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Suicide bomber kills 7 in northern Pakistan
The bomber targeted a political rally in Battagram, a district largely insulated from the worst of the Taliban violence.
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United Kingdom
UK lowers terrorist threat level
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Afghanistan
Counter Narcotics Mystery in Afghanistan
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Al Qaeda
Pakistan casualties risen since bin Laden death: ICRC
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Germany
German spy agency embarrassed by document theft
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Iraq
Panetta Reveals Iraq Frustration
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Hizb ut-Tahrir
Pakistan – The Hizb ut-Tahrir threat
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Cyprus
Iran explosives at centre of Cypriot intrigue
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Pakistan
Pakistan – Officials claim accidents behind arms cache explosions
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Pakistan
Pakistan: US aid cut will not harm fight against terror
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Yemen
More than 30 people were killed during fighting between the Houthis and tribes in the north. Four “militants” and one soldier were killed during clashes in Zinjibar in Abyan province. Two Al Qaeda fighters were killed in airstrikes in Abyan.
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Afghanistan
Marine general says US succeeding in Afghanistan but gains not yet ‘irreversible’
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Afghanistan
People flee as security forces, Afghan extremists clash in Dir
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Afghanistan
Tensions rise along Afghan-Pakistan border
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Afghanistan
Petraeus Confident as He Leaves Afghanistan
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Iran
Panetta Says Iranian Arms in Iraq Are a ‘Concern’
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Afghanistan
US looks to Pakistan border for Afghan endgame
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Al Qaeda
Abdul Rahman Hussein, an Austrian known as “Driss,” is said to be a senior al Qaeda leader who commands Austrian, Belgian, and French fighters along the Afghan-Pakistan border region. Driss was a deputy to slain external operations chief Saleh al Somali.
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Nigeria
The Army killed 11 Boko Haram fighters during a shootout in the city of Maiduguri. Fighting broke out after Boko Haram attacked a military convoy with a roadside bomb. Two people were killed in a bombing at a church in Abuja.
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Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami
The Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami threatened to attack the foreign office, the foreign secretary, Pakistan’s High Commission in New Delhi, and high commissioner Shahid Malik if Pakistan continues to share information with India about the terror group.
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Afghanistan
The Taliban beheaded seven de-miners in Farah and killed a district governor in Badghis, three policemen in Kandahar, and three ISAF soldiers in the south and east. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban leaders and fighters in Khost and Ghazni.
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Pakistan
Security forces killed 21 Taliban fighters in Kurram and Dir. The Taliban killed five people near Peshawar and the driver of a NATO fuel tanker in Dasht. Pakistan asked the US to share intelligence on the whereabouts of al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri.
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Pakistan
Saleem Shahzad case: Commission laments lack of help
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Afghanistan
US-Afghan Strategic Talks Enter Second Phase
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Iraq
Mass grave with 222 bodies found in Iraq
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Afghanistan
Violence Mounts in Karachi
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Iraq
In Iraq, Mosul faces uncertain future
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Afghanistan
Afghan-Pakistan border like ‘house without door’
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A Spouse Confronts the Military-Civilian Divide
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Al Qaeda
Pakistan urges US to share intelligence on Zawahri
