Pakistan
US training of Pakistan army to grow
Yearly Archives: 2009
Philippines
Filipino security forces captured a shipment of firearm components bound for Abu Sayyaf, including six M14 rifles and a bolt assembly for an M60 machine gun. Sulu province governor Abdusakur Tan announced that Italian Red Cross hostage Eugenio Vagni is alive and that more troops would be deployed to pressure Abu Sayyaf for his release.
Afghanistan
US and Afghan forces killed 23 Taliban fighters in Uruzgan province, 10 in Logar province, and nine more in Helmand province. Five German soldiers were wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in Kunduz province. The Taliban announced a new spring offensive that will target new forces entering the country as well as Afghan politicians […]
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Filipino Radicals help Indonesian terrorists
US strike kills 10 Taliban in South Waziristan
The attack targeted a safe house and a vehicle in Kanigoram; al Qaeda fighters have been reported killed. Today’s strike is the fifth this month and the sixteenth this year.
Turkey
Nine soldiers were killed after their tank and an armored personnel carrier were hit in an IED attack in the province of Diyarbakir. Police detained two female suicide bombers after failed attacks in Ankara. The incidents are blamed on the Kurdistan Workers Party.
Iraq
Sixteen Iraqis were killed and 45 more were wounded in three car bombings in Sadr City. Security forces detained six Naqshabandiya group fighters in Kirkuk. The former deputy governor of Karbala and an aide were detained on terrorism charges related to the August 2007 clashes with the Mahdi Army. Security forces executed more than 1,600 […]
Taliban advance on Mansehra
More than 100 Taliban fighters have entered the district from Buner to the west and have established a base and training camp near the vital Karakoram Highway that links Pakistan to China.
Pakistan
Taliban capture 70 security personnel in Buner
A joint Frontier Constabulary and police force was captured after the Taliban surrounded a police station. A leaked report indicated the Army will deploy two brigades in Buner. The Taliban dispute casualties in Dir.
Pakistan
The military launched an operation in Buner and claimed more than 70 Taliban and 10 troops were killed during operations in Dir; the Taliban disputed the casualties and said only four fighters were killed. The Taliban captured 60 security personnel in Buner. In Swat, the Taliban captured five policemen and ordered the media not to […]
Pakistan
DoD supports Pakistan™s anti-Taliban operations, hopes for sustained effort
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A new approach to stop Thailand’s insurgency
Pakistan
Five policemen kidnapped, 11 suspects arrested in Swat
Pakistan
Where has Sufi Mohammad gone?
Pakistan
US confident Pakistan™s nukes are safe: Mullen
Turkey
Security forces detained 50 Islamists during raids in the southern provinces of Osmaniye, Gaziantep, Adana, and Sanliurfa. Among those captured was Shahmeran Sari, the leader of the Turkish Islamist movement Vasat. Sari is thought to have ordered operations inside Turkey.
Thailand
On the five-year anniversary of the Krue Se massacre, militants in the southern provinces killed 10 people and wounded two others in six attacks, including an assault on a family of five. In the years since the Krue Se incident, more than 3,400 people have been killed in the southern provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat, […]
Pakistan
Terrorists moving from Afghan border to Africa
Somalia
Dozens of terrorists are moving from the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and into Somalia. President Sharif said African Union forces should stay in Somalia. Shabaab freed three journalists and reopened their radio station.
Somalia
French navy base to ‘confront pirates’
Saudi Arabia
Saudis Use Soft Touch to ‘Save’ Former Militants
Afghanistan
Twelve Taliban fighters and one policeman were killed during clashes in the Mosahi district outside the capital of Kabul. A parade celebrating the victory over the Russian-backed communist regime was canceled due to security concerns. President Karzai said he would run again for a second term.
Iraq
The Iraqi government displayed the man they claim is Islamic State of Iraq leader Abu Omar al Baghdadi on television. Security forces detained seven members of an al Qaeda cell behind the recent bombings in Baghdad, 10 Special Groups fighters in Amarah and one more in Baghdad. Two missile launch pads were dismantled in Amarah.
Pakistan launches operation against the Taliban in Buner
“The aim of the offensive is to eliminate and expel militants from Buner,” a Pakistani military spokesman said. The operation is the latest in a series of disjointed offensives that have failed to blunt the Taliban’s advance in Pakistan.
United Kingdom
The Kingston Crown Court found three Muslim men not guilty of conspiring with the 7/7 London Tubes bombers. All three men admitted to knowing the bombers. Two of the men were found guilty of plotting to attend a terrorist training camp in Pakistan.
Pakistan
NWFP govt tells Taliban to leave Buner or face action
Pakistan
The government claimed 46 Taliban fighters and two Taliban leaders were killed during an operation in Dir. The Taliban and the TNSM suspended talks due to Dir. Sufi Mohammed went missing in Dir. Security forces have deployed on the highway in Shangla, Battagram, and Kohistan after armed attacks.
Afghanistan
Long road to Tarin Kowt
Afghanistan
(Afghanistan) Australian troops play down warlord’s role on crucial supply chain