Pakistan
‘Clearing’ Kurram
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Nigeria president avoids naming suspects at bomb site
Afghanistan
Few Treatment Options for Afghans as Drug Use Rises
Libya
Libya’s Interim Leadership Releases Its Members’ Names
Yemen
Militants killed seven Yemeni soldiers in the Dofas district in the southern province of Yemen. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters are believed to have carried out the attack.
Senior al Qaeda leader reportedly killed
Atiyah Abd al Rahman, a top al Qaeda leader, was reportedly killed on August 22. Senior US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal would neither confirm nor deny Atiyah’s death. Atiyah was al Qaeda’s “general manager” and Osama bin Laden’s “chief of staff,” according to a senior US intelligence official.
Al Qaeda
US official: Al-Qaida’s No. 2 killed in Pakistan
Somalia
More Somali famine victims fleeing to Yemen: UNHCR
Afghanistan
Factbox: Afghan police violence and corruption charges
Al Qaeda
Nigeria leader vows to fight terror after UN blast
Israel
US, Israel Monitor Syria’s Suspected Cache of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Taliban kill 25 Pakistani troops in cross-border attack
The Pakistani military accused local Afghan officials of aiding the Taliban and said ISAF has failed to take action on large concentrations of Taliban operating in the Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan.
Libya
Hundreds of Salafists have been freed from the Abu Salim prison in Tripoli. More than 600 Islamist fighters who fought US forces in Iraq were held at the prison; their whereabouts are unknown.
Algeria
Eight people, including including 16 soldiers, were killed in a suicide attack on a military academy in the town of Cherchell. AQIM is thought to have carried out the attack.
Al Qaeda
Islamic militants among prisoners freed from Libyan jail
Suicide bombers kill 18 in attack on Algerian military academy
Sixteen soldiers were among those killed in the bombings in Cherchell. AQIM has carried out three suicide attacks in Algeria since mid-July.
Al Qaeda
Qaeda firmly rooted in Pakistan tribal fiefdom
Thailand
Muslim insurgents killed five defense volunteers in an ambush in Narathiwat’s Rueso district. The volunteers were hit with a roadside bomb while responding to a report that a man was killed at a plantation.
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Lashkar-e-Taiba admitted that one of its followers killed a respected, pro-independence cleric in Kashmir. LeT issued a report on the killing. The LeT fighter is in Indian custody.
Pakistan
Eleven people, including three soldiers, were killed in a bombing in Nowshera yesterday. The son of slain Punjab governor Salman Taseer was kidnapped in Lahore. Police detained a “terrorist” in Islamabad.
Al Qaeda
Iran and Al Qaeda’s ‘Operations Chief’
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed four civilians in a bombing at a mosque in Faryab and a woman in a bombing in Herat, and destroyed seven communications towers in Ghazni. Security forces captured several Taliban fighters in Khost and Paktia. More than 110 Taliban fighters in Badakhshan reconciled with the government.
Egypt
Unsettled Neighbors Leave Israel With Difficult Policy Choices
United Nations
Recent major attacks on the United Nations around the world
United Kingdom
UK – Parts of Canterbury shut down after suspect package found
Al Qaeda
Was a Group with Ties to Al-Qaeda Behind the U.N. Bombing in Nigeria?
Iraq
Insurgents killed five people and wounded 25 more in a bombing yesterday in Basrah. Security forces detained five wanted men, including an al Qaeda commander, in Mosul.
Nigeria
Eighteen people were killed and scores more were wounded in a suicide attack on the UN headquarters in Abuja. Boko Haram claimed to have carried out the attack.
Somalia
Shabaab has beheaded 11 Somalis in Mogadishu over the past several weeks. Ugandans serve as top commanders in Shabaab’s military forces.
Afghanistan
In helping Afghanistan build up its security forces, US is trimming the frills