Pakistan
Tensions brew in Balochistan as countless missing
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Iraq
Security forces detained 60 insurgents in Karbala, four members of an “assassination gang” behind the murder of a general in Basrah, and a Special Groups commander in Al Kut. The secretary general of the Thar Allah was sentenced to life in prison. Insurgents wounded three female students in Mosul.
Iraq
US: Iraq attacks down nearly 60 percent
Hezbollah
Hezbollah rejects link to Lebanon ex-PM Rafiq Hariri’s murder
United States
New FBI system brings terror operations out of the dark
Pakistan
Taliban lying low to fight another day
Pakistan
Pakistan says three tribal regions cleared of Taliban militants
Pakistan
Ally reportedly deserts Pakistan™s insurgents
Pakistani troops advance into Swat’s main town
Soldiers have seized several strategic intersections in their initial move into the town of Mingora, according to the military. The Taliban appear to be conserving their main forces for future battles.
North Korea
North Korea claimed it detonated a nuclear weapon in an underground test that caused a 4.5 earthquake “as part of the measures to bolster up its nuclear deterrent for self-defense,” according to the state-run news agency KCNA. South Korea said the test indeed took place. The Asian stock market has declined in reaction to the […]
United States
US appeals to China to help stabilize Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan troops battle for key city in Swat Valley
North Korea
NKorea says it conducted nuclear test
Pakistan
Pakistani troops have entered the town of Mingora in Swat; ten Taliban fighters and three soldiers have been killed in Swat. Security forces killed 18 Taliban fighters during airstrikes in Arakzai. Qari Ihsanullah, a Taliban commander who conducts attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan, was detained along with six fighters in Charsadda.
Pakistan
Pakistan ‘driving out’ insurgents
Pakistan
Concern mounts over US Predator covert killings
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Philippine Army prevents bomb plot in Mindanao
Pakistan
Over 80,000 trapped in Swat remote area Miandam
Pakistan
Pakistani jets pound Taliban militants in northwest
Somalia
A Shabaab suicide bomber killed six policemen and a civilian in an attack on a police station in Mogadishu. The Islamic Courts denied that some factions have joined the Shabaab/Hizbul Islam alliance. The pro-government Ahlu Sunna Waljama denounced the destruction of grave sites.
Afghanistan
Afghan and Coalition forces detained four suspected al Qaeda-linked operatives from Pakistan during raids in Khost province. Taliban fighters attacked police in the Baharak district in the northern province of Takhar; police repelled the attack. The Taliban killed one soldier and wounded four more during an ambush in the Panjwai district in Kandahar, and wounded […]
Iraq
Thirty-four Iraqis were wounded in a suicide bombing in Mosul and three more were wounded in a bombing in Baghdad. Terrorists shot and killed a woman and her daughter in Mosul. Security forces detained 53 wanted men in in Dhi Qhar and nine more in Maysan, 21 “criminals” in Basrah, and the leader of a […]
Pakistan detained senior Shadow Army commander
Abu Sufyan al Yemeni is a senior officer who was responsible for facilitating the movement of recruits and operatives into Pakistan’s tribal areas and served as a conduit for communications to al Qaeda cells worldwide.
Pakistan
Battle for a Taliban town of terror
Pakistan
Fight for Mingora is on
Afghanistan
Al Qaeda recruits back in Europe, but why?
Al Qaeda
Pakistan detained two senior al Qaeda leaders earlier this year. Abu Sufyan al Yemeni was a Shadow Army commander who served as a conduit for communications between Qaeda leaders in Pakistan and cells in East Africa, Iran, Yemen, and elsewhere. The other man, Zabi al Taifi, is a Saudi national. Three low-level Saudi al Qaeda […]
Hezbollah
Investigators for the United Nations special tribunal believe Hezbollah was behind the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, but have withheld the evidence. Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah claimed Israel is preparing to assassinate him prior to the upcoming election on June 8.
Pakistan
Extremists to be produced before Qazi courts: Iftikhar
India
India ready to extend hand of friendship to Pak: Indian FM