Yemen
The US is seeking to expand counterterrorism intelligence gathering and operations in Yemen. A suspect in the parcel bomb plot is believed to be hiding in Shabwa province.
Yearly Archives: 2010
Afghanistan
Canadian plan to extend Afghan mission comes under fire
Iran
New research on the Stuxnet worm demonstrated that it was designed to infect equipment used in uranium enrichment. Tehran will launch a five-day air defense war game. Iran said the NATO missile shield serves Israeli interests.
US Predators hit a Taliban camp in North Waziristan
The strike is the second in the Ghulam Khan area in five days. Twenty “militants,” including al Qaeda fighters, were reported killed.
Al Qaeda
Afghanistan wants more Taliban off blacklist
United Arab Emirates
Bahrain, UAE seek to beef up missile capabilities as Iran tensions arise
Al Qaeda in Iraq
US pursues wider role in Yemen
Pakistan
The Taliban killed two people in a bombing in Peshawar and destroyed a school in Mohmand. Security forces killed two Taliban fighters in Swat and detained a senior commander in Islamabad.
Al Qaeda
Clinton defends US military strikes in Afghanistan
Philippines
Muslim insurgents in north Cotabato are suspected of killing one person and wounding two others in a bombing at a bus terminal. Suspected Abu Sayyaf Islamists kidnapped two teachers but released one shortly afterward in a nearby village in Basilan.
Iran
Iran: Arms seized in Nigeria a ‘misunderstanding’
Pakistan
Volatile mix of politics and crime plagues Karachi
Afghanistan
General Petraeus and Secretary of State Clinton defended US military operations after criticism from President Karzai. The Taliban killed eight policemen in Kunduz, killed two ISAF soldiers in the east, and set a base aflame in a rocket attack in Kunar. Coalition and Afghan forces detained several Taliban fighters in Kandahar and Paktia.
Full text of Mullah Omar’s statement
Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Amir al Mumineen (“the commander of the faithful”) of the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban. Below is the full text of Taliban leader Mullah Omar’s statement. The Voice of Jihad website often switches URLs after being hacked or taken offline, so the statement is republished below for when this eventually happens. To […]
Mullah Omar rejects reports of peace talks, highlights Taliban strategy
The Taliban’s top leader called reports of negotiation “propaganda” and urged the Taliban to continue the fight. Omar said the Taliban want to bleed the US as the mujahedeen did to the Soviets in the 1980s.
Russia
Two traffic policemen were killed in separate shootings in Dagestan; one was killed in a hospital. Police defused two bombs in the Dagestani cities of Makhachkala and Kizlyar.
Iraq
Insurgents killed an intelligence official, a policeman, and two civilians in bombings in Baghdad, Al Qaim, and Mosul. Security forces killed two insurgents while planting an IED in Kirkuk and detained 13 wanted men in Basrah and Karbala.
Somalia
Shabaab fighters in Barawe attacked pirates and seized two South African hostages. Shabaab vowed to assassinate newly appointed Somali cabinet ministers. Somaliland’s intelligence chief resigned.
Afghanistan
NATO sees no alternative to Afghan operations
Yemen
The Yemeni military attacked al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula hideouts in Bani Dhabyan west of Sana’a; no casualties were reported. A parcel bomb killed a girl in the city of Dhale.
Afghanistan
Exclusive: Afghanistan – behind enemy lines
Iran
Tehran arrested five human rights lawyers for “security-related offenses.” Iranian representative to OPEC blamed the US dollar for oil price instability. The military announced upgrades to Iranian defensive radar and missile systems.
Somalia
Hope and urgency in Somalia
United Kingdom
UK ‘at lower terror risk than France and US’
Pakistan
Pakistan PM urges donors for patience on reforms
Afghanistan
Karzai official dismisses talk of US, Afghan rift
Afghanistan
Petraeus warns Afghans about Karzai’s criticism of US war strategy
Pakistan
Security forces killed six Taliban fighters in Swat. A suicide bomber killed a civilian in South Waziristan. The Taliban bombed a NATO fuel tanker in Bolan.
Al Qaeda
Taliban prisoners ‘would be freed from Guant
Afghanistan
Controversial madrasah builds Iran’s influence in Kabul