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Quest for peace in Sri Lanka
Monthly Archives: October 2006
North Korea
N. Korea warns sanctions will provoke “crisis of war”
Iran
Iran Sanctions Resolution Faces Slow Going At UN
Iraq
Osama’s answer to Iraq’s violence
Afghanistan
NATO kills 48 suspected insurgents in Afghanistan
Iraq
The Anbar Salvation Council
Somalia
Aweys said the ICU is not about to attack Baidoa unless attacked first as the ICU cuts fuel supplies to the town. The Somaliland autonomous region is building up its military as talks ensue with the Ethiopians. Ethiopia warns the ICU that war is near.
North Korea
Hong Kong detains North Korean cargo ship
Iraq
Iraqi Prime Minister Disavows Timetable
Iran
Iran Reportedly Stepping Up Nuclear Program
Chad
Chad says pushes back rebels backed by Sudan
Israel
Israeli jets clash with German ship near Lebanon
Pakistan
Pakistan Islamists slam Musharraf, US in Eid sermons
Afghanistan
Jihadis turn from Iraq to Afghanistan – Western forces offer more inviting targets
Iran
Iran’s supreme leader calls for unity within region
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Venezuelan Detained Near US Embassy
Palestinian Territories
Hamas Plans to Expand Force in the West Bank
Philippines
Philippines: Military claims declined terrorist strength
Caucasus
Chechen militant detained in Moscow
Palestinian Territories
Meshal invited to Cairo for talks on new Shalit plan, unity gov’t
Indonesia
Indonesia: The roots of Muslim Christian conflict
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Islamists had Irish cells, US papers reveal
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Scots Muslim charged for alleged ‘terror’ websites
Somalia
African Union ready for Somalia mission, struggles in Darfur
Palestinian Territories
Kidnapped Gaza journalist freed
Back to Sadr City
Iraqi and Coalition forces raid one of Sadr’s offices in his Baghdad stonghold Muqtada al-Sadr. The pressure on Muqtada al-Sadr, the Iranian backed leader of the Mahdi Army responsible for much of the sectarian violence in Baghdad, has been ratcheted up by Iraqi and Coalition forces. Just one day after U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay […]
Iraq
Iraqi and Coalition raids against a Mahdi Army leader in Sadr City kill 5 and wound 18. U.S. forces kill 12 insurgents planting IEDs in Ramadi. The Iraqi Army arrested an al Qaeda leader and 20 terrorists in and around Kirkuk. U.S. Forces detained an al Qaeda leader in Mosul.
Iraq
US troops arrest ‘militia’ battalion commander in Baghdad and uncover weapons caches
Afghanistan
Taliban spokeman Mohammad Hanif repeated the claim that U.S. and Afghan forces withdrew from Tana in the Ali Sher district of Khost province. See “NATO Talks with the Taliban?” An American intelligence source denies the claim. The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan has “expressed deep unease over the British military’s ceasefire with the Taliban” in Musa […]
Pakistan
ISI strategy to infiltrate Indian army ‘as old as Pakistan™, says Gul