Afghanistan
US turns a blind eye to opium in Afghan town
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Iraq
Iyad Allwai’s Iraqi National Movement has taken a several thousand vote lead over Prime Minister Maliki’s State of Law Alliance. The two parties are discussing a possible coalition. Iraqi police detained two al Qaeda operatives in Diyala.
Name that army
At least one squad of the joint Taliban-al Qaeda Shadow Army operating in Swat. In a London Times article on foreign fighters’ influence in Pakistan’s tribal areas, the author notes that the Punjabi and Arab fighters in the region are quite organized and efficient: The Arabs, regarded by locals as good, quiet tenants, paying up […]
Somalia
A senior Shabaab military commander was assassinated in the city of Kismayo. A Canadian man who has been missing for two years was killed in Mogadishu while fighting for Shabaab. Hizbul Islam vowed to continue attacks against Ethiopian forces in Beledweyn.
Kyrgyzstan
The Kyrgyz Defense Ministry announced it would build a counterterrorism training center in Batken in the South. The US is providing $5 million to build the center, which will be used to train special operations forces to hunt terrorists.
Senior Shabaab commander killed in Somali South
A military commander was shot and killed as he left a mosque in Kismayo. Rival Hizbul Islam is the likely culprit.
Al Qaeda
Pakistan – Arabs throw in their lot with ‘global terrorists™ in war against the infidel
Somalia
Somali Islamist al-Shabab commander assassinated
United Arab Emirates
Facebook row as Middle East officials ban user ‘who insulted Islam’
India
India to get access to US man on Mumbai attack
Al Qaeda
Irish town puzzled by role in investigation
Afghanistan
Afghan national army’s strength reaches 110,000
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed an Afghan soldier in Paktika. ISAF troops accidentally killed a civilian in Herat. Afghan and Coalition forces detained two Taliban fighters in Helmand. Afghan border police seized Iranian-made weapons in Herat.
Iran
The Bushehr nuclear plant should be operational by the summer. Hezbollah’s deputy leader said Israel would pay a “heavy price” if it attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities. Russia said it would back “smart sanctions.” President Obama delivered a message to the Iranian people.
Afghanistan
As US frees detainees, Afghans ask why they were held
Afghanistan
Holbrooke: US ‘gratified’ by Pakistani arrests of Taliban leaders
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Taliban harness power of the web
Pakistan
A tribal militia killed 21 Taliban fighters in Kurram; 10 more fighters were killed in airstrikes in Arakzai. Security forces detained a Taliban commander in Karachi. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan distributed pamphlets in North Waziristan that declared it would liberate Pakistan from US control. The Taliban bombed two schools in Bajaur.
Tribal militia battles the Taliban in Pakistan’s Kurram agency
Over the past six days, 37 Taliban fighters have been reported killed in the remote tribal agency.
Iraq
Insurgents killed a soldier, a policeman, and two civilians in attacks in Baghdad, Mosul, and Saadiya. A US soldier was killed during combat in Baghdad on March 18. Iraqi forces killed an al Qaeda leader in Mosul and detained 10 more fighters in Mosul, Salahadin, and Baghdad, and detained a Hezbollah Brigades operative in Baghdad.
Afghanistan
Former UN envoy Kai Eide said he met Taliban leaders in Afghanistan and that Pakistan’s detention of Mullah Bahadar has scuttled peace talks. Coalition and Afghan forces captured a Taliban IED facilitator and a Haqqani network commander and an undisclosed number of fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Paktika, and Khost. An undisclosed number of Taliban fighters […]
Somalia
Somali rebels join forces in cyberspace: UN report
United Kingdom
UK anti-militant project stirs Muslim unease
Pakistan
Pakistan denies arrests thwarted Taliban talks
Russia
Police killed Abu Haled in an ongoing operation in the Vedeno district of Chechnya. Haled was an Arab fighter who came to Chechnya 13 years ago and was responsible for technical and psychological training of insurgents, and may have been Doku Umarov’s security chief and head of his group’s counter-intelligence operations. Six insurgents and three […]
United States
Deal near on Gitmo, trials for detainees
India
Rana knew every detail of 26/11 plan: Headley to US court
Saudi Arabia
Dismantling of Saudi-CIA Web site illustrates need for clearer cyberwar policies
Afghanistan
As Taliban makes comeback in Kunduz province, war spreads to northern Afghanistan
Powell and Brzezinski on Iran’s proto-nuclear capabilities
During an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Conversations with Judy Woodruff” due to air this weekend, former Secretary of State Colin Powell shared his thoughts on Iran’s nuclear ambitions, saying: The Iranians are determined to have a nuclear program… Notice I did not say a nuclear weapon. But they are determined to have a nuclear program, […]