Iraqi Special Operations Forces captured a Special Groups operative in Amarah. Iraqi security forces arrested seven “wanted persons” in Wasit province, six in Basrah, and one in the Hartha area north of Basrah. Iraqi security forces arrested 19 “gunmen” in Baghdad.
PM al-Maliki urges fostering Sunni-Shiite alliance in Iraq
Paratroopers launch biggest battle in Afghanistan for two years
A bomb attack blamed on Islamist terrorists killed six Algerian soldiers and wounded four in Cap Djinet, east of Algiers. The soldiers were returning to barracks on Thursday after a fishing expedition in the seaside town, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) from Algiers, when their vehicle struck a bomb buried in the road. The attack […]
An explosion ripped apart a car carrying a district police chief in Chechnya on Friday and gunmen then shot at the burning vehicle, killing Police chief Shamil Kutsayev. Five other policemen were injured in the ambush. A court in the Russian capital ordered the closure of an Internet site Friday that carried news from the […]
Bomb attacks on two buses in Sri Lanka have left 22 people dead and about 100 injured. Twenty people died and more than 80 were hurt in the blast in the capital while a later attack in the town of Kandy killed two and injured 20. Sri Lankan police detained more than 50 people for […]
Top terrorist among six killed in Thailand’s restive south: police
Coalition forces have gone on the offensive against the Taliban in Kapisa, Badghis, Farah, Uruzgan, Kandahar, and Helmand provinces.
Iraqi woman describes daughter’s descent into suicide bombing
Beirut: A simmering city
Yemen arrests Al Qaeda operative from Asia
Pakistan: New wave of violence a bid to undermine president
UN officially asked to probe Bhutto death
Abu Ghraib reformer Stone hands over command of detainee system in Iraq
Iran: Khamanei Warns Of Western Evils, As Youth Give Views On Ayatollahs
Coalition forces killed four terrorist and detained more than 20 during an operation targeting an al Qaeda terrorist network along the Tigris River Valley. Iraqi troops killed three al Qaeda operatives and captured six in Baqubah. Coalition forces detained 32 al Qaeda operatives in Baghdad and northern Iraq. The Salahadin SWAT detained two insurgents in […]
Afghan and NATO forces killed 20 Taliban fighters in Paktika province and nine fighters in Zabul province, will two civilians were wounded in a suicide attack in Zabul. Afghan forces killed more than 12 Taliban during an atack on a base in Uruzgan. The Taliban killed a key adviser to a tribal leader near Kandahar […]
The government has released 64 Taliban leaders and fighters detained during operations in Swat. An IED attack killed four Pakistanis, including two policemen, in Dera Ismail Khan. The Taliban bombed a girls’ school in Dir Bala.
Three of the operatives, including two senior leaders, are captured near the Iranian border in Wasit province ove rthe past two days.
Al Qaeda threatens Norway
Qadisayah province will transition to Iraqi control; Operations in Basrah, Sadr City, and Mosul have put another operation on hold; National Police to expand; Improvements in the security forces.
Pakistan tries to assure Afghans over Taliban talks
Afghanistan: Teen Describes Madrasah Effort To Make Him A Suicide Bomber
Iraq says it wants to restrict movement of US troops
Recruitment of suicide bombers down – official
Three Gulf States citizens are designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorist Individuals. Two of them were active in financing al Qaeda leaders based inside Iran.
The US Treasury Department has frozen the assets of two Bahrainians and a Qatari for providing financial and material support to al Qaeda. The men have supplied funds to senior al Qaeda and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group operating in Iran, Pakistan and throughout the Middle East.
Iraqi security forces arrested 19 wanted men in Basrah. Coalition forces captured a Special Groups smuggler and financier for Al Kut and a leader in Mahawil near Hillah. Iraqi soldiers found four EFPs amongst weapons caches in Sadr City. Iraqi troops killed five al Qaeda operatives and captured five in Baqubah. Police arrested a senior […]
Jordan Court sentences Al Qaeda militant
Nine Taliban killed in Afghanistan: police