Bahrain
Saudi bid to curb Iran worries US
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Signs that bin Laden weighed seeking Pakistani protection
Pakistan
Clinton, Joint Chiefs chairman press Pakistan
United States
Obama signs Patriot Act extension with autopen
Afghanistan
US has held meetings with aide to Taliban leader, officials say
Afghanistan
War-weary lawmakers send Obama a message
Al Qaeda
Osama bin Laden dead: Pakistan to allow CIA to scour Abbottabad hideout
Afghanistan
`Pakistan can bring Haqqani to the table`
Pakistan
A Taliban suicide bomber killed 24 people in an attack on a police station in Hangu. The Taliban attacked a military outpost in North Waziristan. The US has withdrawn an undisclosed number of military personnel from Pakistan.
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Armageddon 1958
US adds Islamic Caucasus Emirate to list of terror groups
The US indicated that additional actions would be taken against the Islamic Caucasus Emirate.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed seven ISAF soldiers in an IED attack in the south. An ISAF soldier died in a helicopter crash in the east. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Helmand, Khost, Logar, Baghlan, Balkh, and Bayman. Five Taliban fighters reconciled in Helmand.
Iraq
The spokesman for US Forces-Iraq said that attacks against US troops are on the rise as the December 2011 drawdown deadline nears. Thousands of supporters of Muqtada al Sadr protested against a continued US military presence in Iraq.
Pakistan
Pakistan – UAE was upset over leak about Balochistan airstrip
Pakistan
Pakistan – Civil-military tensions over US funding for army
Yemen
President Saleh ordered the arrest of rival rival leader Sheikh Sadiq al- Ahmar and nine of his brothers for fomenting “armed rebellion.” Seventy-two people have been killed in heavy fighting in Sana’a over the past three days.
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Al-Qaeda takes advantage of security vacuum in Yemen
India
Mysterious ‘Major Iqbal’ is Pakistan’s latest albatross
India
Rana wanted top Pakistan military honours for 26/11 attackers
Libya
Qaddafi reportedly stashes billions in Western institutions
Egypt
Egypt to open border with Gaza, in the face of Israeli objections
Suicide bomber attacks police in Pakistan’s northwest
Twenty-four Pakistanis have been killed and more than 45 have been wounded, some critically.
Somalia
“The security council and donors are losing patience with the political tensions within the Somalia leadership,” UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said. Eleven civilians were killed in mortar attacks in Mogadishu. Forty children pressed to fight for Shabaab have been killed in recent fighting in the capital.
Pakistan
Taliban say they won’t hit nuclear arsenal
Indonesia
Police arrested six members of he so-called “Islamic State of Indonesia” during a raid in Ungaran in Central Java. Jemaah Islamiyah leader Abu Bakir Bashir accused the court of jailing him at the behest of the United States.
India
Mumbai plotter testifies about training
Somalia
Somalis are told to stop bickering or lose financing
Afghanistan
Don’t count on a peace deal with Taliban
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed five policemen and a soldier at a police headquarters in Peshawar. A soldier linked to the Taliban who was arrested in January had warned then that an attack was to be carried out at the Karachi naval base.
Kazakhstan
A suicide bomber killed himself and a passenger of his car in a failed attack outside of a National Security Committee prison. The blast is the second in Kazakhstan a week.