Monthly Archives: March 2008

Yemen

Yemen arrested five people in connection with Tuesday’s mortar attack on the US Embassy in Sana’a. The identities of the alleged attackers was not made public. The mortars were fired from the roof of a nearby apartment rented by the attackers, a Yemeni official stated. One guard was killed and 17 school girls injured when […]


Iraq

SVBIED kills Iraqi Army Soldier, wounds 19 in Mosul



Yemen

Five Suspected Militants Arrested After Failed US Embassy Attack in Yemen



Tension and tea along the Pakistani border

Phil Peterson, on assignment with the Embedded Transition Team for the Afghan National Army based out of Forward Operating Base Tillman, recounts a recent patrol along the Pakistani border and the team’s encounter with the Pakistani border guards. With the Taliban watching.






Relieved of command


Bill Roggio reports from Mosul, Iraq. The 2nd Iraqi Army Division relieves a battalion commander. The move is welcomed by the Military Transition Teams in western Mosul.


Afghanistan

The Taliban released a video showing the suicide bombing of the Sabri district headquarters in Khost province that killed two US soldiers earlier this month. Maulvi Jalaluddin Haqqani, a top Taliban strategist and leader of the Haqqani Network, issued a message in the tape, praising the suicide attack.


Somalia

Islamic insurgents ambushed an Ethiopian unit while they tried to establish a new barracks in northern Mogadishu. The five-hour battle left at least three Ethiopian soldiers and three insurgents dead. Insurgents briefly overran two military bases following the clash.


Pakistan

A suicide bomber killed five Pakistani troops when he detonated outside a paramilitary base near Wana, South Waziristan. The Pakistan People’s Party allegedly selected its choice for the country™s next prime minister, but the decision may already be causing rifts within the party. Pakistan successfully conducted its final flight test of its indigenously developed unmanned […]



Iraq

US Military Kills 7 Suspected Insurgents Planting Roadside Bomb in Iraq



Iraq

Two Iraqi police killed in clash with Mehdi Army