Monthly Archives: May 2009

Jemaah Islamiyah

| May 8, 2009

Security forces arrested Mas Selamat Kastari, the leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah branch in Singapore. Kastari was detained on April 1 in the state of Johor, near the border with Singapore. He escaped from a high-security jail in Singapore in February 2008.

Pakistan

| May 8, 2009

Jihadi groups in Pakistan release document justifying martyrdom attacks

Pakistan

| May 7, 2009

The president said Pakistan will fight the Taliban until the “situation returns to normal”; the prime minister said they will fight until the Taliban is “eliminated.” The Rangers have been deployed in Mianwali and Bhakkar. Fifty-five Taliban and nine soldiers were killed in Swat; 15 soldiers were captured in Dir. The Taliban killed five tribesmen […]

Afghanistan

| May 7, 2009

The May 7 battle in Helmand province killed 147 people, including more than 30 Taliban and foreign fighters. A suicide bomber killed 11 Afghans in Helmand province. Five Taliban fighters were killed in Paktia province and 11 Afghan soldiers were freed in Kunar province. Afghan and Coalition forces captured a Taliban financier in Kabul. A […]

Iraq

| May 7, 2009

Security forces detained 21 wanted men in Basrah and 20 insurgents in Diyala. Three Iraqi soldiers were wounded in an IED attack in Baqubah. Turkish air strikes in the northern Iraqi regions of Zab and Basian killed more than a dozen Kurdistan Workers Party fighters.

Iraq

| May 7, 2009

Iraq’s wall-builders mourn drop in violence

Philippines

| May 7, 2009

On May 5, the Army killed at least six Moro Islamic Liberation Front fighters in Maguindanao during fierce fighting that began over a week ago, when security forces started pursuing local MILF leaders. North Cotabato Vice-Governor Emmanuel Piñol’s banana plantation was attacked by over 200 MILF fighters, who killed three civilians and wounded five. An […]

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| May 7, 2009

Philippine military accuses MILF of weak leadership

Somalia

| May 6, 2009

A Burundi soldier was killed in Mogadishu. A Shabaab spokesman said the group would wage jihad even after African troops left the country. Shabaab and Hizbul Islam are moving weapons into Mogadishu. Shabaab is destroying graves and airing violent films in Kismayo.

Iran

| May 6, 2009

Israel would inform, not ask US before hitting Iran

Pakistan

| May 6, 2009

The military claimed it killed 69 Taliban fighters during operations in Swat and Buner. Seventeen civilians were wounded in a grenade attack at a mosque in Dera Ismail Khan. Three suspected suicide bombers were detained in Lahore. The US will provide Pakistan with five attack helicopters for counter insurgency uses.

Afghanistan

| May 6, 2009

Upwards of 30 Taliban fighters and more than 100 civilians may have been killed in yesterday’s battle in Farah province; ISAF is investigating the incident. The Taliban killed seven policemen in Ghazni province and the district leader and two officials in Baghlan province; four Taliban fighters and one policeman were killed in Badghis province. Australian […]

Iraq

| May 6, 2009

Eleven Iraqis were killed and 44 more were wounded in two car bombings in Baghdad. Iranian snipers killed two fishermen in the marshes in Maysan province. US troops killed two al Qaeda fighters and captured six more in Salahadin province. Iraqi forces captured 15 wanted men in Baghdad and Salahadin, four in Basrah and two […]

United Kingdom

| May 6, 2009

Abu Izzadeen, a radical Islamist preacher who was jailed for threatening to behead Muslim soldiers in the British Army, was released from prison after serving three-and-a-half years. Izzadeen and other radical Islamists in jail have had their sentences reduced by the Court of Appeal.

Afghanistan

| May 6, 2009

Wandering Afghan goatherd holds up lethal attack on Taliban roadside bombers