The Kohat Tunnel and Indus Highway have been closed for 17 days. The military said it killed 30 Taliban fighters in Bajaur. The Swat Taliban said they would release 38 captive security personnel in the next 48 hours. The Taliban murdered a “US spy” in North Waziristan. Pakistan™s high commissioner to the UK said US […]
UK Islamists Hold 9/11 Conference
Iraq parliament lifts immunity of Sunni MP over Israel visit
New London terror warning
New batch of mentors to begin training Afghan soldiers
Iraqi and US forces detained 30 insurgents during a month-long operation in the Sulayman Bak region. Police arrest five men behind yesterday’s murder of four Iraqi journalists in Mosul. Coalition forces detained eight suspected al Qaeda operatives during raids in central and northern Iraq. Iraqi soldiers found a massive cache containing EFPs and Iranian explosives […]
Shabaab fighters killed three civilians, two Somali soldiers, and a Ugandan soldier in ambushes in Mogadishu. An Ethiopian convoy was ambushed near Baidoa; Shabaab claimed it killed many soldiers. Shabaab warned it would close the Mogadishu airport.
The Taliban killed six children and wounded 12 in a bomb attack in Ghazni province. The Taliban killed two UN doctors and a driver in an IED attack in Spin Boldak in Kandahar province. A British soldier was killed in Helmand province. US forces captured two members of the Haqqani Network in Khost province.
Ending Afghan mission in 2011 is no ‘cut and run,’ MacKay says
Suspected bomb explodes at Indonesian airport
Police made eight arrests in yesterday’s multiple bombings in New Delhi. Techie Abdul Subhan is thought to be behind the attacks. The Indian Mujahideen used an unsecured wireless network in Mumbai to send the e-mail warning of the attack to media outlets. The Indian Mujahideen threatened to strike in Mumbai.
Lebanese to begin talks, focus on Hezbollah arms
India police raid slums, relatives angry after bombs
‘SIMI behind Delhi blasts’
Police detain several suspects in New Delhi blasts
Zawahiri addressed a letter directly to the leader of the Islamic State. Sources tell The Long War Journal that al Qaeda backfilled the leadership position after it exposed Baghdadi was played by an actor.
Iraq: Detention system reform is a top priority
Abdulla Ahmed Ali: A terrorist in the making at the age of 14
The military claimed 72 Taliban fighters and eight soldiers were killed in Bajaur. More than 100 Taliban fighters overran a government building on the outskirts of Peshawar. Police in Peshawar are purchasing their own weapons to defend themselves. A suspected suicide bomber was arrested in Islamabad. The Pakistani Air Force patrolled over the Waziristans.
(Pakistan) White House refuses to comment on rules of engagement
Pakistanis protest in New York against US intrusion
Coalition forces killed two al Qaeda operatives and detained 11 during raids in central and northern Iraq. Iraqi forces captured four Mahdi Army fighters in Maysan province. US soldiers detained a Special Groups leader in Baghdad™s Rashid district. Nine Peshmerga soldiers were killed and two were wounded in a bombing in Khanaqin. Four Iraqi journalists […]
Taliban go on the attack in tribal Pakistan
Shabaab fighters occupied Beledweyne after Ethiopian forces withdrew from the town. Shabaab mortared Baidoa, the seat of the Transitional Federal Government. Swedish prosecutors dropped charges against three men accused of funding Shabaab.
Sheikh Omar Bakri: Britain’s Problem – Terrorism by Mujahideen is ‘Blessed’
Afghanistan: ‘Iraq was not like this. This is war-fighting’
Is Pakistan Helping the Taliban?
Parallel Universe: Pakistan, al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the War on Terrorism
Five Moro Islamic Liberation Front fighters and one soldier were killed in a clash in the South. MILF claimed the military attacked its fighters while praying inside a mosque. The military is sending “special troops” to hunt down Commander Bravo.
Gunmen kill 4 Iraqi TV staff in Mosul