US and Afghan troops killed 15 Taliban fighters, wounded 12, and detained one more after their convoy was ambushed in the Arghandab district in Zabul province. US and Afghan forces captured six Haqqani Network fighters in Paktia. Three US and two NATO soldiers were killed during an ambush in eastern Afghanistan.
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Security forces captured four members of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb after a clash near the border with Algeria. The four men, who are from Algeria, Ghana, Mali, and Mauritania, were wounded when fighting broke out after security forces stopped their truck in the Sahara desert along a known smuggling route.
The April death toll from attacks is the highest in seven months. Two US Marines and a sailor were killed in Anbar. A suicide bomber killed five civilians in Mosul. Iraqi forces killed two insurgents in Tikrit, and detained four wanted men in Maysan and a suicide bomber in Kirkuk.
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Ten Levies troops were captured but then released after the Taliban overran their headquarters in the town of Dir. Al Qaeda urges Pakistanis to rebel.
Heavy fighting is reported as both sides battle for control of the vital passes leading into the district.
Despite Taliban, Pakistan focused on India
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Security forces killed 14 Taliban fighters and established a headquarters in Buner. The Taliban captured four policemen in Swat, bombed a girls’ school in Bannu, and killed one person in an IED attack in Kohat. The Government will form sharia courts in two days in the Malakand region. Sufi Mohammed has resurfaced and has criticized […]
Three masked gunmen killed Sheikh Muktar, a Shabaab military commander, as he was sitting outside his shop in Mogadishu’s Bakara Market. The Shabaab commander was allied with Muktar Robow. Three Somalis, including a senior intelligence official, were killed in an hand grenade attack in Galka™yo in the semi- autonomous region of Puntland. The ICU claimed […]
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Britain will send 700 additional troops to Afghanistan and Australia will send 450 more soldiers. Afghan and Coalition forces killed four Taliban fighters in Logar province. Three children were killed while playing with a rocket in Kapisa province. A German soldier was killed in yesterday’s suicide attack in Kunduz province.
Security forces detained 19 wanted men in Basrah and 15 more in Khalis. British forces have begun to withdrawal from Basrah. The Khour al-Amiya port was transferred to Iraqi control. Iraq has eliminated the National Security Advisor post .
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The government claimed the Dir operation dislodged the Taliban after just one day of fighting, but the Taliban still control much of the northern district.
A US strike in South Waziristan killed 10 al Qaeda and Taliban fighters. Clashes between MQM supporters and Pashtuns resulted in 25 killed in Karachi; the government issued a shoot-on-sight order. The Taliban remains in control of Dir. The military took the town of Daggar in Buner and claimed 50 Taliban fighters were killed. The […]
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