Shabaab captured the town of Qoaqani from Hizbul Islam. The top leader of Hizbul Islam, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, condemned the ongoing clashes between his group and Shabaab. Hizbul™s faction in Tayeglow defected to Shabaab. At least five civilians were killed in clashes between insurgents and soldiers in Mogadishu. Shabaab ordered the World Food Programme […]
Ayman al Zawahiri (left) and Osama bin Laden (center) hold a press conference in Afghanistan in 1998. The Institute for the Study of War has a must-read analysis on the Taliban’s propaganda campaign that is designed to convince US policy makers the Taliban is not an external threat and is merely waging an insurgency to […]
An Indian commando rappels to assault the Jewish center in Mumbai in November 2008. Reuters photograph. With the one-year anniversary of the deadly Mumbai terror assault by Lashkar-e-Taiba just days away, Pakistan has finally indicted seven operatives from the terror group. From AKI: A Pakistani court has charged seven suspects in connection with last November’s […]
The Frontier Corps killed 18 Lashkar-e-Islam fighters and detained 12 more in the latest operation in Khyber. The military killed eight Taliban fighters in Arakzai. Five Pakistani Army officers have been arrested in connection with the Headley/Rana terror plot.
Police found the beheaded bodies of a police investigator and a court bailiff in the trunk of a car in a Muslim region of Kabardino-Balkaria. Police killed three “militants” during a counterterrorism raid along the border of Chechnya and Ingushetia.
NATO expands Afghan forces training initiatives
Al Qaeda is teaming up with Ba’athist elements, sparking fears that eastern Syrian will “begin to look like northwestern Pakistan.”
Iraqi parliament passes another election law
Iran expanding effort to stifle the opposition
Ahmed Rashid: Pakistan conspiracy theories stifle debate
US cautious on Afghan outreach to Taliban
Insurgents killed two imams at bombings in mosques in Baghdad and Fallujah, and wounded four policemen in a bombing in Dhi Qhar. Security forces detained 26 wanted men in Basrah, three Special Groups operatives in Amara, and a member of an IED cell in in Bayji. Three professors, six students, and an employee were detained […]
US plans to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan
The US reportedly will send an additional 34,000 troops; the official announcement is expected next week. Afghan and Coalition forces killed a Taliban commander and five fighters in Daykundi province and detained “several” Taliban and Haqqani network fighters in Kandahar, Khost, and Bagram. The Taliban killed nine civilians in shootings and IED attacks in Khost, […]
The world’s six major powers reportedly have a draft resolution on Iran’s nuclear program. Iran said it may take legal action against Russia if it fails to deliver the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system. A Belgian man pleaded guilty to conspiring to transfer aircraft parts to Iran.
The Frontier Corps killed 18 members of the Lashkar-e-Islam in the Bara region in the latest attempt to relieve the pressure on Peshawar.
A year after Mumbai attack, militants thrive
The FBI charged eight Americans with conspiring to kill people outside the US and supporting al Qaeda-linked Shabaab in Somalia. The men helped at least 20 Americans attend training camps in Somalia. The FBI arrested a man who was conspiring to ship machine guns and anti-aircraft missiles to Syria.
Members of a rebel military unit have enlisted to fight with al Qaeda and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, according to the Tajik National Security Committee.
Bullet tears open Somali boy’s face
Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil. Two stories of US negotiations with the Taliban are sure to spark controversy as the Obama administration has yet to decide on the path forward in Afghanistan. The first report, from Dawn, is the more interesting of the two: The Obama administration may be close to reversing course on its current strategy […]
The military killed nine Taliban fighters in South Waziristan. The Taliban ambushed and torched several NATO supply and oil transports in Jafarabad. The military moved troops into the Bara region in Khyber.
Pentagon convenes Fort Hood shooting task force
US sleuths believe ISI had links with Headley
Iraqi soldiers foiled a potentially deadly suicide attack today at the border crossing at Al Qaim in western Anbar province. From Aswat al-Iraq (Voices of Iraq): “A force from the 28th infantry division managed to defuse a car bomb and to kill its driver in al-Qaim, Anbar province,” said the statement received by Aswat al-Iraq […]
At least 11 people were killed in clashes between government forces and Hizbul Islam around the presidential palace in Mogadishu. Gunmen killed a police official in Puntland. A US private military company will work in Mogadishu, contracted by Somalia™s government. Two Ghadir class submarines will join the Iranian navy off the coast of Somalia.
UK – Army’s dogs of war lack bite needed to take on the Taleban
Pakistan nuclear facilities at risk: Security expert
US – Terrorism trial may point way for 9/11 cases
Iraq’s parliament passed the election law for a second time, sending it back to the presidential council. Iraqi security forces killed a Kuwaiti al Qaeda suicide bomber in Al Qaim and detained 21 wanted men in Basrah, a terrorist commander in Salahadin, an al Qaeda leader in Baqubah, an al Qaeda operative near Kirkuk, and […]