A Yemeni court charged US born al Qaeda cleric Anwar al Awlaki, and his cousin Othman al Awlaki, with “plotting and incitement to murder foreigners.” Security forces launched an operation in the provinces of Maarib and Shabwa to find al Qaeda operative Ibrahim al Asiri, who is suspected of manufacturing the parcel bombs.
The ZPU-1 and the ZU-23-2 (pictured) have seen a robust role in Afghan combat since the 1980s. On Oct. 28, a targeted ISAF airstrike killed Mullah Abdullah Kakar, one of the Taliban’s operational commanders in Zabul province who was responsible for a long list of attacks and IEDs in the Shah Joy district. What is […]
Pakistan seeks alliance with China as the US gets tough
Afghan women joining armed forces in greater numbers, challenging convention
Parcel bombs point to al-Qaeda switch
UK – Stephen Timms attacker was inspired by al-Qaeda’s Anwar al-Awlaki
Interview: Petraeus on Afghanistan, Iran, Taliban strategy
Saudi Arabia’s shadowy connection
Tehran postponed the trial of three US hikers imprisoned in Iran. Opposition leader Mousavi criticized President Ahmadinejad over energy and food subsidy plans. THe Chinese foreign minister called for a resumption of nuclear talks with Iran.
Boko Haram is demanding an amnesty offer similar to the one given to MEND by the federal government. Boko Haram, speaking through an anonymous spokesman, threatened to “continue with these (killings) and we have our targets” unless their demands are met. The demands include the release of 195 members from prison, the pardoning of members […]
The Washington Post reported that Yemenis and Egyptians were involved in the deadly massacre at a Christian church in Baghdad that resulted in the deaths of at least 52 people: An Iraqi official said Monday that investigators had found at the scene three Yemeni and two Egyptian passports thought to have belonged to the suicide […]
The Pakistani military often claims success in a tribal agency, only to have the facts on the ground contradict such statements. Recent events in Arakzai are a good example of this. In the tribal agency of Arakzai, the Pakistani Taliban flogged 65 men in public who had been accused of dealing drugs, after making announcements […]
US concerned about former Guantanamo prisoners in Yemen
Al Qaeda thriving despite US efforts: experts
Earlier flight may have been dry run for plotters
Tribal ties impede Yemen’s war on al Qaeda
Baghdad church siege survivors speak of taunts, killings and explosions
Internet ‘gives militants access to top-level spy systems’
Mail bombs 4 times larger than Christmas plot
The new Bin Laden
The US killed six “militants” in a Predator strike in Pakistan. A suicide bomber killed two policemen in Swabi. Three Taliban commanders were killed in Swat. The brother of Baitullah Mehsud was murdered in North Waziristan.
The Taliban overran a district center in Ghazni, while the police force defected. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in the south. Security forces killed and captured Taliban and Haqqani Network leaders and fighters Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Khost, and Paktia.
Al Qaeda in Iraq killed 52 people, including two priests and 10 Iraqi policemen, in an attack on a church in Baghdad. Security forces killed a suicide bomber in Irbil and detained 23 wanted men in Basrah and four al Qaeda fighters in Wasit.
The Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaeda’s front organization, claimed credit for last night’s massacre at a Baghdad church that killed 52 Iraqis. Iraqi troops stormed the church. Al Qaeda was seeking the release of Muslim women in Egypt.
An al Qaeda suicide assault team was killed by Iraqi security forces after taking control of a church in the Iraqi capital. Three Yemenis and two Egyptians are believed to have carried out the attack.
The Union of Communities in Kurdistan denied that its ally, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) carried out yesterday’s suicide attack in Istanbul that wounded 15 policemen and 17 civilians. The PKK is the primary suspect in the suicide attack.
While much of the attention of ISAF and Afghan forces has focused on the provinces of Helmand and Kandahar in the south, the provinces of Ghazni and Zabul remain Taliban strongholds in the southeast. Last night, the Taliban overran the poorly defended Khogyani district center in Ghazni province, and then abandoned it hours later when […]
Iraqi Christians mourn after church siege kills 52
Taliban publicly flog men for ‘taking drugs’ against their diktat
Pakistani military spokesman: Killings of Taliban militants ‘show weariness with insurgency’