Monthly Archives: July 2011


Iraq

Insurgents killed five policemen in Ramadi and another in Mosul, and two civilians in Baghdad. Police killed two al Qaeda fighters in Baqubah.


Yemen

Two civilians were killed in Yemeni airstrikes in Jaar in Abyan. An Army brigade said it is under siege in its base outside of Zinjibar.






Al Qaeda

‘Assassination of Pak minority affairs minister organised by Ilyas Kashmiri’



Hezbollah

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah rejected the indictment of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon that implicated four Hezbollah leaders and operatives in the assassination of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri. Nasrallah called the STL an Israeli plot and said the four operatives would never be arrested.


Pakistan

Security forces arrested a Turkish man as he tried to enter North Waziristan. NATO is attempting to shift up to 75 percent of its supplies from Pakistan to routes in northern Afghanistan.




Russia

Tajik Officials Decry Joblessness Among Returned Islamic Students



Afghanistan

China rebuffed US request to open route for Afghanistan war supplies, cables show



Iraq

Taking Lead, Iraqis Hope US Special Operations Commandos Stay





Afghanistan

The Taliban killed 13 civilians in an IED attack in Ghazni and an ISAF soldier in the west, and kidnapped a district governor in Kunar and three Turkish engineers in Jawzjan. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and IMU leaders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Ghazni, Khost, Paktika, Kunduz, and Balkh.


Iraq

Insurgents killed a policeman in Ramadi and kidnapped five Iraqis west of Ramadi. Security forces detained three wanted men in Kirkuk. Iran denied it is sending longer-range rockets to the Special Groups in Iraq.






Yemen

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has captured 50 Yemeni soldiers during fighting in Zinjibar. A powerful tribal leader in Abyan is seeking to negotiate with AQAP.


Somalia

AMISOM said 3,000 new troops from Uganda have arrived in Mogadishu, and said the US is providing military aid to the African Union. Aircraft have been spotted hovering over Kismayo.


Libya

President Gaddafi threatened to order attacks in Europe if the NATO bombing campaign does not end. “They can attack your homes, your offices and your families, which will become military targets,” he said in a speech broadcast in Tripoli.