Pakistan
Pakistan to import anti-terror equipment from China
Yearly Archives: 2009
Afghanistan
Afghan insurgent violence accelerates in 2009
United States
American Muslims in Minneapolis are protesting the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ attempts to obstruct an FBI investigation into the disappearance of Somali youth. Dozens of young Somali-Americans have traveled to Somalia to fight with al Qaeda-backed Shabaab, and one of them conducted a suicide attack.
United States
Somalis take to the street to protest CAIRS’s actions
Pakistan
Taliban & Arakzai
Arakzai Taliban take credit for mosque suicide attacks
Mullah Saaed Hafiz, the deputy commander of the Arakzai Taliban, said the attacks were executed to avenge Pakistani military strikes in Hangu and Darra Adam Khel that killed 47 people, including a pro-Taliban cleric.
Pakistan
Pakistan: Sunni strike to protest against cleric’s murder
Morocco
Morocco: Women arrested at outlawed Islamist group meeting
Lebanon
Hezbollah retains strong support despite opposition defeat in polls
United States
US ‘to protect Afghan civilians’
Lashkar-e-Taiba
The Lahore High Court said there is no evidence linking Hafiz Saeed, the leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, to the September 2008 terror assault on the Indian city of Mumbai. “The Attorney General contended that the petitioners are being blamed to be involved in Mumbai attacks, we have observed that not a single document has been […]
Iraq
Insurgents assassinated Hareth al Ubeidi, a Sunni member of parliament, during an attack inside a mosque in Yarmuk, southwest of Baghdad. The attacker shot Ubeidi, then detonated his suicide vest during the escape, killing several bodyguards. Security forces detained four wanted men in Suwayra and two arms dealers in Diyala.
Afghanistan
US Defense Secretary said Iran is “playing a bit of double game in Afghanistan” by arming the Taliban. NATO ministers back the US plan to shake up the command structure in Afghanistan and give more control to the US. A British soldier was killed in an IED attack in Kandahar province. Afghan and Coalition forces […]
Taliban continue mosque attacks, strike in Lahore and Nowshera, Pakistan
An outspoken anti-Taliban cleric was among 11 people killed in suicide strikes in Lahore and Nowshera. The attacks are the latest in a series of strikes at mosques.
Al Qaeda
US frees Guantanamo detainee seized as a teen
Pakistan
Pakistan – Kalash tribe under Taliban threat
Pakistan
The Pakistani military killed 47 people in artillery strikes in Hangu and Arakzai, 30 Taliban were killed in Bannu, and 22 more were killed in a failed assault on forts in South Waziristan. Police detained 29 Taliban fighters in Nowshera and Kohat and arrested 25 more in Islamabad. Three people were killed in a suicide […]
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Pakistan’s Peshawar transformed by Taliban threat
Al Qaeda
4 former Guantanamo detainees in a new world
Pakistan
Record violence in Afghanistan in early June: Petraeus
Iraq
US Marines out of Iraq by spring 2010: general
Pakistan
Militants show sophisticated tactics in Pakistan
Afghanistan
NATO giving US more control in Afghan operations
Al Qaeda
Row erupts over Guantanamo deal
Al Qaeda
The CIA believes Osama bin Laden is still in Pakistan and thinks the Pakistani military operation may aid in flushing him out into the open. A few al Qaeda leaders and operatives are thought to be relocating to Somalia and Yemen.
Pakistan
Pakistani offensive to help nab Osama: CIA
Iraq
Security forces detained 21 wanted men in Basrah, eight in Wasit, seven men thought to be behind the June 10 bombing in Nasariyah, and two insurgents in Dhi Qhar. Bombings in Baghdad, Mosul, and Hamrin killed one Iraqi and wounded 13 more.
Fighting intensifies in Pakistan’s Bannu-Waziristan region
The Pakistan Army claimed more than 130 Taliban fighters have been killed since the Bannu offensive began three days ago. Taliban attacks on two forts in South Waziristan are repelled.
Al Qaeda
CIA says bin Laden in Pakistan
Hezbollah
Hezbollah™s arms after the vote