Pakistan
The Taliban killed a child in a bombing in Peshawar. China said that fighters from the East Turkestan Islamic Movement continue to train in Pakistani terror camps.
Yearly Archives: 2012
North Korea
No policy shift from new North Korea leader despite nuclear deal
Syria
Ill-armed Syrian rebels wage unequal struggle
Syria
US general: Syria’s Assad likely to stay in power ‘for some time’
Afghanistan
Six British soldiers “are missing” and “believed killed, after their armoured vehicle was caught in an explosion” in Helmand. The Taliban killed four Afghans in Kandahar.
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula demanded the Yemeni government free its imprisoned members in exchange for 73 soldiers captured in Al Koud. AQAP claimed credit for the Al Koud raid, which killed 185 soldiers.
Iraq
Al Qaeda in Iraq killed 14 civilians in an IED and suicide attack in Tal Afar near the Syrian border. Insurgents killed four Iraqis in a bombing in Baghdad.
Al Qaeda
Nigeria: Radical Islamist sect sets another school ablaze amid international watchdog warning
US adds Qods Force general as ‘Narcotics Kingpin’ for heroin, weapons smuggling in Afghanistan
General Gholamreza Baghbani, the senior Qods Force officer in Zahedan, facilitates heroin and opium smuggling to arm the Taliban in Afghanistan, according to the US Treasury.
Iran
Six world powers agreed to new talks with Iran over its nuclear program. Hamas said it would not support Iran in case of a war with Israel. Ayatollah Khamenei ordered officials to set up a body to control the Internet.
Libya
Tribal leaders and militia commanders in Benghazi declared eastern Libya to be a semiautonomous state. A Libyan leader in Tripoli threatened to use force to prevent the autonomy bid.
Uganda
Video: Joseph Kony 2012: online video campaign to bring Uganda war criminal to justice goes viral
Al Qaeda
Yemen reels from army’s defeat by al-Qaida
Nigeria
Boko Haram fighters attacked government offices, a police station, and a prison in Maiduguri. Three Boko Haram fighters who were killed in Maiduguri on March 5 were attempting to torch a school. An anonymous Boko Haram spokesman said “the group would “strike fear into the Christians of the power of Islam by kidnapping their women.”
AQAP underestimates Yemeni casualties in Al Koud raid
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said “100 soldiers and officers” were killed during last weekend’s raid. In fact, more than 185 Yemeni troops have been killed.
Al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri spotted at Taliban meeting
Kashmiri is reported to have met with Hakeemullah Mehsud, the leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, in North Waziristan.
North Korea
N. Korea makes progress on nuclear reactor
Iran
On Iran Nuclear Effort, 2 Questions Split US and Israel
Libya
Eastern Libya Demands Measure of Autonomy
Al Qaeda
Top Qaeda operative Ilyas Kashmiri still alive
Attorney General Holder addresses Awlaki killing
Holder failed to give any real legal basis for the targeted killing of Awlaki, offering only political rhetoric to explain the Obama administration’s decision to take out one of America’s most wanted terrorists.
Yemen
The Interior Ministry has deployed two units to Al Huta, the provincial capital of Lahj. The Yemeni Army is preparing to launch a “decisive battle” in Abyan with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Somalia
Shabaab arrested 10 women in Afgoye for unknown reasons. Shabaab’s governor for the Banadir region said the terror group is still conducting attacks in Mogadishu and denied its forces withdrew from the capital.
Egypt
Egyptian cleric Abd Al Maguid Al Shazli said “the banner of jihad will be raised in Egypt” and praised al Qaeda’s operations and leaders. Shazli made his statement at a funeral that was attended by Egyptian presidential candidate Hazem Abu Ismail.
Nigeria
Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, reportedly escaped a raid in Kano last week; his ex-wife is said to have been detained. Boko Haram fighters killed two security guards at the home of the state commissioner of police in Kano.
Pakistani Taliban deputy Faqir Mohammad demoted
Faqir claims he was not notified of his dismissal and said the Taliban have supported negotiations with the government.
AQAP raid decimates Yemeni mechanized battalion
According to the latest count, the Sunday night raid in Al Koud killed 185 Yemeni soldiers, wounded more than 150, and left another 55 in enemy hands.
Iran
Iran says it will let nuclear inspectors in… two weeks after sending them home
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – President defends scholars’ guideline regarding women
Afghanistan
The PR challenge in Afghanistan: suicide bombing, Quran burning, and murky data