April, 2008

• 4 April

  Checkpoint attacked in Nazran

  According to sources from Wilayah of Ghalghaycho (Ingushetia) of the Caucasus Emirate, on the night of 25 Rabi‘ al-Awwal 1429 (01.04.2008) a checkpoint of puppet militia was attacked in Nazran city. Puppets did not give any details just saying that no one was hurt in the attack. Kavkax Center

  Read More »
• 4 April

  3 kuffar eliminated, Ural truck destroyed on Tsentoroi-Belgatoi road

  According to AlKavkaz website, 23 Rabi‘ al-Awwal 1429 (30.03.2008) on Tsentoroi-Belgatoi road in Wilayah of Nokhchicho of the Caucasus Emirate, Mujahideen from Amir Sawab’s unit detonated an explosive device at a Russian Ural military truck, eliminating at least three kafir terrorists and destroying the truck.

  Read More »
• 4 April

  NATO summit: wrangling in full swing

  US President George W Bush has repeated his call for Nato to expand eastwards. Speaking in Romania ahead of Nato’s summit in Bucharest, he said the former Soviet states of Ukraine and Georgia should be offered paths to membership.

  Read More »
• 4 April

  Moscow threatens imminent recognition of Tskhinvali and Sukhumi. Tbilisi doesn’t believe

  Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said on April 2 that the government would consider the Russian State Duma’s resolution on the recognition of independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia with the connection to the situation in Kosovo.

  Read More »
• 4 April

  ”Membership of Kiev and Tbilisi in the alliance conflicts with interests of NATO”

  Former Chairman of the NATO Military Commitee Harald Kujat is against the admission of Ukraine and Georgia into NATO. According to German general, membership of Ukraine and Georgia in the alliance conflicts with the interests of NATO and the candidates themselves.

  Read More »
• 4 April

  NATO nixes Georgia, Ukraine membership

   NATO decided Thursday not to put Georgia and Ukraine on track to join the alliance after vehement Russian opposition, but the alliance pledged that the strategically important Black Sea nations will become members one day.

  Read More »
• 3 April

  U.N. court clears ex-Kosovo PM of war crimes

  THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The U.N. war crimes tribunal acquitted Kosovo’s former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj on Thursday of charges of torturing and murdering Serbs during the 1998-99 war.

  Read More »
• 3 April

  NATO troop target for Afghanistan hard to pin down

  BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Just how many troops does NATO need in Afghanistan? Despite repeated calls for more forces to be sent to fight Taliban insurgents, alliance leaders — meeting on Thursday at a summit in Bucharest — have been reluctant or unable to give a consistent figure for how many …

  Read More »
• 3 April

  Russia’s Putin to focus on positive in NATO talks

  BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to focus on areas of agreement rather than discord at talks with NATO leaders on Friday, in efforts to keep ties with the West on a relatively even keel before he steps down.

  Read More »
• 3 April

  Russia criticizes NATO pledge to Ukraine, Georgia

  MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian Foreign Ministry official said on Thursday the entry of Ukraine and Georgia into NATO would be a “huge strategic mistake” after alliance leaders pledged to offer them membership one day.

  Read More »