Pakistan
Pakistan – Twin cities put on high alert
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Al Qaeda
ISI chief rules out handing over Dr Shakeel Afridi to US
Lashkar-e-Taiba leader’s son added to US terror list
Talha Saeed is wanted by the Indian government for running terror camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. He also instructed a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative to upload terrorist propaganda.
Afghanistan
The Taliban beheaded a boy in Kandahar; another girl was found beheaded in Kapisa. The Taliban killed two policemen in an IED attack in Herat and executed five civilians in Ghazni. Security forces killed two Taliban fighters and detained several others in Paktia, Logar, and Ghazni.
Afghanistan
Afghan commanders show new defiance in dealings with Americans
Afghanistan
Obama administration divided over designating Haqqani network as terrorist group
Afghanistan
Anti-Taliban public uprising started in Logar province
Egypt
Iran urges nonaligned nations role in Syria
Syria
Fighters from the rebel army’s Brigade of Free Syrians launched an offensive in Aleppo, including attacks against an artillery training school, an intelligence compound, and a major army checkpoint. The Syrian National Council said it is expanding to include more activist groups.
Muslim Brotherhood
Aleppo No Longer A Safe Haven For Syrian-Born Armenians
Caucasus
Assassination Of Daghestan’s Sufi Spiritual Leader Raises Specter Of New Violence
Indonesia
Indonesia: Govt ‘guarantees’ safety of Shias
Yemen
US drones killed eight al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in an airstrike on a vehicle in Hadramout province. Four out of the last five drone strikes have taken place in the eastern province.
US drones strike again in Yemen, kill 8 AQAP fighters
Four of the last five drone strikes have taken place in the eastern province of Hadramout.
Somalia
Three people were killed in a bombing at a bus station in Mogadishu. “Gunmen” killed two people in Gelinsor. Shabaab claimed it overran a Kenyan base in Afmadow and shot down a helicopter.
Tunisia
Tunisian Amazighs face Islamist harassment
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Conditions in northern Mali portend disaster
Pakistan
Pakistan blasphemy case: ‘Muslims could take law into their own hands’
Afghanistan
SEALs Battle for Hearts, Minds and Speedy Paychecks
Egypt
At border with Egypt, Hamas sees opportunity
Canada
Canada orders US soldier who fled war deported
Afghanistan
Holder Rules Out Prosecutions in CIA Interrogations
Afghanistan
Taliban fighters changing sides in Herat
Nigeria
Personal records and data for over 60 members of Nigeria’s domestic intelligence agency were posted on the Internet. Boko Haram mentioned the data in a recent threat. The al Qaeda-linked group has already killed over 660 people in Nigeria this year.
Afghan intelligence thwarts terror plots in Kabul, Logar, and Parwan
Intelligence operatives disrupted four terror plots in the past two days and captured nine suspected Taliban insurgents along with homemade explosives believed to have been smuggled into Kabul from Pakistan.
Pakistan
Police again arrested Lashkar-e-Jhangvi leader Malik Ishaq. The military claimed that two Taliban commanders and 16 fighters were killed during clashes in Bajaur.
Afghanistan
An Afghan soldier killed three Australian troops in Uruzgan; two more Australian soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash. Four civilians were killed in a mortar attack in Logar. The man thought to be the new chief of the NDS has been accused of torture.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Call to remove hate material from textbooks
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan Bans Foreign Military Bases
Iran
The UN’s nuclear watchdog agency said that Iran has more than doubled the nuclear enrichment capacity of its underground site at Fordow in the past four months. The IAEA also noted suspected recent “sanitisation efforts” at the Parchin military complex.