Monthly Archives: June 2010

Philippines

| June 11, 2010

Clashes between two rival Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and Moro National Liberation Front (MNFL) factions have forced 5,000 people to flee their homes. The military is not intervening due to the ongoing peace process. Meanwhile, military sweeps to neutralize elements of the Abu Sayyaf Group in Basilan have forced over 500 families to leave […]

Al Qaeda

| June 11, 2010

Anwar al-Awlaki: MI5 warns of the al-Qaeda preacher targeting Britain

Iraq

| June 11, 2010

Iraq’s two largest Shia blocs formed a coalition in parliament. A suicide bomber killed two US soldiers and three Iraqis in Jalawlaa. Three Iraqis were killed in a car bombing in Tikrit. Iraqi forces detained four al Qaeda leaders in Khanaqin and another in Yusifiyah, and three wanted men in Wasit.

Somalia

| June 11, 2010

The pro-government Ahlu Sunna Wal-Jamma’a claimed it killed four Shabaab fighters and captured one more in Dhusamareb. Pirates released a British-flagged tanker and its crew of eight. The European Union™s Indian Ocean naval task force claimed to have destroyed 25 pirate “action groups” this year.

Algeria

| June 11, 2010

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has been blamed for an attack on a police barracks that has killed four and injured 20. A suicide bomber drove a truck laden with explosives into a police barracks in the town of Timizar in the Kabylia region. Two Islamists were killed in a lorry that was following […]

Afghanistan

| June 11, 2010

NATO Secretary General Rasmussen said security should begin to be transitioned to Afghan forces by the end of 2010. The Taliban killed nine civilians in an IED attack in Kandahar, three civilians in a suicide attack in Zabul, and two ISAF soldiers in an IED attack in the south. Joint forces detained an undisclosed number […]

Reflections on the state of Iran – a lost year?

| June 11, 2010

Here’s a summary of some interesting commentaries on the state of Iran one year after the rigged presidential election last summer: • Foreign Policy‘s Jonathan Schanzer unpacks a story coming out of Rai al Shaab — the unofficial newspaper of Sudan’s opposition — reporting that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force is operating a […]

Iran

| June 11, 2010

Iran threatened to reduce cooperation with the IAEA. The US moved to support Iranian political dissidents with web and communication technologies. Iranian opposition leaders canceled a protest to commemorate the June 12, 2009, presidential election.

ISI involved in 2008 Mumbai attack

| June 10, 2010

Today’s report on the involvement of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence directorate in the 2008 terror assault on Mumbai wins this month’s coveted Captain Louis Renault Award. Once the Indians got hold of David Headley for interrogation, it was only a matter of time before that story was printed. Oh, and Lashkar-e-Taiba/Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed was also […]

Russia

| June 10, 2010

Security forces captured Ali Taziyev, the military commander of the Caucasus Emirate who is also known known as Magas, during a June 9 raid in the Ingush town of Malgobek. Security forces killed 10 terrorists; Yasir Amarat, a Jordanian emir, is thought to have been killed.