Iraq
Iraqi PM Announces Crackdown in Diyala Province
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Iraq
US-allied Iraqi politician kills 2 US troops, wounds 4
Iraq
Roadside bombs decline in Iraq
Thailand
Seven Muslim insurgents were killed and four soldiers were wounded in a series of clashes in the southern province of Yala. Train service in the South has been suspended after terrorists boarded trains and murdered three railway workers and a policeman on June 21.
Iraq
Ten killed, 24 hurt in mortar attack in Iraq
Afghan, US forces kill 55 Taliban after ambush
Coalition troops rout a Taliban force after being ambushed in Paktika province along the Pakistani border across from the lawless tribal agency of North Waziristan.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Legality Of ‘Hot Pursuit’ Into Pakistan Debated
Iraq
Five British hostages in Iraq ‘are still alive’
Al Qaeda
How interrogation by CIA made al Qaeda’s plotter turn to poetry
Iraq
Seven police and eight civilians were killed in a suicide bombing in Baqubah. Fourteen Iraqis were wounded in a suicide car bombing in Mosul. US soldiers killed six Mahdi Army fighters as they planted IEDs in New Baghdad. Iraqi troops arrested five Mahdi Army fighters in Amarah; US troops detained an IED cell member in […]
Pakistan
More than 10 were killed in the second day of fighting between Lashkar-e-Islam and the Ansar-ul-Islam in Khyber agency. Sixteen Christians kidnapped yesterday in Khyber have been freed. One person was killed and two wounded in a bombing outside a CD shop in Malakand. The Taliban bombed a music shop in Kohat and a cinema […]
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Reporters Say Networks Put Wars on Back Burner
Somalia
Senior al Qaeda leader Hassan Dahir Aweys said he was taking control of the opposition front called the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia. Three Somali soldiers were killed in a bombing in Mogadishu. Ten Somalis were wounded at a bombing in a theater in Baidoa. A Somali peace activist was killed and the leader […]
Afghanistan
Coalition forces killed 55 Taliban fighters and wounded 25 during heavy fighting in the Zerok district of Paktika province. Three Taliban leaders are reported to have been killed in the fighting. One Afghan woman and three children were killed in the indirect fire attack from Pakistan. A German general said 6,000 additional troops are needed […]
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda release a videotape featuring spokesman and military commander Abu Yahya al Libi. The video was produced by As Sahab, al Qaeda’s media wing, and is titled “No Peace… Without Islam.”
One hundred insurgents detained in Baghdad during past week
Bill Murray reports from Baghdad, Iraq. Major General Qassim Atta and Rear Admiral Patrick Driscoll brief on the security situation in Baghdad and the current operation in Amarah.
Iraq
Female suicide bomber in Iraq kills 15, wounds 40
Afghanistan
Rockets from Pakistan kill Afghan woman, 3 children
Afghanistan
6,000 troops urgently needed in Afghanistan: NATO
Al Qaeda
Foreign Fighters: How Are They Being Recruited?
Afghanistan
Warlord: My encounter with Taliban mastermind
Operations target Mahdi Army in South
Senior Sadrist leader detained in Al Kut. More than 100 Mahdi Army fighters and Sadrists detained in the South over the weekend.
Pakistan
Twenty-nine were killed in clashes between the Lashkar-e-Islam and Ansar-ul-Islam in Kurram. Twenty-five Christians were kidnapped in Peshawar. Police in Charsadda arrested 15 journalists for reporting on the Taliban. The Pakistani government wants to fight the war against terrorism, but not inside Pakistan, said the Prime Minister’s adviser.
Pakistan
A prophetic voice on Taliban calls out again
Afghanistan
Afghan and Coalition bases in Paktika were targeted by indirect fire launched from inside Pakistan. Five Coalition troops were killed in two separate IED attacks in Kandahar and Paktika province. Six Coalition soldiers were wounded in the attacks.
Afghan base in Paktika hit with rounds launched from Pakistan
An Afghan and a Coalition base are targeted; three rounds landed inside the Afghan base. Coalition forces launched counter battery fire into Pakistan.
Yemen
The Saturday Profile – For Yemen™s Leader, a Balancing Act Gets Harder
Iran
How Iran would retaliate if it comes to war
Iran
Strike on Iran could turn Mideast into fireball, official says
Afghanistan
Five foreign troops killed in Afghanistan