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Philippines
Republic of the Philippines’ Marine Force Recon and Navy Special Warfare killed an Abu Sayyaf leader, Radi Upao. Dulmatin, the JI leader wanted for the 2002 Bali bombing, is reported to have escaped the strike.
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Iraq
A car bombing in Baghdad wounded seven Iraqis. An IED attack wounded four. Nine insurgents were captured in Mosul. The British denied an Army helicopter was shot down in Basra.
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Kyrgyzstan
Security forces arrested Abdulkhai Yuldashev, the leader of an al Qaeda linked group that attacked Kyrgyz and Tajik border posts in May 2006, resulting in nine deaths. Yuldashev’s group received funding from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan based out of Pakistan.
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Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed Helmand’s deputy governor and five others, and wounded 18 during an attack on a mosque in the province. Another suicide bomber killed one and wounded four during an attack against a bus transporting Army personnel in Kabul. “The greatest threat to Afghanistan’s future is abandonment by the international community,” said Richard Boucher, the US State Department’s pointman for Afghanistan.
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Somalia
Sheikh Suulay, the spokesman for the Islamic Courts, said Ethiopian withdrawal from Mogadishu is a victory and their forces would still be attacked. The Islamic Courts killed the government spokesman for Mogadishu. African Union troops are deploying throughout the capital.
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Iraq
Iraq’s civilian toll falls again in January
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Senior al Qaeda leader Abu Laith al Libi killed in North Waziristan
The Jan. 29 airstrike in Khushali Tari Khel killed Abu Laith al Libi, according to a posting at a jihadi forum.
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Pakistan
Pakistan: Retired generals want to replace Musharraf
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Al Qaeda
US secret service agents found five five letters addressing individual Taliban leaders that were signed and sealed by Osama Bin Laden. An airstrike in North Waziristan targeted al Qaeda leaders Abu Laith al Libi and Abu Obaidah al Masri. Al Qaeda confirmed al Libi has been killed.
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Hezbollah
Lebanon war a ‘serious failure™: Israel report
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Iraq
US Commanders in Iraq Favor Pause in Troop Cuts
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Arab, Asian al Qaeda operatives reported killed in North Waziristan raid
Al Qaeda leaders Abu Laith al Libi and Abu Obaidah al Masri may have been the target of the North Waziristan airstrike that killed 13.
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Afghanistan
Suicide bomb attack in Afghan capital
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Pakistan
Strategic Design Considerations for Operations in Pakistan™s Tribal Areas
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Iraq
Coalition forces killed four al Qaeda operatives and detained 18 during raids in central Iraq. US troops detained an al Qaeda IED facilitator and three suspects in Abu Ghraib. Eight Sunni insurgents were detained in Baghdad. Ansar al Islam claimed responsibility for the attack that killed five US soldiers in Mosul.
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Iraq
Sadr-Hakim Truce Looks Shaky in Diwaniya
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Pakistan
The bodies of 13 paramilitary troops kidnapped by the Taliban last week in Darra Adam Khel have been found; the military said the city has been cleared. Three Taliban fighter were killed when their explosives detonated prematurely in Peshawar; two rockets were fired on the city. Four civilians were wounded after a helicopter attacked civilians fleeing the fighting; the military disputes the claim. Eighteen tribes in Orakzai claimed to have banded together to fight the Taliban.
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Algeria
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed credit for yesterday’s suicide attack on a police station in the town of Thenia. “A lion’s cub of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, valiant martyr Hamza Abu Abderrahman, drove a vehicle laden with at least 650 kilograms (1,430 pounds) of explosives against the ramparts of the apostates: the judicial police station in Thenia.” Three were killed and 23 wounded.
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Iraq
Improved Iraq Security Allows More Capacity Building
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Afghanistan
US ambassador questions Iranian interests in Afghanistan
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Afghanistan
Afghan Senate welcomes reporter’s death sentence
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Afghanistan
NATO’s Afghan mission ‘in jeopardy’
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Afghanistan
NATO requested Germany send combat troops to Afghanistan. The Taliban beheaded four Afghan roadworkers captured last week; three others were killed in IED attacks. Eight Taliban fighters were killed and three policemen were wounded during a clash in Uruzgan province. A Taliban spokesman denied his forces were behind the kidnapping of an American aid worker.
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Egypt
Egyptian security forces broke up two terror cells operating in the Sinai Desert. One cell was “comprised of five Palestinians in possession of explosives belts,” while another “crossed into Egypt with maps that pinpointed information on IDF bases along the border and the magnitude of forces stationed at each base.”
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Pakistan
Terror Leader Killed in Pakistan Missile Strike?
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The Mosul Offensive
Recent al Qaeda attacks in the northern city has prompted the Iraqi government to commit forces for an offensive in the region. The Iraqi military is establishing a pattern for its rapid reaction forces.
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Iraq
Spoken: s necessary to confront political Islam as an anti-Western ideology?
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Iraq
New commander’s Baghdad strategy: ‘preserve gains’
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Iraq
US troop reductions in Iraq may slow
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Algeria
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s dilemma
