Taliban kill 20 Afghans in suicide assault
The Taliban claimed credit for the suicide attack that killed 20 Afghan road workers in the Bermel district in Paktika province.
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Karzai announces July transfer of responsibility from ISAF to Afghan National Security Forces
ANSF will take the lead in four provinces and three cities.
Taliban
40 Afghans kidnapped by insurgents
Egypt
Tajikistan’s ‘returnee’ Islamic students not continuing their studies
Bahrain
Indonesians protest Gaddafi, int’l strikes
Maldives
Maldives releases World Cup terror suspect
Pakistan
Punjab govt still possesses Davis’ passport: Sanaullah
Lebanon
Repression or reform? Deadly protests may force Syria’s Assad to choose
Afghanistan
The Taliban captured more than 40 Afghan police recruits in Kunar and killed an ISAF soldier in the south. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban, HIG, and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, Paktika, Zabul, Kabul, Logar, and Baghlan.
Iraq
Insurgents killed two civilians in Baghdad and Mosul. Security forces broke up two al Qaeda in Iraq cells in Babil. Ansar al Sunnah vowed to continue fighting the Iraqi government.
Somalia
A Norwegian citizen of Somali origin was killed while fighting alongside Shabaab forces. The Transitional Federal Government extended its mandate for one year.
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Yemen battles al Qaeda as president clings to power
Afghanistan
Karzai assails private sector for low quality education
Somalia
Somali gov’t extends term despite int’l opposition
Afghanistan
Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links
Canada
Libya – Canadian to take control of coalition operation
Israel
The Israeli Defense Force deployed the anti-rocket Iron Dome system near Beersheba. The Israeli Air Force killed two Islamic Jihad fighters in a strike in Gaza.
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula killed seven troops in Marib province and took control of the town of Jaar in Abyan province after security forces fled. President Saleh rescinded his offer to step down at the end of the year.
Libya
Rebel forces, under the cover of UN aircraft, have seized the western coastal towns of Lanuf, Uqayla, Brega, and Ajdabiyah after government forces withdrew without a fight. Rebels have advanced to the town of Bin Jawad.
Syria
Twelve protesters and members of the security forces were killed during clashes in Latakia. The government claimed it would lift the emergency orders implemented in 1963; no timetable was given.
Libya
US officials: Libyan operation could last months
Taliban capture scores of police recruits in Kunar
The Taliban claimed credit for the kidnapping of more than 40 Afghan men who attempted to join the police in the contested northeastern Afghan province.
Afghanistan
Afghan defence minister emphasises on equipment
Libya
Libya may be placing corpses at bombed sites: Robert Gates
Pakistan
Pakistani Christian official’s slaying stirs fear, discord
Jordan
Unrest in Syria and Jordan poses new test for US policy
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Al Qaeda in in the Islamic Maghreb “took advantage of the pillaging of arsenals in the rebel zone [in Libya] to acquire arms, including surface-to-air missiles, which were then smuggled into their sanctuaries in Tenere,” the president of Chad said. A Malian official said AQIM has pilfered heavy weapons, including SAM-7s.
Afghan Local Police vital to General Petraeus’ strategy
The establishment of the local village forces is the third attempt by ISAF and the Afghan government to provide security in contested areas.
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Hafiz Saeed, the founder and chief of the Lashkar-a-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa, said Pakistani terror groups have a “right” to fight in Jammu and Kashmir to “teach India a lesson.” He also said that US involvement in South Asia has set back the fight in Kashmir.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Khost, Paktika, Nangarhar, Logar, and Badghis. ISAF forces accidentally killed three civilians in an attack targeting a Taliban commander in Helmand. The Taliban killed two civilians in Zabul and an ISAF soldier in the south.