Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Helmand, Farah, Ghazni, Zabul, Khost, Logar, and Badghis. The Taliban killed a child in an IED attack in Badghis.
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Afghanistan
Who controls Faryab province, the police or the Taliban?
Afghanistan
Afghan police were ‘rotten to the core’
Pakistani official urged more Predator strikes in Pakistan
The FATA Secretariat called on the US to double tap the strike area during Taliban recovery operations.
Special operations forces target al Qaeda-linked Taliban commander in the southeast
The Taliban leader organized al Qaeda fighters in the Pakistani city of Quetta. The raid is the second that targeted al Qaeda in Zabul in the past two weeks.
India
India recalled a list of 50 wanted terrorists and criminals who were believed to be based in Pakistan after two of those on the list turned up in India. One of those on the list was in Indian custody for the past 15 months.
Iraq
Insurgents killed a colonel at the Interior Ministry in Baghdad, and two policemen in Mosul. Five Mahdi Army commanders escaped from a prison in Taji. Security forces detained 12 insurgents in Diyala.
Syria
Security forces killed 27 people while attempting to suppress anti-regime protests. Eleven were killed Homs, 10 in Maaret al-Naaman, two in Daraa, two in Deir al-Zour, one in Daraya, and another in Latakia.
Indonesia
Police are hunting for members of a terrorist group in Cirebon who were planning to attack a mosque on a military base and several police stations. Two members of the group have been killed and 13 more have been detained.
Taliban attack US diplomats in Peshawar
The US Consulate in Peshawar has been a magnet for Taliban attacks.
Did the US kill Osama bin Laden’s clone?
The Nation entertains with one of the crazier conspiracy theories to spring up about the al Qaeda leader’s death.
Bahrain
For US, matching moral and financial support for revolts proves difficult
Pakistan
Pak military brass wanted drone support: WikiLeaks
US Predators kill 6 ‘militants’ in North Waziristan strike
The strike took place in the town of Tappi near Miramshah, the stronghold of the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network.
Libya
Libya – RAF strikes warships at Al Khums port
Pakistan
Questions linger over control of Pakistan airfield
Al Qaeda
Al-Qaida considered oil tankers as terror targets
Egypt
Muslim-Christian clashes erupt at Egyptian church
Pakistan
3 in 4 Americans say stop, yet aid to Pak will flow
Afghanistan
Troop morale in Afghanistan plummets, report says
Pakistan
Balochistan governor Magsi unsure of Quetta Shura’s presence in Balochistan
Indonesia
Indonesia’s Islamic vigilantes
Egypt
‘In Egypt we need strong leadership. At the moment that’s the generals’
Egypt
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood poised to prosper in post-Mubarak new era
Afghanistan
The Taliban after bin Laden
Pakistan
Pakistan – Movement of foreigners to be regularised: Malik
Afghanistan
Karzai advisor Spanta terms Taliban ‘terrorist’
India
India admits error in ‘most-wanted’ list
US designates Palestinian Salafist group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
Jaish al Islam, or Army of Islam, “subscribes to a Salafist ideology of global jihad together with the traditional model of armed Palestinian resistance.”
Pakistan
The Taliban killed a civilian in an IED attack in Akora Khattak. The government ordered an investigation into the killing of five Chechens thought to be suicide bombers.