The UN envoy to Afghanistan said it is time to conduct talks with the Taliban. The Defense Ministry said 120 Taliban fighters have been killed in the Marja operation. Police killed a Taliban commander and six fighters in Helmand. The Taliban killed four Pakistani workers and two ISAF soldiers in the South.
Over the past 24 hours, al Qaeda suicide bombers have struck at polling stations and police in Baghdad and Baqubah as preliminary voting for the national parliamentary election begins.
Police arrested 11 suspected members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula during a raid in the capital of Sana’a. The father of one of the suspects was killed after shooting and wounding a policeman during the raid.
A Lashkar-e-Taiba spokesman denied claims made by Afghan intelligence that it carried out the suicide terror assault on Indian guest houses in Kabul. “We reject claims that we are involved in any actions in Afghanistan,” a spokesman named Abdullah Ghaznavi said.
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Suicide bombs before Iraq election shows Al Qaeda still active
US redraws Afghan command
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German Islamist fanatics jailed for planning ‘second September 11’
Six suspected terrorists have been arrested for belonging to a “jihadist” network. The suspects were planning to perpetrate “change through violence” in the Cherifian region. The terrorist group, made up of the six arrested members, was operating in a number of towns in the region.
The UN human rights chief criticized Iran for its human rights record after the June 12, 2009, election. Tehran has been accused of exercising influence in Iraq’s federal elections. China, Turkey, and Brazil are urging the US to slow down on the new sanctions regimen.
Finding Kabir and Baradar wasn’t rocket science – but about money
Top US military official outlines tempered approach to war
Pakistani embodies a policy puzzle
Mullah Abdul Qayum Zakir, a former detainee at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, is not in Pakistani custody, according to US and Afghan intelligence officials.
Former Gitmo detainee said running Afghan battles
Seventeen people were killed in the last 24 hours in heavy fighting between rebel fighters and government troops backed by African Union forces in Mogadishu. The fighting erupted in the capital™s Hodan district where government forces carried out surprise attacks on Shabaab positions. Pirates hijacked a Saudi-owned ship and seized a fishing vessel in the […]
The names of top Taliban leaders are missing from the Federal Investigation Agency’s ‘red book’ of wanted terrorists. Six Taliban fighters and a commander were killed during infighting in Kurram. Soldiers killed a suicide vest manufacturer in Peshawar. The Taliban bombed a school in Khyber. Four soldiers wanted for questioning in Benazir Bhutto’s murder are […]
The military captured three Abu Sayyaf bombers in Taguig City; the Abu Sayyaf members are thought to have been plotting attacks in Manila. Peace monitors from Malaysia, Brunei, and Libya arrived on Mindanao to monitor an agreement between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Were you aware that the Taliban are staunch defenders of freedom of speech and the press? Don’t believe, me just read the Taliban’s latest statement on the Afghan government’s proposed restrictions on press coverage of Taliban attacks. The statement, originally published at The Voice of Jihad, the Taliban’s website, and reprinted below, is a curious […]
Major-General Richard Barrons puts Taliban fighter numbers at 36,000
Taliban: Bomb the ban
Suicide bombers killed 30 Iraqis in coordinated attacks in Baqubah; four suspects in the attack have been arrested. Insurgents killed a soldier in Baghdad and a policeman in Mosul. Security forces detained 30 insurgents in Salahadin, 10 al Qaeda fighters in central and northern Iraq, and a Naqshabandiyah cell leader in Sulaymaniya.
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India newspaper offices attacked
Afghan intelligence ties Pakistani group Lashkar-i-Taiba to recent Kabul attack
In Afghanistan, Karzai’s invitation to Taliban creates discord and confusion
US unsure who’s behind Iraq attacks
Seven arrested in Iranian weapon smuggling plot
The Taliban kidnapped a tribal leader and three associates in Kunduz, and torched a school in Faryab. The National Directorate of Security claimed the Lashkar-e-Taiba conducted the Feb. 26 suicide assault in Kabul.