Pakistani Taliban assault district center in Nuristan
Fighters said to be under the command of Mullah Fazlullah were repelled by Afghan police in the eastern district of Barg-e-Matal, which borders Chitral in Pakistan.
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Afghanistan
Afghan Army chief, advisor shape growing force
Iraq
Iraqi security forces detained an al Qaeda leader and 16 fighters northwest of Baghdad and 15 wanted men in Basrah. Insurgents shot and killed a police captain in Mosul.
Somalia
Heavy fighting took place in northern Mogadishu after government and African Union forces attacked Shabaab positions. The African Union vowed to stop Shabaab from taking the presidential palace. A woman was killed in a bombing in Mogadishu.
Russia
Chechen leader challenges FSB data on insurgents
Russia
Four people were killed in a bombing outside a community center in Stavropol where a dance company from Chechnya was performing. Security forces killed two “militants” in Chechnya.
Philippines
A grenade attack by suspected Abu Sayyaf fighters on a home in the province of Sulu has left three family members dead and three others injured. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front has replaced one of its field commanders, who is Central Mindanao’s most wanted man, only three days after replacing its spokesman.
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces killed and detained an undisclosed number of Taliban fighters in Zabul and Helmand. The Taliban killed a British soldier in Helmand and detonated a car bomb outside a Canadian base in Kandahar. The Red Cross has offered medical training to the Taliban.
Afghanistan
Red Cross defends first aid courses for Taliban
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Big Brotherhood is watching
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released a videotape showing Umar al Farouk Abdulmutallab, the failed Christmas Day airline bomber; Uthman al Ghamdi, a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay; and Fahd al Quso, an operative in the USS Cole bombing. AQAP blamed the US for conducting airstrikes in Yemen.
Somalia
Lack of prosecution poses challenge for foreign navies that catch Somali pirates
Al Qaeda
Pakistan™s opinionated media landscape
Hakeemullah’s pullout from North Waziristan an ‘excuse’ for Pakistan not to move
The leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan agrees to abandon the safe havens in North Waziristan and return to South Waziristan. The pullout is “just the excuse the Pakistanis needed to call off a North Waziristan operation,” a US official said.
Pakistan
Pakistan Taliban ‘attack eastern Afghan district’
United States
New York community panel approves plan for mosque at Ground Zero
Iran
Tehran urged the United States and Russia to accept the nuclear fuel-swap deal with Turkey. The US Congress may delay the passage of new Iran sanctions.
Iraq
US targeting Sunni insurgent group in northern Iraq
Afghanistan
Eric Breininger’s death: The memoirs of a German jihadist
Afghanistan
Afghan forces detain Kabul attack planners
Al Qaeda
US offered crucial evidence in Pakistani meeting on Times Square plot
United States
US grapples with shift from military- to diplomatic-run effort in Iraq
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Taliban slay elders over aid money
Pakistan
US heads a cast of villains in Pakistan™s conspiracy talk
Pakistan
Security forces killed 12 Taliban fighters in Arakzai and detained eight Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber. The families of 130 Taliban fighters have been expelled from Swat and have been placed in government camps.
Iraq
Insurgents killed 14 people at a gold market in Baghdad and three security guards in Kirkuk and Mosul. Security forces killed one of the attackers behind the attack on the Baghdad gold market, and detained 14 wanted men in Basrah and a senior al Qaeda leader in Fallujah.
Afghanistan
Red Cross gives first aid lessons to Taliban
Somalia
Police vowed to attack Shabaab in the capital. Hizbul Islam detained three journalists in Afgoi. Fighters from the pro-government Ahlu Sunna Waljama™a arrived in Mogadishu to fight Shabaab and Hizbul Islam.
Afghanistan
Afghan, NATO forces launch operation in northern Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghan and Coalition forces killed a “key al Qaeda leader and several other enemy fighters” during a clash in Paktia and detained an undisclosed number of Taliban fighters and facilitators in Logar, Kandahar, and Helmand. The Taliban kidnapped seven civilians in Khost and later killed five of them.