Author Archives: Karen Coulson







Israel

Israeli Military Nabs Terror Mastermind Behind 2002 Hotel Bombing








Iraq

Warring Shiite Militias Threaten Cease-Fire in Iraq





Afghanistan

The Taliban have threatened to launch a “spring offensive” using new techniques to increase attacks throughout the country. One Afghan policeman was killed and two others wounded when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Helmand. Afghan officials say the fate of a kidnapped American aid worker remains a mystery two months after her abduction.


Somalia

Islamic insurgents killed six Somali soldiers and a child after the group attacked and overran two military bases north of Mogadishu but withdrew three hours later. An agent working for the Puntland Intelligence Service in Somalia’s northeastern region was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen, the third such killing in the area within two days. […]


Mali

Residents report heavy fighting near a military base in northern Mali’s Aguelhok village. The village is 90 miles from the Algerian border and has been plagued by a low-intensity insurgency and banditry for more than a year. Tuareg insurgents in Niger denied holding Malian soldiers taken hostage last week by another Tuareg group in Mali.


Algeria

Austria has denied sending the elite Cobra counterterrorist unit to Mali to help locate and rescue two Austrian nationals kidnapped by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb along the Algeria-Tunisia border more than a month ago. Al Qaeda kidnappers have extended their deadline for negotiations over the Austrian hostages until April 6. The two hostages […]




Britain targets Muslim women to fight extremists






Israel

Israel to allow Jordanian-trained Palestinian forces to deploy in West Bank


Yemen

The SITE Intelligence Group reported an Internet posting from al Qaeda in Yemen claiming responsibility for a mortar attack on the US embassy in Sana’a last week. A schoolgirl and policeman were killed and 19 Yemenis wounded in the attack.