Lashkar-e-Taiba rallies for bin Laden
Hafiz Saeed rallies 4,000 in Lahore. More than 100,000 Osama bin Laden posters have been sold in Pakistan in the past week.
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Russia
Russia opposes to foreign interference in Yemen
Al Qaeda
China-Pakistan alliance strengthened post-bin Laden
Afghanistan
Afghanistan may be open to new path, Kerry says
Algeria
The government is set to free from prison more than 7,000 Islamist fighters held after the civil war in the 1990s, according to Islamists. The government believes this will allow it to avoid protests that have plagued other regimes.
Pakistan
The Taliban executed two “US spies” in North Waziristan and blew up a school in Khyber. Three Pakistani Americans in Swat denied criminal charges filed by the US that they support the Taliban. Senator Kerry is in Pakistan to deliver a “tough message” to Pakistan.
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Bin Laden was logged off, but not al-Qaida
Iran
Arab protesters descend on Israeli borders
Russia
Police detain 2 Tablighi Jamaat extremists in southern Russia
Pakistan
Analysis: Pakistan builds low yield nuclear capability, concern grows
Al Qaeda
Osama bin Laden journals reveal plans to kill Barack Obama
Afghanistan
Taliban recruiting 9-year-old suicide bombers
Syria
US presses nuclear case against Damascus
Tunisia
Many fear revival of Islamist party in Tunisia
Afghanistan
Kids learn hate at Afghan mosque
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Khost, Wardak, Logar, and Balkh. The Taliban killed a British soldier in Helmand.
Iraq
Security forces killed an insurgent in Mosul and detained 17 more in Hawijah. Insurgents killed five people in Baghdad and a tax collector in Tikrit.
Yemen
The opposition said the GCC-backed plan for president Saleh to step down from power is dead. A court is considering the appeal of two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives who were convicted of killing Spanish tourists.
More on Pakistan’s jihad
Frustration mounts in Washington over Pakistani complicity in supporting terror groups, but there is little will to do something about it.
Somalia
A Shabaab commander was killed and two Pakistani fighters were wounded in Mogadishu. Two people were killed during fighting in Luq. Somali forces arrested five Shabaab fighters in Garbaharey. Djibouti said it would send two battalions of troops to Mogadishu.
Taliban deny Osama bin Laden’s death will impact Afghan war
The Taliban said the war would continue as long as Westerners “are bent on continuing their colonialist ambitions against the Islamic Ummah.”
Egypt
The Egyptian Islamic Group said it would hold a million-man protest in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand the release of Omar Abdel Rahman, its spiritual leader, who is serving a life term in a US prison. Rahman was convicted for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Tunisia
Police arrested two suspected al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb operatives near the Libyan border. The two men, who were traveling to Libya, were captured with explosive belts and were carrying Afghan identity papers.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Paktia, Paktika, Khost, Jawzjan, Kunduz, Kandahar, and Helmand. Afghans in Nangarhar claimed police killed four protesters. A Taliban suicide bomber wounded eight people in Khost.
Pakistan
Six people were killed in Kharian in an explosion caused by a bomb place on a bus. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Al Qaeda
Chicago trial may unmask Pakistan’s links to militants
Afghanistan
US to limit Afghan troop expansion
Denmark
The trial of Lors Doukaiev, a 25-year-old Belgian from Chechnya, begins tomorrow. He accidentally set off a homemade bomb on Sept. 7, 2010 in Copenhagen; authorities believe he intended to send a bomb to the offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper.
Libya
Government officials claimed that a NATO airstrike in Brega killed 11 Muslim clerics. NATO claimed it hit a command and control center in the city.
Al Qaeda
Osama bin Laden hiding place visited by Taliban