Monthly Archives: January 2011

Pakistan

| January 29, 2011

US Embassy demands release of ‘unlawfully detained’ diplomat who shot 2 Pakistanis

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

| January 29, 2011

Said al Shihri, the second in command of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, declared war on Shia Houthis based in the Yemeni north. “…We announced jihad against Iranian-backed Houthi Shiite advocates,” he said in an audiotape.

Egypt

| January 29, 2011

Oil prices: Oil futures surge on unrest in Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon and Yemen

Yemen

| January 29, 2011

A small anti-government protest turned violent as police clashed with an estimated 100 people in Sana’a. Security forces have been deployed throughout the capital to prevent further protests.

Iran

| January 29, 2011

Ayatolah Khatami said the political unrest in Egypt and the Middle East is “inspired by Iran’s Islamic revolution.” Iran hanged a Dutch-Iranian woman after accusing her of smuggling.

Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood, and revolution

| January 28, 2011

“I herewith proclaim to those (Western leaders) who still do not want to see the realities that the political axis of the new Middle East will soon be Islamic rulership and a democracy based on religion,” senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said on Friday during public prayers in Tehran. “All these protests in Egypt, […]

Pakistan

| January 28, 2011

US diplomat tells court he killed 2 Pakistani men in self-defense

Spain

| January 28, 2011

Police arrested a Pakistani man linked to an al Qaeda support cell. The Pakistani forged documents for al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba. He is linked to a cell of seven Pakistanis arrested in Spain and three more arrested in Thailand.

Pakistan

| January 28, 2011

Security forces killed 28 Taliban fighters in Mohmand. The Taliban killed four people in two bombings in Kohat, and torched two NATO fuel tankers in Dhaddar.

Egypt

| January 28, 2011

Egypt cracks down on mass protests as Mubarak dissolves government

Afghanistan

| January 28, 2011

The Taliban killed eight civilians, including three foreigners, in a suicide attack in Kabul; three civilians in Khost; and a policeman in Helmand. Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Nimroz, Zabul, Helmand, Kunar, and Khost.

Iraq

| January 28, 2011

Security forces detained five wanted men in Al Kut and four more in Mosul. Two policemen and a civilian were wounded in a hand grenade attack in Mosul.

Somalia

| January 28, 2011

Sheikh Mukhtar Abdurrahman Abu Zubeyr, Shabaab’s spiritual leader, called for fighters in the south to obey Shariah law and not oppress those living under their control. The African Union arrested soldiers who opened fire on civilians in Mogadishu.

Yemen

| January 28, 2011

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is accused of carrying out an ambush that wounded two children of a government official in Abyan. Security forces detained six AQAP suspects in Hadramout province. President Saleh criticized Al Jazeera as a tool of both Israel and terror groups.

Hezbollah

| January 28, 2011

Moshe Yaalon, Israel’s minister of strategic affairs, said Hezbollah agents are infiltrating into Gaza via Egypt to aid Palestinian terror groups in attacking Israel. Yaalon said Hezbollah created a special unit, called 1800, to work with Palestinian groups.

Jordan

| January 28, 2011

Thousands of Jordanians protested in Amman and called for the prime minister to step down. The Islamic Action Front, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, is backing the protests.

Egypt

| January 28, 2011

Tens of thousands of Egyptians have taken to the streets in 11 of the country’s 28 provinces to advocate the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak. Protesters attacked two government buildings while the government deployed the army and shut down communications in Cairo. The Muslim Brotherhood is backing the protests.

Iran

| January 28, 2011

Iran: Online Islamic law encylopedia ‘Wiqifiqh’ launched