One al Qaeda operative was killed and 17 detained during raids nationwide. US forces killed six insurgents as they attempted to plant an IED in Mosul. US forces detained 13 insurgents, including a high-value target in North Babil and another in Narhwan.
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Four police were killed and seven wounded in a bombing in Girshk in Helmand province. Police killed one Taliban and wounded two near Herat in western Afghanistan. Mullah Naqib, a powerful Afghan leader in Kandahar, died of a heart attack. Germany extended its mission in Afghanistan.
The PKK threatened to conduct attacks against military and government targets inside Turkey as the government said it is prepared to strike PKK camps inside Iraq. The US is conducting contingency planning in case Turkey restricts access to resupply Iraq.
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Spanish police captured a Frenchman of Moroccan origin while transporting a crude bomb made of butane tanks and fireworks. The suspect was carrying jihadi literature and shaved his body, an act common among Islamist suicide bombers.
The Taliban flex their muscles in Swat, Mohmand, and North and South Waziristan; public beheadings and whippings; captured soldiers and government capitulation on display.
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Iraq and Turkey conducted talks after Turkey warned it is strongly considering an invasion of northern Iraq to root out the PKK. An al Qaeda suicide attack killed nine and wounded 24 in Baghdad. The governor of Ninewa said he planned on resigning due to the deteriorating security situation in the province.
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Tribal elders are negotiating a truce between the Taliban and the military. “Once the ceasefire is agreed upon then a larger jirga will discuss permanent peace,” said Governor Orakzai. The Taliban executed six “criminals” in Mohmand agency.
Seven soldiers and two civilians were killed in a bombing at an Indian army base in Baramula; two soldiers and four terrorists were killed in other ambushes. Lashkar-e-Taiba was involved in an attack on an Indian army battalion headquarters near Srinagar. Two Lashkar-e-Taiba suicide bombers were killed by Indian troops. Police captured a senior Hizbul […]
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Three officers speak to the media, confirm their military unit was surrounded, out-manned, and out-gunned.
Twenty-five foreign al Qaeda reported killed in North Waziristan. Report of a major operation in North Waziristan is leaked as the government continues negotiations with the Taliban.