Explosion in Pakistan’s Punjab province kills 11
The blast took place at the home of a local cleric who is known to train young boys. The blast is the most recent event far from the fighting in the northwest.
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Pakistan
Pakistan’s displaced head home, blast rocks village
Afghanistan
Brown promises more helicopters for UK forces in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Taliban will let guns do their talking
Al Qaeda
CIA had secret Al Qaeda plan
Germany
A court convicted Pakistan-born Aleem Nasir of financing and recruiting for al Qaeda in Europe. Nasir also provided binoculars, night-vision goggles, laser range-finders, digital compasses, and radios to al Qaeda fighters overseas.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed a senior police official and three officers in an IED attack in the Jalriz district of Wardak province, and a Coalition soldier in eastern Afghanistan. US and Afghan forces detained a Taliban commander in Ghazni province.
Iraq
Insurgents killed an Iraqi soldier in Mosul and wounded seven adults and three children in separate bombings in Baghdad. The children were wounded in a bombing outside a Shia mosque. Security forces killed an IED cell member as he planted a bomb in Saadiya.
Pakistan
Pakistan plans air assault in Waziristan
China
Police killed two Uighurs in Urumqi. Total fatalities since the riots broke out have reached 184. Riots left 74 seriously injured over the weekend.
Iran
Presidential candidate Rezai said the Islamic republic will suffer disintegration if quarreling sides fail to resolve the election dispute. Mousavi planned to launch a political party. Turkmenistan is to increase gas supplies to Iran to 14 billion cubic meters per year. The government will hang 14 members of Jundullah this week.
Algeria
Anti-terrorist police detained nine members of the al Qaeda’s al Fateh Brigade in an Algiers suburb. The cell members, which included several women, were gathering intelligence on the movement of security officials and passing the information along to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Iran
In Iran, fears of fresh crackdown
Iran
Troops willing to die to stop Iran unrest, general says
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French row over burqa ban unveils contradictions
Iraq
Roadside bomb misses US ambassador to Iraq
Tajikistan
Mirzo Ziyoyey, a Tajik Ex-minister and former Islamist rebel, was shot dead today. He was arrested on Saturday, along with five Chechen nationals, on suspicion of connections with the insurgents that attacked a police post near the Afghan border recently. He agreed to reveal the group’s hidden weapons and surrender, but a gun battle interrupted […]
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: A fight for ordinary peace
Iran
Iranian clerics lash out at China over unrest
Russia
Security forces from the republics of Daghestan, Chechnya, and Ingushetia killed 17 insurgents during clashes over the weekend. Eight insurgents were killed in Grozny and outlying districts, five were killed in Daghestan, and four more were killed in Ingushetia.
Pakistan
US drone strikes futile, Al Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan: Rehman Malik
Pakistan
Security forces killed 11 Taliban fighters during airstrikes in South Waziristan, and five foreign fighters during a mortar attack in Lower Dir. Three Pakistani soldiers were killed in Swat, and security forces detained 16 Taliban fighters in Swat and 11 extremists in Khyber. The Taliban killed three ANP workers in Buner.
Afghanistan
Afghans turn to Taliban in fear of own police
Tajikistan
Tajik ex-minister dies in ambush
Somalia
Fifty-nine people, including 40 Shabaab fighters, three government soldiers, the chief of security for Mogadishu, and a Bangladeshi foreign fighter were killed uring heavy fighting in Mogadishu. The government has claimed to have retaken control of Mogadishu. Shabaab denied reports it beheaded criminals in Baidoa.
The Taliban
The US said it would not pursue talks with the Taliban until the group denounces al Qaeda and lays down its weapons. “The Taliban and al Qaeda are linked like this,” US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke said. “And, unless the Taliban repudiates al-Qaeda publicly, this is a nonstarter.”
Afghanistan
Afghanistan is a war the world can’t afford to walk away from
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces killed 12 Taliban fighters in Uruzgan province and retook control of the Barge Matal district in Nuristan province. Five US soldiers and Marines were killed in separate attacks. President Karzai™s campaign office was bombed in Panjshir.
Mali
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb released a Swiss hostage who was detained for nearly six months. The hostage was one of six Europeans captured in Niger and held in Mali. The group had demanded the release of Abu Qatada, al Qaeda’s spiritual leader in Europe.
Iraq
Five Iraqis were killed in a bombing north of Mosul. Four Iraqis were killed and 24 more were wounded during bombings that targeted churches in Baghdad. Insurgents killed a government official in Kirkuk and the brother of an Awakening leader in Babil. Security forces detained six wanted men in Maysan, three terrorists in Anbar, and […]