Cyprus says attempted to offload Iran blast cargo

US Secretary of State Clinton said President Assad has “lost legitimacy” and the US has “absolutely nothing invested in him … remaining in power.” Syria said Clinton’s statement was “provocative.”

Counter-terrorism strategy driven by ‘cyberjihad’ threat

Self-proclaimed Islamic radical Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, a.k.a. Carlos Bledsoe from Tennessee, faces capital murder charges in Arkansas for killing one soldier and wounding another at a Little Rock recruiting station in 2009. He seeks to be tried on terror charges in federal court instead.

The Wall Street Journal claims that a Ugandan drone was used in a strike that injured two Shabaab commanders. Its reporting on the matter is erroneous.

UN scales up aid to thousands fleeing Pakistan’s latest conflict zone

US accuses Syria of unleashing mob attacks on US, French embassies

Copper mining will crush ancient Afghan site

Libya’s Gaddafi prepared to leave, says Alain Juppe

Military aid to Pakistan not feasible when trainers are being asked to leave: US

Pakistan threatens to withdraw troops from Afghan border over US aid reduction

Half Brother of Afghan President Is Killed in Kandahar

Why Ahmed Wali Karzai was a target

The controversial Ahmed Wali Karzai, who has been linked to the drug trade and the Taliban, was gunned down in his office in Kandahar City.

The strike hit a compound used by al Qaeda-linked fighters.

Afghan Villagers at Border Flee Shelling From Pakistan

AP Interview: Ex-CIA chief on al-Qaida after Osama

Pakistan – Christian sanitation workers swept into societal gutter

Muslim activist in Minnesota struggles as one-man counter against lure of terrorism

US Predators killed 12 “militants” in a astrike in North Waziristan. A Suicide bomber killed seven people in Battagram. Two drivers transporting fuel for NATO were killed in Darakshan near Quetta.

Tunisia: Arab democracy ‘impossible’ without Islamists

Twenty Taliban fighters, including five Pakistanis, were killed during an operation in Kapisa. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban leaders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Ghazni, Khost, Paktika, and Kunduz.

The Al Fajr Media Center, al Qaeda’s internet propaganda arm, announced the establishment of the al-Fida’ forum. The new forum is to take the place of the Al Ekhlaas forum.

The attack took place in an area used by the Taliban to stage attacks across the border in Afghanistan.

Insurgents killed two soldiers in Mosul, a police colonel in Tikrit, an Army officer in Al Kut, and a US soldier in the south. Iran threatened to attack bases of the PKAK, a PKK offshoot, inside Iraq.

A terror suspect of UK-Nigerian nationality, identified only as CD, is appealing an order that bans him from London. He allegedly leads an Islamist group, and was arrested with two other suspects in January. He trained in Syria and with the July 2005 London bombers, and has tried to purchase weapons to carry out terror attacks in the UK.

CIA organised fake vaccinations to obtain Osama bin Laden’s family DNA

MI5 and police reduce UK terror threat from ‘severe’ to ‘substantial’

Fewer Danish soldiers dying in Afghanistan

The UN’s high commissioner for refugees said that aid agencies should work with Shabaab to distribute food to those in need. Two people were killed as Somali soldiers fought amongst themselves in Mogadishu.
