Libya
Anti-Qaddafi Protesters Break Into Libyan Embassy in Sweden
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Shabaab
WFP says has more access in Somalia, Mogadishu a challenge
Somalia
Somali pirate ‘used mobile to surf web for US kidnap victim information’
Female suicide bomber strikes in Peshawar
The Taliban have used female suicide bombers in six attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan since June 2010.
Iran
Iranian group’s big-money push to get off US terrorist list
Afghanistan
Karzai Annuls Afghan Court Reviewing 2010 Polls
Afghanistan
US special operations forces killed the Taliban commander and the shooter who were responsible for last weekend’s downing of a helicopter in Wardak. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Ghazni, Khost, and Faryab. The Taliban beheaded four Afghans in Farah and killed an ISAF soldier in the south.
Pakistan
US Predators killed 21 “militants” in a strike near Miramshah in North Waziristan. Haqqani Network fighters as well as Arabs and Uzbeks were said to be among those killed.
Egypt
US troubled by rising anti-Americanism in Egypt
Afghanistan
Secret peace talks between US and Taliban collapse over leaks
Al Qaeda
Kathryn Bigelow given ‘top-level access’ to bin Laden mission files
Egypt
In Egypt’s Bedouin Badlands: No Police Allowed
Al Qaeda
US group trains troops in Somalia
Afghanistan
What happened on night of deadly Afghanistan helicopter crash?
Iraq
Two insurgents were killed in a premature detonation while planting a bomb in Fallujah. Muqtada al Sadr said that Iran refused to turn over Abu Duraa, the “Shiite Zarqawi,” to Iraq.
Afghanistan
Afghan Army Prepares to Begin Second Phase of Transition
North Korea
North, South Korea exchange fire along tense western sea border
Yemen
Tribesmen claimed they killed Yassir al-Shalily, a leader of the Ansar al Shariah, during fighting in Mudiyah. Ansar al Shariah is a front group for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Israel
Israel, Arabs, Back Nuke Meeting
Jordan
The state security court is trying 150 Salafists for their role in an attack on police in Zarqa that wounded 83 officers. The Salafists called for the overthrow of the government and the establishment of an Islamic state.
Norway
Norway police failures aided Breivik
Lebanon
Members of the al Qaeda-linked Jund al Sham clashed with Fatah security forces in the Ein al Hilwah camp. Jund al Sham is said to have attempted to assassinate Fatah’s chief of security in the camp.
China
China’s first aircraft carrier starts sea trials
Al Qaeda
Osama bin Laden ‘protected by Pakistan in return for Saudi cash’
Special operations forces kill Taliban leader, shooter behind downing of Chinook
Mullah Mohibullah and his team were hunted down and killed in an airstrike in Wardak province. His team was responsible for the Aug. 6 shootdown of a Chinook that killed 30 US troops, seven Afghan commandos, and an interpreter.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed four civilians in Farah. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Khost, and Faryab.
Iraq
In Iraq’s oil-rich south, concerns about the neighbors
Egypt
Egypt’s Rulers Stoke Anti-US Trend
Al Qaeda
Uyghur militants threaten Sino-Pak ties
Brazil
Aircraft Carriers in Service Worldwide