Suicide assault team attacks Iraqi provincial headquarters
Al Qaeda in Iraq has executed five major suicide attacks in Iraq this month; two of them have targeted provincial headquarters.
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Somalia
Three people were killed during fighting in Luq. Hundreds of Somalis gathered in Mogadishu to support the killing of al Qaeda leader Fazul Mohammed.
Nigeria
Police arrested 58 members of Boko Haram during raids in the city of Maiduguri. Several Somalis were among those detained.
Afghanistan
General says shorten army combat tours to 9 months
Afghanistan
With troop cuts, Obama also will juggle war team
Pakistani Taliban kidnap young girl to turn her into a suicide bomber
The Taliban have used females to carry out three suicide attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan over the past year.
Indonesia
An Indonesian court has begun the trial of Abu Tholut, a senior Jemaah Islamiyah operative. Tholut procured M-16 assault rifles and other weapons for a training camp run by al Qaeda in Aceh.
Pakistan
US Predators killed 11 Taliban and Haqqani Network fighters in a strike in Kurram. A suicide bomber killed four people in Peshawar. The Taliban forced a young girl to become a suicide bomber.
United States
War evolves with drones, some tiny as bugs
Afghanistan
Few Taliban leaders take Afghan offer to switch sides
Al Qaeda
How will Zawahiri transform al-Qaeda?
Afghanistan
US envoy reproaches Afghan president on criticism
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Paktika, Laghman, Baghlan, and Takhar, and killed an Afghan Army infiltrator in Khost. The Taliban beheaded a Sheppard in Badakhshan and killed an ISAF soldier in the south.
The Haqqani Network
Siraj Haqqani, the operational commander of the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network, has threatened to strike at Afghan judges and courts if one of his fighters who was captured during the Feb. 19, 2011 attack on the Kabul Bank in Jalalabad in Nangarhar province is executed by the Afghan government.
Iraq
Insurgents killed five civilians in attacks in Baqubab, Mosul, and Baghdad. Seven people were wounded in an IED attack on a French embassy convoy. Security forces detained al Qaeda’s media emir in Salahaddin and four men involved in assassinations in Baghdad.
Syria
President Assad said that “saboteurs” were behind the violence in Syria, and vowed to carry out political reforms. Syrians gathered in the streets throughout the country to protest Assad’s speech and demand real reforms.
Siraj Haqqani threatens to attack Afghan judges, courts
The Afghan government executed a Haqqani Network fighter involved in the February attack on a bank in Jalalabad.
US Predators strike the Haqqani Network in Kurram
The strike hit in an area run by Fazal Saeed Utezai, a Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan commander who supports the Haqqani Network.
Is the US really negotiating with the Afghan Taliban?
Gates admits he’s not even sure the US is speaking to “genuine representatives of the Taliban leader Mullah Omar.”
Pakistan
Twenty-five Taliban fighters and four Pakistan soldiers were killed during fighting in Mohmand. The Taliban torched a tanker carrying NATO fuel and killed the driver in Quetta.
Egypt
Egypt – Political tensions grow as former ambassador to US is appointed foreign minister
Taliban
Robert Gates confirms US-Taliban talks in Afghanistan
Iraq
With ‘big gun’, Iraqi soldiers see hope
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Qaeda woes fuel talk of speeding Afghan pullback
Iran
US Secretary of Defense Gates said Iran continues to support Shia terror groups in Iraq. Parliament banned the entry of the UN Special Rapporteur on Iran. The commander of the Basij said the UN is “a colonial institution and a puppet of arrogant powers.”
Somalia
Twenty-five people were killed during fighting in Beledweyne between Shabaab and a pro-government militia. Shabaab executed two men in public in Mogadishu for “spying” for the government. Prime minister Farmajo resigned.
Yemen
Twelve Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters and nine soldiers were killed during fighting in an around Zinjibar, the capital of Lahj province. AQAP has been in control of Zinjibar for nearly a month.
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Gates wary of cuts to defense budget
Pakistan
Pakistan’s army is ready for its close up
Pakistan claims 25 Taliban fighters killed in Mohmand airstrikes
Four Pakistani soldiers were also killed. The military has claimed it has defeated the Taliban in Mohmand several times over the past couple of years.