Monthly Archives: May 2008

Iraq

US troop deaths in May near lowest level of war




Somalia

Hassan Dahir Aweys said Sheikh Sharif Ahmed will be replaced as leader of the Reliberation of Somalia Alliance, the front group for the Islamic Courts. “He sullied the laws of the group,” Aweys said. Somali pirates hijacked two more ships in the Gulf of Aden.


Iraq

Coalition forces captured a Special Groups financier in Mahmudiyah killed two Mahdi Army fighters in New Baghdad. Iraqi security forces killed nine insurgents as they attempted to ambush a checkpoint near Owja. Coalition forces detained 11 al Qaeda operatives in Mosul. Two police were killed and two were wounded in a car bomb attack in […]


Iran

Rival to Iran™s President Is Elected Speaker




Pakistan

The government is conducting talks with the Taliban in Darra Adam Khel. Eight Taliban were killed after their explosives-laden truck detonated in Bajaur. Police detained a suspect in the November 2007 bombing attack on an Air Force bus in Sargodha. Security forces are establishing checkpoints outside Peshawar to address the deteriorating security situation. Jamaat-ud- Dawa […]


Iraq

Suicide Bomber Kills Iraqi Police Recruits


Philippines

Three civilians were killed and 21 wounded in a bombing at a building outside the gate of the Edwin Andrews Air Base in Zamboanga City in Mindanao. The military accused the Moro Islamic Liberation Front™s special operations group for the blast. MILF denied the charges.



Afghanistan

The Third World War: Why NATO Troops Can’t Deliver Peace in Afghanistan


Pakistan

Top NATO general hope Pakistan would resume operation in FATA


Suicide bomber kills 16 people in northwestern Iraq


UN praises progress in Iraq as Baghdad seeks debt relief


Gordon Brown: Britain will scrap cluster bombs


Infighting leaves eight Taliban dead in Ghazni


Soldier denied payout in ‘wrong type of bomb’ case


Afghanistan

A suicide bomber targeting a US convoy in Kabul killed three civilians and damaged two US vehicles but caused no serious injuries. A Coalition airstrike in Farah province left at least 30 Taliban dead. A vital causeway that spans the Tarnack River and links Kandahar’s Dand district with Kandahar City has opened under tight security. […]


Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s military sank four Tamil Tiger rebel boats off the island’s northern coast after a battle that killed eight rebels and one soldier. The rebel boats were sunk when troops fired artillery at them as they attempted to attack army and naval positions in Sirutheevu off northern Jaffna. The Tamil Tiger rebel group dismissed […]


Yemen

Yemeni authorities have detained 11 al Qaeda operatives in the capital who were suspected of planning terrorist acts. Those arrested include African nationals and Saudis. The group members were detained before they could continue their travels to Iraq.






Al Qaeda

Female al Qaeda supporter uses internet as ‘bomb’ to recruit others to wage jihad on West




Iraq

Iraq: Over 7,500 police members sacked this year- official