Yemen confirms al Qaeda’s military commander killed in strike
The government confirmed that Abu Hurayrah Qasim al Raymi and five other al Qaeda leaders, including an Egyptian, were killed in the Jan. 15 airstrike.
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Latest US airstrike in Pakistan kills 20
The US again targeted Hakeemullah in a region in North Waziristan that borders South Waziristan.
Pakistan
Poor schooling slows anti-terrorism effort in Pakistan
Al Qaeda
Violence haunts Karachi’s streets
Pakistan
Elite US troops ready to combat Pakistani nuclear hijacks
Pakistan
Hakeemullah Mehsud released a tape confirming that he survived the Jan. 14 airstrike in North Waziristan. Security forces killed five Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber and detained a Taliban commander and five fighters at a hospital in Rawalpindi. The Taliban blew up a clinic in Landi Kotal.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – British general rules out win against insurgency by military means alone
France
France – Petrol attack on actress in Muslim-themed play
Pakistan
US-funded Pashto radio a new weapon in war against Taliban
Al Qaeda
Another centre of terror
Malaysia
Security increased at Christian churches as Allah row divides Malaysia
Al Qaeda
Somali leader says nation needs more support
Al Qaeda
Key turning point in jihadi’s journey
‘I am alive’ – Hakeemullah Mehsud
The Taliban chief released another audiotape to reporters; this time he provided a date to prove he is alive.
Iraq
Security forces detained Ali al Azzawi, a high-level military commander in the Islamic State of Iraq. Security forces also detained 11 members of Ansar al Sunnah in Hit and a Naqshabandiya fighter in Kirkuk. Insurgents killed two policemen in Baghdad.
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces killed 11 Taliban in an operation in Nad Ali in Helmand province and four Haqqani Network fighters in an airstrike in Paktika. The Taliban killed two British soldiers and an ISAF soldier in southern Afghanistan and wounded a district chief in Khost. Parliament rejected 10 of President Karzai’s 17 cabinet minister […]
Kashmir
A suicide bomber wounded two soldiers in an attack on a military vehicle near the town of Rawalakot in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The suicide attack in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is the fifth since last summer.
Yemen
Security forces detained three Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives near the Saudi border. The operatives were carrying weapons, explosives, and terrorist literature. The Houthi rebels claimed to have shot down a Saudi Apache attack helicopter.
Algeria
Unidentified Islamists have killed the Algerian military commander of Bajaia district in Bejaia province and an army colonel at Allaghane, 250km east of Algiers. Two Islamists were killed the night before when authorities ambushed their vehicle at Boudjelil. Two Islamists escaped the ambush.
United Kingdom
Al Qaeda threat: Britain worst in western world
Afghanistan
US releases names of 645 detainees in Afghanistan
United States
A federal grand jury indicted Tahawwur Rana and David Headley for their roles in plots to conduct attacks in Denmark and and India. The grand jury also indicted al Qaeda military commander Ilyas Kashmiri and former Pakistani Army Major Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed for their involvement in the same Denmark plot.
Wanted Palestinian reported killed in US airstrike in North Waziristan
Jamal Saeed Abdul Rahim, of the Abu Nidal Organization who participated in killing 22 hostages during the 1986 hijacking of Pan Am flight 73, is thought to have been killed in the Jan. 9 airstrike.
Pakistan
The US killed eight Taliban and three al Qaeda operatives in two strikes in North Waziristan. A wanted Palestinian terrorist is thought to have been killed in the Jan. 9 strike in North Waziristan. Seven Taliban fighters were killed in Kohat; a tribal leader was killed in Mohmand. The Taliban attacked a security convoy in […]
Al Qaeda
Qaida threat pushes US to up air security
US strikes kill 11 in North Waziristan
Eight Taliban and three “foreigners” were reported killed in the most recent strikes in North Waziristan. The US has carried out nine strikes in Pakistan over the past 16 days.
Yemen
Qasim al Raymi, the military leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was among six terrorists reported killed in an airstrike in the Al Ajasher region. Also thought killed are the al Qaeda leader of Marib province and an Egyptian suicide bomb facilitator.
Iraq
Twelve Iraqis were killed and more than 20 were wounded in a series of bombings in Najaf on Jan. 14. Iraqi security forces detained 14 wanted terrorists during raids in Basrah.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed a woman and four children in an IED attack in Kandahar and wounded four civilians in a rocket attack in Kabul. Coalition troops accidentally killed two troops in an escalation of force incident after an IED attack in Kandahar and wounded five civilians during a protest outside a combat outpost in Helmand.
Al Qaeda’s military commander in Yemen reported killed
Qasim al Raymi, the military commander of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was among six reported killed in an airstrike.