Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca, a moderate Sufi Islamist group, will no longer cooperate with the government after failing to receive cabinet positions. “We shall continue fighting against the al Shabaab and Hizbul Islam to keep our controlled areas peaceful,” the group’s spokesman said.
The US killed four “militants” in an airstrike in North Waziristan. Two people were killed after masked “gunmen” opened fire on a mosque in Bahawalpur. The Taliban killed a driver in an attack on NATO trucks in Kalat, and destroyed a NATO fuel truck in Khyber. A court acquitted three men accused of plotting the […]
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Security forces detained 18 al Qaeda operatives in Saadiya, three members of an al Qaeda assassination team in Diyala, and eight wanted men in Basrah. Insurgents killed a policeman and attempted to assassinate a member of parliament in Baghdad.
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A suicide bomber detonated his vest in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, as security forces were carrying out a sweep in the city. The blast wounded 30 people. Security forces killed seven “militants” during raids in Dagestan; two policemen were also killed.
More than 30 Taliban fighters were killed in an air assault in Laghman. Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Khost, Paktia, Paktika, Wardak, and Helmand. The Taliban killed three ISAF soldiers in the south and east.
The Obama administration asked a federal court to dismiss a case that seeks to block the US from targeting al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader Anwar al Awaki. The case “would require the disclosure of highly sensitive national security information concerning alleged military and intelligence actions overseas,” the government said.
Abdulmajid al Zindani. An interesting tidbit of news from today’s al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula attack in Sana’a that killed two Yemeni security officials. According to Xinhua, the attack took place near Abdulmajid al Zindani’s Iman University: Two intelligence agents were killed and eight others wounded in an al-Qaeda attack on their bus in […]
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula fighters killed two intelligence officials and wounded eight others in an ambush on their bus in Sa’ada. AQAP escaped the military operation in Huta, according to a Yemeni official. The governor of Shabwa denied his province is an al Qaeda haven.
ISAF and the governor of Laghman province denied reports of civilian casualties.
Police are questioning a Canadian of Pakistani origin in connection to a bomb threat that forced an airliner traveling from Canada to Karachi, Pakistan, to make an emergency landing in Sweden. No bomb or explosives have been found on the airplane.
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Four “militants” were killed in the latest attack in Datta Khel. Nine of the last 18 strikes have hit targets in the Datta Khel area.
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Security forces killed a suicide bomber outside a mosque in Mosul and detained 31 al Qaeda fighters and insurgents in Touz. Insurgents killed four Iraqi children and an Iraqi Army major in Baghdad.
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Aafia Siddiqui, dubbed “Lady al Qaeda” in the press, was sentenced to 86 years in prison on Thursday. Siddiqui was part of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s network and participated in plotting against the US Homeland.
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Thirty people were killed and more than 75 were wounded in fighting in Mogadishu; most were killed by mortar fire from African Union forces. The African Union has pleaded with the United Nations to increase funding for the Somalia mission to support 20,000 troops.
Police arrested Omar Awadh Omar, the second in command of the Saleh Ali Nabhan Brigade, the Shabaab cell that carried out the July 11 double suicide attack in Kampala that killed 76 people. Omar, Kenyan national, was detained along with Al Amin Kimathi, a Muslim human rights activist.