Monthly Archives: November 2007

Iran

Iran role in violence downturn ‘unclear’


Iraq

Most US Mil Deaths This Month North of Baghdad



Iraq

Iraqi Officials Lay Plans To Rebuild Air Force


Iraq

Sects unite to battle Al Qaeda in Iraq


Iraq

Ordinary life is returning to Iraqi capital



Iraq

US Says Attacks in Iraq Fell to the Level of Feb. 2006


Iraq

Baghdad by night — juice bars, neon lights, bustling streets


Afghanistan

Canadian troops stormed the town of Sangisar in Kandahar province, the birthplace of the Taliban; up to 40 Taliban were killed. A suicide bomber detonated outside the governor’s house in the town Zaranj, in Nimroz province; six police were killed and 14 wounded. Security guards may have killed many of the children after firing on […]



Afghanistan

Fields of little glory: Nato begins to scale back its Afghan ambitions


Iraq

At troop commencement, a time for Iraqi optimism






Iraq

Coalition forces captured 27 al Qaeda foreign terrorist and propaganda operatives in raids nationwide. The Iraqi Army captured two al Qaeda fighters in As Sa™diyah, six in Anbar, and eight insurgents in Baghdad. Nine Iraqis were killed and 20 wounded in a bombing attack on the convoy of the Finance Minister’s advisor. Seventeen insurgents have […]


Pakistan

President Musharraf said the state of emergency will remain indefinitely. Fighting in Swat resulted in 28 Taliban, 14 civilians, and upwards of 40 soldiers killed; 12 policemen were reported captured. Over 90 were killed in sectarian clashes in Parachinar in Kurram agency; three soldiers were killed.





Iran

British hostages in Iraq to be ‘held for years™



Iraq

17 receive death sentences in Diwaniya



Iraq

Rivalry between Iraqi Shiites at danger point


Philippines

The Basilan Governor and wife of slain Representative Wahab Akbar filed murder charges against the three Abu Sayyaf operatives captured in Quezon City last Thursday. The former deputy house speaker has been cleared of involvement in the blast at the Congress building.


Somalia

Somali troops are conducting operations in the central region of Hiran to prevent Shabaab from regrouping in the mountains surrounding Beledweyn. Ethiopian troops have occupied the residence of a former warlord. The Hawiye clan spokesman has been handed over to the Ethiopian military. Troops from Somaliland are said to be moving towards the capital of […]


Thailand

A Muslim couple was shot dead in their home in the southern province of Yala. The Army released 384 Muslim men suspected of being involved in the insurgency “in exchange for only a written promise to cooperate against violent gangs.”