Pakistan
Forty-six people were killed in targeted killings in Karachi over the past four days. The Taliban killed two tribal elders in Mohmand and attacked a NATO supply truck in Khuzdar. A politician escaped an assassination attempt in Peshawar.
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Pakistan
Action likely in Pakistan’s North Waziristan, say US senators
Iran’s PressTV distorts LWJ reporting on Pakistan strikes
The Long War Journal’s reporting on the covert US air campaign in Pakistan has been widely cited in the media. Here is one cite we’d like to take back. Iran’s PressTV has completely distorted the The Long War Journal’s data on the Paksitan air campaign in this report. Here is what PressTV claims: The Long […]
Iran
Petraeus: US has plan to deal with Iran’s nuclear program
Marines confident on Marja
Marines and sailors with Company L, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, patrol the area outside Now Zad, Afghanistan, with members of the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police. Photo by Corporal Zachary Nola. The US Marine Corps is telegraphing its next punch in Helmand province. After encountering success in securing much of southern and […]
Statement from Kunar-based Salafi Group on joining Taliban
Last week, the “Salafi Group,” a Taliban group based in Kunar, conducted an interview with Al Jazeera in which the group declared allegiance to Mullah Omar and the Afghan Taliban, and the group also released a propaganda tape showing the destruction of a US MRAP on a road in the province (the video from Al […]
Yemen
President Ali Abdullah Saleh said he would open negotiations with al Qaeda operatives who are willing to lay down their weapons. “Dialogue is the best way … even with al Qaeda, if they set aside their weapons and return to reason,” Saleh said.
Al Qaeda
Al-Qaeda veterans ‘are flooding into Yemen’
United States
Chairman calls strategy year™s greatest challenge
Pakistan
Wave of political killings hits southern Pakistan
Malaysia
In Malaysia, uproar grows over use of word ‘Allah™
Al Qaeda
Al-Qaeda has a new strategy. Obama needs one, too.
Pakistan
Petraeus: ‘Pak-Afghan border most important war locale™
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed a British journalist, a US Marine, and an Afghan soldier in an IED attack in Helmand and three aid workers in an IED attack in Uruzgan. Afghan and US forces killed a Taliban commander and detained an undisclosed number of Taliban and Haqqani Network facilitators and fighters in Kandahar and Khost. The […]
Russia
Russia claimed it killed two senior Caucasus Emirate leaders during raids in Dagestan. Marat Kurbanov, the Emir of Dagestan, was killed with two other fighters near the the village of Shamkhal. Madrid Begov, a former police commando, was killed in the capital of Makhachkala.
Algeria
Ten Islamic fighters have been killed by Algerian security forces after a tip-off led to the authorities intercepting their vehicles in a rural region near the village of Slim. A “large quantity” of weapons was seized from the vehicles. Security officials state that 30 Islamists have been killed over the last month.
Pakistan
Pakistan – ‘Fazlullah will not surrender until Sharia implemented’
Pakistan
The US killed four Taliban fighters in a strike in North Waziristan. Security forces killed five Taliban fighters in Arakzai and detained 50 more in Kohat and Darra Adam Khel. The Taliban wounded seven policemen in a suicide attack in Peshawar.
Somalia
The African Union extended the mandate for the Somalia peacekeeping mission by six months. World Food Program workers suspended operations in the South after threats by Shabaab. Somaliland forces thwarted bombings at mosques in Hargeisa.
US airstrike kills 4 Taliban fighters in North Waziristan
The strike targeted a training center in a region run by Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadar. Today’s strike is the fifth this year and the sixth in 10 days.
Afghanistan
How this suicide bomber opened a new front in Al Qaeda™s war
Iraq
Iraq mulls banning parties linked to Saddam
Iran
US shifts Iran focus to support opposition
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Abu Sayyaf member arrested in Basilan
United Kingdom
Jihadists groom children in the UK under 10
Al Qaeda
The terrorist mind: An update
Afghanistan
Afghans losing hope after 8 years of war
Iraq
US forces reportedly killed four insurgents near Mosul on Jan. 8. Two insurgents were killed in a mortar misfire in Mosul. Security forces detained nine wanted men in Basrah and Amarah.
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda – ‘Head office has gone missing’
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed a policeman and four civilians in attacks in Kandahar, Kabul, and Kunduz. Two Coalition soldiers were killed on Friday and another was killed today. Afghan and Coalition forces detained a Taliban facilitator in Nangarhar.