Yearly Archives: 2011



Egypt

Egypt’s Vote Propels Islamic Law Into Spotlight








Iraq

Kurdish leader: Clerics ‘instigated … acts of sabotage,’ wounding 25




Iraq

Prime Minister Maliki said that a bombing earlier this week inside Baghdad’s Green Zone was an assassination attempt against him. Maliki said the bomb had likely been assembled inside the Green Zone and was not very powerful.



Iran

Top Iranian officials claim that the deaths of military experts at the Bid Ganeh base on Nov. 12 “had no effect on the self-sufficiency unit” of the IRGC. The blast killed at least 36 members of the IRGC, including the “Godfather” of Iran’s ballistic missile program, Major General Hassan Moqaddam. France is temporarily reducing staff […]



Yemen

At least two Yemenis were killed in the third day of shelling in the hotbed protest city of Taiz. Yemeni Vice President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi called on Taiz’s provincial governor and opposition parties of the Joint Meeting Parties to observe an immediate ceasefire.



Somalia

At least two Somali soldiers were killed and four others wounded in Mogadishu after a land mine exploded at the Benadir Junction. Somali forces detained two suspected suicide bombers and their explosives-rigged vehicles in between Tabta and Dhobley district. A huge inferno engulfed the biggest market in Bosaso; the source of the blaze is under […]


Kenya

The Kenyan army said four troops were killed in action and 10 have been wounded since it launched its incursion in Somalia to battle Shabaab in mid-October. Another four troops were killed in the crash of a helicopter on the first day of the intervention. The Kenyan army is “not necessarily headed for the key […]


United States

Jubair Ahmad, a 24-year-old Pakistani resident of Woodbridge, Va., pled guilty to terror charges in US federal court. In 2010 he posted on the Internet a propaganda video glorifying the violent extremism of the Lashkar-e-Taiba.





Pakistan

A Pakistani official denied a Wall Street Journal report that the military gave the go-ahead to a NATO airstrike that inadvertently killed 24 Pakistani troops. Clashes between Pakistani Taliban and Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber Agency left at least six dead. Nine militants were killed and three hideouts were destroyed during security operations in Arakzai Agency.


Iran

Qods Force commander Major General Qassem Suleimani may have played a role in organizing the “protesters” that stormed the British embassy in Tehran last week. The European Union published its latest sanctions list on Iran and Syria, formalizing measures against 180 Iranian people and firms and 23 Syrian targets. The US has urged Turkey to […]


Lebanon

Israeli warplanes destroyed one its own clandestine eavesdropping platforms in southern Lebanon after it was discovered by Hezbollah fighters. Two unidentified people were reportedly injured in the airstrike.


Afghanistan

NATO air strike protests: JuD observes Black Friday, effigies, flags burn all over Pakistan