Afghanistan
Not our mandate to defend Afghanistan from foreign attacks: ISAF
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Afghanistan
Afghan Senators Urge Tougher Line Against Taliban
Afghanistan
No Sign Pakistan is Combating Insurgency: Afghan Interior Minister
Libya
Protesters storm Libya’s national assembly
Bahrain
Bahrain’s government banned all protests and threatened legal action against opposition groups. Bahrain’s Shiite majority population has been demonstrating for more political rights from a ruling Sunni minority.
Somalia
Pirate attacks off Somalia plummet thanks to navies, armed guards
Syria
In Syria, Failed Truce and No Lull in Violence
Syria
Government air and ground forces assaulted a strategic city in northern Syria in an attempt to recapture it from rebel forces. Government forces launched air attacks across the country. A senior air force general was assassinated.
Somalia
Warsame Shire Awale, a popular Somali poet who advocated against Shabaab, was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen near his Mogadishu home. Shabaab has killed more than 10 journalists so far this year.
Russia
Karimulla Ibragimov, a Muslim cleric who served as an imam to an unregistered and radical congregation, was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in the town of Derbent in Dagestan. At least five Muslim leaders have been killed in Dagestan so far this year.
Plot to attack tourist sites in Sinai reportedly thwarted
Last Friday, Egyptian authorities arrested five jihadists near the border with Gaza who were planning to carry out attacks against tourist sites in the Sinai Peninsula.
Syria
Syrian air force on offensive after failed truce
Afghan policeman kills 2 British soldiers in Helmand
There have been 40 green-on-blue attacks reported so far this year, resulting in the deaths of 59 ISAF military and civilian personnel.
African Union
Mali is being watched anxiously by Western diplomats
Pakistan
Taliban attack on Pakistan’s education goes beyond one girl
Afghanistan
Security forces killed five Taliban fighters and two civilians during operations in Ghazni. The Taliban killed two Afghan soldiers in an IED attack in Helmand. “Gunmen” kidnapped 13 people in Ghor.
Iraq
Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed credit for a series of attacks in Baghdad that targeted and killed dozens of Shia worshipers during Eid al Adha. An Awakening leader in Fallujah dodged an assassination attempt.
Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia to build major Islamic center in Afghanistan
Syria
Government jets conducted heavy air strikes in Damascus. Two car bombs exploded in the capital, killing at least 10 people. Intense gun battles broke out in Damascus and along a strategic highway between Damascus and Aleppo.
Somalia
Shabaab fighters attacked the home of the district commissioner for Bardale; one bodyguard was killed. Shabaab claimed it killed the intelligence chief for Daynile. A journalist who was wounded in an attack in Mogadishu last week died at a hospital.
Algeria
US Secretary of State Clinton arrived in Algeria to discuss neighboring Mali where large areas have been overrun by al Qaeda-affiliated groups. The US wants Algeria’s backing for military intervention in Mali.
Iran
Why Iran Wants to Attack the United States
Al Qaeda leader Rashid Rauf killed in drone strike, family says
Rauf’s family is planning on suing the British government for providing information to the US that aided in targeting him.
Al Nusrah Front denies responsibility for deadly car bombing in Damascus
The al Qaeda-linked group pointed the figure at the Assad regime, but any number of groups could have carried out the Oct. 26 bombing.
Malaysia
Police are looking into the possible al Qaeda connections of two Malaysian jihadists, Mohammed Razin Shaaban and Rafik Mohammed Aaref, who were arrested in Beirut; they face a military court on Monday. After failing to enter Syria from Turkey they had gone to Lebanon to conduct an attack. Razin is said to be linked to […]
Afghanistan
Two Taliban fighters died in a premature detonation while they were planting bombs at a picnic area in Uruzgan. The NDS denied Pakistani claims that Swat Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah is sheltering in Kunar.
Jordan
Syrian jihadist spillover haunts Jordan
Iran
Iran aims to defy sanctions through domestic production
Syria
A UN-sponsored truce ended as fighting resumed across the country. Fighting spread to Kurdish sections of Aleppo. Residents said 200 Kurdish fighters have moved into the previously peaceful area. Sunni and Shia fighters from Iraq have entered Syria, bolstering forces on both sides of the conflict.
Iraq
Insurgents killed 13 Iraqis in a car bombing in Baghdad and two more in IED attacks in Madaan. Security forces searched an Iranian airline thought to be transporting weapons to Syria.