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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Afghanistan
US operations in Kandahar push out Taliban
Al Qaeda in Iraq
North African states at risk of being overrun by al-Qaeda
Pakistan
Pakistan: Amnesty urges probe of Baloch killings and ‘torture’
Pakistan
Pakistan army blockades anti-Taliban tribe in Kurram
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander killed in Afghan north
Qari Mahmad Umar, a shadow district governor in Takhar, was also a senior leader in the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Pakistan
Five people were killed in a bombing at a Sufi shrine in Pakpattan. Three people were killed in an IED attack in Arakzai. The military sealed the border between Kurram and Afghanistan. Two suicide bombers were detained in Karachi.
Iran
Sanctions won’t defang Iran
Pakistan
Pakistan feudalism boosts Taliban cause
Afghanistan
Kandahar operation to last until end of 2010
Afghanistan
Afghan leader admits his office gets cash from Iran
Europe
Iran set to load fuel to core of first atomic plant
Thailand
Muslim insurgents carried out nine bombings in seven districts of Narathiwat province Monday morning, killing one person and injuring more than 10 others. Similar bombings in Yala and Pattani province left three others injured. Buddhist rubber plantation workers were the primary target of the attacks.
Algeria
Suspected Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb fighters killed two Algerian soldiers and wounded three others in an IED attack on a military convoy in eastern Boumerdes province. Algerian Prime Minister Ouyahia has pledged to “the complete disappearance of this plague [terrorism]” from Algeria.
Nigeria
Six suspected Boko Haram insurgents attacked the Gulani police station in northern Yobe state. Police officers fended off the attackers after one gunman was killed. At least three police officers were wounded in the attack.
Iraq
Insurgents killed two people in a bombing at a hospital in Mosul and assassinated a senior electricity ministry official in Baghdad. Security forces detained seven wanted men in Basrah and three more in Kirkuk.
Pakistan
North Waziristan operation reports upset Taliban
Afghanistan
Taliban peace talks with Hamid Karzai are ‘mostly hype’
India
Jammu & Kashmir police fear terror attacks ahead of Obama’s visit
Pakistan
Pakistan’s Pashtuns feel more alone than ever
Afghanistan
‘Birthplace of the Taliban’ improves after latest US offensive
Al Qaeda
Pakistan border region becomes terror epicenter
Afghanistan
Gunmen kidnap Dutch aid worker and Afghan driver
Al Qaeda
Canadian Gitmo detainee Omar Khadr pleads guilty to all terrorism charges
Afghanistan
Raid, strike kill 15 insurgents in Afghanistan: NATO
Iran
Tehran has expanded its economic influence in Iraq. The Israeli military is developing plans to respond to a nuclear-armed Iran.
Afghanistan
President Karzai admitted to receiving “bags of money” from Iran and other countries but insisted the payments were legitimate aid. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Khost, Paktika, and Badghis. The Taliban killed three civilians and a policeman in a suicide attack in Khost, […]
Yemen
Security forces in Aden discovered a bomb consisting of 1,800 grams of TNT which was placed near the Al Wahdah stadium, where a soccer tournament is to be held. The information minister claimed that “al Qaeda in Yemen is dying.”
Russia
A suicide bomber killed a policeman in an attack in Dagestan on Saturday. Five Islamist fighters were also killed in a shootout with police in Dagestan. Five people were wounded in a bombing in Ingushetia.
5 killed in bombing at shrine in eastern Pakistan
A remotely triggered bomb was detonated this morning at a Sufi and Hindu shrine in the city of Pakpattan in Punjab province.