Cyprus
Cyprus says attempted to offload Iran blast cargo
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Syria
US Secretary of State Clinton said President Assad has “lost legitimacy” and the US has “absolutely nothing invested in him … remaining in power.” Syria said Clinton’s statement was “provocative.”
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Counter-terrorism strategy driven by ‘cyberjihad’ threat
United States
Self-proclaimed Islamic radical Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, a.k.a. Carlos Bledsoe from Tennessee, faces capital murder charges in Arkansas for killing one soldier and wounding another at a Little Rock recruiting station in 2009. He seeks to be tried on terror charges in federal court instead.
Ugandan drones: this is how rumors get started
The Wall Street Journal claims that a Ugandan drone was used in a strike that injured two Shabaab commanders. Its reporting on the matter is erroneous.
Pakistan
UN scales up aid to thousands fleeing Pakistan’s latest conflict zone
France
US accuses Syria of unleashing mob attacks on US, French embassies
Afghanistan
Copper mining will crush ancient Afghan site
France
Libya’s Gaddafi prepared to leave, says Alain Juppe
Pakistan
Military aid to Pakistan not feasible when trainers are being asked to leave: US
Afghanistan
Pakistan threatens to withdraw troops from Afghan border over US aid reduction
Afghanistan
Half Brother of Afghan President Is Killed in Kandahar
Afghanistan
Why Ahmed Wali Karzai was a target
Taliban claim assassination of President Karzai’s brother
The controversial Ahmed Wali Karzai, who has been linked to the drug trade and the Taliban, was gunned down in his office in Kandahar City.
Predators kill 8 in South Waziristan strike
The strike hit a compound used by al Qaeda-linked fighters.
Afghanistan
Afghan Villagers at Border Flee Shelling From Pakistan
Al Qaeda
AP Interview: Ex-CIA chief on al-Qaida after Osama
Pakistan
Pakistan – Christian sanitation workers swept into societal gutter
United States
Muslim activist in Minnesota struggles as one-man counter against lure of terrorism
Pakistan
US Predators killed 12 “militants” in a astrike in North Waziristan. A Suicide bomber killed seven people in Battagram. Two drivers transporting fuel for NATO were killed in Darakshan near Quetta.
Egypt
Tunisia: Arab democracy ‘impossible’ without Islamists
Afghanistan
Twenty Taliban fighters, including five Pakistanis, were killed during an operation in Kapisa. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban leaders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Ghazni, Khost, Paktika, and Kunduz.
Al Qaeda
The Al Fajr Media Center, al Qaeda’s internet propaganda arm, announced the establishment of the al-Fida’ forum. The new forum is to take the place of the Al Ekhlaas forum.
US Predators kill 12 ‘militants’ in North Waziristan
The attack took place in an area used by the Taliban to stage attacks across the border in Afghanistan.
Iraq
Insurgents killed two soldiers in Mosul, a police colonel in Tikrit, an Army officer in Al Kut, and a US soldier in the south. Iran threatened to attack bases of the PKAK, a PKK offshoot, inside Iraq.
United Kingdom
A terror suspect of UK-Nigerian nationality, identified only as CD, is appealing an order that bans him from London. He allegedly leads an Islamist group, and was arrested with two other suspects in January. He trained in Syria and with the July 2005 London bombers, and has tried to purchase weapons to carry out terror […]
Al Qaeda
CIA organised fake vaccinations to obtain Osama bin Laden’s family DNA
Al Qaeda
MI5 and police reduce UK terror threat from ‘severe’ to ‘substantial’
Afghanistan
Fewer Danish soldiers dying in Afghanistan
Somalia
The UN’s high commissioner for refugees said that aid agencies should work with Shabaab to distribute food to those in need. Two people were killed as Somali soldiers fought amongst themselves in Mogadishu.