Somalia
A suicide bomber attacked a security headquarters in Baidoa, killing one official. Shabaab claimed three Ethiopian soldiers and two Somali troops were killed in the suicide attack.
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Sudan
South Sudan said it would hold its position in a contested oil field it seized from Sudan. Sudan it would not be deterred from recapturing the oilfield.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Ansar al Din is said to be planning to name al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb leader Yahya About al Hammam as the emir of Timbuktu. Hammam was recently spotted in Timbuktu with two other top AQIM leaders.
Syria
Syrian Regime Bleeding Cash as Cease-fire is Threatened
Nigeria
Soldiers from the Joint Task Force killed one Boko Haram fighter and detained 13 others during raids in the northern city of Maiduguri. Troops also found IEDs and weapons.
United Kingdom
The government chose not to appeal the European Court of Human Rights ruling that blocked the deportation of Islamist cleric Abu Qatada to Jordan. Home Secretary May said the deportation process would be resumed, however, as Jordan has assured her he will be treated fairly there. Authorities arrested Qatada today, but appeals against his deportation […]
China
US and China engage in cyber war games
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia bans ’emos’ from universities
Afghanistan
Insurgent assaults expose weakness in Afghan intelligence
Afghanistan
Clinton to continue to press Pakistan on Haqqani network
Afghanistan
Karzai Says US Coalition Failed as Kabul Cleans Up
Afghanistan
Afghan leader challenges Taliban brothers over attacks
Afghanistan
US prepares for last major Afghan offensive
Azerbaijan
Global military spending flattens as US cuts back, Russia adds
Afghanistan
Afghan Assaults Signal Evolution of Haqqani Network
Afghanistan
No evidence yet that Kabul attacks were planned on Pakistan soil: US CJCS Dempsey
Pakistan
Pakistan – EDITORIAL: Bannu jailbreak
Pakistan
Pakistan – CID proposes bounties worth millions on notorious militants
Afghanistan
Thirty-Six Taliban fighters, eight Afghan security personnel, and three civilians were killed during the Taliban’s coordinated assault in Kabul and three provinces. US and Afghan officials said the Haqqani Network was behind the attack. ISAF troops killed an Afghan soldier after he opened fire on a convoy in Kandahar.
Yemen
US drones killed five al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in a strike in Azzan in Shabwa province. AQAP is in control of Shabwa. Forty inmates were wounded during riots at a prison in Hajjah.
US Predators strike again in southern Yemen
Five al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters were killed in an attack in Shabwa province. The strike is the fourth in Yemen this month.
Al Qaeda
Pakistani Prison Attack Raises Unsettling Questions
Somalia
Shabaab warned the British government that it would “be held accountable for the consequences of its actions” if Abu Qatada is deported to Jordan. Security officials said the government detained 50 Shabaab fighters in Mogadishu.
Nigeria
Boko Haram fighters killed two people in a shooting in Maiduguri and wounded three more in an IED attack in Kano. Security forces arrested 50 foreign nationals from Niger, Chad, and Mali after Boko Haram threatened the government.
Canada
Canada – Border staff cuts called direct attack on national security l
United Kingdom
The Labour party suspended life peer Lord Ahmed for allegedly saying he would offer a bounty on President Obama and former President George W. Bush in retaliation for the US bounty on Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed. Shabaab echoed al Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq in warning Britain not to deport Abu Qatada to […]
United States
The trial of Adis Medunjanin, a co-conspirator with Najibullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay in a 2009 plot to bomb New York City’s subways, opened today. All three had gone to Pakistan for jihad in Afghanistan, but were told by two senior al Qaeda operatives to return to New York and conduct operations there. Medunjanin was […]
Haqqani Network blamed for coordinated attacks in Afghanistan
Afghan officials said a Haqqani Network operative captured in Nangarhar admitted that his group was behind yesterday’s suicide assaults in four provinces.
Afghanistan
Intel is Never a Guarantee: NATO Responds to Karzai
Morocco
New Arab order: In Morocco, uproar over marriage law tests Islamist government