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Fresh clashes leave 20 Taliban militants dead in Bajaur
Author Archives: Matt Dupee
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US firm ambushed again in Afghan south, 23 dead
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12 killed in US attack on Pakistani border town
Pakistan
Missiles fired from a suspected US drone killed 12 people associated with the Afghan militant organization, Al Badar, in North Waziristan. Security forces killed 20 more insurgents in fresh clashes that broke out in the Loisam, Sangkhata, and Shankai areas of the Bajaur Agency. The Sept. 3 commando stike by US Navy SEALS in South […]
Somalia
Owners of the German-owned cargo ship that was released on Thursday by Somali pirates paid a $1.1 million ransom. Nine Filipino seamen who were among the 13-member crew of that German-owned vessel were also freed by the pirates. At least six Ethiopians have been killed and 23 others injured in a new series of clashes […]
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Three US-led soldiers, 28 rebels killed in Afghanistan
North Korea
US intelligence officials believe North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is gravely ill and possibly suffered a stroke. Kim failed to attend a military parade to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic. Reports that a team of elite Chinese doctors have been dispatched to North Korea to treat an unnamed […]
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Russia: Iran nuclear plant nearly ready
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IDF warplanes reportedly fly over southern Lebanon
Lebanon
A reconciliation accord is expected to be signed between Alawites and Sunnis in northern Lebanon’s capital of Tripoli. A UN report reiterated a call for Israel to compensate Lebanon for damage from the 2006 war. Hassan Nasrallah appeared on Iranian television and warned any offensive in the Gaza Strip “will have unclear implications for Zionists.”
Afghanistan
Cell phone images are providing evidence that a large number of civilians may have been mistakenly killed by US troops operating in western Afghanistan last month. US Marines handed over control of a former Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan to Afghan soldiers and their British mentors following a four-month operation. Afghan security forces foiled a […]
Somalia
Pirates armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked three vessels off Somalia’s coast but failed to hijack them. Kidnappers holding an Alberta journalist in Somalia have demanded a $2.5 million ransom in exchange for her release. The three Royal Malaysian Navy vessels have arrived in the Gulf of Aden to help patrol Somali waters.
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Russia™s Restless Muslim Republics
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Iran under attack in new Al-Qaeda video
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TIMELINE-Messages attributed to al Qaeda’s Zawahri
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Marines hand ex-Taliban stronghold to Afghans
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US Strikes Taliban Stronghold in Pakistan
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More Diggers wanted for Afghanistan
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Taliban learning how to win key propaganda battles
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For the Taliban, A Crime That Pays
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Hamid Karzai blames Britain for Taliban resurgence
Al Qaeda
Western intelligence sources in Pakistan believe that al Qaeda’s American recruit and propaganda chief, Adam Gadahn, may have been killed in a CIA-directed airstrike. Intelligence officials will scrutinize radical websites and forums this week to see whether Gadahn – also known as Azzam al Ameriki – produces a new video message to mark Sept. 11, […]
Somalia
[Update 2] Shabaab has seized the frontier town of Dobley in the lower Juba region. A total of nine Somali and Ethiopian soldiers surrendered themselves to Islamist fighters on Saturday. Ethiopia’s ETV aired a bulletin saying that Sacad Mohamad Al Sacad, a Nigerian officer of the al Qaeda network, has been killed by Ethiopian troops. […]
Pakistan
A pickup truck packed with explosives blew up a police security checkpoint in Peshawar, killing at least 30 people and injuring dozens more. Police say the death toll is likely to rise because people are stuck under the rubble of nearby buildings, which collapsed from the force of the blast. Fighting in Bajaur has forced […]
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Sri Lanka says 24 rebels killed in new fighting
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China bans mass prayers during Ramadan in restive province
Afghanistan: Provincial intelligence chief killed in Taliban suicide bombing
A Taliban suicide attack killed the provincial intelligence chief for Nimroz province and five others. Violence in southwestern Afghanistan continues to escalate as some Taliban commander’s vow to take the fight to urban settings.
Russia
Gunmen assassinated Abdulla Alishayev, a host on one of the most popular Islamic television stations in the Russian republic of Dagestan; he is the second journalist to be killed in the Caucasus this week. A third journalist, Miloslav Bitokov, editor-in-chief, of the independent weekly Gazeta Yuga, was severely beaten yesterday by unidentified men outside his […]
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Top Afghan anti-drugs judge murdered in Kabul
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ISI behind abduction of Japanese worker, alleges Afghanistan