Taliban violate Swat truce, kill two soldiers
The military failed to respond to ambush. President Zardari claimed talks are being held with ‘traditional local clerics’ and not the Taliban.
Yearly Archives: 2009
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Indian and US investigators determined the identity of two of the Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives involved in the Mumbai attacks. Abu Al Qama, LeT’s operations chief in India, is Mazhar Iqbal; Zarar Shah, the trainer of the assault team, is Abdul Wajid. LeT had plans to set up an operational base in Colaba in South Mumbai.
Pakistan
President Zardari: Pakistan is steadfast against terror
Pakistan
Pakistan: Lahore attack fuels a nation’s unravelling
Pakistan
A terrorist assault team attacked a convoy transporting the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore. Six police and one civilian were killed, and seven cricketers and 11 policemen were wounded; the attackers escaped. Sixty suspects are being questioned. Sufi Mohammed threatened to end negotiations in Swat, where the Taliban killed two soldiers. Five Shia were […]
Somalia
Hizbul Islam, a coalition of Islamists groups fighting the Somali government forces and African Union peacekeepers, has rejected a ceasefire offer from President Ahmed. “We will attack the enemy and their stooges anytime we want,” the spokesman for Hizbul Islam said.
Iraq
AP count: Iraqi deaths hover near lowest level
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait: Security stepped up at Saudi embassy amid attack fears
Iraq
Key Iraq training units still being developed
Algeria
Security forces killed 16 al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb during a weekend raid on an enemy base in the town of Bilda, about 50 miles south of the capital of Algiers. The raid was launched based on intelligence information gathered from a cell that was disrupted earlier last week.
Pakistan
Pakistan: Indian expert blames local militants for Lahore attacks
Philippines
One day after Philippine President Macapagal-Arroyo announced the intention to resume peace negotiations with the Moro Islamic Front (MILF), intense fighting erupted between the Army and the MILF on the island of Mindanao. Two Filipino soldiers were wounded, along with an undetermined number of insurgent causalities.
Afghanistan
Govt writ in Kandahar limited to three districts: Wafa
Iraq
Iraqi security forces detained 14 wanted men in Sulaimaniya, six in Basrah, five in Baqubah, and four more in Kirkuk. A policeman was killed in Al Kut. The number of detainees in Coalition custody dropped below 14,000.
Iran
The US Treasury Department designated 11 companies under Executive Order 13382 as Weapons of Mass Destruction proliferators and froze their assets for their ties to Iran’s Bank Melli. The US, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and China have committed to ‘direct diplomacy’ with Iran over its nuclear program.
Pakistan
Pakistani terrorists assault Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore
A 12-man squad hit the cricket team as it traveled to a stadium in the eastern city. Five policemen and two civilians were killed; seven Sri Lankan cricketers and 11 security personnel were wounded.
Yemen: New terror camps as a city falls to jihadists
Al Qaeda-linked terror groups establish new training camps throughout the county as an Islamic Emirate is declared in the city of Jahr.
Iraq
In Arab Jabour, troops step aside, serve as ‘enablers™ for the Iraqis
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Navy releases 9 suspected pirates, citing lack of evidence
Philippines
Philippines: 2 wounded in fierce battle between Army, MILF
Afghanistan
Iran boosts Taliban’s artillery
Algeria
Leaders of Arab nomads and Touareg tribes in northern Mali and Niger have called on al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb leader to release the 6 Western hostages immediately, without ransom, and threatened to declare war if the hostages are not released. The terror group’s spokesman reportedly wants to take an amnesty offer. The interior […]
Somalia
Somali ministers under the former Transitional Federal Government (TFG) handed over official documents to the new ministers of the unity government Monday at a ceremony in the capital, Mogadishu.
Saudi Arabia
A religious scholar in the employ of the state issued a fatwa for the prosecution of a royal prince and a Saudi businessman for owning TV channels that broadcast movies. Six months ago the former head of the kingdom™s highest tribunal said it was legal to kill the owners of satellite TV stations that broadcast […]
Pakistan
Swat peace deal is Pakistan™s internal matter: NATO secretary general
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed six in an attack in a madrassa in the Pishin district in Baluchistan. The Taliban attacked a police checkpoint in Peshawar and mortared a security forces outpost in North Waziristan. The Swat Taliban released a Frontier Corps officer and five of his men. Al Qaeda threatened to attack Saudi businesses and […]
Iraq
Iraq Court to sentence MP Mohammed Al Daini in abstentia
Pakistan
Pakistan: Five killed after suicide blast
Afghanistan
NATO may ask China for help with establishing a new supply route into Afghanistan. The UN said it would be nearly impossible to hold elections in April. An explosion that killed three Afghan children in Kandahar was caused by old munitions left by the Taliban and not Canadian troops.