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Syria Opposition Seeks Airstrikes Against Military
Monthly Archives: April 2013
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Boston Bomb Suspect Alarmed Russian Relatives With Extremist Views
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FBI: Boston suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev followed ‘radical Islam’
United States
Boston bombings expose limits of post-9/11 security
Israel
Uncertainty behind US escalation on Syria
Chechnya
Bombing probe focuses on 2011 warnings, 2012 Chechnya trip
Chechnya
Kyrgyz Former Neighbors Talk About Tsarnaevs, North Caucasus Ties
Chechnya
Interview: More About Tsarnaev Brothers And Their Ancestral Homeland
Afghanistan
The Afghanistan NGO Safety Office reported that Taliban attacks are up 47% the first quarter of this year as compared to last. Officials claimed 20 Taliban fighters were killed in Ghazni.
Iraq
Iraq held its first election, for provincial councils, since the US withdrew at the end of 2011. Two Iraqi soldiers were killed in a rocket attack on their base near Haditha. Iraqi soldiers killed an al Qaeda leader during a raid in Rabia.
Syria
Clashes between the Al Nusrah Front and villagers from al Masreb in Deir Ezzour resulted in the deaths of 17 villagers and 20 Nusrah fighters; Al Nusrah also took 13 villagers captive and burned houses in the village. The director of the Aleppo mosque has disappeared since being taken by government forces on April 9. […]
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia will soon open a luxury rehabilitation center in Riyadh for al Qaeda militants. There is already a rehab center in Jeddah, and three more are in the works. A total of 2,336 al Qaeda operatives have gone through the rehab program so far; some have returned to jihad, including Said al Shihri, who […]
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula assassinated a Yemeni intelligence officer as he traveled to his home in Mukallah. A court has begun to prosecute eight members of the crew of an Iranian vessel that was transporting arms to Yemen.
Egypt
Police arrested 39 people for involvement in clashes on April 19 that injured over 90 near the Supreme Court. The trial of 26 suspected Islamist militants was postponed. A leading Salafist said “martyrdom will pave the way” for “a long-prevailing nation.” The Interior Ministry provided Sinai police with heavier weapons to help target “hostile targets.” […]
Kenya
A masked gunman killed nine people at a hotel in Garissa, near the Somali border. Security officials said that al Qaeda (Shabaab or al Qaeda in East Africa) was behind the deadly attack.
Somalia
Shabaab claimed to have beheaded 127 “spies” who work for the government over the past four months. Shabaab also claimed that Dahabshiil, a money transfer business, is paying a $500,000 tax every six months. Two Shabaab factions clashed in the town of Bardera.
Libya
A lawyers’ human rights group said recent amendments to the interim Constitutional Declaration are “alarming.” The latest amendment, adopted on April 9, allegedly violates citizens’ rights and the principle of separation of powers.
Germany
Germany announced a plan to keep as many as 800 military trainers in Afghanistan after the NATO withdrawal in 2014. The plan calls for reducing the number of German soldiers in the country to about 300 by 2017.
Iran
Iran shows off missiles and drones at National Army Day
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – MPs Call to Stop Releasing Taliban Prisoners
United States
Boston Marathon bombing: ‘My sons are innocent’
Navigating the minefields of Kandahar
As US forces draw down from southern Afghanistan, the evolving IED tactics race enters its final stages.
Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl
Pakistan – JUI-F’s election plan: English, Urdu versions of manifesto termed incongruent
United States
Security forces captured Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, following a daylong search in Watertown, Mass. after his brother Tamarlane, another suspect in the case, died in a clash with police that also killed a policeman. Authorities investigating the case took two other men and a woman into custody in New […]
Pakistan
Police arrested former president Musharraf, based on allegations that he abused power while in office. Four rockets fired at two political gatherings in Wana in South Waziristan killed two people and injured 22 more. Anti-polio teams were attacked in Tank and Nawabhshah.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed 13 members of a pro-government militia in Ghazni, while a suicide bomber killed five policemen and two civilians in Helmand. Security forces killed two Taliban fighters in Laghman and two more in Helmand. Five would-be suicide bombers, including a woman, were detained in Nangarhar.
Chechnya
Profile: Tamerlan And Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Iraq
Insurgents killed nine Iraqis in a pair of attacks at two mosques in Kirkuk and Khalis, and an Awakening leader in Taji. Security forces captured six Al Nusrah Front members on the Syrian border and five al Qaeda operatives in Kirkuk.
Egypt
A Salafi leader said armed groups in the Sinai were prepared to hand over their weapons if Egyptian authorities agreed to treat them fairly. Clashes between Islamists and opponents near Cairo’s High Court left at least 95 injured. Egypt requested a $2 billion loan from Russia.
Senior IMU leader targeted in Samangan province
In the past, ISAF has stated that the northern province of Samangan was home to IMU training camps for fighters operating in the region.