Said Ali al Shihri, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s second in command, released a videotape where he criticized the Yemeni regime and addressed Osama bin Laden. “We will never let you down until we taste victory,” Shihri said to bin Laden. “The wave of jihad is coming and the Yemeni wave will always be […]
Son of Hamas founder spied for Israel for more than a decade
Nine nations support Afghan training effort
Spain accepted its first detainee from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. The detainee, who was not named, is a Palestinian. He will be freed from custody but cannot leave the country. Spain plans to accept five Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Tehran again proposed a simultaneous swap of its uranium for prepared uranium rods to be used at its research reactor. This deal has already been rejected by the West. Iran denounced the assassination of a Hamas leader in Dubai.
Unmanned strike aircraft hit a compound and a vehicle in a village outside of Miramshah. Three foreign fighters are among those killed.
Iran: Ahmadinejad aims for ‘global Islamic revolution’
Pakistan: Detained Taliban leaders ‘linked to ISI’
More satellites will act as eyes for troops
An old photograph of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the former leader of the Quetta Shura who was detained in Karachi. Image from The New York Times. Top US defense officials briefed Congress about the move of the Afghan Taliban’s top council, the Quetta Shura, from Quetta to Karachi. From Dawn: “Elements of the Afghan Taliban […]
Security forces killed six Taliban fighters, detained 14 more, and destroyed four bases in in Darra Adam Khel. Four Taliban fighters were killed in a premature detonation in Kurram. A large IED blast targeted members of an anti-Taliban committee in Peshawar; no one was hurt.
Insurgents killed three Christians, three policemen, a soldier, and two civilians in attacks in Mosul and Baghdad. One insurgent was killed in Mosul. Security forces detained 12 wanted terrorists in Basrah. Iraq will sue the maker of a bomb detector.
Iraq isn’t as bad as you thought
Jews leave Swedish city after sharp rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes
Gates voices concern over NATO shortfalls
Baradar capture: Was there a rift with Mullah Omar?
A US Navy warship prevented an attack on a Tanzanian ship and apprehended eight suspected pirates. Three Shabaab fighters were killed and their bodies abandoned in the area inside Bakara Market in Mogadishu. A Somali man is fighting extradition from the Netherlands to the US, which suspects him of supporting Shabaab. His lawyer argues that […]
The Taliban killed eight civilians in a bombing in Lashkar Gah in Helmand and an ISAF soldier in an IED attack in the South. Security forces killed 15 Taliban fighters and captured three Taliban commanders and three fighters during operations in Kunduz, Herat, Wardak, Farah, and Helmand.
US – Hurdles hinder counterterrorism center
Australia fights terrorism with tough visa checks
Karzai poll body power grab sparks Western concern
Britain may not need nuclear deterrent in five years, says Richard Dannatt
A court is prosecuting Mohammad Jibril Abdul Rahman for his role in aiding last year’s suicide attacks that targeted posh hotels in Jakarta and killed 11 people. Rahman is accused of having ties to Jemaah Islamiyah and Tandzim al-Qaedat Indonesia, the al Qaeda splinter group formerly led by Noordin Mohammed Top, who was killed during […]
Qasim al Raymi, the military commander of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, threatened to conduct attacks in the heart of the US. “Today, you have attacked us in the middle of our household, so wait for what will befall you in the middle of yours,” he wrote in an article published in the group’s […]
Security forces detained Jundallah founder and leader Abdul Malik Rigi. Tehran announced plans to construct 10 new enrichment facilities this year. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak left for the United States to discuss Iranian nuclear proliferation efforts.
I have already weighed in on the case of Rashad Hussain, Obama’s controversial new special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). I argued that the image of Hussain that has emerged in the public debate is exaggerated; the latest gross distortion of his beliefs is the Washington Examiner‘s proclamation (the top headline […]
A look at the Afghan Taliban’s top leaders, its regional military shuras, and its governing committees.
Abdul Malik Rigi, the founder and leader of Jundallah, was captured during an operation in eastern Iran, the Intelligence Ministry said.
Taliban is just one of many challenges faced by Afghan towns
A suicide bomber killed 10 civilians and two policemen in an attack at a market in Mingora, the main town in Swat. Security forces detained 34 suspected Taliban fighters in Hangu and 25 more in Khyber. Pakistan’s Senate unanimously passed a resolution in support of Aafia Siddiqi, the al Qaeda operative who was convicted in […]