On 5 December 2011 Indian authorities issued a terror alert for Goa state in western India, citing specific threats to the state’s tourist beaches during the Christmas and New Year’s season. According to authorities, the “prevailing situation in the country [and] intelligence inputs regarding terrorist threat[s] to the Western coast of India…” prompted the alert. [...]

On 6 December 2011 militants in three separate cities bombed three Shiite religious ceremonies commemorating the holy day of Ashura, which marks the death of Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad. In the largest attack, a suicide bomber targeted the Abul Fazel shrine in central Kabul, where hundreds of worshippers had gathered; the incident occurred [...]

On 6 December 2011 the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) electoral commission (CENI) is expected to release final results from the country’s recent presidential election. However, reports indicate that CENI is encountering logistical difficulties as its officers continue to attempt to collect and count ballots from the DRC’s most remote polling locations. CENI officials have [...]

Renewed violence occurred at Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo on the evening of 29 November 2011. Thousands of protesters have remained at the square for more than a week as part of a sit-in demonstration, but the area had been relatively calm over the previous 48 hours as the first round of parliamentary elections got [...]

On 30 November 2011 the British foreign secretary announced that London has closed its embassy in Tehran and has withdrawn all diplomatic personnel from Iran following an attack on the embassy and a residential compound by protesters on 29 November. In response to the embassy attack, the U.K. on 30 November also ordered the closure [...]