Gunmen raid Iraqi TV station, kill seven

Musharraf: India and Pakistan agree to intelligence cooperation

Somali refugees in Kenya could reach 80,000

UN temporarily pulls international staff out of Somalia after threats

Bombing attacks injure 19 in Afghanistan

Israeli forces kill 4 Palestinians in Gaza clashes

US Teacher Freed in West Bank after being abducted by ‘Ansar al Sunna’

Suspicions in Philippine bombings fall quickly on Indonesian militant

Philippines raises alert level in troubled south

Travel Ban Added to N. Korea Resolution

Local clerics in semi autonomous Somaliland demand Sharia law. Reporters sans Frontières states the Islamic Courts have imposed a “draconian charter” on the press in Mogadishu. Kenya has reinforced the border. The prime minister of Ethiopia has vowed to defend the country from the ICU.

Taliban and al Qaeda commanders shed light on the global nature of the war and the status of fighting in Afghanistan A Dutch soldier on watch in Uruzgan. Click image to view. Combat operations in Afghanistan have tapered off over the past month and violent attacks have decreased by half. The operational tempo is declining as the summer fighting season comes to a close. The Taliban continues to suffer heavy losses when openly engaging Afghan and Coalition forces. Over the weekend, 72 Taliban were killed in during engagements in Uruzgan and Helmand province. Fifty-two Taliban were killed in a single…

NATO says violence in southern Afghanistan subsiding

Abu Hamza paid £220,000 for house while in prison

Indonesia: Terrorists translating terror manuals in jail

Back British values or lose grants, Kelly tells Muslim groups

Mother killed after teen rejects Islam

A small airplane has crashed into a high rise in New York City, causing a 4 alarm fire. There is no indication of a terrorist attack at this time. NORAD has deployed fighter aircraft over several U.S. cities as a precaution.

Four militants voluntarily surrender in Chechnya

Adam Yahiye Gadahn, a.k.a. “Azzam the American” will be indicted for treason and material support to al Qaeda. The Counterterrorism Blog has a copy of the indictment. This is the first case of treason in over 50 years. Gadahn, along with Ayman al-Zawahiri, recently appeared on an al Qaeda video calling for jihad and denouncing the United States.

Another bombing occurred in Mindano, after two were detonated yesterday. Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah are the prime suspects. Two Filipino soldiers were killed and 8 wounded during a clash with Abu Sayyaf on Sulu island.

16 al Qaeda in Iraq detained in raid west of Balad

Germany Accuses Iraqi of Aiding Al Qaeda on Internet

Islamist website: Italian child portrayed as a future leader of Osama bin Laden’s network

Commander Abu Zubaydah: How I Knew Him and How He Was Arrested
