Somalia
Somalia heads terrorism risk, South Sudan in top 5: survey
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Afghan forces uncover clandestine ‘military uniform-making factory’
Police raided a clandestine workshop used by criminals to produce counterfeit Afghan security uniforms. The two suspects arrested might be linked to insurgent organizations.
Al Qaeda
Whither the jihadi forums?
United Kingdom
U.K. Cuts to Military Will Curb Influence
India
India’s new Internet rules criticized
Afghanistan
Afghanistan Seeks to Disband Some Armed Militias
Suicide assault team strikes guesthouse in Kunduz
Four Afghan security guards were killed in an attack that was likely aided by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Al Qaeda fighter’s detention upheld by DC Circuit Court
The court’s ruling and a leaked threat assessment of Moath Hamza Ahmed al Alwi, who is held at Guantanamo, revealed that he was a member of al Qaeda’s elite 55th Arab Brigade. Al Alwi also allegedly received specialized training and was a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.
US Predators strike in North Waziristan
Four “militants” were killed. The strike took place outside of Miramshah, a stronghold of the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network.
Indonesia
Muslim sect braces for Indonesia Ramadan violence
Afghanistan
A suicide assault team killed four people in an attack on a guesthouse in Kunduz. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the east. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Paktia, Paktika, Nangarhar, Wardak, and Baghlan.
Iraq
Insurgents killed two Awakening fighters and two civilians in Khanaqin and two civilians in bombing in Baghdad. Fourteen Iraqis were wounded in a bombing at a church in Kirkuk.
Pakistan
AP Exclusive: Timing of US drone strike questioned
Yemen
US Predators killed 15 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in an airstrike yesterday in a village in Abyan province. Yemen’s Interior Ministry denied the report.
US ‘drones’ kill 15 al Qaeda fighters in southern Yemen
The US is known to have carried out five airstrikes in Yemen this year.
Somalia
Shabaab claimed it killed three US trainers in a suicide attack on an African Union base in Mogadishu. A pair of Shabaab suicide bombers killed two African Union troops in the capital.
Algeria
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb killed two Algerian soldiers in an IED attack in the Tissemsilt region. Abdelkahar Belhad confirmed that Abdelkahar Belhad was killed when he carried out the July 25 suicide attack.
Syria
Syrian security forces killed 27 people in attacks against anti-regime protesters throught the country. Thirteen were killed in Hama, where the government is deploying militias called shabbiha.
Pakistan
Karachi victim of mass killings, not target killings: Rizvi
Afghanistan
Crisis Group Concerned Over Afghanistan Insecurity Beyond 2014
Norway
In an Oslo mosque, a ‘special’ Ramzan begins after attacks
Senior al Qaeda leader attacks Pakistani state in bin Laden eulogy
The tape casts further doubt that Ilyas Kashmiri, a top al Qaeda leader, and Ustadh Ahmad Farooq, al Qaeda’s media emir and top ideologue in Pakistan, were killed in a Predator airstrike in early June.
Pakistan
US ‘working to resolve Pakistan travel curbs on envoys’
China
Analysis: Pakistan relying too much on China against US
Pakistan’s madrassas continue to serve as engines of jihad
Afghan children are indoctrinated in religious schools in Pakistan’s northwest.
Yemen
Yemen’s Saleh not to transfer power for incapacity: spokesman
China
ISI chief on secret China visit as US ties take a blow: Report
Israel
Israel ‘ready to negotiate borders with Palestinians’
Egypt
Egyptians Turn Against Liberal Protesters
Shabaab
US to ease anti-terrorism rules to help Somali famine victims