Monthly Archives: March 2008





Iraq

Green Zone attack originated in Sadr City, say witnesses





Mali

Austrian hostage deadline looms as Mali sends more troops into region







Iraq

US wants Britain to lead ‘surge’ in southern Iraq





Russian Police Say Deaths of Two Journalists Not Linked


Gaddafi son said hopeful over Austrian hostages


Pakistani Authorites Close Three Radio Stations for Pro-Taliban Broadcasts


Afghan District Leader Stabbed to Death


Iraq

A suicide car bomber killed 13 Iraqi soldiers after plowing his vehicle into their base in Mosul; 30 soldiers and 12 civilians were wounded in the attack. A roadside bomb explosion killed three US soldiers in northwest Baghdad. US forces raided an al Qaeda explosives safe house and arrested eight men. Forces confiscated 600 pounds […]


Afghanistan

Two ISAF soldiers were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Kandahar. A massive Coalition air and ground blitz in Uruzgan killed 40 Taliban including an unnamed commander. The Taliban assassinated a pro-government cleric in Helmand. Coalition forces killed four Taliban and arrested three others during a raid in Zabul.


Mali

Tuareg insurgents loyal to Ibrahim Ag Bahanga ambushed a military convoy near the Algeria border. Mali has lost 33 men captured and three soldiers killed since fighting exploded on Thursday.


Lebanon

Hezbollah’s deputy secretary general Naim Qassem has accused Israel for the assassination of terrorist mastermind, Imad Mughniyah, saying, “we have clear proof, of 100 percent that cannot be doubted, that Israel is the head of the assassination.” Fighting has continued to rage in the Ain al Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon after Fatah forces […]


Al Qaida kills clerics in Algeria who criticized insurgency


Algeria rebuffs Moroccan call to open border


Special Forces have Afghan drug lords in sights


Afghanistan: UAV makes hard landing in Sarobi District