2012: New Year's Honours for Service personnel and Defence civilians

119 UK Service personnel have been granted state honours by Her Majesty The Queen in her annual New Year's Honours list. 48 civilians have also been honoured either for work in the Ministry of Defence or in other aspects of UK Defence. The full Defence New Year's Honours list for 2012 is below: ROYAL NAVY As Knight Commander Vice Admiral Paul LAMBERT CB APPOINTMENTS...

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Dec. 31., 2011. - ISAF Joint Command Morning Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan (Dec. 31) — A combined Afghan and coalition security force discovered several small weapons caches while conducting routine patrols in La’lpur district, Nangarhar province, yesterday. The weapons caches consisted of one anti-tank mine, 25 sticks of dynamite, over 1,000 rounds of small arms ammunition, one fragmentation grenade, one bolt action...

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Son of infamous al Qaeda family killed by Ethiopian forces

Abu al Bara'a Abdul Aziz bin Attash, a son of a notorious al Qaeda family, has been killed by Ethiopian forces in Somalia near the Kenyan border, according to a biography posted on the al Fida' forum. The SITE Intelligence Group has translated the posting, which details Abu al Bara'a's life. By Thomas Joscelyn, December 30, 2011, LWJ Abu al...

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AQAP kills Houthi military commander

In addition to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's increasing activity in southern Yemen, the terror group has also been conducting operations against the Shia Houthis in the northern province of Sa'ada. In a statement released on jihadist websites, AQAP claimed it killed a Houthi military commander. An excerpt of the statement, which has been translated by the SITE Intelligence...

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2 NATO troops, 4 civilians killed in Afghanistan bombings

KABUL, Afghanistan — Two NATO service members died Friday in roadside bombings in southern Afghanistan, while allied and Afghan forces killed three senior Taliban figures and captured 11 fighters and sympathizers, the alliance said. Also Friday, a roadside bomb killed four civilians and wounded one in the Tirin Kot district of Uruzgan province, some 250 miles southwest...

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NATO helicopter crash in Northern Afghanistan

Friday, December 30, 2011 – According to local authorities in northern Afghanistan, a NATO-led International Security Assistance Force helicopter crashed in northern Sar-e-Pul province. The officials further added, the incident took place on Thursday night in this province. Sar-e-Pul provincial Security Chief Syed Janangeer said, the helicopter belonged to the special forces of the NATO troops and crashed in Sayad district of northern Sar-e-Pul province. Mr. Janangeer further added, the helicopter crashed near the base of the NATO troops...

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Israel kills leader of al Qaeda-linked Army of Islam in Gaza airstrike

The Israeli Air Force killed the emir of the al Qaeda-linked Jaish al Islam, or Army of Islam, in an airstrike in northern Gaza. The airstrike is the latest by Israel that has targeted al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists in the Gaza Strip. Israeli fighter-bombers killed Muaman Abu Daf, the leader of the Army of Islam, in a strike in the Zeitoun district in Gaza City today....

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