Afghanistan
Afghan killer of six Americans was trusted police officer
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Al Qaeda
Nuclear fuel memos expose wary dance With Pakistan
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed a policeman and five civilians in Bannu. Three Taliban fighters blew themselves up after being surrounded by police in Buner. Police arrested four Taliban fighters in Karachi. A Jaish-e-Mohammed member was killed in Karachi.
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured scores of Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kunar, Khost, Paktika, and Paktia. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the east and captured nine security guards in Kabul. President Karzai has been pardoning hundreds of Taliban leaders and fighters.
Iraq
Insurgents killed a soldier and two civilians in attacks in Mosul, Baghdad, and Balad. Security forces detained 10 wanted men and discovered a bomb factory in Mosul.
Somalia
Fifteen more people were killed during clashes between Shabaab fighters and Somali and African Union forces in Mogadishu. Puntland blamed Shabaab for the assassination of a court official in Bosaso. A US court sentenced a Somali pirate to 30 years in prison.
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters wounded two soldiers in an IED attack in Lauder. Houthi rebels established checkpoints to find AQAP fighters in the north. A court adjourned the trial of a journalist accused of working with AQAP.
Thailand
Suspected Islamist insurgents injured five policemen in a bombing at a market in Songkhla province. Insurgents planted the remotely detonated bomb under a bench in the rarely violence-stricken province. A janitor was murdered by insurgents as he was traveling home from the school he worked at in Pattani province.
Philippines
Gunmen kidnapped 12 villagers in Basilan island who were returning from a fishing trip. No group has claimed responsibility but weapons and a ransom have been demanded for their release. Clan rivalry is the suspected reason for the kidnappings, although Abu Sayyaf has been active in the area.
United States
All US-bound airlines to get info for watch lists
Afghanistan
Afghan prison guards ‘fully trained,’ commander says
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Two suspected Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb Islamist fighters were killed and others were wounded in clashes with Algerian authorities. Three soldiers were also injured during the clashes in the Tiffellat region, 200 kilometers from Algiers. AQIM denied that 28 members of the terror organization defected to Mauritanian authorities.
Pakistan
Pakistani woman publicly lashed by Taliban seeks justice
Afghanistan
9 Afghan guards kidnapped in Kabul province
Pakistan
Anticorruption group claims harassment in Pakistan
Pakistan
Police arrests Taliban planning Karachi attacks
Al Qaeda in Iraq
The cost of security for Americans who stay in Iraq when troops leave will be high
Taliban
US military unveils ‘smart gun’
Iran
Tehran said released Wikileaks documents reinforce its skepticism of Obama’s negotiation strategy over the Iranian nuclear program. Beirut endorsed Iran’s civilian nuclear research program.
United States
US rethinks access to data
Afghanistan
Hoping to avoid bombs and win Afghan minds
Al Qaeda
Mixed portraits of Oregon terrorism suspect
Al Qaeda
Displaced Pakistanis prepare for risky return to South Waziristan
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Al-Qaeda’s Yemen affiliate spreading its reach for recruits, targets
China
North Korea details expanded nuclear program
Pakistan
The Taliban threatened to kill Hamid Saeed Kazmi, Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Religious Affairs, if he didn’t resign. Kazmi was the target of a suicide attack in September 2009. The Taliban kidnapped four truckers and torched three trucks in Mohmand.
ISAF targets another Iran-based commander in western Afghanistan
ISAF continues to target what is clearly a major al Qaeda and Qods Force-linked Taliban cell that operates in Farah province in western Afghanistan. From the latest ISAF press release: Afghan and coalition forces in Farah province detained several suspected insurgents as they targeted a Taliban leader during a joint security operation yesterday. The forces […]
Iraq
Security forces detained a senior Ansar al Sunnah leader in Kirkuk and 50 wanted men in Amarah. Insurgents killed two civilians in Baqubah and a railway employee in Anbar.
Afghanistan
A policeman killed six ISAF troops in the east. The Taliban killed two children in an IED attack in Kandahar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Farah, Khost, Paktia, Logar, and Wardak. Admiral Mullen said the US drawdown will begin in July 2011.
US targeted Zawahiri during past raids in Pakistan
Ayman al Zawahiri. The Associated Press reports on three US attempts to kill or capture Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s second-in-command. All three near-misses took place in northwestern Pakistan: the first in the city of Peshawar in 2003, the second in the tribal agencies of South Waziristan in 2004, and the third in Bajaur in […]