Afghanistan
US cool to surge in Afghanistan’s own force
Yearly Archives: 2009
Afghanistan
Obama issues order for more troops in Afghanistan
Iraq
Insurgents killed one policeman and a civilian in separate attacks in Mosul. Iraqi security forces detained four al Qaeda IED cell members near Baghdad and Kirkuk, three insurgents near Fallujah, and a woman who recruits and trains female suicide bombers in Baqubah.
Iraq
US – Logistics agency prepares to move ‘mountain™ from Iraq
Afghanistan
An Afghan policeman killed six other officers before being shot and killed by Afghan soldiers. The Taliban killed a British soldier in Helmand and wounded an Afghan soldier in Khost. The body of a US paratrooper who went missing on Nov. 4 has been found.
Pakistani military says Khyber operation successful
The commander of the Frontier Corps in Khyber said the Lashkar-e-Islam has been cleared from the Bara region.
Al Qaeda
Al-Qaeda still main threat to Europe: EU anti-terror czar
Afghanistan
US offers new role for Pakistan
Iran
A new US intelligence study revealed that Revolutionary Guards Corps will command Iranian naval forces in the Persian Gulf. Russia’s energy minister pledged a quick completion of Iran’s first nuclear power station contracted out to a Russian firm.
Mauritania
Three Spanish nationals have been kidnapped by suspected Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb gunmen; a fourth escaped the abductors. The Spanish nationals were traveling in a convoy from Nouakchott to Nouadhibou when armed men abducted them outside the town of Chelkhett Legtouta. The Spaniards are working for an NGO group called Barcelona-Accio.
Thailand
Malaysian Prime Minister Razak will travel to Thailand on Dec. 8-9 to meet with Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to observe development programs in the insurgency-plagued Narathiwat province and discuss the proposed grant of partial autonomy to the southern provinces. Abhisit visited Qatar last week, where he spoke of opportunitie for economic investment and development and […]
Iraq
Insurgents assassinated a member of the municipal council in western Baghdad and wounded two soldiers in a bombing in Diyala. Security forces detained five wanted men in Basrah, four al Qaeda operatives in northern Iraq and four more in Diyala, and the leader of the Promised Day Brigade in Amarah.
Afghanistan
Taliban propaganda watch: Omar on unity, threatening the West (maybe), and what he doesn’t say
Pakistan
Security forces killed 14 Taliban fighters during clashes in Kurram, Khyber, and South Waziristan. One soldier was injured during a Taliban attack on a Frontier Corps camp in South Waziristan. Police detained a member of the banned Khair-un-Nisa who provided weapons to terrorists in the city.
Caucasus
Two policemen found dead in Chechnya
Russia
Russian police issue description of train blast suspect
Iraq
Militia return to Basra and threaten those who helped force them out
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Time to bust the myth of the slumdog Islamists
Afghanistan
NATO has lost its way in Afghanistan, Army chief tells Muslims
Afghanistan
Gordon Brown announces timetable for Helmand handover to Afghan control
Afghanistan
Senate report explores 2001 escape by bin Laden from Afghan mountains
Caucasus
Russia claims it has won peace, but Chechen terrorism is defiantly back
Libya
Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed alMegrahi linked to Libya™s chemical weapons
Al Qaeda
Gordon Brown demands Pakistan ‘take out’ bin Laden
Switzerland
Swiss ban mosque minarets in surprise vote
Afghanistan
US aircraft killed 26 Haqqani Network fighters in Khost province. Afghan police killed two Taliban fighters in Faryab province. Afghan and Coalition forces killed one Taliban fighter and detained several more in Wardak and Kandahar provinces. The top German commander in RC-North returned to Germany for “medical treatment.”
Somalia
Pirates attacked a Spanish fishing vessel but private security guards aboard the ship drove them off with gunfire. Puntland Marines have joined the pirates, said Puntland former president Ade Muse Hershe. The top leader of Shabaab, Sheikh Mukhtar Abdirahman Abu Zubeyr, vowed more fighting against Somali government and AMISOM troops. Two clerics were killed by […]
Coalition casualty map masks wider picture of Afghan insurgency
The National Post printed a good graphic on Coalition casualties, by province, throughout Afghanistan, as well as some attack statistics. Some items of note: IED deaths, at more than 250, have increased by more than five times since 2006. The US, Canada, and Britain are shouldering the brunt of the casualties; 84.7% of the deaths […]
Iran
President Ahmedinejad announced Iran will build 10 new nuclear sites to enrich uranium. A top Iranian lawmaker said the country will not give up its “inalienable and legal right” to nuclear power. The parliament called for decreased cooperation with the IAEA.
US airstrikes kill 26 Haqqani Network fighters in eastern Afghanistan
Afghan border police called for help after a border police center came under attack in Khost.