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Monthly Archives: April 2008
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Russia’s region of ‘lawlessness’
Clashes ongoing in Sadr City
Seven Mahdi fighters killed in airstrikes. Mahdi Army attacks a police patrol and mortars the International Zone. Iraqi general links weapons back to Iran.
Pakistan
President Musharraf said foreigners, especially Uzbeks and Afghans with links to al Qaeda are hiding in Pakistan™s tribal areas. The US said it would pursue Osama bin Laden in Pakistan if it has evidence of his location. The Pakistani Army has signed a peace deal with Baitullah Mehsud in South Waziristan. Three were killed in […]
Iran
Clear Iranian role in Baghdad violence: military
Al Qaeda
Official: Female suicide bomber kills 3 at checkpoint
President Karzai escapes assassination bid, parliamentarian killed
A barrage of automatic gunfire and mortar shells fired on a ceremony in Kabul killed two and wounded 11. The British and American ambassadors were also in attendance.
Iran
Britons kidnapped in Iraq are ‘held by Iran™
United States
General: Homeland response task force to be ready by fall
United Kingdom
UK is Europe’s top terror centre, arrests show
Iraq
Coalition forces killed four al Qaeda operatives and detained 19 during raids nationwide. Iraqi troops captured eight al Qaeda operatives and defused 13 IEDs southeast of Baghdad. Two suicide bombings targeting Iraqi troops in Mosul killed two and wounded 44. US-unmanned aerial vehicles killed two Mahdi Army fighters in Sadr City.
Iraq
US military reports relative lull in Baghdad’s Sadr City
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Embassy denies charges of aid to Chechen insurgents
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Pirates free Spanish boat seized off Somalia
Syria
Syria confirmed the head of the Hamas students wing in Damascus has been killed in a car accident. A top Hamas official vehemently denied Israeli reports that the man, Isham Abu Libda, had run the office of Hamas leader Khaled Mashhal and that Abu Libda had been assassinated in a hit-and-run. Syria will cooperate with […]
Afghanistan
Fifteen Taliban were killed in an airstrike in the Charbaran district in eastern Paktika province near the Pakistani border. Four police were killed in two roadside bomb attacks in Farah and Ghazni provinces.
Algeria
Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the former leader of al Qaeda in the Ismalic Maghreb’s southern faction, is reported to be in the custody of security services. Two members of al Qaeda were arrested as they were meeting with women known to be linked to prostitution.
Al Qaeda
Zawahiri tries to stay relevant in face of Muslim discontent
Pakistan
The Movement for the Taliban in Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud’s group, ordered the Mardan car bombing “in revenge.” Former Guantanamo Bay inmate Israrul Haq was rearrested while traveling to Mardan. Banned terror groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammad, Harkatul Mujahideen, and Hizbul Mujahideen are reforming in Karachi. Sufi Mohammed’s name has been removed from a murder case.
Iraq
AFP: Police say a top Qaeda militant killed in Iraq
Turkey
Turk warplanes bomb PKK targets in Northern Iraq: sources
Iraq
Can the U.N. avert a Kirkuk border war?
China
Warning: Increased terror risk in China
Afghanistan
Afghans ‘may soon take over in Helmand’
Afghanistan
Luck of the Irish saved Afghan patrol
Maliki offers Sadr an out: disarm the Mahdi Army
Mahdi Army must disarm, turn in wanted members, and cease opposing the state. Clearing continues in Basrah; Iraqi troops kill five Mahdi Army fighters transporting weapons in northern Baghdad.
Iran
US Weighing Readiness for Military Action Against Iran
Iraq
Prime Minister Maliki said the crackdown on the Mahdi Army would stop if they hand over their weapons, turn over wanted members, list those involved in violence, and halt interference in the government’s affairs. Sadr called for his fighters to stop attacks while Iraqi and US troops killed 14 Mahdi fighters. Iraqi security forces stopped […]
Iraq
Iraq PM sets conditions to end crackdown
Afghanistan
The New Strategy for Afghanistan’s Cops