Egypt
Twelve people were killed after more than 500 Salafists gathered outside a Christian church in a Cairo suburb to demand that a woman rumored to have converted to Islam be released. The prime minister called an emergency cabinet meeting.
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Al Qaeda
US takes heat off Pakistan on bin Laden’s hideout
Afghanistan
Inside the Taliban’s jailbreak tunnel
Al Qaeda
Egypt offered arm of al-Qaeda number two’s brother as DNA evidence
Libya
Pro-Gaddafi forces bombed four fuel storage containers in the port of rebel-held Misrata, destroying the city’s fuel supply. Gaddafi’s forces also shelled rebel forces inside Misrata.
Al Qaeda
US presses Pakistan on bin Laden
Al Qaeda
US official: bin Laden haul is biggest ever
Al Qaeda
Avenging bin Laden: Taliban unleash spring offensive in Afghanistan
Taliban assault government buildings in Kandahar
The Taliban have launched three major operations in Kandahar City in the past month.
ISAF targets ‘al Qaeda affiliated’ Taliban leader in Nangarhar
Also, the Taliban’s military commander for Nangarhar was killed in a May 3 raid.
Afghanistan
Six Taliban suicide bombers and fighters, a policeman, and a civilian were killed during Taliban assaults on eight government buildings in Kandahar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Nangarhar, Khost Paktika, Wardak, Logar, and Badghis.
Shabaab mourns bin Laden’s death, vows to wage global jihad
“We shall never divert from the path of Sheikh Osama…” the Somali terror group’s spokesman said.
Egypt
Khaled el-Islambouli, the nephew of Anwar Sadat’s assassin, returned to Egypt after years of exile in Iran. Egypt’s ruling military council has lifted the entry ban against him and nearly 2,000 others, many of them Islamists who went to Afghanistan in the 1980s. Khaled’s father, Mohammed el-Islambouli, who is wanted for attacks in Egypt in […]
India
Trial in Mumbai attacks could strain US-Pakistan relations
Egypt
Egypt revolution groups plan secular election strategy
Al Qaeda
Muslim with intimate 7/7 links works for Scotland Yard
Al Qaeda
Bin Laden’s secret life in a diminished, dark world
Al Qaeda
Candid videos show rare view of unkempt bin Laden
Iraq
Security forces in Mosul killed the governor of Ninewa for al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq. Insurgents killed six people and looted foreign exchanges in Baqubah. The foreign minister said al Qaeda in Iraq is likely to take revenge for Osama bin Laden’s death.
Somalia
Shabaab mourned the death of “Sheikh Osama” bin Laden and vowed to wage jihad so far as to “rule the whole world.” Shabaab flogged a woman for listening to the BBC. The Somali government accused Eritrea of backing Shabaab.
Bin Laden directed al Qaeda’s global operations from ‘command center’ in Pakistan
“Bin Laden remained an active leader in al Qaeda, providing strategic, operational and tactical instructions to the group,” a top US official reports.
Syria
Government tanks and troops have entered the city of Baniyas, penetrating Sunni enclaves; protesters have formed human chains. At least 26 protesters were killed yesterday in several cities, including Homs and Hama. Rights groups claim over 800 civilians have been killed since the uprising began in mid-March.
Al Qaeda
Abbottabad: not a new home for terror
Turkey
Turkey press freedom under fire
Al Qaeda
US officials unveil videos of bin Laden
Thailand
Suspected Muslim militants detonated a bomb near a football field in Pattani province, killing four policemen and injuring a dozen others. In Yala, militants killed three soldiers and injured two more. In Narathiwat, a former local official was shot and killed. Since 2004, over 4,300 people have been killed in these three troubled provinces.
Al Qaeda
Even without bin Laden, Pakistan’s Islamist militants strike fear
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Spies piece together al Qaeda playbook
Al Qaeda
Mush rejected Af’s intel on Abbottabad hideout 4 years ago
Iran
Power struggle in Iran enters the nosque