Monthly Archives: January 2011

Afghanistan

| January 16, 2011

The Taliban killed nine civilians in Baghlan and six more in Kandahar. Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in in Helmand and Kabul. Ten Taliban fighters surrendered in Faryab.

Somalia

| January 16, 2011

“Foreign troops” helped capture five “terrorists” in Burao in Somaliland. Shabaab has blocked the roads to the Bakara market in Mogadishu.

Iran

| January 16, 2011

The chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps air defense units claimed that two US unmanned military aircraft were shot down outside of Iranian airspace. Afghans protested outside the Iranian consulate in Herat to vent anger at the cutoff of fuel.

Iraq

| January 16, 2011

Gulf war, 20 years on: Kuwait emerges from under Iraq’s shadow

Lebanon

| January 16, 2011

Hezbollah will not support Prime Saad Hariri in his bid to remain prime minister after toppling his government. Hezbollah attacked Hariri, accusing him of being an “American-Israeli project.”

Iran

| January 16, 2011

Iran searching for nuclear bomb materials: cables

Taliban attack NATO fuel trucks in Baluchistan

| January 16, 2011

The Pakistani Taliban admitted to destroying 16 NATO fuel tankers yesterday in the Dera Murad Jamali area in the southwestern province of Baluchistan. From NDTV: Pakistani Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq in a phone call to AFP claimed responsibility for the attack. “It is in retaliation to drone attacks in tribal areas,” Tariq said from an […]

Afghanistan

| January 16, 2011

Taliban should choose between ‘military pressure, peace’ – Afghan Security Council chief

Pakistan

| January 15, 2011

The Taliban claimed it carried out the attack on 16 NATO fuel tankers in Baluchistan. Five Taliban fighters were killed in a landmine explosion in Arakzai.

Mixed messages on Iraq withdrawal

| January 15, 2011

The political posturing about the status of American forces in Iraq continues. On Dec. 28, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki declared to the Wall Street Journal, “The last American soldier will leave” in 2011. He added: “This agreement is not subject to extension, not subject to alteration. It is sealed.” Two days ago, Vice President Joe […]

Afghanistan

| January 15, 2011

The Taliban executed a policeman in Uruzgan and three civilians in Daykundi. A US Marine killed a policeman in Helmand. Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Kandahar, Wardak, and Khost.

Sweden

| January 15, 2011

Norwegian and Swedish police cooperated in the arrest of Mohammed Ehsan Baba, a Gothenburg resident, who is suspected of attempting to murder Iraqi Islamist Mullah Krekar in Norway in January 2010.

Russia

| January 15, 2011

Four people were killed in a bombing at a cafe in the city of Khasavyurt in Dagestan. Security forces killed 90 “gunmen” in Chechnya during 2010, the republic’s interior minister claimed.

Iraq

| January 15, 2011

Two Iraqi soldiers killed two US troops during training in Mosul. Insurgents killed a US soldier in central Iraq and a policeman in Baghdad.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

| January 15, 2011

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula planned to add poison to a bomb that was used in an assassination attempt that targeted a deputy Saudi interior minister, according to Jaber al Faifi, a member of the terror group. Faifi claimed the poison “can within seconds kill any person wounded by such an explosion.”

Iran

| January 15, 2011

The commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps naval forces said he would display the remains of two US spy planes he claimed were shot down. Iran’s nuclear energy chief said the country’s nuclear program has not been impacted by sanctions and enrichment of uranium was proceeding.