The US has paid $107 billion to US and foreign companies that have done business in Iran in violation of international sanctions. China said new sanctions “are not the fundamental way to resolve the Iran nuclear problem.” Iran opened the production line for the Nasr 1 anti-ship missile.
Troops killed seven Abu Sayyaf fighters during a raid in Sulu. The target of the raid was Zulkifli bin Hir, the leader of the Kumpulun Mujahidin Malaysia and senior member of Jemaah Islamiyah, and Abu Benhur, an Abu Sayyaf commander.
Iraqis vote despite militant attacks that kill 24
Iraqi voter turnout solid despite blasts
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Faqir Mohammed, the leader of the Taliban in Bajaur and the deputy leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan. Image courtesy of AfPax Insider. Rehman Malik, Pakistan’s Interior Minister, is certain that al Qaeda military commander Qari Zia Rahman and Bajaur Taliban commander Faqir Mohammed, as well as a mid-level Swat Taliban leader […]
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High turnout was recorded during the first day of out-of-country voting. Four Iranians were killed in a bombing in Najaf. Iraqi forces detained 10 al Qaeda in Iraq fighters in central and northern Iraq, eight in Diyala, and four more in Ramadi, an al Qaeda mufti in Khalis, and six wanted men in Basrah.
The US is aiding Somalia in its plan to retake Mogadishu and has provided covert training, aerial surveillance, fuel, and money for weapons. A foreign official of Shabaab, Abdiqadir Al Muqraawi, was wounded by soldiers in Mogadishu and has died while he was being taken to Kismayo. A 12-year-old boy defected from Hizbul Islam and […]
Heroin lab menace grows in Afghanistan
More than 25 Taliban and Hezb-i-Islam Gulbuddin fighters have been killed during ongoing clashes in Baghlan. The Taliban killed three civilians in bombings in in Kandahar and Khost, and a British soldier in Helmand. Afghan and Coalition forces captured a Taliban sub-commander and an undisclosed number of fighters in Kandahar.
President Ahmedinejad said the Sept. 11 attacks on the US were a “big fabrication” designed to allow the US to wage the war on terror. Iran warned it would retaliate for Italy’s detention of an Iranian journalist, who is accused of participating in an arms smuggling ring.
Taliban fighters battled Hezb-i-Islam Gulbuddin forces in Baghlan province.
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Leading Pakistani Taliban deputy believed killed
A suicide bomber killed 14 Pakistanis in Hangu. A top Taliban leader and an al Qaeda military commander may have been killed in Pakistani airstrikes that killed 30 fighters in Mohmand; a Swat Taliban leader is also thought to have been killed. Police arrested three terrorists in Buner.
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US aiding Somalia in its plan to retake its capital
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb demanded the release of “several” AQIM members in exchange for the three Spanish hostages held since November, according to the negotiator with the group. Some of the members demanded to be released are in Mauritania. The Spanish government has stated that the demands are “rumors.”
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The Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaeda’s front group, declared a curfew and threatened to attack civilians who voted in the March 7 parliamentary election. Anyone who violated the curfew would “expose himself to the anger of Allah and then to all kinds of weapons of the mujahedeen,” the terror group said in a statement […]
Fourteen people were killed in fighting between the Quebys and Suleyman clans in central Somalia. AMISOM troops clashed with Islamist insurgents in Mogadishu. Gunmen killed a businessman in Galkayo. A French warship arrested 11 suspected pirates and destroyed their vessels. Pirates seized a Norwegian oil tanker.