Monthly Archives: August 2007

Hezbollah

Israel is braced for new attack a year after war with Hezbollah


Morocco

Morocco: Four arrested over failed tourist bus bombing


Iraq

A Shiite politician and his Sunni guards



Hezbollah

Nasrallah: Hezbollah doesn’t want another war with Israel



Al Qaeda

Terror Alert: Western Journalists Targeted by Al Qaeda


Iran

US Weighing Terrorist Label for Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps


Thailand

Thailand: Insurgents launched five arson attacks in Songkhla


Pakistan

The Taliban in South Waziristan beheaded one of the 16 captured Pakistani soldiers. The government claimed the Wazir tribes backed paramilitary forces against Baitullah Mehsud’s Taliban in South Waziristan. The Taliban and the military clashed after the Taliban attacked two posts in Miramshah.


Somalia

Seventeen were killed and 16 wounded in IED and small-arms fire attacks in Mogadishu. The Islamic Courts killed two and wounded seven in an attack on a religious gathering in Galkayo. The Somali government is trying to create a Baghdad-style “Green Zone” in Mogadishu.




Afghanistan

Afghan intelligence officials claimed Iran is smuggling weapons into western Afghanistan as Iranian President Ahmadinejad visits the country. The first Polish soldier was killed in combat in Gardez.


Philippines

Philippines: Peace talks with MILF set, but government offensive to continue



Lebanon

Lebanese helicopters struck Fatah al Islam positions in the Nahr al Bared Palestinian refugee camp. The Army estimated 70 Fatah al Islam fighters are left in the camp. Security forces arrested four members of a Fatah al Islam sleeper cell in the city of Sidon.


Yemen

Yemeni security forces stopped an attack against government and business targets in the port city of Aden just hours before the attack was to be launched. Police said they were Iraqi war veterans, most of whom completed terrorist training for suicide attacks, who had fought beside local al Qaeda fighters and then sent to Yemen […]


Algeria

Three Algerian terrorists and a soldier were killed, and a another soldier was wounded after a roadside bombing against a military patrol and subsequent operation to hunt the bombers. Mustafa Kartali, a former member of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) who accepted amnesty, was killed in a bombing outside a mosque in Algiers.


Haifa Street and the Seventh Imam March

By Wesley Morgan, who is currently embedded in Iraq. Wes writes for The Daily Princetonian and was invited to embed in Iraq by Gen. David Petraeus. His assignment in Iraq is sponsored and financed by Public Multimedia Inc. Tuesday evening [note: August 7], after a delicious local lunch in the caf


Russia

The derailment of a train near St. Petersburg, which resulted in over 60 injuries, was the result of a homemade bomb, according to Russian investigators. The head of Russia’s Federal Security Service linked the bombing to the Chechen insurgency.




Iran

Iran’s disruptive hold over Afghanistan is rising


Pakistan

Pakistan fighting terror in its interest, not USA™s: Musharraf




Yemen

Yemen arrests 9 suspects in terrorist attack that killed Spanish tourists



Operation Lightning Hammer in Diyala

The Baqubah egion. Click map to view. Clearing operation launched against al Qaeda in Iraq in the Diyala River Valley On the same day Multinational Forces Iraq announced Phantom Strike, a major operation against the networks of al Qaeda in Iraq and Iranian-backed Shia terror groups, Coalition forces announced the onset of a major clearing […]