Monthly Archives: June 2007

Iraq

| June 4, 2007

ID cards of missing soldiers shown on insurgent Web site

Somalia

| June 4, 2007

A suicide car bomber attacked the Somali Prime Minister’s home; seven were killed. Another suicide car bomb was detonated near an Ethiopian Army base. “Unknown gunmen” killed 2 police and 5 civilians in the Bakara bazaar in Mogadishu. Puntland said the Islamists have been defeated.

Iraq

| June 3, 2007

Tribe leader assassinated, nine bodies found in Mosul

Lebanon

| June 3, 2007

In fight against militants, Lebanon bolstered by US, Gulf countries

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| June 3, 2007

Trinidad Islamic Group Under Scrutiny

Iraq

| June 3, 2007

Commanders Say Push in Baghdad Is Short of Goal

Turkey

| June 3, 2007

Defense Secretary Gates Warns Turkey to Keep Its Troops Out of Iraq

Lebanon

| June 3, 2007

As fighting continued for the third day against Fatah al-Islam in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian camp, fighters from Jund al Sham attacked Lebanese Army soldiers with RPGs near the Ein el-Hilweh camp near Sidon. Three soldiers and 2 civilians were wounded.

Mahdi rocket teams destroyed in Sadr City

| June 3, 2007

Major Marty Weber holds an Iranian made 107mm rocket at a press conference in Baghdad in April [AFP/Getty Images]. Click to view. Mahdi Army rocket team killed in helicopter, ground strikes as operations increase in Muqtada’s stronghold in Baghdad The return of Muqtada al Sadr from his four months of self imposed exile in Iran […]

Iran

| June 3, 2007

Iran president sees “countdown” to Israel’s end

Afghanistan

| June 3, 2007

Sixty Taliban are confirmed to have drowned after their boat on the Helmand River in the Kajaki region sunk. UK Prince Harry will deploy to Afghanistan after being denied a deployment in Iraq. The Taliban warned Afghan civilians a major operation will happen soon.

Somalia

| June 3, 2007

The Puntland regional government said 12 Islamists, including 6 “British nationals, Americans, Swedish, Pakistanis and Yemenis” were killed in fighting over the past few days. The Islamic Courts killed the Somali intelligence chief in Kismayo. An Ethiopian patrol was hit in an IED attack in Mogadishu.

Iraq

| June 3, 2007

MoD to pull troops out of Iraq within a year

Iran

| June 2, 2007

Iran continues to ship weapons to both Iraq and Afghan insurgent groups. The Fajr-3, a 240mm rocket with a 30 mile range, has been fired at US forces int he Green Zone three times, and two arms shipments, which “included 107mm mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, C-4 explosives and small arms,” have been intercepted in Helmand province.

Iraq

| June 2, 2007

Civilian death toll in Iraq spikes in May

Iran

| June 2, 2007

Iranian Flow Of Weapons Increasing, Officials Say

Thailand

| June 2, 2007

The Raging Jihad in Southern Thailand: An Intriguing Aspect

Pakistan

| June 2, 2007

Pakistani General: ‘Reports of Al Qaeda regrouping near border exaggerated™

Pakistani political party sponsors ‘Martyred Mullah Dadullah Conference’

| June 2, 2007

Jamiat-i-Ulema Islam (Fazl), the lead party in the MMA, sponsors gathering of 10,000 supporters of slain Taliban commander in Baluchistan; Tank, NWFP contested Pro-Taliban supporters shout slogans during a rally in Killi Nalai [AP]. Click to view. As the situation in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province spins out of control and the Taliban’s sphere of influence […]

Al Qaeda

| June 2, 2007

Bosnia-Herzegovina: New Book Investigates Presence Of al Qaeda

Iraq

| June 2, 2007

Britons seized in Baghdad ‘broke basic security rules™

Lebanon

| June 2, 2007

The Lebanese Army stormed Fatah al-Islam positions on the outskirts of the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian camp near Tripoli. “We have encircled the building where the group’s leader, Shaker Abssi, is holed up, and our forces are a 150 meters away,” an unnamed Army officer said. Three soldiers were killed and 10 wounded in today’s fighting.