Iraqi ground forces ‘total force’ mobilization structure
A look at existing and planned ground components of the Iraqi Armed Forces at the end of Phase 3 development in 2020.
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Somalia
Fifteen Somalis, including three civilians, were killed during fighting between Shabaab and Ahlu Sunna Waljama™a in the town of Wabho in central Somalia. The police have banned weapons in Mogadishu. Shabaab has reopened Hawalas in Kismayo.
The Taliban
The Taliban threatened to kill workers for non-governmental organizations operating in Afghanistan and said girls’ schools will not be allowed to operate. “Taliban aren’t allowing girls to go to schools because Taliban want women to preserve their respect by staying in their homes, not to work as laborers for others,” a Taliban spokesman said.
Yemen
Four tourists were killed and three more were wounded in a powerful blast in the city of Al Shibam. The four tourists killed were South Koreans, while the nationality of those wounded is unknown.
Pakistan
A US airstrike in Bannu killed two al Qaeda operatives and two Taliban fighters. The Taliban destroyed dozens of NATO trucks and shipping containers in an attack on a terminal in Peshawar. The government restored the chief justice deposed by former President Musharraf.
US launches second strike outside of Pakistan’s tribal areas
Two al Qaeda operatives and two Taliban fighters are reported to have been killed in an attack on a compound Bannu.
Pakistan
Taliban threatens Pakistani singers and actors with death
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Thai insurgency: Seeing it for what it is
Thailand
Muslim terrorists threw a petrol bomb at a school in Narathiwat province, setting it on fire. The attack sparked a brief gunbattle with government troops. Muslim terrorists also torched two schools in Pattani province.
Somalia
Rival Islamist groups clash in Somalia, 11 killed
Iraq
President Talabani will step down from office after his term expires at the end of the year. Security forces detained 36 wanted men in Basrah, five in Hillah, and four more in Wasit, as well as four al Qaeda fighters in Baqubah and one near Samarra. Four members of the Kurdistan Workers Party were killed […]
United Kingdom
Minister beaten after clashing with Muslims on his TV show
Pakistan
Pakistani police, protesters clash in Lahore
Afghanistan
Four NATO troops were killed in an IED attack in eastern Afghanistan. Two Afghans were killed in a suicide attack in Kabul. The mayor of Kandahar survived a suicide attack that killed one civilian. One British soldier was killed in an IED attack in Helmand province.
Taliban attacks NATO trucking terminal in Peshawar
More than 20 NATO vehicles are destroyed after a Taliban rocket attack set a terminal ablaze.
Pakistan
Pakistan: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif under house arrest
Pakistan
As the government claims to seek reconciliation with Nawaz Sharif, 100 lawyers and 20 of Sharif’s followers were arrested, and house arrest orders were approved for Sharif and two other political leaders. The Taliban destroyed more than 20 NATO vehicles in a rocket attack on a terminal in Peshawar. The Taliban in Darra Adam Khel […]
Somalia
At least two security guards of the Wadjir District commissioner have been killed, and seven other people, including the district commissioner, have been injured, by a roadside bomb that targeted his car. Sheik Mohamed Muhumad Isma™il stated an order to the people of Barre to legalize their guns.
Pakistan proposes integration of Taliban into security forces
The Malakand Division Commissioner wants the Taliban to round out the area’s police and tribal Levies forces.
Al Qaeda
In his latest audiotape released on the Internet, Osama bin Laden accused Arab leaders of conspiring with the West against Muslims and the Palestinian people. “The hearts of our rulers [Muslim leaders] are like those of the enemies, ” bin Laden said.
Iraq
Two Iraqi soldiers were killed in a bombing in Diyala and one policewoman was killed in a shootout in Mosul. Security forces detained 41 wanted men in Baghdad, 40 more in Basrah, and three Egyptians in Babil.
Bangladesh
Police have filed sedition charges against nine of 15 members of the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir for involvement in the border guards’ revolt. Immigration police arrested a suspected member of Jamaat Mujahideen Bangladesh as he attempted to enter the country from India.
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Insurgents torch two schools in Thailand’s south
Hezbollah
We’ll never recognise Israel: Hezbollah leader
Hezbollah
America angered by Britian’s ‘secret’ talks with Hezbollah
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Russian region tries new tactics to quell insurgency
Pakistan
ISI must cut ties with extremists, US to Pakistan
Pakistan
President Zardari ordered Geo News to shut down for broadcasting the Long March; the information minister resigned in protest. Yesterday’s strike in Kurram killed 24 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters. The Taliban killed two “US spies” in Arakzai and beheaded three tribesmen in Bajaur. An official in the Northwest Frontier Province advocates including Taliban fighters […]
United States
The Obama administration has radically altered US policy on detentions. The new policy “draws on the international laws of war to inform the statutory authority conferred by Congress,” the Justice Department said. “It provides that individuals who supported Al Qaeda or the Taliban are detainable only if the support was substantial. And it does not […]
Europe
Dutch police detained six men and one woman who were plotting terrorists attacks in Amsterdam. “Men were planning to put explosives in the shops and wanted to cause casualties in busy places,” the city’s mayor said. One of those detained is related to one of Madrid bombers.