Pakistan
Pakistan: Reports of Al-Zawahiri escape ‘distorted’ says security official
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Pakistan
Pakistani PM Escapes Assassination Bid
Morocco
Morocco: Terror cell planned attack against UN force
Turkey
Turkey: Soldiers killed in ambush in eastern province
Pakistan
PM condemns attack by ISAF in South Waziristan
Pakistan
Pakistani elders vow to protect vital Khyber Pass
Pakistan
Pakistan election tactics reopen radical Islamic schools
Afghanistan
Nine diggers wounded in Afghan firefight
Pakistanis claim US helicopter-borne forces assaulted village in South Waziristan
Unconfirmed reports from Pakistan indicate 15 were killed after “American and Afghan soldiers” conducted a search and destroy operation in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency.
Somalia
Shabaab admitted Abu Talha al Sudani was killed during fighting last year in a videotape designed to pave the way for a merger with al Qaeda. Leaders in the Transitional Federal Government said the military would retake Kismayo from the Islamic Courts. Opposing groups in the Islamic Courts clashed in Jowhar. Sheikh Yusuf Indha’ade spoke […]
Saudi al Qaeda commander killed in Afghan clash
An al Qaeda spokesman claims US and Afghan forces killed a senior field commander in southwestern Afghanistan. Commander Abu Gharib al Makki was killed in one of two clashes reported in Farah province in recent fighting.
Al Qaeda
The US Department of Justice formally indicted al Qaeda operative Aafia Siddiqui for attempting to kill US officers during an interrogation in Ghazni province in Afghanistan. Siddiqui also had documents and computer files in her possession referring to the construction of “dirty bombs,” and discussed various ways to attack “enemies,” including by destroying reconnaissance drones, […]
United Kingdom
Radical al Qaeda cleric Abu Qatada, who is out of jail on bail, was photographed with Yasser al Sirri, a former member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Sirri has been sentenced to death in Egypt for for his role in a 1993 car bomb attack. Qataba is prohibited from associating with a list of 20 people, […]
Iraq
Coalition forces detained four Hezbollah Brigades fighters in Baghdad. Iraqi troops captured four Special Groups fighters during raids throughout Iraq. US troops detained three Special Groups fighters in Baghdad. Coalition forces captured 16 al Qaeda operatives during raids in central and northern Iraq.
Somalia
Pakistan
US releases 3 from Guantanamo Bay prison camp; about 255 left
Afghanistan
ISAF denied 500 civilians were killed in the Sarwan Qala area of Helmand province last week. British troops successfully delivered a turbine to the Kajaki Dam in Helmand. Canada’s defense minister said the deployment of a US battalion to Kandahar was only the beginning of the US deployment.
Iraq
Eight people killed in Iraq bombings
Palestinian Territories
Hamas denies political chief Meshaal quit Syria for Sudan
Germany
Three men charged over 2007 terror plot
Pakistan
Pakistan army ‘just miss’ Zawahiri
Afghanistan
British soldiers kill 200 Taliban in Afghan dam operation
Shabaab reaches out to al Qaeda senior leaders, announces death al Sudani
The latest tape from Shabaab highlights the future merger between the Somali-based terror group and al Qaeda.
Pakistan
The Taliban claimed it kidnapped two Chinese engineers near the Afghan border. Nine Pakistanis were killed in a military offensive in Darra Adam Khel. Eight civilians were killed in a Pakistani military mortar attack in Bajaur. A tribal army retook two Taliban-control villages in Kurram; a cease-fire was declared after nine were killed and 26 […]
Iraq
Security for Anbar province officially transferred to Iraqi control. Coalition forces detained 14 al Qaeda operatives during raids in central and northern Iraq. Iraqi forces detained 15 wanted men in Baghdad. Coalition forces captured two members of the Shia League of the Righteous in Muthanna province. One Iraqi was killed and seven were wounded in […]
Senior al Qaeda operative killed in Somalia
Al Qaeda reports Abu Talha al Sudani was killed “more than a year ago” during fighting in Somalia. Sudani was al Qaeda’s senior leader in eastern Africa.
US detains 7 League of the Righteous operatives in Iraq
The US has captured several senior leaders of the Iranian-backed, Mahdi Army offshoot since identifying the group two weeks ago.
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Iraq largely free of foreign fighters: police
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Iraqi troops take control of key province (Anbar)
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Pakistani tribesmen organize private armies to fight Taliban