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Iraq
Iran’s Quds Force knew of attack on US soldiers: US
The Iraq Offensive
Baghdad and the Belts. Red bordered units identified as active in offensive operations. Click map to view. A status update on Operation Phantom Thunder Iraqi and Coalition forces maintain the pressure against al Qaeda, Sunni insurgents, and the “rogue,” Iranian backed “secret cells” of the Mahdi Army and the Qazali network. Operation Phantom Thunder is […]
Iraq
Bombs from Iran are being used against British troops, says MoD
Iraq
Iranian forces crossed Iraqi border: report
Pakistan
North Waziristan’s political agent warned a tribe to expel “foreigners” form North Waziristan. Five Tajik “Islamists” were captured crossing the border from Iran into Balochistan. The All Pakistan Minorities Alliance demanded the government ban Jamia Hasfa as it promotes extremism and Talibanisation.
Palestinian Territories
Iran played ‘big role’ in Gaza takeover
One Week of Operation Phantom Thunder
US forces in Baghdad and the Belts. MNF-I map, click to view. An update on the Battle of Iraq Operation Phantom Thunder, the corps coordinated operation across three theaters in the Baghdad Belts, has completed it seventh day. Ground forces commander Lieutenant General Raymond Odierno gave a briefing on the operation. To date, Coalition and […]
Operation Phantom Thunder: The Battle of Iraq
Baghdad and the Belts. Red bordered units identified as active in offensive operations. Click map to view. A status update on the operations in the Baghdad Belts and beyond Operation Phantom Thunder, the name of the overarching operation to secure the Baghdad Belts, is now in its fifth day. As noted yesterday, Phantom Thunder is […]
Iraq
British hostages held by ‘Iran-backed™ killers
The Battle of Iraq – 2007
Baghdad and the Belts. Red bordered units identified as active in offensive operations. Click map to view. By Bill Roggio and DJ Elliott A look at the largest offensive operation in Iraq since 2003 Four days after the announcement of major offensive combat operations against al Qaeda in Iraq and its allies, the picture becomes […]
The Battle of Baqubah I
The Baqubah egion. Click map to view. Major offensive in al Qaeda’s so-called capital of the Islamic State of Iraq The Diyala Campaign is underway. As part of major offensive operations throughout the belts regions of Baghdad, Iraqi and U.S. forces have launched a large scale operation in the city of Baqubah the provincial capital […]
United States
Iran: Tehran Says It Has Kremlin Assurance It Won’t Share Radar With US
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia calls on Iran not to interfere in Iraq’s internal affairs
Iraq
Three Iranian diplomats briefly detained in Iraq
The Road to Hamastan
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed 10, including a Dutch soldier and 4 Afghan children, in an attack on a NATO convoy in Uruzgan. An unconfirmed report indicated senior Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani died of Hepatitis. Afghanistan’s defense minister denied Iran is arming the Taliban. France will send 150 trainers for the Afghan Army.
Pakistan
The Taliban have taken over the city of Tank. Pro-government tribal leaders in Mohmand were threatened by the Taliban: “You people are infidels and hypocrites. If you don™t stop negotiations with the government and meetings against the Taliban, then explosion(s) will occur in your homes.” The Taliban paraded “criminals” in a bazaar in Miranshah, North […]
Minarets of Samarra’s al-Askaria mosque destroyed; al Qaeda prime suspect
The Golden Dome of the al-Askaria Mosque and its two minarets prior to the bombings in 2006 and 2007. The Shia mosque at the epicenter of last year’s explosion of sectarian violence hit again Just as U.S. and Iraqi Security Forces have begun to get the sectarian violence back to pre February 2006 levels, the […]
Afghanistan
NATO’s top general in Afghanistan stated Iran is supporting the Taliban. Seven police officers were killed in a friendly fire incident after police attacked a US convoy at night. Twenty-four Taliban were killed in fighting on Monday.
Iraq
The Hidden Hand of Iran in the Resurgence of Ansar al-Islam
Iraq
Iran confirms detention of 4th American
Israel
Israel Says Military Action Against Iran Possible
Al Qaeda
Osama™s Bodyguard: Iran-al Qaeda Cooperation Based on “Joint Interests”
Mahdi rocket teams destroyed in Sadr City
Major Marty Weber holds an Iranian made 107mm rocket at a press conference in Baghdad in April [AFP/Getty Images]. Click to view. Mahdi Army rocket team killed in helicopter, ground strikes as operations increase in Muqtada’s stronghold in Baghdad The return of Muqtada al Sadr from his four months of self imposed exile in Iran […]
Afghanistan
A Chinook helicopter crash killed 7 ISAF troops in the Kajaki district of Helmand province. The Taliban claimed to have shot down the helo. The Taliban killed 16 Afghan police in an ambush in Zabul province. Iranian-made AK-47s, C-4 plastic explosives, mortars and EFPs are being supplied to the Taliban.
Turkey
Turkey probes weapons cache from Iran to Syria
A look at the surge from Baghdad
By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, who is currently embedded with the 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery in western Baghdad. Support for Daveed’s reporting was provided by Public Multimedia Inc. As I write this, I’m nearing the end of my time embedded with the 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery (known as 2-32), which is working with the 2nd […]
Iraq
US, Iran Hold Meeting On Iraq Security
Attacking Sadr’s Mahdi Army
The Mahdi Army. Click image to view. Mahdi Army targeted in Baghdad, Basra and Kut Within 24 hours after the return on Muqtada al Sadr from his self imposed four month exile in Iran, Coalition and Iraqi forces launched five high profile attack against the extremist elements of his Mahdi Army. Today, U.S., British, Polish […]