The Taliban killed a district police chief and three policemen in an IED attack in Herat province. Security forces killed an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander who doubled as a Taliban district shadow governor in Takhar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Helmand, Logar, and Paktia.
Security forces killed three Islamist fighters and detained one more during operations in the Rasht Valley. Tajik President Emomali Rahmon denied the Taliban are involved in fighting in the Rasht Valley and said the situation is under control.
Insurgents killed seven Iraqi soldiers and seven civilians in separate attacks in Khalis, Kirkuk, Baghdad, and Mosul. An undersecretary in the planning ministry dodged an assassination attempt. Tariq Aziz, Saddam Hussein’s foreign minister, has been sentenced to death by hanging.
Ten people were killed in clashes between government forces and Shabaab in Mogadishu. Shabaab said the Mustafa Abu Yazid Brigade killed several Somali troops during the fighting. Gunmen assassinated two prominent clerics in Adado.
Police defused a bomb planted outside a concert hall in Grozny in Chechnya. Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said he should be given more latitude from Russia in battling the Caucasus Emirate. Islamist fighters are primarily using weapons taken from military depots.
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Fifteen al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters surrendered to the governor of Abyan. The government claimed the Awalik mountain range is free of AQAP influence. A Yemen journalist is on trial for links to AQAP cleric Anwar al Awlaki.
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Qari Mahmad Umar, a shadow district governor in Takhar, was also a senior leader in the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Five people were killed in a bombing at a Sufi shrine in Pakpattan. Three people were killed in an IED attack in Arakzai. The military sealed the border between Kurram and Afghanistan. Two suicide bombers were detained in Karachi.
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Muslim insurgents carried out nine bombings in seven districts of Narathiwat province Monday morning, killing one person and injuring more than 10 others. Similar bombings in Yala and Pattani province left three others injured. Buddhist rubber plantation workers were the primary target of the attacks.
Suspected Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb fighters killed two Algerian soldiers and wounded three others in an IED attack on a military convoy in eastern Boumerdes province. Algerian Prime Minister Ouyahia has pledged to “the complete disappearance of this plague [terrorism]” from Algeria.
Six suspected Boko Haram insurgents attacked the Gulani police station in northern Yobe state. Police officers fended off the attackers after one gunman was killed. At least three police officers were wounded in the attack.
Insurgents killed two people in a bombing at a hospital in Mosul and assassinated a senior electricity ministry official in Baghdad. Security forces detained seven wanted men in Basrah and three more in Kirkuk.
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