Analysis: The US-Pakistan relationship and the critical factor of supply
The US military’s supply routes through Pakistan to Afghanistan constitute a major vulnerability for the US in its relations with Pakistan. That may change in the near future.
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Iran claims it shot down ‘Beast of Kandahar’ stealth drone
An Iranian official said the RQ-170 was shot down over eastern Iran. ISAF said a UAV crashed in western Afghanistan.
Egypt
Egypt’s Vote Propels Islamic Law Into Spotlight
Al Qaeda
Should Egypt Fear the Rise of the Salafis?
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda expanding footprint in Africa
Did Jund al Khilafah battle police in Kazakhstan?
Five “terrorists” and two policemen were killed during a clash in the southern Central Asian nation.
US personnel begin to vacate Pakistan’s Shamsi Air Base: report
The base has been used to launch the CIA’s Predator and Reaper strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
Muslim Brotherhood
Egypt’s Vote Propels Islamic Law Into Spotlight
Iraq
Iraq PM confident in post-US future
Iraq
Kurdish leader: Clerics ‘instigated … acts of sabotage,’ wounding 25
India
Pakistani model’s nude photo causes fury
Nassar al Awlaki urges the spread of his son Anwar’s teachings
Nassar al Awlaki urged Muslims to keep Anwar’s message alive “by spreading his teachings, sermons, and lectures,” and condemned the US airstrikes that killed his son and grandson.
Iraq
Prime Minister Maliki said that a bombing earlier this week inside Baghdad’s Green Zone was an assassination attempt against him. Maliki said the bomb had likely been assembled inside the Green Zone and was not very powerful.
Afghanistan
Road Block by Pakistan Has No Logistical Implications, ISAF says
Iran
Top Iranian officials claim that the deaths of military experts at the Bid Ganeh base on Nov. 12 “had no effect on the self-sufficiency unit” of the IRGC. The blast killed at least 36 members of the IRGC, including the “Godfather” of Iran’s ballistic missile program, Major General Hassan Moqaddam. France is temporarily reducing staff […]
Ennahda
Islamists and secularists in Tunisia stand-off
Yemen
At least two Yemenis were killed in the third day of shelling in the hotbed protest city of Taiz. Yemeni Vice President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi called on Taiz’s provincial governor and opposition parties of the Joint Meeting Parties to observe an immediate ceasefire.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan says needs billions long after troops go
Somalia
At least two Somali soldiers were killed and four others wounded in Mogadishu after a land mine exploded at the Benadir Junction. Somali forces detained two suspected suicide bombers and their explosives-rigged vehicles in between Tabta and Dhobley district. A huge inferno engulfed the biggest market in Bosaso; the source of the blaze is under […]
Kenya
The Kenyan army said four troops were killed in action and 10 have been wounded since it launched its incursion in Somalia to battle Shabaab in mid-October. Another four troops were killed in the crash of a helicopter on the first day of the intervention. The Kenyan army is “not necessarily headed for the key […]
United States
Jubair Ahmad, a 24-year-old Pakistani resident of Woodbridge, Va., pled guilty to terror charges in US federal court. In 2010 he posted on the Internet a propaganda video glorifying the violent extremism of the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Afghanistan
NATO plans push in eastern Afghanistan to quell Pakistan-based insurgents
Afghanistan
Pakistan Refuses to Help as US Sorts Out Fatal Airstrikes
Afghanistan
Pentagon says Pakistan not joining bombing probe
Pakistan
A Pakistani official denied a Wall Street Journal report that the military gave the go-ahead to a NATO airstrike that inadvertently killed 24 Pakistani troops. Clashes between Pakistani Taliban and Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber Agency left at least six dead. Nine militants were killed and three hideouts were destroyed during security operations in Arakzai Agency.
Iran
Qods Force commander Major General Qassem Suleimani may have played a role in organizing the “protesters” that stormed the British embassy in Tehran last week. The European Union published its latest sanctions list on Iran and Syria, formalizing measures against 180 Iranian people and firms and 23 Syrian targets. The US has urged Turkey to […]
Lebanon
Israeli warplanes destroyed one its own clandestine eavesdropping platforms in southern Lebanon after it was discovered by Hezbollah fighters. Two unidentified people were reportedly injured in the airstrike.
Afghanistan
NATO air strike protests: JuD observes Black Friday, effigies, flags burn all over Pakistan
China
Containing Nuclear Threats at Shanghai Port
Afghanistan
Pakistan: US Info Was Wrong