Pakistan
Pakistan – Major operation against terrorists in Gilgit-Baltistan on the cards
Monthly Archives: March 2012
India
Pakistan – New ISI chief not related to Bollywood star: ISPR
Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
US troops gone, al Qaeda makes Iraq peace elusive
Yemen
At least 38 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters and commanders are reported to have been killed in airstrikes in Jaar and Al Baydah. Abdulwahhab al Homaiqani, the commander for Al Baydah, is said to have been killed.
Somalia
Heavy fighting was reported after Shabaab attacked Ethiopian forces in the village of Yurkut near Luuq. Shabaab claimed it killed 73 Ethiopian soldiers and lost five fighters. Somali officials claimed 48 Shabaab fighters were killed. Ethiopia did not disclose casualties.
Kenya
Four people were killed and 42 were wounded in a grenade attack at a bus station in Nairobi. A Shabaab fighter is said to have been arrested and confessed to carrying out the attack.
Syria
Syria’s Bashar al-Assad firmly in control, US intelligence officials say
Dozens of AQAP fighters killed in airstrikes in southern Yemen
US drones are suspected of conducting the strikes in Al Baydah and Jaar, but the reports are unconfirmed.
Nigeria
A Boko Haram spokesman denied that his group was responsible for the kidnapping and murder of a British and an Italian hostage during a failed raid late last week. More than 100 Nigerian and British soldiers and two helicopters were used during the raid in Sokoto.
Al Qaeda eulogizes senior commander killed in recent drone strike
Ustad Ahmad Farooq, al Qaeda’s spokesman for Pakistan, confirmed that Badr Mansoor was killed in a drone strike on Feb. 2012. Farooq accused the Pakistani military and government of supporting the US’s drone campaign.
Afghanistan
US and Afghanistan Agree on Detainee Transfer
Ansar al Sharia
Qaeda Media Arm Steps Up Local Coverage in Yemen
Afghanistan
Concerns Remain as Switch to Afghan Security Nears
Afghanistan
Taliban Guantanamo detainees agree to Qatar transfer: official
Afghanistan
Exclusive: Afghan officials visit Guantanamo in peace bid
India
Pakistani Hindus seek safety in India
Pakistan
US helps train Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police
Afghanistan
Pakistan’s Iran pipeline plan further strains ties with US
Afghanistan
Afghans Are Hindering Smuggling Inquiry, 2 Americans Say
Pakistan
US State Dept calls Pakistani Taliban threats to Shad Begum ‘out of step’
Pakistan
Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat banned in Pakistan: Report
Pakistan
US Predators killed 13 “militants” in a strike in South Waziristan. The Taliban killed seven Pakistani soldiers in North Waziristan and a tribal militia leader in Arakzai, and threatened the military and government if Osama bin Laden’s widows are not freed from prison. Prime Minister Gilani named the new chief of the ISI.
IDF kills head of Popular Resistance Committee in Gaza strike
A decade of Israeli airstrikes against Palestinian terror groups has failed to lead to their collapse.
Iran
Analysis: Eyeing Iran, Israel focuses on the day after
Pakistan
Pakistani School Takes Hands-Off Approach To Combating Extremism
Jordan
US, Jordan Eye Syria Chemical-Weapons Stocks
Syria
Syria Army Defections Surge
Ennahda
Culture war brews between new Islamist movement and secularists in post-revolution Tunisia
Inter-Services Intelligence Agency
Pakistan names new spymaster
Afghanistan
The US agreed to transfer control of the Parwan Detention Facility to the Afghan government in six months. The Taliban killed a civilian in a bombing at a Sufi shrine in Kandahar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Helmand, Khost, Paktia, Wardak, and Laghman.