Will the Shi’a Militia Truce Last?

IAF air strike kills 4 Hamas militants in Gaza Strip

US withdraws UN resolution on Annapolis

FOXNews.com – Afghanistan President Karzai: Bin Laden Tape ‘Ridiculous’

Afghanistan: Resurgent Taliban Slows Aid Projects, Reconstruction

Army defiant despite Pakistan’s divide

Source Compromise Exposes Probable Connection Between Al Qa’ida and Hizb ut Tahrir

The Iraqi journalist who claimed 11 family members were killed recanted. A joint US & Iraqi operation in Khalis netted “scores” of al Qaeda fighters. Coalition forces killed one al Qaeda operative and detained 17 during operations. Coalition forces detained 18 suspects during operations north of Bayji. The Nasiriyah SWAT captured two Special Groups leaders. A suicide bomber killed one member of the Diyala Awakening and wounded two.

Afghan chieftains get ultimatum

The Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) has won an appeal in British courts to be removed from the terrorism watchlist. Talks between the European Union and Iran over the nuclear program have broken down. The IAEA approved Russian nuclear fuel for the Bushehr plant. Two Iranian subs have been spotted in the Persian Gulf.

Iraqi journalist recants claim that 11 family members were killed

Mentoring Iraqi security, slowly – METimes

Fifteen Somalis were killed in fighting in Mogadishu. Shabaab may be regrouping in the central provinces of Hiran and Galgadud. The Ethiopian military may label Hiran a Shabaab stronghold after recent attacks. Shabaab’s call to attack Ugandan peacekeepers may have caused a split between the terror group and the Hawiye clan. Burundi peacekeepers are to deploy in mid-December.

Australian troops to leave Iraq by mid-2008: Rudd

Marines to cut armored vehicle orders – AP

Turk army gets green light to hit rebels in Northern Iraq

Crackdown on Iraq Sunni leader after bombs found

Troops bring security to volatile Afghan district

ISAF statement on Nuristan air strike

NATO force insufficient for Afghanistan: general

Bush could send troops into Pakistan to strike Bin Laden

Immigrant returns to Iraq with US Army

Bin Laden: Message to the European Peoples

Iraqi soldiers killed one insurgent and captured 47 in operations throughout Iraq. Coalition forces captured 12 al Qaeda operatives during raids. Coalition forces also killed two members of the Special Groups and captured five in the Khan Bani Said region north of Baghdad. Insurgents killed the mayor of a district in Kirkuk.

Muslim insurgents crucified a Muslim informant for the military. The terrorists “drove six-inch nails through his head, arms and legs to attach him to two pieces of wood, which were laid out like a cross in the middle of a road” in Narathiwat province after shooting and stabbing the man. Two Buhhdist were also beheaeded.

Osama bin Laden issues European diktat

Questioning Iran™s ‘Urgent Need’ For Nuclear Energy

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps is now in control of operations in the Persian Gulf. Iran claims to have built a sonar-avoiding submarine. President Ahmadinejad said the IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear program was a victory for the country.

Iraq Unprepared for Return of Refugees to Baghdad, US Military Fears

US over-counted Iraqi volunteer guards
