Pakistan
Pakistan’s rape victim who dared to fight back
Monthly Archives: December 2010
African Union
Radical Muslims blamed as bomb and gun attacks kill 40 in Nigeria
Afghanistan
Afghanistan to look into missing medicine
Afghanistan
Petraeus commends Pakistan’s counterinsurgency
India
Pakistan – Jamaat-e-Islami against US summon of ISI officials
Al Qaeda
Yemen to crack down on regional al-Qaeda wing with special forces deployed to provinces
Shabaab
Somalis are desperate for a new life, but refugees face a dangerous road
Al Qaeda
Hizballah fears ‘Qaeda’ type attacks from Lebanese Sunnis
Lebanon
Abu Ramez Sahmarani, the leader of Jund al Sham, an al Qaeda-linked group in Lebanon, was found dead in the Ein al Hilweh camp. Sahmarani “was found handcuffed, blindfolded and shot execution-style in the back of his head.”
Afghanistan
Al Qaida-allied Afghan fighters seek new Pakistan haven
Iran
Why Ahmadinejad is dismissing high-level Iranian officials
Hamas
Hamas armed wing says interested in keeping calm in Gaza
Afghanistan
Taliban challenge US in eastern Afghanistan
Pakistan
Pakistan’s interior minister for changing pro-terror mindset
Pakistan
Pakistan’s ‘Mother Teresa’ on floods frontline
Iran
Iran poised to execute student accused of being Kurd terrorist
Nigeria
The death toll in the Christmas Eve bombings in Jos rose to 32. Six Christians were killed in attacks on two churches in Maiduguri. Boko Haram is suspected of carrying out the attacks.
Pakistan
A female Taliban suicide bomber killed 42 civilians in an attack at a World Food Program ration distribution point in Bajaur. The Taliban kidnapped 25 tribal leaders who met with General Kayani in South Waziristan. Security forces killed 16 Taliban fighters in Mohmand.
Afghanistan
Possible attack on US Afghan embassy thwarted
Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s Hazaras gain clout in disputed parliamentary elections
China
Pope urges courage for Catholics in China, Iraq
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed two soldiers, two policemen, and a German aid worker in attacks throughout the country. Twenty Taliban fighters surrendered to the government in Badghis. Afghan troops captured four Taliban fighters in Logar.
The Netherlands
Police arrested 12 Somalis in Rotterdam after receiving intelligence of a plot to carry out attacks in the country. Searches of several homes, two motel rooms, and a telephone shop failed to uncover any weapons or explosives.
Iraq
Security forces detained 12 wanted men in Kirkuk, eight al Qaeda operatives including two Syrians in Anbar, and an escaped prisoner in Tal Afar. Iraqi soldiers accidentally killed a civilian in a shooting in Mosul.
Philippines
Eleven people were wounded in a bombing during Christmas Day mass at a Catholic church in a police camp on Jolo Island in Sulu province. The al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf Group is suspected of carrying out the attack.
Iran
Iran claimed it will launch two new satellites into earth’s orbit by March 2011. Iran’s natural gas exports to Turkey hit a record high this year; Iran hopes to make $50 billion annually in natural gas exports.
Female suicide bomber kills 42 people in Pakistan’s northwest
The suicide bomber targeted civilians as they waited to receive rations at a World Food Program distribution point in Bajaur.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Protestors warn of anarchy if blasphemy law changed
Pakistan
Pakistan’s Christians not cowering amid rising intolerance
Nigeria
At least eight people were killed and dozens more were wounded in five bombings in the city of Jos. Boko Haram had issued letters last week threatening to attack Christians in the state of Plateau.