Brigade 313
US hands over ‘most wanted terrorists’ list to Pakistan
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Pakistan
Pakistan’s defence installations secure: FO
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Suicide blast kills top police commander
Afghanistan
Karzai wants Afghans to take control of night raids
Bahrain
Saudi Arabia scrambles to limit region’s upheaval
Taliban suicide bomber kills pro-government tribal leaders in Pakistan’s northwest
“We had warned them before and warn them again that they should disband this anti-Taliban peace committee otherwise we will continue to attack them till they are totally eliminated,” the Taliban’s spokesman said.
Al Qaeda
In tense post-bin Laden trip to Pakistan, Clinton seeks firm action on extremists
France
Supply of ‘heavy’ arms to Pak put on hold, France tells India
Pakistan
Chicago trial puts focus on shadowy S Wing of ISI
India
Germany asks Pak to come clean on support to Osama
Afghanistan
Interpol issues alert on Afghan jailbreak
Pakistan
Security forces killed 23 “militants” in airstrikes in Kurram and Arakzai. Security forces arrested five suspects in the Pakistan Naval Station Mehran attack in Karachi and another in Faisalabad.
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2 blasts hit US troops in deadly Kandahar attack
Afghanistan
The governor of Nuristan claimed 68 Taliban fighters and 17 policemen were killed in an ISAF airstrike. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, Paktia, and Logar. The Taliban killed three security guards in Ghazni, an ISAF soldier in the south, and a young girl in Wardak.
Review of Pape and Feldman, ‘Cutting the Fuse’
While the relationship between occupation and suicide missions is worthy of serious study, this new book is not the place to find it.
Denmark
Seychelles to take pirates
Iraq
Ali al Lami, the chief of the Justice and Accountability Commission which rooted out Ba’athists, was assassinated in Baghdad. Lami was arrested by the US in 2008 for ties to Shia militias backed by Iran.
Lebanon
Six Italian peackeepers working for UNIFIL and two Lebanese civilians were wounded in an IED attack while driving on the main highway near Saida. Two of the Italians have been seriously wounded. No group has claimed the attack.
Yemen
Twelve people were killed during a clash between Republican Guards forces and tribesmen in Nehm. The Yemeni air force killed 18 tribesmen in airstrikes in Nehm.
Syria
Security forces killed three people in Qatana, a suburb of Damascus, while trying to break up hundreds of anti-regime demonstrators. Protests have been reported throughout the country.
United States
Pakistani military worried about collaborators in its ranks, officials say
Hizbul Mujahideen chief: Pakistan allows terror group to run ‘hundreds of training camps’
“Our mujahideen can come and go at their own will,” the head of the Hizbul Mujahideen said. “There is no question that the army can stop us.”
Pakistan
Pakistan-based LeT ‘in same rank’ as al Qaeda: US
Libya
In shift, Russia offers to help guide Qaddafi out
Pakistan closes intel fusion cells, ending hope for North Waziristan operation
Pakistan has long resisted US pressure to move against terror groups in North Waziristan.
Afghanistan
House passes defense bill after narrowly rejecting accelerated plan for Afghan withdrawal
Al Qaeda
Admiral McRaven: The terrorist hunter on whose shoulders Osama bin Laden raid rested
Al Qaeda
Pakistan’s military under al-Qaeda attack
Al Qaeda
Al-Qaeda had warned of Pakistan strike
Hizbul Mujahideen
Pak supports militants in Kashmir: Hizbul Mujahideen chief