Israel briefly detained Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the radical wing of the Islamic Movement in Jerusalem, charging him of inciting ongoing unrest in the city. He has been barred from entering Jerusalem for 30 days.
Somalia's Shabaab Islamist militia has vowed to avenge the death of a regional al Qaeda leader, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan (pictured), in a US strike on Monday. Nabhan was wanted by US authorities in connection with the 2002 attacks in Mombasa.
US officials have confirmed that a top al Qaeda operative wanted in connection with 2002 terrorist attacks in Mombasa was killed in a US helicopter raid in southern Somalia.
Witnesses say foreign soldiers on board four helicopters staged a raid near a village in rebel-controlled southern Somalia, killing at least two people inside a vehicle believed to have been carrying Islamist insurgents.
A Darfur rebel group, the Sudan Liberation Army, said Friday it would cooperate with other militant factions following US mediation efforts. US envoy Scott Gration said rebel unification was a first step to a "lasting and durable" peace in Darfur.
At least nine civilians were killed and 20 were wounded overnight when Islamist militants and Somali government forces exchanged mortar fire in Mogadishu.
Abdul Latif Musa, the leader of a radical sect that declared an Islamist emirate in the Gaza Strip on Friday, was among 24 people killed and at least 130 wounded in two days of clashes with Hamas police forces.
Heavy fighting between Abu Sayyaf militants and Philippine troops in the restive southern island of Basilan has killed at least 23 soldiers and more than 20 rebel fighters, a military official announced Thursday.
Ruslan Amerkhanov, the construction minister of the restive North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, has been shot dead in his own office. The Russian republic's pro-Kremlin authorities are battling an increasingly deadly Islamist insurgency.
