Afghanistan
One person was killed in a rocket attack in Kabul. An ISAF soldier was killed in an explosion at a base in the south. ISAF killed a Taliban commander in Helmand.
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Somalia
Ten people were killed after Shabaab forces ambushed an Ethiopian military convoy near Baidoa yesterday. The Jubaland state government in the south accused Kenya of backing warlords.
Mali
Hicham Bilal, emir of the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) in Gao, surrendered to the Niger government. Bilal called MUJAO members “madmen” and accused them of racism and drug smuggling. ECOWAS approved a plan to deploy 3,300 soldiers to retake northern Mali from Islamist groups.
Afghanistan
Twenty-three Taliban fighters and an Afghan soldier were killed in fighting in Kapisa and Wardak, and a suicide bomber was gunned down in Kunar. US drones reportedly killed three children in Logar. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the east.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed six civilians, including a baby, in an IED attack in Khost, and killed two more in an IED attack in Helmand. Afghan soldiers killed a British soldier and wounded another in Helmand, and wounded a Spanish soldier in Badghis. ISAF captured an IMU weapons facilitator in Kunduz.
ISAF captures another IMU weapons facilitator in Kunduz
After halting reports on raids against al Qaeda and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan for nearly a month, ISAF reported that two IMU weapons facilitators have been captured in the past week.
Yemen
The military transferred Tareq al Fadhli, the al Qaeda-linked tribal leader in Abyan, to Aden and placed him under house arrest. The Houthis reportedly are attempting to take control of the port city of Midi.
Afghan soldier kills ISAF trooper in Helmand
An ISAF soldier was also wounded in the insider, or green-on-blue, attack. There have been 42 such attacks this year, resulting in the deaths of 60 ISAF personnel.
Afghan soldiers attack Spanish troops in Badghis
Two Afghan soldiers were captured after opening fire on Spanish troops with the Provincial Reconstruction Team; one Spanish soldier was wounded in the attack.
Iraq
Al Qaeda in Iraq killed the head of the Awakening forces in Abu Ghraib, as well as his wife and son. Security forces recaptured nine al Qaeda fighters who had escaped from prison and captured two fighters near a weapons depot in Abu Ghraib.
Yemen
Two aides to Tareq al Fadhli, a tribal leader in Abyan, were killed after pro-government militiamen attacked his home. Al Fadhli has been linked to al Qaeda and fought in Afghanistan.
Somalia
Two people were killed as Shabaab and government forces clashed in Garbaharey. Uganda again threatened to withdraw from AMISOM and pull out its forces from Somalia.
Suicide bombers kills 20 Syrian troops
There have been two suicide attacks against the Syrian military in the past six days, and 40 such attacks in less than a year.
Pakistan
The Taliban killed a soldier and wounded another during an attack on an outpost in South Waziristan. The “Mujahideen-e-Waziristan” warned tribals in Wana not to join the Levies. Five people were killed in violence in Karachi.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed an ISAF solider in the east. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters and commanders. Sweden will reduce the number of troops in country from 500 to 200 by the end of 2013.
Somalia
“Gunmen” killed two people in Mogadishu. The United Nations Security Council rejected the African Union’s request to fund Kenyan naval operations off the coast of Somalia.
Tunisia
Security forces arrested Bilel Chaouachi, a Salafist imam for Ansar al Sharia who has openly praised Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri. Chaouachi is suspected of being involved in the Sept. 14 assault on the US Embassy in Tunisia.
Pakistan
A Taliban suicide bomber killed three people in an attack on the Rangers headquarters in Karachi. Nine more people were killed in violence in Karachi.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed 12 civilians and eight security personnel in four bombings; three policemen were killed in a suicide attack in Kandahar; five soldiers were killed in an IED attack in Laghman; and 12 civilians were killed in IED attacks in Helmand and Zabul.
Iraq
Insurgents killed two people, including a female journalist, in bombings in Mosul. A court sentenced al Qaeda’s former shadow governor of Anbar to death. Security forces detained two insurgents in Kirkuk.
Yemen
US drones killed a local al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula commander and two fighters in an airstrike near the capital of Sana’a. Adnan al Qadhi, the al Qaeda commander who was killed, was involved in the attack on the US Embassy in Sana’a in 2008.
Taliban suicide bomber attacks Rangers HQ in Karachi
Karachi has become a haven for terror groups; 11 areas of the city are considered to be under the control of Pakistani jihadist groups.
US drone strike near Yemeni capital kills AQAP commander, 2 fighters
An al Qaeda commander involved in the complex attack on the US Embassy in Sana’a in 2008 was killed. The strike near Sana’a and the previous one in Saada indicate that the US is expanding drone operations beyond southern Yemen.
Afghanistan
As ‘insider attacks’ grow, so does US-Afghanistan divide
Afghanistan
Thirty-six Taliban fighters and two policemen were killed during fighting throughout the country. Twelve missiles fired from Iran have landed in Nimroz. Energy and Water Minister Ismail Khan is distributing weapons to militias.
Taliban suicide bomber kills 5 people in Peshawar
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan claimed credit for the attack that killed a senior police official.
Iraq
One al Qaeda fighter was killed and two more were wounded in a premature detonation in Ninewa. Security forces detained four gunmen near a school in Anbar and four al Qaeda fighters in Diyala.
Yemen
An intelligence official was assassinated in Sana’a; at least 55 intelligence operatives have been killed in Yemen so far this year. Tarek al Fadli, an al Qaeda-linked tribal leader in Abyan province, has been ordered to surrender to the government.
Somalia
A car bomb was detonated near the parliament building in Mogadishu; one soldier was killed in the blast. Puntland security forces killed a Shabaab commander in Dhahar.
Al Qaeda
Yemen chief suspected of links to al Qaeda ordered to surrender