Afghanistan
The Taliban killed three ISAF soldiers in the south, and killed four policemen and captured 16 more in Badakhshah. An Afghan soldier killed an ISAF soldier in the south. ISAF captured an IMU facilitator in Logar.
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Al Qaeda
Pakistan deports bin Laden’s family to Saudi Arabia
Taliban website hacked for 3rd time in a year
The Taliban’s leading website has been ‘infiltrated’ for the third time in less than a year by unknown cyber-assailants. The Taliban have yet to comment on the disruption to their El Emara website.
Chechnya
Chechen Leaders Slam Proposed Creation Of Shari’a Courts
Iraq
Insurgents killed 10 Iraqis in a bombing at a cafe in a village outside of Baqubah. An Iraqi soldier was killed in an IED attack in Mosul.
Yemen
Security forces detained eight al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in Lahj. Ibrahim Hassan al Asiri, a senior AQAP bomb maker, is believed to be plotting attacks against the US.
Syria
A massive explosion killed 70 in Hama. Activists blamed the government while the government blamed a ‘terrorist’ bomb factory. Activists called for an emergency UN meeting over the attack.
Somalia
Six people were killed during clashes between Shabaab and Ahlu Sunna Wal Jama’a in El Bur. Ethiopian troops arrested two members of parliament in Baidoa.
Hamas
Secret Gaza ballot starts Hamas leadership vote
Nigeria
The editor of ThisDay confirmed that a suicide bomber drove a jeep into the newspaper’s office in Abuja, killing two people. There more people were killed in a bombing at the newspaper’s office in Kaduna.
Sweden
Sweden – ‘No excuse’ for anti-Semitism: Obama envoy
Al Qaeda
Terror: US staff banned from restaurants during anniversary of Bin Laden killing
Shabaab has not denied rumors of Omar Hammami’s death
Somalimemo published an article saying that an American military commander for Shabaab was alive, but the report was based on a source, not an official Shabaab press release.
US Special Forces soldier killed by Afghan commando
So far this year, 17 ISAF soldiers have been killed by their Afghan counterparts.
Al Qaeda
Outlook for the Islamists, country by country
ISAF captures IMU facilitator in Wardak province
The raid took place in the Sayyidabad district, where on Aug. 6, 2011 the Taliban shot down a US Army Chinook helicopter and killed 28 US and Afghan special operations forces, including 17 Navy SEALs.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Low-key Mujahedeen’s Victory Day event: MoD
Pakistan
Pakistan says US not listening: drone strikes must stop
North Korea
North Korea’s new missiles ‘are fakes’
United States
TSA security screeners ‘ran drug-ring’
Pakistan
Pakistan PM convicted of contempt, receives no jail time
Al Qaeda
US Relaxes Drone Rules
Pakistan
Aid to Pakistan: $2.6 billion spent, little ability to show it
Al Qaeda
Pakistan – The kidnapping of a comedian
Pakistan
Pakistan – Lal Masjid case
Egypt
Egypt Islamic body backs Brotherhood candidate
Afghanistan
Ahmadinejad Endorses Afghanistan-Iran Prisoner Transfer Deal
North Korea
China warned North Korea not to carry out another nuclear weapons test. North Korea claimed it had weapons capable of defeating the US.
Syria
Syria running out of cash as sanctions take toll, but Assad avoids economic pain
Afghanistan
Security forces killed 11 Pakistani and Arab fighters during a clearing operation in Ghazni, and killed and captured several Taliban commander and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Khost, and Logar. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in an IED attack in the south.