Egypt
As Egypt charts new foreign policy course, away from US line, Iran hopes to warm ties
As Egypt charts new foreign policy course, away from US line, Iran hopes to warm ties
A Taliban suicide bomber assassinated the mayor of Kandahar City. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban, HIG, and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leaders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Ghazni, Wardak, Kunduz, and Jawzjan.
Security forces killed an al Qaeda leader west of Mosul. President Talibani pardoned 50 Mahdi Army fighters and leaders. The Mahdi Army’s Promised Day Brigade claimed it carried out five attacks over the past week against US forces in Baghdad, Dhi Qar, Wasit, and Maysan.
“Militants” linked to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula are demanding a $12 million ransom for three French aid workers. A Republican Guards and an Army division have abandoned the government and joined the protesters.
Iran has nominated a senior leader in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps to lead OPEC. Two IRGC soldiers and 21 Kurdish rebels were killed during fighting near the Iraqi border.
Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama’a claimed they killed five of Shabaab’s top leaders in the Galgudud region, including Shabaab’s governor. Shabaab arrested 30 women in Afgoye for failing to cover their faces.
Four Kenyan soldiers were killed and eight more were wounded in an IED attack in the town of Mandera along the Somali border. Shabaab is suspected of executing the attack.
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Mayor Hamidi, the fourth senior official in the south to be assassinated this month, was killed in a hallway near his office. The suicide bomber hid the explosives in his turban.
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National Anti-Terror Agency officials said that the army will begin assisting the police and the Detachment 88 antiterrorism squad to combat a “third generation” of terrorists emerging in 14 of the country’s 33 provinces. Within the past two years, over 700 terrorists have been arrested and others have been shot, and a terror training camp […]
Twenty-two Taliban fighters and two policemen were killed during fighting in Helmand. The Taliban killed two boys in an IED attack in Helmand and shot down a US helicopter in Kunar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban leaders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Paktika, Laghman, and Jawzjan.
The Taliban killed a Pakistani soldier in an IED attack South Waziristan and bombed two government schools in Khyber. The Army completed an operation in South Waziristan.
Lashkar-e-Taiba/Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader Hafiz Saeed said that suicide attacks against Muslims under the guise of jihad were against Islam. Saeed did not say if suicide attacks against non-Muslims were forbidden, however.
An Al Qaeda bomb maker killed himself and two of his children in a premature detonation at his home in Kirkuk. Insurgents killed a doctor in Mosul and an Awakening officer in Kirkuk. Security forces detained al Qaeda’s “industry minister” in Fallujah.
Yemeni military officers claimed an al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula commander known as Ali Saeed Jamil was among 12 AQAP operatives killed during fighting in Zinibar. Yemeni officials also claimed a Saudi bomb expert carried out the suicide attack in Aden that killed nine soldiers.
Nasir al Wuhayshi, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, swore an oath of allegiance to new al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri. Wuhayshi also said his followers would wage jihad until the world was united under Islam.
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