Somalia
Somali pirates free 36 hostages, claim $3M ransom
Yearly Archives: 2009
India
Headley probe: Links with Kasab & Co now NIA focus: India
Iraq
Sunni politician, 12 others killed execution-style near Baghdad
United States
National intelligence director to evaluate CIA missions
Mullah Fazlullah, in Afghanistan, vows to relaunch Swat insurgency
Wanted flyer for Swat Taliban leaders. Fazlullah is in the top right. Mullah Fazlullah, the leader of the Swat Taliban, has surfaced in Afghanistan and has threatened to reignite the insurgency in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. From BBC: “I have reached Afghanistan safely,” Maulana Fazlullah told BBC Urdu. “We are soon going to launch full-fledged punitive […]
Pakistan
Militants change tack in Pakistan
Pakistani military hits Taliban in Arakzai
Taliban leaders from South Waziristan have regrouped in Arakzai to continue their terror offensive against the Pakistani state.
Iran
An IAEA report suspected that there are additional nuclear facilities hidden in Iran. President Obama warned Iran that there are “consequences” for their lack of cooperation with the IAEA. Iran extended trade cooperation with Tajikistan.
Mali
New realities for ancient Timbuktu
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Taliban on motorcycles prove no match for US helicopters
Iran
UN: Once-secret Iran nuclear site to start in 2011
Kashmir
Terrorists killed a deputy inspector general from India’s Border Security Force and wounded three officers in an IED attack as he was inspecting the Samba region at the border. Two soldiers and a terrorist were killed in a gun battle in the Keran region.
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed four Pakistanis in an attack in Peshawar. Security forces killed 18 Taliban fighters in airstrikes in Arakzai and five more in Swat. A Taliban deputy confessed to executing a Polish engineer earlier this year.
Somalia
Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, Hizbul Islam’s top leader, reportedly submitted conditions for his defection to the Somali government to the president of Libya. At least six people were killed after the forces of Sheik Ahmed Modobe, a warlord affiliated with Hizbul Islam, attacked Shabaab in Hagar village in southern Somalia. Ethiopian troops left their main […]
Iraq
Insurgents executed 13 civilians in Abu Ghraib and killed nine more in bombings in Baghdad and Kirkuk. Two Iraqi soldiers were also killed in Baghdad. Security forces detained 14 wanted men in Basrah, six insurgents in Diyala and Salahadin, and four Special Groups operatives in Al Kut. Iraqi border guards seized large quantities of Iranian […]
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed 11 civilians in an IED attack in Helmand; eight policemen during an attack on a checkpoint in Kandahar; four civilians, including three children, in a mortar attack on a market in Kapisa; and a woman and a child in a bombing at a clinic in Herat. Coalition and Afghan troops detained “several” […]
Pakistan
Taliban under fire from Pakistan™s faithful
Pakistan
Pakistan Taliban taps Punjab heartland for recruits
India
India – Headley terror probe: Nuclear installations on high alert
Afghanistan
US asks more from Pakistan in terror war
Iran
The US and Russia agreed to push Iran on its nuclear program. The IAEA issued its latest report on the status of Iran’s nuclear program. President Ahmadinejad said that his country’s right to nuclear energy is non-negotiable.
Suicide bomber kills four in Peshawar
The attack took place near a police station and leveled a mosque. Another political leader was assassinated in the northwest.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Peshawar blast kills 4
Pakistan
Pakistan – Police return to former Taliban haven
Afghanistan
US to give Afghanistan 20 transport planes
Irish jihadi operates in Swat and Rawalpindi
The Sunday Times has an interesting and disturbing story of an Irishman who converted to Islam while in a Saudi jail and has left the UK to become a jihadi. Khalid Kelly, as he is now known, is of course training in Pakistan. Interestingly enough, he’s in the Swat Valley: After a period underground, Kelly […]
Afghanistan
French, Afghan troops push into hostile valley
Iran
Obama presses Iran on atomic deal, Tehran defiant
Philippines
Three MILF members were charged with kidnapping Irish priest Michael Sinnot, who was released from captivity on Nov. 12. MILF released a statement supporting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s appeal that the Philippine government should strike a peace deal with the group before President Arroyo leaves office in 2010.
Thailand
A bomb hidden in a motorcycle in Narathiwat exploded while a military truck filled with troops passed by, killing a soldier and wounding six others, including a civilian. The device contained approximately five kilograms of explosives and was activated with a mobile phone. Three civilians were killed in attacks in Yala and Narathiwat provinces.