Suicide assault team kills Mosul emergency police chief
The commander of the 1st Emergency Battalion in Mosul had been targeted by al Qaeda on five other occasions. He had recently killed al Qaeda’s top leader in the city.
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Al Qaeda
What is Nigeria’s Boko Haram?
Iran
President Ahmadinejad announced that Iran is now a “nuclear state.” Iranian fuel consumption has fallen by 20 percent one week after the government ended petroleum subsidies.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Are Taliban following in the footsteps of Tamil Tigers?
Afghanistan
2011 decisive for US strategy in Pakistan, Afghanistan
India
Bombay Stock Exchange unveils its new Sharia law share index
Afghanistan
‘Malign’ Afghans targeted: US and Afghan allies describe web of corruption but say prosecution stalls
Afghanistan
Army edits its history of the deadly battle of Wanat
Afghanistan
Insurgents set aside rivalries on Afghan border
Afghanistan
US: No way to seal Afghan-Pakistan border
The Netherlands
Police have released 11 Somali men suspected of plotting to carry out attacks in the country. One man remains in custody, and another is still a suspect in a terror plot.
Pakistan
US Predators killed 15 Taliban fighters in a pair of airstrikes in the Ghulam Khan area of North Waziristan. Pakistani troops killed two Taliban fighters in Mohmand.
Iraq
Al Qaeda killed two soldiers in Mosul and Tal Afar. Security forces detained senior al Qaeda in Iraq leaders in Mosul, and three al Qaeda fighters in Huweija.
Somalia
Five people were killed during a Shabaab attack on an African Union military base in Mogadishu. Shabaab arrested 10 khat traders in Jowhar. Shabaab leader Fuad Mohamed “Shongole” Qalaf threatened to attack the US.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Peace bodies formed in Kunduz, Helmand
France
France’s spy service bulks up amid terror threats
India
India ups security in cities fearing terror attack
Kyrgyzstan
Otunbaeva says Kyrgyzstan ‘cleaning things up’
Iraq
Iraq to remove checkpoints across Baghdad
Greece
Cops say link between Italian, Greek anarchists
Israel
Israeli companies to help build Palestinian city
Hamas
Turkey ‘wants to repair ties with Israel’
Nigeria
The People Committed to the Prophet’s Teachings for Propagation and Jihad (formerly Boko Haram) claimed it carried out the series of bombings that targeted Christians in Jos on Dec. 24 and 25. The terror group said it would “start avenging the atrocities committed against Muslims in those areas, and the country in general.”
United Arab Emirates
A court is trying two Pakistani brothers accused of “running a jihadi organization and aiding and abetting al Qaeda.” The two men are also said to have had direct communications with senior al Qaeda leaders.
Iran
Iran executed two men, including one who was accused of being an “Israeli spy.” Interior Minister Najjar accused the CIA and Mossad of sponsoring terror groups based in Pakistan such as Jundallah.
US Predators strike again in North Waziristan
The airstrikes killed 15 Taliban fighters in an area used for staging attacks into Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
The Taliban recede in Kandahar: The Coalition’s advance or winter’s?
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Christmas bomb plot: 9 men remanded over plan to ‘blow up Big Ben and Westminster Abbey’
Iran
Iraqi prime minister says US troops must leave next year as planned
Pakistan
Pakistan food program set to resume