Afghan intelligence operatives captured five suspected Taliban suicide bombers and 560 kilograms of explosives on the outskirts of Kabul’s international airport; they also arrested a Taliban leader in Helmand province.
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The attempted assassination of Obid Nazarov, a popular Uzbek cleric in the northern city of Stromsund, is being blamed on Uzbek government officials. Nazarov remains in a coma following the February attack. He had fled to Sweden in 2006 after the Uzbek government sought to arrest him for terrorism.
Special operations forces launched airstrikes in two districts in an attempt to kill two al Qaeda leaders in the northeastern province.
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The drone program will resume, as Pakistan has balked at reopening NATO’s supply lines into Afghanistan, a US intelligence official involved in the program told LWJ.
The American jihadist said the move is necessary to unite the local Islamist insurgencies and global jihadist movements.
The deputy commander of Iran’s Qods Force claimed that the Iranian intervention in Syria has saved lives.
In the worst episode in Syria’s 14 months of violence, over 90 people, including 32 children, were killed in a brutal attack on a village in northern Syria. The attack sparked international condemnation.
US drones killed five “militants” in North Waziristan. Security forces killed four Taliban fighters in Arakzai. The Taliban killed a soldier in an IED attack in Nowshera. Secretary of Defense Panetta said that the US will not be “gouged” by Pakistan on the reopening of NATO’s supply lines.
The Taliban killed seven ISAF soldiers, an Afghan Army commander, and two civilians in separate attacks in the south and east. Afghan officials said eight civilians, including six children, were killed in an ISAF airstrike in Paktia.
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Security forces killed 15 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in Jaar and seven more in Zinjibar. The chief of security in Aden said AQAP has infiltrated the city. AQAP offered to free a Swiss and a Saudi hostage in exchange for a ceasefire.
Puntland’s Maritime Police Force captured 11 pirates in the Hafun district. The commander of Somalia’s military said that the armed forces are preparing to eject Shabaab out Lower and Middle Shabelle.
ISAF has targeted the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan six times in Faryab since mid-March.
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Hundreds of Salafists armed with Molotov cocktails and clubs fought with police in Jendouba, torched a police headquarters, and attacked liquor stores and bars. The Salafists were protesting the arrest of four of their ranks for previously attacking bars.