Sudan
African Union Base Attacked in Darfur
Yearly Archives: 2007
Afghanistan
President Hamid Karzai offered to negotiate with Mullah Omar and said he would give the Taliban a government ministry; the Taliban rejected the offer. The Taliban released its Constitution of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The French deployed a squadron of Mirage 2000D air-to-ground fighters at Kandahar Airfield.
Iraq
US military deaths in Iraq lowest in 14 months
Thailand
Thai Police captain killed in ambush in Yala
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Maldives arrests 2 in tourist terrorism
Somalia
Insurgents in Mogadishu attack Ethiopia troops in Somalia
Al Qaeda
One of the key suspects in the plot to attack US airbases and other installations in Germany is on the run inside Britain, German security officials stated. Ten other members of the cell have escaped German authorities.
Iraq
Iraqi and US Special Forces captured a Shia extremist brigade leader in New Baghdad. Operations against al Qaeda’s network resulted in six killed and 27 wounded. Iraqi Special Operations Forces captured the al Qaeda in Iraq cell leader in Baghdad’s Ghazaliyah neighborhood.
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Bomb blast wounds 12 tourists in Maldives capital
Pakistan
Pakistan poll ruling sparks riots
Algeria
Algerian security forces kill four militants, arrest three others
Palestinian Territories
50,000 gunmen ready to defend Gaza: Hamas
Algeria
Two Algerian soldiers killed, four injured in southeast Algiers
Iran
New resolution against Iran comprises 14 sanctions: France
Pakistan
The Taliban killed one soldier and wounded 12 in an ambush on a convoy in North Waziristan; another eight were wounded in attacks on checkposts. Pakistan’s military spokesman said a US UAV was shot down over North Waziristan. A prostitute was beheaded in Mohmand Agency. Students of the Red Mosque threatened violence if they cannot […]
Bangladesh
Bangladesh police break up Islamist protest
Afghanistan
A Taliban suicide bomber killed 27 Afghan soldiers and wounded 21 in an attack on a bus in Kabul. Police arrested six Taliban fighters in Ghazni province. The Afghan government negotiated for the release of four captured Red Cross workers; they have been freed from captivity.
Pakistan
The Next Musharraf: A Westernized, chain-smoking spy could soon become the most powerful man in Pakistan.
Al Qaeda
FBI Director Robert Mueller said Younes Tsouli, an internet jihadi also know as “Terrorist 007,” served as a vital link between the Atlanta cells, the “Toronto 17” cell, and the Maximus network out of Sweden-Bosnia that planned attacks in Europe. Tsouli had close ties to al Qaeda. “He used his computer skills to build a […]
Thailand
Muslim rebel ambushes kill 3, wound 5 in Thai south
Iraq
Field marketing in Fallujah
Iraq
Iraq war militant deaths put near 19,500
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda suicide bomb fears spark pleas for a British return to Basra
Kashmir
Two Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen fighters arrested in Kashmir
Iran
Iranian leader cements Chavez relationship
Pakistan
Pakistan’s Supreme Court Rules Musharraf Can Run For President
Senior al Qaeda in Iraq leader killed in airstrike
Abu Usama al Tunisi, a tier one al Qaeda leader, was the second senior al Qaeda leader killed in the last month. Al Qaeda in Iraq’s leadership and suicide bombers are overwhelmingly foreign to Iraq.
Iraq
Special Operations Forces killed Abu Usama al Tunis, a Tunisian al Qaeda in Iraq leader, during a raid in in Musayyib. Al Tunis was the emir of all of al Qaeda in Iraq foreign fighters and was a likely successor to Abu Ayyub al Masri. “Al Tunisi facilitated foreign terrorists and helped equip them for […]
Syria
Sheikh Mahmoud Abu al Qaqaa, a recruiter of foriegn fighters for al Qaeda in Iraq, was shot and killed in the city of Aleppo as he left the Imam Mosque after Friday prayers. Al Qaqaa was appointed the head of a religious school by the Syrian government last year.
Six months
Concerned Citizens movements form in the al Qaeda bastion of Tarmiyah while provincial security forces are organizing in Mosul. But the central government must reach an accommodation with the Concerned Citizens to further reconciliation or risk the progress made in turning insurgent groups against al Qaeda over the past year.