Yearly Archives: 2012

Syria

Rebels claimed to have shot down a jet fighter and captured its pilot. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation suspended Syria’s membership, further isolating the Assad regime.


Somalia

Shabaab claimed it killed three Burundian soldiers in Carbiska and “several spies” in Suuq Bacaad, Madina, and Bakaro. A Somali soldier killed a journalist in Mogadishu. Three Ugandan helicopters destined for Somalia crashed in Kenya.


Nigeria

Twenty Boko Haram fighters and a soldier were killed yesterday during a raid in Maiduguri. Police killed two Boko Haram fighters in a raid in Damaturu. A security guard was killed in a shooting outside of a church in Gombe.


ISAF captures ‘senior IMU leader’ in Kunduz

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader “directed improvised explosive device attacks in Kunduz province” and “acquired IEDs, weapons and rockets and distributed them to insurgents throughout the region.”





Egypt

Insight: Mimicking al Qaeda, militant threat grows in Sinai


Pakistan

The Taliban killed three soldiers in an IED attack in North Waziristan. Two members of an anti-Taliban militia were killed in Khyber. Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in Mohmand.


Afghanistan

The Taliban killed a district governor in Laghman, a tribal leader in Herat, and two policeman and four civilians in attacks in Kandahar and Uruzgan. Security forces detained several insurgents while targeting an al Qaeda associate in Ghazni and foiled a complex attack by the Haqqani Network in Kabul.


Iraq

Insurgents killed three policemen and wounded three more officers and two civilians in a pair of bombings in Jurf al-Sakhar. Insurgents also shot and killed two employees of the Sunni endowment in Baghdad.



Syria

Turkey alarmed by Kurdish control of northern Syria


Syria

The deputy police commander in Homs defected to the rebels. Government troops attacked rebel-held areas across the country. The leader of Syria’s main opposition group called for a no-fly zone.


Egypt

Egypt’s newly elected president fired a number of military leaders, including the defense minister and army chief of staff, and appointed new leaders. He also suspended a constitutional decree that had given the military authority to govern. Egyptian forces continued their attacks against militants in the Sinai.



Yemen

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has freed a Swiss teacher who was kidnapped in Hodieda four months ago. AQAP doubled the ransom of a Saudi diplomat who was captured in March to $20 million.


Somalia

Shabaab fighters attacked government bases in Elasha Biyaha; casualties have not been disclosed. Kenyan warships bombarded Kismayo, according to Shabaab. A Somali journalist was gunned down in Mogadishu.


Somalia

Once mighty, Somalia’s army struggles to rebuild itself











Afghanistan

An Afghan policeman killed three more US soldiers in Helmand; another policeman killed 11 of his comrades in Nimroz. The Taliban killed a British soldier in Helmand. Security forces killed four Taliban fighters in Paktia, Paktika, and Wardak.


Iraq

“Gunmen” killed seven Shia as they were swimming in a lake in the village of Amerili near Tuz Khormato. Iraq has surpassed Iran to become the second largest OPEC oil producer.