The pro-government Ahlu Sunna Wal-jama™a has ousted Shabaab from the border town of Beled Hawo in southwestern Somalia and the town of Wahbo in central Somalia. Shabaab fighters attacked a UN compound in Wajid north of Baidoa; the UN guards returned fire and killed three Shabaab fighters.
Yemen points to Iranian backing for rebels
US presses Pakistan on Taliban
Taha al-Hajj Suleiman, a “dangerous” member of Fatah al Islam, escaped from the high-security Roumieh prison in eastern Beirut. Seven other members of the group, including the chief spokesman, were captured while attempting to escape. The Fatah al Islam members were captured during the 2007 assault on the Nahr el Bared Palestinian refugee camp.
A suicide bomber killed three security personnel in Miramshah in North Waziristan. Security forces captured Taliban spokesman Maulvi Omar, who is said to have claimed Baitullah Mehsud is dead. Sufi Mohammed’s detention is being challenged in the Peshawar High Court. The military said months are needed to launch a ground operation in South Waziristan.
General Odierno wants to deploy US troops along Arab-Kurdish fault lines in the North. Two civilians were killed in a bombing in Baghdad and another was killed in a bombing in Mosul. Security forces detained 19 wanted men in Basrah, two insurgents in Kirkuk, a terror cell leader and two cell members in Anbar, and […]
A Taliban suicide bomber killed seven UN and Coalition personnel and Afghan civilians in Kabul; another suicide bomber killed three soldiers and two civilians in Uruzgan. Three election officials were killed in an IED attack in Badahkshan; two US troops were killed in eastern Afghanistan, and a provincial council candidate was assassinated in Jawzjan.
A suicide bomber struck a NATO convoy on Jalalabad Road, killing UN and NATO personnel. Another suicide attack took place in Uruzgan as the Taliban step up attacks nationwide in an effort to disrupt the Aug. 20 election.
Pakistan: Baitullah Mehsud is dead, said Maulvi Omar
`Al Qaeda shifted base to Pak tribal region`
Pakistan needs "months" for Waziristan push: general
Suicide car bomb, rockets strike Kabul ahead of vote
Lashkar-e-Taiba has issued an order banning television in a region of Jammu and Kashmir. LeT posted the order outside a mosque and declared watching TV sinful. The fighters have broken into homes and beaten homeowners and smashed their TV sets.
A top nuclear official denied stating that Tehran was ready to hold talks with the West on its atomic program “without preconditions.” President Ahmadinejad planned to reveal cabinet appointees to the public on Wednesday. Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari announced that the country has discovered a giant oil field with in-place reserves of over […]
Maulvi Omar and two aides were reportedly detained while traveling in the Taliban-run tribal agency. A senior Taliban leader was captured in Islamabad.
A rubber farmer was murdered by insurgents in Yala province; In Pattani province a security volunteer was wounded by gunfire while guarding Buddhist monks. On Sunday, a village chief and a security volunteer were murdered in a drive-by shooting in Narathiwat province.
Peace Corps pulls volunteers from Mauritania
Shiite rebel leader among dozens killed in renewed Yemen clashes
Bin Laden’s driver talks
Peace talks with Taliban are a top issue in Afghan vote
Central Asia sounds alarm over Islamic radicalism
Security tightens in Kandahar province ahead of Afghan election
Afghan warlord General Dostum returns to boost Karzai™s campaign
Donkeys deliver ballots in Afghanistan
Iranian police clash with protesters over banned newspaper
Pakistan – Lashkars on outskirts of Peshawar fighting fire with fire
US commander in Iraq wants troops in disputed land
Pakistani Taliban says bombs a ‘gift™ for US envoy
The Taliban took credit for a suicide attack that killed seven people in Charsadda. The military killed 13 Taliban fighters in Swat and two more in Bajaur, and detained a senior Taliban suicide bomber recruiter in Islamabad. The leader of the Millat-e-Islamia was killed in Khairpur; the killing sparked riots in Karachi and Sindh.
Maverick pro-Taliban militant offers to help US forces