Afghanistan
Looking Toward Future, Army Plans to Relocate Overseas Stores
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Philippines
Government troops attacked an encampment of the al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group on Basilan island. In the ensuing clash, 16 militants and 20 troops were killed.
Thailand
A group of 20 militants ambushed an army patrol in Pattani province, killing four soldiers and wounding two more. On July 18, a group of 25 militants in Narathiwat province attacked homes and a military outpost, killing two civilians and one soldier; two civilians and four soldiers were wounded in the attacks.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa
Pakistan – Despite international ban, JuD asks for Ramazan donations online
Pakistan
Pakistan – KP governor orders arrest of female aid worker’s killers
Pakistan
Pakistan – ‘48% Pak students in UK not genuine’
Haqqani Network
Congress presses Haqqani Network terror designation
Afghanistan
Special operations forces killed two insurgents while targeting an al Qaeda-linked leader in Ghazni. Security forces killed 18 Taliban fighters in Paktika. The Taliban condemned the destruction of ISAF bases.
NCTC director: ‘We remain at war with al Qaeda’
During testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security on July 25, National Counterterrorism Center director Matthew Olsen provided his organization’s view of the ongoing fight against al Qaeda and its affiliates.
Syria
Insight: Cautious on Syria, Obama moves to help rebels
Iraq
Fifteen government officials in Baqubah quit after receiving death threats from al Qaeda in Iraq. Security forces detained 19 wanted men in Kirkuk.
Syria
In Aleppo, government and rebel forces prepared for the “mother of all battles” as the US, UK, and France warned of a potential massacre. The former head of the UN monitoring mission said it is just a matter of time before President Assad’s regime falls.
Iraq
Nervous Iraq keeps its eye on neighbouring Syria
Somalia
Shabaab claimed it killed seven Kenyan troops in an ambush in Kulbiyow, and killed four soldiers in an IED attack in Baidoa. A bomb was detonated at a police checkpoint outside of Mogadishu’s Police Academy, where Somali delegates are writing a new constitution.
Nigeria
Boko Haram fighters killed four people, including two policemen, during an attack on a police station in Gubio. the police station and a local government office were burned down during the attack.
Russia
Russian security forces stormed a house in Dagestan where Islamic militants were hiding with women and children, killing at least seven suspected militants. A woman who came out of the house feigning surrender detonated an explosive belt, killing only herself. Security forces also killed two militants in Kabardino-Balkaria.
United States
The head of the National Security Agency and the US Cyber Command said computer attacks on US infrastructure increased 17 fold between 2009 and 2011. He assessed that the current level of preparedness for the increasing number of foreign cyberattacks on critical US infrastructure is 3 on a scale of 10. The Air Force said […]
Afghanistan
World silence on Pak incursions questioned
Bangladesh
Two Journalists Freed by Islamic Fighters in Syria After Weeklong Ordeal
United States
Cyberattacks Are Up, National Security Chief Says
Iran
US bunker-buster bomb ‘ready to go’
Webster Commission gets 2004 Madrid train bombings wrong
The 2004 Madrid train bombings were not carried out by “lone actors” with no ties to al Qaeda’s international terrorist network, as an FBI commission recently claimed. The terrorists responsible had extensive ties to al Qaeda.
Taliban condemn destruction of bases, urge Karzai government to join jihad
“Instead of still standing behind the occupiers and killing its own people, it should help its people in kicking them out,” the Taliban warn the Afghan government.
Russia
Analysis: Fight over Islam, money and power brings violence to Volga
Free Syrian Army
Secret Turkish nerve center leads aid to Syria rebels
ISAF targets al Qaeda-linked leader in southeastern Afghanistan
Special operations forces conducted an airstrike against an “al Qaeda-associated insurgent leader” in the Gelan district in Ghazni province.
Al Qaeda
Is this al Qaeda’s ‘last chance’ for a country?
Pakistan
The Taliban killed nine people in a bombing at a market in Bajaur. Three people were killed in a bombing at a Lashkar-e-Islam headquarters in Khyber. Pakistan temporarily shut down NATO’s supply route to Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
Seven Taliban fighters, a police commander and two policemen, four security guards, and a child were killed during clashes. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in the south. Security forces detained two Haqqani Network commanders, a Taliban weapons smuggler, and several insurgents.
Burma
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan threaten Myanmar over Rohingya