→
Canadian, coalition troops seize Taliban weapons, drugs
Author Archives: Matt Dupee
→
Russia stages raid near key oil pipeline: Georgia
Georgia
Georgia will withdraw its entire 2,000-strong military contingent from Iraq within three days to help battle South Ossetian separatist rebels according to a senior Georgian military official. The Georgian military has claimed downing 10 Russian aircraft and destroying 30 Russian tanks in two days of fighting. Georgia has so far defeated all attacks on the […]
Turkey
Kurdish rebels threatened to stage more attacks on economic targets in Turkey only days after claiming responsibility for a fire at a key oil pipeline. The fire on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline is still burning in eastern Turkey and repairs may take one to two weeks or longer to repair.
Afghanistan
Up to 20 insurgents were killed after Afghan police and Coalition forces raided a Taliban-occupied village in the Bala Baluk region of Farah province. A Canadian soldier was killed during a firefight in Kandahar’s Zhari district, and preliminary reports suggest a private security firm may be have accidentally shot and killed the soldier. Mullah Turab […]
→
Georgian army moves to retake South Ossetia
→
NATO aircraft crashes in E. Afghanistan
→
Offensive against Taliban under way
United States
Military jurors found Osama bin Laden’s former driver guilty of providing material support to terrorism in the first US war crimes trial since World War II. However, the jury found Salim Hamdan not guilty on a count of conspiracy. He faces a possible maximum sentence of life in prison.
Mauritania
Mauritanian soldiers overthrew the elected president in a coup on Wednesday and announced the formation of a military ruling council in the northwest African Islamic state. Soldiers seized President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi at his palace after he sacked senior army officers during a political crisis in Mauritania.
Afghanistan
NATO troops prevented the use of two vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices in the central Afghan province of Wardak. A senior Afghan intelligence official has accused a number of parliamentarians of supporting Taliban insurgents. Afghanistan’s spy agency accused a member of Pakistan’s consulate in Kandahar province of helping a Taliban commander in his attempts to weaken […]
→
Six powers to hold talks Wednesday on Iran nuclear program
Russia
Two policemen were killed and five others were wounded in fresh attacks by gunmen in Russia’s volatile southern region of Ingushetia. A rebel website has reported the killing of seven Russians in recent clashes in Chechnya. The former defense minister of Chechnya’s separatist government is on a European tour to encourage senior rebel figures to […]
→
US ‘missed chance’ to kill militant leader Baitullah Mehsud
→
Five arrested in Fazul terror pursuit
→
Thirteen Afghan polio cases, unrest hampering vaccinations
→
International soldier, Afghan judge killed
→
Sri Lankan forces close in on rebels, fighting kills 23
The Haqqani Network: Reign of terror
The Haqqani Network has risen in prominence in the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. The Haqqani family has been behind some of the most high-profile attacks in Afghanistan and is rivaling the older generation of Taliban leaders.
→
Iraq says 265 arrested in anti-Qaeda offensive
→
Somali peace deal threatened as 10 ministers quit
→
Chechen Parliament dissolved to strengthen power in Chechnya
→
Two insurgents held in Chechnya
→
Wedding party killed by Afghan road mine
→
13 suspected Taliban insurgents captured in Afghanistan
→
The Taleban’s weapon of choice
→
ISAF kills Taliban leader in Helmand
Decapitation campaign: tracking the liquidation of Afghan insurgent commanders
The son of infamous Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani is among those killed during recent battles in southern and eastern Afghanistan.
Taliban “shadow” governor slain; female warlord surrenders
The Taliban experience another setback in the attempt to re-establish the northern networks as the shadow governor of Faryab province is killed by locals.
Caucasus
Armed group kills 3 in south Russia night raid