Shura member Mullah Ami claims Mullah Omar is leading the Taliban from Afghanistan and that the Taliban control “80 percent areas of over seven Afghan provinces.” A look at the Taliban operating from Baluchistan and Mujahideen Shura. The Taliban said it released two Pakistani reporters. Two NATO soldiers were killed in a suicide strike in […]
News reports that 4 mosques were burned and 6 Sunnis were dragged from a mosque and burned are either unconfirmed or false. The Iraqi Police Captain quoted is not authorized to speak to the media, and is being tracked by the Coalition (more). Reports of civilian deaths and the leveling of a neighborhood block are […]
38 killed in Iranian military plane crash
Abu Sayyaf field commander captured in Zamboanga Peninsula
Mashaal backed off of a threat to initiate the third intifada. PM Olmert may present a diplomatic initiative to the Palestinian government (Hamas). The IDF killed 2 two ‘armed Palestinians’ and arrested 15 in the West Bank.
Why Moqtada al-Sadr may end up deciding America’s fate in Iraq
Military plane carrying IRGC members crashes in Tehran
Iraq Study Group Weighs Overture to Iran and Syria
Baghdad Fearful – Some signs of cohesiveness as Shiites provide shelter to Sunnis
Nato urges end of right to opt out of Afghanistan combat
Suicide bomber hits NATO troops in Afghan south
Rift Over Afghan Mission Looms for NATO
Four Thais, including two soldiers, were murdered by by Muslim insurgents on motorbikes. The Thai government will lift martial law in all provinces but seven, including the three Muslim provinces on the Malaysian border.
The Islamic Courts has “dispatched thousands of troops Sunday to within 15 kilometers” of the Ethiopian border. The ICU rallied in the border town of Abudwaq, and has banned weapons. Over 3,000 TFG cadet graduates have been deployed in Baidoa.
Jonathan Chait: Bring back Saddam Hussein
Navy has larger mission in mind in Africa
(Iraq) Joint Operation Detains 10, seizes cache near Euphrates
The Albu Soda tribe fought al Qaeda in Iraq in Ramadi, Coalition forces assist Iraq. Click map to view. The 25 tribes of the Anbar Salvation Council and Al-Qaeda in Iraq have been battling it out since the tribes have committed to work with the Iraqi government and U.S. military in western Iraq. Over the […]
Russian security services killed the Chechen al Qaeda leader in neighboring Dagestan Abu Hafs al-Urduni Click image to view. The Russian government has made significant progress against the Chechen branch of al Qaeda over the past year. Today, Russian’s Federal Security Services killed Abu Hafs, al Qaeda in Chechnya’s commander, during a raid on a […]
The Taliban are holding two well known Pakistani journalists: Syed Saleem Shahzad and Qamar Yousafzai. The government is monitoring Afghan ‘prayer leaders’ in the NWFP. This is part of Pakistan’s attempt to shift the blame for the Taliban on Afghanistan.
Army Expands Training for Advisers Who Will Try to Improve Iraq™s Security Forces
The Abu Soda tribe fought al Qaeda in Anbar province, and was backed by Coalition support. The tribe claims it killed 55 al Qaeda and arrested 25. Mahdi Army devotees stoned PM Maliki’s car as he toured Sadr City.
Palestinian terrorists violated the truce just hours after its inception. The PA deployed 13,000 security forces in Gaza to halt the Qassam attacks. Islamic Jihad claims it has hundreds of suicide bombers trained and ready to attack.
Fifty-seven Taliban and one NATO soldier were killed during fighting in southern Afghanistan. A suicide bomber kills 15 in an attack in Paktika. French and German troops may be used as a reserve force in southern Afghanistan.
[UPDATE 2] Sunni terrorists killed 21 Shiites in their homes in the town of in Imam Mansour. Coalition forces killed 10 insurgents when raiding a bomb factory in Taji, and 12 more north of Baghdad. Fifty-eight insurgents are said to have killed in fighting overall north of Baghdad.
NWFP Governor Orakzai claims the U.S. and NATO are facing a “snowballing war in Afghanistan and will suffer a military disaster unless they back peaceful means to end the conflict.” The joint Pakistani-Afghan tribal jirga is being discussed. Pakistan claims an Afghan soldier carrying explosives was arrested in Quetta.
Is the L.A. Times Repeating Enemy Propaganda? Or Is There Another Reason The Paper Is Getting Basic Facts Wrong and Failing to Report the Military™s Side?
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal threatened a third intifada if talks on the establishment of the Palestinian state fail. Israel has rejected a Palestinian offer of a cease fire. Israeli troops find toys rigged for explosives in a lab in the West Bank town of Nablus.
Doku Umarov Not Dead
Morocco has broken up a Ansar al-Mahdi Jihadi terror cell. The town of Tetouan is believed to be “one of the world’s most fertile recruiting ground for jihadists.” Twenty-six Tetouanis have participated in attacks in Iraq and Madrid, Spain.