Tag Archives : Jihad

Afghanistan’s Kunduz province had been earlier evaluated as secure that is why troops were moved to other hotspots. Now, with US and Afghan forces concentrated on the southern regions of Afghanistan, the Taliban have returned to the northern Kunduz province. In fact, ‘the Taliban is now threatening a key route bringing NATO supplies from Central [...]

After a short period of public doubt, the Indonesian National Police finally ascertained on September 19 that a DNA test has positively identified Noordin Mohammad Top as the man killed in a raid on a safe-house in the outskirts of Solo, Central Java on September 17. Top used to be with Jemaah Islamiyah, touted to be al-Qaeda in Southeast Asia. Ideological [...]

Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) which is dubbed as the Pakistani Taliban group, has reportedly been killed. His death, however, is not fundamentally crucial to the counterinsurgency campaign in the region. For starters, other deputies and heirs apparent are waiting in the wings. Such is always the case with syndicated [...]

Associated Press may be quick but not entirely accurate. So, here are a few corrections to the AP news on the Abu Sayyaf: (1) The title reads ‘ Abu Sayyaf’s new generation threatens Philippines.’ No such thing as Abu Sayyaf’s new generation. It’s still the old gang, though some of the earlier leaders have been killed. It’s still the same [...]

The UK has decided to change its strategy against terrorism and radical Islam at a time of increasing dissolution of the central Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The country will now combat the spread of Islamist ideology in its territory, among British Muslims, by education, discussion, and counter-propaganda. Under the new strategy developed by the government [...]

A day after the gruesome attacks in Mumbai, political analysts and critics have tried to make sense of what happened and why it happened. However, the answers are murky and it definitely wouldn’t be prudent to discuss possibilities that can’t be confirmed. Overnight Mumbai has been turned in to a war zone that has consumed more than a hundred [...]