Somali police detained four teachers and 25 students at an Islamic school, and two medical workers and three security guards at a hospital during raids in Mogadishu. The Bakara market has reopened. A grenade attack wounded nine, including two police.
Government gives MILF more time to surrender beheaders
Iraqi Insurgents, Together at Poolside
US identifies 9 Terror training camps in N. Waziristan
Bombs mar Baghdad soccer celebrations, kill 50
Russia delays Iran nuclear plant to 2008
Pakistani villagers fear anti-al Qaeda offensive
Sunni bloc suspends Iraqi government membership
NWFP/FATA map. Red agencies/ districts openly controlled by the Taliban; purple is defacto control; yellow is under threat. Click map to view. Taliban maintain attack tempo as the government scrambles to save the Waziristan Accord The Taliban attacks against military and government targets throughout the Northwest Frontier Province have remained steady despite government efforts to […]
Iraq Is the Central Front
General: Al-Qaida making new cells in US
Editorial: Foreign strikes on Pakistani territory
A Taliban spokesman said one of the 23 South Korean hostages has been killed after the Afghan government refused to negotiate. Eight Koreans are reported to have been freed. A kidnapped German journalist and two Afghan assistants were freed. Upward of 75 Taliban were killed after ambushing U.S. and Afghan forces in Helmand province.
Abdullah Mehsud preferred death to surrender
During fighting over the weekend, which resulted in 20 al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb operatives killed, Algerian soldiers found a computer containing files listing the names of 572 operatives, all thought to have attended a meeting of Al Qaeda™s North African wing. This meeting was described as a “congress” and was attended by members […]
Task force takes the fight to the Anbar desert
Securing Afghanistan™s Highway One
Thousands of villagers in the Al-Barka municipality in Basilan province are leaving their homes in fear of being caught in the middle of fighting between MILF and the military. Religious leaders and NGO oppose the government taking punitive actions against MILF for the beheading of 10 Marines.
Three Lebanese soldiers were killed in the latest fighting against Fatah al Islam in the Nahr al Bared Palestinian refugee camp; 119 soldiers have been killed since fighting began on May 20. Lebanese troops found tunnels under the camp used as escape routes.
Dozens of Hamas and Fatah supporters were wounded during clashes at An-Najah University in Nablus in the West Bank. “The students turned the campus into a real battlefield,” said one eyewitness. “They fought each other with chairs, knives, swords and everything they could get their hands on.” Israeli aircraft damaged a building in Gaza in […]
British Police Tracking 2000 Suspected of Plotting Terrorism
US Military Options Draw a Chorus of Protests in Pakistan
Muslim support for suicide attacks down sharply
US, Iranian envoys meet in Baghdad
In the Wake of the Surge
Nine Algerian servicemen injured in bomb attack
Abdullah Mehsud. Click image to view. Commander of Taliban in South Waziristan detonated hand grenade during raid in Baluchistan Abdullah Mehsud, one of the most powerful leaders of the Taliban in South Waziristan, has been killed during a raid in the southern district of Zhob in Baluchistan province. The Taliban commander killed himself by detonating […]
US Seen in Iraq Until at Least™09
Taliban move closer to Kabul
Afghanistan: NATO Sees ‘Tribal’ Nature To Taliban Insurgenc