-
Nigeria
Police are on high alert in Maiduguri in the state of Borno after suspected Boko Haram members sent text messages threatening an attack. Authorities are watching the movement of suspicious people in the Nigerian states bordering Chad, Niger, and Cameroon.
-
Afghanistan
US – The President’s flawed Afghan strategy
-
Afghanistan
G8 announces border plan to boost Afghan-Pakistan trade
-
Afghanistan
Afghan lawmakers resist Karzai™s move on election panel
-
Russia
Why the Moscow bombings weren’t breaking news in Russia
-
Taliban reading the papers, offering wish list?
The latest statement/commentary on the Taliban’s Voice of Jihad English-language web site [click here for copy at Scribd.com] shows that the Taliban info-machine is reading the papers. In painting the US as the bully in the neighborhood, not just in Afghanistan, the Taliban draw the eye to current news stories such as concerns about how information collected by private contractors in Pakistan and Afghanistan was being used: …. [N]o one can say America wants peace in Afghanistan. They have hidden and long-term colonialist objectives, not only in Afghanistan but in the whole region. By using Afghanistan as outpost, Washington wants…
-
Pakistan
Six Frontier Corps troops and more than 20 Taliban fighters were killed after the Taliban attacked an outpost in Khyber. Maulvi Noor Jamal, the Taliban leader in Kurram, survived an IED attack in Arakzai; four Taliban fighters were killed. The Taliban bombed a school in Arakzai.
-
Somalia
The government appointed a Shabaab sympathizer as envoy to the US. Shabaab reportedly sent 2,000 fighters with armored vehicles to the central town of Dhusamareb, where the pro-government militia Ahlu Sunna Wal Jama™a has imposed a curfew. At least 16 people were killed in clashes between rival clans in central Somalia. Pirates hijacked an Indian trade boat as it left Mogadishu port.
-
Russia
Caucasus Emirate leader Doku Umarov claimed responsibility for the March 29 double suicide attack at subway stations in Moscow that killed 39 people. Umarov claimed the suicide attacks were revenge for a February raid by the FSB and said more attacks inside Russia should be expected.
-
India
David Headley not connected to ISI, army: Pak
-
China
Yahoo targeted in China cyber attacks
-
Russia
Georgia accused over Moscow Metro bombing
-
Caucasus Emirate leader takes credit for Moscow suicide attacks
Doku Umarov claimed the attack was revenge for a February raid in the village of Arshty in Ingushetia. Umarov reiterated that attacks inside Russia would continue.
-
Al Qaeda
Saudi urges media to fight against terrorism
-
Al Qaeda
CIA says ACLU-backed plan endangered Gitmo officers
-
Russia
A pair of suicide bombers killed 13 people, including nine policemen, in an attack in the city of Kizlyar in Dagestan. The second bomber detonated as rescue operations for the first blast were under way. The chief of police of Kizlyar was among those killed.
-
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed 13 Afghans at a market in Lashkar Gah in Helmand. Police killed two Taliban fighters and captured two more in Herat. Afghan and Coalition forces detained a Haqqani Network commander and a fighter in Khost and Paktika. Admiral Mullen said he was “advised last night about a significant shipment of weapons from Iran into Kandahar.”
-
13 killed in double suicide attack in southern Russia
The first bomber detonated outside police headquarters in Dagestan, the second struck during rescue operations. The blasts took place just two days after the double suicide attack in Moscow’s metro.
-
Iraq
Iraq’s Sadrists propose vote on PM choice
-
Iran
An Iranian nuclear scientist defected to the US and has provided intelligence to the CIA. President Obama demanded a new sanctions deadline of “weeks, not months” for Iran. A US official said that “Iran is not leaving China much room to stand on.”
-
Short and sharp from the Taliban on Obama’s visit
The latest commentary from the Taliban’s Voice of Jihad English site (PDF via Scribd.com here) is pretty biting – here it is in its entirety [emphasis mine]: By making a 6-hour unannounced trip to Afghanistan last night, Obama proved that his military strategy and surge of 30,000 troops, his morale-boosting propaganda, all have failed to make a dent. The Mujahideen have further driven the enemy into the corner, to the extent that now he is not able to visit Afghanistan in the light of the day. He comes during the night and hurries back in the darkness, ironically acting like…
-
Pakistan
Pakistani state actors behind Mumbai terror assault
-
Nigeria
A spokesman for the radical Islamist group Boko Haram threatened to attack the US and the West. “Islam doesn’t recognize international boundaries, we will carry out our operations anywhere in the world if we can have the chance,” Musa Tanko told AFP. He also said the US “is the number one target.”
-
Afghanistan
Despite doubt, brother of Afghan leader retains power
-
Afghanistan
Canada adamant about Afghanistan pullout; France sounds supportive note
-
Al Qaeda
Karzai wraps up talks with insurgents
-
Al Qaeda
Moscow metro: 19 black widows could launch fresh attacks
-
Pakistan
A US strike in North Waziristan killed six Haqqani Network fighters. Pakistani strikes in Arakzai killed 36 Taliban fighters. The Taliban torched two schools in Dir. Iranian agents freed a diplomat kidnapped in Peshawar in 2008. The UN delayed the release of the report on the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
-
Al Qaeda
Pentagon eyeing drone shift to aid Somalia
-
US strikes kill 6 in North Waziristan
Unmanned US aircraft struck a compound in the village of Tapi. Pakistani military kills 36 Taliban in neighboring Arakzai.
