US soldiers killed five Special Groups operatives and captured three during an operation in eastern Baghdad. Ten Special Groups operatives were captured and one killed in Wasit Province. US and Iraqi forces captured 17 suspected terrorists in Mahmudiyah. Iraq and US special forces killed five terrorists in Baghdad and destroyed a bomb factory in Thar […]
USMC briefing on Anbar province
Fighting over the weekend in North Waziristan resulted in 20 soldiers and 65 Taliban fighters killed. The Taliban beheaded a man for “spying for the government” in Darra Adamkhel. Five captured soldiers escaped in Bannu; the Taliban killed two soldiers and released five others. Pakistanis, Chechens, and Uzbeks were killed in Afghanistan’s Paktika province.
Petraeus Outs an Iranian
Four Bahrainis charged as Qaeda members
Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Ali “Abu-Mansoor,” an Afghan trained Islamic Courts fighter, has been named the spokesman for al Shabaab, the al Qaeda-backed Islamist terror front in Somalia. A district official for the Somali National Security Agency was killed and four civilians were wounded in separate attacks in Mogadishu.
PKK attack kills 13 Turk soldiers
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Now Targeting ‘Internal Threats’
Pakistani militants gain ground in restive areas
Cult of the suicide bomber
Change in Iraqi province obvious in rare drive
IDF says Hamas responsible for Katyusha fired from Gaza Strip
Turkish Foreign Minister demands details of September 6 IAF raid on Syria
Multinational Forces Iraq commander said Hassan Kazemi-Qomi is an Iranian agent.
Darfur town razed after peacekeeper raid
General Petraeus said Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, Iran’s ambassador to Iraq, is a Qods Force officer. “The ambassador is a Qods force member,” Petraeus said. “[Qods Force is] responsible for providing the weapons, the training, the funding and in some cases the direction for operations that have indeed killed U.S. soldiers.”
Support network in Pakistan accused of helping Taliban, others sneak across border to attack US
Muqtada al Sadr and his Mahdi Army were behind the attacks at the Karbala shrines in August. US troops captured three insurgents and dismantled four EFPs in eastern Baghdad, and three Special Groups operatives were captured in Sadr City. One al Qaeda operative was killed and eight captured during raids throughout Iraq.
Lebanon’s growing trend of arms and militias
Pakistani Supreme Court unlikely to annul Musharraf victory
Baghdad bombings kill at least 9 Iraqis
The Taliban claimed it captured 28 paramilitary soldiers in North Waziristan; the military denied this. Ten soldiers were killed and 15 wounded, and 20 Taliban were killed and 30 wounded after the army conducted a strike in North Waziristan. Maulana Fazlullah and the TNSM demanded sharia law be implemented in the Malakand division of Swat. […]
Security forces stopped a bombing campaign in the southern city of Hat Yai in Songkhla province. Seventeen small bombs were found throughout the city and defused. Muslim insurgents killed three Muslim civilians in separate attacks in Yala, Pattani, and Narathiwat provinces.
Eight Pakistani terrorists and two Indian soldiers were killed during clashes. Nine terrorists killed several days ago were plotting to bomb bridges and railroad tracks.
Eight soldiers and four terrorists were killed during fighting in eastern Algeria. The army killed a suicide bomber in the province of Tizi Ouzou earlier this week. The foreign minister said “foreign military bases on Algerian soil are not on the agenda.” French nationals are leaving Algeria after al Qaeda threats to attack foreigners.
Syria is encouraging Iraqi insurgents and Baathists to organize opposition inside its borders. Syria remains the departing point for suicide bombers heading into Iraq.
A suicide car bomb attack killed four Afghan civilians and one US soldier in Kabul today. This is the third suicide attack inside Kabul in eight days. The US is expanding the Bagram military base by one-third to accommodate more troops in country.
Pervez Musharraf was elected to a third term as president as the opposition sat out of the voting. The Supreme Court must still decide on petitions filed by the opposition. The Taliban killed one soldier and wounded 19 in an IED ambush of a military convoy in North Waziristan.
Muqtada al Sadr and Abdul Aziz al Hakim signed an agreement to put aside religious and sectarian issues. Sunni and Shia tribal leaders in Muqdadiyah signed an agreement to put aside tribal differences to fight al Qaeda. Special operations forces killed six al Qaeda operatives and captured 18 in raids throughout Iraq. US soldiers captured […]
Iran: Mullahs vs. Mullahs (Part 1)