Afghanistan
Adviser: Afghan GIs face 2 tough years
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Afghanistan
Déjà Vue All Over Again in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan
NATO seeks more troops for Afghanistan; 8 die
Afghanistan
Afghan and US troops killed 20 Haqqani Network fighters during a raid in the Sabari district in Khost. A US air weapons team killed two Taliban fighters as they planted an IED in Helmand. The Taliban killed three British soldiers in an IED attack in Helmand province on Aug. 6 and one policeman during an […]
Pakistan
Killing of Pakistan Taliban chief could touch off power struggle
Analysis: Baitullah’s death will impact operations Pakistan and Afghanistan
In the wake of Baitullah Mehsud’s death, the Pakistani government could decide to end the military operation in South Waziristan.
Baitullah Mehsud’s possible successors
Hakeemullah Mehsud is said to be in the lead to take over the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan. Qari Hussain Mehsud is a close second.
Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders killed in US airstrikes since 2004
A look at the senior leaders of the Taliban and al Qaeda killed during the US Predator air campaign, which started in 2004.
Pakistan
Taliban Leader in Pakistan Was Killed, His Aides Say
Pakistan
Baitullah Mehsud dead, aide confirms
Nigeria
The father-in-law of Mohammad Yusuf, the slain former leader of Boko Haram, is feared dead by his family after he voluntarily surrendered to Nigerian police after receiving word that he was wanted. Yusuf™s father-in-law, a wealthy Nigerian, helped fund the construction of Boko Haram™s mosque and headquarters compound.
Pakistan
Swat Valley: Life resumes after the Taliban
Iran
Why Iran’s Revolutionary Guards mercilessly crack down
Baitullah Mehsud is dead, says Pakistani Taliban deputy
Faqir Mohammed, the deputy leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, said Baitullah was killed in the Aug. 5 airstrike in South Waziristan.
United States
Is Islam greater than the First Amendment at the State Department?
Iran
Journalists’ association shut down in Tehran
Afghanistan
Taliban media wing struggling following release of captured US soldier video
Algeria
Algerian soldiers killed at least three Islamists during military sweeps in the woods outside Bejaia in northeastern Algeria. The Algerian soldiers were acting on a tip that Islamists were active in the area. The Kabylie region has largely avoided the Islamist insurgency in the last decade.
Philippines
Despite the truce with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, an errant shell fired by a military unit that was intended for MILF rebels landed near a school, wounding nine people, including eight children. Several members of the Organization of Islamic States, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, have agreed to join the peace process between […]
Thailand
A defense volunteer was killed by Muslim gunmen in Yala province on Tuesday evening as he returned from a local mosque, while the mother of a defense volunteer was also murdered in Narathiwat Province. On Wednesday, two more defense volunteers were killed in Narathiwat province and a Buddhist man was murdered on his way home […]
Pakistan
US suspects Pakistan Taliban head killed in drone attack
Afghanistan
NATO chief vows Afghan deaths reduction
‘Baitullah Mehsud is alive’ – US intelligence official
Baitullah Mehsud survived yesterday’s airstrike that killed his second wife, US intelligence officials said.
Pakistan
Security forces killed seven Taliban fighters and detained 17 more in Swat, and detained 12 fighters in Kohat and Hangu. Taliban fighters killed a soldier as they ambushed an Army convoy traveling along the Karakoram Highway in Kohistan. Mehsud tribal elders asked the government to end the military operation in South Waziristan. A tribal lashkar […]
Yemen
Yemen defense ministry denies al-Qaeda attack in Mareb
Iraq
Five Iraqis were killed in a bombing in Kirkuk. Five insurgents in Mosul were killed when their bombs exploded prematurely. Security forces detained 11 wanted men in Jalawlaa, a terrorist commander in Basrah, a Special Groups fighter in Al Kut, and an IED cell member in Kirkuk. Muqtada al Sadr reportedly will return to Iraq […]
Nigeria
Mohammed Yusuf, the slain former leader of the “Nigerian Taliban” sect called Boko Haram, ordered the beheading of three Christian pastors during the uprising earlier this month. Witnesses said Yusuf had become enraged after the pastors had refused to convert to Islam and one had preached the gospel to Yusuf.
Pakistan
Pakistan: Time to stem the rot
Somalia
US pledges support for Somalia
Israel
Hamas rockets a war crime: Human Rights Watch