Syria
Rebels attacked government roadblocks in central Damascus. President Assad said he would never leave Syria and warned against Western intervention. Rebel leaders met in Qatar to negotiate a government-in-exile agreement.
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Taliban suicide bomber attacks Rangers HQ in Karachi
Karachi has become a haven for terror groups; 11 areas of the city are considered to be under the control of Pakistani jihadist groups.
Afghanistan
UK – Five Marines charged with murdering Taliban prisoner will not be named during their trial
Dagestan
Daghestan Becomes Hotbed Of North Caucasus Insurgency
Egypt
Egypt – Salafi Front to join Friday’s pro-Sharia protest
Morocco
Morocco gives boot to four Swedish ‘reporters’
Top Salafi-Jihadist leader in Gaza complained of mistreatment by Hamas prior to death
Prior to his death on Oct. 13, Ashraf al Sabah, the former emir of Ansar al Sunnah, lambasted Hamas for its treatment of him and fellow Salafi-Jihadists in their prisons.
Libya
Egypt closed its consulate in Benghazi due to security concerns; embassies in Tripoli are also worried about rising instability. In Benghazi, two security officials’ cars were bombed, and a retired colonel was murdered. Former political leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil is being questioned about the death of Libyan insurgent commander General Abdel Fattah Younes.
Al Qaeda
Canadian forces brass investigates after ‘culturally insensitive’ video, CBC report says
Afghanistan
Pakistan restores fuel supply for NATO troops in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Obama must concentrate on militants sanctuaries in Pakistan: Karzai spokesman
Turkey
Special forces killed three PKK militants and destroyed PKK bases in Beytüşşbep in Hakkari province. Authorities searched an Armenian plane carrying humanitarian aid to Aleppo before allowing it to continue on to Syria.
Indonesia
Roki Aprisdianto, who was serving a six-year sentence for recruiting Islamic militants to attack churches and police stations in Java, escaped from prison in a burka. A female visitor wearing two burkas passed one to him.
ICRC
Red Cross says it cannot cope with Syria emergency
US drone strike near Yemeni capital kills AQAP commander, 2 fighters
An al Qaeda commander involved in the complex attack on the US Embassy in Sana’a in 2008 was killed. The strike near Sana’a and the previous one in Saada indicate that the US is expanding drone operations beyond southern Yemen.
Afghanistan
Pakistan – Two NATO tankers reach Torkham
Afghanistan
As ‘insider attacks’ grow, so does US-Afghanistan divide
Ansar Jerusalem eulogizes Eilat attacker in new video
Today Ansar Jerusalem released a video to jihadist forums in which it eulogizes Ibrahim Oweidah Nasser Bereikat, who died on Aug. 26, and shows the interrogation of a “spy” involved in his assassination.
Afghanistan
Thirty-six Taliban fighters and two policemen were killed during fighting throughout the country. Twelve missiles fired from Iran have landed in Nimroz. Energy and Water Minister Ismail Khan is distributing weapons to militias.
Taliban suicide bomber kills 5 people in Peshawar
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan claimed credit for the attack that killed a senior police official.
United States
Muhammad Salah, of Bridgeview, Ill., designated as a terrorist in 1995, was delisted as the deadline loomed for a response to his challenge to the listing. He was jailed for five years in Israel for supporting Hamas, was tried in the US on similar charges, and spent time in prison for lying in a civil […]
Egypt
Egypt – Constitution authors lean toward restricting gender equality, religious freedom
Iraq
One al Qaeda fighter was killed and two more were wounded in a premature detonation in Ninewa. Security forces detained four gunmen near a school in Anbar and four al Qaeda fighters in Diyala.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan rules out peace deals with Haqqanis
Yemen
An intelligence official was assassinated in Sana’a; at least 55 intelligence operatives have been killed in Yemen so far this year. Tarek al Fadli, an al Qaeda-linked tribal leader in Abyan province, has been ordered to surrender to the government.
Somalia
A car bomb was detonated near the parliament building in Mogadishu; one soldier was killed in the blast. Puntland security forces killed a Shabaab commander in Dhahar.
Afghanistan
Missiles Fired From Iran Into Afghanistan: Security Official
Afghanistan
Afghanistan Jihadi Council Distributing Weapons to ‘Units’: Herat Spox
Mali
Ansar Dine, one of the Islamist groups that has seized northern Mali, reached an agreement with ECOWAS to allow humanitarian aid into the area. The agreement calls for the return of refugees and the creation of an environment conducive to a peace deal, and promises that Ansar Dine “rejects all forms of extremism and terrorism.”
Egypt
In Egypt streets, Islamists throw weight around