The Taliban on US estimates of al Qaeda strength in Afghanistan
The Taliban said the US and NATO should leave Afghanistan since the US estimates that only 50 al Qaeda fighters remain in country.
The Taliban said the US and NATO should leave Afghanistan since the US estimates that only 50 al Qaeda fighters remain in country.
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A suicide bomber killed 13 people in an attack in Khost. Special operations forces captured the Taliban’s liaison to the Peshawar Shura during a raid in Kunduz. The NDS arrested three members of the Mullah Dadullah Front in Kabul and two suicide bombers in Kandahar.
Insurgents killed a police captain, his wife, and three young children, in an attack at his home in Baghdad. The government is planning on building a $1 billion power plant in Anbar province.
Thirty al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters and 13 Yemeni soldiers were killed during fighting outside of Jaar. The governor of Abyan claimed that Jaar would be liberated from AQAP within days and that Lawdar is now free of AQAP influence.
Eight people were killed in two bombings in the Bakara market in Mogadishu. Kenyan and Somali troops clashed with Shabaab in Taabta.
The government will prosecute 11 people for forming a Shabaab cell and plotting to conduct attacks inside the country. A Kenyan national is among those charged.
Security forces found a Boko Haram bomb factory in Jos. The US and Nigeria will discuss Boko Haram, and the Justice Department has begun pressing for Boko Haram to be labeled a foreign terrorist organization.
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A Yemeni and a Somali were reported killed in yesterday’s strike in Baydah province.
The Taliban commander is linked to Dost Mohammed, the shadow governor of Nuristan, and has helped “foreign fighters and suicide bombers” conduct attacks in the Afghan north.
The suicide attack targeted an intelligence headquarters in Deir al-Zor.
The al Qaeda-linked Taliban subgroup has been conducting assassinations and suicide assaults in the Afghan south for years.
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