Security forces arrested Bouderbala Fateh, the head of the Algiers branch of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and two associates. Almost 2 tons of explosives, detonators, and two schoolgirl’s backpacks rigged to detonate were recovered during the raid. Two members of al Qaeda were convicted in absentia for the murder of a prison guard.
US plans case against AP photographer in Iraq
The Iraq Army is leading an operation targeting the Mahdi Army in the souther city of Diwaniyah. Two Iraqi Army brigades, a National Police brigade and a US Army brigade have been moved to the city to conduct Operation Lion’s Leap.
Good news from Iraq. – By Christopher Hitchens – Slate Magazine
Explosions rock headquarters of Turkish political parties
Iran role in violence downturn ‘unclear’
Most US Mil Deaths This Month North of Baghdad
Iran’s secret Syrian plan
Iraqi Officials Lay Plans To Rebuild Air Force
Sects unite to battle Al Qaeda in Iraq
Ordinary life is returning to Iraqi capital
Iraq cracks down on Sadr militants
US Says Attacks in Iraq Fell to the Level of Feb. 2006
Baghdad by night — juice bars, neon lights, bustling streets
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 […]
Afghan War Losing Support in NATO Countries
Fields of little glory: Nato begins to scale back its Afghan ambitions
At troop commencement, a time for Iraqi optimism
Al Qaeda in the Maldives
US Hopes to Arm Pakistani Tribes Against Al Qaeda
Israel approves release of 441 prisoners
Court allows Musharraf to rule
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 […]
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.
US Secretly Aids Pakistan in Guarding Nuclear Arms
British are negotiating for the release of five kidnapped British citizens; kidnappers demand release of Qais Qazali, leader of the Iranian-backed Qazali network.
US wants Musharraf-Bhutto deal revived
British hostages in Iraq to be ‘held for years™
Iran eyes nuclear options abroad
17 receive death sentences in Diwaniya