The Taliban claim victory after British troops withdraw from Musa Qala in Helmand province. A suicide bomber killed two children and a British Marine in Lashkar Gah. “Gunmen” murdered and robbed 8 Afghan workers in Korengal. Pakistan’s tribal belt is the Afghan Taliban’s main source of weaponry.

al Qaeda is a major threat to the 2012 London Olympics. Abu Doha trained a ‘terror generation,’ established cells and networks across the world, and ” turned Finsbury Park mosque into his operational headquarters.” An Islamist website called for the destruction of selected German websites “[insulting] the God of glory and call Him the God of swine.”

Report: N. Korean leader regrets test

On patrol with the Dragoons in Kandahar Province

Bangladesh a launch pad for terrorists into India

Captured Taliban claim Pakistani mullahs recruited them to fight. Syed Saleem Shahzad reports the government is rounding up “militants” and cracking down on Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) and Hizbul Mujahideen. But four of the al Qaeda-linked Pakistani Air Force technicians implicated in the Musharraf plot have released from jail.

al Qaeda and the insurgency continue the Ramadan Offensive and strike in multiple cities. Tigerhawk explains how the comparison to the Tet Offensive is apt, but not as the media portrays it.

Reclaiming the Other “Taliban”

Yemen: al Qaeda claims responsibility for al-Baidha ambush

Britain: al Qaeda is becoming more centralized

Afghan schools search students to heighten security

NATO chief says more troops needed in Afghanistan

Iraq: Car bomb kills at least 8 in Kirkuk

Ethiopia Publicly Acknowledges having A Military Presence In Somalia

Diplomats meet in Kenya to push Somali peace talks

Somalia: Sheik Aweys denies he sent 30 Islamists to Somaliland

Witness in Saddam trial recalls chemical attack on Kurds

Iraqis Said May Take Over Security by ’07

Iraq: 20 killed in attack on police stations in Mosul

NATO troops among dead in Afghan suicide bombing

Premier of Iraq Seeks Assistance of Shiite Clerics

Japan, Acting to Calm US Worries, Rules Out Building Nuclear Arms

Thailand: nine killed in wave of shootings in Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat

Islamic militants kill 8 guards in Algeria

Troops will be out of Iraq in 16 months, Blair tells Commons

Philippines: Terrorism behind murder of Protestant pastor in Palu

Jordan convicts eight terrorists

Phillipines: MILF demands charges against leader be dropped
