Pakistan
Lashkar-e-Taiba deny involvement in Gen Alvi Killing
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Afghanistan
Afghan peace mediators in contact with Mullah Omar
Pakistani military paints rosy picture of Swat fighting
The town of Peochar in Swat is under “control” and much of Buner and Dir are secured according to the military’s spokesman. But security forces cannot relieve forces that have been under siege in Mingora for nine days.
Pakistan
The military said 11 Taliban fighters and four soldiers were killed as troops secured Peochar in Swat. The Taliban ordered politicians in the Malakand Division to resign their offices or their families would be killed. Jamaat-ud-Dawa is running relief camps in the Malakand Division.
Pakistan
Pakistan conflict map
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Drug traffickers captured with half a ton of opium
Pakistan
Security beefed up in Peshawar
Philippines
A town mayor and at least three security personnel were wounded when Abu Sayyaf militants exploded a bomb-rigged motorcycle near the convoy of Sulu Governor Sakur Tan on Jolo island. The military bombed Moro Islamic Liberation Front positions in Maguindanao province after a clash broke out between the Army and hundreds of MILF fighters.
Lebanon
US, UK officials take aim at Hezbollah’s weapons during Security Council debate
Iran
US reporter in Iran ‘held secret report on Iraq War’
Pakistan
Pakistan: Three arrested over Sri Lankan cricket attack
Iran
Iranian militia kill five rebels near border: report
Somalia
At least 113 people have been killed during the last five days of fighting in Mogadishu. Shabaab said the Somali government is no longer Islamic and called foreign fighters their “brothers.” The US will provide African Union peacekeepers with $10 million in funding.
Iraq
Security forces detained 34 insurgents in Diyala, 18 in Fallujah, and 11 more in Dalouiya. An Awakening leader was killed in a bombing in Baghdad. Five Iraqis were wounded in a car bombing in Mosul and three policemen were wounded in an IED attack in Kirkuk.
Afghanistan
A suicide car bomber killed seven civilians in an attack outside a US base in Khost province. Six Taliban fighters were killed after rocketing a US base in Paktika province. The Taliban killed one Afghan soldier in Wardak province and wounded six Afghan soldiers during an ambush in Ghazni province.
Russia
Dokku Umarov, Emir of the Caucasus Emirate, announced the abolishment of North Ossetia and now considers it annexed into the more turbulent Ingusetia republic. Umarov stated that Ossetian mujahideen are now under the command of the Ingush Walid (Magas) and both areas are to be a single operational field. Dokku declared formation of Majlis al-Shura […]
Somalia
Battles rage in Somalia, world calls for calm
Pakistan
US military, Pakistan carrying out Predator drone missions together
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Taliban use voter cards as ‘visas’
Afghanistan
Australia: Afghanistan war spending to double
Yemen
Nasser al Wahishi, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, declared support for the rebels in southern Yemen. “We in the al Qaeda network support what you are doing: your rejection of oppression practised against you and others, your fight against the government and your defending yourself,” Wahishi said in a propaganda tape.
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda trying to establish links with jihadi groups
Pakistan
Moderate clerics speak out against Taliban
Pakistan
Two US senators oppose move for Pakistan aid
Pakistan
Pakistan: Lashkar-i-Taiba killed Gen Alvi, court told
Al Qaeda
A “highly placed Pakistani intelligence source” claimed that Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s second in command, is hiding out in the suburbs of the city of Quetta in Pakistan. Zawahiri reportedly operates in the open and moves around between Afghanistan, Quetta, and Waziristan, guarded by his Egyptian bodyguard.
Italy
Police in Bari reportedly detained two men suspected of being in an al Qaeda cell that was plotting attacks in France and Britain. The Syrian and Frenchman are said to have been in the possession of weapons and explosives, established a recruitment center, and set up training camps to funnel suicide bombers and fighters into […]
Al Qaeda in Iraq
The Islamic State of Iraq released a 12 minute audiotape titled ‘Lying Agents’ by its leader Abu Omar al Baghdadi, who mocks the government for claiming he is detention. Baghdadi denigrated the Shia as liars, claimed his group’s attacks on Iranians forced Iran to close its border, and said his followers would achieve victory in […]
Taliban launches complex assault in Haqqani country
Suicide assault teams target military and government buildings in Khost, the home of the Haqqani Network.
Pakistan
A US airstrike killed eight Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in South Waziristan. Pakistani commandos were airdropped into the Taliban controlled Peochar valley in Swat. The military killed 30 Taliban fighters in Dir; the Taliban claimed only 12 fighters have been killed since the operation began. The Taliban attacked a NATO truck terminal in Peshawar […]