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Yearly Archives: 2008
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Police arrest 14 citizens in Bahrain for plotting attacks
Taliban consolidate control in Arakzai tribal agency
Sharia declared in upper and lower Arakzai; 16 of 21 tribes bow to Taliban law. Taliban welcome Pakistani Army withdrawal in the northwest, negotiations with the government are underway.
Pakistan
The Taliban welcomed the troop pullout form the northwest and said negotiations with the military are underway. The military said 34 Taliban were killed during a four-day operation in Swat. The Taliban is enforcing sharia in lower Arakzai. Security forces and the Taliban clashed in Khyber; no casualties were reported.
Somalia
A group called Ahlu Sunna Waljamaa defeated Shabaab during a battle for control of the Guriel district in central Somalia; ten people were killed in the fighting. The deputy minister for the reconciliation was assassinated in Baidoa. Three Ethiopian soldiers were killed in an IED attack in Afgoi.
Iraq
Iraq: Imad the killer shot dead by cops
Iraq
Twenty-two civilians were killed and 54 were wounded in a car bombing at a market in central Baghdad. Three civilians were killed and 10 were wounded in a bombing Babil province. Police in Ramadi killed the al Qaeda leader who escaped from prison yesterday. Police in Kirkuk detained two insurgents planting a bomb and an […]
Afghanistan
A suicide car bomber killed three policemen and two civilians in an attack at a checkpoint outside of Kandahar city. Afghan and Coalition forces killed six Taliban fighters in Helmand province and detained five more in Zabul province. Spain will not send additional troops to Afghanistan.
Israel
The Israeli Air Force targeted Hamas compounds in the Gaza Strip after absorbing days of rocket attacks. Hamas claims more than 170 people have been killed and all of its security compounds have been destroyed. Hours after the strike, terror groups launched more than 30 rockets into srael; killing one civilian. President Shimon Perez said […]
India
CIA warns of nuclear war in subcontinent
Pakistan
The Pakistani Army moved a division of troops from tribal areas to the Indian border. A Taliban commander in North Waziristan took credit for the Dec. 24 bombing in Lahore. The government said it would take over the schools run by Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The Taliban bombed a girls’ school in Swat.
Lebanon
Lebanese troops found and dismantled eight Grad and Katyusha rockets set up for launch at northern Israel. Un peacekeepers have stepped up patrols on the border with Israel. Syria will open an embassy in Beirut.
Pakistan
UN hopeful of Bhutto assassination investigation
Afghanistan
US and Afghan forces killed 11 Taliban fighters, including a cell leader, during an operation targeting IED cells in the Maiwand district in Kandahar province. A Canadian soldier was killed and three more were wounded in an IED attack in the Zhari district in Kandahar.
Iraq
Six police men and seven al Qaeda prisoners were killed during a jailbreak in Ramadi; three local al Qaeda leaders escaped. Four Iraqis were killed and 25 were wounded in a car bombing in Baghdad. Three soldiers were killed in a bombing in Balad Ruz. Police killed a suicide bomber in Fallujah.
Pakistan deploys troops from tribal areas to the Indian border
At least one division of Pakistani troops has been redeployed from the Bajaur-Dir region to the border near Lahore in eastern Pakistan.
Afghanistan
Suicide bomber hits foreign forces in Afghanistan
Pakistan
Pakistan cancels troops’ leave over India tension
Kashmir
Violence in Kashmir lowest in 20 years: police
Somalia
China warships set sail on anti-pirate mission
Iraq
Police: 13 killed in Iraqi jailbreak
Punjabi Taliban group takes credit for Lahore bombing
The Pakistani police claim the attack was carried out by Indian intelligence operatives.
Philippines
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front killed nine people during attacks on villagers in the provinces of Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat on Christmas eve, and continued raids on Christmas day. MILF refused to change its negotiating position or representatives, but demanded a cabinet-level official head the peace panel.
Pakistan
Pakistan will ignore Mumbai bomber™s consular plea
Pakistan
“India looking for a ‘scapegoat™, says Pakistan Prime Minister
Pakistan
Pakistan has moved troops to the Indian border. Police detained 12 terrorists plotting to attack in Islamabad. Sixty-eight Taliban surrendered in Mohmand; four were killed in Bajaur. The Taliban kidnapped an ANP leader in Hangu and bombed five shops in Peshawar.
Somalia
German frigate stops pirate attack
Somalia
The president’s spokesman said the are no plans to resign. Hassan Dahir Aweys rejected current peace talks. A boy was killed in an IED attack in Mogadishu. A policeman was murdered in Baidoa. A reported said a suspected US unmanned spy play crashed near BAidoa.
Iraq
Iraqi forces detained eight insurgents near Huweija, four in northern and western Iraq, seven in central Iraq, and two in Mosul. A US soldier was killed in an indirect fire attack in Mosul. Four civilians were killed and 25 were wounded in a car bombing in Baghdad. Seven civilians were wounded in a bombing near […]
Afghanistan
British soldier, four road workers killed in Afghanistan