Lebanon
25 civilians injured in Beirut clashes Monday night
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Thailand
Thailand: 4 soldiers injured in Pattani explosion
Iraq
Iraq: Police arrest senior al Qaeda members
Pakistan
The government is close to completing a peace deal with the Taliban in Mohmand agency. Baitullah Mehsud said the Taliban is gearing up for the media war and will soon have their own YouTube channel. In Hangu the Taliban distributed pamphlets that ordered locals to turn over criminals and practice business in line with sharia […]
Afghanistan
Roadside bombs kill 8 civilians, 4 Afghan police
United States
US ports vulnerable to terrorists, probe finds
Al Qaeda
Swiss Journalist Suspected By US of Financing Al Qaeda Dies
Iran
IAEA: Iran may be withholding info in nuke probe
Iraq
Australian troops want to see real action in Iraq
Afghanistan
Taliban turn to Iraq-style tactics to take Kabul districts
Hezbollah
Hezbollah ‘To Back Iraq Resistance’
Iraq
Iraq Replaces Southern Oil Chiefs in Major Shake-up
Iraqi Special Forces capture Special Groups commander in Baghdad
A leader of a 300-man unit “affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps” was captured in Shula. US and Iraqi forces have been targeting the Mahdi Army in the Shula neighborhood.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – A war of money as well as bullets
Pakistan
Osama Bin Laden is not in Pakistan he is dead says Taliban leader
Hezbollah
Hezbollah promises Lebanon cooperation
Iraq
A suicide bomber killed four Awakening fighters and two policemen and wounded 18 Iraqis in northern Baghdad. One Awakening fighter was killed and three wounded in an al Qaeda attack in Baqubah. Iraqi soldiers captured a leader of al Qaeda’s Islamic State in Iraq near Kirkuk and an al Qaeda leader near Mosul. Iraqi Special […]
Somalia
Islamist insurgents attacked African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu sparking fierce clashes that killed at least 13 Somalis, most of them civilians. Unidentified gunmen shot and injured the commissioner of Guri-el district in the Galgadudu region. An airstrike in a southern, remote area of Somalia may have been launched by US forces Sunday night.
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Yemen rebel leader said hurt in clashes with state
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Reported airstrikes cause explosions in Somalia
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US should target militants in Pakistan: Afghan newspaper
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EU agrees to expand Afghan police training mission
Al Qaeda
Osama bin Laden is hiding in the K2 mountains of northern Pakistan, according to sources cited by Arabic television network Al Arabiya. The report also said US intelligence operatives were intending to drive bin Laden out in a major military operation encompassing the northern Pakistani tribal areas.
Afghanistan
Taliban vow to fight on, offer talks with Afghans
Iraq
Iraq says 6 suspected teenage bombers detained
Afghanistan
A British soldier was killed and two others injured in the Sangin district after their vehicle struck a roadside bomb. Hundreds of university and school students demonstrated in northern Afghanistan in a new protest over a US soldier’s shooting of a Koran in Iraq. Italy is willing to move its troops from the relatively quiet […]
Sri Lanka
At least seven people have been killed and 62 injured in a bombing during rush hour on a packed Sri Lankan commuter train. The blast hit the Colombo-Panadura train in Dehiwala station, in a suburb of the capital Colombo. Ground battles between Sri Lankan troops and separatist rebels killed 21 guerrillas and one solider in […]
Iraq
Reports: Sistani Sources Deny Fatwas Story
Iran
Iran Khatami slams Iraq-US security accord
Iraq
Iraqi soldiers captured a senior Qaeda leader in Tikrit and captured 20 terrorists behind the murder of over 300 civilians in terror attacks. Iraqi ecurity forces detained 75 terror suspects in Baghdad. Coalition forces detained 21 al Qaeda operatives during raids throughout Iraq.