Monthly Archives: April 2010

Afghanistan

| April 10, 2010

Afghan officials say Pakistan’s arrest of Taliban leader threatens peace talks

Pakistan

| April 9, 2010

Security forces killed 24 Taliban fighters in Arakzai and Kurram. More than 200,000 people have fled Arakzai and Kurram. Police killed two suicide bombers in Lakki Marwat.

Somalia

| April 9, 2010

Shabaab has taken the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) off the air in regions under its control and has looted the transmission equipment. Last week Hizbul Islam ordered Mogadishu-based radio stations to stop broadcasting music within 10 days.

Al Qaeda in Iraq

| April 9, 2010

The Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaeda’s front group, said it carried out the April 4 suicide attacks that targeted foreign embassies and missions in Baghdad. The Islamic State of Iraq denied any involvement in the April 7 bombing that targeted residential buildings in largely Shia neighborhoods in Baghdad.

Iraq

| April 9, 2010

Insurgents killed two off duty policemen in Mosul. Iraqi security forces detained two al Qaeda operatives in Mosul and another near Baghdad, and a Naqshabandiya fighter in Kirkuk. A cleric loyal to Mahdi Army leader Muqtada al Sadr denounced Prime Minister Maliki.

Iran

| April 9, 2010

The chief of the Atomic Energy Organization said Iran has designed and tested its own nuclear centrifuges. The intelligence minister claimed he has “compelling evidence” that three US citizens detained after crossing the border with Iraq are connected to foreign intelligence services. Opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi told reformist politicians that dissent must continue.

Kyrgyzstan

| April 9, 2010

President Kurmanbek Bakiyev refused to resign after the opposition overthrew the government on April 7. The interim government will hold an election in six months. The US has resumed normal operations at the airbase in Manas.

Afghanistan

| April 9, 2010

Three US soldiers and a civilian were killed in a CV-22 Osprey crash in Zabul. The military is investigating the crash; the Taliban claimed they shot the Osprey down. General McChrystal ordered an investigation into a Feb. 12 night raid that resulted in the deaths of five Afghans. Romania will send an additional 725 troops […]

Pakistan

| April 8, 2010

Security forces killed 24 Taliban fighters in Swat and Dir, and killed 12 Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber. The Taliban released a Greek hostage who was kidnapped in Chitral last year. The parliament passed the 18th Amendment, which devolves powers of the presidency to the premier.

Spain

| April 8, 2010

Spain agrees to take four more Guantanamo inmates

Iraq

| April 8, 2010

Insurgents killed two US soldiers in northern Iraq and a civilian in Mosul. A terrorist was killed in a premature detonation in Mosul. Iraqi Security Forces detained three insurgents in Kirkuk and two al Qaeda suspects in Mosul.

Somalia

| April 8, 2010

Shabaab fighters raided a UN base in southern Somalia. For the second time in a week, Hizbul Islam invited Osama bin Laden to Somalia: “Seeing Osama in Somalia will be a triumph for the Muslims in Somalia, and in fact we shall be the happiest people on the planet,” said Sheikh Mohammed Wehliye Odowa. Three […]

India

| April 8, 2010

Indian Muslim scholars accuse LT of conspiring against Islam