Iraq
Iraqi government plays down arrests of 23 police officers
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Europe
Moroccan jailed over Madrid bombs
Afghanistan
New Afghan Militant Organization Threatens French Troops
Somalia
A UN delegation visited Johwar in southern Somalia to address humanitarian and security issues. The new UNSC resolution allows for US air strikes over Somali territory to fight piracy. China is planning to send warships to Somali cost for anti piracy operations.
Pakistan
Al Qaeda operative Omar Saeed Sheikh plotted to kill Pakistan™s former president while serving a jail sentence. Jamaat-e-Islami organized protests to shut down the NATO supply lines. Four engineers were kidnapped at the Torkham border crossing. Police in Mardan broke up a terror ring.
Omar Saeed Sheikh plots assassination from Pakistani jail
Omar plotted to kill Pakistan’s former president while serving a jail sentence and is also thought to be complicit in the murder of a senior Pakistani counterterrorism officer.
Afghanistan
Bigger military spy drones arrive at Kandahar Airfield
Iraq
Iraqi counterterrorism forces detained 35 members of the Interior Ministry for involvement in a potential coup to restore the Baathist party to power. US and Iraqi forces detained six al Qaeda fighters in Mosul. Iraqi forces detained six insurgents in Kirkuk. Coalition forces captured 12 al Qaeda fighters in raids nationwide.
Pakistan
Pakistani Islamists call for block on US supplies
United States
Family of ‘American Taliban’ renews petition to set him free
Afghanistan
Afghan commandos detained a Taliban leader and two aides in Nangarhar province. A British soldier was killed by enemy fire in Helmand province. France’s defense minister denied more French troops will be deployed.
Afghanistan
Taliban take hold of vital road
Iraq
Iraq: No danger of a coup despite arrests, says MP
Israel
Who is calling the shots in Hamas?
Pakistan
US downplays attacks on Afghan supply line
China
China dispatching ships to battle Somali pirates
Questions remain on the development of the Iraqi Security Forces
While much is known about the development of the Iraqi Security Forces, there are major gaps in the publicly available information concerning these forces.
Somalia
US Somalia peacekeeping idea hits resistance at UN
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15 arrested in Bahrain over ‘terror plot’
Iraq
35 Iraq Officials Held in Raids on Key Ministry
Afghanistan
Gunmen attack new Afghan supply route
Pakistan
Pakistan groups banned but not bowed
Afghanistan
Kyrgyzstan wants to close US airbase
Pakistan
President Zardari said there is no evidence the Mumbai attack was launched from within Pakistan. Pakistan’s high commissioner to India said the captured Mumbai attacker is not a Pakistani citizen. The Taliban murdered a “US spy” in South Waziristan. The Taliban in Peshawar fired rockets at a 150 truck NATO convoy destined for Afghanistan and […]
Somalia
The UN has permitted nations to pursue pirates on land in Somalia. Pirates have seized four ships in the Gulf of Aden. Shabaab fighters killed five in attacks on Ethiopian and Africa Union troops in Mogadishu. Shabaab has begun to seize World Food Program supply trucks in Kismayo and ordered the halt of deliveries.
Turkey
Security forces detained 15 al Qaeda suspects during multiple raids in the capital of Istanbul. More raids are expected. Turkey also charged two suspected al Qaeda members for complicity in the attack on the US consulate in Istanbul in July that killed three police officers.
Iraq
Twenty-five Iraqis were killed in dual bombings outside of a police station in eastern Baghdad. Iraqi forces captured 18 wnated men in Basrah, 16 more in Baghdad, and four “criminals” in northwestern Baghdad. Coalition forces killed three al Qaeda operatives and detained 14 more during raids nationwide.
Iran
The US Treasury Department designated Assa Corp as a front company set up by Iran’s Bank Melli, a known proliferator of weapons of mass destruction materials. Russia said its weapons sales to Iran has a positive influence on stability in this region. Argentine courts seized the property of a former Iranian diplomat behind a 1994 […]
Yemen
Yemen: Police arrest over 100 in German hostage standoff
Pakistan
Pakistan: Militants kill spy suspect