North Korea
Kim Jong-il, North Korean Leader, Is Dead at 69
Yearly Archives: 2011
United States
Overstretched drone pilots face stress risk
Lashkar-e-Taiba dominates anti-US rally in Lahore
More than 30,000 Islamists gathered to show their support for the Pakistani military.
Pakistan
U.S. drone operators show signs of exhaustion
Iraq
Analysis: Iraq resumes political strife in vacuum left by U.S.
Afghanistan
EU to start homework on strategic pact with Kabul
Russia
Four masked gunmen broke into a house in the Dagestani city of Caspiisk and killed Colonel Magomed Radzhabov. Radzhabov was serving as deputy head of the Internal Security Directorate of the FSB’s Border Guards Service in Dagestan.
Afghanistan
US Military Wants Troops in Afghanistan Beyond 2014
Afghanistan
Abdul Baqi Raghbat, the former director of border and tribal affairs in Kandahar province, was assassinated in Kandahar city. Eighteen civilians and two policemen were wounded when a man threw grenades at a police vehicle in Khost City. Four insurgents were killed and 24 wounded during combined security operations.
Iraq
The last convoy of US combat troops has left Iraq, ending nearly eight years of occupation. Iraqi forces detained eight terrorists in Karbala.
Iraq
Iraqis celebrate US exit, but worry for future
Kazakhstan
Kazakh Zhanaozen oil unrest spreads to regional capital
Yemen
Four al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters and two Yemeni soldiers were killed during fighting near Zinjibar. General Ali Mohsen supports the peace deal with the government and has begun withdrawing his forces from Sana’a.
Egypt
For the third day, protestors and security forces clashed in Tahrir Square. Anger was stoked by images of a military police officer beating a woman.
Somalia
Shabaab fighters beheaded three men they accused of spying in the Lower Jubba region. Clashes between Ahlu Sunnah militiamen and armed government supporters in Galgudud province left at least 10 dead. A local journalist was killed in Mogadishu by a man in a Somali government uniform.
How many times do 75 percent of al Qaeda’s top leaders need to be killed before the terror group is dead?
Like President Obama, President Bush claimed that al Qaeda was on its deathbed after 3/4 of its leaders were killed or captured … back in 2005.
Afghanistan
Secretary Eyes Cuts in Marines and the Navy
Afghanistan
Karzai: Afghans Still Don’t Have Personal Security
Pakistan
UK role in drone strikes: Hague to answer legal letter
Pakistan
The Taliban killed a Pakistani Army officer and two soldiers in an IED attack in Kurram. Security forces detained the emir and four cell members of the Al Badar group in Karachi.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Helmand, Khost, Logar, Kunar, and Kunduz. Afghan forces freed 11 captured policemen in Badakhshan. Germany will withdraw 100 soldiers in January 2012.
Yemen
Security forces killed five al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters near Zinjibar in Abyan province. AQAP fighters killed two soldiers outside of Zinjibar.
Russia
Analysis: Russia’s Syria shift a bid to guard image, interests
Iran
The Intelligence Ministry claimed it arrested a “US spy” who was trained in Iraq and Afghanistan. The foreign minister urged Afghanistan not to permit US drones to operate in its airspace.
Afghanistan
Afghan Government Agrees to Taliban Office
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
‘No Intelligence’ on Christmas Terror Plots, US Finds
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Yemeni Uprising Opens a Door to Besieged Rebels in the North
African Union
Mogadishu dares to dream of a new future as militants are driven from Somali capital
Hezbollah
US sues Lebanese firms for ‘laundering Hezbollah funds’
Nigeria
Three Boko Haram fighters were killed after their explosives detonated prematurely at their bomb factory in Maiduguri. Suspected Boko Haram fighters killed a policeman in Kano.