Monthly Archives: January 2010

Pakistan

| January 30, 2010

A suicide bomber killed 17 Pakistanis at a checkpoint in Bajaur. The military killed seven Taliban fighters in Bajaur and detained 10 Taliban fighters in South Waziristan. The Taliban murdered two men for “spying for US forces” in North Waziristan.

Iran

| January 30, 2010

Iran is prosecuting 16 protesters; five of them have been charged with “waging war against God” and being “corrupt on earth.” The US is accelerating the deployment of missile defenses in the Persian Gulf. The chairman of the Expediency Council said Iran’s nuclear progress “is irreversible and we won’t retreat.”

Yemen

| January 30, 2010

Security forces detained a suicide bomber at a checkpoint. The bomber is thought to have been en route to conduct an attack in the port city of Mukalla. The leader of the northern Houthi rebels said he would agree to the government’s five-point plan if it ended attacks.

Iraq

| January 30, 2010

A suicide bomber killed two Iraqis in a bombing at a restaurant in Samarra. Iraqi security forces detained 13 al Qaeda IED cell members in Baghdad and northern Iraq, 14 wanted men in Basrah, and two Naqshabandiyah cell leaders and three fighters in Ninewa and Salahadin. Police in Anbar arrested a senior al Qaeda leader […]

Afghanistan

| January 30, 2010

Coalition forces accidentally killed four Afghan soldiers in a friendly fire incident in Wardak province and killed two civilians in an escalation of force incident in Ghazni province. Coalition and Afghan forces killed more than 12 Taliban fighters in Badghis province and detained a Taliban commander and an undisclosed number of fighters in Kandahar. An […]

Pakistan

| January 29, 2010

The US killed five Haqqani Network fighters in an airstrike in North Waziristan. Security forces killed 24 Taliban fighters in airstrikes in Bajaur and Mohmand, and detained three suspected terrorists in Lahore. The Taliban bombed a NATO oil tanker in Khyber.

Al Qaeda

| January 29, 2010

Blair warns that world faces decision to halt Iran™s nuclear programme

Somalia

| January 29, 2010

At least 12 people were killed in fighting during the night between insurgents and African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu. Fighters from Shabaab and Hizbul Islam claimed responsibility in a statement, saying that they had assaulted “the strongholds of the enemies of Allah.”

Iraq

| January 29, 2010

Insurgents killed a civilian in a shooting near Kirkuk and wounded four soldiers and two policemen in Baghdad and Mosul. Iraqi police detained three al Qaeda operatives in Mosul and Miqdadiyah. The Iraqi Army has detained two US citizens in Mosul.

Afghanistan

| January 29, 2010

Three members of a Taliban assault team were killed after they attempted to overrun an Afghan Army barracks in the Garmsir district in Helmand province. Two US soldiers and a civilian were killed in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban murdered a “spy” in Paktika province. Saudi Arabia called on the Taliban to denounce al Qaeda.

Iran

| January 29, 2010

Iran™s opposition extends olive branch, unrequited

Iran

| January 29, 2010

Opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi spoke out against the Guardian Council in an interview. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati urged the judiciary to take action against government protesters. Secretary Clinton and President Sarkozy met to discuss new sanctions on Iran.