Iraq
Insurgents killed two US soldiers in the north and four civilians and a policeman in attacks in Mosul. Security forces captured al Qaeda in Iraq’s “electricity minister” in Anbar and two “terrorists” in Basrah.
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is consolidating its control of Zinjibar and Jaar in Abyan province. The military said it foiled a terror attack in Aden.
Libya
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for President Gaddafi, his son Saif al Islam, and military intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi. The three have been charged with “crimes against humanity” for targeting civilians during the current rebellion.
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Chaos in Yemen creates opening for Islamist gangs
Fedayeen-e-Islam commander killed in North Waziristan: report
Shakirullah Shakir was gunned down in Miramshah, according to reports. He has claimed several suicide attacks and boasted that more than 1,000 suicide bombers are currently training in three camps in Mir Ali in North Waziristan.
Afghanistan
US: Pakistan must show it wants Afghan peace
US Predators kill 21 in South Waziristan strikes
The strikes are the first in a week. The US has executed 12 Predator strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas this month, the highest total since December 2010.
Nigeria
Boko Haram fighters killed 25 people and wounded 30 more in an attack in Maiduguri. Two men riding motorbikes hurled grenades and opened fire at a tavern and a beer garden in the northern city.
Pakistan
Pakistan expels 18 British military trainers
Pakistan
A community under siege in tribal Pakistan
Taliban use females in recent suicide attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan
The Taliban forced an eight-year-old girl to attempt a suicide attack in Afghanistan, and a husband and wife suicide team attacked a police station in Pakistan.
Pakistan
A husband and wife carried out yesterday’s suicide attack on a police station in Dera Ismail Khan that killed 10 policemen. Three policemen were wounded in a bombing at a checkpoint in Multan.
Afghanistan
The Taliban used an eight year old girl as a suicide bomber in Uruzgan. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in the west, one in the east, and one more in the south.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Drawdown plans leave an ambiguous military mission
Yemen
Yemen’s Saleh to reappear as violence grips south
Yemen
A suicide bomber killed three soldiers in Aden. Security forces killed three al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives who escaped from Mukalla prison last week. Police detained the director of Mukalla prison.
Al Qaeda in Iraq
A court sentenced Hasna Ali Yahya, the Yemeni wife of Abu Ayyub al Masri, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for facilitating communications between terrorists and assembling suicide vests. Al Masri was the head of al Qaeda in Iraq before he was killed by US and Iraqi troops last year.
Iraq
A wheelchair-bound suicide bomber killed two people in Tarmiyah. Insurgents killed two soldiers in Mosul, an intelligence official in Tikrit, and two civilians near Kirkuk. Security forces detained 39 wanted men in Basrah and seven more in Tikrit.
Somalia
Government officials blame Shabaab for executing and beheading two Puntland soliders in the village of Yalho, south of Bosaso. Shabaab is rounding up “US spies” in Kismayo after an airstrike on training camps near the southern city.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Govt to consolidate data about terrorists
Afghanistan
US military leaders fear Afghanistan withdrawal will increase soldier deaths
Afghanistan
A test case for Afghan pullout
Libya
NATO’s Libya campaign drags on
Afghanistan
Taking a risk with Taliban negotiations, even if the talks are real this time
Afghanistan
Intelligence shift shows change in Afghan war aims
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed more than 30 Afghans in an attack on a hospital in Logar. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in the east. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Khost, Paktika, Laghman, and Balkh.
Pakistan
The Taliban killed seven policemen in an attack on a station in Dera Ismail Khan; five Taliban fighters were also killed. Fifteen Taliban were killed during infighting in Arakzai.
Afghanistan
Afghan MPs hit back over court ruling
Iraq
Insurgents killed a policeman in Baghdad and a councilman and his nephew in Abu Ghraib. The government declared a curfew in Bayji after security forces killed a man wanted for terrorist activities.
Suicide bomber attacks hospital in eastern Afghanistan
More than 30 people, including medical personnel and patients, were killed after a suicide bomber deliberately rammed an SUV packed with explosives into a hospital in Logar.