Monthly Archives: January 2010

The Mauritanian government on Monday began a "spiritual dialogue" with Salafist prisoners, a first in a country that has been the victim of several attacks attributed to al-Qaeda.

Soldiers from elite IDF units Sunday night arrested three Arabs who were planning a “significant” terrorist attack against Israelis. The soldiers confiscated three large pipe bombs, which sappers safely detonated without injury.

“A fleet of fighter planes is not necessary to attack a power station; a keyboard is sufficient, according to University of Haifa Dr. Yaniv Levyatan, an expert on information warfare.

Kabul on high alert after brazen Taliban attack

Last week's failed attempt on the lives of Israeli diplomats in Jordan was apparently carried out on instructions from Teheran, sources close to Jordan's General Intelligence Department (GID) revealed on Monday.

On January 6 -- Christmas Eve according to the Eastern Orthodox calendar -- six Coptic Christians and a policeman were killed in a drive-by shooting while exiting church in Naga Hammadi, Upper Egypt.

Still in intensive care, they were shot for refusing order to convert to Islam.

Authorities in the northern Nigerian city of Jos have imposed a dusk to dawn curfew after sectarian clashes that left at least 10 people dead.

Taliban gunmen launched a brazen assault on the center of Kabul on Monday, with suicide bombers blowing themselves up at several locations and militants battling security forces from inside a shopping centre engulfed in flames.