US ‘drones’ kill 15 al Qaeda fighters in southern Yemen
The US is known to have carried out five airstrikes in Yemen this year.
Yearly Archives: 2011
Somalia
Shabaab claimed it killed three US trainers in a suicide attack on an African Union base in Mogadishu. A pair of Shabaab suicide bombers killed two African Union troops in the capital.
Algeria
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb killed two Algerian soldiers in an IED attack in the Tissemsilt region. Abdelkahar Belhad confirmed that Abdelkahar Belhad was killed when he carried out the July 25 suicide attack.
Syria
Syrian security forces killed 27 people in attacks against anti-regime protesters throught the country. Thirteen were killed in Hama, where the government is deploying militias called shabbiha.
Pakistan
Karachi victim of mass killings, not target killings: Rizvi
Afghanistan
Crisis Group Concerned Over Afghanistan Insecurity Beyond 2014
Norway
In an Oslo mosque, a ‘special’ Ramzan begins after attacks
Senior al Qaeda leader attacks Pakistani state in bin Laden eulogy
The tape casts further doubt that Ilyas Kashmiri, a top al Qaeda leader, and Ustadh Ahmad Farooq, al Qaeda’s media emir and top ideologue in Pakistan, were killed in a Predator airstrike in early June.
Pakistan
US ‘working to resolve Pakistan travel curbs on envoys’
China
Analysis: Pakistan relying too much on China against US
Pakistan’s madrassas continue to serve as engines of jihad
Afghan children are indoctrinated in religious schools in Pakistan’s northwest.
Yemen
Yemen’s Saleh not to transfer power for incapacity: spokesman
China
ISI chief on secret China visit as US ties take a blow: Report
Israel
Israel ‘ready to negotiate borders with Palestinians’
Egypt
Egyptians Turn Against Liberal Protesters
Shabaab
US to ease anti-terrorism rules to help Somali famine victims
Al Qaeda
Somalis Waste Away as Insurgents Block Escape From Famine
Al Qaeda
Getting Bin Laden What happened that night in Abbottabad
Shabaab
Emergency aid flights brave war-torn Somalia
Afghanistan
ISI May Have Hidden Mullah Omar: NDS
Argentina
Why Is Argentina Appeasing Iran?
Afghanistan
Names of Suspects in Bank Fraud Sent to Afghan Courts
China
China Blames Foreign-Trained Separatists for Attacks in Xinjiang
Afghanistan
Mullen focuses on Afghanistan-Pakistan border havens
Syria
Syria: William Hague says no possibility of military intervention
China
The local government in Kashgar claimed the East Turkestan Islamic Movement was behind the attack that killed 11 people. The government said the leader of the group was captured and his fighters trained at a camp in Pakistan.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Paktia, and Paktika. Afghan officials claimed ISAF killed four policemen in an airstrike in Kunar.
Pakistan
US Predators killed four Taliban fighters in an airstrike in South Waziristan. The Taliban torched 10 tankers in Khairpur that are used to transport fuel to NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Yemen
Yemeni strike aircraft killed 13 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in Zinjibar. The commander of the besieged 25th Mechanized Brigade said Yemeni security forces abandoned their weapons and fled during the AQAP takeover of Zinibar two months ago.
Iraq
Security forces detained 28 wanted men in Basrah. Attacks by Iranian militias on US forces decreased significantly in July.