Yearly Archives: 2009

Pakistan

| July 4, 2009

Pakistan: Militancy ‘claims over 3,000 lives’ in tribal areas

Pakistan

| July 3, 2009

Forty-one Pakistani troops were killed after a helicopter crashed in Arakzai. Thirteen Taliban fighters were killed in two US airstrikes in South Waziristan; another seven were killed in Pakistani airstrikes. Tribes agreed to a peace deal in Dera Ismail Khan.

Somalia

| July 3, 2009

African peacekeepers targeted Al Shabaab and Hizbul Islam with artillery fire in neighborhoods in Mogadishu. Ethiopian troops have withdrawn from the town of Balanbal in central Somalia. Shabaab chopped off the hand of a man convicted in a sharia court in the town of Merka.

Iraq

| July 3, 2009

Two Iraqis were killed and nine were wounded in a bombing in Kirkuk. Security forces detained two wanted men in Makhmour. Four electricity towers were bombed in Baghdad. A US UAV crashed near Al Kut.

Afghanistan

| July 3, 2009

US Marines killed more than 30 Taliban fighters during a shootout and subsequent airstrike on a compound in Helmand’s Garmsir district. One Marine was killed during the fighting in Helmand. Russia has agreed to allow NATO weapons shipments to pass through its territory.

Pakistan

| July 3, 2009

Military helicopter crash kills 26 in NW Pakistan: Officials

Pakistan

| July 3, 2009

Pak appeals against HC order freeing JuD chief Hafiz Saeed

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| July 3, 2009

Peace talks with MILF to resume in July

Pakistan

| July 3, 2009

Pakistan – Mastermind of suicide attacks killed near Tank

Somalia

| July 2, 2009

Seven Somalis were killed during clashes between Hizbul Islam and government forces in northern Mogadishu. Ethiopian troops have moved near Beledweyn in central Somalia. President Sharif accused Shabaab and Hizbul Islam of using child soldiers in Somalia. “Terrorists spend effort to trick young children…Al Qaeda is involved in this,” Sharif said.

Iran

| July 2, 2009

Ahmadinejad’s campaign manager claimed the president won the election fairly. The Guardian Council closed the file on the post-election review. The Justice minister said that Iran’s enemies’ efforts to “distort” the election were fruitless. Iranian security forces arrested seven “anti-revolutionary elements” in northern Iran.

Pakistan

| July 2, 2009

A Waziri tribal leader said Mullah Nazir would sit out the fighting in South Waziristan; Nazir denied the report. The military killed 23 Taliban in Swat and moved troops to the border of Afghanistan’s Helmand province. The Taliban wounded 37 civilians in a suicide attack on a bus used by a nuclear facility in Rawalpindi, […]

United States

| July 2, 2009

At least three Somali Americans living in Minneapolis reportedly have been indicted for recruiting more than 20 young men to fight for al Qaeda-linked Shabaab in Somalia. One of the recruits became a suicide bomber. The indictments are reportedly still sealed and may be released in the next few weeks.

Somalia

| July 2, 2009

Somali-Americans accused of Al Qaeda ties indicted on terror charges, sources say

Pakistan

| July 2, 2009

Pakistan: Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud behind bus attack

Pakistan

| July 2, 2009

A profile of the late Qari Zainuddin Mehsud -Waziristan militant and opponent of Baitullah Mehsud

Afghanistan

| July 2, 2009

The Haqqani Network captured a US soldier who left his post in Paktika province. US Marines and Afghan troops took control of the Khanishin district in Helmand province during the first day of a large scale operation in southern Afghanistan.

Pakistan

| July 2, 2009

Pakistan: Taliban switches to NATO convoy attacks in southwest

Iraq

| July 2, 2009

Five Iraqis were killed and 30 were wounded in bombings in Baghdad, Kirkuk, Fallujah, and Mosul. Iraqi security forces detained seven insurgents in Baghdad, Salahadin, and Diyala. The Sadrist movement called for an end to attacks in cities where the US has withdrawn its forces.

Pakistan

| July 2, 2009

Pakistan – Tribesmen to quit Levies, Khasadars after Taliban threat