Somalia
Somali Islamist threatens “invasion” of Kenya
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Pakistan
The military said 35 Taliban fighters were killed in Bannu and the Frontier Corps fort in Jani Khel was retaken. Seven Taliban fighters and six civilians were killed during airstrikes against Baitullah Mehsud in South Waziristan. One policeman and a civilian were killed in an IED attack in Kohat. Security forces detained 12 Taliban fighters […]
Al Qaeda
Adam Gadahn, the American-born al Qaeda propagandist, released a 35-minute-long videotape called “Let’s Continue Our Jihad and Sacrifice.” Gadahn accused President Obama of supporting Israel’s assault in Gaza and warned the Muslim world not to be tricked by Obama’s “deceptive and false talk.”
Iran
Exiled group says race on in Iran to build bomb
Pakistan
UN reviews its operation in Pakistan after Peshawar attack
Iran
Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli said that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the presidential election in a landslide with more than 62 percent of the vote. Westerners said the vote was rigged by Iran’s mullahs.
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed five soldiers and four drivers in an attack ona NATO fuel convoy in Helmand province. A British soldier was killed during fighting in Helmand. Afghan and Coalition forces detained a Taliban commander and killed one fighter during a raid in the Sharana district in Paktika province.
Iraq
Security forces detained 30 wanted men in Basrah and six more in Maysan, and captured three Special Groups fighters in Wasit, one in Baghdad, and another in Basrah. One US soldier was killed and three more were wounded while defusing an IED in Samarra. Two Iraqi police were wounded in an IED attack in Kirkuk.
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US military warns against detainee transfers
Pakistani military, Taliban clash throughout the northwest
Heavy fighting reported in Swat, Bajaur, Bannu, Mohmand, and South Waziristan. Seventy-nine Taliban fighters and 16 soldiers and policemen are reported to have been killed over the past 24 hours.
Somalia
Pirates expand to Oman’s waters
United States
US – Administration speeds overseas detainee relocation
Pakistan
The Taliban took credit for suicide attacks that killed 11 people, including an anti-Taliban cleric, at mosques in Lahore and Nowshera. Thirty-nine Taliban fighters and ten soldiers were killed in Swat; 21 Taliban fighters were killed in Bannu. Twelve Taliban and two soldiers were killed during fighting in Mohmand. The Taliban killed four policemen in […]
North Korea
UN imposes new sanctions on NKorea
Al Qaeda
Philippines
Eight Abu Sayaaf fighters and two soldiers were killed during a raid on a terrorist camp in the southern province of Sulu. Abu Sayyaf leader Albader Parad, who is said to be behind the kidnapping of Red Cross workers, was among 13 wounded. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said the government is prepared for a new round […]
Iran
IRNA, Iran’s state-run news agency, said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is leading the presidential election with 66 percent of the vote, with more than 68 percent of the votes counted so far. Mir Hossein Moussavi, the so-called reform candidate, has 31 percent of the vote.
Pakistan
Pakistan to import anti-terror equipment from China
Afghanistan
Afghan insurgent violence accelerates in 2009
United States
American Muslims in Minneapolis are protesting the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ attempts to obstruct an FBI investigation into the disappearance of Somali youth. Dozens of young Somali-Americans have traveled to Somalia to fight with al Qaeda-backed Shabaab, and one of them conducted a suicide attack.
United States
Somalis take to the street to protest CAIRS’s actions
Pakistan
Taliban & Arakzai
Arakzai Taliban take credit for mosque suicide attacks
Mullah Saaed Hafiz, the deputy commander of the Arakzai Taliban, said the attacks were executed to avenge Pakistani military strikes in Hangu and Darra Adam Khel that killed 47 people, including a pro-Taliban cleric.
Pakistan
Pakistan: Sunni strike to protest against cleric’s murder
Morocco
Morocco: Women arrested at outlawed Islamist group meeting
Lebanon
Hezbollah retains strong support despite opposition defeat in polls
United States
US ‘to protect Afghan civilians’
Lashkar-e-Taiba
The Lahore High Court said there is no evidence linking Hafiz Saeed, the leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, to the September 2008 terror assault on the Indian city of Mumbai. “The Attorney General contended that the petitioners are being blamed to be involved in Mumbai attacks, we have observed that not a single document has been […]
Iraq
Insurgents assassinated Hareth al Ubeidi, a Sunni member of parliament, during an attack inside a mosque in Yarmuk, southwest of Baghdad. The attacker shot Ubeidi, then detonated his suicide vest during the escape, killing several bodyguards. Security forces detained four wanted men in Suwayra and two arms dealers in Diyala.
Afghanistan
US Defense Secretary said Iran is “playing a bit of double game in Afghanistan” by arming the Taliban. NATO ministers back the US plan to shake up the command structure in Afghanistan and give more control to the US. A British soldier was killed in an IED attack in Kandahar province. Afghan and Coalition forces […]