Yearly Archives: 2010



Yemen

A sheikh said that US Predators are flying over Marib daily. Three people were killed in clashes between pro-government tribes and Shia Houthi rebels in the north. Al Qaeda bombed the car of an intelligence chief.




NATO

NATO chief pledges to uphold Afghan women’s rights


Iran

The EU announced that Iran is ready to resume talks about its nuclear program. General Petraeus called Tehran’s payments to Afghan government “disingenuous.” Singapore agreed to enforce shipping sanctions on Iran.




Pakistan

US Predators killed three Arab al Qaeda fighters and four Taliban fighters in North Waziristan. The Pakistani air force killed 12 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. The Taliban beheaded three “criminals” in Mohmand. The Haqqani Network is negotiating with the Turi tribe in Kurram.


Afghanistan

France will begin withdrawing troops in 2011. The Taliban killed three civilians in Zabul, a policeman in Takhar, and an ISAF soldier in the south. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Khost, and Logar.



NATO

Kandahar campaign’s fate not clear until June: NATO




United States

US military has delivered over 20 million pounds of flood relief supplies to Pakistan




Iran

Iranian officials renew warnings over ‘soft war’







Iran

The US and the EU are preparing a new offer to Iran over its nuclear program. Tehran applied for a position on the new UN initiative for women. Nigerian law enforcement seized 13 containers of Iranian weapons at the port of Lagos.


Iraq

Insurgents launched a series of attacks on senior police officers, killing two colonels and wounding a general and a colonel in Baghdad and Jalawlaa. A suicide bomber killed a policeman in Mosul. Security forces detained 26 wanted men in Basrah and Wasit.


Somalia

Shabaab executed two teenage girls for “spying.” Fighting between Shabaab and Somali forces in the Bakool region left 15 people dead. Gunmen murdered six clerics in central Somalia. A Danish warship destroyed a pirate boat.


Yemen

Jamal Ahmed Mairan, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arbian Peninsula in the towns of Lauder and Modia, surrendered to authorities in Abyan province. A court charged Sharif Mobley, an American citizen with ties to al Qaeda, with murder.