Monthly Archives: January 2009

Pakistan

| January 24, 2009

Pakistan: Seven killed in northwest as troop buildup continues

Iran

| January 24, 2009

Diplomatic effort reportedly afoot to halt sale of materials to fuel Iran’s nuclear program

Pakistan

| January 24, 2009

Musharraf: Pakistan ‘treated unequally’ in war on terror

Pakistan

| January 23, 2009

US airstrikes in on Taliban safe houses North and South Waziristan killed 20 people. The Army spokesman said Taliban sharia equates to “terrorism.” Three soldiers and nine civilians were killed in suicide, roadside bomb, and mortar attacks in Swat.

Afghanistan

| January 23, 2009

During a raid in Logar province, Afghan and Coalition forces killed a Taliban commander and detained a bomb maker behind the Jan. 17 suicide attack near the German Embassy in Kabul. More than 20,000 US Marines may deploy as part of the upcoming “surge.”

Iraq

| January 23, 2009

Iraqi security forces killed three “gunmen” in Mosul, detained four al Qaeda fighters in Mosul, and captured a Special Groups cell leader in Al Kut. One civilian was killed in an IED attack in Baghdad.

Iraq

| January 23, 2009

Iraq religious parties may face election backlash

Al Qaeda

| January 23, 2009

Said Ali al Shihri, the deputy leader of al Qaeda in Yemen, was released from Saudi custody in 2007 after being released into Saudi custody from Guantanamo Bay. Shihri “passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists.” He is thought to have played a role in the September 2008 attack on the US embassy […]

Pakistan

| January 22, 2009

The Army’s spokesman said sharia law is terrorism; Fazul Mohammed defended sharia. Security forces killed 12 Taliban fighters in Swat. Taliban fighters attacked a military outpost in Wana in South Waziristan and bombed a girls’ school in Swat.

Afghanistan

| January 22, 2009

Coalition forces killed 22 Taliban fighters in airstrikes along the Pakistani border in Khost province and six more during fighting in Zabul province. Russia denied signing an agreement that allows NATO supplies and forces to pass through Central Asia. Afghanistan’s foreign minister said the country would increase military ties with India while he implied Pakistan […]

Iraq

| January 22, 2009

Iraq is preparing for a potentially quick US military withdrawal. Eight Iraqis were killed and six were wounded in violent acts throughout Iraq. Security forces detained 20 insurgents in Kirkuk and three more in Basrah.

Israel

| January 22, 2009

A Gazan doctor and other witnesses said Hamas inflated casualties during the Gaza operation. “The number of deceased stands at no more than 500 to 600,” an Italian paper reported. “Most of them are youths between the ages of 17 to 23 who were recruited to the ranks of Hamas.” Israeli and Hamas officials estimate […]

Lashkar-e-Taiba

| January 22, 2009

Indian security forces raided an empty Lashkar-e-Taiba camp in Doda in Jammu. Lashkar-e-Taiba and other jihadi groups are said to be rethinking their strategy toward Kashmir and Jammu. Germany’s chief of police believes Lashkar-e-Taiba was behind the Mumbai attacks.

Al Qaeda

| January 22, 2009

Al Qaeda spokesman Abu Yahya al Libi called for attacks against Britain and other Western and Arab countries. “It’s high time that this criminal country, I mean Britain, paid the price of its historic crime” of creating the Israeli state, Libi said in a videotape released on the Internet.

Iraq

| January 22, 2009

Emergency plans to confront sudden US withdrawal from Iraq

India

| January 22, 2009

‘India planning covert strikes in Pakistan’