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Afghanistan
Blast hits NATO convoy in Afghanistan
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United Kingdom
New MI5 boss is top expert on Al Qaeda
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Iraq
Iraq Qaeda-linked Group Calls for War on Shi’ites
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Australia
Australia: 13 plead not guilty on terror charges
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Afghanistan
Pakistanis and Afghans mull tribal talks on Taliban
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Indonesia
Malaysian Terrorist Suspect Poses Christmas Threat In Indonesia
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Afghanistan
Taliban set 2010 as Afghanistan takeover deadline
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Somalia
Somali govt lines up peacekeepers, Islamist deadline looms
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Pakistan
al Qaeda training jehadis from Pakistan: report
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Iran
Poll blow for Iran’s Ahmadinejad
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Spain
Spain: Judge detains seven suspected Islamic radicals
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Al Qaeda
Video Expected soon from al Qaeda # 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri
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Pakistan
Over 200 Taliban crossed the Pakistani frontier and attacked an Afghan outpost in Khost. Pakistan denied Mullah Omar is operating in Quetta, and said he is in Kandahar. The secretary general of the MMA claims he holds the keys to peace in Afghanistan, and again admits to supporting the Taliban. Three suspects in the Dargai suicide bombing attack are being held, and have links to al Qaeda.
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Afghanistan
The governor of Kandahar claims the former Taliban minister of for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice (the religious police) has been killed in an airstrike along with 30 Taliban. The Taliban denies he was killed. An Afghan general is being held for spying for Pakistan. France may send troops to the battle lines, after announcing it will withdraw 200 special forces from eastern Afghanistan.
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Somalia
The ICU appears to be backing down on an ultimatum for Ethiopian to withdraw from Somalia. Yemen is attempting to broker a peace agreement between the ICU and Ethiopian. A TFG minister claims no government militias defected to the Islamists. The ICU has arrested two more reporters in Mogadishu.
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Palestinian Territories
A 16-year old boy was shot in the neck this morning, despite the ceasefire agreed upon yesterday. Tony Blair is now in Israel to meet Israeli PM Olmert and Palestinian President Abbas.
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Israel
Israeli Defense Minister hints at willingness to speak with Syria
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Afghanistan
France to pull 200 troops from Afghanistan
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Iraq
Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms kidnapped more than two dozen people from Baghdad’s Red Crescent office. Tony Blair visited Iraq and reiterated his support for the Iraqi government. Coalition forces captured ten militants involved in building IEDs.
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Iran
Iran offers nuclear technology to its neighbours
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Palestinian Territories
Hamas will boycott early elections. Violence escalates and mortars have been fired into President Abbas’s Gaza office. The foreign minister’s convoy was attacked. The economic crisis lingers, and resolution to the political situation appears equally difficult.
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Somalia
The chairman of the ICU and the TFG parliament speaker met in Yemen. A Puntland Islamic Courts is urging Somalis to fight the Ethiopians. A bomb was detonated behind a Mogadishu hotel owned by a “leading Islamic Courts ally and financer,” and may have targeted an ICU official.
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Pakistan
U.S. leaders are admitting the Pakistan-Afghan border is a Taliban safe haven. The Taliban denies it is receiving support from Pakistan. Pakistan claims to have turned over 500 Taliban to Afghanistan. Jamaat-e-Islami will boycott the January election to replace a minister that resigned over the Bajuar airstrike.
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The ROC
On patrol with 3 Company, 3-2-1 Iraqi Army in southern Fallujah 3 Company plays soccer at The ROC. Click image to view. FALLUJAH, IRAQ: The mission of the Police and Military Transition Teams here in Fallujah is to assist with the turnover of the city to the Iraqis. This is happening, slowly but surely. In southwestern Fallujah, 3 Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 1st Iraqi Army Division (3-2-1) owns the battlespace of a majority of the Resafa neighborhood. Resafa was one of the last bastions of al Qaeda during the 2004 assault on the city. 3 Company is based out…
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Iraq
Iraqi police finds two dead bodies in Kirkuk
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Islamic caliphate a dream, not reality: experts
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Thailand
Malaysia to ‘arrest, deport’ Thai refugees
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Afghanistan
A roadside blast killed one NATO soldier and injured two others in eastern Afghanistan. NATO troops launched an offensive in the South. Sen. McCain calls on NATO partners to provide more troops to fight the Taliban.
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Iraq
PM Maliki announced at a two-day conference to end sectarian violence an Iraqi army campaign to recruit former officers. Maliki also said that he hopes for a swift ruling on Saddam’s appeal. Military planners and White House budget analysts have been asked to provide President Bush with options for increasing U.S. forces. An Iraqi court sentenced a Libyan member of al Qaeda in Iraq to death.
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United States
Suspicious package near UN Headquarters not a threat
