Afghanistan
US defense official sees Afghan progress
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Pakistan
US Predators killed three Arab al Qaeda fighters and four Taliban fighters in North Waziristan. The Pakistani air force killed 12 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. The Taliban beheaded three “criminals” in Mohmand. The Haqqani Network is negotiating with the Turi tribe in Kurram.
Afghanistan
France will begin withdrawing troops in 2011. The Taliban killed three civilians in Zabul, a policeman in Takhar, and an ISAF soldier in the south. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Khost, and Logar.
United Kingdom
UK – Terrorist whips up crowd minutes after release from jail
NATO
Kandahar campaign’s fate not clear until June: NATO
Al Qaeda
FBI: Subway bomb suspect wanted to become a martyr
Al Qaeda
Al-Qaida said to be planning European hostage-takings
United States
US military has delivered over 20 million pounds of flood relief supplies to Pakistan
Taliban
Taliban in peace talks with Pakistani tribe
Afghanistan
Watchdog: Afghan company botched Afghan police stations
Iran
Iranian officials renew warnings over ‘soft war’
Afghanistan
Afghans blast Pakistan over insurgent fight
Afghanistan
US not tracking spending on Afghan projects, audit says
Al Qaeda
MI6 chief Sir John Sawers says torture illegal
Afghanistan
Don™t ignore our ways, Afghan tribal elders say
Qatar
Qatar: a tiny state with global ambitions
Iran
The US and the EU are preparing a new offer to Iran over its nuclear program. Tehran applied for a position on the new UN initiative for women. Nigerian law enforcement seized 13 containers of Iranian weapons at the port of Lagos.
Iraq
Insurgents launched a series of attacks on senior police officers, killing two colonels and wounding a general and a colonel in Baghdad and Jalawlaa. A suicide bomber killed a policeman in Mosul. Security forces detained 26 wanted men in Basrah and Wasit.
Somalia
Shabaab executed two teenage girls for “spying.” Fighting between Shabaab and Somali forces in the Bakool region left 15 people dead. Gunmen murdered six clerics in central Somalia. A Danish warship destroyed a pirate boat.
Yemen
Jamal Ahmed Mairan, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arbian Peninsula in the towns of Lauder and Modia, surrendered to authorities in Abyan province. A court charged Sharif Mobley, an American citizen with ties to al Qaeda, with murder.
Analysis: Al Qaeda martyrdom tape shows nature and extent of terror group’s reach in Afghanistan
“Winds of Paradise – Part 5” eulogizes five al Qaeda commanders who fought in seven of Afghanistan’s provinces and are representative of the unnamed leaders who serve as the terror group’s deep bench.
US Predators kill 7 ‘militants’ in Datta Khel strike
Three Arabs are reported to have been among those killed in the al Qaeda hub in North Waziristan.
Nigeria
Nigeria’s secret police intercept weapons shipment
Afghanistan
Afghanistan ban on security firms delayed by two months
Afghanistan
In icy tip of Afghanistan, war seems remote
Europe
Officials say Obama has offer for Iran
Pakistan
The US killed six Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in two Predator strikes in North Waziristan. Three policemen were killed in a bombing in Quetta; two more were killed in a gunfight in Peshawar. Six people were wounded in a bombing in Khyber.
India
US let us down on David Headley: Indian home secretary
Afghanistan
Insurgents lose momentum in Helmand, NATO general says
Thailand
Islamist insurgents ambushed and killed a Muslim village defense volunteer and wounded another as they were driving home on their motorcycle in Pattani’s Khoke Pho district. A Muslim villager was killed and another critically wounded after they were attacked by a suspected insurgent gunman in Yala™s Raman district.