More than 120 HIG fighters surrendered to the government in Baghlan after battling with the Taliban. The Taliban killed 11 civilians in bombings in Badghis. Two Taliban fighters were killed after conducting attacks in Khost City. Coalition and Afghan forces detained a Taliban commander, three facilitators, a Haqqani Network sub-commander, and an undisclosed number of […]
More than 120 Hizb-i-Islami Gulbuddin fighters turned themselves in to the government after a major clash with local Taliban in Baghlan province.
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The attack is the first this month and also the first in 12 days.
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Pakistan delivers but doubts remain
The reports of the arrest of al Qaeda’s American-born propagandist in Karachi appear to be a case of mistaken identity.
As Iraq tallies vote, US says pullout plans are ‘on track™
Vitol, Glencore, and Trafigura agreed to stop supplying refined petroleum products to Iran. China signed a deal with Iran that allows it to drill in the Persian Gulf. The US Treasury Department will allow the export of Internet communications services to Iran.
The Taliban commander was reported killed by Pakistan’s Interior Minister in a strike in Mohmand last week.
Adam Gadahn, al Qaeda’s American spokesman, from “A Call to Arms,” a videotape released in March 2010. Below is the full transcript of Adam Gadahn’s latest tape, ” A Call to Arms.” Gadahn, al Qaeda’s American-born spokesman, is thought to have been captured in Karachi on March 7, but there is much controversy over the […]
US hopes Internet exports will help open closed societies
The attack leveled a headquarters of the Federal Investigation Agency, a law enforcement agency that has targeted the Taliban and al Qaeda.
Earlier today, reports from Pakistan indicated that American turncoat and traitor Adam Gadahn was detained in a Pashtun neighborhood in Karachi. Now, some news outlets are saying this is a case of mistaken identity, and that either a Taliban or an al Qaeda leader named Abu Yahya Mujahdeen al Adam was actually the one captured. […]
Nigerian authorities have arrested 17 members of the Nigerian police for their extrajudicial killing of suspected Boko Haram members. The investigation into the murders was prompted by Al Jazeera’s release of footage showing police executing people suspected of being involved in the 2009 Islamist sect uprising.
Three Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb terrorists were killed by Algerian security forces during operations in Keddara in Boumerdes province. The Mauritanian government has refused to negotiate with AQIM for the release of the three Spanish aid workers.
Gates says elections show Iraq’s progress
Eight Taliban fighters were killed in a Pakistani airstrike in South Waziristan; locals claimed those killed were civilians. A Taliban commander was killed in a shooting in North Waziristan. The Taliban beheaded a pro-government tribal elder in Arakzai.
Iraq: Election day
Al Qaeda in Iraq failed to deter parliamentary elections. Thirty-eight Iraqis were killed in mortar attacks and bombings, but the attacks did not keep Iraqis from the polls. Turnout was high. Security forces detained six wanted men in Saadiya, two terrorists in Tarmiyah, an al Qaeda cell leader in Arii, and a Naqshabandi cell leader […]
Heavy turnout is being reported in Iraq’s parliamentary elections today, despite inevitable insurgent attempts to cow voters with violence. The New York Times: Insurgents here vowed to disrupt the election, and the concerted wave of attacks – as many as 100 thunderous blasts in the capital alone starting just before the polls opened – did […]
More than 60 Taliban and HIG fighters and 20 civilians have been reported killed in inter-Taliban fighting in Baghlan; 20 HIG fighters surrendered to the government after the battle. Security forces killed seven Taliban fighters in Helmand and captured a Taliban commander in Ghazni. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in the South.
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The American charged with treason for serving as al Qaeda’s mouthpiece is thought to have been detained in a Pashtun region in Karachi. The reports are unconfirmed.
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Adam Gadahn, al Qaeda’s American-born spokesman, is reported to have been captured in Karachi. Today he released a tape that called on Muslims in the US to conduct attacks against “high-value targets” and said the Muslim Army major who killed soldiers at Ft. Hood was “a pioneer, a trailblazer, and a role-model.”