Islamic terrorists beheaded three Somalian soldiers following a clash south of Mogadishu. The Somali transitional government announced that it would like to engage opposition groups in dialogue to help end the country’s 16-year civil war. Ongoing violence is forcing 20,000 civilians to flee Mogadishu each month.
A Nigerian Federal High Court in Abuja, granted bail to Mohammed Ashafa, charged by the Nigerian government for allegedly associating with an al Qaeda group and planning to harm American interests in Nigeria. Nigeria began training its first group of specialist anti-terrorism police.
Afghan officials say 41 Taliban fighters, including their commander Toorjan Eshaqzai, were killed during Coalition gunship strikes in southern Helmand and Nimroz provinces. A suicide car bomber detonated near a convoy carrying US troops close the Kabul airport killing at least six civilians and wounding 18. Coalition forces raided a hideout of Chechen fighters in […]
Terrorism experts and analysts doubt the claims made by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb about launching an incursion into Tunisia to kidnap two Austrian nationals, saying the pair got lost in Sahara, ended up in Algeria, and then were abducted by Islamic terrorists. The Algerian president has affirmed Algeria will severely punish anyone using […]
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A roadside bomb explosion wounded three Romanian soldiers who were on patrol in Zabul province. A suicide car bomber detonated next to a Canadian armored vehicle in Kandahar City, wounding one Canadian soldier and killing an Afghan civilian. Coalition forces attacked a high-level meeting of Haqqani network commanders. Another cellular phone tower was badly damaged […]
The Austrian Foreign Ministry is examining the claims made by al Qaeda™s North African branch regarding the group™s kidnapping of two Austrian nationals last seen on the Tunisian-Algerian border last month. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has said any military raid launched to free the hostages will have “consequences” for the victims. Security sources […]
Coalition air power has once again targeted the Haqqani Network’s command and control capabilities. Phil Peterson reports from location at Bagram Air Force Base with additional reporting from Matt DuPee.
Kuwait hailed for extending facilities for US military
Alleged FARC leader in private clinic in Venezuela
Advance party of US Marines lands in southern Afghanistan
Excalibur round debuts in Afghanistan
A roadside bomb targeting a military convoy killed a pregnant woman and wounded four others in Mogadishu. The security minister in Somalia’s semiautonomous State of Puntland has handed in his official resignation papers.
Taliban ‘far from defeated’ in Afghanistan, UN warns
Al Qaeda’s North Africa branch claimed it kidnapped the two Austrian nationals last seen on the Tunisian-Algerian border in late February. Algerian security forces are currently combing eastern villages in search of the pair. The Algerian newspaper, Ennahar, says the kidnappers moved the Austrians to Mali.
Seeking to silence ‘spies,’ Taliban target cell towers
Warlord under siege after ‘kidnap and torture’ of former ally
The UN says violence in Afghanistan is at its highest point since the US-led invasion in Oct. 2001. Ten Taliban, including local commanders Mullah Sayed Rahim and Khan, have been killed since a security operation was launched last week in Oruzgan province. Insurgents attacked nine cell towers since last month.
Two massive suicide bombs ripped through the eastern city of Lahore, killing over 23 people and leaving close to 200 wounded. The seven-story Federal Investigation Agency building, which houses a department of the federal police’s anti-terrorism unit, was destroyed in the bigger blast. Six suspected insurgents were arrested in raids conducted in Tank and Swat.
Police intelligence arrested Ronnie Tillung, alias Taming Yakana, a suspected member of the Abu Sayyaf who allegedly took part in the abduction of a physician in Isabela City, Basilan in 1992.
Israeli officials called a halt to airstrikes and raids into the Gaza Strip in response to a drop in rocket fire. The closure imposed on the West Bank following last Thursday’s shooting incident in Jerusalem was lifted on Sunday evening.
Coalition forces arrested 10 suspected Taliban insurgents during a raid against a known Taliban commander in Uruzgan province. British forces purchased three unmanned Predator B drone aircraft, also known as Reaper, and will deploy them against Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan. Harsh winter weather and the soaring price of wheat has created a debilitating food […]
Eight suspected suicide bombers left eastern Algeria a few days ago and are reportedly heading to the Gaza Strip to commit suicide attacks, according to the pan Arab daily al-Sharq al-Awsat
Chinese police foiled terror plot targeting Beijing Olympics
Afghan police thwarted a Taliban ambush against the police station in northwestern Badghis province. Two Taliban were killed and three others wounded. A district intelligence chief for eastern Khost province was shot to death by unknown assassins while traveling to his office in the Mandozai district. More than 10,000 Afghans took to the streets to […]
US troops discovered a mass grave containing 100 bodies near Khalis in the Diyala province. The skeletal remains have been there for some time. A car bomb attack in Mosul left two people killed and five others wounded. The Defense Department’s inspector general’s report said, “unmonitored and potentially unsafe” water at three US bases in […]
Fierce fighting broke out in eastern Algerian between government troops and al Qaeda-linked Islamic rebels. Casualties numbering close to 30 are reported on both sides. Algerian authorities confiscated four tons of cannabis this week near the border with Morocco.
Chinese police captured and killed suspected Islamic terrorists who were plotting attacks targeting the Beijing Olympics. Police confiscated guns, homemade bombs, training materials, and extremist religious ideological materials during the raid, in which two members of the gang were killed and 15 arrested.