Al Qaeda
Ustadz Ahmed Farooq, al Qaeda’s spokesman and propaganda chief for Pakistan, may have been killed in the June 2 Predator strike that killed Ilyas Kashmiri.
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Iraq
The aide to the parliament speaker was killed in Baghdad. An oil reserve field at the Zubeir Oil Field was set aflame in a rocket attack. The Iraq Drilling Co. has begun repairing wells and drilling for oil in the Hamrin mountains north of Baghdad.
Al Qaeda
Kashmiri killing: Worrying times for Pakistan militants
Afghanistan
Afghans want sanctions lifted on Taliban figures
Al Qaeda
Al-Qaida commander’s death increasingly certain
Yemen
President Saleh has been transported to Saudi Arabia to receive medical treatment after being wounded in a rocket attack on Friday. Four soldiers from Ali Muhsen Al Ahmer 1st Armored Division were killed in a rocket attack in Sana’a.
Somalia
African Union and Somali forces took control of two more districts in Mogadishu. Burundi’s president said his country would not abandon the mission in Somalia.
Was al Qaeda’s leader of Pakistan killed in the South Waziristan Predator strike?
Ahmad Faruq is rumored to have been killed in the strike that killed Ilyas Kashmiri, but the report is unconfirmed.
Pakistan
67% of Pakistanis for ‘Islamisation’ of society: Poll
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh flies to Saudi Arabia, transferring power to deputy
Al Qaeda
Officials probe apparent death of Pakistani militant
Iraq
As Iraqi militants flee, families are targets of blood reckoning
Afghanistan
KP asks Karzai to rein in Taliban
Afghanistan
In Kabul, Gates urges patience with Afghan war
Afghanistan
The Taliban claimed a “Mujahida sister” carried out a suicide attack in Kunar that killed three interpreters. The Taliban killed four ISAF soldiers in an IED attack in the south and two Afghans in bombings at a university in Kandahar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, Paktika, […]
Pakistan
Security forces killed 26 Taliban fighters in Dir. Three security personnel and two women were gunned down in Peshawar. Police have stopped four foreign nationals in Peshawar.
Iraq
A suicide bomber killed four people, including two policemen, in an attack on a university hospital in Tikrit. A member of parliament was visiting the hospital. Insurgents killed a civil defense colonel in Baghdad.
Yemen
President Saleh is rumored to have been moved to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment after being wounded in a mortar attack yesterday. The DoD said it has seen no evidence that Yemeni counterterrorism forces trained by the US military were involved in suppressing protests.
Taliban: ‘Mujahida sister’ executed Kunar suicide attack
Three interpreters for US forces are said to have been killed in an attack that was claimed by the Taliban.
Hizb-i-Islami
Taliban doubt safety of peace talks with Afghan govt
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Two visions of talking to the Taliban
Kenya
Shabaab is believed to have planted and detonated an IED that wounded 11 Kenyan soldiers in Mandera. The soldiers were being transported to Kenya’s northern border with Somalia.
Pakistan
Pakistan: armed with power, perks, and privileges
Al Qaeda
American drones thought to have killed al-Qaeda’s chief military commander
Al Qaeda in Iraq
MI6 attacks al-Qaeda in ‘Operation Cupcake’
Somalia
African Union and Somali forces took control of a main road to the Bakara market in Mogadishu. Shabaab forces in Jowhar arrested a man and seized his family’s television sets.
Afghanistan
US general refuses to budge on Afghan mission
Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, Gates reaffirms commitment against insurgents
France
British, French helicopters strike Gadhafi troops
Malaysia
Malaysia police slammed for cattle-branding women