A US airstrike killed four Haqqani Network fighters in North Waziristan. Pakistani airstrikes killed 24 Taliban fighters in Arakzai, Hangu, and Bajaur. Security forces killed six Taliban fighters in South Waziristan and detained 13 terrorists in Punjab, 10 Taliban fighters in Mohmand and Swat, and an al Qaeda operative in Quetta.
The shooting of Luqman Abdullah
Concern mounts as US bears costs of Afghan war while China reaps the profits
Afghan village armies fight Taliban
Luqman Ameen Abdullah. Photo from the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Fox News. In October, a shootout at a warehouse in Dearborn, Mich., claimed the life of Luqman Abdullah, the imam of Detroit’s Masjid al-Haqq, and in the process garnered national attention. Abdullah had been a Detroit representative to al-Ummah, which a criminal complaint filed […]
The US airstrikes in Pakistan have tapered off in the past three months.
US ‘to miss Guantanamo deadline’
Iraq’s Sunni vice president has vetoed parts of the election reform law while Kurdish groups signaled they may boycott the 2010 election if they are not given more seats. Security forces detained 10 wanted men in Basrah, nine insurgents in Baghdad, Najaf, and Diyala and seven more in Fallujah, and two Iranians in Khanaqin. Al […]
Hamas-linked group offers cash for Israeli soldier capture
Four people were killed after Shabaab attacked government troops in Mogadishu. Shabaab stoned to death a woman in the Bakool region. The captain of a chemical tanker hijacked this week has died from gunshot wounds. Pirates attacked the US-flagged Maersk Alabama for the second time in seven months and were thwarted by private guards.
Ansar al Awlaki (left), and Major Nidal Hasan (right). As more clues emerge and investigations continue in the Fort Hood shootings, the debate rages as to what Major Nidal Hasan’s motives were. The facts that are already known, however, seem to paint a pretty clear picture of how these events unfolded, and what Hasan’s intentions […]
Afghan and Coalition forces killed 23 Taliban fighters in the Barmal district in Paktika province; Arab and Pakistani fighters were among those killed. Afghanistan was ranked the second most corrupt nation in the world by Transparency International. Slovakia will send an additional 250 troops.
Major General Athar Abbas, the Director General of Inter Services Public Relations. Here is a very bad sign that the Pakistani Army views the very narrow offensive against the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan in South Waziristan as sufficient to defeat the Taliban. Major General Athar Abbas, the top military spokesman, in Reuters: ‘You […]
Foreign Minister Mottaki suggested a “simultaneous swap” of nuclear material for nuclear fuel. Iran’s chief of staff warned Saudi Arabia over its military offensive against Shiite Yemeni rebels. Tehran sentenced five post-election protesters to death.
Afghan troops killed 23 Haqqani Network fighters during a clash in the Barmal district. Arab and Pakistani fighters were reported killed in the battle.
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Pirates again attack US-flagged Maersk Alabama
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Iraq’s Sunni VP rejects parts of election law
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Twenty-eight Abu Sayyaf members were charged with the abduction of three factory workers in Basilan province last week. The victims, which include two Chinese nationals, are still being held captive by Abu Sayyaf in Basilan province; security forces have been deployed to search for their whereabouts. Father Michael Sinnot, who was freed from Abu Sayyaf […]
A force of 200 Thai police and soldiers surrounded a house in Pattani province, laying siege to insurgents inside. In an intense 20-minute battle, six insurgents were killed and two police officers were wounded. Authorities were able to breach and secure the house.
The military killed four Taliban fighters and a commander in Swat. Police detained three suicide bombers in Quetta. The Taliban bombed a girls’ school in Khyber. Mullah Fazullah said he is in Afghanistan.
Five civilians were killed after Shabaab attacked government troops in Mogadishu. The death toll of the battle between Shabaab and Hizbul Islam forces in Hagar reached 15. “Shabaab is our number one foe”, said Sheikh Abdi Nasser Serar, the foreign affairs chairman of Hizbul Islam. Pirates freed a Spanish ship after a $3.5 million ransom […]
Iraqi security forces detained 19 wanted men in Basrah, nine al Qaeda car bomb cell members in Baghdad, Kirkuk, and Diyala, and two insurgents south of Baghdad, and defused an EFP in Thi Qhar. Insurgents killed an Awakening leader in Diyala and wounded six Iraqis in attacks in Fallujah and Kirkuk.
Afghan and Coalition forces killed nine Taliban fighters and two commanders and detained 23 more during operations in Wardak and Kunduz provinces. The Taliban killed 10 Afghans in yesterday’s attack in Kapisa and four construction workers in Kunduz, and beheaded two civilians in Farah.
Fort Hood slayings prompt full Pentagon review