Germany
Mosques to become bigger part of German life: Merkel
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Afghanistan
Thea Taliban killed 41 people in attacks on polling stations in Nangarhar, Kunar, and Baghlan, but failed to block the parliamentary election; 92 percent of the polling stations remained open. Security forces killed 18 Taliban fighters in Kunduz, an al Qaeda-linked district commander in Kunar, and a Haqqani Network fighter in Khost, and captured a […]
Mauritania
Security forces killed 12 al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb fighters during fighting along the border with Mali. Five Mauritanian soldiers have also been killed in the fighting. Fighting has spilled over into Mali.
Tajikistan
Security forces detained three suspects in the Sept. 3 suicide attack in Tajikistan that killed two policemen. The three men belong to the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Yemen
The deputy governor of Abyan province survived an assassination attempt after al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters ambushed his convoy; three bodyguards were wounded. Security forces are interrogating Ghawdal Mohammad Saleh Naji for his role in planing and coordinating the June attack on a security headquarters in Aden.
Afghanistan
Congressman lauds shift in tactics for snuffing IEDs
Afghanistan
Afghan north voters caught between warlords and Taliban
Pakistan
Pakistan’s strange response towards Indian aid offer
Afghanistan
Afghans line up at polls despite threats, scattered rocket attacks
Al Qaeda-linked Taliban leader killed in Kunar
The Taliban’s shadow district governor for Shigal was associated with top al Qaeda leader Qari Zia Rahman, and has been linked to the first female suicide bomber in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
Obama envisions no major changes in Afghan strategy
Iraq
Special ops and the ‘end of combat’ in Iraq
United States
Fearing Qaida, US cartoonist of Prophet forced into hiding
Afghanistan
Polls open for Afghanistan parliamentary election
Iraq
Insurgents killed four Iraqis in a bicycle bombing in Huweija, and a soldier and an interior ministry official in Baghdad. Security forces killed one insurgent and detained four more in Mosul, and arrested 14 wanted men in Basrah.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
The Mauritanian army has launched an offensive against al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. The fighting spilled over into northern Mali at Hassissidi. “We are presently in Malian territory and engaged in full combat,” Mauritanian security sources stated. Niger and Algerian sources have seen seven kidnapped foreign nationals, including five French nationals, being taken into […]
Pakistan
US won™t accept slackness by Pak Army in war on terror
ETIP leader thought killed in February Predator strike
Abdul Haq al Turkistani, the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party and a member of al Qaeda’s Shura Majlis, was killed in a strike in Mir Ali.
Afghanistan
US, Afghan forces launch assault in southern Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Educating women saves children, study finds
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Uruzgan, Kabul, Khost, and Logar. A Taliban fighter was killed in a premature detonation in Ghazni. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in the south, and kidnapped 18 election workers and campaigners in Badghis.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula announced the death of Hani Abdu Mosleh Shalan in a US airstrike in Yemen earlier this year. Shalan was described by AQAP as “a field commander.” He had been detained at Guantanamo Bay before being released to Yemen.
Denmark
Danish police now believe that the Chechen man detained after a letter bomb prematurely detonated in Copenhagen had intended to send the bomb to the newspaper Jyllands-Posten. The newspaper had printed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed and has been the target of several terrorist plots.
Afghanistan
US radio takes on Taliban in Afghan propaganda war
Somalia
Fifteen people were killed and more than 50 were wounded in a mortar exchange between government and Shabaab forces in Mogadishu. A UN official called for the number of foreign troops in Somalia to increase to 20,000.
Caucasus
Danish police say bomber’s target was newspaper
Hizb-i-Islami
Afghanistan – Editorial: Hekmatyar speaks
Somalia
Somali pirates: eyewitness account of the threat to cruise ships
United Kingdom
Police arrested five “suspected Islamists” thought to be involved in a plot to assassinate the Pope in London. The five Muslim men, several of whom are from Algeria, are employed as street cleaners for a city contractor.
Yemen
Two Yemeni soldiers were killed in an ambush in the al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula stronghold of Shabwa province. Security forces detained five al Qaeda fighters in the district of Lauder in Abyan province, another AQAP stronghold.