As Fox News notes, President Obama’s newly-announced envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Rashad Hussain, “is at the center of a controversy.” He is not only beset by criticism for a quote he has admitted to making about the prosecution of Sami al-Arian in 2004 (at the age of 24) but also […]
A top terrorism prosecutor is a critic of civilian trials
Mullah Baradar… a journey from Kandahar to Karachi
Dutch cabinet collapses over Afghanistan: media
Concern over Afghan civilians slows NATO advance
Abdullah slams Karzai’s Taliban peace plan
Four Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb members were released from a Mali prison in exchange for the freeing of the French hostage before the deadline for his execution expired. The AQIM fighters – two Algerians, one Mauritanian and one national from Burkino Faso – were discharged after a two-hour trial hearing in Bamako. An […]
Siraj Haqqani’s brother was killed in yesterday’s airstrike in North Waziristan. Pakistan will not turn over Mullah Baradar and other captured Taliban leader to the US. Two college students were killed while assembling an explosive device in Peshawar. Four members of the Mercy Corps were kidnapped in Baluchistan. The Taliban bombed two schools and a […]
Two people were killed and 28 more were wounded, including two senior security officials, in a series of bombings near the city of Nazran in the Republic of Ingushetia. Doku Umarov, the leader of the Caucasus Emirate, released a statement on the status of the jihad in the Caucasus.
Peace, poverty await Afghan refugees in Tajikistan
Security forces detained an al Qaeda assassination cell leader and a cell member in Baghdad and two insurgents in Kirkuk, and seized two suicide vests in Ramadi. Insurgents killed a policeman in Mosul. The US will change the name of the Iraqi mission to Operation New Dawn starting September.
Iraq elections: Snapshot
In Afghanistan, Marines handling detainees by the book
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said it has prepared “dozens” of underwear bombs for use in attacks worldwide. “We have dozens of sophisticated explosive devices which are similar to that used by the Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on the Christmas Day flight from Amsterdam to Detroit,” the terror group claimed in an article in […]
US bets best ally in surge is old one
A new IAEA report on Syria’s suspected nuclear program said that the facility at Dair Alzour was likely an initial attempt to construct a nuclear reactor. Israel destroyed the Dair Alzour complex during airstrikes in September 2008.
Iran’s supreme leader denies nuclear report claims
Afghan Taliban chiefs ‘held in Pakistan’
Operation Moshtarak: Taliban step up fightback
US Marines airdropped into Taliban-held territory
Mohammed Haqqani, a military commander in the Haqqani Network, is thought to have been killed in yesterday’s strike outside of Miramshah that targeted his brother, Siraj.
A new IAEA report said Iran is working on weaponizing uranium and has not cooperated with the IAEA investigations. The White House said that Iran “is failing to meet its international obligations.”
In Pakistan raid, Taliban chief was an extra prize
The New York Times has the scoop on the capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Afghan Taliban’s deputy commander. According to the Times, Baradar’s capture was “a lucky accident”: When Pakistani security officers raided a house outside Karachi in late January, they had no idea that they had just made their most important capture […]
Click to view slide show of commanders in the Haqqani Network. Pictured is a composite image of Siraj Haqqani. Daily Times is reporting that Mohammed Haqqani, a son of Jalaluddin Haqqani, may have been killed in the Feb. 18 airstrike in North Waziristan that targeted his brother Siraj: Four Taliban, including Taliban commander Mohammed Haqqani, […]
President Mamadou Tandja has been overthrown in a coup by a group dubbed the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy (CSRD). The men, presented as military officers, seized Tandja at his weekly cabinet meeting and have taken him to a nearby military barracks in the capital, Niamey. The coup risks further undermining the political […]
A US strike in North Waziristan killed four Haqqani network fighters; Jalaluddin Haqqani’s son Mohammed may have been killed. Thirty-six Pakistanis were killed in bombings in Khyber and Arakzai. Ten al Qaeda and Taliban leaders and operatives were detained in Karachi and Nowshera. The Taliban bombed a NATO supply truck in Khuzdar.
In the midst of Iranian nuclear enrichment efforts, the International Atomic Energy Commission (IAEA) has released a new report, written by Director Yukiya Amano, on the progress of Iran’s nuclear program as it pertains to the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolutions 1737, 1747, 1803, and 1835. Some key elements of the […]
Task force warns anew on terrorist funding from Iran
Fighting Taliban in Pakistan™s interest: FM Qureshi