Caucasus
It may be too late for a new North Caucasus policy
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Pakistan
Pakistani extremists step up ‘blasphemy’ attacks
Egypt
The Arab world’s youth army
Afghanistan
Pakistan seeks US security for gas pipeline
Suicide bomber kills 8 in Kabul
The Taliban claimed the deadly attack, and said they were targeting “foreigners.”
Afghanistan
What they’re reading: different accounts of the Afghan war
Egypt
Seizing a moment, Al Jazeera galvanizes Arab frustration
Iran
Tehran announced that the Bushehr nuclear power plant will open on April 9. Iran may stop oil shipments to India if payment problems are not resolved.
The fight in northern Helmand
Marines with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 2, walk through a field during a clearing mission in Sangin, July 28, 2010. Photo by Corporal Ned Johnson. The Los Angeles Times covers the price paid by US Marines during the difficult campaign in Sangin: When the Marines of the 3rd Battalion, […]
Egypt
Egypt: Internet down, police counterterror unit up
Moscow airport suicide attack linked to Caucasus terror group: report
Russian police appear to have identified one of the men involved in this week’s deadly suicide attack in Moscow. According to this report (which has yet to be officially confirmed) police have linked one of the suspects to the Nogai Jamaat, a little known Islamist group associated with the Caucasus Emirate that operates in northern […]
Afghanistan
Pakistan gets role in Afghan peace talks
Pakistan
A US consular official shot and killed two Pakistani men on a motorcycle who are said to have been attempting to rob him in Lahore. One civilian was killed as Americans in a separate car raced to help. Security forces killed 12 Taliban fighters, including two suicide bombers, in Mohmand.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan war won’t end like Vietnam: NATO
Egypt
Warily eyeing Egypt, Israelis feel like spectators
Egypt
Violent protests escalate outside Egypt’s capital
Denmark
Copenhagen terror suspects kept in custody
Malaysia
Malaysia – In a Muslim state, fear sends some worship underground
Russia
The president of Ingushetia said the Islamic Caucasus Emirate, led by Doku Umarov, was responsible for the suicide attack at a Moscow airport that killed 35 people. Fighting between security forces and “militants” was reported in the city of Khasavyurt in Dagestan.
Russia
Police said a man named Razdobudko, a member of the Nogai Jamaat, a Caucasus terror group formerly led by slain terrrosit Shamil Baseyev, is involved in the Moscow airport suicide attack. Police are investigating 10 suspect involved in the attack.
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban and IMU commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Zabul, Ghazni, Khost, Nangarhar, Wardak, Kunduz, and Takhar. The Taliban killed three policemen in an IED attack in Helmand.
Somalia
Shabaab claimed victory over government and African Union forces in Mogadishu. A militia in Beledweyne claimed it killed five Shabaab fighters in an ambush. The UN said the Transitional Federal Government’s mandate ends in August.
Iraq
Insurgents killed 48 civilians and wounded 121 more in a car bombing at a funeral in a Shia neighborhood in Baghdad. Two civilians were killed in a ‘sticky bomb’ attack in Baghdad.
Saudi Arabia
A CNN investigation “found that hundreds of millions of dollars of Saudi money had been funneled to leading Islamist politicians and political activists overseas.” The Muslim Brotherhood is then filtering the funds to al Qaeda, while Taliban supporters based in Saudi Arabia send money to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Sadr’s return short-lived after threats from Asaib al Haq
Remember all of the fawning coverage of Muqtada al Sadr as the new kingmaker and the most powerful man in Iraq after his return to the country on Jan. 5? So much for a triumphant return by Sadr; he’s fled Iraq yet again (he has already spent three-plus years in Iran, between 2007-2011). This time […]
United States
Gates: Congress must address ‘crisis on my doorstep’
US consular employees kill 2 ‘gunmen,’ civilian in Lahore
This story bears watching. The Pakistani reaction to the US consular employee’s killing of two “gunmen” who attempted to attack and possibly rob him, and the subsequent death of a civilian struck by another consular vehicle coming to his rescue, has the potential to spark violent protests against US and other Western nations in Pakistan, […]
Pakistan
American embassy official in Pakistan kills suspected armed robbers
Nigeria
Global Muslim population gains will outstrip non-Muslim growth over the next 20 years
Pakistan
Pakistan: Supreme Court petition urges martial law in Karachi