Yearly Archives: 2012

Maldives

| April 1, 2012

‘Dictatorship is coming back to the Maldives and democracy is slipping away’

Syria

| April 1, 2012

Syria’s outgunned rebels in Idlib turn to homemade bombs

Egypt

| March 31, 2012

Islamist Group Breaks Pledge to Stay Out of Race in Egypt

Yemen

| March 31, 2012

Seventeen Yemeni soldiers and 13 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters were killed during fighting in Al Milah. AQAP forces overran a checkpoint and seized two tanks and other weapons before withdrawing to Ja’ar.

Syria

| March 31, 2012

The Arab League’s latest attempt to broker a peace deal failed. Syria said it would not be the first to withdraw its forces, and its army would remain in the cities until “peace and security” prevailed. A Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman said: “The battle to topple the state is over.”

Kenya

| March 31, 2012

One person was killed and more than 10 were wounded in two separate grenade attacks in Mombasa. The attacks took place at a Christian prayer gathering and a stadium.

Thailand

| March 31, 2012

In the deadliest attack in several years, coordinated bombings in the cities of Yala in Yala province and Hat Yai in Songkhla province killed 14 and wounded 341. The car bombs exploded near restaurants, shops, and a crowded hotel. In Pattani province, militants detonated a motorcycle near a police station, wounding one officer. Muslim insurgents […]

Tunisia

| March 31, 2012

Extremists control hundreds of Tunisia’s mosques: religious affairs minister

France

| March 31, 2012

The trial began of a Franco-Algerian nuclear physicist, Adlene Hicheur, suspected of involvement with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb; he had discussed European targets, including a French military base, with an AQIM operative. Willy Brigitte, a French Muslim convert sentenced to nine years in jail in 2007 for plotting to attack an Australian nuclear […]