Pakistan
PM says Pakistan will not accept conditional US aid
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Pakistan
Only parliament to decide Swat deal™s fate: PM Gilani
Pakistan
Beheaded body of ANP leader found in Bajaur
Pakistan
Swat Taliban demand peace accord details be made public
Pakistan
Hafiz Gul Bahadur: A profile of the leader of the North Waziristan Taliban
Iraq
Suicide bomber kills 9 Sunni militiamen in Iraq
Al Qaeda
Journal of the Turkistan Islamic Party urges jihad in China
Pakistan
Pakistan: origin of three-quarters of all terror plots
Pakistan
Pakistan
The Taliban have taken control of most of Buner despite promising to withdraw. The NWFP government and the TNSM vowed to keep the Swat peace deal intact. The Taliban destroyed six NATO oil tankers in a bombing in Peshawar and beheaded two “US Spies” in North Waziristan. The Lahore police claimed India was behind the […]
Taliban move on Buner despite promise to withdraw
Buner showcases the failure of Pakistan’s efforts to encourage the tribes to resist the Taliban.
Thailand
Three insurgents clad in black and armed with assault rifles attacked a train in the Rangae district, killing a railway worker and wounding three others. The State Railway of Thailand suspended rail services in three southern provinces after the attack. On Thursday in Pattani province, an insurgent was killed in in a clash with security […]
Philippines
A joint team of police officers and Marines raided a cache of explosive materials from a supplier of Abu Sayyaf on Jolo island, where the terror group is still holding two Red Cross workers hostage. Police are pursuing 50 Abu Sayyaf fighters on Basilan island who abducted two farmers on Friday.
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces killed 32 Taliban fighters during fighting in Helmand, Uruzgan, and Kandahar provinces. The US military said it accidentally killed four civilians and an unborn child after the civilians opened fire on an assault force during a raid in Khost province. Australia will send an additional 120 troops to Afghanistan.
Iraq
Five US soldiers and two Iraqi security personnel were killed in a suicide truck bombing in Mosul. Two civilians were killed in an IED attack in Baqubah and a woman was killed in an IED attack in Mosul. Iraqi and US troops detained 21 insurgents in Basrah and nine more in Hillah.
Pakistan
Pakistani ambassador: The Swat valley will be cleared of extremists
Pakistan
Pakistan bites the hand that feeds it
United Kingdom
Al-Qaeda terror plot to bomb Easter shoppers
Pakistan
New conditions incorporated into Pakistan aid bill
Pakistan
Talks only if militants lay down arms: Gilani
Iraq
General Ray Odierno: we may have to ignore Iraq deadline to halt al Qaeda terror
Pakistan
Sufi Mohammad has ended the peace agreement in Swat. The Taliban reportedly agreed to withdraw from Buner. One person was killed and eight more were wounded, including the political agent for Kurram, in an ambush in Hangu. Pakistan’s foreign office said there is no credible evidence that al Qaeda’s leaders are inside the country.
Somalia
The government continues negotiations with al Qaeda-linked Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys. Al Shabaab shut down an independent radio station in Beled Hawo. The US freighter captain kidnapped on April 8 remains in the custody of priates.
United States
The FYI raided three Somali-run money transfer businesses in Minneapolis for information related to transferring money to African and Middle Eastern countries. The raids occurred in the same community where more than 20 Somali-American young men have left the country and headed to Somalia to fight with al Qaeda-linked Shabaab.
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed four policemen and one child in an attack on a drug eradication unit patrolling in Tarin Kot in Uruzgan province. Afghan and Coalition forces killed six Taliban fighters and detained one in Kandahar, killed four Haqqani Network operatives and detained three in Khost, and killed three more Taliban fighters in Wardak.
Iraq
Security forces detained 65 insurgents in Basrah and 11 more in Amara,, seven al Qaeda fighters in Samarra, and four policemen in Wasit, and found an al Qaeda training camp in Anbar. One civilian was killed and three were wounded in a bombing in Baqubah. Thousands of Sadrists protested in Baghdad.
Somalia
Warship pressures Somali pirates with US hostage
Pakistan
Rifts in Taliban alliance threaten leader
Somalia
How to beat the Somali pirates
Swat peace agreement collapses
Pro-Taliban leader Sufi Mohammed has called off the Malakand Accord and claimed the federal government is dragging its feet on signing the law that would implement sharia.