Somalia
“We have beheaded and shot dead at least 680”
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Afghanistan
Afghan members of parliament rejected President Karzai’s plan to appoint all five members of the Electoral Complaints Commission. Karzai warned that “the insurgency will change to a national resistance” if foreign countries interfered with his appointments to the ECC. Joint forces killed three Taliban fighters in Khost and Kandahar. The Taliban killed a British soldier […]
Russia
News profile: Who is Doku Umarov?
United States
When military moves a war, there are no shortcuts
United Kingdom
Details of British Muslim students could be given to CIA
Afghanistan
DEA says Afghan opium seizures soar in 2009
Afghanistan
US aid going to Afghanistan partners
Iran
China agreed to make steps toward supporting new sanctions on Iran. Tehran sent its chief nuclear negotiator to Beijing to discuss the threat of new sanctions. The US navy reportedly test-fired Trident missiles in a military exercise with the Saudi military; the US Navy denied the report.
Russia
Two men were killed and another was seriously wounded after their car exploded in the Khasavyurt region of Dagestan. The men are suspected to have been transporting bombs. The FSB launched a counterterrorism operation in Ingushetia.
Kashmir
Five Lashkar-e-Taiba fighters and three Indian soldiers were killed during two clashes in forests in Rajouri. Soldiers and counterterrorism police have been carrying out operations in the region.
Taliban leader escapes ambush in Pakistan’s northwest
Maulvi Noor Jamal, the Taliban’s leader in Kurram, survived an assassination attempt in Arakzai.