Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed only himself in an attack outside of a police station in Dir. The FBI will lead the investigation into a suicide attack that killed two Pakistanis and wounded two US Consulate personnel in Peshawar.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed four Afghan soldiers in attacks in Farah and Baghdis. Security forces killed a Taliban commander and 11 fighters in Wardak. Two ISAF soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash in Logar. The Afghan military dismissed hundreds of soldiers for involvement in green-on-blue attacks.
Afghanistan
Afghan soldiers fired during insider attacks probe
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Analysis: Some Gulf rulers wary of U.S. shifts on Islamists, Iran
Hamas
Hamas: An Islamist party tries to regain its luster
Syria
Free Syrian Army battles surplus of fighters and shortage of guns
Turkey
Turkish fighter jets and helicopters, along with about 2,000 ground forces, attacked positions held by the Kurdistan Workers Party near the border with Iraq and Syria. The aircraft bombed suspected militant targets on Kato mountain in Sirnak province.
Afghanistan
Taliban Will Not Be Able to Return Without Reconciling: ISAF
Egypt
In his first foreign policy speech, President Morsi called on Syrian president Assad to step down and warned Iran against interfering in Arab affairs. In the Sinai, the Egyptian army began replacing heavy tanks with lighter armored vehicles, signalling that the operation against Islamic militants had entered a new phase.
Yemen
US drones killed six “Islamist militants” in an airstrike in the eastern province of Hadramout. The Seyaj Organization for Childhood Protection, a Yemeni human rights group, condemned the US drone strikes.
Morocco
Thami Najim, a citizen of Denmark and Morocco, was sentenced to only 10 months in prison on terrorism charges. He and two other suspects were arrested in February for planning terror attacks against the Moroccan state. He is said to be a webmaster and IT provider for the Islamist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir. Morocco refused to […]
Somalia
Shabaab forces clashed with Somali and AMISOM troops near Afmadow and in Garbaharey. Shabaab forces withdrew from Mahas. Somali troops are preparing to launch an offensive to retake Johwar.
Europe
Euro imams, rabbis pledge zero tolerance for hate preachers
Mali
Interim President Dioncounda Traore formally requested that the Economic Community of West African States “provide a military contribution to stabilise the country and especially re-conquer the north,” a French diplomat said. ECOWAS is considering a deployment of 3,300 troops but wants UN approval.
Afghanistan
Afghan military says it has expelled, arrested ‘hundreds’ of its troops
Yemen
Donors pledge $6.4 billion in aid to Yemen
IRGC
Iran says it treats Israeli military threats as American
Fatah al Islam emir killed while waging jihad in Syria
Abu Hussam al Shami served as the leader of the Al Khilafah (Caliphate) Brigades in Syria and was killed in an ambush near Damascus.
Libya
Mauritanian authorities handed over Abdullah al Senussi, former intelligence chief for Muammar Ghaddafi, for trial in Libya. Al Senussi is linked to the Lockerbie bombing, an airliner bombing over Niger, and a massacre at a Libyan prison. He is also wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes in Benghazi, and by France, which has […]
6 ‘Islamist militants’ killed in US drone strike in Yemen
Five out of the last seven strikes since the beginning of August have hit AQAP targets in the eastern province of Hadramout.
Iran
Iran Supplying Syrian Military via Iraq Airspace
Abu Sayyaf
Philippine police boost security after bomb scare
United States
Hackers claim 12 million IDs from FBI
Pakistan
FBI probing Peshawar suicide attack: US
Afghanistan
US to hand over Bagram prison next week: Kabul
Pakistan
Pakistan – 2,000 minorities girls converted to Islam forcibly: report
Egypt
Islamists installed in Egypt state institutions
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed 30 people in an attack at a funeral in Nangarhar. President Karzai pardoned more than 3,000 prisoners. An “illegal militia group” killed three civilians in Parwan.
Bahrain
An appeals court upheld the convictions of 20 activists convicted of trying to overthrow the government. Leaders in the group were in “intelligence contact” with Iran and its ally Hezbollah.
Iraq
Insurgents killed six Iraqi soldiers in an IED attack in Tuz Khurmatu and a police avdiser in Kirkuk. Security forces detained 18 wanted “terrorists” in Babil.