Pakistan
Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat banned in Pakistan: Report
Yearly Archives: 2012
Pakistan
US Predators killed 13 “militants” in a strike in South Waziristan. The Taliban killed seven Pakistani soldiers in North Waziristan and a tribal militia leader in Arakzai, and threatened the military and government if Osama bin Laden’s widows are not freed from prison. Prime Minister Gilani named the new chief of the ISI.
IDF kills head of Popular Resistance Committee in Gaza strike
A decade of Israeli airstrikes against Palestinian terror groups has failed to lead to their collapse.
Iran
Analysis: Eyeing Iran, Israel focuses on the day after
Pakistan
Pakistani School Takes Hands-Off Approach To Combating Extremism
Jordan
US, Jordan Eye Syria Chemical-Weapons Stocks
Syria
Syria Army Defections Surge
Ennahda
Culture war brews between new Islamist movement and secularists in post-revolution Tunisia
Inter-Services Intelligence Agency
Pakistan names new spymaster
Afghanistan
The US agreed to transfer control of the Parwan Detention Facility to the Afghan government in six months. The Taliban killed a civilian in a bombing at a Sufi shrine in Kandahar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Helmand, Khost, Paktia, Wardak, and Laghman.
European Union
Hands Off the Heavens
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula announced the death of Mohamed Ahmed al Haniq, the commander for forces in Arhab in Lahj province. Haniq died of natural causes. One of his sons died fighting US forces in Iraq, another was killed in a US airstrike in Yemen.
Yemen
Shia Houthi rebels killed a military officer and six bodyguards in an attack at a checkpoint in Amran. Yemeni troops returned fire, killing three Houthi fighters.
Israel
Israel launched an airstrike in Gaza, killing Zuheir al-Qessi, leader of the Popular Resistance Committees, the organization that captured former IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. A second airstrike killed two members of Islamic Jihad as they prepared to fire rockets into Israel.
Al Qaeda
A Not-Quite Confirmation of a Memo Approving Killing
Bahrain
In the largest demonstration in the past year, tens of thousands of Bahrainis marched demanding democratic reforms. The march was in response to the urging of a Shia cleric for people to renew their calls for greater democracy.
Nigeria
“Gunmen” killed a civilian and wounded three policemen in an attack on a police station in Kano. British special forces carried out the failed raid that resulted in the deaths of a British and an Italian hostage.
Inter-Services Intelligence Agency
In secret deal, ISI allows US drone war to resume
Al Qaeda
Hostage tragedy: Nigeria is in danger of turning into a blood-soaked African Pakistan
Afghanistan
No plan for anti-drug raids in Afghanistan: Russia
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Blood, Recriminations in Wake of Nigeria Mission
Al Qaeda
Osama bin Laden’s ‘2004 house in Pakistan’ back on the market
Taliban demand release of bin Laden’s wives, kill 7 Pakistani troops
“We will carry out suicide bombings against security forces and the government across the country,” a Taliban spokesman said. The Taliban also threatened two female Pakistani activists who have worked for the well-being of women and children in Pakistan.
US drones kill at least 13 in South Waziristan strike
Today’s strike is the first in Pakistan’s tribal areas in 14 days, and just the eighth this year.
Egypt
Islamists could crown Egypt’s next president
Al Qaeda
Bin Laden widows charged for illegal stay in Pakistan: Malik
Al Qaeda
Drone strikes are attack on Pakistan’s sovereignty: Gilani
Al Qaeda
Pakistan – Taliban in talks to end ‘serious differences’
Israel
On Iran Nuclear Effort, 2 Questions Split U.S. and Israel
United States
FBI Director Mueller warned Congress the US must act swiftly to counter the rising threat of cyberattacks by terrorist groups. “Terrorists have shown interest in pursuing hacking skills,” he stated. Recently he noted a terrorist recruitment video that claimed “cyberwarfare will be the warfare of the future.”