May, 2008

• 4 May

  Afghanistan urges Pakistan to stop ‘terrorists’

  KABUL (AFP) – Pakistan should stop “terrorists” from using its soil to attack Afghanistan if it makes deals with Taliban militants along the troubled border, the Afghan defence ministry said.

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• 2 May

  Food crisis leaves many Afghans desperate

  KABUL, Afghanistan – Hungry Afghans looking for their next meal eye bread scraps piled up like heaps of trash at a Kabul market as a vendor weighs out fistfuls of the stale crusts on a scale. A Pashtun woman waits with an empty plastic sack.

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• 2 May

  NATO chides Russia over Georgia

  Russia’s recent moves and statements concerning Georgia and its breakaway regions are raising tensions and “undermining a fragile situation”, a Nato spokesman has said.Speaking in Brussels, James Appathurai said: “Nato is watching with concern and wants to see all parties avoid the kind of rhetoric which is escalating tensions.”

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• 1 May

  Mujahideen attacked kuffar and murtadin

  According to news sources in Wilayah Ghalghaycho (Ingushetia) of the Caucasus Emirate, one of murtad officers a member of “Ministry of Internal Affairs” gang was shot dead in the village of Ali-Yurt last Wednesday. Local puppet sources said that “the policeman died of negligence in handling of weapon”.

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• 1 May

  4 murtadin eliminated near Janni-Vedeno village

  The AlKavkaz website has reported that on 23 Rabi Al-Akhar 1429 (29 April 2008), sabotage unit of the Mujahideen of Dargo sector (commander Amir Osman) of the Eastern Front of Armed Forces of the Caucasus Emirate (commander Amir Aslambek), ambushed armed gang of Kadyrovans near the village of Canni-Vedeno.

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• 1 May

  Murtadin expect Mujahideen attacks

  Occupation sources in Wilayah Dagestan of the Caucasus Emirate report that the ringleader of a gang named “Interior Ministry of Dagestan” A. Magomedtagirov has said that the intelligence got information on possible attacks of Mujahideen in several cities: Shamilkala (former Makhachkala), Khasavyurt, Kizilyurt, Kizlyar, TemirHanShura (formerly Buinaksk), Kaspiysk, and Derbent.

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• 1 May

  Russia steps up forces in Georgia conflict zone

  Georgia’s breakaway regions, saying it had evidence Tbilisi was readying its forces for an attack. Georgia denied it had any plans to attack the separatist Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions, but the Russian move marks a new escalation in a crisis between the two ex-Soviet neighbors that has already alarmed …

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• 1 May

  FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, May 1

  (Reuters) – Following are security developments in Iraq at 1515 GMT on Thursday. BAGHDAD – U.S. forces said they killed 18 fighters in clashes beginning on Wednesday afternoon and running through the night in the Shi’ite district of Sadr City in the capital. Police put the death toll at 18 …

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• 1 May

  Pakistani coalition calms fears of break-up over judges

  DUBAI (Reuters) – Leaders of Pakistan’s month-old ruling alliance narrowed differences on Thursday over the reinstatement of judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf to calm fears that the coalition was about to break up.

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• 1 May

  Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in Gaza Strip

  GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli forces on Thursday killed two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including a Hamas commander involved in the 2006 capture of an Israeli soldier, local medics and the army said.

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