Iran
Israel: US report on Iran may spark war
Yearly Archives: 2007
Iraq
Coalition forces killed four al Qaeda operatives and detained 18 suspects during operations in central and northern Iraq. One civilian was killed and three wounded in a suicide bombing near an Iraqi Army checkpoint in Baghdad. An attack on an Awakening Council in Baghdad killed two and wounded 10; an officer of the Awakening in […]
Iran
Iranian Revolutionary Guard conduct maneuvers in Gulf
Iraq
Tunisia convicts 4 for insurgency in Iraq
Pakistan
“The country has been saved from grave dangers through imposition of emergency,” President Musharraf said to the country as he lifted the state of emergency. The Taliban set up a centralized command led by Baitullah Mehsud. Al Qaeda commander Rashid Rauf escaped from police custody in Islamabad. A suicide bomber killed five and wounded 11 […]
Somalia
A roadside bomb wounded at 12 Somali soldiers stationed outside the parliament building in Baidoa. Shabaab fighters attacked a military checkpoint in Hiran province. Five civilian were wounded in a mortar attack in Mogadishu.
Iran
Iraqi City Poised to Become Hub of Shiite Power
Al Qaeda commander Rashid Rauf escapes Pakistani custody
Rauf was one of two integral planners of the 2006 London Airline Plot. He was awaiting a decision to be extradited to Britain before he mysteriously escaped while being transferred from a court to a jail in Rawalpindi.
Afghanistan
A car packed with rockets exploded near the residence of the governor of Kabul, killing five people and injuring five more. Canadian engineers are planning to build a new forward operating base in Arghandab, a strategically vital district north of Kandahar City.
Somalia
Bomb wounds 12 soldiers near Somali parliament
Israel
Celebrating anniversary, Hamas warns of Intifada
Afghanistan
Five killed in car-bomb attack on Afghan police
Pakistan
Musharraf Lifts Pakistan’s State of Emergency
Al Qaeda
Jihadism: The Middle East and Beyond
Iraq
The “Concerned Local Citizens” Program Grows into a Bona-Fide Phenomenon
Pakistani Taliban unites under Baitullah Mehsud
South Waziristan commander takes the helm of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, a unified Taliban movement in the Northwest Frontier Province. The Taliban in the tribal agencies and districts in the Northwest Frontier Province are now under Mehsud’s command.
Iraq
An Iraqi Army brigade took over control of security in Maysan after the Amarah bombings. Sadrist staged demonstrations in Baghdad, and accused the US of conducting the attacks in Amarah. Coalition forces killed three al Qaeda operatives and detained 12 during operations in central Iraq. US forces detained 27 al Qaeda in northern Babil province.
Al Qaeda
Zawahiri: Annapolis, the Betrayal
Afghanistan
An unexplained explosion took place in close proximity to the Indian Consulate in eastern Jalalabad. ANA and Coalition forces discovered a Taliban safe house in Musa Qala. IED components, opium, and suicide-bomb vest were confiscated. A huge Taliban weapons cache was discovered by Coalition forces in Zabul province. Mullah Sangeen, a deputy of Taliban Emir […]
Algeria
Both of the Algiers suicide bombers were freed in a 2006 amnesty deal for Islamists. Seventeen UNHCR workers are among the 31 confirmed killed in Tuesday’s double suicide bombing.
Afghanistan
Eyewitness Account of Huge Taliban Defeat
Al Qaeda
Ayman al Zawahiri released an audiotape on Islamist websites titled “Annapolis – The Betrayal.” Zawahiri addressed the Arab-Israeli talks, said Arab leaders “sold Palestine” by attending, and asked why the Mufti of Saudi Arabia has remained silent while this has happened.
Iraq
Feature: Iraq tribal alliances pay off
Pakistan
Pakistani troops retook Charbagh near Mingora in Swat; 14 of Fazlullah’s fighters were captured. The Interior Minister said the Swat operation will end shortly and polls will be held in the Taliban district. The Taliban attacked the Bajaur Scouts headquarters with rockets, while the tribes are holding a “peace jirga.”
Siraj Haqqani’s deputy killed in Afghanistan
Mullah Sangeen, second in command in the Haqqani network, is second senior member killed in last two months. CJTF-82 is pushing hard to split the Haqqani network.
Al Qaeda
British Inquiry of Failed Plots Points to Iraq™s Qaeda Group
Pakistan
Strange bedfellows emerge in Pakistan
Yemen
Al Qaeda is establishing bases of operation in Yemen’s mountainous regions in the north, stirring up sectarian and tribal wars, and may be shifting its activities to the Arabian Peninsula. A Yemeni court ordered the arrest of seven members of a Sana™a terrorist cell.
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda uses elderly terrorists in change of tactics in Algeria
Iraq
US troops may replace British army in Basra