Afghanistan
Pakistan – Two NATO tankers reach Torkham
Yearly Archives: 2012
Afghanistan
As ‘insider attacks’ grow, so does US-Afghanistan divide
Ansar Jerusalem eulogizes Eilat attacker in new video
Today Ansar Jerusalem released a video to jihadist forums in which it eulogizes Ibrahim Oweidah Nasser Bereikat, who died on Aug. 26, and shows the interrogation of a “spy” involved in his assassination.
Afghanistan
Thirty-six Taliban fighters and two policemen were killed during fighting throughout the country. Twelve missiles fired from Iran have landed in Nimroz. Energy and Water Minister Ismail Khan is distributing weapons to militias.
Taliban suicide bomber kills 5 people in Peshawar
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan claimed credit for the attack that killed a senior police official.
United States
Muhammad Salah, of Bridgeview, Ill., designated as a terrorist in 1995, was delisted as the deadline loomed for a response to his challenge to the listing. He was jailed for five years in Israel for supporting Hamas, was tried in the US on similar charges, and spent time in prison for lying in a civil […]
Egypt
Egypt – Constitution authors lean toward restricting gender equality, religious freedom
Iraq
One al Qaeda fighter was killed and two more were wounded in a premature detonation in Ninewa. Security forces detained four gunmen near a school in Anbar and four al Qaeda fighters in Diyala.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan rules out peace deals with Haqqanis
Yemen
An intelligence official was assassinated in Sana’a; at least 55 intelligence operatives have been killed in Yemen so far this year. Tarek al Fadli, an al Qaeda-linked tribal leader in Abyan province, has been ordered to surrender to the government.
Somalia
A car bomb was detonated near the parliament building in Mogadishu; one soldier was killed in the blast. Puntland security forces killed a Shabaab commander in Dhahar.
Afghanistan
Missiles Fired From Iran Into Afghanistan: Security Official
Afghanistan
Afghanistan Jihadi Council Distributing Weapons to ‘Units’: Herat Spox
Mali
Ansar Dine, one of the Islamist groups that has seized northern Mali, reached an agreement with ECOWAS to allow humanitarian aid into the area. The agreement calls for the return of refugees and the creation of an environment conducive to a peace deal, and promises that Ansar Dine “rejects all forms of extremism and terrorism.”
Egypt
In Egypt streets, Islamists throw weight around
Turkey
Turkish commandos conducted raids on Kurdistan Workers’ Party bases located inside Iraq near the Turkish border. It remains unclear whether Turkey plans to ask NATO for Patriot missiles to protect the NATO radar system in Kürecik in eastern Turkey.
Zawahiri says raids on diplomatic facilities were ‘defeats’ for US
In a message addressed to Shabaab, al Qaeda’s affiliate in Somalia, Ayman al Zawahiri cites the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi, as well as the assaults on US embassies in Cairo and Sanaa, as evidence of American weakness.
Canada
Canada – BC transit police adopting New York City tactics after bomb scare
Al Qaeda
Syria envoy warns country could turn into Somalia
Haqqani Network
Pakistan already cracking down on Haqqani network: Pakistani government
Saudi Arabia
Saudi sharia judges decry Westernising stench of legal reforms
Al Qaeda
Yemen chief suspected of links to al Qaeda ordered to surrender
Iran
From Sudan to cyber, secret war with Iran heats up
Syria
In Syria’s Biggest City, A Deadly Stalemate
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Photos from the new Timbuktu, as controlled by radical Islamists
ISAF captures IMU weapons trafficker in northern Afghanistan
The raid by ISAF and Afghan forces is the first reported against the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in nearly a month.
Germany
The banned German Salafist group Millatu Ibrahim issued a statement on jihadist forums announcing its shift from preaching to jihad, and praising two women as its “first martyrs.” The women died in a car accident on Eid al-Adha after emigrating from Germany with their husbands and “many brothers and sisters” to “the land of jihad […]
Afghanistan
Nine Taliban fighters and three Afghan soldiers have been killed during fighting throughout the country. Provincial officials in Herat said five districts are on the verge of falling to the Taliban. ISAF captured an IMU weapons trafficker in Kunduz. The government said it would not negotiate with the Haqqani Network.
Afghanistan
The United Nations added the Haqqani Network to its list of designated terrorist groups. The UN said the Haqqani Network works with the Taliban to destabilize Afghanistan and has links to al Qaeda.
Iraq
A suicide bomber killed 31 Iraqis in an attack outside a military training center in Taji. Security forces detained 11 al Qaeda members during a raid in Taji.