India
Surge of immigrants from India baffles border officials in Texas
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Caucasus
Terrorism meets xenophobia in Russia
Afghan peace council requests release of Gitmo detainee
The Afghan High Peace Council has requested the release of Khairullah Khairkhwa, a top Taliban official, from Guantanamo. Khairkhwa, who was detained in early 2002, was the governor of Herat province during the Taliban’s reign. He was also allegedly involved in drug trafficking, had ties to senior al Qaeda leaders, and admittedly set up security for meetings between the Taliban and Iran.
Libya
UK – Labour government did ‘all it could to secure release of Lockerbie bomber’
Afghanistan
Afghans working with UK troops ‘regularly smoke opium’
Al Qaeda in Iraq
UK case reveals terror tactics
Lebanon
Lebanon tribunal debates terrorism at first hearing
Afghanistan
In Ghazni province, stacks of Taliban records and photographs
Afghanistan
In eastern Afghanistan, at war with the Taliban’s shadowy rule
Algeria
Algeria establishment figure joins calls for change
Afghanistan
Hundreds of Afghan fighters to lay down arms: NATO
Pakistan
The Taliban killed a policeman in Bannu and attacked five NATO oil tankers in Mithri Baluchistan, destroying two of them. The wife of a man killed by a US consular official in Lahore committed suicide.
Iran
President Ahmadinejad announced the launch of several new satellites. Iran’s opposition leaders take inspiration from protests in Egypt. An Iranian court set a sentencing date for imprisoned Americans.
Afghanistan
Chinese weapons fall into hands of militants: US cables
Jamaat-ud-Dawa
Pakistan – Lives at risk as terrorist threat to shrines remains
Afghanistan
US initiative to arm Afghan villagers carries some risks
Egypt
Al Jazeera hopes reports from Egypt open doors in US
Afghanistan
Karzai seeks end to NATO reconstruction teams
Iraq
Iraqi officials deny existence of alleged secret detention center
Philippines
Philippine Muslim rebel commander forms own armed faction, rejects peace talks
Egypt
Maliki not to seek third term
Jordan
Islamists reject offer to join new Jordan govt
Afghanistan
Security threats decrease in northern Afghanistan
Afghanistan
New British troops aim to beat Taliban on trust
Egypt
Egypt moves towards transition by opening talks with Muslim fundamentalist faction
Egypt
Egypt opposition wary after talks
Afghanistan
The Taliban stormed a police checkpoint in Sar-i-Pul province; a Taliban commander and a policeman were killed in the fighting. The Taliban killed the leader of a tribal militia in Balkh.
Algeria
Security forces killed al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb leader Kamel Bourihane during a Feb. 4 raid in Bouira. Bourihane, who is also known as Abu Hafs, served as a deputy to Abdelmalek Droukdel, AQIM’s top leader.
Al Qaeda
Mideast unrest complicates US fight against terror
Taliban mourn death of ’eminent commander’ at Gitmo
In a piece last week, I noted that a former Taliban commander, Awal Gul, died of an apparent heart attack at Guantanamo on Tuesday, Feb. 1. The Taliban have now released a statement online concerning Gul’s death, calling him “the prominent Jihadi commander of Nangarhar province” and lamenting the “martyrdom of the eminent commander.” Much […]