Mishan al-Jabouri goes on al-Zawraa and attacks al Qaeda Mishan al-Jabouri attacks al Qaeda on al-Zawraa. Click image to view. While the Sunni insurgency is often seen as a united block, the reality is that under the surface, there are great tensions and disagreements between the ‘domestic’ insurgents and the ‘foreigners.’ Nibras Kazimi has reported […]
A Chlorine gas truck was detonated at a gas stop near Taji, killing 5 and making another 140 sick. Suicide and car bombings killed 18 in Baghdad, while 20 victims of death squads were found. The Iraqi government is going to allow Baathists who lost their jobs, including those in the military and intelligence, will […]
Hamas hopes for softer US line on deal
The War on Terror from a Pakistani perch
(UK) If words could kill: the message that triggered terror kidnap plot
President Ahmadinejad rejected the UN calls for suspending uranium enrichment just one day before the deadline expires. Russia claimed Iran is two months behind payments on the Bushehr nuclear facility. The purported Zahedan bomber was executed in public, just days after the attack.
Once-unthinkable deal might be Musharraf™s only option
Female Pakistani minister shot dead for ‘breaking Islamic dress code’
16 killed in Somalian bombing
21/7 bomb suspect ‘fled London in burqa’
India security officials suspect Pakistani based “sleeper cells of Lashker-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed” are responsible for yesterday’s deadly train bombing which killed 68. Sketches of the suspects have been released. Police are looking at a possible link to last year’s Ahmedabad railway station bombing, which has not been solved. The Indian Army is deploying to rail […]
The Afghan Army backed by NATO forces retook the remote district of Bakwa in Farah province. A suicide bomber wounded 7 US soldiers while he attempted to attack a hospital in Khost province. A US soldier was killed during combat operations in Kunar.
A “Muslim fanatic” murdered a female minister from Punjab. The Taliban executed a ‘US Spy’ in North Waziristan. The UN asked for clarification on Aurakzai™s remarks about the Taliban being a resistance movement.
Janjaweed militias massing in Sudan: AU source
Syria Rejects Limited Talks With US
Chopper attacks: New weapons and tactics?
3 US women said kidnapped in Nablus
Analysis: Black Hawk down heroes
Purges in Mahdi Army Organization
Attack on a U.S. Combat Outpost is an old al Qaeda tactic Iraq. Click map to view. Monday’s suicide and subsequent conventional attack on a U.S. Army Combat Outpost (or COP) in the city of Tarmiyahclaimed the lives of two U.S. soldiers, and wounded another 17. The attack took place in broad daylight, and involved […]
Terrorist Networks Lure Young Moroccans to War in Far-Off Iraq
More than 100 killed in Yemen clashes
Will Britain’s Prince Harry be sent to Iraq?
The American intelligence community finally recognizes al Qaeda command has regrouped in Pakistan NWFP/FATA. Click map to view. Throughout th course of 2006 and through 2007, I documented the rise of the Taliban and al Qaeda in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), the Northwest Frontier Province, and in Baluchistan. In The Fall if Waziristan, […]
[UPDATE2] Two US soldiers were killed and 17 wounded during a daylight multiple suicide car bomb attack in Tarmyia. A suicide bomber killed 5 on a bus in a Shia district of Baghdad. The Iraqi government said 103 insurgents were killed or captured in and around Baghdad, while 127 displaced families returned to their homes. […]
In Baqubah, ‘Focus Is Aimed, Controlled Shooting’
Two soldiers killed in Iraq base attack
Thai officials ‘powerless’ to prevent attacks
Islam clashes ‘not inevitable’
The Taliban have captured the remote district of Bakwa in the western province of Farah. Over 300 Taliban are said to have stormed the town. The Taliban attacked a NATO convoy in Kandahar City, and five civilians were wounded in the ensuing gunfight. Three police were killed and three wounded during poppy eradication operations in […]