United Kingdom
British Intelligence Chief Sharpens Terrorism Warning
Yearly Archives: 2007
Syria
US imposes economic sanctions on Syrians
Al Qaeda
MI5: Al-Qa’eda recruiting UK children for terror
Pakistan
Quiet general who may succeed Musharraf
Philippines
Philippines: Mindanao Muddle
Algeria
Abu Abderahmane, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s propaganda distributor, surrendered to police after stating, “I felt guilty, and I regret what I was doing.” Abderahmane supplied CDs, videotapes, and online documentation to Al Jazeera’s offices in Morocco and Doha.
Palestinian Territories
Abbas’s security forces, gunmen clash in West Bank
Iran
World Bank Vows a Big Loan to Iran
Afghanistan
Air Force grounds F-15s in Afghanistan after Missouri crash
Philippines
Troops killed five Abu Sayyaf fighters in Basilan, including commander Abdul Karim Jamjali. The US government announced it was conditioning some aid on solving unsolved political killings. A bank director from Jeddah vanished in Sulu.
Pakistan
Pakistan says to hold election by January, Musharraf pledges to quit military
Pakistan
Pakistan silences media in emergency
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda is major threat to EU: anti-terror chief
Thailand
Five shot dead in southern Thailand; two wounded by “acid bombs”
Iraq
Coalition forces killed five al Qaeda operatives and detained 30 in raids against leadership targets. US and Iraqi troops killed seven al Qaeda fighters and captured 20 in Baqubah. The Iraqi Army detained 81 suspected insurgents during clearing operations in Suwayrah. Iraqi Security Forces detained 22 suspected extremists in separate raids in Kubaysah and Taji. […]
Iraq
Maliki declares victory over violence during walkabout in Baghdad
Taliban gain ground as Musharraf focuses on Islamabad
As President Pervez Musharraf continues to suppress opposition to his imposition of a state of emergency, the government is cutting deals with the Taliban in South Waziristan and pushing forward with negotiations in Swat.
Afghanistan
The Taliban seized the Khak-e Sefid district in the western province of Farah; this is the third district in Farah to fall in the past week. Afghan and NATO forces captured six Taliban fighters and killed two during a raid in Ghazni province. South Korea will withdraw its 210 troops in the north by the […]
Al Qaeda
US returns 11 Guantanamo detainees to Afghanistan and Jordan
Iran
Iran rules out possibility of US military strike
Afghanistan
Taliban stealthily sought warlord’s weapons cache
Yemen
Yemeni tribesmen blow up oil pipeline
Pakistan
Pakistani police beat, arrest protesters
Pakistan
Pakistan: More than 1,500 lawyers arrested across the country
Hezbollah
Report: Hezbollah Stages Maneuvers
Palestinian Territories
Six Palestinian officers jailed over failure to stop Hamas offensive
Pakistan
Pakistan facing aid cuts by West
Pakistan
Imran Khan in hiding as 500 detained in Pakistan
Iraq
Iraq: Sheik Takes Steps to Create Concerned Local Citizens Group
Musharraf silences the Pakistani media
Musharraf’s media restricts threaten flow of information on the news inside Pakistan and the status of the battle against the Taliban and al Qaeda.