Somalia
In Somalia, a new template for fighting terrorism
Yearly Archives: 2009
Afghanistan
A variety of sources feed into Taliban™s war chest
Afghanistan
Afghan troop decision tied to election
Al Qaeda
Flow of terrorist recruits increasing
India
Pakistan’s ISI trying to revive militancy in Indian Punjab
David Rohde: Taliban no longer ‘Al Qaeda lite’
Click to view slide show of the Haqqani Network. Pictured is a composite image of Siraj Haqqani. New York Times reporter David Rohde writes about his kidnapping by the Haqqani Network and seven-month captivity. Rohde tells us three things that longtime readers of The Long War Journal and more recently Threat Matrix already know: 1) […]
Pakistan
The military claimed 60 Taliban fighters and five soldiers were killed in the first day of operations in South Waziristan; the Taliban denied the claim and launched a fundraising campaign. Security forces detained 113 suspected Taliban fighters and extremists in Rawalpindi, Mardan, Swat, and Dera Ghazi Khan. The Taliban wounded two drivers in an attack […]
Iran
Jundallah attacked a meeting between Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps leaders and tribal leaders in Sistan-Baluchistan province, and a IRGC convoy, killing 28 officers and civilians. Brigadier General Nour Ali Shoushtari, the deputy commander for the IRGC’s ground forces, and Brigadier Rajab Ali Mohammadzadeh, the IRGC’s provincial commander for Sistan-Baluchistan, were killed in the attack.
Pakistan
Taliban fighters resist Pakistani assault
Somalia
Somali police intelligence has confirmed that Shabaab sent “42 men armed with pistols” to government-controlled regions in Mogadishu to commit targeted killings. “Eritrea should be punished with severe sanctions for threatening the Horn of Africa region by supporting Somali rebels,” Somalia’s foreign affairs minister said.
Iraq
Security forces detained 17 wanted men in Basrah; seven insurgents, including a car bomb cell leader, in Baghdad and Mosul; and one insurgent in Huweija. One Iraqi was killed in a bombing north of Hillah and another was killed in a bombing in Baghdad.
Afghanistan
Afghan and Coalition forces killed 8 Taliban fighters in Uruzgan province and killed six more in Badghis province. Police detained three Taliban sub-commanders in Baghlan province. The Taliban killed one US soldier in an IED attack in southern Afghanistan.
Jundallah kills senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commanders
The anti-Iranian regime resistance group claimed responsibility for killing 29 Iranians, including two brigadier generals in the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps and tribal leaders in the southeast.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Security blunder
Security requirements and extended US involvement in Iraq
An Iraqi Air Force Mi-17 helicopter takes off from Landing Zone Washington, in Baghdad’s International Zone, during the first night flight outside the air base at Taji since the new Iraqi Air Force was formed. Photo by William Lovelady, Multi-National Security Transition Command – Iraq Public Affairs. I’ve argued that beyond the political patina of […]
Afghanistan
76 days since request for more troops, Obama accused of stalling
Pakistan
The military has started the South Waziristan offensive and claimed to have taken control of two towns; 30 Taliban fighters and 12 soldiers have been reported killed. Security forces killed 12 Taliban fighters in Mohmand and Bajaur, and detained 35 Hizb-ut-Tahir members in Islamabad and a suicide vest maker in Multan. The Punjab government, fearing […]
Pakistan
Pakistan rounds on Taliban enemy within
Pakistan
Pakistan – 35 held activists of banned outfit booked under ATA
Philippines
Abu Sayyaf bombed a bridge in the town of Talipao on Jolo island, causing minor damage. Abu Sayyaf has stepped up attacks on infrastructure, targeting another bridge and a telecommunications cell site earlier in the week.
Al Qaeda
Afghanistan – Held by the Taliban: 7 Months, 10 days in captivity
Pakistan
Doubts that delayed Waziristan attack
Pakistan
Pakistan launches Taliban assault
Iraq
The US has canceled the deployment of a brigade destined for Iraq. Insurgents killed three policemen in Fallujah, a policeman and a civilian in Mosul, and two civilians in Baghdad, and destroyed a bridge with a car bomb in Ramadi. Two insurgents died during a premature detonation in Kirkuk.
Afghanistan
More than 20 Taliban fighters were killed during a NATO airstrike in Paktika province. The Taliban killed three US soldiers and wounded eight Afghan policemen in IED attacks in southern and eastern Afghanistan. Thirteen criminals escaped from a jail in Balhk.
Pakistan launches South Waziristan operation
At this early stage of the operation, 12 soldiers have been killed in IED attacks and gunbattles, and 11 Taliban fighters have been killed in airstrikes.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Four soldiers killed, 12 injured in South Waziristan operation
Somalia
Shabaab slaughtered a man in Mogadishu™s Bakara market and killed a police officer in Mogadishu. Shabaab rewarded the 17-year-old winner of a Koran recital in Kismayo with an AK-47 gun, two hand grenades, an anti-tank mine, and a computer. A UN agency is investigating three Somali businessmen based in Kenya on suspicion of diverting food […]
Al Qaeda
Pak troops begin ground offensive in Waziristan
Analysis: What lies ahead in Waziristan
The military is set to take on the Taliban in South Waziristan, where the military has failed four times in the past. The operation will pit the Army and Frontier Corps against the Taliban’s best fighters on terrain the Taliban have owned for years.