Pakistani military reported 23 Taliban fighters, seven paramilitaries killed in fighting. Taliban claimed seven Pakistani soldiers killed, 17 captured, no Taliban casualties. In Karachi, a bus bombing killed 11 and wounded 40.
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Mullah Nazir survived a bomb attack; two Uzbeks were killed in clashes in South Waziristan. The Taliban wounded one soldier in an attack on a camp in North Waziristan and fired rockets at a military base in Mohmand. President Musharraf asked Nawaz Sharif’s brother to join the government.
Eight soldier were killed after Muslim insurgents ambushed an Army convoy with an IED and small-arms fire in Narathiwat province. Police are conducting a manhunt for the six insurgents who escaped from a local prison in Narathiwat.
Two people were killed and 16 others were wounded in clashes between security forces and demonstrators in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden. Security forces fired on the crowd, deployed tear gas, and arrested 11. Tens of thousands had gathered calling for reconciliation between former Southern factions that fought on Jan. 13, 1986. Yemen’s […]
Iraqi security forces captured 21 insurgents in Baghdad and seven al Qaeda operatives in Karbala. Coalition forces detained 13 al Qaeda operatives during raids in central and northern Iraq. Al Qaeda bombed a girls’ school in Baqubah. Coalition forces killed a Special Groups operative in the Baghdad area.
The Taliban killed 10 police in a small-arms attack in Kandahar province. There was a suicide attack in Helmand province. Two Dutch soldiers and two Afghan soldiers were killed in friendly fire incidents in Uruzgan province. Afghan police and soldiers detained three Taliban fighters in Nangarhar Province.
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Afghan Taliban leader Saifur Rahman Mansour, who was commander of Taliban forces during Operation Anaconda, was killed during a clash with the military in the Pakistani tribal agency. The military is negotiating with the Taliban in North Waziristan.
A look at the violence in Afghanistan over the course of 2007. The Taliban insurgency is strongest in the regions bordering Pakistan. Almost three-quarters of the violence occurs in the East, Southeast, and South.
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Saudi Arabia began construction of a border wall with Yemen. Yemeni trafficking of children, weapons, and banned products is substantial. In December, the Kingdom arrested a terror cell led by Yemeni who had trained at the al Farouq camp in Afghanistan. Eight Chinese-made missiles were smuggled from Yemen by the cell in preparation for attacks.
The Iraqi Parliament unanimously passed a law allowing former Baathists to return to government jobs. General Petraeus said EFP attacks have increased in January. EFPs and Iranian-made mortars were found in Suq Ash Shuyuk. US and Iraqi forces detained 15 al Qaeda fighters and found a torture house in Sherween village. Four Iraqi security officers […]
The Army has withdrawn from key checkpoints in North Waziristan as negotiations for a new peace deal are underway. The military claimed over 50 Taliban were killed during an attack earlier this week on the Ladha Fort in North Waziristan. The military captured 41 Taliban fighters in Swat. Taliban fighters launched rockets at a base […]
NATO targeted a Taliban commander responsible for attacks in Kapisa, Parwan, and Kabul Provinces. The commander was believed to be meeting with other Taliban leaders in Kapisa province. Afghan police found a Taliban weapons cache hidden in a school after destroying Taliban fighting positions in Uruzgan province.
A government official was murdered by Muslim insurgents in Narathiwat province. The Army commander-in-chief will visit the southern provinces to review the intelligence network in the wake arrests due to leaks to insurgents.
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