Afghanistan
Affluent Afghans make their homes in opulent ‘poppy palaces’
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Pakistan
Police officials™ hand in Lahore mosque attacks?
Pakistan
Pakistan – Investigations reveal security loopholes in Jinnah Hospital attack
Iraq
Security forces killed four al Qaeda fighters and captured three more in northern Iraq, and detained seven wanted men in Diyala. Gunmen assassinated another member of the Iraqiya political party and killed two civilians in a bombing at a hospital in Al Qaim.
United States
A US court sentenced Anthony Joseph Tracy to time served in prison, or four months, for aiding 270 Somalis, possibly including Shabaab members, to illegally enter the US through Cuba. Tracy is suspected of helping the government find those who entered the US; his guilty plea has been sealed by the court, however.
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula killed a colonel and a soldier in an ambush of a military convoy in Marib. Ghalib Al-Zayedi, a wanted al Qaeda operative, surrendered to authorities in Marib.
Afghanistan
With US aid, warlord builds an Afghan empire
Kuwait
Kuwait – New labor laws grant women the right – and the flexibility – to work late
NATO
NATO, Pakistan seek to boost non-military ties
Turkey
Turkey’s Muslim heart fights its pro-Israeli head
Philippines
Abu Sayyaf fighters murdered three hostages after the families were unable to pay the ransoms. Police recovered the bodies of the rubber plantation workers in the town of Sukaten village on Basilan island. Norway has joined the international monitoring team observing the ceasefire between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the government.
Afghanistan
The national jirga offered the Taliban a peace deal. The Taliban killed two British soldiers in Helmand and a policeman in Kandahar. Coalition and Afghan forces detained a Haqqani Network facilitator and several Taliban and Haqqani fighters during raids in Khost and Farah.
Iran
Russia and Germany both support sanctions against Iran. “We hope the voice of the international community will be heard by the Iranian leadership,” Russian President Medvedev said. The Non-Aligned Movement unanimously supported Iran’s nuclear program. Iranian troops crossed the Iraqi border in pursuit of Kurdish separatists.
Pakistan
Pakistan: State of denial
Pakistan
Afghan, Pakistani ministers to meet in Turkey
Israel
Israel boards Gaza aid ship
Afghanistan
Taliban reject Afghan jirga demand
Al Qaeda in Iraq is ‘broken,’ cut off from leaders in Pakistan, says top US general
General Ray Odierno said that Iraqi and US forces have captured or killed 34 of the top 42 al Qaeda in Iraq leaders over the past three months. The terror group is cut off from the senior leadership in Pakistan and Afghanistan and is also having difficulty recruiting.
Pakistan
The Wazir tribe said it would expel the Mehsuds from the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan from their tribal regions in South Waziristan. The Taliban beheaded a 70-year-old Afghan man for “spying” and executed another tribesman in North Waziristan. Police detained two Taliban fighters in Nowshera.
Russia
Russia builds listening post sparking fears of Georgia strike
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda leaders in Iraq neutralized, US commander says
Al Qaeda
Afghan peace talks end with plea to combatants
Iran
Iranian leaders accuse dissidents of betraying Islamic revolution
Iraq
Security forces detained 12 al Qaeda fighters in Baqubah and four more in northern Iraq, and a Mahdi Army fighter in Baghdad. Insurgents killed two soldiers in Amarah, an Awakening fighter in Diyala, and two civilians in Mosul.
Somalia
Fighting between Shabaab and government forces in Mogadishu killed 23 people, most of whom are civilians. US intelligence officials said more than 200 foreign fighters are in Somalia.
Al Qaeda
Top US commander in Iraq raises Internet concerns
Afghanistan
Afghan conference calls for talks with Taliban
Afghanistan
Leadership training central to police mission in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Taliban prisoners ‘would be released to kickstart Aghan peace process’
Afghanistan
Afghan and Coalition forces killed a top Taliban commander and several of his bodyguards in Kandahar, and three fighters in Helmand, and detained a Taliban sub-commander and a fighter in Logar. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the South.