Iran
Iran Rejects Suspending Nuke Enrichment Ahead of Talks With EU
Monthly Archives: May 2007
Turkey
Turkey troops head to Iraq border
Sudan
Sudan: US sanctions to have little fiscal impact
Afghanistan
Over 20 Taliban and 7 police were killed in fighting in Jalalabad, Uruzgan, Nuristan and Frarah provinces. The full contingent of Australia’s special forces is now in country. About 1,000 supporters of Rashid Dostrum demanded the resignation of the governor of Jawzjan province.
Iraq
Mehdi Army suspected in Baghdad kidnap, says Zebari
Iraq
Terror suspects detained in Baghdad’s Sadr City
Afghanistan
(Afghanistan) Operation Hoover: A tough slog, an elusive enemy
Pakistan
A car bomb outside the Peshawar High Court killed 1 and wounded 9. Bannu locals said 4 men killed in an encounter with the police were not Taliban. The leader of the Lal Masjid offered to advise the media on sharia. The banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa (formerly LeT) plans to rename its weekly publications to bypass government […]
Pakistan
Taliban resurgence worries India
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda-led group claims downing of US craft in Iraq
Al Qaeda targets the Salahadin Salvation Council
The provinces of Iraq. Click map to view. Family of anti Al Qaeda alliance murdered as the Awakening spreads The formation of the Awakening movements – the Sunni tribes and former insurgents opposed al Qaeda’s Talibanization of Iraq’s communities – poses a great threat to al Qaeda in Iraq. The prototype Awakening movement, which was […]
Al Qaeda
From Iraq to Algeria, al Qaeda’s Long Reach
Al Qaeda
al Qaeda in the Andes: Spotlight on Colombia
Somalia
A policeman was killed south of Mogadishu. A double bomb blast targeting police forces north of the capital killed killed one. Ethiopian will leave several thousand troops in Somalia for the long term.
Iraq
Rogue police may have snatched security guards and analyst in Iraq
Thailand
‘Iron flowers’ use feminine touch against Thailand’s rebels
Iraq
Militias test Zafaraniyah™s calm
The Intellectual Grunt – Part One
By Gene E. Blanton, who is currently embedded with the Multi-National Forces West Training Center in Habbaniyah. Support for Gene’s reporting was provided by Public Multimedia Inc. Counterinsurgency is not just thinking man’s warfare-it is the graduate level of war. Special Forces Officer in Iraq, 2005 COUNTERINSURGENCY Marine Corps Warfighting Publication 3-33.5 CAMP HABBANIYAH, AL […]
Iraq
Gathering the Tribes- tapping the traditional networks that helped Saddam to stay in power.
Turkey
Turkey probes weapons cache from Iran to Syria
Iraq
US asked to destroy Kurdish bases
Syria
Assad tops 97 percent in Syria vote
Al Qaeda
Al-Jazeera Defends Fatah al-Islam
Lebanon
Fighting resumed at the Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, with Lebanese artillery pounding Fatah al-Islam positions and one soldier dying in the fighting. Lebanese special police arrested a man with links to Fatah al-Islam in Beirut.
Iraq
Tough work for military transition teams
Iraq
US ready to yield security responsibilities in three provinces to Kurds
Iraq
Salahadin Council Faces Reprisal Attacks
Afghanistan
Taliban learns tactics, PR from al Qaeda
Iran
Tehran’s Secret ‘Department 9000’
Al Qaeda
As-Sahab released a video by Adam Yahiye Gadahn (a.k.a. Azzam the American), where he issued a set of demands, including “removal of American military forces from Muslim lands, cease of encroachment into the political, social, and economic affairs in these countries, and to free Muslim captives from prisons.”