AQAP leader, 8 fighters killed in US drone strike in Yemen
An al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader known as Nadir Haider Nasser al Shaddadi was among nine fighters killed in the attack in Abyan province.
Monthly Archives: October 2012
US adds IMU financier, Taliban IED experts to terror list
Qari Ayyub Bashir is the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan’s top financier; Maulawi Adam Khan Achekzai is a senior Taliban IED expert and leader; and Aamir Ali Chaudhry is an electronics and explosives expert for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan who was involved in the Times Square plot.
Afghanistan
Pakistan opposition thwarts anti-terror move
Pakistan
Pakistan – Christians protest against church burning
Pakistan
Foreign investment in Pakistan down by 67%
Al Qaeda weighs in on the Malala shooting
Ustad Ahmad Farooq, al Qaeda’s spokesman for Pakistan, says the world has focused on Malala while ignoring supposed atrocities against Muslim women.
United States
Authorities charged Bangladeshi student Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis in an FBI sting operation in which Nafis thought he was executing an al Qaeda plot to blow up the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan. In another New York courtroom, Iranian-American citizen Manssor Arbabsiar pled guilty to plotting with Iran’s Quds Force to assassinate the Saudi […]
Houthis
Yemeni debate over drones emerges after Saleh’s fall
Al Qaeda
Libya revolutionaries: yesterday’s heroes, today’s headache
Al Qaeda
Human stakes high in France push for Qaeda action in Mali
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Taliban use women to take injured to hospital
Afghanistan
Pakistanis divided on army offensive after attack
Afghanistan
A Taliban suicide bomber wounded 45 Afghan soldiers in an attack on a base in Paktia. One of the two US personnel killed in last weekend’s green-on-blue suicide attack at an NDS headquarters in Kandahar was a CIA officer. The Taliban killed three civilians in the west.
Pakistan
The Taliban denied government claims that Qari Saeed, its emir for Arakzai, was captured in Nowshera. Police arrested the emir of the Sindh branch of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi; he has been arrested in the past.
Pakistan
In Pakistan’s Swat Valley, a girls’ school is gripped by fear
Lebanon
Syria conflict deepens sectarian rifts in Lebanon
Afghanistan
Govt Indifference Pains Father of Ghazni Kids Shot by Taliban
Denmark
Denmark – Teacher reported for racism
Sweden
US embassy in Stockholm evacuated
Syria
Rebels forces shot down a helicopter over Idib. Rebel acquisition of heavy weapons has forced government aircraft to bomb from higher altitudes. Heavy air attacks struck Idlib and Aleppo provinces.
Israel
For the first time, Palestinian militants in Gaza fired an antiaircraft missile at an Israeli aircraft. The missile may have been looted from Libya. An Islamist group in the Sinai said it would take revenge on Israel for killing five Palestinian militants, including the leader of an al Qaeda-affiliated group, in Gaza over the weekend.
Saudi Arabia
A court handed down sentences ranging from three to 25 years for 16 suspected al Qaeda members. The defendants, all Saudis except for one Yemeni, were accused of setting up al Qaeda training camps in Saudi Arabia and targeting oil sites, carrying out terror attacks, and conducting assassinations.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s safest province falling prey to Taliban
Afghanistan
Afghan girl ‘beheaded for refusing prostitution’
Iraq
Insurgents killed five Iraqis and wounded 15 more in separate attacks in Baghdad. Two policemen and three civilians were killed in the bombings.
Pakistan
Taliban threat worries Pakistan media
Kenya
Police killed three Shabaab fighters during a raid in the Likoni area in the Coast province. One policeman was killed and three more were wounded in a grenade attack during the raid. Shabaab killed a mobile phone engineer in Liboi.
Nigeria
The Joint Task Force claimed it killed 24 Boko Haram fighters during operations in Maiduguri. Explosions and gunfire have been reported in Potiskum.
Jund al Khilafah emir killed in ‘treacherous raid’
Moezeddine Garsallaoui, a Swiss citizen, led the al Qaeda-linked group, and trained Mohamed Merah, the Toulouse shooter who killed seven people. He appears to have been killed in a drone strike.
Tunisia
Journalists at state-run media agencies went on strike, accusing the government of restricting freedom of speech. The strike was the first ever in Tunisia.