Yearly Archives: 2007

Iraq

Iraq: Seven killed as bombers target morgue


Iraq

DOD report says EFP attacks are up in Iraq


Iraq

‘Surge™ finds success in southeast Baghdad


Iraq

British withdrawal from Basra has led to drop in violence


Iraq

US Bans Travel of Officials Outside of Green Zone


Surging in Wasit Province

Multinational Division Center kicks off Operation Marne Sentry, the interdiction of Iranian-trained fighters and weapons, near the border in Wasit province.


Al Qaeda

The al Qaeda-linked Al Tanzem Foundation released a video on the Internet commemorating the Sept. 11 attacks. “If you see the massacres of Chechnya, you would say that this is enough reason to strike the towers of the World Trade Center,” the narrator noted. “Islamic terror must move to the Western countries so that it […]


Iraq

Empty wards in Baghdad hospital offer hope




Iraq

Blackwater security firm banned from Iraq




Afghanistan

US forces captured Inayatullah, a senior al Qaeda leader and Afghan national, earlier this year and have moved him to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Over 10 Taliban fighters were killed after attacking a joint Afghan-British patrol in Helmand province. Nine Taliban were captured in Kandahar. A US airstrike killed at least one Taliban fighter in a […]


Pakistan

Four Taliban were killed and four soldiers were wounded during fighting in North Waziristan. The South Waziristan tribal jirga said it was close to securing the release of over 300 Pakistani soldiers. Four shops were destroyed in bombings in Swat, and a cell switching center was bombed in Mahmond.




Iran

SecDef Gates: US favors diplomacy with Iran


Iran

French FM Kouchner: ‘We must prepare for war against Iran’



“No comment”: An interview with a mukhtar

Bill Ardolino is currently embedded in Fallujah. Bill recently sat down with a local leader to ask about local conditions, the role of mukhtars in the rebuilding of Fallujah, and thoughts on the national government.


Sheikh Sattar assassin captured by US forces

US Special Forces captured an al Qaeda leader involved in the assassination of the leader of the Anbar Awakening, as well as other attacks in Anbar province. Al Qaeda attacks a tribe aligned with the Diyala Awakening; an anti-extremist Shia movement forms in Wasit province.


Iraq

US Special Forces captured an al Qaeda operative linked to the assassination of Sheik Sattar. Special Forces also captured a senior al Qaeda leader in Tarmiyah known as “The Executioner.” Al Qaeda in Iraq killed 14 civilians in an attack in the town of Muqdadiyah in Diyala province.


Syria

The Israeli Air Force reportedly struck a North Korean-built


Iraq

US expands Anbar model to Iraq Shiites



Pakistan

A JUI leader that issued a fatwa against suicide bombings and traveled to Afghanistan to convince Mullah Omar to give up Osama bin Laden in 2001 was murdered in Peshawar. The Taliban bombed a missionary public school in Bannu.


Al Qaeda

Fewer Foreigners Crossing Into Iraq From Syria to Fight


Afghanistan

Canadian Forces Regain Part of Strategic Area in Southern Afghanistan