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Sudan
Darfur town razed after peacekeeper raid
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Iran
General Petraeus said Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, Iran’s ambassador to Iraq, is a Qods Force officer. “The ambassador is a Qods force member,” Petraeus said. “[Qods Force is] responsible for providing the weapons, the training, the funding and in some cases the direction for operations that have indeed killed U.S. soldiers.”
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Pakistan
Support network in Pakistan accused of helping Taliban, others sneak across border to attack US
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Iraq
Muqtada al Sadr and his Mahdi Army were behind the attacks at the Karbala shrines in August. US troops captured three insurgents and dismantled four EFPs in eastern Baghdad, and three Special Groups operatives were captured in Sadr City. One al Qaeda operative was killed and eight captured during raids throughout Iraq.
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Lebanon
Lebanon’s growing trend of arms and militias
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Pakistan
Pakistani Supreme Court unlikely to annul Musharraf victory
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Iraq
Baghdad bombings kill at least 9 Iraqis
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Pakistan
The Taliban claimed it captured 28 paramilitary soldiers in North Waziristan; the military denied this. Ten soldiers were killed and 15 wounded, and 20 Taliban were killed and 30 wounded after the army conducted a strike in North Waziristan. Maulana Fazlullah and the TNSM demanded sharia law be implemented in the Malakand division of Swat. The new imam of the Red Mosque threatened violence if his demands are not met.
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Thailand
Security forces stopped a bombing campaign in the southern city of Hat Yai in Songkhla province. Seventeen small bombs were found throughout the city and defused. Muslim insurgents killed three Muslim civilians in separate attacks in Yala, Pattani, and Narathiwat provinces.
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Kashmir
Eight Pakistani terrorists and two Indian soldiers were killed during clashes. Nine terrorists killed several days ago were plotting to bomb bridges and railroad tracks.
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Algeria
Eight soldiers and four terrorists were killed during fighting in eastern Algeria. The army killed a suicide bomber in the province of Tizi Ouzou earlier this week. The foreign minister said “foreign military bases on Algerian soil are not on the agenda.” French nationals are leaving Algeria after al Qaeda threats to attack foreigners.
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Syria
Syria is encouraging Iraqi insurgents and Baathists to organize opposition inside its borders. Syria remains the departing point for suicide bombers heading into Iraq.
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Afghanistan
A suicide car bomb attack killed four Afghan civilians and one US soldier in Kabul today. This is the third suicide attack inside Kabul in eight days. The US is expanding the Bagram military base by one-third to accommodate more troops in country.
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Pakistan
Pervez Musharraf was elected to a third term as president as the opposition sat out of the voting. The Supreme Court must still decide on petitions filed by the opposition. The Taliban killed one soldier and wounded 19 in an IED ambush of a military convoy in North Waziristan.
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Iraq
Muqtada al Sadr and Abdul Aziz al Hakim signed an agreement to put aside religious and sectarian issues. Sunni and Shia tribal leaders in Muqdadiyah signed an agreement to put aside tribal differences to fight al Qaeda. Special operations forces killed six al Qaeda operatives and captured 18 in raids throughout Iraq. US soldiers captured six rogue Mahdi Army fighters in Sadr City. Iraqi Special Operations Forces captured a Shia extremist company commander in Khalis.
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Iran: Mullahs vs. Mullahs (Part 1)
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Iran
New IRGC Commander: Asymmetrical Warfare Is Our Strategy for Dealing with Enemy’s Considerable Capabilities; We Aspire to Ballistic Missile Superiority
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Al Qaeda’s Ramadan assassination campaign
Al Qaeda in Iraq continues its Ramadan assassination program and Sunni insurgent groups continue to turn on the terror group.
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Iran
Iran vows to free ‘all of Palestine™
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Al Qaeda
Bin Laden “alive and well”, says al-Qaeda
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Egypt
Egypt frees senior Muslim Brotherhood leader, 9 others
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Hezbollah
Hezbollah’s Nasrallah flogs Israel, vows no internal fighting, suggests direct poll for president
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Lebanon
The government issued an arrest warrant for Fatah Al Islam leader Shaker al Abssi and 36 of his fighters, including 16 Palestinians and four Russians. Abssi was believed dead after his wife identified remains at a morgue.
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Algeria
Hassan Hattab, the founder of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, the precursor to al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb, surrendered to police with the hope of reconciling. Algerian soldiers killed 22 al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb foot soldiers in two separate ambushes.
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Pakistan
The election in Pakistan is underway. One civilian was killed and eight soldiers were wounded in Taliban attacks on bases and a convoy in North Waziristan. Negotiations to free over 300 Pakistani soldiers captured in South Wazirstan are on hold until Baituallah Mehsud recovers from typhoid.
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Iraq
Four Iraqis were killed and and 30 wounded in a car bomb attack in Tal Afar. Coaltion special forces killed 12 al Qaeda operatives and wounded four in raids in central and northern Iraq. Iraqi police killed a Yemeni al Qaeda operative near Salman Pak. The Iraqi Army and Concerned Citizens captured eight al Qaeda operatives in Hawr Rajab.
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Afghanistan
NATO and Afghan forces killed 20 Taliban fighters in Kandahar province and “several” in Paktia province. The US Army is deploying teams of civilian anthropologists in eastern Afghanistan.
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Al Qaeda
US holding Iraqi lawmaker after raid on al Qaeda meeting
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Pakistan
Pakistan court move may prevent Musharraf vote win
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Pakistan
Bhutto corruption charges dropped
