A classified report by Germany’s foreign intelligence agency says that insider attacks against NATO forces are likely to increase, the Taliban reintegration program will be ineffective, Afghan and US peace talks with the Taliban will go nowhere, Afghan president Hamid Karzai is more likely to defer to insurgents than institute needed reforms, and a greater […]
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The prime minister blamed radical Muslim Rohingya and political opponents for attacks on Buddhist temples and homes on Sunday. Army soldiers, border guards, and police were deployed to provide protection to returning Buddhists. The government banned public gatherings in the area.
In Homs, government forces evicted thousands of residents and then demolished their homes. Fighting spread across the old section of Aleppo. Government forces shelled towns in the eastern suburbs of Damascus.
Somali and Kenyan forces have begun to patrol in the former Shabaab stronghold of Kismayo. Somalia’s new president and the speaker of parliament visited Baidoa, which was under Shabaab control until February 2012.
US Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson told reporters that Kenya does not intend to occupy the southern Somali port city of Kismayo. Kenya would transfer control to African Union and Somali forces and the UN “yery quickly,” he said. Two policemen were gunned down in Garissa.
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The Taliban have targeted ISAF convoys in the east with a suicide bomber twice in the past five days, killing five NATO soldiers.
The strike took place in the same village where al Qaeda leaders Abu Kasha al Iraqi and Fateh al Turki are rumored to have been killed on Sept. 24.