Pakistan
Pakistani President Delivers Broadside Against Terrorism and US Intervention
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Afghanistan
French soldiers unprepared for Taliban ambush: report
Iraq
Iraqi Special Operations Forces killed one Special Groups fighter and captured eight during operations in central Iraq. US troops captured two Special Groups fighters in Baghdad and detained two more in Al Kut. Iraqi troops captured eight al Qaeda fighters in northern Iraq and detained 14 insurgents in Baghdad. A suicide bomber killed two civilians […]
Yemen
British embassy in Sana’a closed after US embassy attack
Somalia
France submits UN draft for anti-piracy action off Somalia
Mauritania
The government said the 12 soldiers kidnapped by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb earlier this week have been beheaded. Yahia Djouadi, AQIM’s leader in the Sahara, narrowly avoided capture by a joint US, Malian, and Mauritanian force. Mauritanian security services seized the passports of several students studying at Algerian universities after suspecting them of […]
Philippines
“Philippine government rejects ransom demand for abducted aid workers in Basilan
Afghanistan
ISAF forces will halt military operations to recognize “peace day.” Twenty-five Taliban fighters, one ISAF soldier, and two civilians were killed in fighting in the South. The US seeks $20 billion from NATO countries to help expand the Afghan Army and provide for reconstruction.
Iraq
Officials say gunmen kill cleric in southern Iraq
Iraq
Provincial Iraqi Control in Multi-National Division-Center Almost Complete
Pakistan
Deadly blast targets Marriott Hotel in Islamabad
Iraq
Petraeus™s team of experts to review CentCom
40 Killed in Islamabad suicide attack
Officials fear more than 100 people are believed to have been killed in the suicide strike at the Marriott Hotel as an unknown number are trapped in the burning building.
Afghanistan
Taliban turn much of Afghanistan into ‘No Go™ zone
Pakistan
A bombing at a madrassa run by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam in Quetta killed five people and injured 10. A tribal jirga in Swat threatened to break a peace agreement if the military does not withdraw from a region in Swat. Dozens of US military advisers are set to arrive in Pakistan in the next several weeks.
Al Qaeda
US trying to ‘tickle™ enemy, says CIA
Pakistan
US sees threat from Afghan-Pakistan border area
Somalia
Shabaab launched mortars as a plane landed at the Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu. Twelve were killed and 35 were wounded in heavy fighting in Mogadishu. Airlines have refused to fly into Mogadishu. The Islamic Courts said it would continue to wage jihad despite ongoing negotiation in Djibouti.
Pakistan
US officer: Pakistani forces aided Taliban
Yemen
Yemen vows to find those behind US embassy attack
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda was finally able to release its yearly Sept. 11 tape. Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s second in command, also released a six-minute audiotape that criticized the Egyptian government for its handling of a rock slide near Cairo. Al Qaeda’s Web site remain offline due to hackers.
Iraq
The US military said a raid near Tikrit province killed four insurgents and three civilians; Iraqi police said eight civilians were killed. Coalition forces captured eight al Qaeda operatives during raids in Mosul, Samarra, and Baghdad. US soldiers killed the IED emir in the Miqdadiyah area. Iraqi police captured a Special Groups leader in Al […]
Pakistan
Danger Along the Durand Line
Iraq
Former Iraqi MP Mocks US Treasury’s Decision to Freeze Assets
Iraq
US air strike kills eight family members in Iraq
Iran
Iran’s top leader firms up backing for Ahmadinejad
Iran
Iran: Hard-line president thanks Allah for new sanctions
Pakistan
Bomb kills five at Pakistani religious school in Quetta
Afghanistan
A US soldier was killed in an IED attack in southern Afghanistan. Canadian troops killed an Afghan civilian during an escalation of force incident in Kandahar province. The British defense minister denied his country would send a large amount of troops to Afghanistan.
India
Two terrorists, including a senior leader in the Indian Mujahideen, were killed in a shootout with police in southern New Delhi. The suspects were behind last week’s bombing in New Delhi that killed more than 20 civilians. One policeman later died of gunshot wounds.