The Taliban killed three policemen in a bombing in Hangu. Security forces arrested a Taliban commander and a fighter in Hangu. The interior minister said the government would not talk to the Taliban until they “surrender and accept government’s writ.”
Pakistan – Talking to the Taliban
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The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in an IED attack in eastern Afghanistan yesterday. Security forces captured a Haqqani Network leader in Ghazni and a Taliban leader and several fighters in Helmand and Nangarhar.
NATO will end its mission to train the Iraqi military after the US withdraws from Iraq at the end of December. The US will sell Iraq an additional 18 F-16 fighters.
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The Iranian foreign ministry publicly responded to the article by Thomas Joscelyn that pointed out Iran’s links to the 1998 suicide attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Shabaab’s “Press Office War Statistics Office” said it would provide more information on slain Burundian soldiers if requested.
NATO supplies clog Karachi port
Up to 15 al Qaeda fighters escaped from a prison in the southern port city of Aden, in the second such jailbreak this year. Most of the escapees were being tried over a 2009 bank robbery in Aden, while others were facing charges of involvement in the assassinations of intelligence officers.
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Intelligence officials told The Long War Journal that the US fears relations with Pakistan will further deteriorate, but the US would consider hitting a high-value target if the opportunity was available.
A “mysterious” explosion occurred at a steel mill in Yazd, killing seven employees, including foreign nationals. Iranian authorities blamed the blast on “old munitions.” Iranian experts are in the final stages of “recovering data” from the US surveillance drone captured by the country’s armed forces, state TV reported.
A rocket fired from Lebanon toward Israel fell short, wounding a Lebanese woman. Israeli warplanes flew over south Lebanon, the Bekaa Valley, and Beirut after the failed rocket attack. Both Syria and Hezbollah rejected allegations that they had planned and executed the attack against French UN peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon.
A nutritional center run by the Somali Red Crescent Society in the southern town of Bardera was hit by an airstrike. Shabaab fighters showed ID cards of eight slain Burundian peacekeepers to local media outlets. Turkey has expanded its aid to refugees in Mogadishu, and Bahrain broke ground for a hospital building there.
US leaving drone base won’t have big impact on air war
NATO-backed Afghan militia scheme seen expanded
An intelligence officer and a civilian were injured after their convoy struck a roadside bomb in Wajir. Security forces and police launched a major crackdown in the Wajir area. The Kenyan army and Shabaab fighters traded insults on Twitter.
A verdict is expected in January in the case of Arid Ukah, an Albanian from Kosovo who killed two US soldiers in Frankfurt. Authorities say he was radicalized via Islamist material on the Internet. He admitted the shootings and faces a possible life sentence.
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Government to consider talks if Taliban surrender: Rehman Malik
Pakistan may continue blocking NATO convoys from delivering supplies to Afghanistan for several weeks. The military says it took over the Shamsi air base in Baluchistan following the departure of US personnel. TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan denied earlier statements by Maulvi Faqir Mohammed that the Taliban are holding peace talks with the Pakistani government.
President Hamid Karzai dismissed the March 2012 deadline he had set for the closure of private security firms, giving them until September 2013 to operate in the country. The US Special Operations commander who directed the operation that killed Osama bin Laden defended the unpopular night raids used against militants in Afghanistan. Germany, which has […]
Iran will not return a US surveillance drone captured by its armed forces, General Hossein Salami, deputy head of the Republican Guard, said in a broadcast on Iranian state television. He described the penetration of Iranian airspace by a US drone as a “hostile act” and warned of a “bigger” response.