US State Department officials claimed that three Qods Force operatives captured in Irbil, Iraq in 2007 and recently release from custody were being used as leverage against Iran. Libyan President Qadhafi announced support for a “peaceful” Iranian nuclear program. Iran’s State Inspectorate Organization revealed new regulatory plans for media outlets.
Criminals take cover of militants for kidnapping
Two officers and two servicemen were killed in a shootout in Chechnya in the southwest district of Vedensky when forces engaged about 15 insurgents hidden in the forest. A bomb blast in Grozny also killed one officer. Three militants and a soldier were killed during a two-hour nighttime gun battle with police in Dagestan, the […]
The Pakistani military is attempting to isolate and destroy Baitullah Mehsud, and does not intend to conduct a counterinsurgency in South Waziristan.
Dead people on UN terrorism sanctions list: envoy
New advisory brigades to deploy to Iraq during troop rotations
Pakistan building fortified bunkers along LoC
A court sentenced Mohammed Ahmed Youssef Al Jaghbeer to death for his involvement in the 2002 murder of USAID administrator Laurence Foley. Jaghbeer facilitated communications between al Qaeda and the terror cell in Amman that killed Foley. He was captured in Iraq and transferred back to Jordan.
Al Qaeda man sentenced to death in Jordan
Lebanese, Israeli troops narrowly avoid battle
Al-Qaeda vows to hit China over Uighur unrest
Pakistan: Spy agency exposes link between militants and religious schools
Baghdad match a football victory and security triumph
China must decide how to deal with al-Qaeda if it wants to stay in Africa
Thai government extends state of emergency in southern provinces
A tribal militia in Mohmand killed 23 Taliban fighters; three militiamen were also killed. Security forces killed nine Taliban fighters in Swat. Nearly 1,000 families have returned to Swat and Buner. The Taliban rocketed a police station in Peshawar and torched a NATO fuel tanker in Khyber.
The provincial government of Punjab withdrew its petition to the Supreme Court to have Lashkar-e-Taiba / Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader Hafiz Saeed and his aide Nazir Ahmed placed under house arrest. The Punjab administration said it does not have sufficient evidence to substantiate the case.
A local lashkar attacked a large Taliban force in the Mohmand tribal agency. Tribal militias have had little success against the Taliban in the past.
Shabaab and Hizbul Islam forces retook control of northern Mogadishu just one day after the government declared a “historic victory.” Two French security officials were kidnapped from a hotel in Mogadishu. Shabaab established a political administration in villages near Wanlaweyn.
Insurgents killed a policeman in an IED attack in Mosul. Security forces detained 11 wanted persons in Miqdadiyah and two more in Makhmour; eight wanted men surrendered in Karma. US troops detained an IED cell leader in Baghdad.
Forty-one of the 323 al Qaeda operatives who were tried and convicted are from outside Saudi Arabia. The 323 al Qaeda operatives received prison terms ranging from two-and-a-half years to 30 years. The interior minister said 991 al Qaeda operatives have received prison terms since 2004.
President Ahmadinejad is to start his second term in August. The national security commission discussed post-election events with the president and the judiciary chief. The US called on Iran to release an American scholar detained in Tehran’s Evin prison. A Qatari diplomat advocated the expansion of diplomatic ties with Iran.
Six civilians were killed in a helicopter crash in Helmand province; the Taliban claimed it shot down the helo. The Taliban killed three Afghans in an IED attack in Uruzgan, and an Italian soldier was killed in Farah province. Britain will send an additional 140 soldiers to Afghanistan.
CIA’s secret program: paramilitary teams to strike Al Qaeda
A court sentenced six members of an al Qaeda cell to death after they were convicted of conducting 13 terrorist attacks since 2007. Ten others were sentenced to terms of between eight and 15 years. The cell was behind the murder of nine Spanish and Belgian tourists, the attack on the US embassy in Sanaa, […]
Mindful of civilians, pilots in Afghanistan alter tactics
Eleven people were killed in an explosion at a training camp in Punjab. Six Taliban fighters were killed and 10 were wounded after they attacked a police checkpost in South Waziristan. Security forces detained 13 al Qaeda operatives in Dera Murad Jamali and two members of the Ghazi Force in Islamabad. Pakistan’s interior minister said […]
UN resumes food aid to Mindanao
Philippine leaders call for an all-out offensive against Abu Sayyaf
India calls for international solidarity to combat terror