Pakistan
Taliban consolidating grip in Buner
Yearly Archives: 2009
Pakistan
Clashes end lull in South Waziristan
Pakistan
Allied militants threaten Pakistan™s populous heart
Somalia
Somali militants fire at US lawmaker
Pakistan
Taliban using mosques as recruitment centres
Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, soldiers bridge 2 stages of war
Afghanistan
US troops to ramp up operations in S. Afghanistan
Afghanistan
US offers basic training to Afghan police
Afghanistan
Massive anti-polio campaign in Afghan restive regions
Pakistan
President Zardari signed the bill that implements sharia in the Malakand Division into law after Parliament voted in favor. The Taliban have taken full control of Buner and bombed a girls’ school in Bannu. Security forces detained Badshah Din, Baitullah Mehsud’s aide in Karachi, and killed a Taliban leader in Mohmand. Polio vaccinations were canceled […]
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces killed eight Taliban fighters in clashes in Logar and Wardak provinces. Up to eight Taliban fighters were killed in a US airstrike in Kunar province; locals say that six civilians were killed in the attack.
Iraq
Security forces detained 27 wanted men in Dhi Qhar, 17 in Basrah, and 17 more in Karbala. A US soldier was killed an an IED attack south of Karbala. Insurgents murdered a mayor of a district in Eastern Mosul.
Pakistan signs sharia bill into law
President Zardari signs the Nizam-e-Adl regulation after a majority of parliament voted in favor of the legislation. The Taliban threatened violence if the law was not passed and said any member of parliament who refused to sign the bill was a non-Muslim.
Philippines
Abu Sayyaf militants beheaded one of two hostages captured last week on Basilan island. Abu Sayyaf continues to hold seven hostages in Basilan and two Red Cross workers hostage on Jolo island. The military announced the surrender of forty MILF fighters along with an arsenal of rocket-propelled grenades in Lanao del Norte.
Al Qaeda’s Shadow Army commander outlines Afghan strategy
LWJ exclusive: Abdullah Said, the new leader of al Qaeda’s paramilitary organization, explained his plan to defeat the Coalition in Afghanistan.
Taliban assassins gun down female provincial council member
Assassins shot dead Sitara Achekzai, a proclaimed champion of women’s rights, during a broad daylight shooting outside her home in southern Kandahar. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the shooting.
Pakistan
Taliban recruit followers, extend patrols in Buner
Pakistan
Security forces detained 513 people during sweeps in Islamabad and 18 more in Mianwali. The Taliban killed one security guard and destroyed 10 NATO transport trucks in Peshawar. The government released five Taliban fighters in Swat. The TNSM said members of parliament would be declared non-Muslims if they voted against the sharia regulations.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s new militias
Somalia
Somalia: Cargo ship captain is rescued
Somalia
Captain jumps overboard, SEALs shoot pirates, official says
Somalia
Somalia: Cargo ship captain is rescued
Pakistan
Ten Nato supply containers torched in Peshawar
Pakistan
Ghost in the terror machine
Al Qaeda operative Rashid Rauf survived US strike
Intelligence officials claimed Rauf was killed in a Nov. 2008 Predator strike in North Waziristan. Rauf is now thought to have directed the failed plots to attack major European cities, including bombings in England during Easter Weekend.
Al Qaeda
One of the 12 suspects arrested by the British police over a “very big terrorist plot” linked to al-Qaeda has been released as police quizzed the remaining 11 detainees, most of them Pakistanis. Police arrested 28 suspected members of the al-Qaeda terror network during simultaneous raids Thursday (April 9th) in the central Turkish province of […]
Iraq
Iraq Sunni anti-Qaeda leader eyes Shi’ite alliance
Iran
Iran president dismisses demand to halt atom work: report
Somalia
Warships track US hostage floating to Somalia