Monthly Archives: October 2010

Pakistan

| October 26, 2010

Pakistan: Amnesty urges probe of Baloch killings and ‘torture’

Pakistan

| October 25, 2010

Five people were killed in a bombing at a Sufi shrine in Pakpattan. Three people were killed in an IED attack in Arakzai. The military sealed the border between Kurram and Afghanistan. Two suicide bombers were detained in Karachi.

Thailand

| October 25, 2010

Muslim insurgents carried out nine bombings in seven districts of Narathiwat province Monday morning, killing one person and injuring more than 10 others. Similar bombings in Yala and Pattani province left three others injured. Buddhist rubber plantation workers were the primary target of the attacks.

Algeria

| October 25, 2010

Suspected Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb fighters killed two Algerian soldiers and wounded three others in an IED attack on a military convoy in eastern Boumerdes province. Algerian Prime Minister Ouyahia has pledged to “the complete disappearance of this plague [terrorism]” from Algeria.

Nigeria

| October 25, 2010

Six suspected Boko Haram insurgents attacked the Gulani police station in northern Yobe state. Police officers fended off the attackers after one gunman was killed. At least three police officers were wounded in the attack.

Iraq

| October 25, 2010

Insurgents killed two people in a bombing at a hospital in Mosul and assassinated a senior electricity ministry official in Baghdad. Security forces detained seven wanted men in Basrah and three more in Kirkuk.

India

| October 25, 2010

Jammu & Kashmir police fear terror attacks ahead of Obama’s visit

Al Qaeda

| October 25, 2010

Canadian Gitmo detainee Omar Khadr pleads guilty to all terrorism charges

Iran

| October 25, 2010

Tehran has expanded its economic influence in Iraq. The Israeli military is developing plans to respond to a nuclear-armed Iran.

Afghanistan

| October 25, 2010

President Karzai admitted to receiving “bags of money” from Iran and other countries but insisted the payments were legitimate aid. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Khost, Paktika, and Badghis. The Taliban killed three civilians and a policeman in a suicide attack in Khost, […]

Yemen

| October 25, 2010

Security forces in Aden discovered a bomb consisting of 1,800 grams of TNT which was placed near the Al Wahdah stadium, where a soccer tournament is to be held. The information minister claimed that “al Qaeda in Yemen is dying.”

Russia

| October 25, 2010

A suicide bomber killed a policeman in an attack in Dagestan on Saturday. Five Islamist fighters were also killed in a shootout with police in Dagestan. Five people were wounded in a bombing in Ingushetia.