A suicide bomber killed 10, including a Dutch soldier and 4 Afghan children, in an attack on a NATO convoy in Uruzgan. An unconfirmed report indicated senior Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani died of Hepatitis. Afghanistan’s defense minister denied Iran is arming the Taliban. France will send 150 trainers for the Afghan Army.
Sadrists: “Other Measures” if Demands Unmet
Iraqi captain wins praise for getting results
Three men were found murdered in Narathiwat; one was beheaded. Two IED attacks, one outside a school, killed two soldiers in Pattani. Thirteen schools were burned down in Yala and Pattani.
President Abbas dissolved the Hamas led parliament and declared a state of emergency. Hamas overran the Fatah run Preventive Security headquarters, and executed men in front of their families; 15 were killed and 80 wounded in the battle. The town of Rafah also fell to Hamas. Fatah arrested 36 Hamas in the West Bank.
NATO and Afghan forces killed 26 Taliban during two engagements in Kandahar province. A NATO airstrike killed Mullah Mahmud Baluch, the Taliban commander of Helmand and Nimroz provinces. A NATO general said the Taliban failed to successfully launch its spring offensive.
Beneath Curfew, Crisis Mounts After Bombing
The Taliban have taken over the city of Tank. Pro-government tribal leaders in Mohmand were threatened by the Taliban: “You people are infidels and hypocrites. If you don™t stop negotiations with the government and meetings against the Taliban, then explosion(s) will occur in your homes.” The Taliban paraded “criminals” in a bazaar in Miranshah, North […]
U.S. attack aircraft continue to hunt al Qaeda in Puntlant, according to the security minister. The reconciliation conference which was to be held on June 14 has been postponed for 30 days.
Iraq: Mosque Bombing A Test For Emerging Political Climate
The road to Hamastan
Hamas win threatens Abbas
Gaza lurches towards Islamist mini-state
Briton found guilty of Al Qaeda plot
Islamist Forum Debates the Fate of Bin Laden
Gen. Petraeus: ‘This Is a Serious Blow’
Samarra provincial police force members detained as unconfirmed reports of attacks on mosques, shrines surface The Iraqi police have made arrests in this morning’s twin bombings of the al-Askaria mosque’s remaining minarets. While early reports indicated the Iraqi National Police were responsible for securing the mosque complex, a provincial police unit was guarding the area. […]
Forty-one have been killed during fighting between Hamas and Fatah over the past 2 days. Hamas is attacking Fatah security stations up and down the Gaza Strip, and are said to have the upper hand against Fatah.
Indonesian police confirmed earlier reports of the capture of Abu Dujana, the leader of Jemaah Islamiyah’s military wing. Abu Dujana’s capture may expose ties between Jemaah Islamiyah and Noordin Mohammed Top, a former member of JI and now the leader of Tanzim Qaedat al-Jihad.
A jirga to be held in Peshawar on June 14 will seek autonomy for the tribal regions from the central government. North Waziristan tribal leaders have been urged to eject al Qaeda and foreign fighters from the agency.
Global Islamic Media Front Instructs Islamists to Infiltrate Popular Non-Islamic Forums to Spread Pro-Islamic State of Iraq Propaganda
An anti-Syrian member of parliament, his son and two bodyguards were among 10 killed in a bombing in Beirut; 11 were wounded. The Army continues to press against Fatah al-Islam in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian camp, and stated it will used heavy artillery in its assault.
The Taliban claimed to have captured a NATO soldier and a UAE security officer in the Sangin district of Helmand province. NATO and Afghan forces killed 15 Taliban in 2 clashes in Zabul. A Canadian soldier was killed and 2 wounded in an IED attack in Kandahar. Two IEDs were diffused at a hospital in […]
al Qaeda military emir of Mosul killed
Insurgents Bring Down Fourth Bridge This Week
The Golden Dome of the al-Askaria Mosque and its two minarets prior to the bombings in 2006 and 2007. The Shia mosque at the epicenter of last year’s explosion of sectarian violence hit again Just as U.S. and Iraqi Security Forces have begun to get the sectarian violence back to pre February 2006 levels, the […]
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