An Afghan official said three Polish troops were killed in Ghazni; ISAF did not report the attack. An Afghan policeman wounded five ISAF soldiers in Wardak. The NDS foiled three suicide bombings and said the Taliban, the Haqqani Network, and Pakistan’s ISI are behind the recent spate of school poisonings.
Insurgents killed eight people in a bombing in Zubaidiyah and three more in assassinations in Baghdad. Gunmen killed the head of a rapid reaction regiment during a raid in Baghdad.
The Yemeni military said it killed and wounded more than 20 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in airstrikes in Shabwa province. Three soldiers and two civilians were killed in an IED attack in Lahj.
Taliban spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan called the government’s closure of the supply lines an orchestrated “drama” and challenged the so-called Defense of Pakistan alliance to take action.
Boko Haram fighters killed nine construction workers during an attack on a camp in Maiduguri. A captured spokesman for Boko Haram accused a senator of funding the terror group.
The al Qaeda-linked terror group claimed credit for four suicide attacks, an assault on a Syrian TV station, and dozens of attacks on security forces and the “ghosts,” President Assad’s private militia.
ISAF confirmed that a Saudi al Qaeda leader named Hanzallah and several fighters were killed in the July 1 strike in Kunar. The Afghan military claimed 82 Taliban fighters were killed during operations.
The US said it is “sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military.” The route through Pakistan was closed for more than seven months.
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Insurgents killed 36 Iraqis in bombings in Diwaniyah, Karbala, and Taji. Security forces captured a senior al Qaeda leader in Ramadi.
US drones killed four al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in Shabwa. The military said it captured four Egyptians, two Jordanians, a Somali, a Tunisian, and a Dagestani during raids against AQAP. An intelligence officer was killed in a bombing in Sana’a.
Gunmen killed a former deputy police chief in Puntland. A pro-government faction of the Ras Kamboni Brigade vowed to take Kismayo from Shabaab. Kenya said it would press the fight against Shabaab.
Two of the men were identified as Hussein Rubai and Fahad al Harithi, and “were known for ties to al Qaeda and provided shelter for militants.”
ISAF confirmed that Hanzallah was killed in the July 1 airstrike in Watahpur. He is the third senior al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba leader killed in the district in the past five weeks.
The attack was likely carried out by the Mullah Dadullah Front.
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A suicide bomber killed seven Afghans at a university in Kandahar. ISAF killed “numerous” insurgents in an airstrike that targeted an al Qaeda leader in Kunar. Forty-seven insurgents and five Afghan soldiers were killed in fighting throughout Afghanistan.
Security forces detained three suicide bombers in Sana’a. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released a video of a captured Saudi diplomat. Saudi Arabia is reopening its embassy in Sana’a.
Kenyan and Somali troops freed four foreign aid workers who were kidnapped last week from the Dadaab refuge camp in northern Kenya. The hostages were freed after a clash with kidnappers in northern Somalia.
Fighters from the Islamist Ansar Dine smashed the main gate of the Sidi Yahya mosque in Timbuktu. Islamists have been targeting UNESCO religious sites in Mali for the past three days.
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ISAF has conducted three airstrikes against al Qaeda leaders in the Watahpur district in Kunar over the past five weeks. Two of the strikes killed al Qaeda’s second in command in Afghanistan, and Lashkar-e-Taiba’s senior leader in Kunar.
US drones killed eight “militants” in a strike in the Shawal Valley in North Waziristan. Five Lashkar-e-Islam fighters were killed in a premature detonation in Khyber.
So far this year, green-on-blue attacks have resulted in the deaths of 27 ISAF soldiers.
Security forces said 32 Taliban fighters were killed during fighting in Farah. The Taliban killed five civilians in an IED attack in Ghazni. An Afghan policeman killed three ISAF soldiers in the south.
Insurgents killed three policemen, a judge, and a civilian in bombings and shootings in Tikrit, Samarra, and Mosul. June had the second highest death toll since US forces withdrew at the end of 2011.
Security forces killed an al Qaeda leader and detained nine more in Dhale province. The government said that 13 AQAP plots to attack embassies in Sana’a were foiled. Seven soldiers were poisoned at a checkpoint in Sana’a.
Seven people were killed during fighting between Shabaab fighters and Kenyan and Somali troops in Qogani. Shabaab fighters killed two Somali troops in Gedo. The governor of Hiran province survived an assassination attempt.
The Muslim Youth Center, Shabaab’s affiliate in Kenya, has vowed to wage jihad in Kenya.