Monthly Archives: January 2012

Iran

| January 7, 2012

Royal Navy sends its mightiest ship to take on the Iranian show of force in the Gulf

Sudan

| January 6, 2012

Sudan will soon see revolution: Islamist leader Turabi

United States

| January 6, 2012

Irfan Ul Haq, a Pakistani arrested in Miami with two others in March 2011, was sentenced to 50 months in prison for conspiring to support a terror organization. The three men were residing in Ecuador when they engaged in a plot to smuggle a Pakistani Taliban member into the US. Haq and his co-conspirators have […]

Afghanistan

| January 6, 2012

The Taliban killed six children and an adult in an IED attack in Uruzgan, and killed five ISAF soldiers in two bombings in the south. The Taliban demanded that their prisoners who are held at Guantanamo Bay be freed in Qatar.

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| January 6, 2012

Iran’s warnings in Gulf reflect hardening military doctrine

Iraq

| January 6, 2012

Security forces captured al Qaeda in Iraq’s “financial officer” and several aides during a raid in the Hamrin Mountains near Kirkuk. Vice President Hashemi, who is wanted by the government, set up an office in Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdish areas.

Yemen

| January 6, 2012

President Saleh has decided to stay in Yemen, sparking fears he does not plan on transitioning power. The state-run Yemen News Agency claimed that “the GPC and the Yemeni people want the President to remain in the country to participate fully in ending the crisis.”

Israel

| January 6, 2012

In the wake of international tensions over Iran, Israel said it would conduct joint military exercises with the US. The exercises would test missile and air defense systems and coordination between US and Israeli forces.

Syria

| January 6, 2012

The government said a “suicide terrorist” detonated a bomb in Damascus, killing 25 people and wounding scores more. Members of the Free Syrian Army reportedly met with representatives of the Arab League.

Jordan

| January 6, 2012

A Jordanian court upheld the five-year-long prison sentence for Isam Mohammed Taher al Barqawi, a radical Islamist cleric, for plotting terror attacks and recruiting jihadists. Barqawi, who is also known as Sheik Abu Mohammed al Maqdisi, was Abu Musab al Zarqawi’s mentor.