Yearly Archives: 2012

Egypt

| July 13, 2012

Hamas sees Egypt’s Mursi defying Israel, ending blockade

Somalia

| July 13, 2012

Kenyan strike aircraft killed 20 Shabaab fighters in an attack on a training camp in the village of Birta-dheer near Garbaharey. African Union troops found looted food aid at a Shabaab training camp in Lanta-Buro.

Mali

| July 13, 2012

Ansar Dine, the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa, and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb are reported to have consolidated control of northern Mali. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad is said to have abandoned the north.

United Kingdom

| July 13, 2012

Sir John Sawers, the head of MI6, said that the UK agency had thwarted Iran’s attempt to develop a nuclear weapon, by means of covert operations beginning in 2008. He predicted that Iran would have nuclear weapons capability by 2014.

Pakistan

| July 13, 2012

Pakistan – Police demolish Ahmadi worship place minarets in Kharian

Pakistan

| July 12, 2012

The Taliban killed eight policemen in an attack on a police training center in Lahore. Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in Bajaur.

Afghanistan

| July 12, 2012

Security forces killed 13 Taliban fighters. The Taliban killed a reporter and another man in Helmand. Sixteen Taliban fighters in Herat defected and joined the government.

Iran

| July 12, 2012

As Western oil sanctions take effect, Iran began shutting down oil production. Government censors warned Iranian media not to report negative economic news. To counter an Iranian threat to close the Gulf of Hormuz, the US deployed a floating operating base, mine sweepers, and sea drones to the Persian Gulf.

Syria

| July 12, 2012

Government troops fired artillery into a rebel-occupied district on the outskirts of Damascus and then attacked with troops and armored vehicles. Syria’s ambassador to Iraq defected to the opposition and called on Syrian soldiers to turn their guns on the Damascus leadership.

Yemen

| July 12, 2012

Security forces are searching for three bomb makers from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Dagestan who are believed to be attempting to travel to Idb or Dhale. Officials increased security in Sana’a one day after 10 people were killed in a suicide attack.

Somalia

| July 12, 2012

Three aid workers, two Kenyans and a Somali, were kidnapped in the Ba’adweyne district in Puntland. Police blamed Shabaab fighters for the kidnappings.

Kenya

| July 12, 2012

Shabaab fighters wounded two policemen during an ambush in the Arabia area along the Somali border near Garissa. The Shabaab fighters escaped.

Syria

| July 12, 2012

Arms deliveries to Syrian rebels delayed

Iran

| July 12, 2012

Ex-Republican Guards general reveals dissent within elite Iranian force

Bin Laden loyalist transferred from Guantanamo to Sudan

| July 12, 2012

Ibrahim-Ahmed-Mahmoud-al-Qosi.jpgIbrahim al Qosi served Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda for years in a variety of capacities. Leaked and declassified files portray him as an experienced combat veteran who fought in Chechnya and Afghanistan. As a courier, he may have delivered money to the operatives who attempted to kill Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in 1995.

Mali

| July 12, 2012

France’s foreign minister said that the use of force against Islamist groups in control of northern Mali is likely. “In the north, at one moment or another there will probably be the use of force,” Laurent Fabius said.

Egypt

| July 12, 2012

Egypt: TV channel with only fully-veiled women ‘is part of fight against discrimination’