US strike kills 5 in al Qaeda haven in North Waziristan
The strike is the fourth in four days. Three of those strikes have taken place in the al Qaeda hub of Datta Khel.
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Afghanistan
Petraeus condemns US church’s plan to burn Qurans
Pakistan
Pakistan – What exactly is Punjab Police doing?
Russia
Russia boosts military cooperation with Israel
NATO
Petraeus calls for additional 2,000 troops in Afghanistan: reports
Iraq
Iraq™s military needs after 2011
Suicide bomber kills 19 in attack on Pakistani police station
The attack took place in the northwestern district of Lakki Marwat. The suicide attack is the fourth in Pakistan since Sept. 1.
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Zabul, Paktia, Nangarhar, Logar, and Wardak. The Taliban killed three children in Paktika and two civilians in Nimroz, and kidnapped four government workers in Kunar.
Tajikistan
Seven people were wounded in a bombing at a discotheque in Tajikistan’s capital of Dushanbe. Police have said the attack was an act of terrorism and suspect Islamists are behind the bombing.
Iran
President Ahmadinejad said any attack on Iran “would be tantamount to the elimination of the Zionist regime from the political geography.” Iran is reportedly paying Taliban fighters $1,000 for every US soldier killed in Afghanistan. Bahrain has accused Iran of involvement in a plot to overthrow the government.
Somalia
The government claimed it defeated Shabaab attacks on the interior and education ministries in Mogadishu. The UN’s under secretary-general for political affairs urged the government to reach out to “dissident groups” to shore up its legitimacy.
Pakistan
Pakistan: Suicide bomber attacks Laki Marwat police station
Afghanistan
Government steps in on Afghan bank
Pakistan
Floods in Pakistan carry the seeds of upheaval
IMU-linked Taliban district commander killed in Takhar raid
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan-linked commander was killed during a raid that resulted in the capture of a senior military commissioner and newly minted deputy shadow governor.
Germany
Islamist threat to Germany is growing say police
Iran
Vatican: stoning in Iran adultery case ‘brutal’
China
Resentment simmers in western Chinese region
Al Qaeda
Yemen arrests 14 suspected Al-Qaeda members
United Nations
Taliban vow to disrupt Afghanistan election
Palestinian Territories
Hamas attacks show group is still strong in West Bank
Iraq
‘US troops called in’ as Iraqi army base attacked
Iraq
UK army chief: How Blair and Brown betrayed our troops
Philippines
National police have killed an Abu Sayyaf Group commander and his two aides in a 15-minute gun battle at a house in Maimbung, Sulu province. The Abu Sayyaf commander, Gafur Jumdail, is the younger brother of the group’s top leader, Umbra Jumdail. Other Abu Sayyaf members may have been wounded in the raid.
Bahrain
Bahraini authorities accused 23 Shia activists who are protesting the Sunni-dominated government of being members of a “sophisticated terrorist network.” The suspects are said to have been planning to overthrow the government, conduct violent acts, and use a propaganda campaign against the current regime.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed 23 Taliban fighters in Kunar and a Taliban district commander in Takhar, and captured a Haqqani Network commander in Khost and a Taliban commander in Paktia. The Taliban killed a British soldier and an ISAF soldier in the south, and freed a Japanese journalist.
Mauritania
Mauritanian authorities have captured a drug trafficker with links to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Ahmed Ould Baba Ahmed was arrested in Rosso, close the Senegalese border, and is thought to have a connection to the Lemzarrab operation last February in which authorities clashed with drug traffickers on the Mali border.
Iraq
Iraqi troops repelled an al Qaeda suicide assault on a Baghdad military headquarters; five suicide bombers, four Iraqi soldiers, and three civilians were killed. Security forces detained 66 wanted men in Karbala, five members of the Soldiers of Heaven in Diwaniyah, and two terrorists in Samawa.
Yemen
Four policemen and two “militants” from the Southern Movement were killed during yesterday’s fighting in Lahj province. Al Qaeda killed a tribal leader and two of his bodyguards in Abyan.
Iraqi troops repel al Qaeda suicide assault on Baghdad base
Five suicide bombers, four Iraqi soldiers, and three civilians were reported killed in the daylight assault on a military headquarters in Rusafa.