As green-on-blue attacks spike, US and Afghan military officials have taken increasingly strong measures to combat attacks on their forces by Taliban infiltrators and disgruntled Afghan troops. In 2012, green-on-blue attacks accounted for 15% of ISAF deaths.
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Mullah Omar’s Eid message was read in many mosques in Nangarhar. The Taliban killed a police commander and three civilians in Kunduz and bombed the Ring Road in three locations in Kandahar. The government blamed foreign countries for instigating green-on-blue attacks.
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A jihadist said that the Pakistani terror group is closely allied to the Taliban and al Qaeda under the guise of the “Omar Brigade.”
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Ukrainian officials, acting on a European Court of Human Rights recommendation, suspended the extradition to Russia of Adam Osmayev, a Chechen accused of links to alleged Caucasus Emirate plots to assassinate Vladmir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov. Omayev says he is innocent and that his confession was obtained under torture.
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Anti-Shabaab militia Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama’a has rejected the new Somali parliament. AMISOM took control of the Mogadishu-Afgoye corridor from Somali forces due to increasing insecurity. A Somali solider opened fire on a bus in Mogadishu, killing three people.
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Al Jazeera has obtained video of three western hostages from Britian, Sweden, and the Netherlands. The hostages claimed their governments are negotiating with al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb for their release. More than 250,000 Malians have fled the country after Islamist groups took control of the north.
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The father of 23-year-old Canadian William Plotnikov confirmed that his son was killed by Russian security forces in Dagestan on July 13. The Muslim convert had traveled from Canada to Dagestan in 2010 and joined an Islamist terror group in Utamysh near Makhachkala, the Dagestani capital.
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The US killed an al Qaeda-linked Taliban commander in Kunar and captured another in Ghazni. Fifteen inmates, include several Taliban fighters, escaped from a prison near Kabul. A Taliban rocket team hit General Dempsey’s C-17 on the tarmac at Bagram Air Base.
Syria’s deputy prime minister and Russia’s foreign minister warned the US against military intervention in Syria. As heavy fighting continued in Aleppo, the Free Syrian Army claimed to control two-thirds of the city.
In Tripoli, 33 people were wounded in clashes between pro- and anti-Assad supporters. The fighting erupted after a wave of kidnappings of Syrians across Lebanon.
A pipeline that feeds the Balhaf export terminal was bombed. Fighting broke out at an intelligence headquarters in Aden between government troops and suspected “militants”; no casualties were reported.