Monthly Archives: April 2007



Army chief wants to speed up troop hike


Hamas leader justifies rocket attacks


Iraq

Uneasy Alliance Is Taming One Insurgent Bastion in Anbar


Iraq

Iraq insurgents forming a get-Harry squad?



Somalia

Somali and Ethiopian troops are patroling the Bakara market in Mogadishu, where Islamic Courts fighters once dominated the streets. Business owners have agreed to turn in their weapons.


Iraq

al Qaeda reportedly taking strongholds in Hamrin mountains in Diyala


Al Qaeda

Abu Laith al-Libi released a videotape through As Sahab, al Qaeda’s media wing. He eulogized Zarqawi, discuss the state of jihad in Afghanistan, reiterated the importance of the issue of Palestine and the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, and indicated the US has shown persistence in Iraq, operating behind the Shia. He also called out […]


Iraq

Car bomb kills at least 58 near Iraqi Shiite shrine


Suicide bomber kills 28, wounds Pakistan’s Interior Minister in the NWFP

Aftermath of the Charsadda suicide attack. Click to view. Aftab Sherpao, scores more wounded at a political meeting in Charsadda The Taliban have targeted Pakistani Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao with a suicide strike while he was addressing his political party, the Pakistan Peoples Party (Sherpao Group), in the settled district of Charsadda in Northwest Frontier […]


Afghanistan

NATO and Afghan forces killed 29 Taliban during operations in the southern and eastern provinces. Helmand Khost, Helmand and Zabul. The Taliban freed a female French aide worker; her male counterpart is still in custody..


United Kingdom

Alive and Well and Living in London – Why won’t Britain extradite Islamic extremists?





On A failure in generalship: The contrarian point of view


Thailand

Thailand’s Defence Minister is reportedly holding secret meetings with Muslim insurgent leaders, with the help of Malaysia’s Prime Minister. Muslim insurgents detonated a bomb at a market in Narathiwat, wounding a 68-year-old woman and her grandson. An unidentified gunman shot at the Krue Se Mosque, which was morning the third anniversary a massacre at the […]


Taliban/al Qaeda camp targeted in North Waziristan

NWFP/FATA map. Red agencies/districts are openly controlled by the Taliban; yellow are under threat. Click map to view. Four killed, 3 wounded in Danda Saidgai, the scene of a major assault on an al Qaeda base in March of 2006 An unidentified explosion in the border village of Danda Saidgai in North Waziristan killed three […]


Israel

Hezbollah taunts Israel with giant pictures of captured soldiers



Somalia

War in the Horn – Islamist insurgents are not yet crushed


Iraq

The Urban Tourniquet – “Gated Communities”


Iran

(Iran) Students at the university of Lorestan protest over strict dress codes



Yemen

Force ‘only solution’ to Shiite rebellion in Yemen


Lebanon

UNIFIL rejects Lebanese Army claim of Israeli incursion in South