Afghanistan
Top UN official calls for talks with Mullah Omar
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Al Qaeda
Colonel Imam: ‘I have the Green Beret but the Taleban beret is better™
Iraq
Odierno: Iraq can help stabilize the Middle East
Al Qaeda
NYC terrorism suspect cites subway attack plan
United States
Najibullah Zazi, the airport shuttle driver charged with planning to carry out terror attacks in New York, is expected to plead guilty to terrorism charges in court today. The move by Zazi to enter a guilty plea, in exchange for a deal, sends a signal to prosecutors that he is willing to cooperate with investigators, […]
Somalia
The US accused Eritrea of working to destabilize the Horn of Africa region. Shiekh Fuad Mohamed Qalaf, also known as Shongole, survived a roadside bomb attack in Mogadishu; Shabaab fighters arrested three Hizbul Islam officials linked to the assassination attempt. Shabaab leader Sheikh Abu Mansur said that he forgave the former members of the transitional […]
Iraq
Terrorists in Baghdad executed a family of eight and beheaded some of them; the killers have been captured. Insurgents killed two policemen and two soldiers in Mosul, three policemen in Ramadi, one policeman in Kirkuk, and a professor in Baghdad. Security forces arrested four wanted men in Basrah.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Troops defuse IED at girls school
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed a senior anti-Taliban leader and 14 civilians in Nangarhar. Afghan and Coalition forces killed 14 Taliban fighters in Kunar and Kapisa, and detained two Taliban leaders from Herat in Kandahar. ISAF and the Afghan government are investigating an airstrike in Uruzgan that reportedly killed 33 civilians. Two Taliban leaders in Herat […]
Afghanistan
Afghanistan condemns deadly Nato air strike in Uruzgan
Iraq
Iraq – Report seeks sole agency to rebuild war zones
United States
Debate over English emerges in US mosques
India
Sikh terror outfits seeking volunteers from US, India: Report
Suicide bomber kills senior anti-Taliban leader in Nangarhar
Mohammad Haji Zaman, a former mujahedeen commander who fought against al Qaeda at Tora Bora, was killed along with 14 others in an attack at a tribal meeting.
Lebanon
Iranian official says Hezbollah does not receive orders from Tehran
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda released a videotape urging Turks to join the terror group and become suicide bombers. The Turkish-language tape, which was subtitled in Arabic, traced the path of a Turkish suicide bomber who carried out an attack against US forces in Khost. The 22-minute-long video was released by As Sahab, al Qaeda’s propaganda outlet.
Iran
Tehran planned construction for two new enrichment facilities. The Saudi foreign minister said sanctions are a last chance to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power. The speaker of parliament, Larijani, instructed President Obama to “do something about” Secretary of State Clinton’s style of diplomacy.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai’s rival warns him not to cut deals with Taliban
Afghanistan
Baradar™s lips sealed, US wants him shifted to Afghan prison
Pakistan
The military killed eight suspected Taliban fighters in Kohat and detained 80 suspected Taliban fighters in Bajaur and 74 more in Khyber; 20 fighters, including a commander, surrendered in Bajaur. The Taliban beheaded a Sikh hostage in Khyber, attacked a flour mill in Kohat, and bombed two schools in Mohmand.
Pakistan
Pakistan: Secularism vs Islamism
Pakistan
Petraeus sees progress against al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal areas
Somalia
In Mogadishu, the information secretary of Hizbul Islam, Sheikh Mohamed Moallim, declared war against Shabaab. Shabaab killed a clan chief in Warmahan Village in the southern Lower Shabelle region and prohibited the World Food Programme from returning to southern Somalia unless it stops supplying US-flagged rations. Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki rejected claims that his country […]
Philippines
Philippine Marines killed Abu Sayyaf military commander Albader Parad, a sub-commander, and four fighters during a raid in Sulu province. Parad was wanted by the US and Philippine governments for a series of kidnapping and executions. He was close to Jemaah Islamiyah leader Dulmatin.
The Netherlands
The Netherlands will begin withdrawing its troops starting in August after the government collapsed over extending their deployment. More than 1,600 Dutch troops are deployed in the southern province of Uruzgan, a Taliban stronghold. Twenty-one Dutch soldiers have been killed since the country deployed forces in 2006.
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces killed “several” Taliban fighters and detained a Taliban commander, a facilitator, and an undisclosed number of fighters in Kandahar, Logar, Nangarhar, and Helmand. Police captured eight police officers who defected to the Taliban and six Taliban fighters in Wardak. The Taliban killed six policemen, two ISAF troops, and a woman in […]
The Taliban
Maulvi Abdul Kabir, the Taliban’s former shadow governor of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar who led the group’s council in the city of Peshawar, was arrested in the district of Nowshera in Pakistan. Kabir served as a liaison between the Afghan Taliban and al Qaeda, Hezb-i-Islami Gulbuddin, and the Movement of the Taliban in […]
Iraq
Insurgents killed five policemen in Khanaqin and another in Mosul. A suicide bomber wounded two people in an attack outside a mosque in Kirkuk. Security forces detained eight wanted men in Basrah and two al Qaeda operatives north of Al Kut. Two US soldiers died in a helicopter crash in northern Iraq.
Afghanistan
US support for Afghan warlord; a key test of new policy
Another senior Afghan Taliban leader detained in Pakistan
Maulvi Abdul Kabir, the leader of the Taliban’s shura in Peshawar and a key link to allied terror groups, has been captured by Pakistani intelligence officials in Nowshera in the Northwest Frontier Province.