Monthly Archives: July 2012

Pakistan

| July 15, 2012

Pakistan – Parliamentary panel to take up forced conversion issue today

Afghanistan

| July 15, 2012

Security forces killed 15 Taliban fighters during operations nationwide. The Taliban killed two security guards in Herat. The minister of higher education and two members of parliament survived an IED attack in Baghlan.

Yemen

| July 15, 2012

An al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operative killed himself in a premature detonation at his workshop in Sana’a. A French aid worker who was kidnapped three months ago was freed.

Somalia

| July 15, 2012

One person was killed in an IED attack in Mogadishu. Security forces detained 89 suspected Shabaab fighters in Mogadishu.

Mali

| July 15, 2012

The Tuareg rebel group MNLA has dropped its bid for a separate state in the north. A spokesman for the al Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine says his group controls the three regions of the north. About 400 fighters from the Gandakoy tribal militia joined Ansar Dine. Islamists in Goundam detained and whipped some 90 protesters.

Cyprus

| July 15, 2012

A Swedish man of Lebanese origin was arrested last week in Limossal. He had been taking photographs of Israeli interests, and possessed notes about Israeli aircraft. He is suspected of planning a terrorist attack against Israeli interests in Cyprus.

United States

| July 14, 2012

Parviz Khaki, an Iranian citizen, and Zongcheng Yi, a resident of China, were indicted on conspiracy charges for attempting to provide Iran with US materials for gas centrifuges used in enriching uranium. Yi remains at large but Khaki was detained in the Philippines in May.

Pakistan

| July 14, 2012

In Pakistan, vigilante attacks on the rise against accused blasphemers

ICRC

| July 14, 2012

Red Cross ruling raises questions of Syrian war crimes

Pakistan

| July 14, 2012

The Taliban killed two soldiers in an ambush in South Waziristan. The leader of a lashkar was killed in an IED attack in Khyber.

Afghanistan

| July 14, 2012

A suicide bomber killed a prominent Afghan member of parliament, the western zone police commander, a provincial intelligence chief, and several senior Afghan officials, in an attack at a wedding in Samangan. The Taliban killed a district governor in Herat and an ISAF soldier in the east.

Iraq

| July 14, 2012

Insurgents killed five security personnel in an attack on a checkpoint in Rashidiyah. Insurgents also killed two policemen and two civilians in an attack on a checkpoint in Hammam al Alil.