Algeria
The government said 185 al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb members, including emirs and foreign fighters, have been killed in 2008. There have been no suicide attacks since August. Security forces killed three terrorists in southern Algeria.
Yearly Archives: 2008
Morocco
Morocco sentences Madrid bomber to 20 years
Al Qaeda
US Efforts to Extradite Terrorism Suspects Founder
Hezbollah
US report acknowledges Hezbollah ‘skills’
Somalia
Somali fighters destroying shrines
Pakistan
Poll shows pessimism growing in Pakistan
Afghanistan
Rethinking strategy in Afghanistan – The next surge
Afghanistan
Badghis Province: Examining the Taliban™s Northwestern Campaign
Pakistan
Three truckers transporting NATO supplies were killed in a Taliban attack in Khyber. A NATO supplier and nine others were kidnapped in the tribal agencies. Mohmand tribal elders demanded an end to military operations in the agency. The US will provide $300 million in military aid to Pakistan over the next five years.
United Kingdom
Britain has lost the stomach for a fight
Somalia
One Somali was killed and 19 were wounded in a Shabaab attack in Baidoa. Heavy fighting was reported in Mogadishu as insurgent groups attacked Somali and Ethiopian bases. Insurgents mortared the police academy in Mogadishu. Iran will send warships to battle Somali pirates.
India
India said it must “consider the entire range of options that exist” if Pakistan fails to crack down on terror groups. The Air Force deployed fighters outside of New Delhi to protect against “rogue terrorist aircraft.” The Indian Mujahideen had threatened to kill the chief of the Anti-Terrorism Squad who was killed during the Mumbai […]
Afghanistan
Nine Taliban fighters were killed during fighting in Helmand province. Three Danish soldiers were killed and one more was wounded during an IED attack in Helmand. The US will deploy up to 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan by the sumer.
Afghanistan
Ambush Raises Unsettling Questions in Afghanistan
Iraq
Iraqi forces killed a senior al Qaeda leader in Tikrit and detained nine insurgents in Hillah. Iraqi SWAT teams killed an al Qaeda fighter and captured two in northern Iraq. US troops detained two “criminals” in Baghdad and reportedly arrested a police captain and two of his brothers in Kirkuk.
Afghanistan
Up to 30,000 new US troops in Afghanistan by summer
Iraq
Iraq Parliament Rejects Foreign Forces Measure
Iraq
Top Sadr official in Baghdad detained: report
Pakistan
Militants kill three Pakistanis supplying NATO
Afghanistan
Three Danish soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Iraq
All in Iraqi custody in Baath party plot freed
Pakistan
President Zardari said the government would be in control of Mohmand and Bajaur agencies by the end December. Security forces clashed with the Taliban in Bajaur; the Taliban kidnapped a policeman in Arakzai and attacked a police station in Bannu. A leader in the Awami National Party urged the Jamaat-e-Islami to declare jihad against the […]
Afghanistan
Police and Coalition forces killed three armed Haqqani Network fighters and detained five more Khost province. The US will deploy an additional combat aviation brigade next year. Czech lawmakers rejected an extension of the mission in Iraq and Afghanistan; 415 soldiers and more than 100 special forces will leave Afghanistan within the next two months.
Iraq
US forces detained an Iranian Qods Force agent and an associate near Baghdad. Coalition forces captured 11 al Qaeda operatives in central Iraq. Iraqi police found seven severed heads in Baghdad.
Al Qaeda
Don’t link Islam to terror, Islamic chief urges
United States
Defense chief asks for plans to close Guantanamo camp
Yemen
German hostages in Yemen freed: tribal source
Lashkar-e-Taiba
The Interior Ministry claimed 55 senior members of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, have been detained during raids. Twenty-two of those have been placed on the Exit Control List. Indian forces killed three LeT terrorists in Kashmir. Nawaz Sharif scolded the government for denying Mumbai attacker and LeT operative Ajmal Amir Kasab was from Pakistan.
Iraq
Video: Iraqis Aren™t Laughing at Shoe Tosser
US forces detain Iranian ‘agent’ near Baghdad
A “commander of Iranian special operations in Iraq” and an associate were detained in Diyala province.