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Somalis Waste Away as Insurgents Block Escape From Famine
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Al Qaeda
Getting Bin Laden What happened that night in Abbottabad
Shabaab
Emergency aid flights brave war-torn Somalia
Afghanistan
ISI May Have Hidden Mullah Omar: NDS
Argentina
Why Is Argentina Appeasing Iran?
Afghanistan
Names of Suspects in Bank Fraud Sent to Afghan Courts
China
China Blames Foreign-Trained Separatists for Attacks in Xinjiang
Afghanistan
Mullen focuses on Afghanistan-Pakistan border havens
Syria
Syria: William Hague says no possibility of military intervention
China
The local government in Kashgar claimed the East Turkestan Islamic Movement was behind the attack that killed 11 people. The government said the leader of the group was captured and his fighters trained at a camp in Pakistan.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Paktia, and Paktika. Afghan officials claimed ISAF killed four policemen in an airstrike in Kunar.
Pakistan
US Predators killed four Taliban fighters in an airstrike in South Waziristan. The Taliban torched 10 tankers in Khairpur that are used to transport fuel to NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Yemen
Yemeni strike aircraft killed 13 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in Zinjibar. The commander of the besieged 25th Mechanized Brigade said Yemeni security forces abandoned their weapons and fled during the AQAP takeover of Zinibar two months ago.
Iraq
Security forces detained 28 wanted men in Basrah. Attacks by Iranian militias on US forces decreased significantly in July.
Somalia
The African Union said four of its soldiers were killed by Shabaab fighters in Mogadishu. Ten people were killed during fighting between Shabaab and a pro-government militia in Gedo.
US Predators kill 4 ‘militants’ in South Waziristan strike
The strike took place on the Afghan border and is the first in Pakistan’s tribal areas since July 12.
Saudi Arabia
A court in Jeddah has begun the trial of Haila Al Qusayyer, who is accused of finacning, recruiting, and fighting for al Qaeda. Qusayyer is known as Madam al Qaeda as she was married two of the terror group’s senior leaders.