Iran
The UN Security Council is ready to tackle a new sanctions regimen for Iran. Tehran is placing more pressure on opposition media outlets and intellectuals. Italian authorities arrested Iranian arms smugglers.
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Pakistan
Pakistan to get US smart-bomb kits
Iraq
Two suicide attacks kill 27, wound 42 ahead of Iraq polls
Pakistan
The military claimed the Taliban has been defeated in Bajaur; seven Taliban fighters were killed in Khyber and two commanders were killed in Peshawar. The US will provide 1,000 laser-guided bomb kits to Pakistan. The military dropped pamphlets in North Waziristan blaming India and Israel for the Taliban’s actions.
Iraq
Iraq™s top cleric refuses to influence elections
Iraq
Iraq: Criminal gang ‘targeted election candidates’
Al Qaeda
Pakistan’s Army takes control of al-Qaeda cave network on Afghan border
Bajaur cleared of Taliban: Pakistani general
The commander of the Frontier Corps claimed the Taliban have been driven from Bajaur and the movement “is no longer significant” in the tribal areas.
Pakistan
Pak pamphlets allege India, Israel funding Taliban
Somalia
The British government said it was going to ban Shabaab; the group could be active among Britain’s large and socially deprived community of Somali refugees. At least eight people were killed in heavy fighting and artillery shelling in Mogadishu. Three UN trucks and their drivers were being held in the pirate town of Eyl after […]
Iraq
Iraq violence down but threats remain: Petraeus
Al Qaeda
The Taliban confirmed that Qari Mohammad Zafar, a leader of the al Qaeda and Taliban-linked Fedayeen-i-Islam, was killed in a US airstrike in North Waziristan on Feb. 24. Zafar was wanted by the US for the 2006 suicide attack on the US Consulate in Karachi, and was involved in suicide attacks on major hotels in […]
Iraq
Security forces detained an Islamic State of Iraq cell leader in Bayji, two al Qaeda operatives in Baghdad, and three Naqshabandiya fighters in Kirkuk. Insurgents killed a civilian and wounded two more civilians and two soldiers in attacks in Mosul.
India
India: Ready to go ‘extra mile™ if Pakistan acts against terror
Pakistan
Pakistan – Court hears ‘terror charges’ against five Americans
Pakistan
Pakistani army wraps up combat operations in Bajur
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed a British soldier in Helmand and wounded four children in a rocket attack in Kunar. Coalition and Afghan forces detained an undisclosed number of Taliban fighters in Helmand and Khost. The Afghan government denied it was banning live coverage of Taliban attacks and instead said it was drawing up guidelines for coverage.
Somalia
Somali pirates’ new land tactics worry UN
Al Qaeda
Suicide bombers ‘unIslamic’ and going to Hell, says leading cleric
Taliban confirm wanted terror leader Qari Zafar killed in US airstrike
Zafar was involved in several major attacks in Pakistan, including the 2006 suicide attack on the US Consulate in Karachi and attacks on major hotels in Islamabad in 2008 and Peshawar in 2009. The US had a $5 million bounty out for Zafar.
Iranian Air Force to test new laser-guided bomb
The Qassed 2, Iran’s prototype for a laser-guided bomb. As the defense buildup in the Persian Gulf continues, Iranian Air Force Commander Brigadier General Hassan Shahsafi announced plans for Iran to test a prototype of the Qassed 2 (Farsi for “messenger”) laser-guided bomb. Iran’s experimentation with laser-guided bombs began in September 2006 with a series […]
Iran
The West gained momentum from the IAEA for new sanctions on Iran. Russia may back new sanctions. The Iranian Air Force prepared to test-fire the new Qassed 2, a laser-guided bomb.
Al Qaeda
UK – Islamic scholar Tahir ul-Qadri to issue terrorism fatwa
Iraq
Iraqis awash in gifts from candidates
Afghanistan
Pakistan wipes out half of Quetta Shura
Afghanistan
Afghanistan bans coverage of Taliban attacks
Afghanistan
Afghanistan™s leaders start a dialogue in Marja
Somalia
A Danish destroyer sunk a pirate mothership in the Indian Ocean after allowing the crew to leave. Four civilians were killed in heavy fire exchange between gunmen in Galkayo. A revered clan elder has been kidnapped in Jowhar. Hizbul Islam leader Sheikh Ahmed Madobe vowed to intensify the fight against Shabaab. “We will target Shabaab […]
Pakistan
The bodies of 22 Taliban fighters have been found in Darra Adam Khel and Swat. A wanted Taliban leader was killed in Swat and two Taliban offficals were captured in Karachi. The Taliban attacked a NATO convoy in Khyber and released two Sikh hostages in Khyber.
Al Qaeda
Abdul Haq al Turkistani, the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party, may have been killed by the US in the Feb. 15 airstrike in North Waziristan. The report is unconfirmed. Haq is on al Qaeda’s Shura Majlis.