Iraq
Car bomb near Iraq parliamentarian’s home kills 2
Yearly Archives: 2007
Iraq
Iraq asks U.N. to renew mandate for US-led forces
Suicide attack at Pakistani nuclear weapons complex
Two suicide bombers hit in Swat and Kamra. The Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra is part of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program.
Iraq
General: Some Iraq gains ‘permanent’ – AP
Al Qaeda
Online terror camps cut overhead, teach Google Earth target acquisition
Palestinian Territories
In a move possibly targeting Hamas, the Palestinian Authority looks at a law licensing political parties. Egyptian security forces found 500 kilograms of TNT in the northern Sinai desert destined for Gaza. Israeli border guards removed 60 ultra-nationalist settlers from a hill in the West Bank. Two Palestinian rockets hit Israeli military site.
Syria
Absi is in Syria and Fatah al Isalm is in Gaza
The Taliban turn tail in Musa Qala
The Taliban pulled out of Musa Qala, claiming they were concerned about civilian casualties. The Taliban are reported to be fleeing northward, and fighting is still ongoing at the town’s outskirts.
Al Qaeda
Guerilla groups unite to combat al-Qaeda
Iraq
Iraqi Security Forces have assigned over 3,000 operatives to track down the former Baath Party cells belonging to Izzat Ibrahim al Duori and Muhammad Younes al Ahmad. Coalition forces captured 27 al Qaeda operatives during raids in central and northern Iraq. Iraqi and US forces captured eight insurgents near Kirkuk. Two firefighters were seriously injured […]
Afghanistan
Afghan and ISAF forces retook Musa Qala after the Taliban abandoned the town; fighting is ongoing at the outskirts. An airstrike killed a Taliban weapons facilitator in Musa Qala. The Taliban hanged a 12-year-old boy for “spying” in Sangin in Helmand province. Canadian and Afghan forces killed 31 Taliban and captured eight in Kandahar’s Panjwai […]
Al Qaeda
Sayed Imam, the founder and first emir of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and mentor to al Qaeda’s Ayman al Zawahiri, cut ties with al Qaeda and criticized the leadership. “[Zawahiri] and his followers betrayed Mullah Omar and dragged the U.S. to Afghanistan to topple the Taliban regime,” Imam said. “Al Qaeda has no ideology apart from […]
Iraq
Iraqis begin to emerge from the dark
Iran
In Iraq, US base eyes Iran border
Al Qaeda
Revealed: First picture of British-linked Bin Laden son with his ‘gentle and kind’ father
Al Qaeda
New US assault to target al Qaeda south of Baghdad
Al Qaeda
Nigeria: Islamic Body Seeks Release of Suspected Al-Qaeda Members
Al Qaeda
US fears al-Qaeda comeback in Iraq
Iraq
Mortar Shells Hit Baghdad Prison, Killing 7 Inmates, Injuring 23
Afghanistan
Coalition forces retake Taliban town
Iran
Iran, IAEA in new talks to clear nuclear doubts
Iraq
Britain and Basra
Iraq
(Iraq) 3,000 undercover cops to track down al Douri, Ahmad cells
Russia
Two dead in Russia bus bomb
Iraq
Baghdad safer, but it’s a life behind walls
Al Qaeda
After Guantanamo, ‘reintegration™ for Saudis
Thailand
Police arrest an RKK member in Narathiwat
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed 10 in Swat; another suicide bomber wounded seven, including five children, on a bus at a military base in Kamra. Swat’s Maulana Fazlullah admitted he was injured, denied “foreign fighters” were in the district, and vowed to fight for sharia. One of Fazlullah’s spokesmen said Indian intelligence agent infiltrated the Taliban. […]
Iraq
IED attacks dropped 15 percent during October and November. Coalition forces captured 10 suspected al Qaeda operatives during operations in central and northern Iraq. Iraqi Security Forces killed an insurgent and arrested 14 in Baghdad and three near Tal Afar. An Iraqi Army colonel was murdered in Wasit and a police general was assassinated in […]
Somalia
A policeman was killed and five civilians wounded in a series of clashes between Shabaab and Somali security forces. Initial reports the town of Bulo-Burde in Hiran province fell to Shabaab were incorrect, locals claimed. However former Islmaic Courts fighters are patroling the streets.