Israel
Iranians were ‘plotting to attack’ Israeli diplomats in Bangkok
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Algeria
Algeria seizes missiles smuggled from Libya
Hezbollah
Senior Israeli official says Iran, Hezbollah are planning new anti-Israel attacks
Syria
Opposition protests began in Damascus; government security forces fired on the crowd, and security forces spread out across the city to prevent further protests. China urged an end to the violence. Egypt recalled its ambassador.
US announces a ‘surge’ of military trainers to Afghanistan
The US took another step in implementing its new Afghan strategy. Starting this spring, the Army will send a large contingent of military trainers to Afghanistan.
Somalia
Shabaab warned Muslims “to stay away from the enemy bases in order to avoid being unintentional victims” of a newly announced terror campaign in Mogadishu. Somalia’s ambassador to Yemen claimed that more than 500 Shabaab fighters fled Somalia to join al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Nigeria
Police captured nine prisoners who escaped during a Boko Haram jailbreak last week. One person was seriously wounded in a car bombing in Suleja.
Egypt
Sweden to review CIA rendition case
Suicide bomber kills 19 outside Baghdad police academy
Al Qaeda in Iraq still has the capacity to plan, organize, and execute suicide operations in the war-torn country.
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Pakistan – Despite ban, JuD, ASWJ chiefs reach Rawalpindi for rally
Afghanistan
Afghan peace: Taliban willing to talk are killed or arrested, says Karzai
Afghanistan
Posing as Afghan senator, man disappears with sensitive information
Al Qaeda
Saudi sets terms for Kabul-Taliban mediation
Afghanistan
Afghan General Sounds Alarm On US Plan To Cut Local Security Forces
Afghanistan
Imposters Arise in Afghanistan’s Struggle With Taliban
Iran
Thailand to change visa laws after Iranian spies breach
Shabaab
Shabaab suicide bombers to launch series of attacks in time with David Cameron conference
Algeria
Four civilians were killed and 10 more were wounded, some critically, in an IED attack on a road outside of Algiers. Security forces seized a large weapons cache near In Amenas which included “shoulder fired missiles” thought to have been smuggled from Lybia.
Somalia
Somalia leaders reach agreement on re-shaping politics
Afghanistan
Stumbling Afghan peace talks need re-think: advisor
Russia
Seventeen Russian soldiers were killed in an ambush along the border of Chechnya and Dagestan by fighters from the Islamic Caucasus Emirate. Seven ICE fighters were also killed. Kavkaz Center said that 21 Russian and five ICE fighters were killed, and the fate of Emir Makharbi is still unknown.
Pakistan
Thirty-four Taliban fighters, four soldiers, and four militiamen were killed during fighting in Khyber and Arakzai. The death toll in Friday’s suicide attack in Kurram has risen to 39. Police said they arrested the “mastermind” of the March 2011 suicide attack on the ISI headquarters in Faisalabad.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed three Taliban fighters and captured eight more in Kandahar, Helmand, Nangarhar, and Kunar. The Afghan military ordered its troops to move their families out of Pakistan.
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters killed 10 Yemeni soldiers in Al Koud. The military killed three AQAP fighters in Zinjibar. Security forces detained five “terrorists” who were planning to bomb polling centers in Aden. The military is deploying more than 100,000 security personnel to provide security for the upcoming election.
Somalia
Shabaab claimed credit for Friday’s car bombing in a police compound; the terror group said the bombing “is part of a new series of attacks that will specifically target the Crusaders & TFG bases in the capital.” Shabaab has deployed hundreds of fighters to the outskirts of Mogadishu.
Kenya
A police spokesman said that Shabaab is responsible for more than 30 murders in towns and villages along the Somali border. The police also said dozens of Kenyans have been recruited and trained to fight in Shabaab.
Nigeria
Boko Haram claimed credit for a prison break in Kogi that freed 119 inmates and killed one guard. Boko Haram fighters raided an immigration office in Damaturu.
Lebanon
A court in Lebanon, which has no extradition treaty with the US, convicted Assem Hammoud of involvement in a 2006 al Qaeda plot to bomb Hudson River commuter tunnels. He has already served the two-year sentence he received, while awaiting trial. Two accomplices, a Syrian and another Lebanese, were sentenced in absentia.
Al Qaeda
Bin Laden wanted to marry ‘truly Islamic’ Whitney Houston: Report
Afghanistan
Talks With Taliban Without Afghan Input Would Fail, Former Spy Chief Says