Pakistan
Al Qaeda threat looms over India
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Afghanistan
Britain ‘bribes Afghans to fight Taliban’
Afghanistan
Karzai urges withdrawal ‘timeline’
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Foreign troops will not defeat Taliban, claims leader
Iraq
Iraqis see democracy at work in security pact debate
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Indian navy ‘sank Thai trawler’
Somalia
Americans Flocking to Somalia to Fight for al Qaeda
Military makes second push to ease pressure on Peshawar
Security officials said a two-weeklong operation in Mohmand and Charsadda has succeeded in clearing the Taliban from the outskirts of Peshawar.
Hezbollah
Israeli officials claimed Hezbollah is paying tens of thousands of dollars to Palestinian terror groups to avenge the death of Imad Mugniyah. Hezbollah is three times stronger that it was prior to the 2006 war in Lebanon, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the Knesset.
Somalia
A senior Somali military commander was killed in Baidoa. Burundi said it will send an additional 850 troops to Mogadishu. Pirates hijacked a Yemeni freighter traveling in the Gulf of Aden.
Iraq
Iraqi forces captured seven Special Groups operatives in central Iraq and found a key al Qaeda leader in a prison in Basrah. Coalition forces killed two al Qaeda fighters and detained nine during raids throughout Iraq. Two Iraqis were killed and four were wounded during a clash between Awakening fighters and an armed group in […]
Iran
Hardline Iranian newspapers urged the Iraqi parliament to reject a security pact with the United States. The Revolutionary Guards Corps claimed it broke up an Israeli spy ring. President Ahmadinejad said that Iran will survive despite a significant drop in oil revenues.
Afghanistan
Marines Makes Insurgents Pay the Price in Afghanistan’s Farah province/a
Al Qaeda
Court Hears Appeal on Uighurs Held at US Guantanamo Detention Facility
Syria
US blasts IAEA’s Syria funding move
Afghanistan
Ten Taliban fighters behind the acid attacks on schoolgirls in Kandahar have been arrested; they said senior Taliban leaders based in Pakistan paid them to conduct the attacks. US forces killed six HIG fighters and detained 12 more in Kapisa province; one Haqqani Network fighter was killed and five more were captured in Paktika province. […]
Somalia
The Missing: Somali Men Off Twin Cities Streets, Back in Somalia
Iraq
Influence wanes for followers of Iraq’s Sadr
Syria
IAEA chief, West clash over nuclear aid for Syria
Pakistan
The Frontier Corps claimed 25 Taliban fighters were killed and 40 more were captured during an operation to push the Taliban back from Peshawar. Fifteen Taliban fighters were killed in Swat. Rashid Rauf’s lawyer claimed his client was not killed in Saturday’s airstrike in North Waziristan.
Iraq
Sixteen Iraqis were killed in three bombings in Baghdad; a mentally handicapped female suicide was used in one of the attacks. Iraqi forces detained six insurgents in Babil and five more in Al Kut. Coalition forces captured 18 al Qaeda operatives in raids throughout Iraq.
Pakistan
Waziristan new battlefield for Kashmiri militants
Yemen
The US will extradite Salim Hamdan from Guantanamo Bay to Yemen, according to an unconfirmed report. Hamdan was Osama bin Laden’s personal driver and bodyguard, and was convicted by a US military tribunal for supporting al Qaeda and sentenced to five and a half years in prison. His time has already been served, so the […]
16 Iraqis killed in morning bombings in Baghdad
Al Qaeda suspected of using a mentally handicapped female suicide bomber in one of the attacks outside of Baghdad’s Green Zone.
On walk across Mosul, general sees gains and room for more
The US commander of Multinational Division North assesses the security situation in Mosul during a visit to the northern city.
Afghanistan
Coalition forces killed seven Taliban fighters during a raid in Ghazni province. Former Taliban spokesman Mohammad Hanif denied he was joining the government. The NATO commander said more forces are needed in Afghanistan. A UN Security Council delegation has arrived to assess the status of a $20 billion funding pledge.
Pakistan
Several injured in Peshawar blast
Syria
Syria and Iran benefit from Al-Qaeda, says jihadi leader
Afghanistan
UN Security Council members on fact-finding mission in Afghanistan
Thailand
Violence Leaves 3 Dead, Teacher Wounded In Thai South -Police