Iran
Iran: Blast hits mosque in southeast
Yearly Archives: 2009
Iraq
Volatile Anbar province a test of Iraq’s future
Pakistan
The Taliban get their first wish
Pakistan
Pakistan lends support for US military strikes
Afghanistan
Afghans turn new page as US sends more troops
Pakistan
Cleric leads ‘peace march’ through Pakistan’s Swat
Pakistan
Pakistan: ‘Democracy is a system of Kufr™: Sufi Mohammad
Pakistan
Sufi Mohammed said he hates democracy and said Afghanistan’s Taliban government was an “ideal example for other Muslim countries.” Four civilians were killed and 18 were wounded in a bombing in Peshawar. Six Taliban were killed in Bajaur and three were captured in Lahore. The Taliban ordered CD and barber shops in Charsadda to close.
Pakistan
Pakistan-Taliban peace deal shocks and worries West
Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s perilous roads: Allies struggle to find safer supply routes
Afghanistan
Mini-surge to test out US strategy in Afghanistan
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Ten Years After Terror’s Arrival In Central Asia
Senior insurgent commander in Herat thought killed in strike
Ghulam Yahya Akbari, the “Tajik Taliban,” was reported killed with an estimated fifteen of his followers. Akbari was once an ally of the Karzai regime and served as a provincial minister in Herat.
Afghanistan
Obama OKs 17,000 more US troops for Afghanistan
Pakistan
US privately backs Pakistan’s ‘sharia law for peace’ deal with Taliban
Afghanistan
Coalition forces killed a Hezb-e-Islam Gulbuddin commander and other Taliban commanders near Gozara district in Herat province. Afghan Army commandos killed five Taliban fighters in Farah province. Afghan and US forces detained two Taliban fighters in Khost province. US troops on patrol in Kandahar province accidentally killed two civilians after their vehicle failed to heed […]
Pakistan
Taliban threats reach from a Pakistan valley to New York
Iraq
Three policemen were killed and seven were wounded in a bombing in Diyala. Two civilians were killed, and one soldier and one policeman were wounded in attacks in Mosul. Iraqi forces detained 18 wanted men in Diyala and 16 in Baghdad. The transfer of the Sons of Iraq to Iraqi control is nearly complete.
Saudi Arabia
Mohammed al Awfi, a leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, surrendered to the Yemeni government, who transferred him to Saudi Arabia. Awfi was a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison facility and recently appeared on an al Qaeda videotape.
Afghanistan
Mobilizing Afghan militias: Civil defense forces vs. ‘tribal militias’
Algeria
Eight soldiers were killed in two separate attacks: five were killed in a roadside bomb attack in Stah Aftis near the border town of Tebessa, and three were killed during a shootout in Bordj Menail in Boumerdes.
Pakistan
Pakistan: Australia welcomes Swat deal, urges political dialogue
Pakistan
Shariah zone: One solution for Pakistan?
Pakistan
A US strike in Kurram killed 30 Taliban fighters. The Army, Prime Minister Gilani, the Tehrik-e-Taliban, and the TNSM endorsed the Swat peace agreement; President Zardari will not endorse it until peace is restored. Punjab province may seal its borders to the Northwest Frontier Province and Baluchistan after recent attacks. Five Taliban fighters were killed […]
Afghanistan
Entrenched Al-Qaeda
Somalia
A government official threatened to attack Islamist forces in the Gedo region. Somali police are preparing to re-occupy police stations in Mogadishu. British Muslims are joining Shabaab in Somalia. Ethiopian troops detained a Somali member of parliament.
Pakistan
Pakistan to impose Islamic law in restive Swat Valley
Afghanistan
Mullah Dastagir, the Taliban’s shadow governor for Badghis province, and eight other Taliban leaders and fighters, were killed in a US airstrike. A NATO solider was killed in an indirect fire attack in eastern Afghanistan. Eight civilians were killed in separate IED attacks in Kunar and Kandahar province.
Afghanistan
Taliban commander™s death ends an Afghan embarrassment
Iraq
Iraqi forces detained 15 wanted men in Kirkuk, eight wanted men in Wasit, seven in Thi Qhar, five al Qaeda fighters in Diyala and a leader in Fallujah who recently returned from Syria. An Iraqi soldier was killed in a bombing in Mosul and six policemen were wounded in an IED attack in Mandali. Three […]