Al Qaeda threat looms over India

Britain ‘bribes Afghans to fight Taliban’

Karzai urges withdrawal ‘timeline’

Afghanistan: Foreign troops will not defeat Taliban, claims leader

Iraqis see democracy at work in security pact debate

Americans Flocking to Somalia to Fight for al Qaeda

Security officials said a two-weeklong operation in Mohmand and Charsadda has succeeded in clearing the Taliban from the outskirts of Peshawar.

A senior Somali military commander was killed in Baidoa. Burundi said it will send an additional 850 troops to Mogadishu. Pirates hijacked a Yemeni freighter traveling in the Gulf of Aden.

Iraqi forces captured seven Special Groups operatives in central Iraq and found a key al Qaeda leader in a prison in Basrah. Coalition forces killed two al Qaeda fighters and detained nine during raids throughout Iraq. Two Iraqis were killed and four were wounded during a clash between Awakening fighters and an armed group in Dalouiya.

Hardline Iranian newspapers urged the Iraqi parliament to reject a security pact with the United States. The Revolutionary Guards Corps claimed it broke up an Israeli spy ring. President Ahmadinejad said that Iran will survive despite a significant drop in oil revenues.

Marines Makes Insurgents Pay the Price in Afghanistan’s Farah province/a

Court Hears Appeal on Uighurs Held at US Guantanamo Detention Facility

US blasts IAEA’s Syria funding move

Ten Taliban fighters behind the acid attacks on schoolgirls in Kandahar have been arrested; they said senior Taliban leaders based in Pakistan paid them to conduct the attacks. US forces killed six HIG fighters and detained 12 more in Kapisa province; one Haqqani Network fighter was killed and five more were captured in Paktika province. A British soldier was killed in Helmand province.

The Missing: Somali Men Off Twin Cities Streets, Back in Somalia

Influence wanes for followers of Iraq’s Sadr

IAEA chief, West clash over nuclear aid for Syria

The Frontier Corps claimed 25 Taliban fighters were killed and 40 more were captured during an operation to push the Taliban back from Peshawar. Fifteen Taliban fighters were killed in Swat. Rashid Rauf’s lawyer claimed his client was not killed in Saturday’s airstrike in North Waziristan.

Sixteen Iraqis were killed in three bombings in Baghdad; a mentally handicapped female suicide was used in one of the attacks. Iraqi forces detained six insurgents in Babil and five more in Al Kut. Coalition forces captured 18 al Qaeda operatives in raids throughout Iraq.

Waziristan new battlefield for Kashmiri militants

The US will extradite Salim Hamdan from Guantanamo Bay to Yemen, according to an unconfirmed report. Hamdan was Osama bin Laden’s personal driver and bodyguard, and was convicted by a US military tribunal for supporting al Qaeda and sentenced to five and a half years in prison. His time has already been served, so the US must release him.

Al Qaeda suspected of using a mentally handicapped female suicide bomber in one of the attacks outside of Baghdad’s Green Zone.

Coalition forces killed seven Taliban fighters during a raid in Ghazni province. Former Taliban spokesman Mohammad Hanif denied he was joining the government. The NATO commander said more forces are needed in Afghanistan. A UN Security Council delegation has arrived to assess the status of a $20 billion funding pledge.

Several injured in Peshawar blast

Syria and Iran benefit from Al-Qaeda, says jihadi leader

UN Security Council members on fact-finding mission in Afghanistan

Violence Leaves 3 Dead, Teacher Wounded In Thai South -Police
