Tunisia agreed to allow US investigators access to Ali Ani al Harzi, an Islamic militant suspected in the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. The US renewed sanctions on Sudan. Rezwan Ferdaus, who pled guilty to plotting to fly explosives-packed model airplanes into the Capitol and the Pentagon, was sentenced to 17 years in […]
Five policemen in Helmand killed four of their colleagues and wounded six more before defecting to the Taliban. Security forces detained several Taliban commanders and fighters.
Government forces abandoned a strategic base along a highway linking Damascus with Aleppo. The withdrawal threatens the government’s ability to supply its forces fighting in Aleppo. A video appears to show rebels killing a group of captured government soldiers.
Jordanian jihadist lived to die in Syria
Uganda plans to pull its troops out of the UN-mandated force in Somalia after the UN accused Uganda of supporting the Congolese rebel group M23. Uganda currently supplies over a third of the UN’s 17,600 troops in Somalia. Citing a need to focus on domestic security, Uganda will also withdraw its troops from the Central […]
Syria conflict: Will US succeed in reshaping opposition?
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Five Afghan policemen killed four of their colleagues before defecting to the Taliban.
A Uganda People’s Defence Force spokesman said more than 500 soldiers from Uganda and Burundi have been killed and wounded in Somalia; exact figures have not been provided. Security forces detained 300 suspected Shabaab fighters in Kismayo.
Residents in Maiduguri claimed that members of the Joint Task Force killed 48 young men during raids in the Kalari neighborhood. Amnesty International accused Nigerian security forces of illegally detaining and torturing suspected Boko Haram fighters.
Security forces arrested nine “terrorists” in the Rif mountains who were establishing a training camp and explosives factory. Al Qaeda’s black banner was seized during the raid.
Delegates from Ansar Dine, one of the Islamist groups controlling northern Mali, traveled to Algeria and Burkina Faso for talks with ECOWAS mediator Blaise Compaore, who prefers negotiations to military intervention. Sahel clerics said Malian militants were using “false jihad” as a pretext for criminal activity.
Sheikh ‘Adel Shehato, a senior Egyptian jihadist who helped instigate the Sept. 11 protest in Cairo, has been arrested in Egypt. Authorities allege that he was the founder of the Nasr City terrorist cell. Members of the cell are reportedly connected to the terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi.
Security forces killed 10 “militants” and wounded six more during airstrikes in the Tirah Valley in Khyber. Four “bases” and the home of a militant commander were also destroyed during the attack.
Mohammad Ismail Khan, Afghanistan’s current Minister of Energy and Water and former leader in the Northern Alliance, said NATO’s effort to secure the country has “failed.”
The Taliban beheaded two men in Ghazni and killed a US soldier in an IED attack in the south. ISAF captured a Taliban facilitator responsible for a green-on-blue attack that killed a US soldier. Energy and Water Minister Mohammad Ismail Khan said that militias are forming as NATO forces draw down.
The Taliban facilitator was responsible for an attack in August that killed a US soldier and wounded three others.
Security forces killed an al Qaeda leader in Mosul and detained five Ansar al Sunnah fighters in Kirkuk. An Iraqi court issued a second death sentence for Iraqi Vice President Tariq al Hashemi.
Rebels attacked government checkpoints along a strategic highway. The government responded with aerial bombardment. China presented a new peace initiative. The US attempted to reshape the rebel leadership.
Security forces arrested several Shabaab fighters thought to be involved with the assassination of a general in Marka. The UN is opposed to lifting the arms embargo.
Boko Haram named six mediators, including a presidential candidate, to negotiate with the government. A senator is suing senior government ministers and officials for issuing a press release that claimed a Boko Haram operative was arrested in his home.
Parliament was suspended as armed protesters occupied an area near Libya’s parliament building, blocking roads and beating up journalists. The protesters demanded the removal of any government minister who had held a position under the Qaddafi regime.
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Muhammad Jamal al Kashef, who is suspected of playing a role in the terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, has longstanding ties to a group of al Qaeda-linked jihadists who helped incite a protest in Cairo that same day.
Police arrested four men, including a policeman, suspected of plotting to kidnap young Jews in Zarzis. A Jewish community leader said there was an “intimidation campaign” to force Tunisia’s fewer than 2,000 remaining Jews to leave the country. The government extended the state of emergency until January, after fresh Salafist attacks on police and soldiers.
Secretary of State Clinton called for reorganization of the Syrian opposition to better reflect those fighting in the conflict, dismissing the Syrian National Council as remote and warning that extremist groups were trying to hijack the revolution. The State Dept. rejected the hurricane aid offer of wanted Pakistani radical Hafiz Saeed.