Israel
Brigades That Fire on Israel Show a Deadly New Discipline
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Hamas
Gaza Clash Escalates With Deadliest Israeli Strike
Afghanistan
Skyfall’s Daniel Craig drops in on British troops in Afghanistan
Jordan
Syria crisis: Refugee children ‘face winter risks’
Turkey
The Justice Minister said Turkey is open to negotiations with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been fighting for Kurdish autonomy in a 28-year conflict that has killed over 40,000 people. Five Turkish soldiers were killed by PKK militants in Hakkari province yesterday.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed eight Afghan soldiers and an ISAF soldier, and a civilian accused of spying. Security forces killed 20 Taliban fighters in Faryab. Security guards robbed the Central Bank branch in Nuristan.
Iraq
Security forces killed al Qaeda’s emir for Baqubah and detained four Ansar al Islam fighters near Kirkuk. Insurgents killed a senior Awakening leader and three aides near Mosul.
Yemen
A Political Security Organization officer was gunned down in Sana’a. Iraq released seven Yemeni prisoners; Yemen hopes others will be transferred home to serve their prison sentences.
Hamas
Hamas pragmatists lose out in leadership struggle
Israel
Violence accelerated in Gaza as Israel and Hamas exchanged air and artillery attacks. Prime Minister Netanyahu said Israel is prepared to widen its Gaza offensive. Israel continued to mass troops along the Gaza border. Egyptian and Israeli officials met in Cairo to attempt to mediate a ceasefire. Israeli government websites were hit with 44 million […]
Egypt
Border guards allowed 400 political activists to cross into Gaza. Liberal secular representatives announced their withdrawal from the committee charged with writing Egypt’s new constitution.
Norway
Norway Socialist Left with six-point anti-extremism plan
Iraq
Syrian Crisis Drives Kurdish Push For Independence
Afghanistan
Freed rebels won’t promote peace drive: Afghan National Coalition
Afghanistan
Quetta Shura Reviews Afghan Peace Talks
Ansar Dine
Mali’s PM says talks with rebels ‘inevitable’
Inter-Services Intelligence Agency
Pakistan lawyer challenges powerful army
Somalia
Somali security forces arrested two Shabaab leaders in Puntland. Abu Hafsa, allegedly Shabaab’s head of assassinations, and Abdirizak Hussein Tahlil, a Shabaab logistics officer, were arrested in Galkayo. The pair were in possession of suicide vests, explosives, grenades, and other explosive paraphernalia.
Kenya
Unidentified militants lobbed a hand grenade into a minibus in Nairobi, killing at least five people and injuring 13 others. The attack occurred in the predominantly Somali Eastleigh neighborhood. Such attacks have been seen as Shabaab retaliation for Kenya’s decision to send troops into Somalia.
Taliban release Nuristan attack video
The Taliban website has uploaded a 35-minute-long video depicting a series of attacks against Afghan security forces in the Kamdesh district in Nuristan province.
US, France assemble coalition to confront Islamists in Mali
The Islamist takeover of two-thirds of Mali this year has spurred the West as well as neighboring African countries to find a way to drive out the extremists.
Tunisia
Mohammed Bakhti, a prominent Salafist who was a suspect in the Sept. 14 attack on the US Embassy in Tunis, died after a hunger strike. Fellow detainee Bachir al-Gholi died earlier this week under similar circumstances. Bakhti had links to the leader of Ansar al Shariah, the group thought to be behind the attack.
Philippines
Radullan Sahiron, a senior Abu Sayyaf leader wanted for his alleged involvement in the 1993 kidnapping of an American in the Philippines, has been added to the FBI’s updated list of most-wanted terrorists. A wife of a detained Abu Sayyaf group leader has been detained for her role in a kidnapping plot four years ago.
Hamas
Arms With a Long Reach Help Hamas
Jamaat-ud-Dawa
Lashkar front JuD into mobile gaming?
Afghanistan
Security forces killed five Taliban fighters in Badakhshan and detained a Taliban commander in Kandahar. The Afghan High Peace Council wants immunity, and sanctions lifted for senior Taliban leaders.
Egypt
Sharia tribunals on the rise in North Sinai
Iran
A report from the IAEA said Iran had doubled the capacity at its uranium enrichment plant. Iran has postponed the startup of a nuclear reactor in Akak; the research reactor has the capability of producing plutonium for nuclear arms.
Israel
Israel accelerated its air attack in Gaza as Hamas continued to fire rockets into Israel, including one attack on Tel Aviv. Israel’s cabinet authorized the mobilization of 75,000 reservists as it prepared for a possible ground assault on Gaza. Arab leaders talked.
Afghanistan
Taliban group accidentally reveals their email list