Thailand
An insurgent, a police officer, and a soldier were killed when security forces stormed a house in Yala province after gunmen attacked a joint patrol of soldiers and police. At least two gunmen managed to escape the government cordon.
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Philippines
Abu Sayyaf fighters killed seven policemen during an ambush in the town of Sumisip in Basilan province. Abu Sayyaf fighters also killed two Army engineers assigned to construct schools in the town of in Tipo-Tipo in Basilan.
Iran
Security forces arrested eight British diplomats for their alleged role in the post-election violence. The Expediency Council is due to release its verdict on the election results. Supreme Leader Khameinei vowed that government will deal with the election review under the law and seek national unity.
Pakistan
Eighteen Taliban fighters and 10 soldiers were killed during a Taliban ambush in North Waziristan. The government issued bounties for Baitullah Mehsud and 10 senior Taliban commanders. The military killed 11 Taliban fighters during airstrikes in South Waziristan. Security forces detained three terrorists in Swat and two more in Charsadda. The Taliban killed two soldiers […]
Russia
The Riyad-us-Saliheen martyr brigade, an arm of the Caucasus Emirate, claimed credit for last week’s suicide attack that killed three people and seriously wounded Ingush President Yunus Bek Yevkurov. “This operation has yet again showed the Kremlin and its slaves in the Caucasus that the mujahadeen are the legal authorities of this land and we […]
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed seven policemen during two ambushes in Farah province. Afghan and Coalition forces detained six Haqqani Network fighters and conducted an airstrike against a group of fighters during separate operations in the Musa Khel district of Khost province. The Afghan police force will be expanded by an additional 10,000 officers. US envoy Richard […]
Pakistan places bounties on Baitullah and other senior Taliban leaders
Faqir Mohmmed, Qari Hussain Mehsud, Hakeemullah Mehsud, and Omar Khalid top the wanted list, but Siraj Haqqani, Hafiz Gul Bahadar, and Mullah Nazir are absent.
Iran
The streets of Tehran were calm as protesters decide their next move. The Expediency Council said that Khameinei’s word on the election is final. Ahmadinejad called Obama’s comments on the post election violence “insulting.” Basijj continued to carry out night raids and target private homes.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Military operation to be completed soon: Malik
Pakistan
Security forces killed 16 Taliban fighters and four al Qaeda operatives during airstrikes in South Waziristan, and 13 Taliban fighters in Arakzai, and destroyed the bazaar in Jandola. A lashkar killed five Taliban fighters in Dir. Thirty-three people were killed during sectarian clashes in Kurram. Mullah Fazlullah’s family has been arrested.
Philippines
Nine wounded in southern Philippine bomb attack
Thailand
Three killed in gunfight in Thai south, rebels surrounded
Iran
Iran pledges ‘crushing’ response to US critiques
Al Qaeda
Algerians note al-Qaeda ignorance of their nation’s history
Somalia
Shabaab carried out double amputations on four men for stealing in Mogadishu. Ahlu Sunna Waljama™a imposed a curfew in the town of Abudwak. Ethiopia said it has no plans to redeploy troops to Somalia.
Iraq
Iraqi forces detained four terrorists in Mosul and another in southern Iraq. US forces will continue to patrol in Basrah after the June 30 deadline to withdrawal from the cities. In northern Iraq, US forces will deploy around the cities.
Afghanistan
A policeman shot and killed eight of his peers in Lashkar Gah in Helmand province. Afghan and Coalition forces detained three Taliban fighters in the Achin district in Nangarhar province. The US will phase out the poppy eradication program.
Iraq
Iraqi training moves to US bases
Iran
Iran’s security council tells Moussavi to back off
Thailand
Thailand – Police wounded in Narathiwat bombing; Security tightened in wake of death plot discovery
Afghanistan
Baghdad market blast increases tensions before June 30 US pullout from Iraqi cities
Al Qaeda
Canadian accused of al Qaeda ties ends Sudan exile
Al Qaeda
Sleeper cells and Shi™a secessionists in Saudi Arabia: A Salafist perspective
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Insurgents make Afghans focus of attacks
Pakistan
The military killed more than 30 Taliban fighters in South Waziristan, Bajaur, and Arakzai. Police killed five Taliban fighters during a shootout in Karachi. Three soldiers and a civilian were killed in an IED attack in North Waziristan. Eight more people were killed in sectarian clashes in Kurram.
The Taliban
Hakeemullah Mehsud of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir that killed two soldiers. The attack was the first of its kind in that region.
Iraq
Thirteen Iraqis were killed in a motorcycle bombing in central Baghdad. Insurgents killed a solider in Mosul. Security forces detained 24 wanted men in Basrah and three members of an IED cell in Mosul. Police foiled a suicide attack in Amarah.
Iran
Authorities claimed that the election was “healthiest” in the last three decades. Khatami announced that protesters should be “dealt with cruelly and without mercy”; he accused foreign journalists of fomenting the demonstrations. Mousavi came under pressure to drop his election complaint. Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem-Shirazi called for national reconciliation in the post-election atmosphere. G-8 countries […]
Iraq
Premier casting US withdrawal as victory for Iraq
Pakistan
Pakistan: A very strange Taliban burial