Mali
Tuareg insurgents loyal to Ibrahim Ag Bahanga ambushed a military convoy near the Algeria border. Mali has lost 33 men captured and three soldiers killed since fighting exploded on Thursday.
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Lebanon
Hezbollah’s deputy secretary general Naim Qassem has accused Israel for the assassination of terrorist mastermind, Imad Mughniyah, saying, “we have clear proof, of 100 percent that cannot be doubted, that Israel is the head of the assassination.” Fighting has continued to rage in the Ain al Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon after Fatah forces […]
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Al Qaida kills clerics in Algeria who criticized insurgency
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Algeria rebuffs Moroccan call to open border
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Special Forces have Afghan drug lords in sights
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Afghanistan: UAV makes hard landing in Sarobi District
Russia
Unidentified gunmen assassinated Haji Abalishov, chairman of the Dagestan Broadcasting Committee, in a walk-by shooting in Mahachgala. Another TV journalist from Dagestan was found stangeled to death in his Moscow apartment a few hours earlier. A bomb exploded on Friday at a police checkpoint in Ingushetia, bordering Chechnya, but no one was hurt.
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Slowdown in Iraq troop cuts possible as top brass meet
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All eyes on Mosul in US-Iraqi drive to oust al-Qaeda – Feature
Afghanistan
Afghan police arrested three individuals and confiscated 1.5 tons of opium in eastern Nangarhar province. Afghan police and US advisers stormed a Taliban stronghold in Zabul, killing three Taliban and arresting three others. The district governor of the Khanaqa district in northern Jowzjan province was killed in a knife attack this morning. A highway commander […]
Mali
Three Malian soldiers were killed and around 20 were captured by Tuareg insurgents who attacked a military supply convoy near the northeastern border with Algeria. The fighting took place in the northern area of Mali’s Kidal region where al Qaeda kidnappers are reported to be holding two Austrian tourists seized last month in Tunisia.
Algeria
A son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is mediating over two Austrians held by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and is hopeful they will be freed soon. Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer has also reportedly called Gaddafi himself to help in the affair. A meeting between the kidnappers and the negotiators had taken place in […]
Afghanistan
The Taliban released a video showing the suicide bombing of the Sabri district headquarters in Khost province that killed two US soldiers earlier this month. Maulvi Jalaluddin Haqqani, a top Taliban strategist and leader of the Haqqani Network, issued a message in the tape, praising the suicide attack.
Somalia
Islamic insurgents ambushed an Ethiopian unit while they tried to establish a new barracks in northern Mogadishu. The five-hour battle left at least three Ethiopian soldiers and three insurgents dead. Insurgents briefly overran two military bases following the clash.
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed five Pakistani troops when he detonated outside a paramilitary base near Wana, South Waziristan. The Pakistan People’s Party allegedly selected its choice for the country™s next prime minister, but the decision may already be causing rifts within the party. Pakistan successfully conducted its final flight test of its indigenously developed unmanned […]
Inside the Bridge: Behind the scenes of a strike into Pakistan
A behind-the-scenes look at a strike launched from Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. Phil Peterson was inside the Joint Operation Center’s operation cell, aka “the Bridge,” during the March 12 strike into Pakistan against the Haqqani Network.
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New ‘bin Laden tape’ threatens EU
Al Qaeda
A new audio tape recording purportedly of Osama bin Laden appeared on the al Qaeda-affiliated Al-Ekhlaas Internet forum. In the message titled, “The Response Will Be What You See, Not What You Hear,” bin Laden threatens to “punish” the European Union over the recent re-publication of cartoons depicting Islam’s Prophet Mohammad. The voice on the […]
Afghanistan
Riots broke out at Pul-i-Charkhi prison, a high-security jail on Kabul™s outskirts, leaving an unknown number of inmates wounded. Another cellular phone antenna was badly damaged in Kandahar province. Six members of a family were killed during a US raid in Khost. Helmand™s new governor supports holding talks with the Taliban.
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Chemical Ali will not hang alone
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Second Austrian official flies to Mali for hostage talks
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Guantanamo Algerian prisoners welcomed in Algeria
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Inmates riot at high-security Kabul jail
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Afghans demonstrate against ‘deployment of Russian troops’
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Helmand governor seeks talks with Taliban
Russia
Moscow has armed and equipped a local army loyal to Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov, a former rebel leader, and given it the task of keeping control. Ahmed Zakayev, a veteran leader of the Chechen Resistance and now the Prime Minister in exile of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, gave an interview. “Let me remind your […]
Somalia
The US government has classified al Shabaab, an Islamic terrorists group based in Somalia, as a terrorist organization. The group has conducted beheadings of government soldiers and praised al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. The Danish HDMS Thetis, a state of the art navy vessel, is now protecting food aid and conducting anti-pirate patrols in […]
Important Taliban commander for northwestern Afghanistan arrested
Afghan intelligence operatives seized a lead Taliban field commander for northwestern Afghanistan during a raid in Herat province. The arrest follows a series of strikes against the Taliban’s leadership in the area this winter.
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Taliban cellular antenna vandals killed, arrested
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UN States Lag on Iran Sanctions Reports