‘Good’ Taliban leader threatens Pakistani state over drone strikes
Taliban leader Hafiz Gul Bahadar said his “patience” with the government is in danger of ending as US airstrikes are killing people in North Waziristan.
Monthly Archives: November 2011
AMISOM
Somalia’s Shabab lures youths into suicide bomber training
Afghanistan
Afghanistan Gets Another New Political Party
Pakistan
Pakistan – AHRC condemns forced conversions of Hindus
Guantanamo
With no end in sight, Guantanamo work goes on
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Night letters threaten Loya Jirga participants with death
Afghanistan
India Mindful about Pakistan Sensitivities over Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Clinton Vows to Fight for Afghan Women’s Rights
Afghanistan
The Taliban is accused of stoning a mother and daughter to death for committing adultery in Ghazni. The Taliban killed an ISAF solider in the south.
Iraq
Security forces captured an al Qaeda emir in Karbala and a military doctor who supported terrorists in Khalis. Insurgents killed an Awakening member in Baqubah.
Yemen
Yemeni troops loyal to President Saleh killed 10 people in attacks in Taiz. Forces loyal to General Mohsen and Islah killed a Yemeni army officer and an Islamist cleric in Taiz.
Iran
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei denounced the UN nuclear report as a fabrication and said any invader would “receive a strong slap and iron fist.” US Defense Secretary Panetta warned of the consequences of military action against Iran. France threatened “unprecedented sanctions.” The US planned to sell “bunker buster” bombs to the UAE.
Somalia
Shabaab claimed it destroyed six Kenyan armored vehicles during fighting in Tabta and Dhobley in the south. Shabaab reportedly executed three civilians in the area as well.
Syria
Homs: ‘Capital of the Syrian revolution’
Afghanistan
Failed Afghan road project shows pitfalls of US efforts
Kenya
Why Al Shabaab Loved Ras Kamboni Town
Al Qaeda
A federal court in New York indicted Abdeladim El-Kebir, a Moroccan who trained in a Waziristan terror camp, on charges of planning to use a destructive device and conspiring to support al Qaeda. In April, he and two other men were arrested in Germany while collaborating on a bombing ordered by a top al Qaeda […]
Afghanistan
On a mission with US forces in Afghanistan
Sweden
Anti-Semitic crimes on the rise in Malmö
Iran
US Plans Bomb Sales in Persian Gulf to Counter Iran
Yemen
Warring factions divide Yemen’s capital
Kenya
War fears: Somalis in Kenya afraid of xenophobia
China
China Tightens Reporting Rules for Journalists
Australia
US to station troops in northern Australia as fears of China’s Pacific presence grow
Iran
US defence chief Panetta warns against Iran strike
Afghanistan
Afghanistan mother and daughter stoned and shot dead
Swiss jihadi denounces Tunisian elections as Western ‘trick’
Moezeddine Garsallaoui, a Swiss citizen originally from Tunisia who is now thought to be a senior al Qaeda operative in North Waziristan, said the elections are a Western trick designed to usurp the establishment of a global caliphate.
Afghanistan
US soldiers at war: The forgotten 1 percent
Germany
Ahmad Wali Siddiqui, a German-Afghan man captured by US forces in Afghanistan in July 2010, has been charged in federal court with being a member of al Qaeda and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. Information obtained from him after his capture shed light on an al Qaeda plot against European targets.
Lashkar-e-Islam
Pakistan – Operation against terrorists intensified in Bara