Afghanistan
No ‘Open Airspace’ for Foreign Airliners, Afghan Minister Says
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Uruzgan and Faryab. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south. Forty insurgents reconciled with the government in Baghlan.
Iraq
A former al Qaeda leader who renounced the group and became an Awakening commander was assassinated in Baghdad. Insurgents decapitated a policeman and killed a civilian in a barber shop in Mosul.
Yemen
Fourty-six people were killed during fighting between Houthis and Salafists in Hajjah. Security forces killed six AQAP fighters in Zinjibar. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula withdrew from Rada’a after negotiations with tribal leaders.
Somalia
US Navy SEALs rescued a US and a Danish hostage being held by Somali pirates. Ten people were wounded during a grenade attack in a mosque in Mogadishu.
United Kingdom
David Cameron: human rights laws stop Britain protecting against terrorism
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan claimed it broke up an Iranian plot to assassinate the Israeli ambassador and others in revenge for the killing of nuclear scientists in Iran.
Syria
The head of the Syrian Red Crescent was shot dead. The UN Security Council is considering a Western and Arab League resolution calling for President Assad to step down. Russia said it would resist any UN-led sanctions. US and Russian diplomats held talks in Moscow to resolve differences over Syria.
Al Qaeda
Torture and lawlessness as Libya victory high ends
Al Qaeda
Boko Haram got al Qaeda bomb training, Niger says
AQAP withdraws from Yemeni town after negotiations: report
AQAP will get 15 key prisoners released and sharia in Rada’a in exchange for leaving the town, according to a tribal leader.
Bosnia
Police arrested radical Islamist leader Nusret Imamovic and his brother Eldin in a raid in Gornja Maoca, the center of Bosnia’s Wahabi community, for their roles in attacks that included the shooting at the US embassy in Sarajevo in October 2011 and the bombing of the Bugojino police station in June 2010.
Navy SEALs free 2 Western hostages in Somalia
The US and Danish hostages were freed during a nighttime raid by SEAL Team Six.
United Kingdom
Prime Minister Cameron urged the Council of Europe to reform the European Court of Human Rights to give deference to national legal decisions, including deportation orders. The court, which has a backlog of 150,000 cases, recently overruled a British court’s attempt to deport radical Islamic cleric Abu Qatada to his home country, Jordan.
European Union
Iran Sanctions Grow Tighter, but What’s Next?
Afghanistan
All-woman Seabees team builds barracks, makes history
Afghanistan
An Uzbek struggle in name only
Afghanistan
France said it is not planning on withdrawing its forces this year after six of its troops have been killed by Afghan security personnel. The US denied it planned to partition Afghanistan or modify the political system.
Afghanistan
Violence spikes in key Afghan regions
Iraq
Insurgents killed eight Iraqis in a bombing in Sadr City, a policeman in Ramadi, and a civilian in Shirqat. Muqtada al Sadr threatened to attack US Embassy employees traveling in Baghdad.
Yemen
Security forces killed five al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in Zinjibar in Abyan province. President Saleh is seeking to go into exile in Oman.
Ansar al Jihad swears allegiance to al Qaeda’s emir
“We give you allegiance for obedience in good and bad, in difficulty and ease,” Ansar al Jihad told Ayman al Zawahiri in a statement released on the Internet.
Syria
The Arab League’s potent sting has stunned Damascus
Syria
Following Saudi Arabia’s lead, the rest of the Gulf Cooperation Council – Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and the UAE – withdrew their monitors from the Arab League mission. The GCC also called on the UN Security Council to take up the issue. Syria agreed to a one-month extension of the monitoring mission.
Libya
The town of Bani Walid, a former Qaddafi stronghold, rebelled, driving out the ruling National Transitional Council’s militia.
Syria
Fear reigns in Syria city at the center of the uprising
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Algerian security forces foiled a plot by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb to carry out suicide attacks on US and European ships in the Mediterranean from the coast of Algeria.
Egypt
The head of Egypt’s ruling military council said the country’s state of emergency decree would be lifted. The decree had been in place since 1981.
Egypt
In Egypt, Signs of Accord Between Military Council and Islamists
Afghanistan
US Has No Plan to Experiment New Political System in Afghanistan