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Uzbekistan’s ‘House Of Torture’
Monthly Archives: August 2012
India
India – Videos doctored in Pakistan sparked NE exodus: Government
Pakistan
Pakistan – Police remove Quranic verses from Ahmadi graves to ‘avert clashes’
Pakistan
Pakistan – Mentally challenged child jailed for ‘blasphemy’
Egypt
Egypt president to visit Iran, a first in decades
Pakistan
Pakistan – ‘Air base attackers trained in Waziristan’
Afghanistan
Fifty-two insurgents, including 12 commanders, were killed during an ISAF airstrike in Kunar province. The Taliban killed four civilians in an IED attack in Herat.
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula killed 14 soldiers in a coordinated attack on an intelligence headquarters in Aden. Sixty-two Yemeni soldiers will be prosecuted for participating in an attack on the Defense Ministry.
AQAP attacks intelligence headquarters in Aden
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula killed at least 14 soldiers in an attack at an intelligence headquarters; fighters launched RPGs and detonated a car bomb.
Tunisia
Ten Salafist prisoners renounced al Qaeda and its ideology in a bid to be paroled. One of the men, Didi Ould Bezeid, had been sentenced to 12 years in prison for murdering American aid worker Christopher Leggett.
Algeria
Security forces arrested two suspected al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb operatives at the Libyan border. The fighters, a Libyan and an Algerian, were carrying weapons and an “explosive belt” and had Afghan identity papers.
Afghanistan
Iranian Currency Flows Into Afghanistan Markets
Bangladesh
Panic Radiates From Indian State of Assam
Afghanistan
Why Afghanistan’s past is being ‘rewritten’
US drones kill 6 ‘militants’ in Pakistan’s Shawal Valley
The Shawal Valley has been the focus of recent drone strikes in Pakistan. The strikes in Pakistan have been on the decline the past three months; the US has launched only eight since June 4.
Turkish fighters in the Islamic Jihad Union
Several Turks affiliated with the IJU have been killed while waging jihad in Afghanistan, and others have been arrested in foiled plots to carry out attacks against European and US targets in Europe.
Pakistan
Six security personnel were killed in an IED attack in Quetta. One person was killed in a bombing in Karachi. Security forces detained 10 Taliban fighters thought to be involved in the attack on Kamra Air Force Base.
Afghanistan
An Afghan policeman killed two US soldiers in Farah; an Afghan soldier wounded two US soldiers in Kandahar. The Taliban killed a British soldier in Helmand.
Iraq
More than 90 Iraqis were killed yesterday in a spate of bombings and shootings across the country. Security forces killed three suicide bombers in Anbar. More than one million Iraqis signed a petition calling for the death penalty.
Syria
Securing Syria chemical weapons may take tens of thousands of troops
Syria
Heavy fighting continued in Damascus and Aleppo. The UN reported a sharp rise in the number of refugees. More than 60 bodies were found in a landfill in a suburb of Damascus.
AQAP rebuilding in Jaar?
A Yemeni official cited in an account by the Yemen Times earlier this month said that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is rebuilding its presence in Jaar after losing control of the city.
Afghanistan
An Afghan police official claimed that an ISAF airstrike killed more than 50 Taliban fighters, including 13 local commanders. Four people were killed in a bombing at a mosque in Herat. A former member of parliament was assassinated in Faryab.
Israel
Hezbollah’s leader warned Israel not to attack Lebanon or Iran, saying it could kill “tens of thousands” of Israelis with precision missiles. Iran’s President Ahmadinejad said there was no place for Israel in a future Middle East.
Lebanon
Lebanon breaks with past in Syrian bomb probe
Lebanon
Sectarian tensions escalated further between Sunnis and Shiites as kidnappings continued. The US and Turkey joined Gulf states in urging their citizens to stay away from the country.
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DoD details general’s lavish travel, spending
Somalia
The Kenyan Defense Forces claimed to have killed 73 Shabaab fighters in Fafadun; two Kenyan troops were also killed. African Union and Somali forces reportedly have launched the offensive to retake Kismayo from Shabaab. Uganda said it would send more helicopters to Somalia despite the loss of three the other day.
Algeria
Security forces said they broke up a plot to attack the Cherchell Joint Military Academy. Police arrested a 16-year-old suspect who said he was tasked by Houmat Al Daawa, a Salafist group, to scout for a suicide attack.
Nigeria
Police arrested a governor’s aide and four other people suspected of being involved in a church massacre in Kogi state. One person was wounded in an IED attack in Jos.