Pakistan
Pak agrees to 48-hour timetable for action against LeT: Report
Yearly Archives: 2008
Pakistan
Mistrust of India Forges Sense of Unity in Pakistan
Somalia
Somalia’s Al Shabaab seize central town
In Mosul, Americans felled by rogue Iraqi soldier
An Iraqi soldier who has served for four years was behind last week’s shooting that killed two American soldiers and wounded six. His motive is still unclear.
Pakistan
India sets sights on Pakistani camps
Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle Update: December 2008
Iraqi forces are massing in Mosul to battle al Qaeda and the insurgency.
Pakistan
ISI playing key role for Pakistan national security: Gilani
India
ISI involved in attacks, alleges Indian media
Pakistan
No Reduction’ Seen By US In Pakistani Border Efforts
Pakistan
Suicide attacks in Peshawar and Arakzai killed 28 civilians. A US strike killed four Taliban in North Waziristan. Two police and two civilians were killed in fighting in Bannu. The Taliban killed a “US spy” in North Waziristan. Prime Minister Gilani said the ISI plays a vital role in security; India sources say the ISI […]
Bombings targeting Shia kill 28 in Pakistan’s northwest
Car bombing killed 21 and wounded more than 90 in Peshawar. Suicide attack killed seven in Arakzai.
US Predator hits Taliban safe house in North Waziristan, kills 4
Two Hellfire missiles kill three in a town outside of Mir Ali, the stronghold of Abu Kasha al Iraqi.
India
Five terrorists involved in the Mumbai terror attack may still be at large. India will await the outcome of the international community’s efforts to track down the plotters of the Mumbai attacks. The Lashkar-e-Taiba is confident Pakistan will not turn over their leaders to India. Security has been tightened at airports after yesterday’s gunshot scare.
Iraq
Coalition forces killed one al Qaeda operative and captured 23 more in raids nationwide. A raid north of Baghdad uncovered an al Qaeda children suicide ring. Iraqi and US forces detained five “criminals” in Baghdad. The Iraqi military returned 276 former officers back to duty in Diyala. The government and the Kurds are close to […]
Iran
Iranian militants killed 16 kidnapped police
Somalia
Suspected pirates rescued in Gulf of Aden
Pakistan
Suicide blast in northwest Pakistan kills 6
Afghanistan
British Commandos lead helicopter assault into Kandahar province
Afghanistan
Who Are the Taliban? The Afghan War Deciphered
Afghanistan
Coalition forces killed 14 Taliban fighters in Helmand province. Eight prisoners were killed and 215 were wounded as guards attempted to search cells in a Kabul jail. The governor of Kandahar has been fired after just four months on the job. Two ISAF soldiers were killed in an IED attack in southern Afghanistan.
Thailand
Five civilians were killed and 10 civilians and two policemen were wounded, some critically, in a bombing at a gas station in the southern province of Narathiwat. Three civilians were gunned down in Pattani province and one more in Yala province.
Iraq
US military frets over Iraqi prisoners
Pakistan
The US will attempt to get four senior former Pakistani military officers added to the UN terrorist list. Hafiz Saeed denied Lashkar-e-Taiba was behind the Mumbai attacks. Ten Taliban and a politician were killed in Swat. A foreign NGO project manager and his driver were kidnapped in Khyber.
Iraq
The Presidential Council approved the US-Iraq security agreement. Iraqi forces detained 88 wanted persons and suspects in Basrah and 20 more in Baghdad. Coalition forces killed four al Qaeda fighters and detained 32 more in raids nationwide. Seven Iraqis were killed and 35 more were wounded in a bombing in Fallujah. Eight civilians were wounded […]
Pakistan
Rice urges ‘robust’ Pakistani response to Mumbai attacks
India
Battling jihadis: India has few options
India
Police denied reports of shootings at the main airport in New Delhi, yet it does appear some shots were fired in the airport. Indian intelligence sources claim India and the US have proof of ISI involvement in the Mumbai terror strike.
Iraq
Iraq gives final OK to US pullout plan
US moves to declare former Pakistani officers international terrorists
The US wants to place three senior former ISI officers and a former Chief of Army Staff on the United Nations international terrorist list.
Germany
The US Treasury Department added three members of a German Islamic Jihad Union to the Specially Designated Global Terrorist list. Fritz Martin Gelowicz, Daniel Martin Schneider, and Adem Yilmaz were arrested by German police after they were discovered plotting terrorist attacks on public places and possibly US military facilities in Germany. Police found materials and […]