Afghanistan
Kunar Taliban support education process
Yearly Archives: 2011
United States
Pentagon personnel chief draws criticism for leadership style
United Kingdom
Apparent string of errors unties WikiLeaks’ bundle of secret cables
United States
Finally, World Trade Center rises from ground zero
Al Qaeda
US court case reveals CIA rendition details
Pakistan
“Gunmen” killed seven people in Kurram. A suicide bomber killed two people in Lakki Marwat. The military claimed that Mohmand has cleared the Taliban from 80 percent of Mohmand.
Afghanistan
Eight Taliban fighters were killed in a premature detonation in Kandahar. Security forces captured several Taliban fighters in Helmand and Baghlan. Forty Afghan Local Police quit in Kapisa.
Iraq
Insurgents killed three civilians, a soldier, and an Army officer in attacks in Baghdad and Salahadin. Thirty-five prisoners convicted of terrorism charges escaped from a Mosul jail; 21 have been recaptured. Muqtada al Sadr called on Iraqis to rise up against the government.
Yemen
US airstrikes killed 30 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in Abyan. US officials doubt that AQAP chief Nasir al Wuhayshi was killed earlier this week in Abyan. Yemeni military claimed it has cleared AQAP from areas in Abyan. Local officials in Lahj believe AQAP is ripe to take over the province.
Somalia
A senior security official in Puntland dodged an assassination attempt after the Shabaab bomber turned himself in to authorities. The government vowed to increase the number of security forces in Mogadishu.
US airstrikes in southern Yemen kill 30 AQAP fighters: report
US airstrikes are said to have freed a Yemeni military unit in Abyan that was under siege by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. US intelligence officials expressed doubts about reports that AQAP’s leader was killed.
Libya
Rebels captured Qaddafi’s foreign minister and extended the deadline for Qaddafi loyalists in Sitre to surrender by one week. Qaddafi called for his followers to “continue the resistance” and “struggle against foreign aggression.”
Afghanistan
Afghan Aid Worker Not Blind To Taliban Threats
Iran
Iran “charm offensive” fails to ease nuclear fears
Germany
German Officials Alarmed by Ex-Rapper’s New Message: Jihad
Iraq
Iraq toll still high a year after US combat halt
Afghanistan
Pakistani fertilizer fuels Afghan bombs
Israel
Don’t test us, Israel army chief warns Gaza militants
Al Qaeda in Iraq
US counterterror chief: al-Qaida on ‘steady slide’
Afghanistan
Karzai May Have Met Taliban Envoy During Saudi Visit
Norway
Former Norway PM censures officials’ terror readiness
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Helmand, Zabul, Khost, and Wardak. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in an IED attack in the east.
Russia
Ramzan Kadyrov, the President of the Chechen Republic, vowed to carry out a harsh response to those who who killed nine people in Grozny yesterday. Kadyrov described the three suicide bombers as “zombified bandits” and “the devil incarnate.”
Iraq
Prime Minister Maliki said the US would pull out its troops from Iraq by the end of December 2011. Iraq closed down its airspace due to “a potential danger threatening the airport’s and airplanes safety.”
Yemen
The military claimed it has cleared al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula from several areas in Abyan province. AQAP nearly assassinated Yemen’s defense minister in Abyan; two bodyguards were killed in an IED attack. Security forces killed four AQAP fighters in Zinjibar.
Somalia
Nine soldiers and six civilians were killed as government troops clashed while looting famine food aid in Mogadishu. Shabaab leaders and fighters gathered in the open to pray and march in Mogadishu.
Nigeria
Days before the Aug. 26 suicide attack on the UN headquarters in the capital of Abuja, police arrested two Boko Haram members and a man with “al Qaeda links who returned recently from Somalia.” On Aug. 18, police had intelligence about a possible car bombing in Abuja.
Shabaab forces march in Mogadishu
Heavily armed Shabaab fighters offer prayers and march through the streets of the Somali capital.
Suicide bomber kills 11 outside Pakistani mosque
The bomber attempted to ram a car packed with explosives into a mosque in Quetta as Shia worshipers celebrated the end of Ramadan.
Afghanistan
Afghan police casualties soar