were planning to use the weapons to "destabilize security and stability in the region," SANA said about the operation, carried out in a Damascus suburb. ISIS attacks in Syria have largely been focused on the Kurdish-held regions of north and east Syria, but attacks on the new Damascus-affiliated authorities are rare. ISIS rose to power and swept through swathes of Syria in a brazen offensive in 2014, declaring a so-called "caliphate." But the Death Eaters were territorially defeated in 2019 as local Syrian and Kurdish fighters, supported by a US-led international coalition, clawed back territory from the group. In a landmark Riyadh meeting, US President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... earlier this month called on Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa to "help the United States to prevent the resurgence of ISIS," according to a White House Statement. ISIS has continued to carry out attacks on Kurdish-led forces. On Monday, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the de facto army of northeast Syria (Rojava), said that it thwarted an ISIS attack in the eastern Deir ez-Zor province, which injured a civilian. Last week, an ISIS attack in Deir ez-Zor killed one SDF fighter and injured another. Two days prior, the SDF captured an ISIS cell in Deir ez-Zor. The raid followed another operation where 10 ISIS suspects were captured in the same province after an SDF fighter was killed and three were maimed. |
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Villa Somalia under fire over alleged misuse of donated military helicopters |
2025-05-27 |
[Garowe] Authorities in Mogadishu may find it difficult to explain the circumstances surrounding the alleged misuse of helicopters donated to the Somali National Army (SNA) for operational and logistical support in the ongoing war against al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... While details remain limited, multiple sources have implicated Villa Somalia—the presidential palace—in what appears to be a developing scandal that may trigger audit investigations and renewed scrutiny from international donors. According to confidential sources, helicopters intended for the Somali National Army [SNA] have allegedly been rented out as private charters to military officials and personnel from other security sectors. This practice reportedly involves aircraft donated by international partners, raising serious concerns over transparency and accountability. The rental fees for these flights are said to range between $5,000 and $8,000 per trip, covering personnel transport, medevac, and rescue operations. If confirmed, the scandal could test the integrity of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's administration, particularly as it depends heavily on international support in the fight against terrorism. Somalia reportedly received six Bell 412 helicopters between 2023 and 2024 from Italia and other partner nations as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen its counter-terrorism capabilities. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... sources allege that Villa Somalia registered the aircraft under a private company named Gem-Tech, managed by Ahmed Nur—a close associate of President Mohamud. After registration, the helicopters were repainted and marked as belonging to the Somali Air Force (SAF), yet continue to operate under the call sign "6-Oscar," which is typically reserved for civilian aircraft. This discrepancy has raised further questions about the opacity of their operations and potential misuse. These allegations surface amid a broader climate of uncertainty surrounding the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM). The mission’s future is now in doubt after the United States signaled plans to suspend its funding until the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and other donors contribute matching amounts. The U.S. has historically played a leading role in financing and supporting AUSSOM, including training elite units such as the Danab Special Forces. The funding freeze follows long-standing concerns over misuse of resources in Somalia’s security sector. Former U.S. President Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... had withdrawn American troops over what he labeled "resource wastage," though they were later redeployed by President Joe The Big GuyBiden ![]() You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... "Somalia and its international partners are facing a serious reckoning," said security analyst Abdisalam Guled. "The AUSSOM mandate is due to expire within weeks, and there’s little likelihood of an extension given the financial shortfalls. Embassies and international bodies are slowly scaling back their presence in a quiet, gradual withdrawal. The question now is: what’s next for Somalia?" Concerns over the potential misappropriation of donated equipment and other public resources could further erode donor confidence at a time when al-Shabaab is regaining momentum in central regions. Villa Somalia has not officially responded to the allegations. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, no stranger to controversy, has previously dismissed accusations involving his family in corruption and questionable business dealings as politically motivated "witch-hunts" orchestrated by the opposition. |
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Syrian authorities appoint security chiefs in 12 provinces, Rojava chiefly excluded |
2025-05-26 |
[Rudaw] The Syrian interior ministry announced on Sunday the appointment of commanders for internal security agencies in a dozen provinces. The move is part of the interim authority’s broader effort to restructure the country’s security and military institutions following the ouster of Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... ’s regime. Notably, the appointments largely excluded Kurdish-held areas in northeast Syria (Rojava). The ministry published the names and photos of 12 officers of various senior ranks, including brigadier generals and colonels, on its account on X. It announced their appointment as heads of internal security leadership in 12 out of Syria’s 14 provinces. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... no details were provided regarding the selection criteria or background of the appointees. Notably, several of the newly-assigned officers are believed to have previously served in Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ![]() (HTS), which spearheaded the offensive to topple the Baathist regime in early December. Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... the provinces of Hasakah and Raqqa, located in northeast and north Syria respectively, were conspicuously absent from the list of appointments. These regions remain under the control of the Kurdish-led Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES). Despite negotiations between DAANES and the new leadership in Damascus, the two sides have yet to reach a final agreement with regards to the future governance and security arrangements in these strategically significant territories. In addition to the provincial security shake-up, the interior ministry also announced the appointment of six deputy interior ministers, assigned to oversee security, civil, and administrative portfolios. The new efforts are seen as part of a broader strategy to consolidate governance structures under the transitional authority led by Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa. Sharaa, a former HTS figurehead, assumed the presidency in January after his group led the offensive to oust Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad. Shortly after assuming power, the new leadership dissolved the Syrian army and all intelligence and security agencies affiliated with the previous regime, signaling a drastic break from the Assad-era security architecture. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... the Damascus authorities’ push for reform has not been far from controversy. In late December, military promotions approved by the new authorities included at least six foreign bully boys, which drew sharp criticism both domestically and internationally. The presence and promotion of imported muscle among Damascus’s forces has stood out as a contentious issue, particularly in light of Syria’s ongoing reintegration into regional diplomacy. Earlier this month, during a meeting with Syria’s interim President in Riyadh, US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... urged Sharaa to "expel all foreign terrorists" as a precondition for full normalization. The demand came shortly after Trump had announced his intent to lift sanctions imposed on Syria. Observers note that Sharaa is increasingly facing a difficult balancing act. While dependent on foreign snuffies who fought alongside opposition groups, he also confronts international pressure to exclude them and the refusal of many of their home countries to accept their return. |
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