Iraq
US Begins Erecting Wall in Sadr City
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Al Qaeda
Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s second in command, said the US military is hiding its defeat in Iraq. “Where the American invasion stands now, after five years, is failure and defeat,” Zawahiri said in an audiotaped response to General David Petraeus’ remarks to Congress. Zawahiri also said world food shortages “is a part of the […]
Iran
Iran denies charges it’s supporting Iraqi insurgency
Sadrists vow to keep the Mahdi Army
A Sadrist member of parliament said the Mahdi Army would keep its weapons unless the members were ordered to disband by senior Shia leaders. Sistani has said only Sadr can order the Mahdi Army to disarm.
United Kingdom
Islamist heckler guilty of terror crimes
Iraq
Sunni bloc agrees in principle to return to Iraqi government nine months after quitting
Afghanistan
Suicide blast kills 17 in Afghan bazaar: governor
Iraq
Sadrist leaders refuse to lay down weapons
Bara bin Malek Front commander killed in Pakistani shootout
Commander Ismail led a dangerous Taliban splinter group in Kunar province. He was behind the 2005 shootdown of a US Army Chinook that resulted in the deaths of 16 US Special Operations SEALs and airmen. The Long War Journal has an exclusive photo of Ismail.
Iraq
Soldiers Who Failed to Fight in Basra to be Reprimanded – Official
Hezbollah
THezbollah questions missing Syrian, detention of generals
Egypt
Egypt jails Muslim Brotherhood’s top leadership – Middle East Times
Pakistan
GAO: Terrorists operating freely on Pakistan border
Afghanistan
Afghan and Coalition forces killed nine Taliban during fighting in Ghazni province, and captured 12 Taliban fighters during raids in Khost and Nimroz provinces. Two US Marines were killed in a bombing in Kandahar province. Coalition forces captured a Taliban commander during a raid in Zabul province. NATO accidentally dropped weapons and ammunition at the […]
Iraq
Desertion or a Break? An Iraqi Gives His Side
Somalia
Ethiopia denied any involvement in the killing of three foreigners in Beledweyne. A Somali woman was killed in a bombing in Baidoa. France will prosecute the six captured Somali pirates responsible for the hijacking of a French yacht.
Turkey
One Turkish soldier was killed and seven wounded in a series of clashes with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Turkish warplanes also struck a group of PKK fighters as they attempted to cross the border from Iraq. Turkey will purchase 84 helicopters and an air defense system from the US.
Thailand
Muslim terrorists shot and decapitated a manager of a shrimp farm in Pattani province; two police were wounded in an IED attack as they went to the scene murder. One soldier was killed in Yala province and two local defense volunteers were killed in Pattani. A policeman was killed in a bombing as captured “key” […]
Iraq
Suicide bomber kills 49 at Iraq funeral
Pakistan
Twenty were killed during clashes between the Lashkar-e-Islam and a tribe in Khyber agency. The Taliban kidnapped nine security personnel in Khyber. A tribal jirga in South Waziristan secured the release of Taliban commanders. Four Taliban and al Qaeda operatives were arrested.
Iran
Iran: Ahmadinejad says 9/11 a ‘suspect event’
Targeting al Qaeda in Iraq’s network, March-April 2008
Coalition and Iraqi forces killed or captured 53 senior al Qaeda in Iraq operatives over the past month, including three senior leaders in Mosul and four leaders and facilitators in Baghdad.
Iraq
Iraqi National Police show determined loyalty
Iraq
A Coalition UAV team killed four Mahdi Army fighters in Basrah while Iraqi police detained 12. The governor of Najaf and a representative of Sistani survived assassination attempts. Coalition forces killed a senior al Qaeda leader and captured five suspects in Mosul, and detained 13 al Qaeda operatives in the Tigris River Valley and northwest […]
Afghanistan
Pakistani police killed Mullah Ismail, the Afghan Taliban leader behind the 2005 shootdown of a US Chinook helicopter that killed all 16 troops on board. Ismail was traveling from Afghanistan’s Kunar province into Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province and was shot after he failed to stop at a checkpoint. He was believed to be the most […]
Afghanistan
Afghan villagers save school, clinic from insurgents
Indonesia
Abdul Rohim and Agus Purwanto, two Jemaah Islamiyah operatives arrested in Malaysia in January and recently extradited to Indonesia, “were planning to go to Syria to build a relationship with foreign radical groups” according to Indonesian police. Police also believe their arrest may provide clues that can lead to the arrest of Noordin Mohammad Top.
Iraq
Iraqi Unit Flees Post, Despite American™s Plea
Yemen
An explosion that killed three soldiers in the eastern province of Marib was caused by a landmine or by a remote control device. Two earlier attacks on military checkpoints in Hadramout which killed one soldier were claimed by al Qaeda in an Internet posting. A soldier was killed in Marib on Saturday when gunmen opened […]
Iraq
Iraq removes commanders after Basra crackdown