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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh accepted an invitation to attend a non-allgned summit in Iran. PLO president Abbas threatened to boycott the summit if Hamas attended.
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Yemen
Gunmen opened fire on Transportion Minister Waed Abdullah Bathib’s car in Sana’a; he was not wounded. Bathib is a member of the Yemen Socialist Party in Aden.
Egypt
Egypt reopened a border crossing with Gaza, signaling improved relations with Hamas. Egypt has closed 120 smuggling tunnels across the border as part of the recent military operations in Sinai.
Somalia
Security forces killed four Shabaab fighters in Mogadishu. A Shabaab military officer surrendered to the government in Puntland. Somali and AMISOM forces are reported to be advancing on Kismayo.
Afghanistan
Afghan Villagers Hit Back Against Taliban
Afghanistan
A Mercy Killing In Afghanistan?
Free Syrian Army
Opposition: August is deadliest month in Syrian civil war
Pakistan
Pakistan – Christian girl held on blasphemy cannot read: Vatican
Afghanistan
Lawmakers Urge Karzai to Address Apparent Rise in Insecurity
Afghanistan
Quetta Taliban is Never Targeted: Afghan Expert
Afghanistan
Ragtag Revolts in Parts of Afghanistan Repel Taliban
Turkistan Islamic Party leader thought killed in US drone strike
Emeti Yakuf a.k.a. Abdul Shakoor Turkistani, who directs al Qaeda operations in Pakistan’s tribal areas, may have been killed in the Aug. 24 drone strike in the Shawal Valley that hit a training camp.
Libya
Salafi Islamists destroyed a Sufi shrine and burned down a library. Witnesses said bulldozers attacked the shrine unimpeded by police.
Bajaur Taliban leader, deputy killed in airstrike in eastern Afghanistan
Mullah Dadullah, the emir of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan’s branch in Bajaur, and Shakir, his deputy, were killed in an ISAF airstrike in Kunar.
Tunisia
A Franco-Tunisian politician vacationing in Bizerte was attacked by a gang of 50 Salafists because his wife and daughter were wearing shorts and t-shirts. An Islamist mob of about 200 men armed with swords and sticks also wounded five people at a concert in Bizerte.
Mali
The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa threatened Algeria with deadly consequences if it does not free several militants, including Abd Arrahmane Abu Ishak, who heads Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s legal commission. Algeria recently rejected the group’s offer of a prisoner exchange.
Al Qaeda
Taliban attempts to kidnap family of jailed CIA informant in Pakistan
Badruddin Haqqani rumored killed in US drone strike
The senior Haqqani Network commander is thought to have been killed in one of five drone strikes this week. His death has not been confirmed.
Afghanistan
Badruddin Haqqani Believed Dead in Pakistan Drone Strike
Afghanistan
Taliban force villagers in Kandahar to destroy roads
Al Qaeda
Pakistan – Our Osama policy under scrutiny
Pakistan
Pakistan – Malik for mechanism to check use of cell phones for terrorism
Pakistan
Pakistan – Prayer leader accuses Christian girl of ‘conspiracy’
ISAF targets al Qaeda-linked Taliban commander in Ghazni
The raid is the second against an al Qaeda-linked Taliban leader in Ghazni this week, and the fourth in the province in the past month.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed four security personnel in Paktia, three policemen in Kapisa, and three security guards in Farah. Security forces detained a Pakistani suicide bomber and targeted an al Qaeda-linked Taliban leader in Ghazni.
Iraq
Three people were killed in a pair of bombings at a Shia mosque in Sadr City in Baghdad. The government closed the border crossing point in Al Qaim.
Yemen
Police detained six suspected al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives during a raid in the southern port city of Aden. One of those detained was a mosque imam.
Al Qaeda
Al Shabaab recruits Somali students in Pakistan
Somalia
Somali officials said that 18 Shabaab fighters were killed in Kenyan airstrikes in Bardhere. Police detained six suspected Shabaab fighters in Buurdhuube.
Algeria
The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa said that “Algeria will be subject to all the consequences” after the government rejected a plan for a hostage swap. The group threatened to kill an Algerian diplomat if Abd Arrahmane Abu Ishak and several other “brothers” are not freed in five days.