Iraq
Iraqi training moves to US bases
Yearly Archives: 2009
Iran
Iran’s security council tells Moussavi to back off
Thailand
Thailand – Police wounded in Narathiwat bombing; Security tightened in wake of death plot discovery
Afghanistan
Baghdad market blast increases tensions before June 30 US pullout from Iraqi cities
Al Qaeda
Canadian accused of al Qaeda ties ends Sudan exile
Al Qaeda
Sleeper cells and Shi™a secessionists in Saudi Arabia: A Salafist perspective
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Insurgents make Afghans focus of attacks
Pakistan
The military killed more than 30 Taliban fighters in South Waziristan, Bajaur, and Arakzai. Police killed five Taliban fighters during a shootout in Karachi. Three soldiers and a civilian were killed in an IED attack in North Waziristan. Eight more people were killed in sectarian clashes in Kurram.
The Taliban
Hakeemullah Mehsud of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir that killed two soldiers. The attack was the first of its kind in that region.
Iraq
Thirteen Iraqis were killed in a motorcycle bombing in central Baghdad. Insurgents killed a solider in Mosul. Security forces detained 24 wanted men in Basrah and three members of an IED cell in Mosul. Police foiled a suicide attack in Amarah.
Iran
Authorities claimed that the election was “healthiest” in the last three decades. Khatami announced that protesters should be “dealt with cruelly and without mercy”; he accused foreign journalists of fomenting the demonstrations. Mousavi came under pressure to drop his election complaint. Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem-Shirazi called for national reconciliation in the post-election atmosphere. G-8 countries […]
Iraq
Premier casting US withdrawal as victory for Iraq
Pakistan
Pakistan: A very strange Taliban burial
Pakistan
Pakistan’s Asif Zardari faces army rebellion over India detente
Pakistan
Pakistan: What are our soldiers dying for?
Pakistan
Pakistani troops told to avoid civilian deaths
Kashmir
Two Pakistani soldiers were killed and three more were wounded during the first recorded suicide attack in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The suicide bomber targeted a military convoy in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir.
Pakistan
Pakistani Taliban -From symbolic to soft targets
Lebanon
Lebanon – UNIFIL finds 20 Katyushas ready for launch
Iran
Iran: Mousavi under ‘house arrest
Afghanistan
Networked eyes on the battlefield
Iraq
Iraqi, US commanders strike Mosul deal
Afghanistan
Georgia to send 500 troops to Afghanistan in 2010
Afghanistan
Military Putting High-Tech Resources in Afghanistan
Pakistan
Fifty-two people have been killed in sectarian clashes in Kurram. Shah Doran, the Taliban’s deputy commander in Swat, was reported killed. Security forces detained five terrorists in Mianwali, three in Swat, and two more in Faisalabad. Seven security personnel were wounded during the raids in Swat and Faisalabad. The Taliban bombed a school in South […]
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz Parliament approves Manas Air Base agreement
United States
Zardari asks US to give Pakistan drone technology
Pakistan
US triples aid funding to Pakistan
Pakistan
Fighting the Taliban: Pakistan Army’s flawed strategy
Iraq
Insurgents killed nine civilians in Baghdad, four policemen and a police commander in Fallujah and Baghdad, and one soldier in Mosul. Security forces detained 20 men behind a failed assassination attempt of a Sadrist leader in Diwaniyah, and one wanted man in Wasit.