US designates Lashkar-e-Taiba’s charitable front as terror group
Falah-i Insaniat Foundation, its chief Hafiz Abdur Rauf, and two longtime members of Lashkar-e-Taiba were put on the US list of terror entities today.
Yearly Archives: 2010
Al Qaeda
Europeans training in Pakistan terrorist camps
Afghanistan
Into Taliban territory: the beginnings of the Tarbuz Guzar militia
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Suicide attack strikes Shiites in Yemen
Afghanistan
Coalition forces killed the Taliban’s top military leader in northern Helmand and 10 other fighters in an airstrike on Nov. 20. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Helmand, Khost, Paktia, and Logar. The Taliban killed five village elders in Faryab and an ISAF soldier in the south. […]
Tajikistan
Security forces captured two Islamist fighters, including a member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. The Islamists were detained in the Rasht Valley, where troops have been battling militants, on Nov. 14.
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Insurgents killed an Army brigadier and five civilians in attacks in Baghdad, Tikrit, Fallujah, and Mosul. Security forces killed two terrorists in Mosul and detained five Qaeda fighters in Khanaqin.
Somalia
The commander of African Union forces in Somalia apologized for the deaths of two civilians during mortar strikes that targeted Shabaab in Mogadishu. A British warship destroyed a pirate skiff off the coast of Somalia.
Yemen
A suicide bomber killed 17 Shia Houthis in an attack on a religious procession in Al Jawf province. The Houthis accused the US and Israel of masterminding the attack.
Thailand
Islamist insurgents killed three people in Narathiwat province. The gunmen killed two Muslim politicians and a Buddhist teacher in their van shortly after they left a meeting with Thai military officials at a local military base.
Afghanistan
Oops … wrong man!
Afghanistan
Taliban commanders killed or captured by British troops
Pakistan
Pakistan president urged not to pardon Christian woman
Afghanistan
Sign of Afghanistan war gains proves false
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US – Army launches video-sharing site for the military
Afghanistan
Pentagon: Progress ‘uneven’ in Afghanistan war
Afghanistan
Problems in one province delay Afghan election; re-vote possible, officials say
Jamaat-ud-Dawa
Banned outfits raise cash from sacrifice day
United States
US – Color-coded terror alerts may end
Senior Taliban military commander killed in Helmand
Mullah Abdul Qayoum, the Taliban’s shadow governor for the district of Sangin, was killed in an ISAF airstrike on Nov. 20. Qayoum commanded an estimated 600 to 800 Taliban fighters and served as a key link to the Taliban leadership in Pakistan.
Iran
Iranian officials rejected Western media claims that Iran has halted uranium enrichment due to technical problems. The Israeli government backed off threatening Iran, but increased pressure on the US to attack to halt Iranian proliferation.
Suicide bomber kills 17 Shia in Yemen’s north
A senior tribal leader was among those killed by an al Qaeda suicide bomber.
Al Qaeda
Taliban impostor reveals perils of negotiation
Afghanistan
Pentagon report cites gains in Afghanistan
Caucasus
Police arrest suspects in plot against Belgium
Caucasus
Officer in Dagestan killed when bomb blows up his car
Afghanistan
Outrage over a NATO dismissal of Kabul children’s fears
Shabaab
Somali piracy is a problem for the world
Israel
Syria’s nuclear stonewalling deepens: IAEA report
United States
Afghan violence soars, insurgency expanding: US