Pakistan
NATO supply terminal attacked in Peshawar
Yearly Archives: 2009
Pakistan
Pak swoops down on Taliban den
→
Philippine troops clash with Abu Sayyaf: No sign of Italian hostage
Afghanistan
Changing course in Afghanistan
Somalia
Somali government encircled by hardline Islamists
Spain
The National Court convicted two Moroccans, an Algerian, and a Spaniard for aiding in the March 2004 Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people. The maximum sentence imposed was nine years in prison. Ten other suspects who were accused of helping four bombers flee the police were acquitted.
US strikes again in South Waziristan
Eight Taliban and al Qaeda fighters are reported to have been killed in the latest airstrike against al Qaeda and Taliban compounds in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency. Of the 18 strikes in Pakistan this year, 10 have occurred in South Waziristan.
Philippines
Twenty-five Abu Sayyaf fighters and five government officials were killed during fighting on Jolo island. Abu Sayyaf fighters started the fighting after ambushing and murdering the chief superintendent and four of his men. Police and government forces pursued the Abu Sayyaf fighters, who are said to be holding the last Red Cross worker hostage.
Pakistan
Taliban funded by $800m gems, marbles trade
Afghanistan
Taliban using poison gas on Afghan schoolgirls?
Al Qaeda in Iraq
The Islamist State of Iraq denied its leader Abu Omar al Baghdadi was captured by Iraqi forces. Al Faloja, a jihadist website, claimed Baghdadi will release an audiotape. The government claimed Baghdadi’s real name is Ma™ad Ibrahim Muhammad.
→
US journalist freed by Iran, reunites with parents
Afghanistan
Afghan girls, scarred by acid, defy terror, embracing school
Pakistan
The military claimed 52 Taliban fighters were killed during fighting in Swat; US officials called the military casualty numbers “wildly exaggerated.” President Zardari said the Army will defeat the Taliban with the people™s support; only 45 percent of Pakistanis support the military operation in the northwest. Two more Army divisions may be deployed to the […]
Somalia
Ten Somalis were killed and 50 more were wounded during heavy shelling and fighting in Mogadishu. Shabaab is sending weapons and fighters to support Islamists in Mogadishu. Sheikh Yusuf Indhoaade backtracked on an agreement to support the government and has turned his weapons over to Shabaab.
→
US special forces in Philippines focus on terrorist safe havens
Syria
Al Qaeda has “reactivated” the ratlines from Syria that funnel suicide bombers and other foreign fighters into Iraq. The network was severely damaged after the US conducted a cross-border raid into Syria that killed Abu Ghadiya, the chief facilitator, and much of his staff in October 2008.
Iraq
A US soldier murdered five other troopers in a shooting at a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Baghdad. A US soldier was killed in an IED attack in Basrah. Two civilians were killed in an IED attack in Kirkuk and one policeman was killed in an attack in Mosul. Security forces detained 20 wanted […]
Afghanistan
General McChrystal will replace General McKiernan as the senior most commander in Afghanistan; McKiernan was asked to resign by Defense Secretary Gates. The Afghan parliament wants to pass a law to place restrictions on foreign troops to prevent civilian casualties.
Iraq
Iraq militant group’s pipeline through Syria revives after long gap
Afghanistan
US to replace commander in Afghanistan
Pakistani claims of high Taliban casualties ‘wildly exaggerated’ – US officials
US officials are skeptical of the high Taliban casualty reports as the Interior Minister claimed 700 Taliban fighters have been killed in four days of fighting in Swat.
Pakistan
The military claimed 150 Taliban fighters were killed in Shangla and 60 more were killed in Swat. The Taliban destroyed a headquarters of the Dir Levies and killed one Malakand Levies officer and captured three others. The military claimed 26 Taliban were killed and another 14 were wounded after troops repelled an assault in Mohmand, […]
Pakistan
Shaky Pakistan is seen as a target of plots by Al Qaeda
Pakistan
Pakistani Taliban under pressure from tribal rival
Pakistan
Next few weeks crucial, says top US general
Algeria
A major offensive against al Qaeda in the Sahel region has been postponed. Amari Saifi, a former senior leader in the now-defunct Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat who is better known as Abderazak El Para, urged members of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb to end the fighting.
Indonesia
Hidden militants at large
Afghanistan
Face-to-face with the Taliban: ‘It is my holy obligation to fight’
Al Qaeda
Ali Mohammed al Fakheri, who is also known as Ibn al Sheikh al Libi, committed suicide in a Libyan jail after being transferred from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Fakheri ran the Khalden training camp in Afghanistan prior to the fall of the Taliban in late 2001. He was captured while attempting to flee to […]