Pakistan
US plans new drone attacks in Pakistan
Yearly Archives: 2009
Afghanistan
Saving Afghanistan
Latest US strike targets al Qaeda safehouse in North Waziristan
The second airstrike in 24 hours killed five Taliban and al Qaeda operatives. The attack took place outside of Mir Ali in North Waziristan, where Abu Kasha al Iraqi operates.
Pakistan
Taliban set for war against India from Pakistani soil
Pakistan
A US airstrike in South Waziristan killed eight Taliban and al Qaeda fighters. The US State Department put $5 million bounties out for Baitullah Mehsud and Siraj Haqqani. The Taliban have taken control of emerald mines in Swat. Police say they arrested the cell leader of this week’s suicide bombing in Islamabad.
Afghanistan
Further military commitment in Afghanistan may be toughest sell yet
Afghanistan
Ten Afghan civilians were killed and six more were wounded in a roadside bomb attack that targeted their minibus in Khost province. Three Australian soldiers were wounded in an IED attack in Uruzgan province. A civilian cargo plane made a hard landing at an ISAF base in Paktika province.
Pakistan
Pakistan militants strengthen in heartland
Pakistan
Officials lay out details of how Pakistan™s spy agency supports militant groups
Iraq
US: Attacks rise south of Baghdad, fall nationwide
US places bounty on senior Taliban and al Qaeda leaders
The Department of State has offered a $5 million reward for information leading to the capture of Baitullah Mehsud and Sirajuddin Haqqani, and a $1 million bounty on Abu Yahya al Libi.
US airstrike kills 8 in Baitullah Mehsud’s hometown
The first attack inside Pakistan since March 15 killed eight “foreigners” in South Waziristan.
Iraq
Three children were killed and one was wounded in an IED attack in Baghdad. Iraqi security forces detained 20 wanted men in Baghdad, 10 in Basra, four in Amarah, and three more in Wasit. The Turkish Army hit PKK positions with artillery in border villages near Zakho.
Pakistan
US weighs Sharif as partner in Pakistan
Britain seeks release of the Guantanamo ‘professor’
British officials are once again seeking the release of a Guantanamo detainee named Shaker Aamer. US intelligence officials think that Aamer is a long-time jihadist and a member of al Qaeda who traveled to the US to meet with al Qaeda cells in 1998 and 2000.
Thailand
The army deployed hundreds of soldiers and police to pursue key insurgent leader Masoleh Dellamah and several of his followers in the jungle near the outskirts of Pattani. Dellamah is a skilled bombmaker and was behind the recent murder of a policeman.
Philippines
Abu Sayyaf threatened to behead one of three Red Cross hostages if the military did not withdraw troops from part of Jolo Island. The commanding general of the Army visited soldiers in western Mindanao to boost morale.
The Afghan Public Protection Force pilot program is underway
Afghanistan’s Ministry of the Interior has begun to train and field the Afghan Public Protection Force, the local tribal security forces that officials hope will tame the rising insurgency.
Bangladesh
Police arrested Maulana Sheikh Abdus Salam, a founder of the Harkat-ul-Jihad al Islami and the leader of the Islamic Democratic Party, for links to a bombing in 2001 that killed five people. The Rapid Action Battalion raided the Green Crescent Madrassa; two Islamist fighters were detained and a large cache of weapons and explosives was […]
Pakistan
Sufi Mohammed threatened to scuttle the Malakand Accord. Jaish-e-Mohammed continues to operate madrassas in Bahawalpur despite the group’s being banned. The Taliban in Waziristan said the cell phone service being set up will be used to to spy on them. A tribal lashkar in Bajaur freed six Taliban fighters.
Al Qaeda-trained Britons return from Pakistan
More than 20 Britons have trained in al Qaeda camps inside Pakistan and are thought to be returning to Britain.
Sudan
Ayman al Zawahiri told the Sudanese people to prepare for “a long guerrilla war” with the “crusaders” and called on President Omar al Bashir to “repent” for shunning jihad. “So will the Bashir regime take the path of Islam and jihad and abandon the political maneuvers, diplomatic ruses and international smooth-talking, which has not — […]
Iraq
A policeman was killed in Mosul. Three civilians were wounded in a bombing in Baghdad. Security forces detained 13 wanted men in Baghdad and two more in Maysan, six al Qaeda fighters in Diyala, and four members of the Soldiers of Heaven cult in Hillah. Police arrested four suspects in yesterday’s deadly suicide bombing in […]
Kashmir
Seventeen terrorists and eight Indian troops, including a major, were killed during five days of fighting in Jammu and Kashmir™s Kupwara district. The army claimed that a large group of heavily armed fighters have been surrounded in the Shamswari forest.
Somalia
Two Somalis were killed during rioting that broke out in Bossaso after a cleric named Sheikh Osman was detained by security forces. Uganda has deployed an additional 300 troops to Somalia. An Islamist leader claimed this deployment and others totaling up to 1,820 new soldiers were made “secretly.”
Afghanistan
A bombing at a mosque in Uruzgan province killed a prayer leader. Afghan troops killed six Taliban fighters in Helmand province. US troops accidentally killed a civilian in an escalation of force incident in Logar province. Poland will send an additional 400 troops to Afghanistan.
Pakistan
Pakistan: India involved in attack against Sri Lankan cricket team, report claims
Hezbollah
Hezbollah spends millions to rebuild stronghold
Iraq
Kurdish rebels: We won’t stop fighting in Iraq
Philippines
Under intense public criticism, the military halted operations against Abu Sayyaf hostage-takers on Jolo Island after a week-long offensive aimed at freeing three Red Cross hostages failed. A senator asked other politicians to stay out of negotiations for the release of the hostages.