Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
More foreign fighters seen slipping back into Iraq
Yearly Archives: 2010
Afghanistan
Medevac team saves lives in southern Afghanistan
Al Qaeda in Iraq
A US hand in Yemen’s civil war
United Kingdom
Islamic website tied to MP’s stabbing resurfaces under new name
Al Qaeda
First convoy of families returns to South Waziristan
Afghanistan
Winning Afghanistan… one cow at a time
Afghanistan
British Paras see progress in the fight against the Taliban – and in the schools
Somalia
Somali Americans return to help motherland
China
Cables discuss vast hacking by a China that fears the Web
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces captured a key financier of the Mullah Dadullah Front in Kandahar and killed a Taliban commander in Helmand. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in an attack in the east and released seven deminers in Nangarhar.
Financier for ‘Mullah Dadullah Front’ captured in Afghan south
The Mullah Dadullah Front is a Taliban group led by former Gitmo detainee Mullah Zakir. The group is considered the most radical, effective, and dangerous Taliban faction in southern Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
Analysis: Obama’s trip signals Afghan war plan set
Iraq
Al Qaeda in Iraq killed 13 people, including six Shia pilgrims, in bombings in Baghdad; Iran denied its citizens were killed in the bombings. Al Qaeda in Iraq denied Iraqi security forces captured the cell behind the attack on a Christian church in Baghdad.
Egypt
Survey: Muslims offer mixed views on Hamas, Hezbollah, reject al Qaeda
Al Qaeda
Is an apocalyptic vision driving al-Qaeda’s quest for the bomb?
Bahrain
Iran rules out halting nuclear enrichment
India
Pakistan ‘shared Mumbai attacks research with India’
Afghanistan
Leaders in Afghanistan, Pakistan speak out against WikiLeaks information
Libya
WikiLeaks: Gadaffi nearly caused nuclear disaster after UN tent snub
Lebanon
In 2008, Defense Minister Elias Murr passed along advice to Israel if it planned to target Hezbollah, according to the WikiLeaks documents. Murr said Israel should not cross the blue line and should avoid targeting Christian areas. He also said the Lebanese Army would not fight Israel and would “take over, once Hezbollah’s militia has […]
Saudi Arabia
Security officials said recently detained al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives “planned to rob banks and companies to finance their operations” and plotted to assassinate Sauid officials. “Using poisoned perfume which they planned to send as gifts is one of the ways the arrested people planned to carry out their assassinations.”
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda planned to kill Saudis with poisoned gifts
Iran
Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi accused the International Atomic Energy Agency of sending spies and not nuclear inspectors. On the eve of renewed talks with the West, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Iran would not halt nuclear enrichment.
ISAF kills Taliban commander in airstrike in northern Helmand
Combined forces have stepped up attacks against the Taliban in the northern district of Kajaki over the past month.
Jordan
Jordan intervenes in US terror-funding suits
Israel
A resurgent Syria alarms US, Israel
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Yemen sets terms of a war on al Qaeda
Photos of AQI’s top 2 leaders
Al Sumaria has released photographs of al Qaeda in Iraq’s top two leaders. At left is Abu Bakr al Baghdadi al Husseini al Qurshi, the emir or leader of al Qaeda’s so-called Islamic State of Iraq. At right is Nasser al Din Allah Abu Suleiman, the Islamic State of Iraq’s war minister. The photographs were […]
Iraq
Security forces detained 39 al Qaeda fighters during raids in Anbar province. An Iraqi newspaper released photographs of al Qaeda’s top two leaders in the country. Insurgents killed a policeman in Baghdad and attempted to assassinate the intelligence chief of Dhi Qhar province.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed credit for the suicide attack that killed 23 Houthi rebels in the Yemeni north, including its leader Badruddin al Houthi. AQAP said the attack was carried out by Abu Aisha al-Sanaani al Hashemi.