Monthly Archives: March 2011




Egypt

Tajikistan’s ‘returnee’ Islamic students not continuing their studies





Lebanon

Repression or reform? Deadly protests may force Syria’s Assad to choose


Afghanistan

The Taliban captured more than 40 Afghan police recruits in Kunar and killed an ISAF soldier in the south. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban, HIG, and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, Paktika, Zabul, Kabul, Logar, and Baghlan.


Iraq

Insurgents killed two civilians in Baghdad and Mosul. Security forces broke up two al Qaeda in Iraq cells in Babil. Ansar al Sunnah vowed to continue fighting the Iraqi government.


Somalia

A Norwegian citizen of Somali origin was killed while fighting alongside Shabaab forces. The Transitional Federal Government extended its mandate for one year.







Israel

The Israeli Defense Force deployed the anti-rocket Iron Dome system near Beersheba. The Israeli Air Force killed two Islamic Jihad fighters in a strike in Gaza.


Yemen

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula killed seven troops in Marib province and took control of the town of Jaar in Abyan province after security forces fled. President Saleh rescinded his offer to step down at the end of the year.


Libya

Rebel forces, under the cover of UN aircraft, have seized the western coastal towns of Lanuf, Uqayla, Brega, and Ajdabiyah after government forces withdrew without a fight. Rebels have advanced to the town of Bin Jawad.


Syria

Twelve protesters and members of the security forces were killed during clashes in Latakia. The government claimed it would lift the emergency orders implemented in 1963; no timetable was given.





Libya

Libya may be placing corpses at bombed sites: Robert Gates




Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

Al Qaeda in in the Islamic Maghreb “took advantage of the pillaging of arsenals in the rebel zone [in Libya] to acquire arms, including surface-to-air missiles, which were then smuggled into their sanctuaries in Tenere,” the president of Chad said. A Malian official said AQIM has pilfered heavy weapons, including SAM-7s.



Lashkar-e-Taiba

Hafiz Saeed, the founder and chief of the Lashkar-a-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa, said Pakistani terror groups have a “right” to fight in Jammu and Kashmir to “teach India a lesson.” He also said that US involvement in South Asia has set back the fight in Kashmir.


Afghanistan

Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Khost, Paktika, Nangarhar, Logar, and Badghis. ISAF forces accidentally killed three civilians in an attack targeting a Taliban commander in Helmand. The Taliban killed two civilians in Zabul and an ISAF soldier in the south.