Kenya
One person was killed and more than 10 were wounded in two separate grenade attacks in Mombasa. The attacks took place at a Christian prayer gathering and a stadium.
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AQAP kills 17 Yemeni troops in southern Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters overran a military checkpoint in Al Milah, and seized two tanks and other weapons from Yemeni troops. Thirteen AQAP fighters were also killed.
Pakistani Taliban deputy leader Waliur Rehman threatens Britain
“Our revenge against the British government will be very severe,” Waliur Rahman said in a video that assailed the treatment of Islamist prisoners in the country.
Pakistan
US drones killed four “militants” in Miramshah in North Waziristan. Twenty-one Taliban fighters and two Pakistani soldiers were killed during clashes in Arakzai.
Afghanistan
An Afghan policeman killed nine officers in Paktika. The US said a former governor is responsible for ordering a suicide attack that killed two soldiers and another attack that targeted diplomats. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in the south. Security forces captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Khost, and Logar.
Yemen
The US killed five AQAP fighters and a civilian in two drone strikes in Azzan. “Militants” blew up an LNG pipeline north of Balhalf, a major LNG terminal. The US issued a travel warning to American citizens “due to terrorist activities and civil unrest.”
US drone strikes kill 5 AQAP fighters, 1 civilian in southern Yemen
The strikes hit targets in the al Qaeda-controlled city of Azzan. The US has carried out six drone strikes this month, an all-time high for Yemen.
Somalia
Human Rights Watch accused Ethiopian forces and pro-government militias Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama’a and Shabelle Valley of executing seven people in Beledweyne and Baidoa. African Union forces captured the Daynille district in Mogadishu.
Afghan policeman kills 9 colleagues in Paktika
The policeman, a Taliban infiltrator, killed nine of his colleagues as they slept. He poisoned them first, then gunned them down and stole their weapons.
Nigeria
Boko Haram fighters killed four people and robbed a bank in Askira in Borno state. The US said it would boost aid to northern Nigeria.
US Predator strike kills 4 ‘militants’ in North Waziristan
The drones leveled a compound near the bazaar in Miramshah. The strike is the first in more than two weeks.
United Kingdom
A court ruled that the government must return the passport of Hill Al-Jedda, an Iraqi. Jedda was arrested and imprisoned in Iraq from 2004 to 2007 for facilitating an explosives expert’s entry into Iraq as well as serving as a terrorist recruiter. The government stripped him of his citizenship in 2007.
Indonesia
Detachment 88 said that Frederic C. Jean Salvi, a French citizen, orchestrated the March 21 bombing at the French embassy in Jakarta. Salvi reportedly studied at a madrassa and is linked to Islamist terrorists in Indonesia.
Afghanistan
More than 30 Taliban, seven Afghan security guards, and two Afghan soldiers were killed after the Taliban ambushed a NATO convoy in Farah. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south.
Taliban ambush NATO supply column in western Afghanistan
More than 30 Taliban, seven Afghan security guards, and two Afghan soldiers were killed after the Taliban ambushed a NATO convoy in Farah.
Yemen
The al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters who kidnapped a Swiss woman have demanded the release of the wives of Osama bin Laden from Pakistani custody. AQAP also wants Iraq and Saudi Arabia to free women from custody.
Somalia
Two people were killed during after Shabaab attacked a police station north of Mogadishu. Shabaab denied that deputy leader Sheikh Robow granted an interview with a Somali news outlet.
Nigeria
Boko Haram fighters gunned down a police inspector as he was shopping at a market in Maiduguri. Boko Haram fighters overran a police station in Damagun in Yobe state.
Afghanistan
More than a dozen Taliban fighters and three Afghan security personnel were killed during clashes throughout Afghanistan. Twelve Taliban fighters in Herat and 10 more in Faryab reconciled with the government. US forces have assigned soldiers to watch over their Afghan counterparts.
Yemen
“Gunmen” kidnapped a Saudi diplomat in the southern city of Aden. The government urged Pakistan to free Amal al Sadeh, one of Osama bin Laden’s wives, and her four children.
Shabaab denies top leader granted interview
Shabaab said that a purported interview with Sheikh Abu Mansur Robow that was published two days ago by Somalia Report is “entirely fictitious.”
Somalia
Six people were killed during clashes between Shabaab and Kenyan forces in Hosingo. Shabaab assassinated a senior commander in the Criminal Investigation Department in Mogadishu. Shabaab fighters and commanders in Galgala are said to be defecting.
Nigeria
Security forces killed four Boko Haram fighters in Maiduguri. President Goodluck Jonathan claimed that the Boko Haram will be defeated “in the middle of this year.”
9/11 plotter spotted in Mir Ali
Ahmed Siddiqui said he met Said Bahaji, a fellow German who was a member of the 9/11 Hamburg Cell, in the terrorist haven in Pakistan’s Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed the top IMU commander in Afghanistan and several Taliban fighters and commanders. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south and are ejecting Afghans from their homes in Nuristan. HIG suspended peace talks with the government.
Iraq
Security forces arrested seven al Qaeda in Iraq fighters in Suwaira in Wasit province. The government approved the payment of $560 million from oil companies to the Kurdish Regional Government.
Yemen
Security forces arrested six Somalis who are thought to be members of Shabaab during a raid in Zinjibar. Unknown “gunmen” attacked a prison in Aden as riots inside the jail were underway.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Behind militia lines in Jaar, Yemen
Somalia
The Central Investigations Department said it arrested a British passport holder at Mogadishu airport. The Brit was attempting to join Shabaab in Kismayo. The European Union extended its counter-piracy mission up until December 2014.
Nigeria
Security forces detained five men, including a Mauritanian, who are suspected of having ties to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb; the men are linked to the kidnapping of a German. Boko Haram fighters killed two retired prison officers in Maiduguri; one of the men is reportedly the father of Abul Qaqa, the group’s spokesman.