Afghanistan
White House won’t rule out troops for Pakistan war
Yearly Archives: 2009
Philippines
Three MILF fighters and an Army solider were killed during a battle in Sultan Kudarat province in Mindanao. Thirty-three Filipino seamen were siezed by Pirates off Somalia during two separate hijackings.
Iraq
Security forces arrested 16 suspects in the murder of a cleric in Jalawlaa, 12 insurgents in Dalouiya, and two al Qaeda operatives southwest of Irbil. An Iraqi bomb squad defused six explosively formed penetrators in Al Kut. International oil companies seek to develop Iraq’s petroleum production as the security situation improves.
Afghanistan
Pakistan: Truck terminals directed not to store NATO supplies for night
Iran
Iran and NATO have held talks for the first time in more than 30 years. Iran will attend next week’s conference on Afghanistan. President Ahmadinejad told Syrian President Bashar Assad that Israel and the US were “weakening with God’s help” and “Iran and Syria are on their way to victory.”
Afghanistan
A new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
Afghanistan
New Afghan plan to target al Qaeda havens
Afghanistan
US defines its Afghan strategy
Afghanistan
New Afghan local force to guard against Taliban
Taliban suicide bomber kills 50, destroys mosque in Pakistan
A suicide bomber detonated in the middle of a mosque during Friday prayers. The Taliban is on pace to exceed the 2007 and 2008 yearly suicide attack totals.
Afghanistan
Blundering Afghan Suicide Bomber Blows Up Six Militants
Iraq
Militants claim deal struck to free Britons kidnapped in Iraq
Afghanistan
Pakistani and Afghan Taliban Unify in Face of US Influx
Pakistan
A US airstrike killed seven al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in North Waziristan. The Taliban took credit for a suicide attack that killed 11 anti-Taliban tribals in Jandola. Three people were wounded in a bombing outside a police station in Charsadda. The government warned the tribes in Bajaur that a military operation may be launched […]
Somalia
Somalia: Discord among Hizbul Islam faction
Somalia
The interior minister was injured in an IED attack in Mogadishu; his secretary was killed. Baidoa residents are protesting Shabaab’s decree banning khat. Hizbul Islam has begun to fracture due to disagreements within the group. Islamist leader Sheik Yusuf Inda™adde said Hizbul Islam leaders are making the mujahedeen fight for the leader’s personal gain.
Sudan
Unconfirmed reports indicate a convoy transporting weapons to Gaza was hit by either a US or Israeli airstrike. “A major power bombed small trucks carrying arms – burning all of them,” Sudan’s state minister for highways said. The attack supposedly took place in January; the US military denied involvement.
Pakistan
Are We at (Robot) War in Pakistan?
Pakistan
Swat Taliban find Sharia a challenge
Saudi Arabia
Fahad al Ruwaily, a leader of al Qaeda in Iraq and one of Saudi Arabia’s 85 most wanted, has turned himself in to authorities. Ruwaily operated inside Syria and provided terrorists with weapons and documents needed to enter Iraq.
Philippines
Pirates who kidnapped three school teachers in January turned over the hostages to Abu Sayyaf in Basilan province. The International Committee of the Red Cross appealed to the government to withdraw troops from Abu Sayyaf positions in order to ensure the safety of three captured Red Cross workers.
Taliban suicide bomber kills 11 pro-government tribesmen in Pakistan
Baitullah’s Mehsud’s Taliban movement took credit for today’s attack on a tribe that worked with the government to oppose the expansion of the Taliban.
Saudi Arabia
US claims Gulf donors fund Taliban fighters
Afghanistan
Iran to attend Hague Afghanistan conference: Dutch
Afghanistan
Number of students in Afghan schools continues to climb
Afghanistan
Nine policemen were killed and six more were wounded during Taliban attacks in Helmand and Ghazni provinces. Four Taliban fighters were killed near Kabul. Fifty Taliban fighters in Logar province surrendered to the government as part of a reconciliation agreement. A senior Taliban spokesman denied the group opposes polio immunization programs.
Iraq
IraqSlogger: Botched assassination leads to Qaeda in Iraq arrests
Iraq
Sixteen Iraqis were killed and 35 more were wounded in a car bomb attack in the Shaab neighborhood in Baghdad. Six civilians were wounded in bombings in Kirkuk and Babil. Iraqi security forces detained ten wanted men in Karbala and four more in Basrah, five members of a counterfeiting gang in Baqubah, and a Saudi […]
Pakistan
‘Mumbai terrorists’ say group will increase attacks on India
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Lashkar-e-Taiba took credit for the fighting in Kupwara and warned India of new atacks. “The gun battles should serve as a message to India that the struggle for Kashmir™s freedom is on with full vigour,” a Lashkar spokesman said. India’s Army chief said Lashkar still operates 40 to 50 camps in Kashmir and Pakistan.