Pakistan
Pakistan: MQM rejects Taliban™s Shariah laws
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Afghanistan
Karzai objects to direct US talks with Taliban
Pakistan
A US strike on a Taliban camp in South Waziristan killed eight fighters. Security forces killed 15 Taliban fighters during airstrikes in Arakzai. A clash between the TNSM and the Taliban killed two. Sufi Mohammed demanded the government withdraw all courts from the Malakand Division.
Somalia
Hizbul Islam welcomed parliament’s unanimous vote to impose sharia. Two Medecins Sans Frontieres aid workers from Belgium and Holland were kidnapped in Bakool. Pirates have been operating from a captured Nigerian ship.
Iraq
Insurgents killed two policemen in Mosul and an Awakening fighter in Babil, and wounded seven Iraqis in a car bombing in Mosul. Security forces detained 44 wanted men in Basrah, four children recruited by al Qaeda to be suicide bombers in Kirkuk, and two drug dealers in Ramadi. US troops detained four terrorists in Basrah.
Afghanistan
Afghan and Coalition forces killed a Taliban commander and three fighters during a raid in Logar province. Five policemen were killed during a Taliban attack on an outpost in Farah province. Security forces launched an operation in Sar-e Pul, Jawzjan, Balkh, and Faryab provinces; ten Taliban have been detained.
Somalia
NATO stops pirate attack on Norwegian ship
US airstrike targets Taliban training camp in South Waziristan
Eight terrorists are reported to have been killed in a Predator attack on a training camp used by the Taliban, al Qaeda, and the Jaish-e-Mohammed.
Pakistan
Pakistan: What the Taliban ideology means
Pakistan
Pakistan: Taliban influence in bureaucracy
Pakistan
‘No justification for Taliban to display arms in Malakand now™
Pakistan
Taliban shoot US drone ‘informants™
Pakistan
Pakistanis see friends™ $5 billion pledge as political boon
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed 25 policemen and two civilians an in attack on military convoy in Hangu. Security forces killed seven Taliban fighters in Kohat. Four members of Ansarul Islam were killed in an IED attack in Khyber. The Bajaur Taliban threatened to end the ceasefire. A government official died in Taliban custody in Mohmand. […]
Yemen
Yemen’s president cites independence from US
Pakistan
US experts: Pakistan on course to become Islamist state
Pakistan
Pentagon jams web, radio links of Taliban
Iraq
Secure enough to sin, Baghdad is back to old ways
Iraq
Security forces launched an operation in Fallujah. Three policemen were wounded after rival police forces clashed in Maysan. Six civilians were wounded in two IED attacks in Baghdad; two mortars landed in the International Zone.
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Briefing: Who are the Taliban?
Philippines
Police rescued Swiss national Andreas Notter, one of two Red Cross workers held captive by Abu Sayyaf insurgents on Jolo island when militants attempted to escape from a police cordon. Abu Sayyaf continues to hold an Italian Red Cross worker, who is ill and suffering from a hernia, for ransom.
Somalia
Somalia’s parliament has unanimously approved the implementation of sharia across the country. A man claiming to be a spokesman for the Somali pirate groups has vowed to retaliate against French and US warships operating in the region. Dutch commandos freed 20 Yemeni hostages and briefly detained seven pirates who had forced the Yemenis to sail […]
Al Qaeda
Iraqi Special Forces arrested a suspected senior al Qaeda member and three of his aides in the southern city of Basra. “He is a Saudi and was arrested in a house in the Abu al-Khassib district with his Iraqi assistants. They have been transferred to Baghdad by military aircraft,” an Iraqi Army official said.
Afghanistan
The US is attempting to jam unlicensed radio stations and Internet websites in Pakistan. ISAF soldiers killed one insurgent and detained two others in Khost after a UAV spotted the trio planting an IED. Coalition and Afghan forces killed three Taliban fighters in Logar province and killed “an unknown number” in Kandahar province. Two Afghan […]
Suicide bomber kills 27 in attack on military convoy in Pakistan
Twenty-five police and soldiers were among those killed after a suicide car bomber struck a convoy at a checkpoint in Hangu.
Pakistan
US plans $3bn Pakistan military boost
Pakistan
The Taliban murdered a couple for adultery in Hangu and bombed an electrical tower in Peshawar. Police thwarted a suicide attack at Peshawar’s university. Pakistan was stripped of the right to host the 2011 world soccer cup due to the security situation.
Red Mosque leader preaches jihad after release
Maulana Abdullah Aziz, the leader of the insurrection in Islamabad in 2007, urged followers to wage jihad and called for sharia to be imposed nationwide.
Somalia
A spokesman for the Islamic Courts accused Shabaab of assassinating an ICU military leader and a member of parliament, and threatened to retaliate. Shabaab denied the charge and said it captured members of the ICU who attacked their bases in Mogadishu. Hizbul Islam urged the two groups to end the feuding.
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Sunni leaders urge Maliki to integrate former insurgents