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Iran
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps bought an $8 billion share in the state-run media. Muhammad-Reza Ali-Zamani received a death sentence for his role in the June 12 election demonstrations. An IRGC member said Iran would “blow up the heart of Israel” if attacked by “American or Zionist missiles.” Secretary of State Clinton will discuss Iran and Afghanistan during a trip to Russia.
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Suicide bomber kills 49 in Peshawar
The suicide attack is the second in one of Pakistan’s major cities in four days.
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Top troop request exceeds 60,000
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Al Qaeda
US sends Guantanamo detainee home to Kuwait
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Nuristan base nearly destroyed in Taliban attack
Photo from March 2008: Afghan national army soldiers and Marine embedded tactical trainers struggle up the last part of a patrol from Forward Operating Base Keating to Combat Outpost Warheit in Nuristan province, Afghanistan, March 2. The patrol originated on the valley floor and ended near the top of the mountain. Photo by Staff Sergeant Brandon Aird. ABC News has a must-read report on last weekend’s battle in the Kamdish district in Nuristan province, Afghanistan, which claimed eight US and seven Afghan soldiers, and more than 100 Taliban fighters. According to the report, the outer perimeter at Camp Keating, one…
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Pakistan
Security forces killed 17 Taliban fighters in Swat and two more in South Waziristan; the bodies 15 Taliban fighters were found in Swat. One soldier and two Taliban fighters were killed in a clash in North Waziristan. The Taliban killed a soldier in Bajaur and launched three rockets at Peshawar.
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Afghanistan
Barack Obama: Taliban can be involved in Afghanistan future
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US says Sharia Law is misunderstood
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United States
Sources: Terror suspect contacted senior al Qaeda
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Iran
CIA knew about Iran’s secret nuclear site for three years
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Afghanistan
Taliban owns up Kabul blast, shifts focus from ISI
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Iraq
Roadside bomb kills three in Baghdad
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Canada
Canadian Muslim group calls for burqa ban
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Afghanistan
Gates gives Obama Afghan troop request
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Marines accomplish the mission in Anbar
Marine Staff Sergeant Niceforo “Joker” Mendoza leads a section of Amtraks on an IED hunt/route clearance mission between Abu Ghraib and Habbaniyah in January 2007. Photo by Bill Ardolino. A heartening Op-Ed by James Soriano in The New York Times proclaims “Mission Accomplished in Anbar,” marking “the formal end of the presence of U.S. Marine ground combat units” in the province. To appreciate the extent of this accomplishment, Soriano strolls down memory lane: At that time, Anbar Province was in an Al Qaeda death grip. Insurgents roamed Ramadi’s streets at will. They kidnapped and murdered prominent citizens. The mosques were…
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Analysis: Al Qaeda is the tip of the jihadist spear
The editors of The Long War Journal take a look at the insurgency in Afghanistan through al Qaeda’s eyes.
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Afghanistan
Taliban claims responsibility for Indian embassy blast
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Somalia
“Insurgency groups are planning to use ambulances, police vehicles and tankers for suicide attacks on the government and AMISOM bases,” Mogadishu police warned. Shabaab and Hizbul Islam clashed outside Kismayo after they agreed on a truce. A heavily armed convoy of Hizbul Islam left Mogadishu en route to Kismayo using the main road controlled by Shabaab. Hundreds of Kenyan youths have secretly been recruited and trained in Mombasa and sent to serve in the Somali military.
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France
French police have arrested two Algerian nationals in the southeastern town of Vienne. The men are suspected of having links to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. The two arrested Algerian nationals are brothers.
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Afghanistan
‘Al Qaeda facilitates insurgency’
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Report: Global Muslim population hits 1.57 billion
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Afghanistan
Car bomb kills 17 near Indian embassy in Kabul
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Afghanistan
A Taliban suicide bomber killed 17 Afghans and wounded more than 80 in an attack outside the Indian embassy in Kabul. US and Afghan troops killed 17 Taliban fighters in Helmand, 10 in Paktika, and one more in Zabul. The Taliban killed a Spanish soldier in western Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan
American troops in Afghanistan losing heart, say army chaplains
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Suicide attack kills 17 outside Indian embassy in Kabul
“This was an operation which was planned by a state,” Afghan officials said, referring to Pakistan.
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Iran
Tehran warned against potential gasoline sanctions and said the country can break any embargo. A reformist website reported that an Iranian protester received a death sentence. Tehran sees a US role in an Iranian nuclear researcher’s disappearance.
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North Africa
Dozens of Tuareg rebels have accepted an amnesty deal with the governments of Mali and Niger, including the rebels’ leaders. The peace ceremony was conducted in Libya where Muammar Al Gaddafi and Algerian mediators arbitrated the negotiations. The Tuareg rebellion has been ongoing since 2007, with rebels aspiring for greater economic development in the Sahel. The Tuareg rebels in Mali recently joined the fight against Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
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Thailand
A car bomb exploded outside a hotel in Narathiwat province, wounding at least 27 people and killing a Muslim woman. On Tuesday, another bomb attack in Pattani province wounded seven security volunteers. Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban will travel to southern Thailand next week in response to the dramatic recent spike in violence.
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Pakistan
Pakistan – Foreigners advised to restrict movement
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Afghanistan
UN defends Afghan election role
