Monthly Archives: May 2008

Pakistan

Taliban commander and suicide camp trainer Qari Hussain survived a military operation in South Waziristan. US Predator UAVs and aircraft are reported to be circling in North Waziristan. The Taliban said it would sue President Pervez Musharrraf once the peace accord in South Waziristan is signed. The government and the Taliban in Swat met to […]




MNLF leaders ‘bury’ hatchet in Libya meet


Pro-Qadhafi Website Blocked in Libya


Forbidden pleasures return to Mosul as Al-Qaeda melts away


Fearing death, Somali journalists flee to Ethiopia’s capital


Somalia

Ethiopian soldiers have established a new military base at Yaqbariweyne in the lower Shabelle region in southern Somalia. UN monitors have accused Ugandan peacekeepers of selling arms to Muslim fighters battling the Somali transitional government and Ethiopian soldiers in Somalia. Gunmen attacked clan elders inlcuding the mayor of Guri Ceel in Dhuusa Mareeb, Galgaduud region, […]


Russia

Police say two senior officers have been killed in separate shootings in Russia’s North Caucasus region. A high-level anti-corruption officer was shot outside a restaurant early today in Dagestan and gunmen shot an anti-organized crime officer in Kabardino-Balkaria. Abu Isupkhadzhiyev, the emir of the village of Pervomaiskaya in the Grozny region, killed himself with a […]


Mali citizens want nomadic rebel leader arrested: spokesman


Afghanistan

At least 12 insurgents were killed during a Coalition raid against their hideout in the Bala Baluk district of Farah province. One Coalition soldier and two Afghan policemen were also killed during the clash. Two bombs exploded in Kandahar minutes apart from each other. The suicide car-bomb damaged a NATO vehicle, injured three foreign soldiers […]





Philippines

Abu Saif and MILF attacked a military outpost and a convoy of troops on the southern island of Basilan. The convoy was hit with an IED while rushing to reinforce the remote outpost. Two Muslim terrorists and 14 Marines were wounded during the fighting.



Iraq

US Military Downplays al Qaeda’s Demise



Iran

Iran ‘paid Iraq insurgents to kill UK soldiers’





Iraq

US ambassador: al Qaeda close to defeat in Iraq


Iraq

135 detained in raids on Iraqi Shiite strongholds


Algeria

An Algerian court has sentenced Amari Saifi, also known as Abderrezak el Para, to death. El Para planned and led the 2003 kidnapping of European tourists in the Algerian Sahara. He was designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the United States. He was eventually captured by Chadian rebels and turned over to the […]


Iraq

US troops anticipate Shiite militia comeback in Sadr City


Iraq

Iraq says Qaeda cleared from main northern city


Iraq

US and Iraqi security forces detained 135 suspected Mahdi Army fighters in Baghdad. An Iraqi military spokesman said Mosul has been cleared of al Qaeda. Mosul’s mayor survived the fourth assassination attempt in 10 days while four Iraqi troops were killed in an IED attack. One Iraqi soldier was killed and five wounded in an […]


Pakistan

Intelligence officials say Abu Sulayman Jazairi, a senior Algerian operative for al Qaeda™s central organization, was killed in the May 14 airstrike in Damadola, Bajaur. Baitullah Mehsud said attacks would continue in Afghanistan despite any peace deals with the Pakistani government. The Taliban killed a “US spy” in North Waziristan. A police officer and his […]