Iran
Iran’s Referendum on Ahmadinejad
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Pakistan
Pakistan opposition to form government, restore judges
Morocco
Morocco arrests 44 members of Islamist opposition
Iraq
Iraqi Police Say Female Suicide Bomber Kills Four
Al Qaeda
Analysts Debate al-Qaida’s Strength
Pakistan
Call to restore Pakistan judiciary
Iraq
Iraq attacks kill four
Iraq
2 Markets, of Varying Security, Highlight Challenge for US Troops in Iraq
Afghanistan
British soldier awarded the Military Cross for fighting off 150 Taliban
Palestinian Territories
Palestinian group Hamas admits that its fighters are trained in Iran
Iraq
$1bn loan from old foe shows growing power to rebuild – and to divide – Iraq
Singapore
Singapore confident of recapture of JI militant: PM
Iraq
Is Mosul on the Mend?
Al Qaeda
Report: Al Qaeda Spies Believed to Have Infiltrated British Police Force
Yemen
American Jaber Elbaneh was released by a Yemeni appeals court on bail. Elbaneh is one of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists. He attended the al Farouq training camp with the Lakawana Six. He surrendered to Yemeni authorities in May 2007 and was later sentenced in absentia to 10 years on terror charges. In February 2008, […]
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Chinese police foiled terror plot targeting Beijing Olympics
Afghanistan
Afghan police thwarted a Taliban ambush against the police station in northwestern Badghis province. Two Taliban were killed and three others wounded. A district intelligence chief for eastern Khost province was shot to death by unknown assassins while traveling to his office in the Mandozai district. More than 10,000 Afghans took to the streets to […]
Bangladesh
The US designated Harkat ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh, or HUJI (B), a foreign terrorist organization and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. The US also stated HUJI (B) had signed Osama bin Laden’s February 1998 fatwa that declared war on the US.
Iraq
US troops discovered a mass grave containing 100 bodies near Khalis in the Diyala province. The skeletal remains have been there for some time. A car bomb attack in Mosul left two people killed and five others wounded. The Defense Department’s inspector general’s report said, “unmonitored and potentially unsafe” water at three US bases in […]
Algeria
Fierce fighting broke out in eastern Algerian between government troops and al Qaeda-linked Islamic rebels. Casualties numbering close to 30 are reported on both sides. Algerian authorities confiscated four tons of cannabis this week near the border with Morocco.
China
Chinese police captured and killed suspected Islamic terrorists who were plotting attacks targeting the Beijing Olympics. Police confiscated guns, homemade bombs, training materials, and extremist religious ideological materials during the raid, in which two members of the gang were killed and 15 arrested.
Iraq
In Mosul
Iraq
US, Iraq begin negotiating status of forces
Iran
Survey Says Iranians Favor Free Election Of Their Top Leader
Iraq
The State of Iraq: An Update
Iran
Iran ready to talk nuclear with Europe
Iraq
Upswing in Iraq attacks not a trend: US military
Israel
Israel’s moral war against Hamas
Pakistan
Pakistani Opposition Parties Form Coalition Government
China
China foils attempted terror attack on flight