Somalia
Somali militants ‘block UN food aid’
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Pakistan
The Taliban released a tape of Hakeemullah Mehsud, but it did not confirm if he was alive. The head of the TNSM in Malakand surrendered to police. The military said it took control of the Badankot region in Bajaur. The Taliban took credit for the Feb. 27 suicide attack in Karak.
Iraq
Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani instructed clerics to remain neutral in the upcoming election. Insurgents killed the owner of a liquor store and three customers during an IED blast at the store in western Baghdad and an Iraqi soldier in Mosul. Security forces detained 12 wanted men in Basrah.
Pakistan
TPakistan: Taking the US for a ride
Al Qaeda
‘Invincible™ Taleban routed in raids on border camps
Al Qaeda
Iraqi Christians protest slayings, Pope concerned
Iran
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed that the IAEA “lacks independence” and its decisions “should not be influenced by the US and some (other) countries.” A top commander in the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said “Europe will spend the winter in the chill” if Iran chooses.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed 11 civilians in an IED attack in Helmand, four policemen in an IED attack in Khost, and five civilians in Kabul. More than 2,000 Marines and 1,000 Afghan troops will be stationed in Marja. Two senior police officials resigned after the Feb. 26 terror assault in Kabul.
Iran
How nuclear equipment reached Iran
Somalia
More than 10 top Shabaab officials, including among others Sheikh Hassan Abdullahi al Turki, who recently joined, and Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansur, held a closed-door meeting in Kismayo. Shabaab has announced it will ban World Food Programme (WFP) operations in Somalia, “generally starting from today,” a statement read. Pirates have freed a Greek-owned cargo […]
India
India seeks regional cooperation from S. Arabia
Afghanistan
Marines, Afghan troops to stay months in Marjah
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda released a new videotape of Hammam Khalil al Balawi, the Jordanian double agent who carried out the attack on a US combat outpost and killed seven CIA officials and a Jordanian intelligence officer. Balawi said that he wanted to kill the Jordanian agent for involvement in the deaths of Abu Musab al Zarqawi […]
Al Qaeda
Taliban militants find breathing room in slums of Karachi, Pakistan
Jamaat-ud-Dawa
Pak will have to fight war if India doesn’t talk: JuD chief
Bangladesh
Security forces detained five members of Jaish-e-Mohammad, including a Pakistani and four Bangladeshis, during a raid in a market in the capital of Dhaka. The five admitted to plotting attacks in the capital.
Taliban release videotape of Hakeemullah Mehsud
The leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan is seen in an interview, but there is no indication as to when the tape was recorded.
Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, US seeks to fix a tattered system of justice
United Kingdom
UK – Islamic radicals ‘infiltrate’ the Labour Party
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed three policemen and a civilian in Karak. Security forces killed 25 Taliban fighters in Kohat and Peshawar; one soldier was killed in the fighting. A curfew has been imposed in Dera Ismail Khan after sectarian violence resulted in four deaths.
Mauritania
The Mauritanian authorities have killed three armed men and captured 18 others in a large militarized zone designated by the military as an Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb operating area. The convoy of SUVs and trucks was manned by armed Mauritanian, Malian, and Algerian nationals and was reported to be carrying drugs. The affiliation […]
Al Qaeda
In Yemen™s South, protests could cause more instability
Al Qaeda
Frustrated strivers in Pakistan turn to jihad
Suicide bomber targets police in Pakistan’s northwest
The blast leveled a police station and a mosque in the district of Karak, killing three policemen and a civilian.
Yemen
The government declared a state of emergency in the southern city of Dalea after a policeman was gunned down there two days ago. Sappers have entered Sanaa to defuse IEDs left by Houthi rebels.
Taliban playing nicer?
Are the Taliban really trying to be a kinder, gentler entity? Reuters provides a reminder of the reality of the Taliban: Taliban fighters opened fire, hurled grenades and staged suicide bombings in central Kabul yesterday, killing at least 16 people in defiance of the Western-backed government and a NATO offensive. An Italian diplomat and Indian […]
Afghanistan
US unveils Bagram handover plan
Switzerland
Switzerland unruffled by Qaddafi™s call for ‘jihad™ in wake of its ban on new minarets
India
Haqqani behind Kabul terror strike?
Afghanistan
Troops clear last pockets of resistance in Marjah