Yemen
US drones killed four al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives in an airstrike in Saada in the north. Two Saudi financiers are said to have been killed in the strike.
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Somalia
Shabaab killed a Somali general in an ambush in El Waregow near the port city of Marka. Five Somali policemen were killed in a bombing at a police station in Kismayo. Five people were killed during clashes in lower Jubba between Kenyan and Somali forces.
Saudi Arabia
Saudi king urges UN to act against insults to religions, prophets
Egypt
Israel rattled by rise in anti-Semitic rhetoric from Egypt
Afghanistan
Bomber Targets Afghan Province’s Leaders
Somalia
How families on both sides of the law face tough choices in Somalia
Burma
More than 22,000 forced to flee Burma after worst sectarian violence in years, UN says
Lebanon
Hizbollah debates dropping support for the regime of President Bashar al-Assad
US drones kill 4 AQAP fighters in rare strike in northern Yemen
Today’s strike targeted an al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula cell in the northern province of Saada, where the government, local Salafists, and AQAP battle the Iranian-backed Shia Houthis.
Kenya
Police raided the house of Muslim cleric Omar Faraj in the Majengo district of Mombasa, after being led there by a man arrested on Saturday for carrying grenades on a bus. The two men, both suspected of links to Shabaab, were killed in gunfire during the raid.
Nigeria
A suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed jeep into a Catholic church in Kaduna on Sunday, killing at least eight people and wounding over 100. At least two more people died in reprisal killings.
Zawahiri notes death of Blind Sheikh’s son ‘on the pure soil of Khorasan’
Al Qaeda’s emir also lauded the imprisoned jihadist cleric and vowed to help free him from US custody.
Afghanistan
Iran Uses Aid to Build Afghan Influence
Israel
Drone Strikes to be Investigated
Iraq
Influx of Iraqi Shiites to Syria Widens War’s Scope
France
Saddam Hussein gave £840,000 fortune to family of British father murdered in Alps massacre
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Navy replaces admiral leading Mideast strike group
Kuwait
Rare protest bond between Islamists and liberals emerges from Kuwait’s political turmoil
Hezbollah
Hezbollah straddles tenuous line between Syria and Lebanon
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda’s Zawahri calls for kidnap of Westerners
Afghanistan
The Taliban took five people off of a bus traveling on the Kabul-Kandahar highway and executed them. Security forces detained a suicide bomber who was planning to target senior security officials in Baghlan.
Iraq
Insurgents killed 13 people, including three children, in separate attacks in Baghdad. One attack targeted a busload of Iranian pilgrims. Security forces detained 12 wanted terrorists in Baghdad.
Syria
Despite a truce agreement, heavy bombardment and gun battles were reported in several major cities. A rebel commander called the truce a failure.
Lebanon
Security forces detained two Malaysians at Beirut International Airport under suspicion of belonging to al Qaeda. The two Malaysians were recruited by one of their countrymen to conduct suicide attacks in Syria.
Somalia
Uganda threatened to withdraw from Somalia after the United Nations criticized the country for supporting the March 23 Movement, a rebel group fighting the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Uganda People’s Defence Force has 5,700 troops in Somalia, the largest AMISOM contingent.
Libya
After Benghazi attacks, extremists akin to al-Qaeda stir fear in eastern Libya
Indonesia
The Detachment 88 antiterrorism unit arrested 11 people in four cities who are suspected of plotting to attack the US Embassy in Jakarta, the US Consulate in Surabaya, the offices of a US mining company near the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, and a police headquarters in Java. The suspects are members of the Sunni Movement […]
Al Qaeda
Finally, a plan to prise Mali from al-Qaeda’s grip
Afghanistan
Psy-ops: Tuning the Afghans into radio
Foreign jihadists continue to pour into Mali
“The arrival of hundreds of young mujahideen from different areas across the Islamic world to support us in our war against the infidels and crusaders is not strange or surprising,” Ansar Dine’s spokesman said.