Israel
Israeli minister: Cut ties with Palestinians
Yearly Archives: 2011
Afghanistan
NATO, Afghan forces fight insurgents near crash
Syria
Syrian opposition admits armed insurgents are operating on fringe of uprising against Assad regime
Shabaab
Somalia famine: Islamist fighters pull out of Mogadishu to allow food to be distributed
Pakistan
How Pakistani minutemen are fighting the Taliban ‘false Muslims’
Benin
Piracy on the rise off West Africa’s coast
Ethiopia
Tracking Somali Pirates to Their Lair
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed one person outside a school in Mohmand. The Taliban destroyed 16 NATO fuel tankers in Peshawar and bombed a school in Khyber.
Afghanistan
The Taliban claimed to have shot down a Chinook in Wardak, killing 30 US soldiers, including 22 SEALs, an interpreter, and seven Afghan commandos. ISAF is investigating reports that an airstrike killed eight civilians in Helmand. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south.
Chinook shot down over Taliban safe haven near Kabul
US troops pulled out of Saydabad in the spring. The Taliban raised their flag in the district shortly afterward.
Shabaab withdraws forces from Mogadishu
Shabaab’s spokesman claims the troops withdrew from the capital as part of a tactical move.
Iraq
Two people were killed and seven more were wounded in three bombings at a sports stadium in Ramadi. Security forces captured seven members of al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq.
Afghanistan
Body Bags In Baluchistan
African Union
Militants retreat from Mogadishu
Somalia
Shabaab forces have withdrawn from Mogadishu, spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage told the Shabaab-run Andalus radio statio. “We have abandoned Mogadishu but we remain in other towns,” Rage said. “We aren’t leaving you, but we have changed our tactics.”
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has launched an “indoctrination campaign” along the Mali-Mauritania border. AQIM “has been organizing exhortatory and religious lectures that end with inviting people to engage in holy war” near military barracks in Mali, a local said.
Al Qaeda
US prepares for worst-case scenario with Pakistan nukes
Mali
Mali security officials claimed that al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has abandoned camps in the western area of the country after military operations there. Officials believe AQIM fighters have relocated to the northeastern part of the country that borders with Algeria and Niger.
Pakistan
Pak fears attacks, moves warships out of Karachi
Afghanistan
Crocker Reassures US Long-term Commitment to Afghanistan
38 US, Afghan forces killed in helo crash
The Taliban and an Afghan official claimed the Chinook was shot down as it left the scene of a raid in Wardak.
Egypt
Second night of Israeli strikes on Gaza after rocket fire
Saudi Arabia
Saudi says draft anti-terrorism law being amended
Al Qaeda
Libya Rebuffs Qaddafi Son on Alliance With Radical Islamists
Afghanistan
Dozens of US Troops Killed as Copter Shot Down in Afghanistan
Al Qaeda
US defense chief vows to keep pressure on al-Qaida
China
Mushahid for cooperation with China on war against terrorism
Afghanistan
US head of Afghan aid oversight resigns
Pakistan
Pakistan – Govt to promote soft image of Pakistan via media: Firdous
Sweden
Sweden advances plan to combat extremism