Iran
Revolutionary Guard tightens hold in Iran crisis
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Palestinian Territories
British Lawmakers: Government Should Engage Hamas
Afghanistan
Swedish forces in Afghanistan in action last night
Indonesia
Suspected hacker enmeshed in Jakarta bombs probe
Iran
President Ahmadinejad fired Intelligence Minister Ejeie. Ahmadinejad appointed Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie as his chief of staff after Supreme Leader Khatamei blocked his appointment as vice president. Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Harandi resigned from office “due to the recent events which shows the esteemed government’s weakness.”
Iraq
Iraq neighbors undermining border fight: minister
Philippines
12 bombs found aboard ferry in Philippines
Pakistan
Pakistani Pledge to Rout Taliban In Tribal Region Is Put on Hold
Nigeria
Clashes between Islamist fighters and police in Bauchi have left 39 of the fighters dead and 15 injured; 156 members were also arrested. A battle ensued when the Islamists, who aim to impose Shariah Law throughout the 12 states of predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria, assaulted a police station.
Pakistan
Police arrested TNSM chief Sufi Mohammed in Peshawar one day after he met with the group’s shura and a former member of parliament for ordering the beheading of a Polish engineer. The military killed 23 Taliban fighters during operations in Dir. Two soldiers and one Taliban commander were killed in Swat.
Pakistan
Pakistan helps US search for captured soldier as ties improve between the nations
Iraq
Maliki Faults Iraqi Officer’s Detention of US Troops After Shootout
Iraq
Insurgents killed four employees at a money exchange in Baghdad and three policemen in Abu Ghraib, and wounded two policemen in Mosul. Security forces detained eight Special Groups fighters in Wasit and three terrorists in Kirkuk. US and Iraqi forces defused explosives along a power line after an electrical transmission tower south of Baghdad was […]
Afghanistan
US and Afghan forces killed 16 Taliban fighters in Nuristan province and detained 12 Haqqani Network fighters in Paktia and Paktika provinces. The Taliban killed a US soldier in southern Afghanistan. The Taliban and the Afghan security forces agreed to a cease-fire the Bala Murghab district in Badghis province.
Pakistan detains radical cleric Sufi Mohammed
The leader of the Radical TNSM was arrested after meeting with the banned group’s shura in Peshawar.
Russia
A suicide bomber killed three police and two civilians outside a concert hall in Grozny, Chechnya. This is the fourth suicide bombing since Doku Umarov revived the Riyad Us Saliheen martyr brigade in late April. Six insurgents were killed the previous day in special operations in Chechnya. A large arms cache was also discovered in […]
Al Qaeda
US man was ‘gold mine’ of terror intel
Iran
Iran accused of ‘Zionist’ tactics
Pakistan
Pakistan: Swat cleric freed after second arrest
Afghanistan
Afghanistan/UK: Helicopter shortage forces commanders to dump Helmand towers plan
Somalia
Somalia: Family learned over Internet that son was killed
Al Qaeda
CIA Kept Osama bin Laden Son’s Death Secret For Months
Al Qaeda
US Recruit Reveals How Al Qaeda Trains Foreigners
The Taliban
Pakistan’s foreign minister said the government will no longer provide sanctuary to Mullah Omar and the Taliban’s Quetta shura. “They’ve created havoc, made our environment insecure, and wherever they are, we’ll take them on,” Shah Mehmud Qureshi said. “Absolutely, we’ll be taking them on.”
Iraq
One Iraqi was killed and 30 more were wounded in two bombings in Ramadi. One policeman was killed in a shooting in Babil, four were wounded in an IED blast in Kirkuk, and two were wounded in a IED attack in Ramadi. Iraqi police detained three Special Groups fighters in Al Kut and US troops […]
Pakistan
Security forces killed 14 Taliban fighters and detained 29 more in Swat and Buner. The Taliban killed a ‘US spy’ in North Waziristan, wounded 7 policemen and a civilian during an IED attack in Kohat, and bombed 17 CD shops in Mardan. Sufi Mohammed held a meeting with the TNSM shura in Peshawar.
Afghan police beat back Haqqani Network suicide assault
Seven Haqqani Network fighters were killed during a coordinated assault in Khost City.
Afghanistan
Police defeated a coordinated assault by the Haqqani Network in Khost; seven enemy fighters wearing suicide vests were killed. Coalition forces accidentally killed three Afghan security personnel in Kandahar during a friendly fire incident and killed “several” Taliban fighters and detained eight more in Nangarhar province. The Taliban killed a British soldier in Helmand province.
Mauritania
A third suspected Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb member connected with the murder of an American teacher in Nouakchott was arrested Friday in the capital. The arrest comes a week after two other suspected AQIM members were arrested with connection with the teacher™s killing in June.
Somalia’s Shabaab, Hizbul Islam seek merger
Hizbul Islam leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys told a crowd in Mogadishu that plans for a merger are moving forward.