Monthly Archives: April 2012

Al Qaeda

| April 18, 2012

Pakistan has no connection with terrorist organisations: Sherry Rehman

Afghanistan

| April 18, 2012

Twenty-three Taliban fighters were killed during operations in Nangarhar, Logar, and Zabul. Nighty-eight insurgents reconciled with the government in Ghor and Badakhshan.

Yemen

| April 18, 2012

Officials said that six al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters were killed in airstrikes in Lawdar and four more were killed in Ja’ar. Pakistan has delayed the deportation of Osama bin Laden’s wives and children to Yemen.

Somalia

| April 18, 2012

A suicide bomber killed two Somali soldiers in Baidoa. Kenyan troops are reported to be advancing on Afmadow. Ethiopia said it would soon begin withdrawing its troops from Somalia.

Nigeria

| April 18, 2012

The US said that Boko Haram is planning to conduct attacks in Abuja, “including against hotels frequently visited by Westerners.” “Gunmen” killed a police inspector and a former customs official in Maiduguri.

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

| April 18, 2012

An Italian woman who was kidnapped by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in southern Algeria in February 2011 has been freed. No details have been released on the ransom paid by the Italian government.

Albania

| April 18, 2012

Macedonia: Mysterious ‘army’ threatens ‘liberation of Albanian lands’

Sweden

| April 18, 2012

Jonas Fikre, a US citizen born in Eritrea, claimed he was arrested, tortured, and interrogated in the United Arab Emirates at the request of the US. Fikre had attended a Portland mosque linked to terror activity in the US and Afghanistan. He moved to Sudan in 2009 and then to the UAE; since his release […]

United Kingdom

| April 18, 2012

Radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada filed an immediate appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against the deportation order issued yesterday by the UK, delaying his possible deportation. He contends the UK erred in deciding he would be treated fairly by Jordan if he were to be deported there.

China

| April 18, 2012

Several nations trying to penetrate US cyber-networks, says ex-FBI official

Russia

| April 17, 2012

Tajikistan says Russia is main partner, rejects foreign offers

Afghanistan

| April 17, 2012

Australia announced that it would withdraw its forces by the end of 2013. More than 140 schoolgirls were poisoned in Takhar province. The Taliban killed two Afghan soldiers in an IED attack in Nimroz. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Kandahar, Wardak, and Paktia.

North Korea

| April 17, 2012

North Korea said it was no longer bound by an agreement with the US for a moratorium on missile and nuclear tests. The US said it was looking at “all options” to prevent North Korea from conducting more nuclear weapon tests. North Korea’s new leader Kim Jong-un vowed to keep the ‘military first.’

Syria

| April 17, 2012

The six-day-old ceasefire broke down as government forces renewed military offensives across the country. More than 50 people were reported killed.

Yemen

| April 17, 2012

An al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula suicide bomber killed three people in Abyan. AQAP threatened to kill the Saudi diplomat who was kidnapped on March 28.