Iraq
US Foils Iraqi Terror Plot Using Clues Found in Bakery
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Al Qaeda
Qaeda fighters prove stubborn in one of group’s last bastions
Saudi Arabia
Qaeda down but not out in Saudi, Yemen
North Korea
US intelligence officials believe North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is gravely ill and possibly suffered a stroke. Kim failed to attend a military parade to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic. Reports that a team of elite Chinese doctors have been dispatched to North Korea to treat an unnamed […]
Somalia
Somali Islamist leader urges world to curb piracy
United Kingdom
Experts: US hindered ‘jet bomb plot’ probe
Al Qaeda
Arab nations still suspect US, Israel in 9/11 attacks
Iraq
US and Iraqi Officials Try to Reassure Citizen Patrols About Transfer
Pakistan
Pakistan’s Zardari vows to work with neighbors
Thailand
State official beheaded in Thai Muslim south
Haqqani’s main madrassa hit in North Waziristan attack
US aircraft struck the Manbaul Ulom, the primary madrassa run by the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani family in order to “send a message.” Five Haqqani compounds have been hit in the last ten days.
United Kingdom
Airliner bomb trial: Three British Muslims guilty of conspiracy to murder
Iraq
Coalition forces detained 15 suspected al Qaeda operatives in Mosul and Baghdad. Iraqi forces detained 71 insurgents in Baghdad and four Special Groups fighters in Wasit. One policeman was killed and four were wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in Mosul. An Awakening leader was kidnapped in Diyala. The US released 433 detainees during […]
Iraq
Bahraini Ambassador to Iraq due end of year
Iraq
Bush to order a few thousand troops out of Iraq
Philippines
A military airstrike in Mindanao killed 16 Moro Islamic Liberation Front fighters. MILF said there must be a peace deal before the group disarms. The military said an IED attack in Mindanao was the handiwork of Jemaah Islamiyah.
Palestinian Territories
Pro-al Qaeda group urges Hamas to free its leader
Al Qaeda
Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s second in command, issued a new videotape titled “Assessment of Seven Years of Crusades.” Zawahiri accused Iran of collaborating with the US in Iraq and Afghanistan and claimed Hezbollah did not win the 2006 war with Israel. Mustafa Abu Yazid, al Qaeda’s leader in Afghanistan, and Abdulmalik Droukedel, the leader […]
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Russia: Iran nuclear plant nearly ready
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IDF warplanes reportedly fly over southern Lebanon
Lebanon
A reconciliation accord is expected to be signed between Alawites and Sunnis in northern Lebanon’s capital of Tripoli. A UN report reiterated a call for Israel to compensate Lebanon for damage from the 2006 war. Hassan Nasrallah appeared on Iranian television and warned any offensive in the Gaza Strip “will have unclear implications for Zionists.”
Afghanistan
Cell phone images are providing evidence that a large number of civilians may have been mistakenly killed by US troops operating in western Afghanistan last month. US Marines handed over control of a former Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan to Afghan soldiers and their British mentors following a four-month operation. Afghan security forces foiled a […]
Somalia
Pirates armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked three vessels off Somalia’s coast but failed to hijack them. Kidnappers holding an Alberta journalist in Somalia have demanded a $2.5 million ransom in exchange for her release. The three Royal Malaysian Navy vessels have arrived in the Gulf of Aden to help patrol Somali waters.
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Russia™s Restless Muslim Republics
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Iran under attack in new Al-Qaeda video
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TIMELINE-Messages attributed to al Qaeda’s Zawahri
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Marines hand ex-Taliban stronghold to Afghans
Afghanistan
Canada outlines 21 goals for Afghanistan
Islamic Emirate of Somalia imminent as Shabaab races to consolidate power
Shabaab races to declare an Islamic state while competing Islamist groups and allied clans vie for power in the southern port city of Kismayo.
US targets Haqqani Network in North Waziristan
More than 20 are reported killed in a strike against a compound run by Siraj Haqqani. This is the seventh reported strike inside Pakistan in nine days.