Monthly Archives: May 2009

Pakistan

| May 19, 2009

The military said 16 Taliban fighters and four soldiers were killed in Swat; 13 more were killed and five Arabs were captured in Mohmand; and a Taliban commander was captured in Nowsehra. The Taliban destroyed a police post in Peshawar and attacked a NATO supply convoy in Khyber.

Somalia

| May 19, 2009

An Ethiopian army force reportedly re-entered the central province of Hiran and set up a base at the Kala-Beyr junction. The Islamic Courts and Shabaab battled outside Jowhar; one fighter was reported killed. Shabaab raided and looted UN officers in Johwar.

Pakistan

| May 19, 2009

Pakistan can clear Taliban territory, but can it hold it?

Pakistan

| May 19, 2009

Pakistan: Political parties divided over army’s Taliban battle

Yemen

| May 19, 2009

Yemen: Shia rebels claim to have used Israeli weapons

Afghanistan

| May 19, 2009

Afghan troops retook the village of Marja in Nad Ali district of Helmand province from the Taliban; Afghan commandos killed seven Taliban fighters during the operation. Admiral Mullen said the Coalition has two years to restore order in Afghanistan. Secretary Gates said the Afghan Army can take the lead in the fight against the Taliban […]

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| May 19, 2009

IAEA chief calls Mideast ‘ticking bomb™: El Baradei laments nuclear proliferation under his watch

Iraq

| May 19, 2009

Elections have been postponed one month to January 2010. Security forced detained an Awakening leader and a senior Sunni politician in Diyala province, and a senior leader of the Islamic State of Iraqi in Mosul. Two Iraqis were killed in an IED attack in Baghdad.

Iran

| May 19, 2009

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed the US is sponsoring terrorist activities in Iran’s Kurdish regions from Iraq. “I say this firmly that unfortunately across our borders, our western borders, the Americans are busy making a conspiracy, they are busy fostering terrorism,” he said.

Russia

| May 18, 2009

Over the weekend, one policeman and one civilian were killed in Dagestan’s capital, and four gunmen were killed in Ingusetia’s Sunzha district. On Monday, four militants were arrested in Nalchick, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria. Today, police are hunting a group of militants along the Ingush-Chechen border.

Pakistan

| May 18, 2009

The military said 27 Taliban fighters, including three commanders, and three soldiers were killed during fighting in Swat; heavy fighting has been reported in Matta. Police killed six Taliban fighters in Darra Adam Khel. The UN said there are over 2.2 million internally displaced persons who have fled the war zone in the Malakand Division. […]

Pakistan

| May 18, 2009

Pakistani SSG heroes killed eight Taliban before they were shot

Al Qaeda in Iraq

| May 18, 2009

The spokesman for the Iraqi Army™s Baghdad Operations Command presented television footage of the purported confession of the person the Iraqi government claims is Abu Omar al Baghdadi, the leader of al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq. The man presented said he joined al Qaeda in 2005 and was made the emir in 2006. Al […]