Afghanistan
Taliban Launch Co-ordinated Attacks in Eastern Afghanistan
Taliban Launch Co-ordinated Attacks in Eastern Afghanistan
The military’s recent offensive against PKK rebels in Hakkari province near the Iraqi border has killed 115 PKK fighters. Government forces are trying to block PKK escape routes into northern Iraq. The PKK also has a presence in Syria.
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The death toll of yesterday’s suicide attack at a funeral in Jaar has been revised upward to 45. The suicide bomber targeted Abdul Latif Al Sayed, the leader of an anti-al Qaeda tribal militia. Two of Sayed’s brothers were among those killed in the attack.
A suicide bomber killed five soldiers in an attack in Damaturu. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau labeled US President Obama a “global terrorist” and called on Nigerian President Goodluck to “repent.”
Infighting between two Taliban factions left eight militants dead, including three local commanders, and injured 10 others. Some Taliban survivors of the clash later defected to the Afghan government.
Two Russian men of Chechen origin have been jailed for alleged links to an al Qaeda plot against European targets, and are described as “extremely dangerous.” A Turkish man said to be a key al Qaeda facilitator in the plot was identified as Cengiz Yalcin.
Mufti Assad, the emir for Kunar, and his deputy, Yusuf, were killed in the Aug. 3 airstrike in the Watahpur district. Both al Qaeda leaders were Pakistani citizens. Fatah Gul, an al Qaeda facilitator who ran training camps, was killed in a separate strike.
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Security forces detained five Taliban fighters who were planning sectarian attacks in Multan and three “terrorists” in Lakki Marwat. Pakistan has reopened the Khyber crossing to NATO supplies.
Eight Taliban fighters and six civilians were killed in clashes throughout the country. The Taliban killed two New Zealand soldiers and two Afghan security personnel in Bamyan. Two officers at the Mazar-i-Sharif training center were detained for links to “armed opposition groups.”
Al Qaeda has penetrated the Free Syrian Army and provides the expertise to effectively strike at the Syrian military.
The strike is the first recorded in Yemen in more than a month, and took place as al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula killed more than 20 people at a funeral in southern Yemen.
US drones killed five Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in a strike in Hadramout. A suicide homer killed 20 people and wounded 20 more in an attack at a funeral in Jaar in Abyan province.
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Eighteen people were killed as Somali troops and Shabaab forces clashed in the Qansah-dhere district in Bay. Somalis in Mogadishu protested against robberies by government forces.
Security forces arrested a Boko Haram fighter during a raid on an IED factory in Kaduna. Explosions were heard in Maiduguri as the Joint Task Force conducted raids against Boko Haram.
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The al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan has announced the death of its emir, Abu Usman Adil, in a drone strike in Pakistan in April, and named Usman Ghazi to replace him. Adil was responsible for ramping up the IMU’s activities in Afghanistan.
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