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Govt troops shell MILF camps in Basilan
Author Archives: Matt Dupee
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US makes progress in Iraq’s ‘triangle of death’
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Yemeni rebel leader says not hurt in fighting -TV
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No negotiations with anti-US terrorists: US Senator
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Nuclear Jihad Web Threat Called Bogus
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Officials: Iraq to be ready for security handover by 2009
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Al-Qaeda Suicide Kids Expand Activity In Baghdad
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Russian suspends Ingushetia opposition Web site
Afghanistan
One ISAF soldier died of wounds and four others were wounded by an IED explosion during a routine patrol in eastern Afghanistan. Two Taliban suicide bombers dressed in Army fatigues and traveling in a vehicle attempted to attack a US outpost in Khost but were both shot dead by US and Afghan guards. Two US […]
Pakistan
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif stepped up the pressure on President Pervez Musharraf, branding him a “traitor” and claiming that the ruling coalition had agreed to oust the former army strongman. Six Taliban insurgents were killed when their vehicle packed with explosives blew up in the Bajaur region. Residents claimed seeing a drone aircraft in […]
Somalia
The Panama-flagged cargo ship MV Amiya Scan has been seized by Somalian pirates and is now docked at a port in Bargal. This is the third high-profile vessel hijacking off the coast of Somali since last month. The president of Somalia’s semiautonomous northern region of Puntland has sacked the region’s police chief, Colonel Abdiaziz Ga’amey.
Thailand
Four suspected Islamic insurgents were killed in clashes with security forces in Thailand’s rebellious southern Yala province. Earlier, two soldiers were killed when a car collided with a truck that had been hijacked by a suspected insurgent in Yala. A roadside bomb left four soldiers seriously injured in southern Pattani province.
Somalia
Islamist insurgents attacked African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu sparking fierce clashes that killed at least 13 Somalis, most of them civilians. Unidentified gunmen shot and injured the commissioner of Guri-el district in the Galgadudu region. An airstrike in a southern, remote area of Somalia may have been launched by US forces Sunday night.
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Yemen rebel leader said hurt in clashes with state
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Reported airstrikes cause explosions in Somalia
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US should target militants in Pakistan: Afghan newspaper
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EU agrees to expand Afghan police training mission
Al Qaeda
Osama bin Laden is hiding in the K2 mountains of northern Pakistan, according to sources cited by Arabic television network Al Arabiya. The report also said US intelligence operatives were intending to drive bin Laden out in a major military operation encompassing the northern Pakistani tribal areas.
Afghanistan
A British soldier was killed and two others injured in the Sangin district after their vehicle struck a roadside bomb. Hundreds of university and school students demonstrated in northern Afghanistan in a new protest over a US soldier’s shooting of a Koran in Iraq. Italy is willing to move its troops from the relatively quiet […]
Sri Lanka
At least seven people have been killed and 62 injured in a bombing during rush hour on a packed Sri Lankan commuter train. The blast hit the Colombo-Panadura train in Dehiwala station, in a suburb of the capital Colombo. Ground battles between Sri Lankan troops and separatist rebels killed 21 guerrillas and one solider in […]
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MNLF leaders ‘bury’ hatchet in Libya meet
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Pro-Qadhafi Website Blocked in Libya
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Forbidden pleasures return to Mosul as Al-Qaeda melts away
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Fearing death, Somali journalists flee to Ethiopia’s capital
Somalia
Ethiopian soldiers have established a new military base at Yaqbariweyne in the lower Shabelle region in southern Somalia. UN monitors have accused Ugandan peacekeepers of selling arms to Muslim fighters battling the Somali transitional government and Ethiopian soldiers in Somalia. Gunmen attacked clan elders inlcuding the mayor of Guri Ceel in Dhuusa Mareeb, Galgaduud region, […]
Russia
Police say two senior officers have been killed in separate shootings in Russia’s North Caucasus region. A high-level anti-corruption officer was shot outside a restaurant early today in Dagestan and gunmen shot an anti-organized crime officer in Kabardino-Balkaria. Abu Isupkhadzhiyev, the emir of the village of Pervomaiskaya in the Grozny region, killed himself with a […]
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Mali citizens want nomadic rebel leader arrested: spokesman
Afghanistan
At least 12 insurgents were killed during a Coalition raid against their hideout in the Bala Baluk district of Farah province. One Coalition soldier and two Afghan policemen were also killed during the clash. Two bombs exploded in Kandahar minutes apart from each other. The suicide car-bomb damaged a NATO vehicle, injured three foreign soldiers […]
In Pictures: Eastern Afghanistan’s most wanted
A list of Combined Joint Task Force-82’s most wanted tactical and regional commanders and operatives in eastern Afghanistan.
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No talk of Iran blockade: US speaker