Monthly Archives: July 2011





Pakistan

Pakistan floods one year on: thousands of people still homeless as the country fails to rebuild














Pakistan

Pakistan: Karachi violence intensifies as govt rules out ‘operation’



Afghanistan

Security forces killed and captured several Taliban leaders and fighters in Helmand, Khost, Paktika, and Wardak. ISAF is investigating the deaths of three Afghan civilians during a firefight with the Taliban in Wardak. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the west. Ambassador Crocker said the US does not seek permanent bases in Afghansitan.


Iraq

Iranian artillery strikes on Kurdish villages inside Iraq have killed two civilians. Security forces detained six wanted men in Basrah.


Yemen

US-trainer counterterrorism forces from the Republican Guards are being deployed against tribesmen in Arhab,and are reported to have killed more than 40 people. Sana’a was plunged into darkness after electricity was cut by tribesmen.


Iran

Iran accused the US and Israel of murdering a scientist who was involved with Iran’s nuclear program. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said an Iranian naval presence on the high seas “has made enemies nervous and worried.”


Somalia

A report claimed that the wife of Omar Hammami (Abu Mansour al Amriki) was detained by the CIA in Hargeisa; the report is unconfirmed. Shabaab accused UN aid agencies of displacing Somalis in areas under their control.




Norway

Hunt for Britons linked to Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik


Afghanistan

The Taliban hanged the 8-year-old son of a policeman in Helmand. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban leaders and fighters in Kandahar, Zabul, Ghazni, Khost, Paktika, and Balkh. Five “foreign fighters” were killed in Ghazni.


Pakistan

Security forces killed 11 Taliban fighters in Kurram and arrested a Taliban intelligence official and his aide in Islamabad. A suicide bomber killed one soldier in an attack on a security checkpoint in South Waziristan.


Russia

Security forces killed three terrorists during an operation in the Russian Republic of Dagestan. One of those killed was Mekhtibek Bashirov, the leader of a group in the city of Derbent.