Pakistan
Pakistan amends tribal laws said to fuel militancy
Yearly Archives: 2011
Germany
Berlin Loses Sleep Over Car Arson Attacks at Night
United States
Chat downs: how security officials plan to identify terrorists
In Pictures: US troops search for insurgent recoilless rifle team
Embedded in Afghanistan: The search in Sabari district, Khost province, ended in a grenade attack that wounded six US soldiers.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Army waiting for ‘uprising’ against foreigners in NWA
Al Qaeda
Islamist Threat in Nigeria Grows With Qaeda Help
Pakistan
The Taliban killed an anti-Taliban militia leader and his son in an attack at a checkpoint in Bajaur. A Taliban leader who was captured in Karachi was freed on bail.
Another Yemeni city reportedly falls to AQAP
The coastal city of Shaqra is the third to fall to AQAP since late May.
Operation Badr: tracking the Taliban summer offensive in Jawzjan province
The Taliban have expanded the insurgency in northern Afghanistan.
Russia
The Islamic Caucasus Emirate confirmed that Abdullah Magomedaliev, who is also known as Emir Daud, was killed along with six fighters by Russian security forces in Dagestan last week. Daud was involved in the planning and execution of suicide attacks.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed eight people in a bombing at a market in Uruzgan. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and IMU commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Wardak, Paktia, Nangarhar, and Kunduz.
Afghanistan
What cut? US continues to fund Pakistan military
Iran
Iran is the biggest threat to Iraq’s security, says Pentagon official
Egypt
Salafists defend right to be part of new Egypt democracy
Shabaab
Contractors Are Accused in Large-Scale Theft of Food Aid in Somalia
Iraq
Al Qaeda in Iraq killed an engineer in Diyala by strapping a bomb on his body and detonating it. Security forces detained five members of a cell thought to have executed the deadly bombing in Al Kut. The Promised Day Brigade claimed it executed eight attacks against US troops in six provinces.
Yemen
Tribesmen loyal to President Saleh claimed to have captured 10 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters near the town of Shoqra. Tribesmen also accused Abdul Majid al Zindani of sending more than 300 al Qaeda fighters to battle Yemeni forces in Arhab and Naham.
Somalia
A clinic in northern Mogadishu was evacuated and civilians in two districts fled as Shabaab and government forces clashed in the area. The government said it would continue to pursue Shabaab fighters.
Nigeria
Police killed a suicide bomber before he could detonate his car bomb after he rammed a police station in Maiduguri. Police believe he is a member of Boko Haram.
US State Department designates Mumtaz Dughmush as terrorist
Dughmush leads the al Qaeda-linked, Gaza-based Army of Islam, which has carried out attacks on Israel and Egypt.
Afghanistan
Panetta: Bigger defense cuts would ‘weaken’ US
Pakistan
Twelve “militants” were killed in an IED attack in Khyber. US Predators killed four “militants” in a strike in North Waziristan. A Taliban commander was captured in Karachi.
Internet jihadist killed in Predator strike in Waziristan
A fighter named Hafeed Salahuddin is said to have been killed in Waziristan with a small group of fighters. Also, Mounir Chouka, a German jihadist with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, may have been “seriously wounded” in a Predator strike.
Afghanistan
$360M lost to insurgents, criminals in Afghanistan
US Treasury designates 3 Jemaah Islamiyah operatives as terrorists
One of the operatives, Abdul Rahim Ba’asyir, has close ties to al Qaeda and the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Iraq
Terrorists dressed as soldiers pulled seven men from a mosque in Yusafiyah and executed them. Four policemen were killed in a mortar attack in Musayab.
Yemen
Security forces killed 26 people, including 14 women and children, in attacks in Arhab. Five al Qaeda fighters were killed in an airstrike in Abyan. Rival al Qaeda groups clashed in Jaar.
Iran
The Indian Navy seized a ship that recently left Iran and is carrying weapons thought to be destined for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in Yemen. Iran denied that one of its vessels was seized. Iran urged the international community not to interfere with Syria’s “internal affairs.”
Syria
Security forces continued their assault on the port city of Latakia. More than 35 Syrians have been killed since troops and navy gunboats attacked the city on Aug. 13.
Egypt
Security forces detained four men who attempted to plant explosives on a gas pipeline in Al Arish in the Sinai. The pipeline has been attacked five times this year.