Yemen
France has advised the families of expatriate workers based in Yemen to leave the country due to the deteriorating security situation. Yemen has increased security measures in the southern al Qaeda stronghold of Abyan province.
Yearly Archives: 2010
Thailand
Police arrested 15 Pakistani nationals in the southern province of Yala who are suspected of having links to terror groups. One of those arrested transferred money to a “blacklisted” Pakistani group.
Taliban
Taliban border haven in US sights
Lebanon
Lebanon crowds greet Ahmadinejad
Al Qaeda
Holbrooke backs US alert to travelers in Europe
Afghanistan
Armed men attack cars, rob people near Tajik-Afghan border
Germany
Under fire in Afghanistan’s Baghlan province
Pakistan
Turkey to fully support Pakistan in rehabilitation
Taliban
Afghan firms “pay off Taliban with foreign cash”
Iran
President Ahmadinejad received a warm welcome during his visit to Beirut. A fire at a military base killed 18 members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Tehran will try five Iranian nationals for spying for foreign nations.
Senior Taliban leader killed in raid in Afghan northwest
A Taliban leader in the running to replace the shadow governor of Badghis province was killed in a raid over the weekend, while another senior Taliban military commander in the province was targeted in a strike yesterday.
Nigeria
Boko Haram Islamists have assaulted a police station in Borno, injuring four police officers on duty. The assailants used locally made explosives before opening fire on the Gamboru Police Station in Maiduguri.
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Al-Qaida group to Yemeni president: ‘Run for your life’
Afghanistan
Gains in Afghan training, but struggles in war
Al Qaeda
Germany, unscathed, is in eye of terrorism scare
Afghanistan
Al Qaeda seeking new Afghan recruits
Al Qaeda
More Taliban could be removed from UN blacklist – US
Algeria
A bomb attack by suspected Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb fighters killed five people in the east. Three public officials and two business entrepreneurs inspecting new homes were killed in a remotely detonated bomb blast that was planted at the housing construction site in the town of Tlidjen, near the Tunisian border.
Pakistan
The chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa said the government may provide security to NATO convoys moving through Pakistan. Security officials claimed US helicopters violated Pakistan’s airspace at Chaman. Security forces killed four “extremists” in Mardan. More than 30 people have been killed in violence in Karachi.
Russia
Police arrested three suspected terrorists involved in the Sept. 9 suicide attack in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, that killed 17 people and wounded more than 200. The National Anti-terror Committee said the three men were members of Doku Umarov’s Caucasus Emirate.
Afghanistan
Weapons, including Iranian-made, seized in Nimroz
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured numerous Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Helmand, Uruzgan, Kandahar, Khost, Zabul, Paktia, Kunduz, and Nimroz. An Afghan interpreter was killed in an RPG attack on a helicopter in Kunar; the Taliban claimed it shot the helicopter down. The Taliban killed six civilians in Paktika and an ISAF […]
Afghanistan
US Military: Multiple anti-Taliban operations; Afghans turn-in numerous weapons, explosives
Iraq
Security forces detained 24 wanted men in Maysan, 10 terrorists in Mosul, two wanted men in Tal Afar, and an al Qaeda leader in Wasit. Insurgents killed an Iraqi soldier in a bombing in Baghdad.
Somalia
Twelve people were killed in heavy fighting between Shabaab fighters and Somali and African Union forces in Mogadishu. Pirates released Puntland’s Minister of Ports & Marine Transport after holding him captive for several hours; two of his bodyguards were killed during the kidnapping.
Brother of notorious al Qaeda operative denied habeas petition
A Gitmo detainee named Toffiq al Bihani was recently denied his petition for a writ of habeas corpus by a DC district judge. Toffiq is the brother of a notorious al Qaeda operative and received training at al Qaeda’s facilities in pre-9/11 Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: What a mess
AQAP announces formation of 12,000-strong army. Again.
Abu Hurayrah Qasim al Raymi, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s military commander. In an audiotape yesterday, Qasim al Raymi, military commander for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), announced the formation of the “Aden-Abyan Army.” From AFP: “We are preparing to implement the first steps of the Aden-Abyan Army to defend the nation […]
Al Qaeda
Heightened concerns in Europe over potential terrorist attack
Pakistan
Pakistan says it is key to Taliban peace talks