Saudi Arabia
Uproar over Saudi women’s ‘SMS tracking’
Yearly Archives: 2012
Syria
Syrian refugees slipping into Turkey
Afghanistan
A Change in the Afghan Fighting Season, Borne on the Raindrops
Al Nusrah Front claims suicide attack at hospital, joint operation with Chechen fighters
The suicide attack targeted a military headquarters at a French hospital in Aleppo. In Handarat, Al Nusrah launched an assault on an air defense brigade base with a “battalion of Chechen emigrants.”
United States
Three Malian men arrested in 2009 on suspicion of international drug trafficking for al Qaeda were given light sentences because the judge believed the defendants were motivated by economic circumstances, not terrorist ideology. The government dropped narco-terrorism charges after the men pled guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist group.
Egypt
Islamic Jihad: Gaza ceasefire not end of battle
Egypt
Egypt’s President Morsi takes sweeping new powers
Hamas
Hamas leaders emerge stronger than ever, Palestinians say
India
Pakistani Taliban threaten to avenge Kasab’s execution
India
India asks Pakistan to increase security at embassy in Islamabad
Afghanistan
Security forces killed 12 Taliban fighters, including several Pakistanis, in Zabul, and four more in Faryab. The deputy NDS chief in Herat was gunned down in the streets.
Somalia
One person was killed after Shabaab fighters attacked the home of a senior official in Kismayo. Security forces detained 20 armed Shabaab fighters during sweeps in Mogadishu.
Algeria
The military killed four al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb fighters during a raid in the town of Bordj Menaiel in Boumerdes. The region is a known AQIM hotspot.
Taliban claim attacks against Shia worshipers in Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed 12 people in Rawalpindi, while two more were killed in bombings in Karachi. Shia worshipers were the targets of both attacks.
US adds Pakistani hawala, 2 Taliban financiers to terrorism list
Rahat Ltd., a Pakistan-based hawala, its owner, and the owner of the Quetta branch, were added to the terrorism list for supporting the Taliban, including Mullah Barich, the shadow governor of Helmand province.
Gaza-based Salafi jihadists conduct joint rocket attacks, Sinai jihadists suppressed
The Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem and the Army of Islam claimed to have carried out joint rocket attacks against Israel in the past couple of days. Meanwhile, the efforts of Sinai-based Salafi jihadists to join the recent fighting appear to have been suppressed.
Al Qaeda
Internal emails offer details on bin Laden burial
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed two security guards in an attack outside of Camp Eggers in Kabul. The government executed 14 prisoners in the past two days; the Taliban described them as “prisoners of war.”
Iraq
“Gunmen” killed the chief of the Abu Ghraib local council and two of his sons. Security forces detained a Naqshabandia commander in Mosul. The government allotted $7.7 million to fund the Awakening.
Israel
After eight days of violence in Gaza, a truce agreement was reached between Israel and Hamas. Both sides continued to fire up to the 9 p.m. truce deadline, but no major breaches were reported in the hours since. After the truce has held for 24 hours, talks are to begin to address Hamas’s demand that […]
Yemen
A colonel who commanded a tank battalion and several soldiers were killed during fighting with “tribesmen” in Marib after an oil pipeline was bombed. The US Embassy urged Americans in Yemen to leave the country.
Mali
Jules Berto Rodriguez Leal, a French citizen, was kidnapped in Diema in western Mali. Six other Frenchmen have been kidnapped by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and other Islamist groups operating in Mali.
Libya
Colonel Faraj Mohammed Idris Drissi , the director of security for Benghazi, was gunned down in front of his home by masked men. Drissi had issued a directive for security forces to tackle the militias in the city in the wake of Ansar al Sharia’s storming of the US Consulate.
Al Qaeda
‘Intelligence Community’ Deleted Al Qaeda Reference From CIA Benghazi Document
Turkey
Turkey asked NATO for Patriot missiles to be deployed as a deterrent against Syrian attacks. The US, the Netherlands, and Germany are possible suppliers for the missile system. NATO said any such deployment would be defensive in nature and not the imposition of a no-fly zone.
From al Qaeda in Italy to Ansar al Sharia Tunisia
Two convicted members of an al Qaeda-affiliated terror network in Italy are now senior members of Ansar al Sharia Tunisia. One of them, Sami Ben Khemais Essid, was the head of al Qaeda’s operations in Italy and plotted to attack the US Embassy in Rome in early 2001.
Bus bombing in Tel Aviv injures at least 21
On Wednesday, a bomb exploded on a public bus in Tel Aviv, injuring at least 21 people. Israeli authorities are currently searching for the perpetrators of the attack.
Afghanistan
Pakistan, Afghanistan, ISAF agree on border coordination
United States
Four California men were arrested for planning to fight with the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan against the US. Sohiel Omar Kabir, a naturalized US citizen from Afghanistan, organized the terrorist training and travel plans for US residents Ralph Deleon and Miguel Alejandro Santana Vidriales and US citizen Arifeen David Gojali. Kabir introduced the […]
Hamas
Palestinian Authority sidelined in Hamas-Israel conflict