Kenya
Four policemen were seriously wounded in a grenade attack in Mombasa. A court has charged 24 men involved in the rioting that broke out after Shabaab-linked cleric Sheikh Aboud Rogo Mohammed was gunned down five days ago.
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Mauritania
Mauritanian police intercepted a weapons shipment on the Malian border near Fassala. Mauritanian businessmen were shipping the weapons to Ansar Dine, the Islamist group in control of northern Mali.
Pakistani Taliban ‘chopped off the heads’ of 7 Pakistani soldiers in South Waziristan
Taliban spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan said the Pakistani soldiers were beheaded “as Shariah directs them to do with enemies of Islam.”
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed five Afghan soldiers in Kunar. The Taliban killed four civilians in an IED attack in Ghazni. “Gunmen” assassinated the head of Ghazni’s provincial council. President Karzai dismissed the head of the NDS.
US drone strike kills Saudi ‘militant’ in Yemen
A Saudi known as Salim Mubarak al Saiary was one of two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters reported killed in a strike in an area between Marib and Hadramout provinces.
Iraq
Insurgents killed an Army general, a policeman, and a Sunni cleric in Baghdad, and four policemen in Kirkuk. The government executed five “terrorists.”
Georgia
Eleven “militants” and three special forces soldiers were killed during fighting in the village of Lapanquri near the border with Dagestan. Six more fighters are said to be surrounded.
Yemen
A US drone strike killed two al Qaeda fighters, including a Saudi, in a strike in an area between Marib and Hadramout provinces. The government claimed it needs $11 billion in foreign aid.
Somalia
Shabaab claimed it killed more than 50 Somali and African Union soldiers in bombings and attacks yesterday in Mogadishu and Marka. Shabaab forces ambushed Somali troops in Afmadow; the military claimed four Shabaab fighters were killed.
Algeria
Algerian helicopter gunships killed six suspected fighters from the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa as they attempted to enter the country from Mali. The military is boosting security along the border with Mali.
‘Black Widow’ assassinates moderate Muslim cleric in Russia’s Caucasus
The attack is the third in six weeks against prominent Muslim clerics who were working to promote moderate versions of Islam in Russia. Two others were targeted in Tatarstan in July; one was killed.
Dangerous Pakistani Taliban commander thought killed
Commander Tariq Afridi, the leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan’s operations in Khyber, as well as in regions in Arakzai, Peshawar, Kohat, and Hangu, is said to have been murdered by a relative.
Afghanistan
Ten Taliban fighters, seven policemen, an NDS officer, and four civilians were killed during clashes and attacks throughout the country. General Abdul Raziq, the Chief of Police for Kandahar province, was among several people wounded in a suicide attack.
Iraq
Insurgents killed a policeman and a soldier in Baghdad, and a civilian in Fallujah. Security forces detained two “terrorists” in Tikrit.
Somalia
Somali and AMISOM forces took control of Marka after Shabaab retreated without a fight. Shabaab fighters executed four people before leaving the port town.
Kenya
Two policemen were killed and 16 more were wounded as Muslim supporters of Shabaab rioted in Mombasa for the second day straight. The Shabaab supporters are rioting after Sheikh Aboud Rogo Mohammed was gunned down on Aug. 25.
Libya
Libyan salafists destroy Sufi shrines
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Islamists brutalise Touareg civilians
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
A colleague of Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a.k.a. Abu Musab Abdul Wadud, the emir of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, denied that the commander was killed during an Algerian military operation on June 28. AQIM released a videotape of Belmokhtar, who condemned the Algerian government for its treatment of Syrian refugees.
Kenyan Muslims riot after murder of Shabaab-linked cleric
Sheikh Aboud Rogo Mohammed was shot and killed as he was driving in Mombasa. The US added Rogo to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists on July 5 for his direct support for Shabaab.
Afghanistan
The Taliban beheaded 17 civilians and killed 10 Afghan soldiers in Helmand. An Afghan soldier killed two ISAF troops in Laghman. Afghan senators claimed the Hizb-i-Islami is behind the anti-Taliban uprisings.
Iraq
Gunmen assassinated an Army brigadier general with a silenced pistol in Taji; two civilians were killed in bombings in Haditha and Mosul. Seven al Qaeda operatives were detained in Wasit; the bodies of four al Qaeda leaders were discovered in Mosul.
Somalia
Somali and African Union troops seized control of towns outside of the port city of Merca, which is under Shabaab control. Somali soldiers killed three civilians at a food distribution point in Mogadishu. Shabaab claimed it killed 14 Kenyan soldiers in Gedo.
Kenya
Police clashed with Shabaab supporters in Mombasa after a Shabaab suspect, Sheikh Aboud Rogo, was gunned down. Streets were blockaded and a government vehicle was torched.
Afghan soldier kills 2 ISAF troops in east
Forty-two ISAF soldiers have been killed in attacks by Afghan security personnel this year. Thirteen percent of ISAF’s casualties in 2012 have occurred in these “green-on-blue” attacks, more than double last year’s total.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed the head of the Hajj department in Logar. Police captured the Taliban’s shadow governor for Sayyidabad district. ISAF has closed 202 bases.
Iraq
Insurgents killed three policemen, two soldiers, and five civilians in attacks in Baghdad and Kirkuk. The Army took control of the border with Syria. Sheikh Hameed al Hayis, the head of the Anbar Salvation Council, said he would turn himself over to the government.
Yemen
Security forces detained two suspected al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in Aden. “Gunmen” killed a southern separatist after opening fire on a crowd in Aden.
Somalia
Gunmen killed a policeman and a civilian in a shooting in Mogadishu. Locals in Awdinle killed three Shabaab fighters after they beheaded a man and a woman accused of spying for the government.
Badruddin Haqqani ‘is alive and healthy,’ Taliban spokesman says
Zabihullah Mujahid denied reports that claimed Badruddin was killed in a drone strike, and said he “is in the country and he is occupied with his operational responsibilities.” Afghan intelligence claims he is dead.