The Taliban claimed it assassinated President Karzai’s brother in Kandahar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban leaders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Khost, Paktia, Paktika, Wardak, Logar, Balkh, and Baghlan. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the west.
Insurgents killed two Awakening fighters in Baghdad and a soldier in Mosul. Security forces detained 21 wanted “terrorists” in Basrah.
Five people were killed in an airstrike in the Arhab province north of Sana’a. Yemeni officials said they were tribesmen “harboring criminals who stand behind the attacks on soldiers,” while locals said those killed were civilians.
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US Secretary of State Clinton said President Assad has “lost legitimacy” and the US has “absolutely nothing invested in him … remaining in power.” Syria said Clinton’s statement was “provocative.”
Counter-terrorism strategy driven by ‘cyberjihad’ threat
Self-proclaimed Islamic radical Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, a.k.a. Carlos Bledsoe from Tennessee, faces capital murder charges in Arkansas for killing one soldier and wounding another at a Little Rock recruiting station in 2009. He seeks to be tried on terror charges in federal court instead.
The Wall Street Journal claims that a Ugandan drone was used in a strike that injured two Shabaab commanders. Its reporting on the matter is erroneous.
UN scales up aid to thousands fleeing Pakistan’s latest conflict zone
US accuses Syria of unleashing mob attacks on US, French embassies
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Half Brother of Afghan President Is Killed in Kandahar
Why Ahmed Wali Karzai was a target
The controversial Ahmed Wali Karzai, who has been linked to the drug trade and the Taliban, was gunned down in his office in Kandahar City.
The strike hit a compound used by al Qaeda-linked fighters.
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US Predators killed 12 “militants” in a astrike in North Waziristan. A Suicide bomber killed seven people in Battagram. Two drivers transporting fuel for NATO were killed in Darakshan near Quetta.
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Twenty Taliban fighters, including five Pakistanis, were killed during an operation in Kapisa. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban leaders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Ghazni, Khost, Paktika, and Kunduz.
The Al Fajr Media Center, al Qaeda’s internet propaganda arm, announced the establishment of the al-Fida’ forum. The new forum is to take the place of the Al Ekhlaas forum.
The attack took place in an area used by the Taliban to stage attacks across the border in Afghanistan.
Insurgents killed two soldiers in Mosul, a police colonel in Tikrit, an Army officer in Al Kut, and a US soldier in the south. Iran threatened to attack bases of the PKAK, a PKK offshoot, inside Iraq.
A terror suspect of UK-Nigerian nationality, identified only as CD, is appealing an order that bans him from London. He allegedly leads an Islamist group, and was arrested with two other suspects in January. He trained in Syria and with the July 2005 London bombers, and has tried to purchase weapons to carry out terror […]
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