Thailand
Three killed in Thai south: police
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Iran
Iran says ready for fair talks, wants real US change
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Pakistan unsure over identity of man beheaded in Taliban video
Afghanistan
Pakistan advises Holbrooke to talk to Taliban moderates
Iraq
French leader in Iraq to heal rifts, push business
Iraq
Iraq: Four soldiers killed by suicide car bomber in Iraq
Pakistani Taliban leader’s deputy survives assassination attempt
Baitullah Mehsud’s deputy Mullah Noor Sayyed Mehsud survived a roadside bomb attack that killed another Taliban commander.
Pakistan
Taliban killing laughter and music in Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistani Tribal leaders demand end to military operation
Afghanistan
Afghan military copters violate airspace in North Waziristan
India
Hizbul Mujahideen chief in Kashmir held
Pakistan
Pakistan is likely to say India’s Mumbai dossier was inconclusive. The Taliban killed 14 civilians during shelling in Arakzai, killed a “US spy” in North Waziristan, wounded 18 policemen in a suicide attack in Bannu, and torched a boys’ school in Swat. The government may begin negotiations with the Taliban in Swat. Security forces killed […]
Pakistan
Drone strikes killed high-value targets, US tells Pakistan
Al Qaeda
British al Qaeda man says he fabricated past
Iraq
Iraq troop withdrawal decisions delayed
Al Qaeda threatens India with ‘humiliation’ if Pakistan is attacked
Mustafa Abu Yazid, al Qaeda’s commander in Afghanistan, said India will “pay a heavy price” if it attacked Pakistan. This is Yazid’s fifth propaganda tape since the Pakistani military insisted he was killed last summer.
Algeria
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb issued a scathing statement on the case of the US CIA station chief who is accused of drugging and then raping Algerian women. “Is this scandal not an evidence that Bouteflika and his government is no different from his … other brothers the traitor (Muslim) presidents?” the statement said. […]
Hezbollah
The assassination of military commander Imad Mugniyah was facilitated by the interrogation of Hezbollah operative Ali Moussa Daqduq, who was captured in Iraq in 2007. The interrogation revealed Mugniyah’s operating habits and close contacts. Israeli intelligence executed the attack after finding out Mugniyah was going to attend a party without his usual security detachment.
Pakistan
Beheading by Pakistani militants horrifies Poles
Iraq
Iraqi forces detained 11 wanted men in Hillah, six in Basrah, four in Wasit, and two in Baghdad. Four members of the Naqshabandiya group surrendered to police in Kirkuk. In Mosul, two policemen and a civilian were wounded in a suicide car bombing, and two children were wounded in an IED attack.
Pakistan
Taliban finds fertile recruiting ground in Pakistan’s tribal refugee camps
Afghanistan
Planning victory in Afghanistan
Pakistan
Deputy to Pakistani Taliban chief injured in remote control bomb blast
Al Qaeda
Four Iraqis who were in custody at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility have been transferred back to Iraq. The four men were captured in Afghanistan and have been interrogated by Iraqi intelligence officials.
Israel
Israel warplanes bomb Gaza after rocket attacks
Pakistan
Taliban kill Afghan ‘spy’: local official
Pakistan
Suicide bomber kills five in Pakistan: police
Afghanistan
Fanatical Taliban wing moves into Kandahar
Somalia
Recruited for jihad? What happened to Mustafa Ali?
Al Qaeda’s paramilitary ‘Shadow Army’
The ‘Lashkar al Zil’ or Shadow Army is comprised of al Qaeda, Taliban, and allied terror groups, and operates as a paramilitary force in Pakistan’s northwest and in eastern Afghanistan.