North Korea leader Kim Jong-il said during a visit to Russia that his country is ready to impose a moratorium on the testing and production of nuclear weapons. The US and South Korea are looking for concrete signs of change on this issue.
The political front for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula published a videotape of the July 25 suicide attack that killed five Yemeni soldiers and wounded 25 more.
The terrorist counterintelligence unit killed an Afghan accused of working for the Americans in North Waziristan.
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The Taliban killed two Afghan soldiers in Kunar and an ISAF soldier in the south. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Ghazni, Khost, Paktia, Kapisa, and Wardak. Two German climbers have gone missing in the north.
Turkey claimed it killed nearly 100 PKK fighters in airstirkes in northern Iraq. Insurgents killed a councilman and his son in Hit, and a tribal leader and his son in Ninewa.
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The military claimed it killed four al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in Abyan. The head of the Shura Council died from wounds suffered in the June 3 assassination attempt that targeted President Saleh.
President Gaddafi’s son, Saif al Islam, appeared at a hotel in Tripoli to disprove reports from rebels that he was captured last weekend. Saif claimed that government forces are still in control of the capital and have lured the rebels into a trap.
The US is investigating if a group calling itself al Qaeda in the Sinai was involved in last week’s attacks in southern Israel that killed eight Israelis. The Gaza-based Popular Resistance Committees or the al Qaeda-linked Army of Islam may have been involved in the attacks.
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The strike took place in the Mir Ali area, a known haven for a number of terrorist groups.
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