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  • July 2008

    • Bodies of 2 Missing GIs Found

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jul 11, 08 2:59 AM CDT

      Bodies of 2 Missing GIs Found

      The families of two US soldiers missing in Iraq for over a year have been informed that their bodies have been found, reports AP. Alex Jimenez, 25, and Byron Fouty, 19, were seized by insurgents in a May 2007 ambush. Four other soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division "Polar Bears" died in the attack. The body of a third kidnapped soldier was found weeks later. More »

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      Iraq  • US military  • insurgents  • missing soldiers  • Alex Jimenez  • Brian Fouty

    • Iraq Insurgents Gain Deadly New Weapon

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jul 10, 08 9:18 AM CDT

      Iraq Insurgents Gain Deadly New Weapon

      Shiite insurgents in Iraq have been attacking US forces with a new weapon the military fears could kill dozens of troops at a time, reports the Washington Post . Rocket-propelled bombs, made of propane tanks packed with hundreds of pounds of explosives, have killed at least 21 people this year, including three US troops—and are being used with increasing frequency. More »

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      Iraq  • Baghdad  • insurgents  • bomb  • rocket attacks  • IED  • Shiite insurgents  • rocket

    • Iraqis Losing Love for al-Qaeda

      newser  |  Times (UK)  |  Jul 6, 08 6:56 PM CDT

      Iraqis Losing Love for al-Qaeda

      Outsmarted and overwhelmed by allied forces in Iraq, al-Qaeda is getting desperate, Marie Colvin writes for the London Times. The insurgents, masters of organized resistance, are now resorting to small-scale hit-and-run attacks amidst waning support from Iraqis. “Al-Qaeda in Mosul is pretty much not able to do the attacks that they could do previously,” said an Iraqi commander. More »

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      Iraq  • US military  • insurgents  • troop surge  • al-Qaeda in Iraq  • Mosul  • David Patraeus

  • June 2008

    • Pakistan Routs Taliban Forces in Major Offensive

      newser  |  CNN  |  Jun 28, 08 1:25 PM CDT

      Pakistan Routs Taliban Forces in Major Offensive

      Pakistan blasted suspected militant hideouts today, launching its biggest offensive against Taliban forces since electing a government last March. The military cleared three militant outposts and forced the insurgents west, CNN reports. For weeks, tensions have mounted between militants and Islamabad, which abandoned its diplomatic strategy as insurgent strikes increased. More »

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      Pakistan  • Afghanistan  • Taliban  • Pentagon  • insurgents  • Robert Gates  • Islamabad

    • Taliban Said Routed Near Kandahar

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jun 19, 08 7:21 AM CDT

      Taliban Said Routed Near Kandahar

      Yesterday's swift offensive by Afghan and NATO forces drove Taliban militants from a strategic group of villages outside southern Afghanistan's largest city and killed 56 insurgents, Afghan officials said today. The Afghan National Army has taken control of the villages, a defense ministry spokesman said, but militants had planted hundreds of land mines in the area before fleeing, the AP reports. More »

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      Afghanistan  • Taliban  • Middle East  • insurgents  • NATO  • Arghandab

    • Bookish Past Might Not Help Rebel Leader

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jun 9, 08 2:33 PM CDT

      Bookish Past Might Not Help Rebel Leader

      Though Alfonso Cano, the new commander of Colombia’s FARC rebels, is a bookish intellectual, don’t expect a new push towards government negotiations, sources tell the Washington Post. Cano, who turned to Marx in college after a middle-class upbringing, would be uniquely suited to push peaceful political action—but in its weakened state, the FARC needs its leader to show strength. More »

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      insurgents  • Colombia  • FARC  • Alvaro Uribe  • Colombian rebels  • Marxism  • Manuel Marulanda  • Alfonso Cano

  • May 2008

    • Hit-and-Run Tactics Keeping Taliban Afloat

      newser  |  Economist  |  May 2, 08 8:29 PM CDT

      Hit-and-Run Tactics Keeping Taliban Afloat

      The Taliban might hope Sunday's brazen attack on Afghan president Hamid Karzai signaled a new age of potency for the rebels. But although deaths from Taliban violence are on the rise, the Economist argues, the organization has not grown substantially—it has shifted its strategy away from conventional firefights to the “asymmetrical” warfare used by militants in Iraq and Israel. More »

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      Afghanistan  • Taliban  • insurgents  • bombing  • NATO  • suicide bombing  • Hamid Karzai

  • April 2008

    • Libyan Town Exports Grim Crop: Suicide Bombers

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Apr 21, 08 1:04 PM CDT

      Libyan Town Exports Grim Crop: Suicide Bombers

      American intelligence has long known that the bulk of foreign combatants waging jihad in Iraq are Saudi nationals, but Libya is a close second, with much higher per capita representation. Documents found in Sinjar, Iraq, showed 112 fighters in a group of 606 were Libyan, and 52 came from Darnah, an impoverished coastal town of 50,000. Newsweek traveled there to attempt to learn why. More »

