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Iraq
Iraqi Police Colonel Who Bridged Sectarian Divide Is Killed
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Philippines
Another bomb is detonated in a Mindano market, but no one was hurt. A report states Australian SAS, 100 US special forces, including Green Berets, Navy SEALs and CIA counter-terrorism specialists, as well as the armed forces of The Philippines, are in the hunt for the Bali bombers. Australia denies the SAS is involved.
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Israel
IDF pulls out of central Gaza Strip
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Pakistan
170 Afghans arrested in crackdown after ‘mysterious™ blasts
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Afghanistan
Bomb targets Afghan governor
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Pakistan
NATO seen following Waziristan lead, according to Pakistani sources
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India
Hang Afzal and India will go up in flames, says Kashmiri chief minister
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Iraq
Shiite Militiamen Attack Town Killing 27 Sunni Arabs
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North Korea
The United Nations Security Council has agreed on sanctions against North Korea, but has ruled out the use of force. Japan is considering additional sanctions. North Korea has denounced the security council resolution as “gangster.”
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Lebanon
Two grenades hit building near U.N. HQ in Beirut
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Israel
Israel to intensify military operations, Al-Naser brigades attack
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Egypt
Egyptian soldier on Israeli border was killed by friendly-fire
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Afghanistan
Two Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan
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Al Qaeda
al Qaeda in Iraq claims the tape by Abu Osama al-Mujahid is a fake. A mole helped the Canadian government foil the al Qaeda plot to bomb buildings in downtown Toronto.
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The Taliban’s Waziristan Accord
The Pakistani Press exposes the Waziristan Accord as an agreement between the government and the Taliban “Rebel” tribal elder Maulvi Abbas Khan (right) presenting a copy of the Quran to Pakistan Army Commander Lt Gen Safdar Hussain in Shakai near Wana, South Waziristan. Photo from 2004. Click image to view. While Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and a host of government functionaries continue to claim the Waziristan Accord was an agreement with the tribes that will further peace in the tribal regions, the Pakistani press continually refutes the government line. Dawn, the Pakistani newspaper that provided the details of the Waziristan…
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Iraq
Peshmerga forces take over security of Kurdistan region
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Somalia’s Islamic Courts Defends Kismayo
Islamic Courts repulse an attack on Kismayo, continues to consolidate gains Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Sheik Yusuf Indohaadde during a news briefing, Saturday, June 17, 2006. AP photograph, click to view. Colonel Bare Hirale, the defense minister in the transitional government and leader of the Juba Valley Alliance, has made good on his pledge to attempt to retake the key port city of Kismayo after abandoning the city almost a month ago. The Islamic Courts militia and Hirale’s forces clashed in Bu’aale on Friday, then outside of Kismayo on Saturday. “The fighting on the town’s outskirts lasted for two…
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Syria
Syrian suicide bomber who finds a welcome in the living room
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Palestinian Territories
Six gunmen killed, 15 hurt in IAF strike in Gaza Strip
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Algeria
Gunmen assassinate Algerian chief, GSPC suspected
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Pakistan
al Qaeda active in Pak tribal areas
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Al Qaeda
Fingering Danny Pearl’s Killer
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France
Analysis: The French Intifada
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Divisions in al Qaeda in Iraq
An al Qaeda in Iraq leader disavows Abu Ayyub al-Masri, exposing the faults between the Zarqawi and al-Masri factions Abu Ayyub al-Masri. Al Arabiya television has aired a videotape of a member of al Qaeda in Iraq denouncing the organization’s current leadership, singling out Abu Ayyub al-Masri for undertaking “‘unjustified violations’ such as the killing of prominent sheikhs in Iraq,” according to Reuters. The jihadi’s nom de guerre is Abu Osama al-Mujahid, and he is calling for an Iraqi to lead al Qaeda in Iraq after the death of Abu Musabal-Zarqawi. Al-Mujahid has shielded his face and altered his voice…
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Iraq
Islamic Group Beheads Assyrian Priest, Crucifies 14 Year Old Boy in North Iraq
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Afghanistan
Taliban takes high cover – behind 10-foot Afghan marijuana plants
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Palestinian Territories
Three Hamas killed in an Israeli air strike
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Al Qaeda
British Airline plot terror suspects used eBay to fund plot
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Afghanistan
NATO soldier, 8 civilians dies in suicide blast in Kandahar
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Iran
Khamenei praises Hezbollah, warns foreign troops
