NDS dismantles Kabul Attack Network cell
An Afghan intelligence operation led to the arrest of three Taliban facilitators linked to an urban attack against Afghan police in June. Future plots were also disrupted.
Yearly Archives: 2011
Iran
A court sentenced an Iranian man to death for assassinating a nuclear scientist; Iran claimed he was an agent of Israel. Iran said it would defend Syria if NATO intervened. Iran “discreetly” provided food and medical aid to Libyan rebels.
Egypt
Mohamed Shawqi el Islambuli, the brother of the man who assassinated Anwar Sadat in 1981, was arrested after arriving in Egypt from Iran. Islambuli, a member of the Egyptian Islamic Group, was sentenced to death for his role in the Luxor massacre. He is linked to al Qaeda.
Al Qaeda
Arab spring has created ‘intelligence disaster’, warns former CIA boss
Iran
Iran Calls on Syria to Recognize Citizens’ Demands
Helos provide vital support to US troops in Afghan east
A glimpse into operating aviation assets in what one helicopter pilot described as ‘the most God-awful environment I’ve ever seen.’
Pakistan
After the Taliban: Swat women on changing life
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed the suicide attack at a military academy in Cherchell that killed 16 soldiers and two civilians. AQIM said two suicide bombers, Abu Anas and Abu Noah, executed the attack.
Somalia
Security forces arrested six people in an area of Mogadishu formerly held by Shabaab. Famine victims claimed that Somali troops are looting food at refugee camps.
Al Qaeda remains entrenched in North Wazristan
The Taliban-controlled tribal agency still serves as a primary node for al Qaeda’s operations in Pakistan.
Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashes out at Israel in Quds Day speech
Pakistan
The Taliban killed 25 Pakistani security personnel and overran two border outposts in an attack in Chitral; 20 Taliban fighters were also killed. Three Lashkar-e-Jhangvi fighters were arrested in Karachi.
Afghanistan
Taliban suicide bombers killed four civilians outside the governor’s compound in the capital of Helmand and killed three more in the capital of Kandahar. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south.
Turkmenistan
The government freed over 3,700 prisoners, including 30 foreigners, in a Ramadan gesture that was first practiced by the predecessor administration.
Iraq
Insurgents killed three people in Iskandariyah and a security official in Saadiya. A terrorist died in a premature detonation in Mosul. Security forces detained 12 wanted men, including an Islamic State of Iraq leader, in Mosul and five
Syria
The Arab League is considering calling for an end to the Syrian government’s five-month crackdown on protesters, in which, according to the UN, over 2,200 civilians have been killed. Syria claims “terrorist groups” are responsible and that 500 police and army have died in the uprisings. A cartoonist who criticized the government was attacked by […]
Pakistan
‘Clearing’ Kurram
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Nigeria president avoids naming suspects at bomb site
Afghanistan
Few Treatment Options for Afghans as Drug Use Rises
Libya
Libya’s Interim Leadership Releases Its Members’ Names
Yemen
Militants killed seven Yemeni soldiers in the Dofas district in the southern province of Yemen. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters are believed to have carried out the attack.
Senior al Qaeda leader reportedly killed
Atiyah Abd al Rahman, a top al Qaeda leader, was reportedly killed on August 22. Senior US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal would neither confirm nor deny Atiyah’s death. Atiyah was al Qaeda’s “general manager” and Osama bin Laden’s “chief of staff,” according to a senior US intelligence official.
Al Qaeda
US official: Al-Qaida’s No. 2 killed in Pakistan
Somalia
More Somali famine victims fleeing to Yemen: UNHCR
Afghanistan
Factbox: Afghan police violence and corruption charges
Al Qaeda
Nigeria leader vows to fight terror after UN blast
Israel
US, Israel Monitor Syria’s Suspected Cache of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Taliban kill 25 Pakistani troops in cross-border attack
The Pakistani military accused local Afghan officials of aiding the Taliban and said ISAF has failed to take action on large concentrations of Taliban operating in the Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan.
Libya
Hundreds of Salafists have been freed from the Abu Salim prison in Tripoli. More than 600 Islamist fighters who fought US forces in Iraq were held at the prison; their whereabouts are unknown.
Algeria
Eight people, including including 16 soldiers, were killed in a suicide attack on a military academy in the town of Cherchell. AQIM is thought to have carried out the attack.