Syria
Al-Assad’s inner circle, mostly family, like ‘mafia’
Yearly Archives: 2012
Italy
Italy: Moroccan severely beats daughter in mall for refusing veil
Egypt
Egypt arrested nine Islamic militants suspected of involvement in an attack that killed 16 Egyptian soldiers. Tribal leaders in the Sinai peninsula have agreed to help the Egyptian army restore security in the area.
Somalia
Shabaab claimed it killed “more than 20 apostate militia” in attacks in Mogadishu and a Kenyan soldier in a sniper attack in Badhaadhe. The African Union said Uganda over-deployed 600 troops and should pull them out of Somalia.
Nigeria
The US offered to help Nigeria establish an “intelligence fusion cell” to monitor information from various governmental agencies, coordinate counterterrorism efforts, and serve as a contact for foreign intelligence services. The Christian Association of Nigeria complained that the US State Department has distorted and misrepresented facts about the gravity of the Islamist threat in the […]
United States
Pentagon proposes more robust role for its cyber-specialists
Syria
Crime Wave Engulfs Syria as Its Cities Reel From War
Al Qaeda
West Africa ‘ignoring underlying causes of hunger’
Libya
Libyan woman provokes headscarf row in parliament
Egypt
Fighting extremism in Egypt’s Sinai
Afghan police commander kills 3 US troops in Helmand
There have been three green-on-blue attacks reported in the past four days; four US troops and one Afghan soldier have been killed in the attacks.
Mali
The al Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine, which along with another Islamist group holds two-thirds of Mali, said it wants to “peacefully convince” the rest of Mali to join with it to create an Islamist state. The Islamist expansion would proceed by imposing sharia and by “avoid[ing] harm being brought to other jihadists in the world,” the […]
United Kingdom
The UK will give 5 million pounds to “unarmed opposition groups, human rights activists and civilians” in the Syrian conflict, for communications equipment, medical supplies, and body armor for civilians, but not weapons. The UK is already providing 27 million pounds in humanitarian aid to Syria.
Philippines
Hundreds of Philippine troops attacked two Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement camps in Maguindanao. Four soldiers and two BISF fighters have been killed during the fighting.
Pakistan
Two soldiers and nine Taliban fighters were killed during a clash in Dir. The Taliban killed a special forces soldier and bombed a girls’ school in Mohmand. Security forces detained a top aide to Swat Taliban Mullah Fazlullah during a raid in Nowshera, and three “terrorists” in Quetta.
Al Qaeda
US drone strikes in Yemen defended
Afghanistan
NATO troops killed an Afghan soldier during a failed green-on-blue attack. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Ghazni, and Logar. A USAID worker was killed in yesterday’s suicide attack in Kunar.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Persecution forces 60 Hindu families to migrate to India
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Pakistani Insurgents Trying to Infiltrate Northern Borders
Afghanistan
Special report: Hundreds of rebel fighters leave Aleppo after two nights of relentless shelling by regime forces
Al Qaeda calls on jihadists to attack NATO supplies, ‘secure the back’ of the Afghan Taliban
Ustad Ahmad Farooq, al Qaeda’s spokesman for Pakistan, said that jihadists must “pay special attention to targeting American and NATO supply lines” in order to help their “Afghan brothers.”
Iran
US and Gulf Allies Pursue a Missile Shield Against Iranian Attack
Russia
Russian Islamist sect kept children underground for a decade
Free Syrian Army
Syria: refugee crisis looms as 50,000 flee to Turkey
Iran
Iran’s atomic project getting harder to foresee: Barak
Iraq
Insurgents killed 13 Iraqis in a bombing in Tanmiyah, and a lawyer, his wife, and five sons in a shooting in Baghdad. Oil production has risen to three million barrels a day, the highest rate since 2002.
Syria
A day after government forces launched a major assault in Aleppo, rebel forces were forced back from the district of Salaheddine. Rebel commanders said they were preparing to counterattack.
Yemen
Security forces arrested four al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters as they were traveling to Aden. The military identified the foreign AQAP fighters killed in a drone strike in Baydah two days ago. The US has increased aid to Yemen to $337 million.
Egypt
Gunmen attacked a police station in North Sinai. Egypt sent a large convoy of military reinforcements to the area to drive out Islamist militants blamed for killing 16 border guards. Egypt’s parliament named 50 new editors for state-owned newspapers, including a number with Islamist leanings.
Somalia
Kenyan aircraft struck a Shabaab base in the village of Birta-Dheer north of Kismayo. Uganda has deployed elements of its Air Force to Somalia for an upcoming offensive to retake Kismayo. Somali troops killed two people after opening fire at a rally of the former prime minister.