Iraq
Iraq’s top Shiite cleric to let govt decide on US pact
Yearly Archives: 2008
Iraq
White House endorses text of US-Iraq military pact
Iraq
Iraqi prime minister now backs US security accord
Somalia
Somali Islamists approach Mogadishu, impose sharia
Philippines
Three slain, nine taken hostage in Philippine rebel attacks
Israel
Hamas fires long-range rockets at Israel
Somalia
Two factions of the Islamic Courts “accidentally” battled in Jowhar; two were killed. Shabaab warned clans not to attack their forces in the port of Marka. Ethiopian forces withdrew from a refugee camp outside of Mogadishu. Pirates hijacked a Chinese fishing boat.
Iraq
Muqtada al Sadr threatened to renew attacks. Coalition forces detained 11 al Qaeda operatives during raids nationwide and an IED facilitator in Mosul. Iraqi forces captured six “wanted men” in Amarah, four al Qaeda fighters in Diyala, and three insurgents in Mosul.
Iraq
Iraqi Who Shot US Troops May Have Been Qaeda: US
Afghanistan
US forces killed four al Qaeda operatives in Paktia province. The Taliban killed a cleric in Farah province after he condemned the use of suicide attacks as a weapon. The British government denied a BBC report that 2,000 troops would be deployed to Afghanistan.
Al Qaeda
Closing down the prison at Guantanamo is easier said than done
Iraq
Iraq’s al-Sadr renews threats to attack US
Pakistan
2 Journalists Shot in Pakistan
Iraq
Militants Turn to Small Bombs in Iraq Attacks
US targets compound in North Waziristan
Twelve people, including five “foreigners,” are reported to have been killed in the latest airstrike in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
Pakistan
The Taliban kidnapped an Iranian diplomat in a suburb of Peshawar. The government said the Mohmand tribes “will be targeted by helicopters and jet bombers” if they did not turn on the Taliban. Pakistani troops killed two Taliban fighters in Swat.
Denmark
Terror threat against Denmark considerable™
Iraq
Iraqi forces killed two al Qaeda suicide bombers in Mosul and arrested 21 “wanted men”in Diyala province. Coalition forces killed one al Qaeda fighter and captured nine during operations targeting al Qaeda in Iraq™s financial, explosives, and leadership networks. A police officer was killed in Ramadi and 17 civilians were wounded in a car bombing […]
Al Qaeda
Bin Laden ‘cut off from al-Qaeda’
Afghanistan
Taliban vow to win Afghan fight
Afghanistan
DefenseLink News Article: Afghan Commandos Capture Explosives Expert
Algeria
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb banned in Russia
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda operative Abu Kasha al Iraqi survived the Oct. 31 US Predator airstrike that targeted a safe house in Mir Ali. “He is healthy and very much in his routine,” a source told AKI. The source also said the Pakistani government’s claim that Mustafa Abu Yazid was killed in fighting in Bajaur a “cheap […]
Iraq
Civilian cargo plane crashes in Iraq, 7 killed
The Taliban
The Afghan Taliban have urged international organizations to pressure the government to halt the executions of three followers. “We strongly request the U.N., the EU, the Red Cross and human rights groups to earnestly prevent this barbaric act,” the Taliban said in a statement released on their website.
Somalia
Shabaab will impose sharia in the recently captured port city of Merka. Islamic Courts warlord Yusuf “Indha Ade” Mohamed Siad refused an order by Shabaab to disarm. Islamic Courts fighters took control of a refugee camp south of Mogadishu.
Pakistan
A Military Perspective on Pakistan – An Interview with Shuja Nawaz
Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Peshawar
The Taliban are penetrating high-security areas and have intelligence on the movement of foreign diplomats and aid workers.
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed one US soldier and at least 20 civilians in an attack on a US Army convoy in the Bati Kot district in Nangarhar province; more than 70 civilians were wounded. Two British Royal Marines were killed during fighting in Helmand province’s Garmsir district. More than 1,500 girls stayed home from school […]
The Taliban
Mullah Baradar, the deputy commander of the Taliban in Afghanistan, said the group has not and will not negotiate with NATO or the Afghan government. “The Islamic Emirate [Taliban] is not conducting any negotiations with the Americans, NATO, or the collaborationist Karzai administration,” Baradar said in the Taliban monthly Al Sumud.