Yemen
Anwar al Awlaki™s license to kill
Yearly Archives: 2010
United States
Native American tribes seek trade ties with Turkey
Iran
Nigeria links Iran to arms shipment
Afghanistan
US tweaks message on troops in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Visiting US senators praise Afghan progress, say drawdown date is unrealistic
Ex-Gitmo detainee plotted against Saudi kingdom
A former Guantanamo detainee was reportedly involved in plotting against targets in Saudi Arabia in December 2009, two years after he was repatriated to the country. He remains a member of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
Vatican
Pope calls for religious freedom in Muslim states
Iraq
Iraq’s new govt to include Sunni-backed bloc
Yemen
Top al Qaeda leaders, including Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a top spokesman who recently left Iran, may have relocated to Yemen. “Some of these leaders however have moved to Yemen and have taken the charges of command and coordination of al Qaeda operations,” an intelligence report stated.
Saudi Arabia
Saudi security forces are on alert for a possible al Qaeda attack during the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina. Interior Minister Prince Nayef did not mention a specific plot, however.
Iran
President Ahmadinejad said that Western pressure on Iran’s nuclear program has had no impact. Iran and Venezuela are exploring the possibility of constructing a an alternative passage to the Panama Canal. Tehran was denied a seat on the new UN agency for woman’s rights.
Taliban weapons recovered from assault on COP Margah
The photo above shows a sampling of the enemy weapons recovered from the area around Combat Outpost Margah in Paktika province, Afghanistan, in the aftermath of the Oct. 30 attack by the Haqqani Network and allied foreign fighters. More than 80 Haqqani Network and “foreign fighters” (al Qaeda) were reported killed in the attack; an […]
US Predators kill 6 Haqqani Network fighters in North Waziristan
The Haqqani Network fighters were killed in a missile barrage while returning from Khost province in Afghanistan.
Pakistan
Pakistan – ‘Intelligence officials™, police thrash journalists
Afghanistan
Taliban insurgency alive and well, warns British major general
Al Qaeda
France says terror suspects were planning attack
Pakistan
Volunteer militias are no solution for Pakistan™s Taliban problem
Iraq
Iraq’s Christians terrorized by wave of bombings
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Police: Mail bomb could have exploded over US
Afghanistan
Private security companies sign code of conduct
Al Qaeda
How to win back Pakistan
United States
Mystery ‘missile’ launch in US: the theories
Pakistan
Christian woman sentenced to death in Pakistan ‘for blasphemy’
United States
Obama heralds Indonesia’s political, religious diversity in latest outreach to Muslims
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed seven policemen in Uruzgan, two security guards and a policeman in Khost, and two ISAF soldiers in the south and east. Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters during operations in Ghazni, Farah, Nangarhar, Logar, and Kabul. Three Taliban fighters died in a premature […]
Afghanistan
Insurgents arrested on Afghan plane
Iraq
Baghdad attacks fuel Christian fears
Iraq
Kirkuk: a ticking time bomb in volatile north Iraq
Iraq
Insurgents killed three Christians in targeted attacks in Baghdad and three Awakening fighters in an IED blast in Babil. Joint security forces detained 23 wanted men in operations southwest of Kirkuk.
Pakistan
Security forces killed 15 Taliban fighters in airstrikes in Arakzai and two “terrorists” in operations in Swat. The Taliban bombed three schools in Mohmand and torched a NATO fuel tanker in Sibbi.