Afghanistan
The Taliban killed 14 civilians in an IED attack in Helmand province. Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Nangarhar and Kunduz.
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Nigeria
The People Committed to the Prophet’s Teachings for Propagation and Jihad (formerly Boko Haram) killed seven people yesterday in an attack on a bus at a bus station in the Dala area of Maiduguri. The attack is the latest since Christmas Eve and Day attacks in Jos killed more than 80 people.
India
India’s National Investigation Agency said the Students Islamic Movement of India (or SIMI) is directly linked to the Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Taiba. SIMI and the Lashkar-e-Taiba have carried out multiple suicide attacks and bombings in India.
Iraq
Security forces captured the organizer of yesterday’s suicide attack on a police headquarters in Mosul that killed a senior police chief. 2010 has seen the lowest number of Iraqi civilian and US troop casualties since the US invasion in 2003.
Somalia
Shabaab and government forces fought in Beledweyne. France received a tape showing that an intelligence agent who was captured by Shabaab is still alive. The US issued a travel warning for American citizens considering going to Somalia.
Afghanistan
An election gone wrong fuels tension in Kabul
Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, a tale of two forces
Greece
Embassy bombings ‘aimed at revitalising anarchist movement’
India
Pakistan says it will defend spy chief in US suits
Denmark
Terror suspects appear in Danish court
Iran
Israel estimated that Iran is three years away from producing a nuclear weapon due to setbacks in Tehran’s proliferation program. The removal of subsidies on basic goods in Iran has caused political tensions between Supreme Leader Khamenei and President Ahmadinejad.
Afghanistan
Fighting erupts in Afghanistan’s Tora Bora mountains between NATO, insurgent forces
North Korea
SKorea says NKorea building up special forces
Pakistan
Disappearances with reported ties to Pakistan worry US
Pakistan
Security forces killed seven Taliban fighters in helicopter airstrikes in Kurram. The Taliban ambushed a NATO supply convoy in Landi Kotal in Khyber; one driver was killed during the attack.
United States
Terrorist watch list: One tip now enough to put name in database, officials say
Al Qaeda in Iraq
English-language magazine provided bomb tips to 9 terror suspects, British say
Al Qaeda
South American drug gangs funding al-Qaeda terrorists
Afghanistan
Canadians stand by as power struggle simmers in Panjwaii
Syria
Syria encouraged anti-cartoon protest: US cables
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Iraq civilian death toll lowest since invasion: study
Denmark
Denmark: Attack over prophet cartoons thwarted
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Nangarhar, Nimroz, and Kunduz. A suicide bomber detonated his vest in Paktia.
Taliban intel officer linked to Pakistan captured in Kandahar
Yesterday, ISAF captured a Taliban intelligence operative who scouted attack sites for suicide bombers based in Pakistan. From the ISAF press release: The targeted individual is an intelligence operative responsible for providing direction in the form of site selection and target sets for the suicide bombers who reportedly came into the city from Chaman, Pakistan. […]
Iraq
A four-man al Qaeda in Iraq suicide team killed a police chief and three policemen in an attack on a police headquarters in Mosul. Security forces detained three al Qaeda operatives in Diyala and another in Kirkuk, and arrested a wanted man in Diwaniyah.
Somalia
Seventeen people were killed during fighting in Mogadishu. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys praised Shabaab at a rally in Mogadishu. Shabaab’s leader in Kismayo vowed to send fighters to Mogadishu.
Hizb ut-Tahrir
Hizb ut-Tahrir will hold a meeting at the Royal Library in Copenhagen that will “focus on the duty of armed resistance for Muslims in Afghanistan and surrounding nations.” A spokesman said the Danish government is responsible for sending its troops to die in Afghanistan.
Denmark
Danish and Swedish intelligence agents arrested five men who were plotting to attack the Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in 2005. The plotters, who included two Tunisians, a Lebanese, and an Iraqi, intended to enter the building and “kill as many of the people present as possible.”
Afghanistan
The Revolutionary Guardsman that wasn’t… or was he?
United States
Obama’s traveling team stays focused on terror