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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Indonesia
Gunmen attack British EU envoy’s house in Indonesia
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda Africa wing less a threat to Europe: official
Philippines
Twenty-eight Abu Sayyaf members were charged with the abduction of three factory workers in Basilan province last week. The victims, which include two Chinese nationals, are still being held captive by Abu Sayyaf in Basilan province; security forces have been deployed to search for their whereabouts. Father Michael Sinnot, who was freed from Abu Sayyaf […]
Thailand
A force of 200 Thai police and soldiers surrounded a house in Pattani province, laying siege to insurgents inside. In an intense 20-minute battle, six insurgents were killed and two police officers were wounded. Authorities were able to breach and secure the house.
Pakistan
The military killed four Taliban fighters and a commander in Swat. Police detained three suicide bombers in Quetta. The Taliban bombed a girls’ school in Khyber. Mullah Fazullah said he is in Afghanistan.
Somalia
Five civilians were killed after Shabaab attacked government troops in Mogadishu. The death toll of the battle between Shabaab and Hizbul Islam forces in Hagar reached 15. “Shabaab is our number one foe”, said Sheikh Abdi Nasser Serar, the foreign affairs chairman of Hizbul Islam. Pirates freed a Spanish ship after a $3.5 million ransom […]
Iraq
Iraqi security forces detained 19 wanted men in Basrah, nine al Qaeda car bomb cell members in Baghdad, Kirkuk, and Diyala, and two insurgents south of Baghdad, and defused an EFP in Thi Qhar. Insurgents killed an Awakening leader in Diyala and wounded six Iraqis in attacks in Fallujah and Kirkuk.
Afghanistan
Afghan and Coalition forces killed nine Taliban fighters and two commanders and detained 23 more during operations in Wardak and Kunduz provinces. The Taliban killed 10 Afghans in yesterday’s attack in Kapisa and four construction workers in Kunduz, and beheaded two civilians in Farah.
United States
Fort Hood slayings prompt full Pentagon review
Somalia
Somali pirates free 36 hostages, claim $3M ransom
India
Headley probe: Links with Kasab & Co now NIA focus: India
Iraq
Sunni politician, 12 others killed execution-style near Baghdad
United States
National intelligence director to evaluate CIA missions
Mullah Fazlullah, in Afghanistan, vows to relaunch Swat insurgency
Wanted flyer for Swat Taliban leaders. Fazlullah is in the top right. Mullah Fazlullah, the leader of the Swat Taliban, has surfaced in Afghanistan and has threatened to reignite the insurgency in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. From BBC: “I have reached Afghanistan safely,” Maulana Fazlullah told BBC Urdu. “We are soon going to launch full-fledged punitive […]
Pakistan
Militants change tack in Pakistan
Pakistani military hits Taliban in Arakzai
Taliban leaders from South Waziristan have regrouped in Arakzai to continue their terror offensive against the Pakistani state.
Iran
An IAEA report suspected that there are additional nuclear facilities hidden in Iran. President Obama warned Iran that there are “consequences” for their lack of cooperation with the IAEA. Iran extended trade cooperation with Tajikistan.
Mali
New realities for ancient Timbuktu
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Taliban on motorcycles prove no match for US helicopters
Iran
UN: Once-secret Iran nuclear site to start in 2011
Kashmir
Terrorists killed a deputy inspector general from India’s Border Security Force and wounded three officers in an IED attack as he was inspecting the Samba region at the border. Two soldiers and a terrorist were killed in a gun battle in the Keran region.
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed four Pakistanis in an attack in Peshawar. Security forces killed 18 Taliban fighters in airstrikes in Arakzai and five more in Swat. A Taliban deputy confessed to executing a Polish engineer earlier this year.
Somalia
Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, Hizbul Islam’s top leader, reportedly submitted conditions for his defection to the Somali government to the president of Libya. At least six people were killed after the forces of Sheik Ahmed Modobe, a warlord affiliated with Hizbul Islam, attacked Shabaab in Hagar village in southern Somalia. Ethiopian troops left their main […]
Iraq
Insurgents executed 13 civilians in Abu Ghraib and killed nine more in bombings in Baghdad and Kirkuk. Two Iraqi soldiers were also killed in Baghdad. Security forces detained 14 wanted men in Basrah, six insurgents in Diyala and Salahadin, and four Special Groups operatives in Al Kut. Iraqi border guards seized large quantities of Iranian […]
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed 11 civilians in an IED attack in Helmand; eight policemen during an attack on a checkpoint in Kandahar; four civilians, including three children, in a mortar attack on a market in Kapisa; and a woman and a child in a bombing at a clinic in Herat. Coalition and Afghan troops detained “several” […]
Pakistan
Taliban under fire from Pakistan™s faithful
Pakistan
Pakistan Taliban taps Punjab heartland for recruits
India
India – Headley terror probe: Nuclear installations on high alert
Afghanistan
US asks more from Pakistan in terror war