May 2012

Afghanistan

Lisa Lundquist | May 10, 2012

US Trying to Locate Captured Soldier, Pentagon Says

Afghanistan

Lisa Lundquist | May 10, 2012

Afghan women fade from White House focus as exit nears

Afghanistan

Lisa Lundquist | May 10, 2012

3rd phase of security transition to start on Sunday

Al Qaeda

Lisa Lundquist | May 10, 2012

Saudi agent in bomb plot held UK passport, source says

Double agents, although uncommon, have played a significant role in the post-9/11 fight against terrorism. The double agent who broke up a recent al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) plot is just the latest example.

Afghanistan

Lisa Lundquist | May 10, 2012

Obama, Rasmussen Agree Nato Summit Will Focus on Afghanistan

ICRC

Lisa Lundquist | May 10, 2012

Red Cross cuts operations across Pakistan following Khalil Dale murder

Syria

CJ Radin | May 10, 2012

‘Arms flowing’ between Lebanon and Syria

Osama bin Laden on the Muslim Brotherhood

Thomas Joscelyn | May 10, 2012

Just one week before his demise, Osama bin Laden wrote that al Qaeda members should avoid confrontation with the Muslim Brotherhood, which he said offers only “half solutions” but is migrating towards the “true Islam.”

Russia

Bill Roggio | May 10, 2012

The FSB said it broke up a plot to attack the 2014 Winter Olympics at the Black Sea city of Sochi. Security forces seized vast stores of weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, in Abkhazia, and said the plot was ordered by Caucasus Emirate leader Doku Umarov.

Afghanistan

Bill Roggio | May 10, 2012

A suicide assault team killed two policemen and three civilians in Paktika; the six suicide bombers were also killed. The Taliban killed eight Afghans in Helmand and four policemen in Badghis. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Uruzgan, Paktia, and Ghazni.

Syria

CJ Radin | May 10, 2012

In the largest such bombing to date, two powerful car bombs exploded in Damascus, killing 55 and wounding hundreds. The bombs went off in front of an intelligence headquarters compound. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Egypt

CJ Radin | May 10, 2012

Egypt seized a large quantity of heavy weapons from arms smugglers along the Libyan border. The smugglers claimed they were transporting the weapons to the Sinai Peninsula to create chaos before presidential elections.

Turkey

Lisa Lundquist | May 10, 2012

Pious Turks Push for Labor Justice

Yemen

Bill Roggio | May 10, 2012

US drones killed eight al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in a strike in Jaar. Yemeni aircraft killed five more AQAP fighters in Jaar, and 10 more in Zinjibar.

Suicide bombers kill 55 in Syrian capital

Bill Roggio | May 10, 2012

The coordinated suicide attack targeted a military intelligence center in Damascus; nearly 400 people were wounded in the complex assault.

Somalia

Bill Roggio | May 10, 2012

A Somali member of parliament claimed that 17 Shabaab fighters were killed during fighting in Hudur. Shabaab claimed its forces killed 10 Somali and Ethiopian troops in Bay and Bakool provinces.