Iraq
US Troops Release Detained Iranians
Monthly Archives: August 2007
India
Police have released a sketch of one of the Hyderabad bombers. Shahid Bilal, the mastermind of the Hyderabad bombings, is wanted in connection to a 2005 shooting of a professor. The Hyderabad police commissioner said sleeper cells exist inside the city.
Iraq
US analysts see Sadr move aimed at Mahdi Army rogues
Sadr calls for Mahdi Army ceasefire
Muqtada al Sadr denies any role in the fighting in Karbala which resulted in at least 50 killed and 300 wounded. Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army to stop all attacks in Iraq, including those against Coalition forces.
JSS Mushada with the Manchus
Wesley Morgan is currently embedded with US forces in Iraq and reports from the town of Mushada. You can read the first part of Wes’ article with the 4-9 Infantry, Patrolling with the Manchus.
Iraq
Anatomy of a Tribal Revolt
Pakistan
The government signed a new “peace accord” with the Mohmand tribes. The 19 military personnel kidnapped by the Taliban have been freed. The Taliban released a video of a 12-year-old boy beheading one of the captive soldiers. The US stated it did not have permission to attack Taliban positions in Kurram agency.
Thailand
Thailand: Eight die in fresh South violence
Philippines
Marines killed two Abu Sayyaf fighters during an offensive in Basilan. The Manila police chief denied Abu Sayyaf bombers entered the city. The government will allow foreign monitors at MILF camps in Basilan and Jolo.
Afghanistan
ISAF and Afghan forces killed over 100 Taliban after being ambushed in Kandahar’s Shawali Kot district; one Afghan soldier was killed. Seven more Taliban were killed in the same district and 12 were killed in Musa Qala in Helmand province on Monday. Three ISAF soldiers were killed and six wounded in a suicide attack in […]
Iraq
Pilgrims flee Iraqi city or Karbala as clashes between police, Mahdi Army kill 52
Pakistan: The Mohmand “peace” accord
The Pakistani government inks another “peace accord” in the Mohmand tribal agency. The security situation in Momand has been steadily deteriorating. Recently the Taliban have taken over a mosque, declined to meet with the tribes and have been intimidating tribesmen in the region.
Al Qaeda
The Next Terror Attack: ‘We Are Going to Get Hit Again’
Iraq
US troops raid Baghdad’s Sheraton hotel, Iranians reported detained
Iran
Iran prepared to fill Iraq power vacuum
Iraq
As British leave Basra, militias dig in
Iran
French Leader Raises Possibility of Force in Iran
Iraq
Iraq: Marked Decrease in Al-Qaeda Operations
Pakistan
Taliban free 15 Pakistani soldiers
Iran
Iran resolves plutonium issues under atom pact: IAEA
Palestinian Territories
Israel: Hamas Smuggled 40 Tons of Weapons Into Gaza
Iraq
How Marines pulled Fallujah out of Hell
Pakistan
Security forces arrested a doctor who sheltered al Qaeda leader Mohammad Yousaf; six suicide vests and explosive were found in the doctor’s home. An Islamist Russian national who lived in North Waziristan was captured in Afghanistan’s Khost province wearing a burka. Pakistan denied it worked out an agreement allowing US troops to operate inside its […]
Algeria
Security forces dismantled an al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb cell in Algiers, arresting three. Two police and three civilians were wounded in an IED attack outside of Algiers.
Afghanistan
Afghan and ISAF forces are conducting Operation Pelk Mesher in Musa Qala, Helmand province. Three US soldiers and two Afghan soldiers were killed during a Taliban ambush in Kunar province, according to the provincial police chief. One Dutch soldier was killed and another wounded in an IED attack in Uruzgan province. One US soldier was […]
Projected ISF Five Year Plan (end-2012)
What the new Iraqi Security Forces might look like at nine years old.
Iraq
Iraq governor escapes assassination attempt
Philippines
Military intelligence officers are searching for six Abu Sayyaf bombers believed to have smuggled bombs into Manila. MILF claimed MNLF fighters are helping the military track Moro insurgents. Two soldiers were wounded during fighting in Basilan.
Pakistan
Pakistan’s Power Game: Former leader Benazir Bhutto on the tumult in Islamabad
Sudan
Sudan expels aid agency director