Pakistan
Pakistan’s power crisis may eclipse terrorist threat
Yearly Archives: 2012
IAEA
Iran Says It Won’t Halt Uranium Enrichment
Afghan NDS thwarts terror plot near Kabul airport, arrests Taliban commander
Afghan intelligence operatives captured five suspected Taliban suicide bombers and 560 kilograms of explosives on the outskirts of Kabul’s international airport; they also arrested a Taliban leader in Helmand province.
Iran
Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say
South Sudan
South Sudan accuses Sudan of bombings ahead of talks
Sweden
The attempted assassination of Obid Nazarov, a popular Uzbek cleric in the northern city of Stromsund, is being blamed on Uzbek government officials. Nazarov remains in a coma following the February attack. He had fled to Sweden in 2006 after the Uzbek government sought to arrest him for terrorism.
ISAF targets al Qaeda leaders in Kunar
Special operations forces launched airstrikes in two districts in an attempt to kill two al Qaeda leaders in the northeastern province.
Azerbaijan
US officials among the targets of Iran-linked assassination plots
Afghanistan
At West Point, Asking if a War Doctrine Was Worth It
US drones kill 8 in pair of strikes in North Waziristan
The drone program will resume, as Pakistan has balked at reopening NATO’s supply lines into Afghanistan, a US intelligence official involved in the program told LWJ.
Omar Hammami calls for establishment of global caliphate
The American jihadist said the move is necessary to unite the local Islamist insurgencies and global jihadist movements.
Iran admits to sending troops to Syria
The deputy commander of Iran’s Qods Force claimed that the Iranian intervention in Syria has saved lives.
Massacre in Syria kills 90, including 32 children
In the worst episode in Syria’s 14 months of violence, over 90 people, including 32 children, were killed in a brutal attack on a village in northern Syria. The attack sparked international condemnation.
Pakistan
US drones killed five “militants” in North Waziristan. Security forces killed four Taliban fighters in Arakzai. The Taliban killed a soldier in an IED attack in Nowshera. Secretary of Defense Panetta said that the US will not be “gouged” by Pakistan on the reopening of NATO’s supply lines.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed seven ISAF soldiers, an Afghan Army commander, and two civilians in separate attacks in the south and east. Afghan officials said eight civilians, including six children, were killed in an ISAF airstrike in Paktia.
Al Qaeda
Nigeria Islamic group Boko Haram spreads alarm far and wide
Hamas
Southern Exposure: Iran, Terror Groups Setting Up Shop in South America
Brazil
Panetta warns on Latin America terrorism
Yemen
Security forces killed 15 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in Jaar and seven more in Zinjibar. The chief of security in Aden said AQAP has infiltrated the city. AQAP offered to free a Swiss and a Saudi hostage in exchange for a ceasefire.
Somalia
Puntland’s Maritime Police Force captured 11 pirates in the Hafun district. The commander of Somalia’s military said that the armed forces are preparing to eject Shabaab out Lower and Middle Shabelle.
ISAF targets IMU facilitator in Faryab
ISAF has targeted the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan six times in Faryab since mid-March.
Afghanistan
Leon Panetta Calls Pakistan Doctor’s Treason Sentence ‘Disturbing’
Saudi Arabia
For Saudi ex-jihadis: a stipend, a wife, and a new life
Syria
US Seeks Russia’s Help in Removing Assad in Syria
Afghanistan
May consider Taliban’s reasonable conditions: Afghan VP Fahim /a>
Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s ‘Safest’ Province Faces Growing Insurgency, Says Police Chief
Syria
Syria denies responsibility for attack killing 90
North Korea
30 North Korean officials involved in South talks die ‘in traffic accidents’
Al Qaeda
Mali Tuareg and Islamist rebels agree on Islamist state
IAEA
Iran not ready for visit to suspect nuclear site