(Afghanistan) Suicide bomber kills passer-by in Kandahar

India and Pakistan to resume talks

Italian nun murdered in Somalia

NATO commander predicts 3-year Afghan campaign

Algerian Program Offers Amnesty, but Not Answers About Past

Operation Medusa has ended. The Canadian Royal Regiment led the fighting, but British special forces played a key role in Operation Medusa, along with Dutch, Danish, U.S. and Afghan troops

Two suicide bombers kill 23 in Kirkuk, and wound 63. An estimated 180 Baghdadis have been killed since Monday in what is believed to be sectarian violence. Insurgents have been using mosques to attack Iraqi and Coalition forces in Baghdad. The New York Times looks at the difficulties in purging the police forces of Shiite extremists.

As-Sahab has released a new video, “Jihad Poems of Sheikh Abu Yahya al-Libi.” Al-Libi is pictured speaking to a group ot terrorists in the open. Global Crisis Watch has an analysis and a copy of the video.

Yemen says oil site attacks linked to al Qaeda

Top militant and soldier killed, 6 wounded in Kashmir

Muslims should have nukes: Mahathir

President Bush said American troops can™t enter Pakistan to hunt Osama bin Laden without an ‘invitation.’ Ashfaq Yusufzai looks at the jihadi suicide factory in Pakistan and the Waziristan agencies.

Insurgents killed 7 and wounded over 79 “in a coordinated set of bomb attacks in Hat Yai, Songkhla province in Thailand.” Zachary Abuza provides a primer on the major players in the Thai insurgency.

As Sahab will release a videotape from Afghanistan, possibly by Abu Yahya al-Libi, who escaped from Bagram prison in 2005. The Islamic Media Front has created a shoot-em-up videogame called “Night of Bush Capturing.”

Afghan and Coalition forces launch a multi-brigade operation in Paktika, Khost, Ghazni, Paktia and Logar provinces. Map of ISAF Mission in Afghanistan. Click to Enlarge. Afghan and Coalition forces have gone on the offensive in the southeastern provinces of Paktika, Khost, Ghazni, Paktya and Logar provinces. Over seven thousand troops are involved in Operation Mountain Fury, including a sizable contingent of Afghan security forces. “Approximately 4,000 Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police and Afghan National Border Police, along with approximately 3,000 U.S. Coalition forces in support, are conducting Mountain Fury in east-central Afghanistan,” according to the Combined Forces Command –…
CIA chief seeks Al Qaeda interrogation clarification

Jemaah Islamiah detainees released

Abbas intelligence aide shot dead

No FBI Investigation Into US Embassy Attack in Syria

Baidoa police use gunfire to disperse an Islamist demonstration in the city. The flow of Somalis fleeing the ICU advance on the southern port city of Kisaymo triples. The African Union is waiting for funding before deploying its 8,000 man peacekeeping force.

Somali police use arms to disperse Islamist protest

Five Islamists jailed for up to eight years

“Night of Bush Capturing”

Alliance between GSPC and al Qaeda causes France™s concern

Tensions Overshadow Gains in Afghanistan

Iraq to dig trenches around Baghdad

Pakistan™s jehadi card harms it more than it hurts India

Al Qaeda, opium fuel Afghan fighting: Nato commander

Pakistan follows the truce to the letter and releases thousands of Taliban and al Qaeda members captured since 2001 Maulana Sufi Mohammad, head of the Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e- Shariat-e-Mohammed, freed from Pakistani prison. The Pakistani government is living up to its commitments on the “Waziristan Accord,” and has emptied the prisons of Taliban and al Qaeda who have been captured since the fall of 2001. The “Waziristan Accord” calls for the Pakistani government to “release prisoners held in military action and would not arrest them again,” and that is exactly what is happening. The Daily Telegraph discloses that Pakistan has released over…
