Afghanistan
Security forces killed 27 Taliban fighters and detained eight more, including three Pakistanis. The government released 79 Taliban members as part of a reconciliation push. The French have turned over Kapisa province to Afghan forces.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Iraq
A suicide bomber killed five people in Mosul; 20 more Iraqis were wounded in the attack. Iraq’s foreign minister said al Qaeda in Iraq fighters are supporting the insurgency in Syria.
Yemen
Security officials said they seized documents from al Qaeda operatives on plans to establish Islamic emirates in Lahj and Sayoon. Sheikh Abdul Majeed al Zindani denied US claims that he is tied to al Qaeda.
Kenya
Police detained more than 30 people suspected of being involved in bombings at two churches in Garissa; 20 are still in custody. The deputy speaker of parliament denied claims that Kenya is setting up an autonomous state in southern Somalia.
5 ISAF soldiers wounded in latest green-on-blue attack
The attack took place in Sayyidabad, a hotbed of Taliban and al Qaeda activity. The Afghan soldier escaped and the Taliban claimed he joined them.
Al Qaeda fighters moving from Iraq to Syria: report
Al Qaeda in Iraq and other jihadist groups have been operating from within Syria for years, with the support of the Syrian government, and are now turning on their state sponsor.
China
Syrian Opposition Council Struggles for Legitimacy
Mali
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has imposed sharia, of Islamic law, in Gao. Fighters have occupied the town’s hospital and are storing weapons there.
Afghanistan
Northern land routes to be crucial in US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Algeria
Arab Envoys Rebuked for Denying Prize Money to Algerian Writer
Afghanistan
Pak army has built posts on Afghan soil: Afghan officials
Afghanistan
After long closure, NATO supplies enter Afghanistan from Pakistan
Ansar al Sharia
Libya’s first post-Gaddafi vote to test Islamists
Syria
Turkish firefighters battle blazes ‘deliberately started’ on Syria border
Al Qaeda
Iraq says al Qaeda members crossing into Syria
United Kingdom
Antiterrorism police arrested six people, including three brothers from Stratford, the site of the Olympic Games. All six, including a woman and a British convert to Islam, are suspected of links to an al Qaeda plot to attack targets in Britain. Two Muslim men arrested last week on suspicion of terrorism were released.
Afghan police arrest 8 linked to poison attacks against schools in northern Afghanistan
Afghan officials announced the arrest of eight suspects connected to the rash of school poison attacks in Sar-i-Pul province. Well over a dozen suspected poison attacks against girls’ schools this year have sickened over 2,000 students in the country.
Afghanistan
An Afghan official said three Polish troops were killed in Ghazni; ISAF did not report the attack. An Afghan policeman wounded five ISAF soldiers in Wardak. The NDS foiled three suicide bombings and said the Taliban, the Haqqani Network, and Pakistan’s ISI are behind the recent spate of school poisonings.
Iraq
Insurgents killed eight people in a bombing in Zubaidiyah and three more in assassinations in Baghdad. Gunmen killed the head of a rapid reaction regiment during a raid in Baghdad.
United States
Homeland security cites sharp rise in cyber attacks
Afghanistan
Pakistan opposes prolonged US presence in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Pakistan – PTI slams govt for reopening NATO supply route
Syria
Journalist behind the lines in Syria sees no end to war
Syria
Opposition political groups meeting in Cairo agreed to a transition plan and to support the Free Syrian Army, but failed to form a unified representative body. The Al Nusra Front claimed responsibility for bombing a pro-government TV station. Hezbollah and Iran would fight alongside the Assad regime if it was attacked by foreign forces.
Afghanistan
Pakistan apology deal incidental to real problem of its support for terrorists
Yemen
The Yemeni military said it killed and wounded more than 20 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in airstrikes in Shabwa province. Three soldiers and two civilians were killed in an IED attack in Lahj.
Afghanistan
Can turning Taliban foot soldiers turn the Afghan war?
Kenya
The head of Kenya’s Muslims denounced attacks on Christian churches in Garissa as “terrorism” and said Muslim youth would help provide security for churches in Garissa and elsewhere. The government canceled an oil deal with Iran shortly after being warned by the US about possible sanctions.
Muslim Brotherhood
Islamists suspected in Egyptian student’s murder
‘We will carry attacks on NATO supplies with a new spirit,’ says Pakistani Taliban spokesman
Taliban spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan called the government’s closure of the supply lines an orchestrated “drama” and challenged the so-called Defense of Pakistan alliance to take action.