Yearly Archives: 2007






Iraq

Leave Iraq and Brace for a Bigger Bloodbath


Iraq

The Road Home -It is time for the United States to leave Iraq


Pakistan

2 Uzbek bombers on the prowl, NWFP police on maximum alert




Pakistan

Aurakzai concerned over worsening law and order in Pakistan’s NWFP



Israel

Report: Israel, Hizbullah move towards prisoner exchange


Egypt

EU scales back Gaza-Egypt border monitoring mission



Iran

Iran sees “creeping coup” in the press: report



Iraq

At least 117 killed in Iraqi village market blast


Pakistan

President Musharraf told the Islamists inside the Red Mosque to “surrender or die” as the government continues to negotiate with those inside the mosque. The information minister said only the courts can grant Ghazi safe passage. MMA chief Fazlur Rehman said Ghazi should surrender.



Iraq

RCT-6 continues Operation Alljah in Fallujah




Swat joins Talibanistan

NWFP/FATA map. Red agencies/ districts openly controlled by the Taliban; purple is defacto control; yellow is under threat. Click map to view. Maulana Fazlullah’s TNSM violates the terms of its May “peace agreement” As the Red Mosque standoff in the heart of Islamabad enters its fifth day, the mosque’s supporters in the Northwest Frontier Province […]





Thailand

A former army chief said the government’s “policy of reconciliation” has failed as it is too timid. The commander of the Yala Provincial Police said the tactics of direct pressure and sweeping arrests are “choking” the insurgency. An Islamic school in Narathiwat with links to Muslim insurgents was closed.


Iraq

Talabani urges Iran to help rein in Iraqi militias


Afghanistan

An estimated 100 Taliban were killed during fighting in Kunar, Uruzgan, and Farah provinces. ISAF denied killing civilians during an airstrike in Kunar province.