Monthly Archives: May 2007

Afghanistan

| May 21, 2007

NATO and Afghan forces killed 25 Taliban in the Sangin district of Helmand province. The Taliban claimed it will step up its urban bombing campaign.

Lebanon

| May 21, 2007

The Lebanese Army has tightened the cordon around the Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, where 50 have been killed in battles between the Army and al Qaeda affiliate Fatah al-Islam. The Army shelled the camp today. A bombing in a Christian neighborhood in Beirut killed 1 and wounded 12.

Azhar al-Dulaimi, the tactical commander of the Karbala PJCC attack, killed

| May 21, 2007

Qods Force logo, click to view. Iranian trained leader in the Qazali network killed north of Baghdad Multinational Forces Iraq has killed a major player in the kidnapping and murder of five American soldiers during a complex attack on the Provincial Joint Coordination Center in Karbala on January 20th. On May 19, Coalition forces killed […]

Pakistan

| May 21, 2007

Security forces cordoned the area around the Lal Masjid and arrested 36 members. Three more police were kidnapped by students of the Lal Masjid. The “Lal Masjid brigade” is digging fighting positions as Maulana Ghazi has threatened a wave of suicide attacks. The Taliban blew up 10 fuel tankers in Torkhum. The tankers were heading […]

Israel

| May 21, 2007

Cabinet gives IDF green light to target Hamas politicians

Syria

| May 21, 2007

US policy turnabout may enable Israeli-Syrian talks

Iraq

| May 21, 2007

Marine unit in town near Fallujah seeing locals™ trust build

Iraq

| May 21, 2007

For the US in Iraq, time is running out on ‘two clocks’

Iraq

| May 20, 2007

Baghdad: Iraqi Journalists Targeted by Militants

Israel

| May 20, 2007

The IDF will step up attacks on senior Hamas leaders. Palestinian terrorists fired Qassam rockets into the Negev for the sixth day in a row. Islamic Jihad said female suicide bombers ‘eagerly await’ IDF soldiers if they invade Gaza.

Iraq

| May 20, 2007

Chlorine truck bomb near Ramadi makes 11 people sick

Diyala on the horizon

| May 20, 2007

U.S. and Iraqi troops on an operation in Balad Ruz in April. Click to view. Al Qaeda strikes in Baqubah nd along the Iranian border; 5th Division general relieved of command; the campaign looms The province of Diyala, where al Qaeda has established its command headquarters over the past year, has been the scene of […]

Algeria

| May 20, 2007

Algeria security forces arrested 12 suspected Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb members involved with the Algiers bombings last April. “The arrests allowed the seizure of more than 9 tonnes of acid and large quantities of chemical products and electronic components used for remote detonation of bombs.”

Pakistan

| May 20, 2007

The government caved to the Lal Masjid demands and released 4 members of the mosque in exchange for 2 of the 4 kidnapped police. The Taliban beheaded a ‘US spy’ in North Waziristan. A tribal jirga in Mohmand Agency met to discuss preventing the ‘Talibanisation™ of the agency. Bannu police found 3 suicide vests on […]

Afghanistan

| May 20, 2007

“A significant number of Taleban extremist leaders were successfully targeted and killed in a precision airstrike last night”, ISAF stated. Thirty Taliban were killed, 18 wounded and 11 captured in an ISAF/Afghan operation in Ghazni. A suicide bomber killed 14 and wounded 31 in an attack on a market in Gardez.

Lebanon

| May 20, 2007

The Lebanese Army fought the al Qaeda linked Fatah Al Islam terrorist group in the Nahr Al Bared Palestinian refugee camp north of Tripoli. “Clashes began after an army post on the outskirts of the camp came under fire from Fatah Al Islam militants.” The Army said 11 of its soldiers were killed and 31 […]