Monthly Archives: June 2011

Al Qaeda

| June 9, 2011

Hamid Karzai asks Barack Obama not to order steep withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan this year

Syria

| June 9, 2011

The International Atomic Energy Agency will vote to require Syria to address the UNSC over its nuclear program. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Syria to stop killing civilians.

Egypt

| June 9, 2011

The US is pressuring Egypt’s security services to re-arrest members of terrorist groups who escaped or were released from prisons during the uprisings this spring. Egypt and Hamas agreed to allow 550 people to cross into Gaza a day.

Malaysia

| June 8, 2011

Police arrested Abdul Haris Syhuhadi, a 63-year-old Indonesian businessman, on suspicion of supporting Jemaah Islamiyah. Syhuhadi is said to have recruited members for Jemaah Islamiyah and spread its ideology.

India

| June 8, 2011

Headley provided info about LeT leaders in Pak: US attorney

Pakistan

| June 8, 2011

The US killed 22 Taliban fighters in airstrikes in North and South Waziristan. Five “terrorists” and two soldiers were killed during fighting in Kurram. Pakistan expelled 90 US Special Forces trainers.

Afghanistan

| June 8, 2011

Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Zabul, Khost, Paktia, Parwan, Kunduz, Balkh, and Wardak. The Taliban killed two Afghan soldiers in Paktika.

Al Qaeda in Iraq

| June 8, 2011

Al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq claimed credit for three recent suicide attacks that killed 25 people in Tikrit. Al Qaeda suicide bombers struck a provincial center, a hospital, and a military convoy.

Iraq

| June 8, 2011

Insurgents killed a police officer in Diyala and a civilian in Fallujah. Security forces detained 22 insurgents in Basrah and two more in Kirkuk.

Al Qaeda

| June 8, 2011

Ayman al Zawahiri released a videotape that eulogized slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. “You shall not dream of security until we enjoy it and until you depart the Muslims’ lands,” Zawahiri said in a threat to the US.

Yemen

| June 8, 2011

Yemeni forces are fighting to retake control of the city of Zinjibar. President Saleh has suffered burns over 40 percent of his body and received a brain injury.

Saudi Arabia

| June 8, 2011

An attack on a border outpost along the Saudi-Yemeni border that killed two Saudi troops may have been carried out by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters. The attacker opened fire on border guards as he attempted to enter Yemen.

Iran

| June 8, 2011

Iran said it is producing and installing new, homemade nuclear centrifuges, and will triple production of nuclear fuel. The Iranian navy is said to have deployed submarines to the Red Sea.