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Pakistan
Pakistan Christians shut schools to mourn killings
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Al Qaeda
Ayman al Zawahiri said that the truce offered to the US still stands but the US must meet certain demands. The US must withdrawal all forces “from all of the land of Islam,” end support for existing regimes in the Middle East, and stop “stealing Muslims’ wealth under the threat of military power,” Zawahiri said on an interview with As Sahab.
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Pakistan
Security forces killed seven Taliban fighters in Swat and two more in Shangla. Twenty-seven Taliban fighters were captured in Swat, and two more were detained in Mianwali.
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Lashkar-e-Taiba
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has indefinitely suspended hearings on the release of Lashkar-e-Taiba / Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader Hafiz Saeed. The government was challenging the Lahore High Court’s decision to release Saeed from a loose house arrest after the November 2008 Mumbai terror assault.
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Iraq
Five Iraqis were killed in a carbombing in Fallujah and one soldier was killed in an IED attack in Mosul. Three terrorists were detained in Babil. More than 3,000 Awakening members have been hired by Iraq’s ministries. The Iraqi National Police has been renamed the Federal Police.
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Afghanistan
Twelve Afghans, including two policemen, were killed in an IED attack near a blood bank in Herat. Two civilians were killed in an IED attack in Ghazni. Eight Taliban fighters and two policemen were killed during clashes in Baghlan. Afghan soldiers killed five Taliban fighters in Helmand province.
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Afghanistan
Taliban slick propaganda confronts US
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan must not revert to terror hub: NATO chief
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Pakistan
Pakistan’s Punjab: Where the Mullahs are the upper crust
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China
Security forces detained 319 Uighurs believed to have been involved in the early July unrest in Urumqi. the capital of Xinjiang province. Abdul Haq, the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party and a member of al Qaeda’s Shura Majlis, called for attacks against Chinese interests at home and abroad.
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Pakistan
Pakistan valley tries to heal, and fears dark battles ahead
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Iran
Iran is ready to build an N-bomb – it is just waiting for the Ayatollah’s order
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Europe
Reflections on the revolution in Europe
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Hezbollah
Report: Iran plane was carrying arms for Hezbollah
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Pentagon eyes accelerated ‘bunker buster’ bomb
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Pakistan
Kabul rejects claims of anti-Pakistan camps in Afghanistan
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Pakistan
Terror outfit Jundullah resurfacing
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Pakistan
Daniel Pearl™s murderer moved to Karachi
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Pakistan
The government filed treason and other charges against Sufi Mohammed and seven associates. The Taliban killed two policemen in Peshawar and bombed CD shops in Balakot. Security forces killed four Taliban fighters in Swat and detained 27 more, and destroyed a Taliban madrassa in Lakki Marwat.
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Nigeria
Prominent imams and Colonel Ahanotu, who led military operations that defeated Boko Haram, accused Nigerian authorities of ignoring their pleas to take action against the radical Islamist group long before the sect™s violent uprising. “I complained a lot of times, I was just waiting for orders,” Ahanotu charged. The sect’s uprising is responsible for more than 700 casualties.
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United States
AP sources: Military-civilian terror prison eyed
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Iraq
GIs, out of Iraq cities, have time on their hands
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Philippines
A five-year-old boy who was kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf on July 27 in Basilan province was rescued by Marines and reunited with his parents. Formal peace talks between the government and MILF will commence on August 18 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. President Arroyo pledged in her State of the Union Address last week to sign a peace deal with MILF before her term ends in June 2010.
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Thailand
A Buddhist security guard who had just left his night shift at a rubber factory in Pattani province was murdered by two suspected Muslim gunmen who opened fire from a motorcycle. Terrorist attacks in southern Thailand are increasing, according to analysts; the total dead since the insurgency began five years ago has topped 3,500.
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Iraq
Iraq: Remains identified as Navy Capt. Michael Scott Speicher
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Nigeria
Nigerian opposition slams anti-Boko Haram offensive
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Iran
Khatami condemns Iran’s show trial of reformists
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Iraq
Iraq’s Tareq Aziz gets 7 years jail in Kurds case
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Nigeria
More than 700 killed in Nigeria clashes: Red Cross
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Iraq
Five Iraqis were killed and 20 more were wounded in a carbombing in Haditha. One Iraqi was killed in an IED attack outside a mosque in Baghdad. Security forces detained 23 wanted men in Kirkuk, 19 in Babil, and six more in Khanaqin.
