Syria
Security forces opened fire on protesters in the cities of Damascus, Idlib, and Deir al-Zour. Fourteen people were killed by security forces during the anti-regime protests.
Monthly Archives: July 2011
USS Cole bomber reported to have been target of Yemen airstrike
Fahd al Quso is said to have narrowly escaped yesterday’s airstrike in Abyan province.
Ahmed Wali Karzai’s assassin a Taliban agent: report
“The Taliban and the forces behind Taliban” were responsible for the murder of President Karzai’s influential brother, according to an Afghan official.
Al Qaeda
Bin Laden Plotted New Attack
Afghanistan
Ahmed Wali Karzai’s killer had been a Taliban foe
India
Officials Say Bombers in Attack on Mumbai Had Some Training
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Pentagon reveals 24,000 files stolen in cyber-attack
Pakistan
The Taliban killed two soldiers in an IED attack in South Waziristan. A dangerous Lashkar-e-Jhangvi commander was freed from prison. Police arrested a Taliban commander in Karachi.
Libya
Russia’s special representative for Africa said Libyan prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi told him recently that if the rebels seize Tripoli, governmental forces will fire missiles at the city and blow it up.
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed four people, including two senior clerics, in an attack at a mosque during a ceremony for Ahmed Wali Karzai. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in the east and torched six ISAF fuel tankers. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban leaders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Zabul, Khost, and Logar; […]
Yemen
The US is reported to have killed six al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in an airstrike in Abyan. The AQAP fighters recently overran a police station in the province.
Syria
Security forces killed eight people while targeting anti-regime elements throughout the country. The US said the UN Security Council is split over sanctioning Syria for its nuclear program.
Hezbollah
A Hezbollah Member of Parliament said the terror group has no intentions of disarming. “Hezbollah will keep its weapons and will not be affected by any views or any US-Israeli innovation or the [Special Tribunal for Lebanon] so long as Israel maintains an arsenal of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction,” Hussein Mousawi said.
US airstrike kills 6 al Qaeda fighters in Yemen: report
The nighttime airstrike targeted a police station in Abyan province that had been recently overrun by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters.
Egypt
Egypt’s Second Revolution
Afghanistan
Civilian Deaths Rise in First Half In Afghanistan
Afghanistan
In high heels, head scarves, Afghan women protest harassment
Iran
Iran tightens online censorship to counter US ‘shadow internet’
Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s first female military pilots arrive in US for training
Pakistan
Pakistan: Paramilitary troops sent to Karachi to stop violence
India
India warns: End to terrorism can’t be guaranteed
India
Suspected militants interrogated in India’s Mumbai
Suicide bomber kills 4 in attack at Kandahar mosque
Two senior clerics were killed in a bombing at a service in Kandahar for President Karzai’s brother. The suicide bomber hid the explosives in his turban.
Turkey
Police arrested 15 al Qaeda operatives during raids in Ankara, Yalova, and Bursa, and seized 1,500 lbs of explosives as well as weapons. The al Qaeda cell was plotting to attack the US Embassy in Ankara and other foreign targets.
Yemen
Yemeni president to return to power in weeks: top aide
Afghanistan
Afghan politicians rethink personal security
Afghanistan
To Track Militants, US Has System That Never Forgets a Face
Al Qaeda in Iraq
UK government: Al Qaeda weakened, but terrorism still greatest threat to Olympics
Al Qaeda
Al-Qaida plotting internet jihad
Afghanistan
Poppy Crops Set To Bloom If Afghanistan Aid Withers