Taliban
Iran, Pakistan out to weaken Afghanistan, MPs told
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Afghanistan
Financing Afghan Forces Costs Less Than Maintaining Foreign Army: Karzai
Guantanamo
House approves $642.5 billion defense bill
Iran
UN Seeks Iran Nuclear Deal Before Baghdad Talks
Afghanistan
General Allen plays down urgency of Pakistan deal
Afghanistan
NATO leaders map strategy for Afghanistan exit
Afghanistan
A glimpse of life after Nato in Afghanistan’s wild east
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed 13 people in an attack in Khost. Special operations forces captured the Taliban’s liaison to the Peshawar Shura during a raid in Kunduz. The NDS arrested three members of the Mullah Dadullah Front in Kabul and two suicide bombers in Kandahar.
Iraq
Insurgents killed a police captain, his wife, and three young children, in an attack at his home in Baghdad. The government is planning on building a $1 billion power plant in Anbar province.
Yemen
Thirty al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters and 13 Yemeni soldiers were killed during fighting outside of Jaar. The governor of Abyan claimed that Jaar would be liberated from AQAP within days and that Lawdar is now free of AQAP influence.
Somalia
Eight people were killed in two bombings in the Bakara market in Mogadishu. Kenyan and Somali troops clashed with Shabaab in Taabta.
Ethiopia
The government will prosecute 11 people for forming a Shabaab cell and plotting to conduct attacks inside the country. A Kenyan national is among those charged.
Nigeria
Security forces found a Boko Haram bomb factory in Jos. The US and Nigeria will discuss Boko Haram, and the Justice Department has begun pressing for Boko Haram to be labeled a foreign terrorist organization.
China
China strengthens military, Pentagon report says
US drone strike kills 2 AQAP fighters in central Yemen
A Yemeni and a Somali were reported killed in yesterday’s strike in Baydah province.
ISAF captures Taliban liaison to Peshawar Shura
The Taliban commander is linked to Dost Mohammed, the shadow governor of Nuristan, and has helped “foreign fighters and suicide bombers” conduct attacks in the Afghan north.
Suicide bomber kills 9 in Syria
The suicide attack targeted an intelligence headquarters in Deir al-Zor.
Mullah Dadullah Front: a not-so-new Afghan Taliban terror group
The al Qaeda-linked Taliban subgroup has been conducting assassinations and suicide assaults in the Afghan south for years.
Afghanistan
Special Report: Helmand deaths prompt security rethink
Afghanistan
Hopes fading for swift US, Pakistan deal on Afghan supply routes
Al Qaeda
Judge might split Guantanamo trial of 9/11 suspects
Afghanistan
Who Wants To Fund Afghan Security?
Afghanistan
Lessons Learned in Afghan School Closures
Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, New Insurgent Group Emerges
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Insurgent Violence Escalates in South Despite Country-Wide Decrease: Reports
Al Qaeda
Yemen says air strikes, troops kills seven militants
United Arab Emirates
Bahrain, Qatar, UAE urge citizens to stay away from Lebanon
Israel
Islamist calls to strengthen Jordan to support Palestinians
France
President Hollande said France would pull its troops out of Afghanistan at the end of 2012, two years ahead of schedule. He said a “residual” number of troops would stay to provide training and help return equipment.
Indonesia
A crowd of 600 Muslims threw plastic bags filled with “urine and dirty water” at 100 Christians who were gathering at a church in Bekasi, a Jakarta suburb. Leaders of the Islamic Defenders Front have been seeking to intimidate Christians in the area.