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20 killed as Somali troops clash with insurgents
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 4 months ago
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MOGADISHU: Clashes between Islamist insurgents and Somali troops killed at least 20 people on Saturday including a senior police officer and a foreign militant in the heaviest fighting for a week, residents said. President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed's government...
Tags: foreign fighters, Somalia, Mogadishu, Somalis
Somali troops clash with insurgents, 20 killed
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 4 months ago
Credibility Government soldiers battled their way into some rebel strongholds in north Mogadishu where the two sides exchanged mortar and machinegun fire, residents said. (Reuters)
Tags: Somalia, north Mogadishu, foreign fighters, government forces, fierce fighting, Baidoa, public killed, seize somalia, islamist insurgent
Iraq, AfPak, beyond: the cost of war, Paul Rogers
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 5 months ago
Credibility The toxic phrase "war on terror" has fallen out of use, but the destructive effects of the real thing continue and even escalate in a period of economic crisis. A major landmark in the in the United States's military presence in Iraq arrives on 30 June...
Tags: foreign fighters
British-born Muslims join Taliban in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 5 months ago
Credibility Some of the British-born Muslims have apparently joined Taliban in fighting against British troops in Afghanistan. According to official sources, thick Midlands and Mancunian accents have been picked up from enemy radio signal in the war zone in Afghanistan...
Tags: Afghanistan, foreign fighters
Somali rebels attack presidential palace
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 6 months ago
Credibility On Tuesday evening, the rebels fired several mortar shells into Villa Somalia, which is the official residence of Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, killing eight civilians and two soldiers and injuring 12 others, according to witnesses. Somali...
Tags: Villa Somalia, presidential palace, mortar shells, Mogadishu, foreign fighters, spokesman farhan, United Nations Security Council, military spokesman, shells hit
Rebels claims Somali suicide bomb
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 6 months ago
Credibility Somalia's Islamist militant group al-Shabab, accused of having links to al-Qaeda, has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in the capital. The group's political leader Shaykh Husayn Ali Fiidow said a teenager had carried out Sunday's attack, which...
Tags: Somalia, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Single-Day Mogadishu Violence, foreign fighters, Iraqi, Sharif Ahmed, international community, somalis capital, Afghanistan, president sheikh
Australians 'kill Taleban chief'
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 10 months ago
Credibility Mullah Abdul Rasheed was described as a senior Taleban commander responsible for bringing in fighters and potential suicide bombers into Uruzgan province. He was described as being responsible for the deaths of civilians and members of the coalition.
Tags: Afghanistan, Taliban, Mullah Abdul Rasheed, suicide bombers, potential suicide, foreign fighters, IED, commander kill, taliban insurgent, insurgent commander
IRAQ - SYRIA: Syria blasts US 'terrorist aggression' over raid
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on Monday accused the United States of "terrorist aggression" over a deadly weekend raid on a village near the Syria-Iraq border. He vowed to defend Syrian territory from any further such attacks, and also voiced...
Tags: U.S. Syria, Syrian, Iran, Iraqi, foreign minister, Walid al-Moallem, London, foreign fighters, Al Qaeda
Foreign Fighters Leaving Iraq For Afghanistan (Newsweek)
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility David Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Iraq, said last week there is some intelligence that Al Qaeda is shifting forces from Iraq to Pakistan and Afghanistan. That would continue a larger trend: the departure of foreign fighters. The Pentagon says that...
Tags: iraq, obama, Iraqi, Afghanistan, usa, Mr. McCain, foreign fighters, U.S
US military in Pakistan warning
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Adm Mike Mullen also said Pakistan was not doing enough to stop militants from crossing over into Afghanistan. Attacks on the US forces in eastern Afghanistan, on Pakistan's border, have grown rapidly in the last few months. Adm Mullen, the chairman of...
Tags: pakistan, Pakistani, Pakistanï, Pakistan Army, foreign fighters, Mike Mullen, Afghanistan, tribal area, clear problem, Adm Mullen
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