Classified Defense Department studies summarized by the General Accounting Office cast doubt on the feasibility and practicality of a multibillion-dollar missile shield designed to protect the US from Iranian missiles. General Allen said he did not believe a more moderate branch of the Taliban supporting women’s right to education had emerged. Defense Secretary Panetta lobbied […]
Did the CIA Betray Syria’s Rebels?
Egyptian Salafist leaders plan visit to Gaza
The Taliban killed six civilians in an IED attack in Helmand and a policeman in a bombing in Herat. Police killed five Taliban fighters in operations throughout the country. ISAF captured an IMU leader in Burkah.
US Sets Stage for Exodus from Afghanistan
Some Taliban prisoners released by Pakistan are back in battle, officials fear
Six people were killed in a mortar and rocket attack at a camp that houses members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq. Gunmen assassinated a security guard at his home in Baghdad. Police arrested seven al Qaeda in Iraq fighters in Fallujah.
“Gunmen” bombed a pipeline in the Wadi Abida area in Marib; the military responded by firing artillery. The leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Rada’a is said to be in Sana’a to conduct talks with the government.
Shabaab claimed that 204 “apostate militia” members defected from the government in Qansaxdhere, Gedo, and Bay and Bakool over the past three months. Britain will deploy military advisers to Mogadishu.
Violent tide of Salafism threatens the Arab spring
Government aircraft struck targets across Damascus. Fighting broke out in the town of Daraya and in the eastern district of Jobar. The Minister of Information said the government was open to dialogue with the opposition without any preconditions.
Fatwa in Egypt Permits Killing Morsi Opponents
A judge ordered YouTube to be blocked for 30 days for carrying the trailer to the controversial film “Innocence of Muslims” that caused massive protests in September 2012. An Islamic Jihad leader endorsed the use of violence against opponents of President Morsi. The opposition planned four rallies against Morsi for Monday.
Four men detained for smuggling arms to Egypt escaped from custody in an ambush near Benghazi. A car bomb exploded in Beida; militants are said to be infiltrating the area. The military commander for Sirte was “arrested” by members of the Zawia Martyrs’ Brigade. The Supreme Court ruled that under sharia a wife cannot prevent […]
Local Powerbrokers Behind Illegal Mining: Afghan Govt
The bomber killed only himself in an attempted attack on security forces in Gao.
Hundreds of Ennahda party supporters demonstrated in Tunis after massive opposition protests yesterday at the funeral of slain leader Chokri Belaid. Islamists denounced Prime Minister Jebali’s offer to form a new cabinet; wanted Ansar al Sharia leader Abu Iyadh had warned Islamists on the day Belaid was killed that compromise with secularists amounts to “political […]
Islamist fighters fleeing the French-led intervention in Mali arrived in Kutum and Adumur in North Darfur. They traveled in armed Land Cruisers, entering Sudan through its southwestern border with the Central African Republic.
Debating a Court to Vet Drone Strikes
Looted Libyan Arms in Mali May Have Shifted Conflict’s Path
Malian soldiers arrested two jihadists with explosives at a checkpoint outside Gao, one day after a suicide attack in the city. The bomber in yesterday’s attack had been living in a house in Gao that was a known militant hideout, where Moktar Belmoktar had visited and MUJAO leaders had stayed.
AHRC says religious extremists creating bloodbath in Sindh
Why Pakistan should not talk to the TTP
Additionally, ISAF captured a senior Taliban commander who worked with the Hizb-i-Islami Gulbuddin and who facilitated suicide attacks.
Prosecuting Mali’s Extremists
Strains Deepen as Tunisia Buries Politician
Push to Expand US ‘Kill List’
France plays down report of ransom paid for Niger hostages
Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsani Nafis, a Bangladeshi man who came to the US for violent jihad, pled guilty in Manhattan to plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve Building. He said he was influenced by al Qaeda’s Inspire magazine and ideologue Anwar al Awlaki. Secretary of State John Kerry said the US was looking at […]
US drones killed two Arab al Qaeda operatives, including an explosives expert, four Uzbeks, and a Taliban fighter in a strike in South Waziristan. Pakistan’s foreign secretary claimed al Qaeda has been eliminated in his country.