Afghanistan
Pakistani wolf to guard Afghan henhouse
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Somalia
African Union troops beat back a Shabaab suicide assault on a base in Mogadishu; two suicide bombers dressed as Somali troops were killed. Kenya’s top military leader said his country would stay in southern Somalia until the threat from Shabaab is gone.
Kenya
Three Kenyan security officers were wounded in an IED attack in Garrisa. Security forces arrested 20 people thought to be connected to a bombing in Mandera.
India
Pak tests nuclear-capable Hatf-7 cruise missile
Afghanistan
US troops to begin leaving Kandahar
Suicide bomber kills 17 in Kabul, including 5 ISAF troops
A suicide bomber flipped an up-armored Rhino in the capital; the Taliban claimed credit for the attack. Three Australian soldiers were killed in Kandahar, and a female suicide bomber attacked Afghan intelligence officials in Kunar.
United States
US northern border checks scaled back
Pakistan
US Predators killed 13 Taliban fighters in a strike in South Waziristan on Oct. 26. A suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban militia leader and his aide in Nowshera. The military successfully tested a nuclear warhead-capable cruise missile.
Kenya
US denies role in Kenya’s Somalia operation
‘Safe havens in Pakistan remain the insurgency’s greatest enabler’: DoD report
The DoD seeks to work with Pakistan while that country continues to support the Haqqani Network; al Qaeda remains connected to the Taliban, but the IMU doesn’t get a mention.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed 30 Taliban fighters in Nangarhar and detained several Taliban commanders and fighters in Ghazni, Khost, Logar, and Nangarhar. The Taliban killed four civilians in a bombing in Nangarhar. Four Taliban fighters and an Afghan solider were killed during yesterday’s fighting at the Kandahar PRT.
Pakistan
In Pakistan, a militant deal sours
Bosnia
Mevlid Jasarevic, a Serb, was arrested for shooting a Kalashnikov at the US embassy in Sarajevo. At least one embassy guard was injured. Condemning the “terrorist attack,” Bosnian authorities said they did not yet know if the shooter acted alone.
Iraq
A US audit said that most of the $6.6 billion in reconstruction funds that was thought to have been missing for Iraq has been accounted for. Iraq’s central bank said it is not responsible for the funds.
Iran
US Justice Department officials indicted five people and four companies for exporting radio equipment to Iran for use in roadside bombs in Iraq. The US Secretary of State encouraged the Iranian opposition to seek international support “as Libya rebels did.”
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
A senior police commander was killed in a car bombing in the southern port city of Aden. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has stepped up attacks in the city, which is said to be under siege.
Somalia
Nine Shabaab fighters were killed as they ambushed Kenyan troops moving to Beles Qooqani. Shabaab claimed to have killed several Kenyan troops near Dhobley.
Kenya
A court sentenced a Kenyan man to life in prison for carrying out grenade attacks in Nairobi. The prisoner, Elgiva Bwire Oliacha, admitted to being a member of Shabaab.
Tunisia
The Ennahda party, a branch of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, has won 90 of the 217 available seats in parliament, and will form a government and vote on the country’s new constitution. The next largest party won only 30 seats. Violence has broken out over the election results.
Sweden
At a remand hearing for one of three suspects in a plot to murder cartoonist Lars Viks last month in Gothenburg, the judge barred three niqab-wearing persons from the proceeding who refused to show their faces. The court decided to keep the suspect in custody.
Saudi Arabia
Saudi King Names Interior Minister Crown Prince
Afghanistan
Clinton urges Congress: Don’t ‘undercut’ US progress in Afghanistan and Pakistan
NATO
Afghans face greater test with second handovers
Tunisia
Islamists to Rule Tunisia – Clashes in Cradle of Revolt
US Predator strike kills 13 Pakistani Taliban fighters in South Waziristan
Taj Gul Mehsud, a deputy of Hakeemullah Mehsud, may have been killed in a previously unreported strike on Oct. 26 in South Waziristan.
2 senior al Qaeda leaders killed in recent drone strikes in Pakistan
Abu Miqdad al Masri and Abd al Rahman al Yemeni both were involved in al Qaeda’s external operations. Al Masri was also a member of al Qaeda’s Shura Majlis.
Pakistan
US Predators killed five Taliban commanders, including Mullah Nazir’s brother, in South Waziristan, and six “militants” in North Waziristan. The Taliban praised JUI-F leader Maulana Abdul Ghani, who was killed in a car accident.
Afghanistan
Pakistan allows insurgent fire on US troops: general
Taliban praise dead Pakistani political leader
Maulana Abdul Ghani and his political party, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl, have openly supported the Taliban for years.
Al Qaeda
Somali Islamist militants call for ‘mujahideen trained by Osama’