Iraqi Security Forces killed two Saudi al Qaeda operatives and an Iraqi near Kirkuk, and detained six al Qaeda operatives in and around Baghdad, and three wanted men in Basrah. Security forces killed an insurgent and detained two more in Shurqat. An insurgent sniper killed a Kurdish man in Kirkuk.
Afghanistan – The man who might have been ‘king’
In Turkey, military’s power over secular democracy slips
Al Qaeda exemplifies new-age nuclear threat
Afghan president urges Taliban to air grievances
Poison swirls around Hamid Karzai and Barack Obama
Hamid Karzai, the mercurial President of Afghanistan, has given the US and ISAF another reason to panic. Just one week after threatening to join the Taliban over a row on the appointment of election monitoring officials, Karzai has threatened to put the kabosh on the planned ISAF offensive in Kandahar province. The London Times reports: […]
President Karzai reiterated his call for the Taliban to lay down their weapons and enter negotiations. The Taliban killed four members of a mine clearance team and an ISAF soldier in IED attacks in Kandahar and the south. Coalition and Afghan forces killed seven Taliban fighters in Badghis and detained three more in Helmand and […]
Kandahar reconstruction base now a Canada-US venture
Al Qaeda in Yemen: Nomads or nucleus?
Yemen will not arrest or kill Anwar al Awlaki, the US cleric who serves as al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s mufti. “Anwar al-Awlaki has to us been always looked at as a preacher rather than a terrorist and shouldn’t be looked at as a terrorist unless the Americans have evidence that he has been […]
Iran will file a formal complaint against the US over President Obama’s “threatening remarks” made while outlining the new US nuclear strategy. Secretary of State Clinton said Iran™s “belligerence is helping to make our case every single day.” Iran has built the Mersad, a mid-range missile defense system. The Commander of the Iranian Army Ground […]
Former CIA agent in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says ‘regime is after nuclear arms’
Hidden explosives found at Italian NGO-run hospital in Afghanistan
Fifty-four Taliban fighters were killed in Arakzai, and 45 Lashkar-e-Islam fighters and civilians were killed in airstrikes in Khyber. Ten Taliban fighters and three soldiers were killed in South Waziristan. A suicide bomber killed himself in a premature detonation in Bannu. The Taliban bombed a school in Dir.
Reconciliation with Afghan government not be seen as weakness: Hezb-i-Islami Gulbuddin
Mullah Baradar’s arrest threatens peace talks
Dramatic drop in deaths in Mosul
Insurgents killed two policemen, two soldiers, an Awakening leader, and a child in attacks in Mosul, Ninewa, and Babil. Security forces killed three al Qaeda fighters and detained three more in Baghdad and northern Iraq, and arrested 15 wanted men in Basrah and Diyala, and two weapons smugglers on the Syrian border.
A US warship captured six pirates after a firefight and destroyed their skiff off the Horn of Africa. A Turkish cargo vessel seized three days ago has been abandoned by pirates; all 25 crewmen are unharmed.
According to The Washington Post, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency has freed two top Afghan Taliban commanders. The names of the two commanders have not been disclosed. If this is true, this will really put a dent into Pakistan’s claims that it is serious about dealing with the Afghan Taliban: But U.S. officials now believe that […]
Afghan forces detained nine suspected terrorists, including three Italians, at a hospital in Helmand province. US and Afghan forces detained a Taliban IED facilitator and an undisclosed number of fighters in Helmand and Kandahar. President Obama said the US “will remain as the strategic partner of Afghanistan.”
A female suicide bomber killed herself after attempting to shoot the police chief in the city of Nazran in Ingushetia. A district police chief died in the attack. Three terrorists were killed in explosions after police surrounded their hideout in the village of Ekazhevo.
The US has suspended flights to and from its air base in Manas due to security concerns after the opposition overthrew President Bakiyev’s government. The interim government has promised to honor an agreement made under Bakiyev’s government for the US to use the airbase.
Pakistan maintains complex relations in battle against Taliban
Iran wants Sunnis in Iraqi politics
Kashmiri peaks to be opened to foreign tourists
India – PM may take up Headley access with Obama
It appears the mystery behind the missing former officers from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency who have close ties to the Taliban and al Qaeda has been solved. Colonel Imam, the father of the Taliban, and Khalid Khawaja, the Taliban’s “consigliere,” appear to have surfaced in North Waziristan and are in the care of South Waziristan […]
Iran shipper evades US blacklist