Task Force 145, the group tasked with hunting al Qaeda in Iraq, has been busy in Baghdad al Qaeda in Iraq’s Mujahideen Shura. The Iraqi Interior Ministry has announced the death of Abu Jaafar al-Liby, a senior al Qaeda commander during a raid in Baghdad. Four other terrorists were killed and two captured during the […]
U.S. forces raid a Sadr office in Diwaniya, the scene of a battle between the Iraqi Army and Mahdi Army last month. The Iraqi Interior Ministry states a high level al Qaeda commander Abu Jaafar al-Liby has been killed, and Coalition forces state another unnamed member has been captured.
The Army claims Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah ‘Terrorists [are] trapped in mountains’ in Sulu. Brigadier General Juancho Sabban said JI leader Umar Patek “died from the wounds he suffered” in battle. Chief General Hermogenes Esperon Jr. says there is “no evidence to verify the info that Patek and Janjalani have been killed.”
al Qaeda’s pointman in Lebanon: Abu Rushd al-Miqati
Fourteen Taliban were arrested in raid on a hospital in Quetta. A Pakistani official says the ‘Waziristan pact won™t stop surgical strikes™ against al Qaeda. Alexis Debat discusses the powerful Al Qaeda-Taliban network in Waziristan.
Border tension between Somaliland, Puntland
Israel general quits over Lebanon
GSPC™s Judge killed in Sidi Ali Bounab
US faces home-grown attack threat, experts say
Ali Mohamed, al Qaeda’s secret agent
Blurring of enemy lines
Sahara seen as potential terrorist breeding ground
Africa key to Pentagon counterterrorism plan
Latest al Qaeda tape made France a target: report
RP peace negotiator says MILF making unacceptable demand
Over 50 Taliban an 8 Afghan police were killed in battles across Afghanistan. Poland will send 1,000 troops to boost the NATO mission, while Latvia will send an additional 20. An aerial photograph of over 190 Taliban gathering at a funeral and the failure to strike calls the rules of engagement into question.
US counterterrorism work stumbles in Somalia
Operation Together Forward moves into several Baghdad neighborhoods over the past week Map of Baghdad operations. Click map to view. Iraqi and Coalition forces continue to clear Baghdad’s’ neighborhoods under Operation Together Forward. Over the last week, five neighborhoods have been the focus of the joint effort: Bakriya (East Monsour), Rusafa, Risala and Khadra in […]
Nasrallah: No demilitarized area, Israel lying
Amnesty faults Hizbullah’s ‘war crimes’
Reservist generals to call on IDF chief to resign
50 Taliban, 8 policemen dead in Afghanistan
14 Taliban arrested in raid on Quetta hospital
Editor of Kuwaiti Daily: ‘Fighting Terrorism Should Not Be the Concern of Only the US – We Need an International Alliance to Combat This Phenomenon’
An EU official reports the army of the Islamic Courts is marching on the southern port city of Kismayo. The head of the Juba Valley Coalition denies the ICU is marching on the city. The African Union “will endorse an ambitious peacekeeping force for Somalia.”
Documenting the Taliban’s rise to power in Waziristan and beyond over the course of 2006 and 2007
Five militants, collaborators voluntarily surrender in Chechnya
Chechen al Qaeda commander Doku Umarov said he will continue the insurgency. Five Chechen fighters have surrendered over the past 24 hours. One policeman and 3 unidentified gunmen were killed when the gunmen attempted to cross the border from Chechnya into Ingushetia.
Terror Cells Tracked in Palestinian Territories
Federalism Plan Dead, Says Iraqi Speaker