Iraq
Insurgents killed two civilians and a policeman in attacks in Fallujah, Mosul, and Baghdad. Security forces detained 15 wanted men in Basrah and six insurgents in Jalawlaa. The US Marines have completed their withdrawal from Anbar province.
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Iran
President Ahmadinejad threatened that Iran would soon enrich its own nuclear fuel. Human Rights Watch said Iran’s post-election crackdown was a “human rights disaster.” An Iranian general said the US is on the verge of experiencing a “collapse” in the Middle East.
Al Qaeda
No indication of heightened US alarm from new tape
Somalia
A court in Garowe, the capital of Puntland, has sentenced to death a man who confessed to be a Shabaab operative planning to carry out attacks in Puntland and the breakaway republic of Somaliland. He also confessed that he was a photographer and used his profession to smuggle explosives in the regions. Shabaab recruited about […]
Bin Laden threatens further attacks against the US
Al Qaeda’s leader praised the Christmas Eve bomber and said attacks would continue as long as the US supports Israel.
United States
Afghan president Hamid Karzai urges West to buy off the Taliban
United States
Obama’s War Combating Extremism in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Sweden
Sweden rattled by Somali militants in its midst
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Al-Qaeda has trained female suicide bombers to attack West, US officials warn
US airstrike killed 15 Turkistan Islamic Party fighters in Afghanistan
A Jan. 19 strike in the northwestern province of Badghis killed 13 Uighurs and two Turks.
United States
AP Exclusive: The Christmas attack interrogation
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed three civilians and a policeman in Tank. Twenty-two Taliban fighters and two soldiers were killed in clashes in Kurram and Arakzai. The Taliban destroyed a NATO fuel tanker in Peshawar.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed 12 Taliban fighters in Helmand and a Taliban commander in Badghis, and captured two Taliban facilitators in southern Afghanistan. The Taliban killed two Coalition soldiers, three women, and a child in attacks, and kidnapped a district police chief and two officers in Kunar.
Iraq
Insurgents killed an adviser to the interior ministry and two policemen in Baghdad. Security forces detained six members of al Qaeda bomb cells in Hit and Baqubah, two al Qaeda fighters and two insurgents in Kirkuk, and a senior member of the Promised Day Brigade in Baghdad.
Somalia
Shabaab and Hizbul Islam have captured the strategic town of Beledweyne after battling with the pro-government militia Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama™a, and have looted the offices of the UN health agency WHO and Save the Children. A bomb blast targeted the center of Bosasso in Puntland while the police were conducting search operations in the […]
Afghanistan
NATO forces in race to secure Kandahar
Iran
Russia said it would complete the Bushehr nuclear reactor this year. “2010 is the year of Bushehr,” the chief of the Rosatom state nuclear corporation said. Parliament Speaker Larijani said a US cyberwar against Iran would be futile.
Afghanistan
Pakistan hesitates, again
China
Increased security checks at US airports slammed as racial profiling
Iraq
US Marines end role in Iraq; Biden in Baghdad
Pakistan
Pakistan says reaches out to Afghan Taliban
United Kingdom
UK – Export ban for useless ‘bomb detector’
United States
Gates confronts Pakistani reports of US plots, and fuels a rumor
United Kingdom
UK – Terrorist threat level raised to ‘severe’
Al Qaeda
Justice task force recommends about 50 Guantanamo detainees be held indefinitely
Somalia
Shabaab denied it threatened to attack Kenya and said a recording posted on the Internet was a fake. At least eight people were killed when insurgents from Hizbul Islam and Shabaab took Beledweyne town in central Somalia from pro-government militia Ahlu Sunna Wal Jama™a. A kidnapped British couple said pirates set a “deadline” for their […]
Pakistan
Security forces killed five Taliban fighters in Swat, three in South Waziristan, and two more in North Waziristan, and detained nine Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber. The Taliban warned the Mehsud tribes not to return to their homes in South Waziristan as fighting is still ongoing.
Turkey
Police today arrested 120 suspected al Qaeda operatives and supporters during raids in 16 provinces, and on Jan. 18 detained the group’s leader and 30 others. Police also detained 60 suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) during operations in four southern provinces.
Iraq
Iraq: To de-Baath or not to de-Baath
Algeria
The US released two Algerians, Hasan Zemiri and Adil Hadi al Jazairi Bin Hamlili, from the Guantánamo Bay detention facility in Cuba and returned them to Algeria. “The United States coordinated with the government of Algeria to ensure the transfers took place under appropriate security measures,” a Justice Department statement said.