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Iran
Iran role in violence downturn ‘unclear’
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Iraq
Most US Mil Deaths This Month North of Baghdad
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Iran
Iran’s secret Syrian plan
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Iraq
Iraqi Officials Lay Plans To Rebuild Air Force
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Iraq
Sects unite to battle Al Qaeda in Iraq
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Iraq
Ordinary life is returning to Iraqi capital
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Iraq
Iraq cracks down on Sadr militants
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Iraq
US Says Attacks in Iraq Fell to the Level of Feb. 2006
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Iraq
Baghdad by night — juice bars, neon lights, bustling streets
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Afghanistan
Canadian troops stormed the town of Sangisar in Kandahar province, the birthplace of the Taliban; up to 40 Taliban were killed. A suicide bomber detonated outside the governor’s house in the town Zaranj, in Nimroz province; six police were killed and 14 wounded. Security guards may have killed many of the children after firing on a crowd after the suicide attack in Baghlan. NATO support for the Afghan mission is waning.
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Afghanistan
Afghan War Losing Support in NATO Countries
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Afghanistan
Fields of little glory: Nato begins to scale back its Afghan ambitions
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Iraq
At troop commencement, a time for Iraqi optimism
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Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda in the Maldives
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Pakistan
US Hopes to Arm Pakistani Tribes Against Al Qaeda
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Israel
Israel approves release of 441 prisoners
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Pakistan
Court allows Musharraf to rule
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Iraq
Coalition forces captured 27 al Qaeda foreign terrorist and propaganda operatives in raids nationwide. The Iraqi Army captured two al Qaeda fighters in As Sa™diyah, six in Anbar, and eight insurgents in Baghdad. Nine Iraqis were killed and 20 wounded in a bombing attack on the convoy of the Finance Minister’s advisor. Seventeen insurgents have been sentenced to death in Diwaniyah. A Mahdi Army commander was captured in Khalis.
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Pakistan
President Musharraf said the state of emergency will remain indefinitely. Fighting in Swat resulted in 28 Taliban, 14 civilians, and upwards of 40 soldiers killed; 12 policemen were reported captured. Over 90 were killed in sectarian clashes in Parachinar in Kurram agency; three soldiers were killed.
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Pakistan
US Secretly Aids Pakistan in Guarding Nuclear Arms
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Iranian-backed kidnappers demand release of Special Groups commander
British are negotiating for the release of five kidnapped British citizens; kidnappers demand release of Qais Qazali, leader of the Iranian-backed Qazali network.
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Pakistan
US wants Musharraf-Bhutto deal revived
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Iran
British hostages in Iraq to be ‘held for years™
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Iran
Iran eyes nuclear options abroad
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Iraq
17 receive death sentences in Diwaniya
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Al Qaeda
Ansar Al Mujahideen Targets the Maldives
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Iraq
Rivalry between Iraqi Shiites at danger point
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Philippines
The Basilan Governor and wife of slain Representative Wahab Akbar filed murder charges against the three Abu Sayyaf operatives captured in Quezon City last Thursday. The former deputy house speaker has been cleared of involvement in the blast at the Congress building.
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Somalia
Somali troops are conducting operations in the central region of Hiran to prevent Shabaab from regrouping in the mountains surrounding Beledweyn. Ethiopian troops have occupied the residence of a former warlord. The Hawiye clan spokesman has been handed over to the Ethiopian military. Troops from Somaliland are said to be moving towards the capital of Puntland.
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Thailand
A Muslim couple was shot dead in their home in the southern province of Yala. The Army released 384 Muslim men suspected of being involved in the insurgency “in exchange for only a written promise to cooperate against violent gangs.”
