Afghanistan
Germany Concerned About Afghan Troop Numbers
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Afghanistan
NATO mistakes strengthen Taliban: Karzai
Iran
Israel calls for tougher Iran sanctions
Al Baraa Ibn Malik Martyrdom Brigade forms in Syria
The group said it would use suicide attacks to kill Syrian security forces.
Al Qaeda
Fears of terror strike in heart of Somali capital after car bomb explodes
Iran
Iran risks nuclear Cold War
Mali
Mali: UN warning over refugees fleeing Tuareg rebellion
Al Qaeda ‘operates in Afghanistan under the flag of the Islamic Emirate’: Taliban spokesman
Speaking of al Qaeda, Afghan Taliban spokesman Abdullah Wazir said: “They are an example of discipline and accuracy in the execution of missions and operations entrusted to them by the Military Command of the Islamic Emirate.”
Iran
Thai police pursue fifth bomb suspect [Updated]
Indonesia
Indonesia: Mob attacks mosque
Haqqani Network
Pakistan – Parachinar bombing exposes TTI-TTP peace accord
Afghanistan
Pakistan – Torkham gate closure irks traders, labourers
Tunisia
Tunisia Islamists Test Ideas Decades in the Making
Afghanistan
Aghan army resorts to tough measures to combat Taliban infiltration
United States
Amine El Khalifi, a 29-year-old Moroccan, was arrested near the US Capitol today and charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. An illegal alien since 1999, he had been watched by the FBI for some time as he planned a suicide attack with undercover agents whom he thought were members of al […]
Attempted suicide attack on US Capitol thwarted by FBI
Amine El Khalifi believed he was working with two al Qaeda operatives to carry out a suicide assault on the Capitol Building, but was in fact plotting with two undercover FBI agents.
Pakistan
A Taliban suicide bomber killed 21 Shia at a market in Kurram. Five Taliban fighters and three soldiers were killed during fighting in Khyber.
Germany
Real Madrid’s Sami Khedira and girlfriend Lena Gercke’s naked photo lands journalists in prison
Al Qaeda
Theresa May to visit Jordan for Abu Qatada deportation talks
Iran
Pakistan won’t support US attack on Iran: Zardari
Afghanistan
Hamid Karzai confronts Pakistan leadership
India
India – Anti-terror hub: Now, eight CMs take on UPA, Congress downplays threat
Iraq
Syrian Conflict Spills to Neighbors
Al Qaeda
New Attacks Threaten Nigeria’s Future
Al Qaeda
Pakistan: Security forces open fire on crowd protesting suicide bomb in Parachinar
Egypt
Muslim Brotherhood Threatens to Review Peace Treaty With Israel
Afghanistan
Afghan Girls Are Penalized for Elders’ Misdeeds
Colombia
Exclusive: Colombia revamps war plan against guerrillas
Yemen
Security forces captured 21 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters who were involved in the murder of five Yemenis in Baydah. President Saleh has diplomatic immunity in the US and cannot be compelled to testify at the trial of an al Qaeda operative involved in the bombing of the USS Cole.
Somalia
The Kenyan military killed four Shabaab fighters after being ambushed in Hawina. Shabaab shut down Koran classes in Jowhar and said they’d train the students themselves.