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Iran
The US will hold direct talks with Iran if it suspends its nuclear program. President Ahmadinejad vowed to continue enrichment of uranium. Western countries are considering options on sanctions.
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Philippines
Six Islamists were killed and 13 Marines wounded in a battle on Jolo Island. One report claims the six killed were members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), while another claims they were Abu Sayyaf. MLNF has sheltered Abu Sayyaf fighters and allowed them to establish training camps.
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Iraq
[UPDATE1] A suicide bomber killed 40 and wounded 35 in an attack at the Mustansiriyah University in a Shia neighborhood in Baghdad. Other suicide attacks that occurred in Baghdad include: the Iranian embassy, in front of Hakim’s compound, and a Karrada market, but casualties were low. Sectarian murders have dropped significantly, however. Security forces killed 12 insurgents and captured 98 during Sunday operations.
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Pakistan
Three suicide bomber were killed when their explosives detonated prematurely. They were planning to attack police in Sahiwal. Two Peshawar police were murdered in the ambush. Baluchistan’s governor urges negotiations with the Taliban. The suicide attack that killed a US diplomat in Karachi has been linked back to al Qaeda, as we noted immediately after the attack.
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Afghanistan
The border post where bribes buy an easy entry for Taliban
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Iran
Growing Iranian Regional Influence Worries Saudi Arabia
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Iraq
Surge tactics to tame Ramadi, city of anarchy
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Iran
Iran fires first rocket into space – report
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United Kingdom
British intelligence believes there are over 2,000 potential “British-based Islamic terrorists plotting suicide attacks against ‘soft’ targets” inside the country, and the nation should prepare for the possibility of suicide attacks.
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al Qaeda on Sunni violence in Anbar
al Qaeda in Iraq targeted Sattar and an Imam who opposed the Islamic State of Iraq Iraq. Click map to view. al Qaeda in Iraq has stepped up its campaign to eliminate the indigenous Sunni opposition in Anbar province. According to an American intelligence official and a military officer, al Qaeda in Iraq is attempting to destroy all effective Sunni opposition in the province. Over the past week, al Qaeda has conducted two major suicide attacks in Habbaniyah and Ramadi against two influence members of the Sunni opposition to al Qaeda in Iraq: Shiekh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, and the…
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Iraq
[UPDATE2] al Qaeda murdered 35 and injured more than 60 in a suicide bombing on a mosque in Habbaniyah. The cleric spoke out against al Qaeda. Coalition forces found 2 chemical bomb factories in Karma. Special Iraqi Army Forces captured 5 members of the Mahdi Army in Husayniyah and the leader of a 30 man sniper cell in Mashahda. Eight National Police and two terrorists were killed after an attack on a police checkpoint south of Baghdad.
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Algeria
Algeria has broken up an al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb (or North Africa) arms smuggling network in Constantine. The weapons ring included “a French national, two Tunisians and 24 Algerians.”
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Iran
Iran killed 17 ‘rebels’ during a battle in the northwestern province of West Azerbaijan. The government accused the US of fomenting the violence. An IRGC helicopter was shot down, apparently with a SA-7, killing two IRGC commanders and 8 soldiers.
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Iran
Iranian forces kill 17 rebels
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Iraq
Gen: Iraqi Handover May Be Delayed
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Al Qaeda
David Hicks Under Fire
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Iran
Iran: US not in a position for military action
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Iraq
Iraq Rebel Cleric Reins In Militia; Motives at Issue
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Iraq
Fuel tanker bomb kills 37 in Iraq
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Philippines
Marine killed by unidentified gunmen in southern Philippines
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Iraq
[UPDATE1] Over 400 insurgents have been killed and another 400 captured since security operations began in mid-February. The Interior Ministry launch an operation against an Islamic Army base north of Baghdad, killed “tens” of fighters and captured ” Saad Akram Khalifa, a commander of the Islamic Army in northern Iraq.” The Coalition forces captured 12 al Qaeda in raids in Amiriyah and Mosul, and found “a large amount of Egyptian and Syrian money and false passports and identification cards.” More Kurdish troops are moving towards Baghdad.
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Somalia
Mortar attacks and fighting killed 8 and wounded 20 in Mogadishu. Shabelle reports 78 have been hospitalized due to mortar attacks in the past 24 hours. Ugandan officials are in Mogadishu to plan for the peacekeeping deployment.
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Pakistan: A Bajaur ‘peace deal’ is coming
Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas A peace deal in imminent in Bajaur, despite the worsening situation in the tribal agencies The Pakistani government is preparing to cede the Federally Administered Tribal Agency of Bajaur to the Taliban. Jan Aurakzai, the governor of the Northwest Frontier Province, has informed the media that a ‘peace deal’ fashioned after the Waziristan Accord is imminent, Dawn reports. Bajaur has long been an al Qaeda command and control center. The Taliban and al Qaeda funnel their northern Afghanistan operations from Bajaur. Afghanistan’s Kunar province, which sits just across the border from…
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Somalia
Ethiopian Adviser Says Times ‘Fabricated™ Report
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Palestinian Territories
Egypt uncovers explosives cache near border with Gaza
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Iraq
[UPDATE2] Iraqi police arrested Issa Abdul-Razzaq Ahmed, a terrorist fund raiser in Basra. US troops detained Hakim’s son for 12 hours after crossing from Iran. Ansar al-Sunnah “demanded retribution” from al Qaeda in Iraq for the murders of its fighters. The recent discovery of a carbomb factory with chlorine gas cannisters is believed to be part of a planned terror campaign.
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Thailand
Thais’ sense of self threatened by insurgency
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Talibanistan expands beyond the tribal areas
The Taliban threatens to bombs schools as Musharraf looks the push more ‘peace deals’ Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas Western Pakistan’s decent into a Taliban state becomes more and more apparent as each day passes. For well over the past year we warned that not only were the tribal areas and Quetta falling to the Taliban, but the Taliban was seeking to expand its influence into the settled regions of Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province. The Taliban, sufficiently emboldened by the Pakistani government’s unwillingness to meaningfully deal with with the threat, is now publicly flexing its muscle…
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India
India renews pressure on Pakistan over militants
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Somalia
US Used Base in Ethiopia to Hunt Al Qaeda in Africa
