The Taliban killed a district governor and his bodyguard in Nangarhar, and killed three truck drivers and torched 13 NATO supply vehicles in Zabul. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Khost, and Paktika.
The Indian Army claimed that Pakistan is operating 42 terror training camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Women are being trained at some of the camps, and more than 600 terrorists are prepared to enter Indian Kashmir, the Army chief said.
The attack is the Taliban’s latest in a long string of attacks at religious institutions in Pakistan. The Taliban have also stepped up attacks against security forces, killing 17 soldiers and paramilitary troops over the past week.
Demand for Iranian crude oil increased despite sanctions. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez traveled to Iran and Syria, and won Russian support for Venezuela’s planned nuclear program. An Iranian-American imprisoned in Iran for more than two years returned to California.
Five Pakistanis were among 10 people arrested in Sana’a by Yemeni security forces. The five Pakistanis are accused of spreading “extremist jihadi ideas.”
US halts aid to some Pakistan military units
The military killed four Taliban fighters in Arakzai and four more in Kurram. Six Taliban fighters, including their commander, were killed in an IED blast in Kurram. Two of Jalaluddin Haqqani’s sons are mediating negotiations in Kurram.
Dormant Western Sahara threatens to heat up
US-led Afghan reconstruction projects to end because of security dispute
Iraq’s Kurds emerge as kingmakers as Iran tries to flex its muscle
Two articles by al Qaeda cleric Anwar al Awlaki are featured in the latest edition of Inspire magazine. The publication also mentions the controversy surrounding the Obama administration’s decision to allow US forces to target Awlaki in Yemen.
Afghan peace council to offer concessions to Taliban
Iraqi leaders not following US advice on gov’t
Insurgents killed 10 people and wounded 30 in more in a bus bombing in North Cotabato in Mindanao. The bus was carrying 60 people on their way to Tacurong City and exploded near Dalapitan village. Al Khober, a terrorist group composed of Abu Sayyaf Group and MILF fighters, is suspected, due to similar attacks conducted […]
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Paktika, and Baghlan. The Taliban killed four policemen in Herat and an ISAF soldier in the south, and bombed a girls’ school in Logar.
ICRC urges Pakistan to grant access to detention centres
India – 42 terror camps active in PoK, new ones added: Army Chief
Afghan peace council wants Saudi Arabia’s help
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operative Ahmed Abdel Aziz al Jasser and four other operatives plotted to carry out attacks in Saudi Arabia as its military was battling Houthi rebels from Yemen along the border in 2009. Yemen has offered a $50,000 reward for Yasser.
Five people were killed during a mortar exchange between African Union and Shabaab forces in Mogadishu. Zachary Adam Chesser pled guilty in a US court to providing material support for Shabaab and encouraging others to attack the producers of South Park. The US backs an increase of African Union forces in Somalia.
The Pentagon invited Anwar al Awlaki, the radical al Qaeda cleric now in hiding in Yemen, to a lunch just weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the US. A few days prior to the Pentagon luncheon, Awlaki was interviewed by the FBI for his associations to three of the 9/11 hijackers.
The Yemeni government is waging “what amounts to a guerrilla war with al Qaeda” in Abyan province, a senior security official said. The military claimed several al Qaeda operatives were killed in an airstrike that targeted a vehicle in Abyan.
The Yemeni government offered a $50,000 reward for Ahmed Abdel Aziz Jasser al Jasser and Turki Mohammad Quleiss al-Shahrani, two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives. The interior ministry described Jasser and Shahrani as being “among the most dangerous al Qaeda operatives to have committed acts of terrorism and sabotage.”
President Ahmadinejad and Argentinian President Hugo Chavez vowed to form a “new world order.” Turkey’s deputy prime minister said Iran sanctions will not serve to further negotiations.
Taliban: ‘Britons are our main bankrollers’
Activity detected at North Korea nuclear test site: report
Iran, Venezuela leaders seek ‘new world order’
‘Emir of the south’ Abu Zeid poised to take over al-Qaeda in NW Africa
Coalition routs Taliban in southern Afghanistan
Taliban second in command in talks with Afghan and US officials