Germany
Survey: Turks in Germany Willing to Integrate but More Religious
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, Pakistani Governments Hide Meeting with Mullah Bradar
Niger
Security officials say militants from the al Qaeda-linked Boko Haram in Nigeria are transitting through Niger on their way to fight with Ansar Dine in Mali. Officials are concerned about the threat of radical Islam as Niger suffers increasing pressure from regional turmoil. US special forces are helping train Nigerien troops.
Syria
Syria’s growing urban-rural rift
Al Qaeda
Niger struggles against militant Islam
Iran
US Reliance on Saudi Oil Is Growing Again
Egypt
In Paper, Chief of Egypt Army Criticized US
Ahrar al Sham
British convert to Islam vows to fight to the death on Syrian rebel front line
Egypt
Organisers of first Syria protest – where are they now?
Iran
Iran’s Ahmadinejad says no place for Israel in new Middle East
2 US soldiers killed in latest green-on-blue attacks in Afghanistan
So far this year, green-on-blue attacks have caused 13 percent of the ISAF deaths. Nine ISAF soldiers have been killed by Afghan forces in the past 11 days.
Jihadist identifies Tunisian fighter killed in recent US drone strike in Yemen
Abu Hafs al Tunisi was among five foreign fighters killed in the Aug. 8 strike in Al Baydah province. He was imprisoned in Tunisia before joining al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula sometime after the Tunisian uprising last year.
Thailand
In a policy change, the government is holding peace talks with Muslim separatists. Government forces have been trying to suppress a Muslim insurgency in the southern provinces of Pattani, Narathiwat, and Yala since 2004.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Peshawar High Court seeks report on FATA drone losses
Al Qaeda
Syria rebels ‘to turn to Qaeda if West fails them’
Lebanon
Syria Sends Shocks Through Lebanon, Mideast
Pakistan
Six Taliban fighters were killed in a suicide assault on the Kamra Air Force Base in Punjab; one Pakistani soldier was also killed. “Gunmen” dragged 20 Shiites off a bus in Giglit and executed them.
Afghanistan
Thirty-one Taliban fighters, seven Afghan soldiers, and an NDS agent were killed in clashes throughout the country. Seven Western soldiers, three Afghan troops, and an interpreter were killed in a helicopter crash in Kandahar. ISAF killed an IMU leader and “multiple insurgents” in an airstrike in Takhar.
Mullah Omar addresses green-on-blue attacks
The Taliban created the “Call and Guidance, Luring and Integration” department to encourage defections by Afghan forces and government officials.
Iraq
Insurgents killed 21 Iraqis, including six policemen, in a series of bombings and armed attacks in Baghdad, Baqubah, Fallujah, and Kirkuk. Security forces arrested seven al Qaeda leaders in Anbar province.
Lebanon
Syrian tensions erupted in Lebanon. A Lebanese Shia group kidnapped more than 20 Sunnis in Beirut in retaliation for the kidnapping of one of its members by the Free Syrian Army in Syria. Gulf states urged citizens to leave Lebanon as kidnappings and violence between Shia and Sunnis spread across the country.
Egypt
An Islamic militant group warned Egypt not to send its army into Sinai to hunt jihadists. Egypt’s new second-in-command of the military has said US troops should leave the Middle East.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Women rally for reopening of girls’ schools
Al Qaeda
Experts: Operation Against Pakistani Taliban Will Create More Problems
Egypt
Egypt’s Islamists Accused of Stifling the Media
Iceland
No bomb found on board Aeroflot flight at Icelandic airport
Al Qaeda
Expert: Jihadists Joining With Syrian Rebels
Somalia
Shabaab claimed it killed more than 60 Kenyan soldiers after overrunning their bases during an assault in Fahfahdhun in Gedo. Shabaab also claimed to have killed 20 Ethiopian soldiers in Hudur. Neither report has been confirmed.
Al Qaeda
Pakistan reiterates nuclear assets are safe
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Who is Ansar Dine?