Hezbollah
Israel is braced for new attack a year after war with Hezbollah
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Morocco
Morocco: Four arrested over failed tourist bus bombing
Iraq
A Shiite politician and his Sunni guards
Al Qaeda
Delhi on alert after al-Qa’eda threat
Hezbollah
Nasrallah: Hezbollah doesn’t want another war with Israel
Palestinian Territories
Hamas clashes with Doghmush clan, 2 gunmen dead
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.
Al Qaeda
Four suicide bombings kill 175 in Iraq
Iraq
US helicopter crash in Iraq kills 5
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
Iraq
Former Insurgents Face al-Qaida Wrath
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.
Iraq
Hope and Despair in Divided Iraq
Iran
A new Cold War with Iran?
Iran
Iran’s disruptive hold over Afghanistan is rising
Pakistan
Pakistan fighting terror in its interest, not USA™s: Musharraf
United States
James Ujaama pleads guilty to terrorism charges in Manhattan
Lebanon
Islamist sniper kills soldier at Lebanon camp
Yemen
Yemen arrests 9 suspects in terrorist attack that killed Spanish tourists
Morocco
Suicide bomber apprehended in Morocco
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 […]