Monthly Archives: July 2013

United Kingdom

| July 18, 2013

Police arrested two men today on suspicion of involvement in bomb blasts targeting mosques in Walsall and Tipton on June 21; the suspects, aged 22 and 25, are described as eastern European. Police also searched a mosque in Wolverhampton today for an explosive device reportedly “activated” on June 28.

United States

| July 17, 2013

The Arab League issued a statement endorsing Secretary of State Kerry’s latest effort to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks; Kerry did not reveal details of the proposals made to the Arab League. A dispute between the Afghan government and the US over taxation is slowing down the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan. A federal appellate court […]

Pakistan

| July 17, 2013

The Taliban killed four members of pro-government militias in separate attacks in Khyber, Bajaur, and Tank. Security forces captured a suspected Taliban fighter who was involved in an attack that wounded a senior judge on the Sindh High Court and killed his driver.

Egypt

| July 17, 2013

Behind Egypt’s coup, months of acrimony between Morsi and top general over Sinai, policies

Iran

| July 17, 2013

Iranian Economists Call For ‘Civil Movement’ To Counter US-Led Sanctions

Afghanistan

| July 17, 2013

The Taliban killed seven Afghan soldiers and the brother of President Karzai’s national security advisor in separate attacks. Afghan officials claimed that 15 Taliban fighters were killed in an ISAF airstrike in Logar. A district chief in Nangarhar was dismissed after complaining about the rise of Taliban activity in the province.

Iraq

| July 17, 2013

Insurgents killed four youths as they were swimming in a stream in Wajihiya. Security forces captured an al Qaeda leader near Mosul. A court sentenced an al Qaeda leader who brutally murdered Iraqis in Baghdad to hang.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

| July 17, 2013

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released a martyrdom statement for Said al Shihri, the terror group’s deputy emir. He was killed in a US drone strike in Yemen. Al Shihri was a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay.

Egypt

| July 17, 2013

Militants attacked a police station in the Sinai and killed at least one soldier. Egyptian security forces recently arrested a number of jihadists operating in the Sinai Peninsula who are linked to Ramzi Mowafi, a former physician for Osama bin Laden who now leads al Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula. Former president Hosni Mubarak and […]

Somalia

| July 17, 2013

Shabaab claimed it killed seven Ugandan “invaders” in an attack in Jannaale. Amniyat, Shabaab’s intelligence service, is in charge of protecting Sheikh Mukhtar Abu Zubayr, Shabaab’s emir.

Libya

| July 17, 2013

Prime Minister Zeidan threatened to “use force” to restore law and order, and said he plans to raise wages for soldiers and policemen. The commander of the Air Force’s Search and Rescue Division was assassinated in the Islamist stronghold of Derna on July 15. Four military police vehicles in Tripoli were damaged yesterday in a […]

United Kingdom

| July 17, 2013

The independent reviewer of terror laws reported that the UK terror threat is now “more complicated” due to a trend toward “smaller and less organized” plots, but noted that in three recent plots “the ring leaders had either trained in Pakistan or had been to Pakistan and had contact with al-Qaeda.” The current threat level […]

Bangladesh

| July 17, 2013

The country’s war crimes tribunal sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami politician Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid to death. Mujahid led a militia responsible for the deaths of intellectuals and other leaders who supported the country’s independence from Pakistan; as many as 3 million people are said to have died during the nine-month war of secession. At least two people […]

Egypt

| July 16, 2013

Salafists Gain from Chaos in Egypt after Muslim Brotherhood Shooting