One policeman was killed and two wounded in an Islamic Courts attack on a police base in Mogadishu. The Islamic Courts fired mortars at the presidential palace. Ethiopian troops deployed in Mogadishu’s Deglay district. The son of the Islamic Courts supporting Hawiye clan was murdered.
Roadside bomb kills Shi’ite mayor of Iskandariyah, Iraq
Algeria: Terror plot foiled in north
Taliban poised for a big push in Afghanistan
Bhutto threat undermines Pakistan’s Musharraf
Al Qaeda operative “received $100,000,000 this summer from terrorist supporters who cross the Iraq border illegally or fly into Iraq from Italy, Syria and Egypt” and funneled weapons and money to al Qaeda cells in Baghdad, Tarmiyah, and Baqubah. He also was behind the 2006 and 2007 bombings of the al Askaria mosque.
Survivors defiant as Pakistan’s Red Mosque reopens
Iran ‘arming Taliban with roadside bombs’
In calmer Fallujah, Marines remain on guard but focused on new set of tasks
Mustafa Abu al Yazid, al Qaeda’s commander in Afghanistan, released a video where he claimed Osama bin Laden is alive and the Taliban is winning on the battlefield. Mullah Mansour, the Taliban military leader, released a video praising suicide bombers.Twenty Taliban were killed in fighting in the Shah Wali Khot district in Kandahar. Two police […]
Afghanistan: Would-Be Suicide Bombers Speak Of Indoctrination, Fear
Saddam ex-deputy heads new insurgent coalition: report
Poland’s envoy was lightly wounded in an IED attack in Baghdad; one of his bodyguards was killed. Six al Qaeda were killed and 14 captured during operations in central and northern Iraq. Iraqi Special Forces captured four Special Groups operatives in southern Iraq, two in Diyala, and another six in Tha™Alba.
Army Throwing in the Towel in Pakistan
Two Indian army officers and nine terrorists were killed in a clash near Tangmarg, a popular tourist resort. The leader of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front leader warned of an “intifada” due to the failure of discussions between India and Pakistan.
Three Hamas members killed in Gaza blast
Pakistan’s grip on tribal areas is slipping
Fourteen civilians were killed in an IED attack on a bus in North Waziristan. Two Taliban and one soldier were killed during a Taliban attack on a checkpoint in North Waziristan. Two police and a paramilitary soldier were killed in a Taliban attack on a checkpoint in Hangu. The Red Mosque has reopened. Musharraf will […]
Poll shows Gazans fear, distrust Hamas
Mahmud Farhadi “was the officer-in-charge of the Zafr Command, one of three units subordinate to the Ramazan Corps of the Qods Force” established inside Iraq.
Killing of Muthanna, al Qaeda’s emir of the Iraq/Syrian border, highlights the role of foreign fighters in Iraq, and al Qaeda’s operations within Syria.
A raid in Yala uncovered graphic images of the brutal murder of soldiers and locals in the southern province. The videoclips showed throats being slit, attackers holding the severed heads of their victims, and other mutilations. A navy captain was killed in an ambush in Pattani. Two border patrol policemen were wounded in an IED […]
Bill Ardolino looks at the dramatic changes in the Fallujah Police Department from January 2007 to today. This is the first of a two-part series.
British PM in Iraq says 1,000 troops home by Christmas
African Union peacekeepers outnumbered, outgunned in Darfur: commander
Special operations forces raids against al Qaeda in Iraq associates in central and northern Iraq resulted in one operative killed and 10 captured. US soldiers captured five insurgents and destroyed a car bomb during a raid near Salman Pak. A suicide bomber killed six and wounded 14, including 10 policemen, in an attack in Khalis […]
Al Qaeda ‘re-emerging’ in Pakistan sanctuaries: US military
Pakistan: Punjab police bust gang of terrorists
Al Qaeda’s Infiltration of Sudan – The Result of Preaching to Jihad by the Sudanese Government
Increasing Talibanization in Pakistan’s Seven Tribal Agencies