Iraqi forces develop engineering capabilities
The development of engineering units is crucial in allowing the Iraqi Security Forces to independently support operations and clear roadside bombs.
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Israel
A day with our troops in Gaza
Pakistan
The government reportedly reestablished contact with Baitullah Mehsud. The Taliban released 13 tribal leaders kidnapped in Bajaur. Five small explosions at two theaters in Lahore wounded six people. Two government officials were gunned down in North Waziristan.
Pakistan
On the trail of Pakistan’s Taliban
Pakistan
Taliban spreading to settled areas of Pakistan’s Northwest
Afghanistan
Major Push Is Needed to Save Afghanistan, General Says
Afghanistan
Five US soldiers and nine Afghans were killed in bombings throughout the country over the past two days. Coalition forces killed five Taliban fighters and detained three more during an operation in Zabul. Finland will send an additional 100 troops to Afghanistan.
Iraq
USAF helps Iraqi Air Force expand operations in Al Kut
Iraq
Six soldiers were killed in separate IED attacks in northern Iraq. One child was killed in an IED attack in Diyala and 20 Iraqis were wounded in a shootout in Basrah. Security forces detained two wanted men in Al Kut.
Iraq
Iraq police no longer infiltrated by militias: PM
Israel
Text of UN Security Council resolution for Gaza cease-fire
Terrorist Penpals
A new program by Amnesty International advocates “Solidarity with Guantanamo Detainees.”
Israel
Israel has rejected the UN Security Council truce resolution and plans to expand operations in southern Gaza. The Israeli Air Force struck more than 50 targets in the Gaza Strip; two Palestinians were reported killed. Hamas fired 30 rockets into the Negev.
Iran
Sadr supporters torch US, Israel flags in Iraq
Iraq
New Iraq Emerges from Tyranny and War
Palestinian Territories
UN Security Council calls for immediate Gaza truce
Lebanon
New Lebanese resistance group view with Hezbollah
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Jamaat-ud Dawa, Lashkar-e-Taiba’s front group, said Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah, the masterminds behind the Mumbai terror assault, never had links with Hafiz Saeed or the organization. Jamaat-ud Dawa also suggested the lone surviving Mumbai terrorist was kidnapped by Indian intelligence and forced to conduct the attack.
Pakistan
US intelligence said al Qaeda’s operational commander for Pakistan and his lieutenant were killed in the Jan. 1 airstrike in South Waziristan. Both men were wanted for the 1998 US embassy bombings in East Africa. The Taliban bombed a CD shop in Peshawar.
Iraq
Costs of war: No to tribal militias
Al Qaeda’s operations chief in Pakistan killed in New Year’s strike
Veteran al Qaeda leaders Osama al Kini and Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan were killed in the attack. The operatives were behind several major suicide attacks in Pakistan over the past two years.
Somalia
Abdirahman Farole was elected as Puntland president. A United States Naval Commander will lead an international force of 20 members to combat the Somali pirate attacks.
Iran
Iran bans volunteers from fighting Israel
Iraq
Violence is down 93 percent during the last quarter of 2008. Six Iraqi soldiers were killed in two bombings in Jalawlaa. Iraqi forces detained 18 wanted men in Mosul, six insurgents in Kirkuk, four al Qaeda fighters in Diyala, and prevented a terrorist attack in Baghdad.
Israel
No thanks, Sayyed Hassan, Not all Shia want war with Israel
Palestinian Territories
UN halts Gaza aid after convoy hit
Afghanistan
Afghan and Coalition forces killed a Taliban IED facilitator in Helmand province and six Taliban fighters in Farah province, and detained five Haqqani Network fighters in Khost and Kandahar province. Eight Afghan women were killed in a rocket attack in Uruzgan province. One Canadian soldier was killed in an IED attack in Kandahar.
Pakistan
Pakistan’s New Intelligence Chief: ‘Terror Is Our Enemy, Not India’ – SPIEGEL ONLINE
Lashkar-e-Taiba
The Indian dossier on the Mumbai terror attack includes transcripts of phone calls between Pakistani handlers and the terrorists as they conducted their attacks. The handlers order murders, listened over the phone, and cheered the outcome. An intelligence source told The Long War Journal that former Paksitani intelligence chief Hamid Gul is one of the […]
Israel
IDF officer killed as Israeli troops hit five squads of Gaza militants