Monthly Archives: September 2007

Iraq

Violence ebbing in Iraq: US general



Pakistan

Kidnappings and suicide attacks shake morale of Pakistan’s armed force



Lebanon

An anti-Syrian member of parliament was assassinated in a car bombing in Beirut. Five others were killed and 20 wounded in the attack. Antoine Ghanem, a member of the Christian Phalange Party and part of the ruling Coalition, is the eighth prominent anti-Syrian leader assassinated since 2005.


Iran

Iran ‘to bomb Israel if attacked’



Afghanistan

Afghan and NATO forces killed 27 Taliban in fighting in Helmand and Ghazni province. Three police were killed in a suicide attack in Ghazni province. The governor of Ghazni claimed two Taliban commanders involved in the kidnapping of South Koreans were killed. President Karzai urged Canada to extend its mission beyond 2009, while Poland extended […]


Syria

‘Dozens died in Syria-Iran missile test’


Iraq

Migration Reshapes Iraq™s Sectarian Landscape


Iraq

US Military Working to Reshape Iraqi Detainees


Iraq

Basra oil fuels fight to control Iraq’s economic might



Afghanistan

Afghan Officials: Taliban Leader Behind South Korean Kidnappings Killed


Pakistan

The army retrieved the bodies of 15 of the 18 commandos killed during fighting with the Taliban in North Waziristan on Sunday; several were mutilated, with throats cut and limbs hacked off. The South Waziristan tribal jirga claims the army withdrew from checkpoints in order to secure the release of captured soldiers; the military denies […]


Pakistan

Lawyer: If re-elected, Musharraf will resign as army chief


Iraq

Iraq: Seven killed as bombers target morgue


Iraq

DOD report says EFP attacks are up in Iraq


Iraq

‘Surge™ finds success in southeast Baghdad


Iraq

British withdrawal from Basra has led to drop in violence


Iraq

US Bans Travel of Officials Outside of Green Zone


Surging in Wasit Province

Multinational Division Center kicks off Operation Marne Sentry, the interdiction of Iranian-trained fighters and weapons, near the border in Wasit province.


Al Qaeda

The al Qaeda-linked Al Tanzem Foundation released a video on the Internet commemorating the Sept. 11 attacks. “If you see the massacres of Chechnya, you would say that this is enough reason to strike the towers of the World Trade Center,” the narrator noted. “Islamic terror must move to the Western countries so that it […]


Iraq

Empty wards in Baghdad hospital offer hope




Iraq

Blackwater security firm banned from Iraq




Afghanistan

US forces captured Inayatullah, a senior al Qaeda leader and Afghan national, earlier this year and have moved him to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Over 10 Taliban fighters were killed after attacking a joint Afghan-British patrol in Helmand province. Nine Taliban were captured in Kandahar. A US airstrike killed at least one Taliban fighter in a […]