United Kingdom
NATO: No troops on ground in post-conflict Libya
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Iran
Iran to triple nuke output, use better centrifuges
US Predators hit training camp, vehicle in North and South Waziristan
A strike on a “major training center” in North Waziristan killed 18 terrorists, including “Punjabis,” while an attack on a vehicle in South Waziristan killed four “militants.”
Afghanistan
Beheading of Afghanistan politician seen as message from insurgents
Afghanistan
Afghan nation-building programs not sustainable, report says
Caucasus
Rector at Muslim university in Russia is shot to death
Pakistan
Gunmen killed an intelligence official in Bannu. Security forces arrested four HUJI operatives in Faisalabad. The Taliban in Khyber bombed five tankers carrying fuel for NATO.
Pakistan
Saleem Shahzad’s cell phone record erased
Kashmiri planned to create ‘Lashkar-e-Osama’
The Army of Osama has been tasked with hitting multiple domestic and foreign targets throughout Pakistan.
Pakistan
Kashmiri aimed for Indo-Pak war
Al Qaeda
From Lahore to Wana
Russia
Beheading of poet fuels anti-Islamic feeling in North Ossetia
Sweden
Swedish authorities have formed a task force to investigate a string of 25 bombings at stores, restaurants, and nightclubs in Malmo since early 2010. The latest attack targeted a convenience store.
United Kingdom
40 UK univs terror breeding ground?
Al Qaeda
Ilyas Kashmiri wanted to create Laskhar-e-Osama, target embassies
Afghanistan
US wants no permanent military bases in Afghanistan: Gates
Al Qaeda
UN mulls splitting Taliban, Al Qaeda blacklist
Pakistan
Pakistan – Tribesmen refuse to form peace lashkars
Jaish-e-Mohammed
Pakistan – Jaish groups on warpath in Kohat
Al Qaeda
US plans to sabotage Pakistan nuke facilities: Ahmadinejad
Iraq
US braces for withdrawal along Iraqi road
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Zabul, Khost, Paktika, Logar, Nangarhar, Kunduz, and Herat. The Taliban killed an Australian soldier in the south. The UN may split the Taliban from al Qaeda on the terrorism list.
Turkey
Security forces detained 10 suspected al Qaeda operatives during raids in the southern cities of Adana and Hatay. Adana hosts Incirlik Air Base, which hosts a US Air Force wing.
Real progress in Afghanistan … but to what end?
Significant forward momentum is imperiled by holes in US strategy and policy.
Al Qaeda
Pakistan army steers clear of ‘global terror epicentre’
Afghanistan
Obama: US has accomplished ‘big chunk’ of Afghanistan mission
Afghanistan
Iran’s illegal arms trade: ‘Hypocritical and dangerous’
NATO
NATO, Russia team up in anti-terror exercise
Yemen
Fifteen Yemeni troops and 10 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters were killed during fighting in Zinjibar. The Yemeni government rejected opposition groups’ offers of talks to transition power.
Iraq
Insurgents killed three people in a bombing at a policeman’s home in Ramadi and two policemen in Mosul. Security forces arrested four al Qaeda in Iraq operatives in Fallujah and Ramadi who are involved in assassinating clerics.