Six al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters and three militia men were killed in fighting in Jaar in Abyan province; 11 AQAP fighters were also captured. AQAP captured a military intelligence brigadier general at his home in Mudiyah in Abyan.
The suicide bomber rammed a water truck packed with explosives into a camp run by the Pakistani military’s Frontier Works Organization.
The military claimed that more than 60 Taliban fighters were killed in Badakhshah; the Taliban denied the report. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the east. Ismail Khan called on Afghans to reject a security pact with the US. The US and Afghanistan reached an agreement to transfer Bagram.
Security forces captured al Qaeda’s mufti, or religious emir, for Babil province and 19 “wanted gunmen” in Baghdad. Al Qaeda killed two people in attacks that targeted the Awakening in Abu Ghraib.
President Hollande said that the senior al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb commander was killed “during combat led by the French military in the Ifoghas Mountains in northern Mali at the end of February.”
Somali troops fought amongst themselves in the town of Marka; five people are thought to have been killed. A human rights worker was gunned down in Mogadishu.
US drones killed four “militants” in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan. Eight people were killed in a bombing in Jaffarabad. The Taliban attacked US supply containers in Peshawar and Khyber.
A politician was gunned down outside of his home in Fallujah. Police arrested nine “wanted men” in Maysan. Soldiers captured two men as they were rigging car bombs in Baghdad.
Syrian “activists” say that the “deeply religious” rebels are incapable of conducting an attack in a mosque, but this ignores scores of suicide attacks and bombings in mosques by al Qaeda and its allies over the past decade.
The US has posted $5 million rewards for American jihadists Jehad Mostafa and Omar Hammami. Mostafa is thought to have served as Ayman al Zawahiri’s emissary. AMISOM said it is “closely monitoring developments” in Hudur after Shabaab took the town following the withdrawal of Ethiopian forces.
The FBI told The Long War Journal that Jehad Mostafa is thought to be Abu Abdullah al Muhajir, the American who distributed aid at a Somali camp in 2011 on behalf of al Qaeda’s emir. The US also offered a $5 million reward for Omar Hammami.
A suicide bomber killed five people at a madrassa in Helmand. The Taliban beheaded three men in Kandahar and killed a district governor and two bodyguards in Takhar. A policeman killed five of his colleagues in Badghis.
The strike took place in the terrorist hub of Datta Khel in North Waziristan, where some of al Qaeda’s top leaders have been killed in the past.
Two pro-government militiamen and three al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters were killed in clashes in Jaar in Abyan. Three tribesmen were killed while fighting with government troops in Marib. A senior police official in Hadramout escaped an assassination attempt.
Shabaab retook control of Awdinle near Baidoa after seizing Hudur three days ago. The prime minister said the military would retake Hudur, but Ethiopia has indicated it would withdraw its forces.
The death toll in Monday’s suicide attacks in Kano has risen to more than 70. Britain has pledged to help Nigeria with terrorism issues in the north.
There have been six suicide attacks in Mali since Feb. 9. Last night’s attack in Timbuktu was part of a complex raid against an airport.
Ansar Dine received significant “military support” from al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. In November 2012, Ansar Dine established “an alliance” with AQIM and MUJAO.
Albu Kamal As Swedee joined the al Qaeda-linked group after expressing disdain for the Free Syrian Army. Jihadist have urged Swedes to join the jihad in Syria.
The US is seeking to support the “secular” Syrian opposition, but where are they?
The Iraqi terror group said yesterday’s attacks which killed 60 people are part of “the first rain, and the first phase” aimed at the Justice Ministry.
The Al Nusrah Front said that “brothers from the rest of the brigades participated in operations of advancement and positioning” in one of the two attacks.
President Karzai’s spokesman said NATO’s involvement in Afghanistan is “unwise” and “aimless.” Denmark will withdraw its combat troops five months earlier than planned. A policeman killed three of his colleagues in Zabul. The Taliban killed two policemen in an IED attack in Herat.
At least 59 Iraqis were killed in a series of more than 20 attacks in Baghdad, Anbar, Babil, and Ninewa provinces. Attacks included suicide bombers, car bombs, IEDs, and armed assaults. The attacks were likely carried out by al Qaeda.
President Hassan claimed Shabaab has been defeated and the group has morphed into a terrorist movement that attacks civilians. Shabaab claimed it retook control of Hudur after defeating Ethiopian forces.
A pair of suicide bombers from either Boko Haram or Ansar al-Muslimeen in the Land of Black Africans targeted Christians at a bus terminal in Kano.
A pair of suicide bombers killed 22 people in an attack at a bus station in Kano. Six members of the Joint Task Force were killed in an IED attack in Maiduguri.
The use of chemical weapons has yet to be confirmed. Sixteen Syrian soldiers are said to be among the 26 people killed in the purported chemical attack.
Two suicide bombers attacked a court in Peshawar, killing two people and wounding 30 more. The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan suspended peace talks with the government.
A suicide bomber killed 10 people in a bombing near the Presidential Palace in Mogadishu. The suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives as senior security officials passed by.