http://www.longwarjournal.org/ en-us 2008-08-29T06:30:08-05:00 http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/pakistani_forces_thw.php Five Pakistanis were killed and 37 wounded as troops stopped three suicide car bombers just outside the gates of a military camp near the Kohat Tunnel. Two bridges were also destroyed on the Indus Highway.]]> Bill Roggio 2008-08-29T06:30:08-05:00 http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/fighting_intensifies_1.php Nine killed in IED strike in Bannu; 50 Taliban reported killed in Bajaur; Taliban and military take additional casualties in South Waziristan. Bill Roggio 2008-08-28T13:49:24-05:00 http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/senior_special_group.php The unnamed leader has traveled to Iran and Lebanon to consult with Iranian agents and Hezbollah. He was also behind the June 24 bombing attack at the Sadr City District Advisory Council meeting that killed two US soldiers, two members of the US State Department, and six Iraqis. Bill Roggio 2008-08-27T17:24:19-05:00 http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/pakistani_military_r.php A company of Taliban fighters launched a nighttime attack on the Tiarza Fort. Eleven Taliban fighters were reported killed. Bill Roggio 2008-08-27T10:28:07-05:00 http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/eight_killed_in_isla.php A blast at a cafe in Pakistan's capital is the latest in a string of bombings in Pakistan. Bill Roggio 2008-08-26T20:50:41-05:00 http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/us_diplomat_dodges_a.php The US Consulate's principal officer and her driver evade an ambush on the streets of Peshawar as the Taliban step up attacks against the government in the provincial capital. Bill Roggio 2008-08-26T11:40:50-05:00 http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/al_qaedalinked_shaba.php One and a half years after the Ethiopian Army defeated the Islamic Courts, its successor is poised for a takeover of much of southern and central Somalia. Shabab seeks to formally join al Qaeda.]]> Bill Roggio 2008-08-25T08:34:15-05:00 http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/two_senior_al_qaeda.php A senior al Qaeda adviser, a district commander, and an adviser to Obu Omar al Baghdadi were captured during raids over the past two weeks. Both played a crucial part in al Qaeda's terror campaign in 2007. Bill Roggio 2008-08-24T13:21:23-05:00 http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/taliban_suicide_bomb_5.php Twenty wounded after a bomber strikes police checkpoint. This is the third major attack in four days.]]> Bill Roggio 2008-08-23T00:47:03-05:00 http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/iraqis_standing_up.php The US plan to draw down forces in Iraq was announced by General Petraeus in a September 2007 briefing to Congress. The drawdown schedule is based on the Iraqi forces taking over responsibility for security.]]> DJ Elliott 2008-08-22T08:48:59-05:00 http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/taliban_suicide_bomb_4.php Two suicide bombers detonated their vests outside Pakistan's main military arms factory in Wah, where nuclear weapons are thought to be housed. More than eighty were wounded.]]> Bill Roggio 2008-08-21T09:20:25-05:00 http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/al_qaeda_safe_house.php Eight killed, including "foreign militants," in an attack on a known al Qaeda sanctuary in Wana. ]]> Bill Roggio 2008-08-20T22:16:04-05:00 http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/bungled_raid_in_diya.php Sunni-Shia tensions boil over in Diyala province as an unidentified force raided the governor's office and killed his aide after attempting to arrest a Sunni member of the provincial parliament. Bill Murray 2008-08-20T15:56:16-05:00 http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/algeria_suffers_seco.php Eleven killed, 31 wounded in dual bombings in the town of Bouira one day after 43 Algerians were killed in a suicide attack outside a police academy. ]]> Bill Roggio 2008-08-20T10:00:43-05:00 http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/new_special_groups_s.php The Asaib al Haq, or League of the Righteous, a terror group backed by Iran’s Qods Force, is being targeted by Coalition forces in the Baghdad region and the South. Bill Roggio 2008-08-20T01:18:46-05:00