Pakistan
US Secretary of Defense Panetta said that the drone strikes will continue in Pakistan. Nine Taliban fighters and two tribesmen were killed during fighting in Khyber. The Taliban has bombed 22 schools in Nowshera.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Afghanistan
Two Taliban suicide bombers killed 21 people in Kandahar; another suicide bomber killed two Afghans in Faryab. An ISAF airstrike killed 18 civilians and eight Taliban fighters in Logar. The NDS arrested 15 people involved in poisonings at girls’ schools in Takhar. ISAF captured an al Qaeda facilitator in Faryab. Two ISAF soldiers were killed […]
Yemen
Thirteen al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters and four soldiers were killed during fighting in southern Yemen. The International Committee of the Red Cross said that tens of thousands of Yemeni civilians are trapped in the fighting.
Syria
Pro-government forces killed 78 people, including 40 women and children, in the village of Mazraat al-Qabeer. The killings followed a similar massacre in Houla. For a second day, government forces, struck rebel positions in Latakia province. The Italian foreign minister warned that Syria was at risk of genocide.
Libya
A bomb exploded outside a US diplomatic building in the city of Benghazi. The foreign spy chief from the former Gaddafi regime went on trial, the first to do so.
North Korea
North Korea political caste system behind abuses: study
Kenya
A court charged Magd Najjar, a Swiss citizen, with “engaging in organized criminal activities by being a member of Al Shabaab.” Najjar has also been charged with entering Kenya illegally. His trial will begin on July 2.
Afghanistan
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta urges India to take larger role in Afghanistan
Azerbaijan
Iran and Azerbaijan, Wary Neighbors, Find Less to Agree On
Afghanistan
Pakistan is the Mother of Terrorism, Afghanistan the Victim: Afghan Analyst
Nigeria
Nineteen people were killed during fighting between security forces and Boko Haram in Maiduguri and Kano. The heaviest fighting took place in the neighborhood of Lawan Bukar in Maiduguri, where explosions were reported yesterday.
ISAF detains al Qaeda facilitator in Afghan north
The al Qaeda facilitator, who was based in Takhar province, “served as a financier and liaison between al Qaeda leaders,” according to ISAF.
On drones and their ability to defeat al Qaeda
The drones are a tactic, not a strategy, and fail to address the key issues of radical Islamist ideologies, state support of terrorism, and al Qaeda’s ability to exploit ungoverned spaces.
Al Qaeda
Thousands of Yemenis caught up in fighting: ICRC
Pakistan
Panetta: Drone attacks will continue in Pakistan
Taliban kill 21 Afghans in double suicide attack
“The agents of Punjab have once again spilled the blood of innocent civilians,” Kandahar’s chief of police said, referring to Pakistan’s influence over the Taliban.
Afghanistan
What happens to all that military gear?
Al Qaeda
Abu Yahya al-Libi of Al Qaeda Said to Be Killed
Inter-Services Intelligence Agency
Pak security establishment planning to kill me: Rights activist Asma Jahangir
Afghanistan
Security forces killed 34 Taliban fighters in Nuristan, Kunar, Ghor, and Ghazni. Police in Takhar arrested seven members of “armed opposition groups” involved in poisoning schoolgirls. Sixty schoolgirls were poisoned in Takhar.
Yemen
The military said 26 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters were killed during fighting in Zinjibar and Jaar. The military defeated an AQAP attempt to take the city of Attaq, the capital of Shabwa province.
Somalia
“Gunmen” killed four people in an attack on a bus in Mudug. A Shabaab spokesman denied reports that Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys surrendered to the government.
Syria
Rebels said they would no longer respect the terms of the UN peace plan. China and Russia agreed to oppose regime change or foreign intervention in Syria. Government troops and pro-regime militiamen seized control of Kfar Zita in Hama province. Fighting broke out in the coastal province of Latakia.
Kenya
Police arrested a suspected Shabaab operative as he attempted to cross the border in Busia from Somalia. The operative is thought to lead a cell that is plotting attacks in Nairobi and Kampala.
Nigeria
“Gunmen” killed a retired Deputy Inspector General of Police and two associates in Kano. Explosions and gunfire rocked a neighborhood in Maiduguri as security forces cordoned the neighborhood.
Syria
As EU and Russia talk, Syria slides ever closer to civil war
Abu Yahya al Libi killed in latest drone strike, US officials say
US officials have confirmed that al Libi was killed in yesterday’s drone strike in Mir Ali. Al Qaeda has not confirmed his death.
Guantanamo detainee releases audio message to Syrian people
An audio message from Guantanamo detainee Fayiz al Kandari to the Syrian people was reportedly released online. US officials have identified al Kandari as an al Qaeda propagandist who was close to Osama bin Laden.
Afghanistan
US apology needed to open NATO supply routes: Khar
United States
Sabirhan Hasanoff, an accountant and former Brooklyn resident, pled guilty to charges of conspiring to provide material support to al Qaeda. His dual US-Australian citizenship and “advanced computer knowledge” were thought useful to the terror group, whose technology he and co-conspirator Wesam El-Hanafi sought to “modernize.”