Insurgents killed five civilians and security personnel and wounded 13 more during attacks in Touz Khormato, Baghdad, Babil, and Tal Afar. An insurgent was killed while planting a bomb in Amiriyah. Security forces detained 11 wanted men in Basrah and seven more in Baqubah. The US has shut down detainee operations at Camp Bucca.
Indonesia: Bali suspect killed in Java raid
Counterterrorism police killed wanted Jemaah Islamiyah and al Qaeda leader Mohammed Noordin Top and three of his aides during a raid in Central Java. In addition to Top, wanted terrorists Bagus Budi Pranoto, Ario Sudarso, and Hadi Susilo were also killed. The four men made up most of the senior leadership of the Tandzim al-Qaedat […]
The news that RA International, a security contracting firm working as a subcontractor to Armor Group, has been running a brothel in Kabul is sure to raise the temperature of the anti-contractor crowd. But the reality is that it has been well known that brothels are being run in Kabul. They are euphemistically referred to […]
A suicide bomber killed six Italian soldiers and 10 Afghan civilians in an attack near the US embassy in Kabul. The Taliban killed two British soldiers in separate attacks in Helmand on Sept. 16 and one civilian in a bombing in Khost.
Two people were killed and 15 more were wounded in a grenade attack at a carnival on Jolo island by suspected Abu Sayyaf terrorists. Ten Moro Islamic Liberation Front fighters surrendered to the military in Mindanao, handing over a variety of small arms and ammunition.
Three Muslim men were killed and seven others were wounded in four separate shootings and a roadside bomb attack in Narathiwat, Pattani, and Yala provinces. Despite violence in the southern provinces, economists predict that the Thai economy will dramatically recover and expand next year.
Police have confirmed that the elusive Noordin Mohammed Top has been killed along with three other terrorists during an assault on a safe house in Indonesia.
Iraq: Political parties looking towards 2010 elections
Somali rebels call for foreign reinforcements
Al Qaeda leaders Ilyas Kashmiri and Najmuddin Jalolov are thought to have been been killed during recent US airstrikes. The Pakistani Army captured a senior Swat Taliban commander and killed 11 fighters; eight more fighters were killed in Dera Ismail Khan, and six Taliban camps were destroyed in Hangu.
Insurgents killed seven Iraqi civilian and security personnel and wounded 15 more in attacks in Fallujah, Baqubah, Mosul, Baghdad, and near Kirkuk. Security forces detained two Ansar al Islam fighters in Erbil.
Security forces arrested 45 suspects thought to be involved with a plot to blow up the Burj Dubai, or Dubai Tower, the tallest building in the world. Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese were among those arrested. Iran is accused of being behind the plot.
Why the Taliban is gaining ground in Afghanistan
US military closes largest detention camp in Iraq
Ilyas Kashmiri and Najmuddin Jalolov are said to have been killed during the Sept. 14 airstrike in the village of Turikhel near the town of Mir Ali in Taliban-controlled North Waziristan. The report is unconfirmed.
Nabhan fires a rifle in a videotape produced by al Qaeda’s media arm. Image by Nick Grace. Click to view. Daniele Raineri, an Italian journalist who writes for Il Foglio and a friend of The Long War Journal, passed along a tip about the commando raid that resulted in the death of Saleh Ali Saleh […]
Diversion of funds: US sends team to Pakistan
EU election observers said more than 1.5 million of the estimated 6 million votes cast are “suspicious.” Security forces killed 20 Taliban fighters in Band-e-Sabzak and nine more in Kunduz. The Taliban killed three US soldiers in southern Afghanistan and a district police chief in Uruzgan.
Air force shoots down runaway drone over Afghanistan
Sher Mohammad Qasab is on the Pakistani government’s list of the 21 most-wanted in Swat; he commanded Taliban forces in the stronghold of Charbagh. Five of the top 21 are now in custody or are dead.
Presidents Obama and Sarkozy discussed Iran’s nuclear “compliance.” US Secretary of State Clinton stated that Iran must answer world’s concerns over its nuclear program. Tehran agreed to the new framework of agreements with the IAEA.
Six people were injured when a female suicide bomber detonated beside a law enforcement vehicle in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. Suicide bombings have been on the rise since Doku revived the Riyad us Saliheen martyr brigade in late April. They have sporadically increased since the start of Ramadan, following Doku’s speech in which he […]
Al Qaeda leader Mustafa Hamid has called for the Afghan Taliban to kidnap foreigners in response to the capture of al Qaeda members by the US and her allies. The edict was titled “The US Soldier in Afghanistan – the first step for the release of all prisoners of the war on terror.” Hamid said […]
Jahid Susukan, an Abu Sayyaf leader with a large bounty on his head, was arrested at the port of Zamboanga on Sept. 9 on suspicion of involvement in the kidnapping of 21 tourists at a resort in Malaysia in 2000. The government announced that it expected peace talks with MILF to resume after Ramadan.
Asia-Pacific importance increasing, commander says
Patriot Act provisions extended
US urged to exonerate Hicks
Pakistani Army to start operation in Waziristan: ISPR
Air Force on guard for terrorist plots against domestic drone bases