Taliban continue mosque attacks, strike in Lahore and Nowshera, Pakistan
An outspoken anti-Taliban cleric was among 11 people killed in suicide strikes in Lahore and Nowshera. The attacks are the latest in a series of strikes at mosques.
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Al Qaeda
US frees Guantanamo detainee seized as a teen
Pakistan
Pakistan – Kalash tribe under Taliban threat
Pakistan
The Pakistani military killed 47 people in artillery strikes in Hangu and Arakzai, 30 Taliban were killed in Bannu, and 22 more were killed in a failed assault on forts in South Waziristan. Police detained 29 Taliban fighters in Nowshera and Kohat and arrested 25 more in Islamabad. Three people were killed in a suicide […]
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Pakistan’s Peshawar transformed by Taliban threat
Al Qaeda
4 former Guantanamo detainees in a new world
Pakistan
Record violence in Afghanistan in early June: Petraeus
Iraq
US Marines out of Iraq by spring 2010: general
Pakistan
Militants show sophisticated tactics in Pakistan
Afghanistan
NATO giving US more control in Afghan operations
Al Qaeda
Row erupts over Guantanamo deal
Al Qaeda
The CIA believes Osama bin Laden is still in Pakistan and thinks the Pakistani military operation may aid in flushing him out into the open. A few al Qaeda leaders and operatives are thought to be relocating to Somalia and Yemen.
Pakistan
Pakistani offensive to help nab Osama: CIA
Iraq
Security forces detained 21 wanted men in Basrah, eight in Wasit, seven men thought to be behind the June 10 bombing in Nasariyah, and two insurgents in Dhi Qhar. Bombings in Baghdad, Mosul, and Hamrin killed one Iraqi and wounded 13 more.
Fighting intensifies in Pakistan’s Bannu-Waziristan region
The Pakistan Army claimed more than 130 Taliban fighters have been killed since the Bannu offensive began three days ago. Taliban attacks on two forts in South Waziristan are repelled.
Al Qaeda
CIA says bin Laden in Pakistan
Hezbollah
Hezbollah™s arms after the vote
Al Qaeda
Terrorism: Al-Qaeda asks Turkish Muslims for funds
Iranian-backed Afghan Taliban commander survived airstrike
Mullah Mustafa spoke to the press. Fighting intensifies in Farah and Badghis provinces. An al Qaeda trainer was reported killed in Farah.
Afghanistan
A Taliban commander with links to Iran’s Qods Force may have survived the June 10 airstrike in Ghor province; 10 civilians were reported killed in the strike. Afghan and Coalition forces killed 41 Taliban fighters in Badghis and Farah provinces.
Mali
A senior military intelligence officer who was investigating al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and the kidnapping and murder of a British citizen was assassinated in the city of Timbuktu. Two men entered the officer’s home and shot and killed him.
Terror alliance takes credit for Peshawar hotel assault
Hakeemullah Mehsud, the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, and the Abdullah Azzam Brigade took credit for the complex assault on the Pearl Continental Hotel.
The Taliban
Both Hakeemullah Mehsud’s Taliban faction and a group called the Abdullah Uzaam Brigade took credit for the June 9 complex suicide attack on the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar that killed 17 people. Hakeemullah launched the attack because he thought the US was conducting intelligence activities there.
Europe
No terrorism suspects on Air France flight: police
United States
Pacific island of Palau agrees to take Uighur Muslims from Guantanamo Bay
United States
‘Shoe-bomber’ Richard Reid on hunger strike in US prison
Somalia
More than 30 soldiers based in Mogadishu and originally from the pro-government faction of the Islamic Courts have defected and joined Hizbul Islam. The US Navy warned that Somali pirates are expanding operations beyond the Somali coast and have begun to target ships in the Red Sea.
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda ideologue and strategist Mustafa Setmariam Nasar is reportedly in Syrian custody. Nasar, also known as Abu Musab al Suri, was detained in Pakistan in 2006 and transferred to various US black sites before being sent to Syria. He is wanted by Spain in connection with the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
Iraq
Turkey, Iraq sign military cooperation deal
Pakistan
Security forces killed 100 Taliban fighters in Bannu and 23 more in Swat; a Taliban commander also surrendered in Swat. A lashkar in Dir killed two Taliban fighters. Six terrorists were detained in Islamabad. The UN suspended operations in Peshawar. The US delivered four MI-17 helicopters to the Pakistani military.