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US Strikes Taliban Stronghold in Pakistan
Monthly Archives: September 2008
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More Diggers wanted for Afghanistan
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Taliban learning how to win key propaganda battles
Pakistan
Six Pakistanis in Camp X-ray face serious charges
Pakistan
The US embassy in Islamabad and the consulate in Karachi received envelopes filled with an unknown white powder. A oil tanker destined for NATO forces in Afghanistan was hit with an RPG at the Chaman border crossing. The government said 10 Taliban fighters were killed in Swat and security has been restored in regions in […]
Al Qaeda
Terror groups developing ‘dirty bomb’, say security chiefs
Iraq
Petraeus to hand over Iraq command
Afghanistan
US re-examines Afghan attack that killed civilians
Afghanistan
US troops killed 10 Haqqani Network operatives and captured three during a raid in Khost province. Six police were killed and 37 were wounded in a double suicide attack on a senior police general in Kandahar. One Afghan soldier was killed and seven were wounded in an IED attack in Kandahar.
Somalia
An unidentified warship captured 14 pirates and sunk their boat. Shabaab conducted attacks against peacekeepers in Mogadishu and a police station in Baidoa. An Islamic Courts official rejected the appointment of new leaders in Kismayo as local clans were not represented.
Taliban suicide bombers target senior Afghan police chief
Six Afghans were killed and 37 wounded after two suicide bombers entered a police headquarters in Kandahar. This is the second attack against senior security officials in two days.
Afghanistan
Seven years after 9/11, Al-Qaeda leaders plot on in safe havens
Pakistan reopens vital border crossing to NATO
Defense minister admitted closure was retaliation for US strikes inside Pakistan’s tribal areas, while an advisor to the prime minister cited poor security.
Iraq
Six Iraqis were killed and 32 wounded in a suicide car bombing in Tal Afar. Coalition forces detained 12 al Qaeda operatives during raids nationwide. Iraqi forces detained 24 insurgents in Baghdad and 13 terrorists and criminals in Basrah. US and Iraqi forces detained two Special Groups operatives in Hillah and Baghdad.
Suicide bombing kills 30 in Pakistan’s northwest
More than ninety are wounded after a massive truck bomb is detonated at a checkpoint on a highway just outside Peshawar. The Taliban have been fighting to take control of the Indus Highway.
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For the Taliban, A Crime That Pays
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Hamid Karzai blames Britain for Taliban resurgence
Al Qaeda
Western intelligence sources in Pakistan believe that al Qaeda’s American recruit and propaganda chief, Adam Gadahn, may have been killed in a CIA-directed airstrike. Intelligence officials will scrutinize radical websites and forums this week to see whether Gadahn – also known as Azzam al Ameriki – produces a new video message to mark Sept. 11, […]
Somalia
[Update 2] Shabaab has seized the frontier town of Dobley in the lower Juba region. A total of nine Somali and Ethiopian soldiers surrendered themselves to Islamist fighters on Saturday. Ethiopia’s ETV aired a bulletin saying that Sacad Mohamad Al Sacad, a Nigerian officer of the al Qaeda network, has been killed by Ethiopian troops. […]
Pakistan
A pickup truck packed with explosives blew up a police security checkpoint in Peshawar, killing at least 30 people and injuring dozens more. Police say the death toll is likely to rise because people are stuck under the rubble of nearby buildings, which collapsed from the force of the blast. Fighting in Bajaur has forced […]
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Sri Lanka says 24 rebels killed in new fighting
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China bans mass prayers during Ramadan in restive province
Philippines
The military believes the Moro Islamic Liberation Front has fractured into splinter groups. MILF may drop support for two commanders behind the recent violence. More troops have been sent to the South to escort UN food aid. More than 500,000 civilians are believed to have been affected by the recent fighting.
Somalia
Shabaab has taken over the town of Walaweyn. Five Ethiopian soldiers were killed in a Shabaab ambush outside the town of Baidoa. The UN has declined to send peacekeeping forces to Somalia until the political situation improves.
Pakistan
Asif Ali Zardari elected new President of Pakistan
Afghanistan: Provincial intelligence chief killed in Taliban suicide bombing
A Taliban suicide attack killed the provincial intelligence chief for Nimroz province and five others. Violence in southwestern Afghanistan continues to escalate as some Taliban commander’s vow to take the fight to urban settings.
Afghanistan
US plans ‘very aggressive’ winter campaign in Afghanistan
Lebanon
Syria accused of plotting return to power in Lebanon
Pakistan
Pakistan blocks fuel to US forces
Pakistan
Bhutto widower Zardari elected Pakistan’s new president