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Pakistan – Deweaponisation: Army lauds Upper Dir locals’ readiness to yield weaponry
Yearly Archives: 2012
Afghanistan
Thwarted Attack Highlights Afghan Local Police Force
Afghanistan
US Trying to Locate Captured Soldier, Pentagon Says
Afghanistan
Afghan women fade from White House focus as exit nears
Afghanistan
3rd phase of security transition to start on Sunday
Al Qaeda
Saudi agent in bomb plot held UK passport, source says
Spying on al Qaeda
Double agents, although uncommon, have played a significant role in the post-9/11 fight against terrorism. The double agent who broke up a recent al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) plot is just the latest example.
Afghanistan
Obama, Rasmussen Agree Nato Summit Will Focus on Afghanistan
ICRC
Red Cross cuts operations across Pakistan following Khalil Dale murder
Syria
‘Arms flowing’ between Lebanon and Syria
Osama bin Laden on the Muslim Brotherhood
Just one week before his demise, Osama bin Laden wrote that al Qaeda members should avoid confrontation with the Muslim Brotherhood, which he said offers only “half solutions” but is migrating towards the “true Islam.”
Russia
The FSB said it broke up a plot to attack the 2014 Winter Olympics at the Black Sea city of Sochi. Security forces seized vast stores of weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, in Abkhazia, and said the plot was ordered by Caucasus Emirate leader Doku Umarov.
Afghanistan
A suicide assault team killed two policemen and three civilians in Paktika; the six suicide bombers were also killed. The Taliban killed eight Afghans in Helmand and four policemen in Badghis. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Uruzgan, Paktia, and Ghazni.
Syria
In the largest such bombing to date, two powerful car bombs exploded in Damascus, killing 55 and wounding hundreds. The bombs went off in front of an intelligence headquarters compound. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Egypt
Egypt seized a large quantity of heavy weapons from arms smugglers along the Libyan border. The smugglers claimed they were transporting the weapons to the Sinai Peninsula to create chaos before presidential elections.
Turkey
Pious Turks Push for Labor Justice
Yemen
US drones killed eight al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in a strike in Jaar. Yemeni aircraft killed five more AQAP fighters in Jaar, and 10 more in Zinjibar.
Suicide bombers kill 55 in Syrian capital
The coordinated suicide attack targeted a military intelligence center in Damascus; nearly 400 people were wounded in the complex assault.
Somalia
A Somali member of parliament claimed that 17 Shabaab fighters were killed during fighting in Hudur. Shabaab claimed its forces killed 10 Somali and Ethiopian troops in Bay and Bakool provinces.
US drone strike kills 8 AQAP fighters
The strike targeted a convoy of Ansar al Sharia leaders in Jaar in Abyan province.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Underwear bomb news reports prompt inquiry, official says
China
Does a military solution for Somali piracy work?
Afghanistan
Family lobbies for soldier to be included in Taliban prisoner swap
Al Qaeda
P.O.W. Is Focus of Talks on Taliban Prisoner Swap
Al Qaeda
Terror’s Technician: al Qaeda bomb-maker is US’ worst nightmare
Inter-Services Intelligence Agency
Pakistan – Asghar Khan petition: ISI not under the command of army chief, says Gen Aslam Beg
Pakistan
Pakistan – Hoti launches project for terrorism-hit SMEs
Pakistan
‘Military offensives continue in Balochistan’
Pakistan
Another Attack On Pakistan’s Dead Poets
Iran
Mystery Surrounds ‘Cyberattack’ On Iranian Oil Facilities