Taliban
US fears reprisals after Afghan massacre in Kandahar
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Afghanistan
Afghan civilian deaths spark calls for US exit
Iran
Iran stands by Syria, blames US for unrest
US drone strike kills 3 AQAP fighters in Yemen
The US has carried out three airstrikes in Yemen from March 9 to March 11. Two took place in Jaar, a city controlled by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Afghanistan
Afghan civilian deaths spark calls for US exit
Pakistan
UK government sued for helping Pakistan drone strikes
Afghanistan
Pakistan’s ISI behind Indian mission blast in Afghanistan: UK intel ex-chief
Pakistan
Pakistan – Parliamentary watchdog: PAC poised to return with JUI-F man at the helm
Israel
Attacks in Gaza continued for a third day. Israeli airstrikes have killed 18 people, while Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel injured four. Israel has intercepted over 40, or 80%, of the rockets this weekend; one landed in a schoolyard. Islamic Jihad and the PRC are believed to have launched the rockets.
Al Qaeda
US air raids on Qaeda arms caches in Yemen: witnesses
Afghanistan
Kandahar braces for unrest after rogue US soldier kills Afghan civilians
Yemen
Two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters were killed in a premature detonation in Mudiyah in Abyan province. Security forces arrested four Shabaab fighters in Mudiyah.
Somalia
Shabaab claimed that 81 Ethiopian soldiers, including a colonel, were killed during yesterday’s fighting near Luuq. Shabaab also claimed the US Treasury is initiating the shutdown of its Twitter page.
Suicide bomber kills 15 at funeral in Peshawar
The target of the attack appears to have been the deputy speaker of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s provincial assembly, who has also raised an anti-Taliban militia.
Nigeria
A Boko Haram suicide bomber killed three civilians in a bombing outside of a church in Jos. The suicide bomber was stopped before he could enter the compound. Boko Haram claimed credit for the attack.
Al Qaeda
Al Shabaab’s British accent
Al Qaeda
My 130 days in the hands of al-Qaeda’s African “monsters”, by former hostage
Afghanistan
Our big mistake was to assume we had won, says British ambassador to Afghanistan
China
How spies used Facebook to steal NATO chiefs’ details
Afghanistan
Strategic pact with US excludes military bases: Karzai
US soldier kills 16 Afghan civilians in rampage
The Taliban are describing the killings as intentional “genocide” by US and Afghan troops.
United Kingdom
London resident Shabaaz Hussain was sentenced to five years and three months in prison after he admitted to raising funds for Shabaab. A counterterrorism official said the investigation into Hussain’s provision of funds to associates in Somalia “exposed Shabaaz Hussain’s co-ordination of a terrorist fundraising network.”
Pakistan
The military claimed it killed 33 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. Four civilians and two Pakistani troops were killed during clashes with the Lashkar-e-Islam in Khyber. The government banned the Ahle Sunnat awl Jamaat, formerly the Sipha-e-Sahaba, but no action has been taken against it.
Iran
Clash with Iran could see use of huge, new US bomb
Iraq
Iraq militia stone youths to death for “emo” style
Philippines
Authorities arrested two Abu Sayyaf militants in Basilan province, Serham Akalan and Idris Anni. Akalan was linked to the killing of 14 soldiers in Al-Barka, and Anni was involved in kidnapping workers in Lantawan in 2001. The military estimates that Abu Sayyaf members number fewer than 400.
Israel
Israel will strike anyone planning to attack its citizens: PM
Ansar al Sharia
Al-Qaeda makes ‘alarming’ advances in Yemen, UN envoy warns
Iraq
Exodus From North Signals Iraqi Christians’ Decline
Afghanistan
Afghan Anger and Security Changes Imperil Aid Groups