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Friend to foe: Pak forces falter under jihadi fire
Author Archives: Matt Dupee
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From Hizb-e-Islami camp to fighting extremism
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Moscow Warns against NATO Membership for Georgia, Ukraine
Philippines
Three suspected foreign terrorists arrested last month in connection with an alleged plot to bomb embassies in Manila are in military intelligence custody and are undergoing interrogation. Regional al Qaeda-linked terrorists are benefiting from the illicit sale of counterfeit cigarettes, medicines, CDs, and DVDs. Australia has boosted its security at its embassy in Manila following […]
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Expert says fake DVDs fund militants in Philippines
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Afghanistan: ANA brings new breed of Soldier
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Al Qaeda Seeks Tech Geeks to Run Multimedia Wing
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How the Lord of War Was Nabbed
Egypt
Egyptian authorities destroyed six underground tunnels used to smuggle weapons between Egypt and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Egyptian police shot a Sudanese man on the Israeli border when a group of migrants ignored their orders to stop and made a run for Israel. Egypt is trying to persuade Hamas to accept a truce that would […]
Russia
The head of the North Ossetia province™s organized crime fighting unit, Mark Metsayev, was shot dead in the provincial capital Vladikavkaz on Friday. Gunmen ambushed a police patrol in the Caucasus republic of Ingushetia Friday evening leaving two officers seriously injured. Transport police intercepted 55 pounds of heroin from a Tajik national in the southern […]
Afghanistan
British troops are being attacked four times a day on average in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, according to official figures. A roadside bomb struck a civilian car in Helmand province Saturday, killing three people, including two children, and wounding another. UN chief Ban Ki-moon plans to appoint Norwegian diplomat Kai Eide as his […]
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FARC and France exchange veiled warning messages
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US seeks weapons suspect’s extradition
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Colombia says kills another FARC rebel leader
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New York police offer reward In Times Square bombing
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Afghanistan: Taliban jail escapees were serving harsh punishments
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Afghanistan suicide bomber came from Germany
Iraq
Bombings in the northern city of Mosul killed four policemen and left 46 other people injured. The Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr made an appearance in the holy city of Najaf to explain his “absence” to his follwers. Sons of Iraq led Coalition forces to an al Qaeda in Iraq torture house and prison in […]
Algeria
Terrorists attacked and killed three security guards on Wednesday morning at a construction site in Algeria’s Jijel province. The Austrian foreign ministry believes that two Austrian nationals have been arrested or kidnapped in the area along the border between Algeria and Tunisia. Concerns over the use of mobile telephones in terrorist bombings have prompted the […]
Somalia
Insurgents attacked government installations in the provincial town of Beletwein overnight Thursday, killing at least three government soldiers and wounding two people, including a civilian.The US government strongly condemned the closure of Somalian radio stations and the arrest of Shabelle Radio’s director Mukhtar Mohamed Hirabe. Fourteen Ethiopian soldiers were killed late on Thursday as insurgents […]
Afghanistan
The rogue Afghan soldier who shot a US soldier to death last year in the western province of Herat has been sentenced to death. Taliban insurgents damaged a fourth cell-phone tower in Zabul province. Afghan police confiscated more than a half ton of opium in Helmand™s Washir district.
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Kabul hotel attack mastermind in Pakistan: intelligence chief
Somalia
Yesterday’s missile strike was aimed at Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a Kenyan born in 1979 who is wanted by the FBI for questioning in the nearly simultaneous attacks in 2002 on a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, and on an Israeli airliner taking off from there, said three American officials, who spoke on the condition of […]
Algeria
The death toll from political violence in Algeria fell to 19 in February, from 25 in January, according to a Reuters count. Algerian Justice Minister Tayeb Belaiz on Sunday confirmed that officials from the country had visited the US base at Guantanamo Bay to identify Algerian detainees, and said that although the country would accept […]
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New governor picked for Helmand
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Pakistan: The case of the “missing” Qari
Afghanistan
Twenty Taliban fighters were killed during a Coalition raid in Sangin, Helmand province. The elderly governor of Helmand province, Assadullah Wafa, has been moved from his post. Afghanistan’s intelligence chief has rejected an assessment by the US who said 10 percent of the country is under Taliban control.
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Helmand governor moved from job
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Taliban destroy second cell tower
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Somalia: Prime Minister Backs Broad-Based Reconciliation Process