Israel's Army Razes Gaza After Bodies of Israeli Teens Were Found

A home damaged by the Israeli Army on July 1, 2014

The Israeli Air Force carried out what it called "precision strikes" on 34 "terror targets" in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday night and a Palestinian from the group Hamas was shot dead when he threw a grenade at the forces carrying out the arrest raid.

Tensions soared after Israel discovered the bodies of three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped in the West Bank earlier in June; and the Palestinian, who was killed on Tuesday, was the first casualty since the bodies were found. Continue...

Pakistan: Security forces kill all terrorists, clear Karachi airport

Pakistan Army and security forces killed all the terrorists and cleared Karachi's Jinnah International Airport on Monday morning after several hours of fierce gunbattle. The final operation to neutralise a few holed up terrorists was launched by the Pakistan Rangers headed by an Army General.

According to Geo News at least 28 people including 10 terrorists had been killed during the shootout in the night. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has already claimed responsibility for the attack on Karachi's Jinnah International Airport on Sunday night.

A Pakistan Army spokesman said the entire airport had been cleared and all the terrorists killed. According to the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa the terrorists "were confined to two areas and eliminated" by the security forces. The attack started at around 11:30 IST and the gunbattle continued through the intervening night of June 8 and 9.

Kenya: U.S. embassy beefs up security amid terror threat

The Marine stood behind a camouflaged sandbag bunker atop the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi and scanned the horizon with binoculars.

What he saw was a busy street that officials fear is full of targets for an attack by al-Qaida-linked militants because diplomatic missions are in the neighborhood.

More than 15 years after al-Qaida destroyed the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi with a massive truck bomb that killed more than 200 people, fear is rising that U.S. diplomatic personnel and property could again be targeted. Armed Marines are now stationed on the embassy's roof, one indication of recent security upgrades.

Intelligence has been circulating in the region the last two months that American interests are the next intended target for al-Shabab, an al-Qaida linked group in Somalia responsible for last year's attack on Nairobi's Westgate Mall, said a Kenyan police official who insisted on anonymity to talk about security matters.

The terror group has also shown interest in attacking the U.S. military base in Djibouti, just north of Somalia, and there were indications that the U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia was being considered as a target last year, said Matt Bryden, the former head of the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea and a top expert on al-Shabab.

Ambassador Robert Godec last week told some 400 Americans at a town hall meeting: "We know that there's a threat, and we know it's serious." Diplomats have indicated that global terrorists affiliated with al-Qaida are moving in to the region.

China sentences 81 in Xinjiang for terrorism

Chinese authorities sentenced 81 people on terror-related charges — nine of them to death — and made 29 new arrests in a huge crackdown in the far west following deadly attacks blamed on Muslim extremists, state media and officials said Thursday.

Four high-profile attacks on civilians since late October have handed a major security challenge to President Xi Jinping during his first 15 months in office. The attacks have been blamed on extremists from the Xinjiang region's native Turkic-speaking Uighurs seeking to overthrow Chinese rule and inspired by global jihadi ideology.