ISAF targets IMU’s top bomb maker in Afghanistan
Special operations forces targeted the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan’s “senior bomb maker” in Afghanistan during a raid in Kunduz.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Egypt
In parts of Egypt, tribal justice still rules
US offers $10 million bounty for capture of Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed
Saeed now has one of the highest bounties offered for a global terrorist leader. The US is also offering $2 million for Saeed’s brother-in-law, who is Lashkar-e-Taiba’s deputy emir.
Libya
Libya Militias Turn to Politics, a Volatile Mix
Pakistan
Pakistan – Hazara women protest against targeted killing of community members
Arab, Uzbek fighters killed in latest drone strike: report
A Turkish jihadist website said that one Arab and four Uzbek fighters were killed in the March 30 strike in Miramshah.
Pakistan
Three of Osama bin Laden’s widows and two of his daughters have been sentenced to 45 days in prison for illegally residing in Pakistan. Four soldiers were killed and five more are missing after a Taliban assault on a military checkpoint in Mohmand. One person was killed in a bombing in Khyber.
Afghanistan
Jobs for Ex-Militants Feed Distrust of Afghan State
Saudi Arabia
Arab states agree to provide millions to pay opposition fighters in Syria
Thailand
Deadly bomb attacks cast light on forgotten Thai conflict
Islamist fighters gain in Egyptian Sinai
Armed gunmen surrounded a Multinational Observer Force base in the Sinai for eight days until the government freed five terrorists linked to terror attacks in Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab, and Taba.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed 17 Taliban fighters and detained 10 more during operations in Kabul, Helmand, and Kandahar. The Taliban killed two members of a district council and a policeman in Uruzgan, and a soldier in Kandahar.
Syria
Violence continued across the country. The government agreed to another peace plan, vowing to pull troops out of cities by April 10. US and Arab states agreed to provide financing to rebels, including salaries to rebel fighters.
Egypt
Egypt’s Coptic Church representatives withdrew from the committee drafting the nation’s new constitution. Liberals have also withdrawn, leaving the committee dominated by Islamists.
Somalia
Two Shabaab fighters and a tax collector were killed in separate clashes in Mogadishu and Baidoa. Shabaab threatened to attack Kenya for sending troops into southern Somalia.
Al Qaeda
Pakistan court sentences bin Laden wives
Mali
Tuareg rebels seized control of Timbuktu, Kidal, and Gao over the past several days, putting them in control of the north. Gao was captured by Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa, an al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb faction.
Nigeria
Nine Boko Haram fighters and one soldier were killed after security forces raided a bomb factory in Ihima in Kogi state. Two security personnel were also wounded during the clash.
Afghan forces, families are prime target for Taliban, says commander
Qari Dawat, a Taliban leader in Kunar who has evaded security forces for years, has set his sights on the Afghan security forces as the US continues to pull back troops.
Iraq
Vice President Tareq al Hashemi, who is wanted for terrorism charges, left Kurdistan for Qatar. Prime Minister Maliki chided Qatar and Saudi Arabia for arming Syrian rebels. The government said the March death toll was the lowest since the US invaded in 2003.
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula killed seven Yemeni troops in Shibam in Hadramout province. Tribesmen north of Sana’a denied AQAP was fighting government forces there.
Ambassador Crocker’s warning to the West
Ambassador Ryan Crocker warns that al Qaeda is still in Afghanistan and will return in greater numbers if the West prematurely leaves.
United Kingdom
Britain set for sweeping Internet, phone monitoring
AQAP kills 7 more Yemeni troops in south
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula continues to take the fight to the Yemeni military in the south, despite US airstrikes.
Somalia
Nineteen people were killed during clashes between local militias and Somaliland forces in Buhodle and Las Anod. Eight people were killed during clashes between Shabaab forces and local tribes in Jowhar.
Kenya
The government accused Shabaab of carrying out yesterday’s grenade attacks in Mombasa that killed one person and wounded 15 more. Kenya’s security minister ordered forces “to beef up security in all public places and increase their patrols.”
France
A French intelligence official said that several of the 17 terror suspects arrested in recent sweeps, including members of the banned group Forsane Alizza, may have been planning a kidnapping. A member of the Jund al Khilafah claimed in an Internet posting that Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah had joined the terror group in Pakistan.
United States
Patrick Nayyar, an Indian citizen and illegal alien residing in Queens, N.Y., was convicted of attempting to provide material support to the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah. A co-conspirator, Conrad Stanisclaus Mulholland, who is also not a US citizen, remains at large.
Egypt
Parliament in the bag, Egyptian Islamists now eye presidency
NATO
Foot-Dragging And Firebrands: The Politics Of Pakistan’s Engagement With The US