Yemen
Security forces killed 28 protesters and opposition supporters after opening fire in the capital of Sana’a. The military deployed snipers to kill some of the civilians.
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Somalia
The Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama’a threatened to kill anyone who supports Shabaab. The government claimed it has prioritized famine aid for areas under Shabaab control, and accused Shabaab of selling aid.
Nigeria
The state security service offered a $160,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the mastermind behind a suicide bomb on UN headquarters in Abuja. Officials fear that Boko Haram will attack oil facilities.
UK terror sweep nets 7 suspects
Six men and a woman were detained in Birmingham for plotting an al Qaeda-inspired mass casualty attack.
Libya
Libya conflict: Black African migrants caught in backlash
Taliban suicide bomber kills 8 in Karachi
The Taliban targeted the home of a senior police official in Pakistan’s largest city.
Iran
US Weighs a Direct Line to Tehran
Al Qaeda
Pakistan: The suicide-bomb capital of the world
Afghanistan
Lashkar-e-Toiba – safe at home
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Imam serves as public face of an embattled mosque
Pakistan
Eighteen people were killed, including 10 Taliban fighters, a soldier, and four members of a peace committee in Khyber. Three Taliban fighters and a soldier were killed as the two groups fought over a downed US drone in South Waziristan. Militants killed three Turis in an attack on a bus in Kurram. The US Ambassador […]
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and IMU commanders and fighters in Uruzgan, Khost, Paktia, Logar, Nangarhar, and Baghlan. The Taliban killed three ISAF soldiers in the south.
Sweden
National security service officers searched the offices of a mosque in Gothenburg in connection with the arrests of three men linked to a planned terror attack on an art gallery. A computer belonging to one of the mosque’s religious leaders was seized.
Iraq
Insurgents killed a policeman in Kirkuk. Three children were killed after moving an explosive device to their home. The military said that “foreign Arabs” were responsible for the execution of 22 Shia in Anbar.
Yemen
Government troops killed 20 protesters in Sana’a. The capital is under blackout after power lines were cut. The opposition denied Sheikh Zindani is a terrorist.
Somalia
The government has banned all aid workers from entering Shabaab-held areas to distribute famine relief. Shabaab claimed to have captured three soldiers in Mogadishu.
Nigeria
Boko Haram released two videotapes of the suicide bomber who attacked the UN headquarters in Abuja. A relative of the slain former leader of Boko Haram was gunned down in Maiduguri.
Afghanistan
Tricky questions and troop transfers in Afghanistan
Egypt
Saying Goodbye to Egypt Again
Taliban, Pakistani troops fight over downed US drone in South Waziristan
The unmanned US strike aircraft crashed in the village where the Taliban have run training camps and Baitullah Mehsud was killed. A senior Taliban commander led the fight to secure the drone.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Libyan conflict thrusts Niger into unwelcome spotlight
Egypt
No rest for an Egypt revolutionary
Egypt
Tumult of Arab Spring Prompts Worries in Washington
Al Qaeda
‘Will target Qaida across world’
Abu Hafs al Shahri confirmed killed in Predator strike in Pakistan
The family of al Qaeda’s operations chief for Pakistan was notified of his death. His cousin, a senior al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, was killed one year ago.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed more than 70 Taliban fighters in Nuristan, and killed and captured several more in Kandahar, Helmand, Ghazni, Paktia, Logar, Wardak, Baghlan, and Faryab. The Taliban killed nine civilians, including five children, in Faryab, and two ISAF soldiers in the south.
Taliban vow to continue to attack weddings, funerals in Pakistan
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan promises more of the same.
Turkey
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has signaled that Turkey could launch a joint operation with Iran against Kurdish militants’ main base in northern Iraq. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey does not need the US to mediate its dispute with Israel.
Iran
Iran has provided sniper units to kill Syrian protesters targeted by the regime of President Bashar Assad. Belarus is the latest country that Western powers suspect of helping Iran to skirt UN sanctions aimed at preventing Tehran from expanding its ballistic missile and nuclear programs.
Syria
At least 200 Syrian opposition members have met outside the capital in a significant gathering of dissidents on Syrian soil. A group of Russian lawmakers arrived in Damascus Saturday in a bid to broker an end to violence. Russia is one of President Bashar al Assad’s few remaining supporters.