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      terrorism  • insurgents  • suicide bomber  • Libya  • jihad  • Moammar Gadhafi  • al-Jazeera

    • US Builds Giant Wall in Sadr City

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 18, 08 6:26 AM CDT

      US Builds Giant Wall in Sadr City

      American forces have begun construction of an enormous concrete wall that will partition Sadr City, one of Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhood. The structure is intended to make the southern section of Sadr City, a Shiite stronghold that borders the Green Zone, into a protected enclave, reports the New York Times . Walls in other parts of Baghdad have succeeded in blunting insurgent attacks, despite residents' fears of isolation. More »

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      Iraq  • US military  • Baghdad  • insurgents  • Muqtada al-Sadr  • Sadr City  • wall

    • Iran Is Now a Bigger Threat in Iraq Than al-Qaeda: US Officials

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Apr 12, 08 3:06 PM CDT

      Iran Is Now a Bigger Threat in Iraq Than al-Qaeda: US Officials

      Recent battles in Basra prove that Iran is crippling Iraqi stability while al-Qaeda's influence there wanes, US officials say. David Petraeus pointed to Iran's influence in testimony this week, and now Shiite militias are said to have benefited from Iranian weapons, training, and guidance in Basra fighting—prompting a Washington probe of Iran's impact, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      Iraq  • Iran  • Baghdad  • David Petraeus  • insurgents  • al-Qaeda in Iraq  • Basra  • Ryan Crocker  • Arabs

    • US-Backed Militias Curb Iraqi Women's Rights

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Apr 6, 08 1:43 PM CDT

      US-Backed Militias Curb Iraqi Women's Rights

      Women's rights in Iraq are devolving under the rule of US-backed militias, Newsweek reports. These Sahwa or "Awakening" groups have stabilized regions, but rule with medieval laws and customs: In some areas, women are commonly kept at home, forced to wear headscarves, or are married into polygamous relationships, Newsweek reports. More »

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      Iraq  • Baghdad  • insurgents  • women's rights  • Awakening Councils  • burka

    • US Parts End Up in Insurgents' Bombs in Iraq

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 2, 08 11:26 AM CDT

      US Parts End Up in Insurgents' Bombs in Iraq

      A year ago American technology started turning up in roadside bombs used to attack US troops in Iraq, the New York Times reports, and the rogue computer circuits were tracked to the United Arab Emirates. There investigators found the UAE's controls so lax that sensitive technology imported from the US was being exported to Iran, eventually landing in the hands of Iraqi insurgents. More »

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      Iraq war  • Iran  • insurgents  • roadside bomb  • United Arab Emirates  • US exports

  • March 2008

    • Army Finds Remains of Soldier Captured in 2004

      newser  |  Cincinnati Enquirer  |  Mar 31, 08 3:08 AM CDT

      Army Finds Remains of Soldier Captured in 2004

      The remains of an Ohio soldier who was captured in Iraq four years ago have been found, reports the Cincinnati Enquirer . DNA tests identified the remains as Matt Maupin, 20, an Army general told the young soldier's parents. Maupin had been listed as missing in Iraq since his fuel convoy was ambushed west of Baghdad in 2004. More »

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      Iraq war  • US military  • War on Terror  • insurgents  • missing soldiers  • al-Jazeera  • Matt Maupin

    • 10 Killed as Somalia Forces Battle Insurgents

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Mar 30, 08 9:19 AM CDT

      10 Killed as Somalia Forces Battle Insurgents

      At least 10 people were killed and 35 seriously injured in Somalia’s capital yesterday as insurgents fired mortars at the presidential palace, where Somalia’s president and Ethiopia’s foreign minister were meeting. The government responded by firing artillery shells and mortar in the direction of the attack, a crowded Bakara market that has served as a rebel base, reports the New York Times . More »

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      insurgents  • Somalia  • Ethiopia  • attack  • Islamist  • civil affairs

    • A Colonel's Toughest Duty: the Condolence Letter

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Mar 8, 08 4:43 PM CST

      A Colonel's Toughest Duty: the Condolence Letter

      American warfare has changed over hundreds of years, but one tradition that remains is a commander’s condolence letter to the family of a fallen soldier. The Wall Street Journal spends time with a lieutenant colonel in Iraq who writes his letters by hand whenever one of his men dies. "I wait to find the words," he says, "and they will come."  More »

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      Afghanistan  • US military  • insurgents  • US Army  • roadside bomb  • soldiers' families

  • February 2008

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