Turkish commandos conducted raids on Kurdistan Workers’ Party bases located inside Iraq near the Turkish border. It remains unclear whether Turkey plans to ask NATO for Patriot missiles to protect the NATO radar system in Kürecik in eastern Turkey.
In a message addressed to Shabaab, al Qaeda’s affiliate in Somalia, Ayman al Zawahiri cites the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi, as well as the assaults on US embassies in Cairo and Sanaa, as evidence of American weakness.
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The raid by ISAF and Afghan forces is the first reported against the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in nearly a month.
The banned German Salafist group Millatu Ibrahim issued a statement on jihadist forums announcing its shift from preaching to jihad, and praising two women as its “first martyrs.” The women died in a car accident on Eid al-Adha after emigrating from Germany with their husbands and “many brothers and sisters” to “the land of jihad […]
Nine Taliban fighters and three Afghan soldiers have been killed during fighting throughout the country. Provincial officials in Herat said five districts are on the verge of falling to the Taliban. ISAF captured an IMU weapons trafficker in Kunduz. The government said it would not negotiate with the Haqqani Network.
The United Nations added the Haqqani Network to its list of designated terrorist groups. The UN said the Haqqani Network works with the Taliban to destabilize Afghanistan and has links to al Qaeda.
A suicide bomber killed 31 Iraqis in an attack outside a military training center in Taji. Security forces detained 11 al Qaeda members during a raid in Taji.
Britain’s prime minister offered Syrian President Assad “safe passage” out of Syria. The Syrian air force has grounded 70 percent of its pilots due to their questionable loyalty.
Security forces detained dozens of suspected Shabaab fighters during an operation in Mogadishu. US officials believe that Uganda will not withdraw its forces from Somalia.
The Joint Task Force killed four suspected Boko Haram fighters during a raid in Gashua. The Chief of Army Staff claimed that Boko Haram has killed more than 3,000 people in Nigeria.
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Military advisers from Africa, Europe, and the UN have submitted a plan to ECOWAS for a military intervention to wrest northern Mali from radical Islamists; once approved, the plan will go to the UN later this month. It calls for a force of over 4,000 mainly West African troops, to be based in Koulikoro.
The suicide bomber attacked a group of Army recruits outside of a base just north of Baghdad.
A Turkish court is trying four former Israeli military officers in absentia for the deaths of nine Turks on a Gaza-bound ship in 2010. Israel dismissed the trial as propaganda. The Turkish Justice Ministry denied allegations that some 76 journalists have been jailed this year as part of a governmental effort “to silence critical journalists […]
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