Conflicts / Tags / Tribal

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Apr 17, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- An attacker wearing a suicide vest killed 42 people and injured others at a funeral for a tribal leader in a northern Iraqi Sunni village dominated by the American-backed awakening movement, police said. Police believe the strike appears to be latest assa.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Jun 26, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- A suicide attacker has killed at least 12 people at a tribal council meeting in a government building in Karma, a town near Falluja, Iraqi police said. More than a dozen people were wounded in the blast, police added. Karma is in the mainly Sunni Mu.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Oct 29, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- At least 10 tribal leaders who had banded with U.S. troops to fight the Sunni insurgent group al Qaeda in Iraq were kidnapped Sunday morning, the latest in a string of such attacks, fellow tribesmen said. At least one was later found shot to death. The.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Oct 9, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

CNN -- Two suicide truck bombings detonated minutes apart Tuesday morning in the northern Iraqi city of Baiji, killing at least 22 people and wounding 30 -- a coordinated attack police say targeted anti-insurgent Sunni tribal leaders. Violence reverberated as we.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

SF Gate -- Sunni Arab extremists have begun a systematic campaign to assassinate police chiefs, police officers, other Interior Ministry officials and tribal leaders throughout Iraq, staging at least 10 attacks in 48 hours. Eight police officers have been killed,.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Sep 13, 2007 @ 5:03pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- This is a man who has had a controversial past, but in recent months he has become a very prominent figure, even meeting George Bush," Al Jazeera's James Bays said. Abu Risha had urged the tribal leaders in other Iraqi provinces to follow al-Anbar's lead.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Aug 28, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

Al Jazeera -- Ameer Mohammad Mehsud, a tribal elder involved in the negotiations, on Tuesday said the captives were headed to Wana, South Waziristan's main town, to be handed over to government officials. Tribal region The tribes in Pakistan's rugged Waziristan.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Aug 9, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

BBC News -- Afghanistan must work with Pakistan to defeat Islamic militants, President Hamid Karzai has told hundreds of tribal leaders at a key peace summit. The Afghan leader was opening the three-day "peace jirga" or tribal council, on combating the Taleban and.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

USA Today -- A stealthy suicide bomber slipped into a busy Baghdad hotel and blew himself up in the midst of a gathering of U.S.-allied tribal sheiks, undermining efforts to forge a front against the extremists of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Four of the tribal chiefs were among.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jun 25, 2007 @ 10:05am neoform

BBC News -- A number of senior Sunni tribal leaders have been killed in a suicide bombing at a hotel in central Baghdad, which has left 12 dead and 15 injured. "According to initial reports, six sheikhs are among the dead," Lieutenant Colonel Scott Bleichwehl said.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jun 25, 2007 @ 9:59am neoform

CNN -- A suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside a busy central Baghdad hotel, killing at least 12 people -- including Sunni and Shiite tribal sheikhs who were meeting as part of Iraq's reconciliation effort -- U.S. and Iraqi officials told CNN. An Ira.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jun 5, 2007 @ 4:45pm neoform

FOX News -- A homicide bomber struck a gathering of anti-Al Qaeda tribal leaders in troubled Anbar province on Tuesday, blowing up his car as they met, killing at least 15 people, police and hospital officials reported. The elders belonged to the al-Buissa tribe,.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 10:05am neoform

SF Gate -- The presence of five heavily armed Taliban fighters waiting outside a government office comes as no surprise in the autonomous tribal area known as South Waziristan. Most residents agree that the former Afghan rulers have created a virtual ministate here... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon May 7, 2007 @ 12:12pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- An alliance of tribal leaders has worked with US forces against al-Qaeda, resulting in a dramatic drop in violent incidents in the past few months. In Washington last month, the US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, praised tribal leaders, say.. Read More