Iraq
US troop numbers in Afghanistan set to overtake Iraq
Monthly Archives: May 2010
India
Mumbai profile: Lashkar e Taiba
Pakistani-American ‘person of interest’ in failed Times Square bombing
Today’s report on the Times Square failed bombing from The Washington Post wins this month’s coveted Captain Louis Renault Award. This is probably going to have nearly everyone’s surprise meter pegged at zero. From The Washington Post: Investigators are getting closer to tracking down a person of interest in the attempted bombing in Times Square, […]
Pakistan
Investigators close in on ‘person of interest’ in Times Square bomb attempt
Afghanistan
Toggling between fighting and outreach in Afghanistan
United States
Officials increasingly see international link in Times Square bomb attempt
Pakistan
US Predators killed 4 “militants” in an airstrike in North Waziristan. Security forces killed 18 Taliban fighters in Bajaur and 11 more in Arakzai.
Yemen
Security forces claimed to have killed 35 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives and detained more than two dozen during “preemptive raids” over the past several weeks. The raids took place in Sana’a and the provinces of Hodaida, Marib, Shabwa, and Abyan.
Iraq
The head of the Independent High Election Commission said the vote recount will not change the election result. Security forces detained 11 wanted men in Basrah and an Ansar al Islam leader and seven fighters in Baghdad. Insurgents killed two civilians and two policemen in Kirkuk, Baghdad, and Salahadin.
Somalia
Clashes in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu left 3 people dead. Hizbul Islam leader Hassan Dahir Aweys denounced recent attacks in mosques in Mogadishu and Kismayo. Hizbul Islam thwarted a plot to overthrow its governor of Hiran.
Wanted ‘German Taliban’ member killed in Pakistan
Video of the ‘German Taliban’ training in Waziristan. The video was released in later 2009. A convicted German terrorist wanted for his involvement in the failed plot to attack US military facilities in Germany in 2008 was killed in Pakistan, German officials told The Associated Press. Germany’s main domestic intelligence agency said that a statement […]
Afghanistan
The war in Afghanistan: Where we are now
Kuwait
Security forces detained an undisclosed number of Kuwaitis and foreigners for spying for Iran. The detainees have gathered information on US and Kuwaiti military installations in Kuwait for the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed a civilian in an attack outside Combat Outpost Chapman, a CIA base in Khost used to direct Predator strikes in Pakistan. The Taliban killed eight civilians in an IED attack in Paktika and beheaded a female former government official in Zabul.
North Africa
Saharan nations are conducting a major joint military exercise coordinated by the United States and joined by many European nations. Operation Flintlock, a three week operation with over 1,200 military personnel participating, is based out of a temporary command center in Bukina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou. Flintlock aims to improve Saharan nations’ capacity to collaborate in […]
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Hotshot sniper in one-and-a-half mile double kill
Afghanistan
Pakistani smugglers supplying Afghan bombmakers
Pakistan
Pakistan – Killers of Khwaja wanted custody of Afghan Taliban, not release
Pakistan
Video shows Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud ‘alive’
India
India – 26/11: Kasab guilty; Ansari, Sabauddin Shaikh acquitted
Iran
President Ahmadinejad said “Iran does not need to gain the West’s trust.” Ahmad Motamehdi, a former reformist minister, was wounded in knife attack. Iran will launch two telecommunication satellites in 2010.
US airstrike kills 4 ‘militants’ in North Waziristan
The strike is the first in Pakistan in a week. US Predators hit a moving vehicle outside Miramshah.
Afghanistan
Suicide blast outside foreign base in Afghanistan
United States
The New York City police commissioner said a successful explosion from the failed Times Square car bomb would have caused a large fireball and casualties. Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano described the bomb plot as a “one off.” Police are searching for a man in his 40s who was seen on videotape as a possible suspect.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Tribal journalists – between a rock and a hard place?
Al Qaeda
Yemen – Tough choices for Jews living in the Arabian Peninsula
The Taliban
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan released two tapes of Hakeemullah Mehsud to prove he was alive. On the audio and the video tapes, Hakeemullah threatened to carry out attacks against the US. Qari Hussain Mehsud, Hakeemullah’s deputy, also released a tape claiming credit for the failed car bombing in New York City.
Al Qaeda in Iraq
American drones deployed to target Yemeni terrorist
Pakistan
Security forces killed 21 Taliban fighters in Arakzai and a suspected suicide bomber in Swat. The Taliban killed a tribal leader in a grenade attack in Swat and bombed two boys’ schools in Bajaur.
Germany
German troops face pitched battles in Afghanistan as insurgency spreads