Yearly Archives: 2011

Pakistan

| May 31, 2011

WikiLeaks: Pakistani intelligence ‘continues to offer support to terrorist groups’

Afghanistan

| May 31, 2011

President Karzai said ISAF will become an “occupying force” if it does not end airstrikes. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Khost, Paktika, and Kunduz. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the east.

Iraq

| May 31, 2011

Police captured the man who is thought to have killed the head of Iraq’s Justice and Accountability Commission. Vice President Adul Abdul Mahdi resigned in protest over the expansion of government.

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| May 31, 2011

Pakistan: Car belonging to missing journalist found in Sarai Alamgir

Yemen

| May 31, 2011

A truce between President Saleh and the Hashed tribal confederation has ended after fighting broke out in Sana’a. Security forces killed more than 50 people in an attack on a protesters’ camp in Taiz. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is said to be expanding its area of control in Abyan after taking control of […]

Iran

| May 31, 2011

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei publicly backed President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, putting an end to months of speculation over a rift between the two. Iran said the detention of a diplomat in Egypt was a “misunderstanding that has been resolved.”

Syria

| May 31, 2011

Syrians in the towns of Talbiseh and Rastan near Homs have taken up arms to resist military attacks by President Assad’s forces. Am opposition “activist” confirmed residents have fought back but said there was no organized resistance.

Lebanon

| May 31, 2011

Security forces arrested three Lebanese and two Palestinians suspected of involvement in the IED attack that wounded six Italian peacekeepers. An al Qaeda-linked Salafist group, presumably Fatah al Islam, is thought to have executed the attack. Italy may reduce its peacekeeping contingent by one-third, from 1,780 to 1,100 troops.

Morocco

| May 31, 2011

France has opened an investigation into the April 28 bombing at a cafe in Marrakesh that killed 17 people. Eight French citizens were among those killed in the attack.

Russia

| May 30, 2011

Security forces killed two armed men who fled a hideout packed with explosive devices and weapons in Dagestan. Terrorists killed a policeman in Kabardino-Balkaria.

Pakistan

| May 30, 2011

Pakistani aircraft killed 11 “militants” in Arakzai. One person was killed in a bombing at a hotel in Miramshah. The ISI kidnapped journalist Saleem Shahzad. Police arrested five people near the US Consulate in Karachi.

Egypt

| May 30, 2011

Egypt’s Christians fear violence as changes embolden Islamists

India

| May 30, 2011

Cannot defend Hafiz Saeed in US lawsuit: Pak govt to court

NATO

| May 30, 2011

ISAF ‘really needs night raids’ despite Karzai opposition

Somalia

| May 30, 2011

Two African Union soldiers and a Somali soldier were killed as Shabaab attempted to overrun a base in a suicide assault in Mogadishu. Three Shabaab fighters were killed during the failed assault.

Al Qaeda

| May 30, 2011

Osama bin Laden tried to establish ‘grand coalition’ of militant groups

Afghanistan

| May 30, 2011

The Taliban killed five people in bombings and an assault on the PRT in Herat, and killed two ISAF soldiers in the east. An Afghan soldier killed an ISAF soldier in the south. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Khost, Paktika, Paktia, Nangarhar, Wardak, Kunduz, and Balkh. ISAF apologized for […]