Afghanistan
Pak army has built posts on Afghan soil: Afghan officials
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Afghanistan
After long closure, NATO supplies enter Afghanistan from Pakistan
Ansar al Sharia
Libya’s first post-Gaddafi vote to test Islamists
Syria
Turkish firefighters battle blazes ‘deliberately started’ on Syria border
Al Qaeda
Iraq says al Qaeda members crossing into Syria
United Kingdom
Antiterrorism police arrested six people, including three brothers from Stratford, the site of the Olympic Games. All six, including a woman and a British convert to Islam, are suspected of links to an al Qaeda plot to attack targets in Britain. Two Muslim men arrested last week on suspicion of terrorism were released.
Afghan police arrest 8 linked to poison attacks against schools in northern Afghanistan
Afghan officials announced the arrest of eight suspects connected to the rash of school poison attacks in Sar-i-Pul province. Well over a dozen suspected poison attacks against girls’ schools this year have sickened over 2,000 students in the country.
Afghanistan
An Afghan official said three Polish troops were killed in Ghazni; ISAF did not report the attack. An Afghan policeman wounded five ISAF soldiers in Wardak. The NDS foiled three suicide bombings and said the Taliban, the Haqqani Network, and Pakistan’s ISI are behind the recent spate of school poisonings.
Iraq
Insurgents killed eight people in a bombing in Zubaidiyah and three more in assassinations in Baghdad. Gunmen killed the head of a rapid reaction regiment during a raid in Baghdad.
United States
Homeland security cites sharp rise in cyber attacks
Afghanistan
Pakistan opposes prolonged US presence in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Pakistan – PTI slams govt for reopening NATO supply route
Syria
Journalist behind the lines in Syria sees no end to war
Syria
Opposition political groups meeting in Cairo agreed to a transition plan and to support the Free Syrian Army, but failed to form a unified representative body. The Al Nusra Front claimed responsibility for bombing a pro-government TV station. Hezbollah and Iran would fight alongside the Assad regime if it was attacked by foreign forces.
Afghanistan
Pakistan apology deal incidental to real problem of its support for terrorists
Yemen
The Yemeni military said it killed and wounded more than 20 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in airstrikes in Shabwa province. Three soldiers and two civilians were killed in an IED attack in Lahj.
Afghanistan
Can turning Taliban foot soldiers turn the Afghan war?
Kenya
The head of Kenya’s Muslims denounced attacks on Christian churches in Garissa as “terrorism” and said Muslim youth would help provide security for churches in Garissa and elsewhere. The government canceled an oil deal with Iran shortly after being warned by the US about possible sanctions.
Muslim Brotherhood
Islamists suspected in Egyptian student’s murder
‘We will carry attacks on NATO supplies with a new spirit,’ says Pakistani Taliban spokesman
Taliban spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan called the government’s closure of the supply lines an orchestrated “drama” and challenged the so-called Defense of Pakistan alliance to take action.
Indonesia
Indonesia: More likely to be implicated in Koran scandal
Afghanistan
Afghan air force hobbled by safety and maintenance problems
Afghanistan
Afghan Local Police group deserts to Taliban-led insurgents
Iran
Iran says can destroy US bases minutes after attack
Nigeria
Boko Haram fighters killed nine construction workers during an attack on a camp in Maiduguri. A captured spokesman for Boko Haram accused a senator of funding the terror group.
Sweden
Ahmed Agiza, who was arrested in Sweden in 2001 and handed over by the CIA to Egypt along with fellow Egyptian Mohammed Alzery, has been granted permanent residency in Sweden. In earlier years, Agiza was a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and had worked closely with Ayman al Zawahiri.
Al Nusrah Front claims series of suicide attacks, ambushes in Syria
The al Qaeda-linked terror group claimed credit for four suicide attacks, an assault on a Syrian TV station, and dozens of attacks on security forces and the “ghosts,” President Assad’s private militia.
Taliban
Afghanistan accuses Pakistan army of rocket attacks
Indian Mujahideen
Abu Hamza silent on ISI role in Mumbai attacks
Difa-e-Pakistan
Pakistan – Taliban threaten attacks on NATO supplies