Taliban shoot down US helicopter in Kunar
The Chinook was shot down just outside an Afghan base. No US soldiers were killed. The Taliban claimed two of its fighters were killed while shooting down the helo with RPGs.
Yearly Archives: 2011
Iran
General Dempsey said Iran would make a “serious miscalculation” if it attempted to carry out a mass casualty attack against US forces in Iraq. Iran’s chief of police blamed the West for the current rise in crime.
Lebanon
Five French peacekeepers who serve under the command of the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon were wounded in an IED attack near Sidon. The attack is similar to another bombing that wounded six Italian soldiers near Sidon in May.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan disputes US audit report on aid money
AQAP leader pledges oath of allegiance to Ayman al Zawahiri
“I give you allegiance of obedience in good and hard times,” al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Emir Nasir al Wuhayshi said in a audiotape released today. Wuhayshi also said that the groups’ “project is to institute the Shariah of Allah on Earth.”
Afghanistan
Iran: Leaders clash on arming foreign militants, ‘trading drugs for arms’
Ethiopia
Horn of Africa aid caravan too late, again
Pakistan
Pakistan floods one year on: thousands of people still homeless as the country fails to rebuild
Afghanistan
Envoy Says US Will Start Afghan Pullout, Slowly
France
Britain Says Qaddafi Could Remain in Libya
Afghanistan
Afghan leader: security forces must meet challenge
Iran
Weapons Retrieved in Iraq Point to Iran
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Yemeni Military and Tribesmen Push Back Militants in South
Indonesia
Indonesian army given anti-terrorism role
Afghanistan
Afghan women opposed by former allies
Afghanistan
Tribes Watch and Wait After Karzai Brother’s Killing
Pakistan to send Umar Patek to Indonesia
The Jemaah Islamiya commander is said to have attempted to meet with Osama bin Laden before he was captured in Abbottabad earlier this year.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Militants have no regard for law
Pakistan
Pakistani tax collectors asked to snoop on militants
China
Foreign nations push into space as US pulls back
Pakistan
Pakistan: Karachi violence intensifies as govt rules out ‘operation’
Internal divisions resolved, claims Caucasus Emirate
Recalcitrant Chechen commanders have retaken their oath of allegiance to Umarov.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban leaders and fighters in Helmand, Khost, Paktika, and Wardak. ISAF is investigating the deaths of three Afghan civilians during a firefight with the Taliban in Wardak. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the west. Ambassador Crocker said the US does not seek permanent bases in Afghansitan.
Iraq
Iranian artillery strikes on Kurdish villages inside Iraq have killed two civilians. Security forces detained six wanted men in Basrah.
Yemen
US-trainer counterterrorism forces from the Republican Guards are being deployed against tribesmen in Arhab,and are reported to have killed more than 40 people. Sana’a was plunged into darkness after electricity was cut by tribesmen.
Iran
Iran accused the US and Israel of murdering a scientist who was involved with Iran’s nuclear program. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said an Iranian naval presence on the high seas “has made enemies nervous and worried.”
Somalia
A report claimed that the wife of Omar Hammami (Abu Mansour al Amriki) was detained by the CIA in Hargeisa; the report is unconfirmed. Shabaab accused UN aid agencies of displacing Somalis in areas under their control.
Afghanistan
US trucking funds reach Taliban, military-led investigation concludes
Libya
Rebel Chief Says Gadhafi, Family Can Stay in Libya
Norway
Hunt for Britons linked to Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik