Pakistan
Pro-Taliban cleric terms Jirga a practice in futility
Yearly Archives: 2007
Pakistan
Pakistan says terror cell uncovered, two arrested
Lebanon
The army agreed to allow family members of Fatah al Islam fighters to leave the Nahred al Bared Palestinian camp to escape the fighting. Lebanon has charged 227 members of Fatah al Islam with murder and terrorism; 108 terrorists are in custody.
Pakistan
Al Qaeda operative Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan was release because Pakistan never charged him with a crime. A key Taliban aide to Jalaluddin Haqqani was arrested in Peshawar. Bajaur tribal leaders gave the Taliban four days to decide on a peace agreement with the government. The release of 15 soldiers captured in North Waziristan has […]
Iraq
Mahdi Army kill baby, 6 others in home
Saudi Arabia
Saudi-Syria tensions seethe over Lebanon
Israel
IDF nabs senior Islamic Jihad member involved in terror attacks
Al Qaeda
Head of CIA ‘failed to stop™ al-Qaeda™s 9/11 attacks on America
Al Qaeda
Taliban commander Mansour Dadullah said Osama bin Laden is alive and well. “I received a message from him in which he advised me ‘I must follow Mullah Dadullah and continue the same activities so that the mujahideen (Islamic fighters) may not weaken,” Mansour said, in a video dated June 15, 2007.
Somalia
Nine civilians and one policeman were wounded in multiple grenade attacks in Mogadishu. A district leader’s home was attacked, while two civilians were killed in an IED attack. The mayor of Mogadishu accused the Hawiye clan and HornAfrik Radio of inciting the insurgency.
Philippines
The military will expand the fight against Abu Sayyaf in Basilan, and Scouts, Special Forces, and SEALs will be thrown into the fight. MILF agreed to pull out its forces from a town in Basilan to avoid a fight with the military. A bomb blast in Zamboanga City wounded 14.
Afghanistan
Taliban Talks – Secret Negotiations with the Islamists Proved Fruitless
Afghanistan
Fifteen Taliban were killed in fighting in Ghazni and Helmand provinces. Police arrested a suspect in the bombing attack that killed three Germans outside Kabul.
Iraq
Al-Sadr denies militia killed governors
Turkey
Turkish PM calls on army to stay out of politics
Iran
Iranian-American Freed From Tehran Jail After Posting Bail
Iraq
Europe must play greater role in Iraq: Kouchner
Sudan
Sudan surrounds, attacks volatile Darfur camp: witness
Iraq
Baghdad Confidential: Strung-out stringers
Pakistan
Mohammed Neem Noor Khan: Bin Laden’s Back Channel
Iraq
Fallujah catches its breath
Lebanon
Army steps up siege of Nahr al-Bared, former general assures militants are ‘doomed’
Israel
UNIFIL unwilling to monitor Syrian border, Israeli officials say
Pakistan
Iranian hostages freed in Pakistan
Bosnia
Bosnia: International official under fire over al-Qaeda statement
Pakistan
The Taliban are releasing 15 paramilitary soldiers kidnapped in South Waziristan the same day that al Qaeda operative Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan was freed from jail. Six soldiers were killed and 18 wounded in a suicide bombing in Hangu. Two paramilitary soldiers were wounded in a rocket attack in Bajaur.
Afghanistan
No shots fired as Afghan, US troops take village
Iraq
Night raid in village on Tigris yields more al-Qaida suspects
Sudan
Attack on British embassy in Sudan foiled
Indonesia
Abu Bakar Bashir loses legal challenge