Egypt
In Paper, Chief of Egypt Army Criticized US
In Paper, Chief of Egypt Army Criticized US
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So far this year, green-on-blue attacks have caused 13 percent of the ISAF deaths. Nine ISAF soldiers have been killed by Afghan forces in the past 11 days.
Abu Hafs al Tunisi was among five foreign fighters killed in the Aug. 8 strike in Al Baydah province. He was imprisoned in Tunisia before joining al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula sometime after the Tunisian uprising last year.
In a policy change, the government is holding peace talks with Muslim separatists. Government forces have been trying to suppress a Muslim insurgency in the southern provinces of Pattani, Narathiwat, and Yala since 2004.
Pakistan – Peshawar High Court seeks report on FATA drone losses
Syria rebels ‘to turn to Qaeda if West fails them’
Syria Sends Shocks Through Lebanon, Mideast
Six Taliban fighters were killed in a suicide assault on the Kamra Air Force Base in Punjab; one Pakistani soldier was also killed. “Gunmen” dragged 20 Shiites off a bus in Giglit and executed them.
Thirty-one Taliban fighters, seven Afghan soldiers, and an NDS agent were killed in clashes throughout the country. Seven Western soldiers, three Afghan troops, and an interpreter were killed in a helicopter crash in Kandahar. ISAF killed an IMU leader and “multiple insurgents” in an airstrike in Takhar.
The Taliban created the “Call and Guidance, Luring and Integration” department to encourage defections by Afghan forces and government officials.
Insurgents killed 21 Iraqis, including six policemen, in a series of bombings and armed attacks in Baghdad, Baqubah, Fallujah, and Kirkuk. Security forces arrested seven al Qaeda leaders in Anbar province.
Syrian tensions erupted in Lebanon. A Lebanese Shia group kidnapped more than 20 Sunnis in Beirut in retaliation for the kidnapping of one of its members by the Free Syrian Army in Syria. Gulf states urged citizens to leave Lebanon as kidnappings and violence between Shia and Sunnis spread across the country.
An Islamic militant group warned Egypt not to send its army into Sinai to hunt jihadists. Egypt’s new second-in-command of the military has said US troops should leave the Middle East.
Afghanistan – Women rally for reopening of girls’ schools
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Expert: Jihadists Joining With Syrian Rebels
Shabaab claimed it killed more than 60 Kenyan soldiers after overrunning their bases during an assault in Fahfahdhun in Gedo. Shabaab also claimed to have killed 20 Ethiopian soldiers in Hudur. Neither report has been confirmed.
Pakistan reiterates nuclear assets are safe
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Taliban attack on airbase raises questions about security of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons
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Mullah Anwar served as the IMU’s leader in the Burkah district in Afghanistan’s Baghlan province, and was responsible for the assassination of a district governor and a member of the Afghan High Peace Council in Takhar.
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