ISAF, Afghan forces kill top IMU commander in north
Makhdum Nusrat, “the senior Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader in Afghanistan,” was killed along with several IMU fighters during a raid in Faryab.
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Afghanistan
An Afghan soldier killed two British troops in Helmand, and an Afghan Local Policeman killed an ISAF solider in the east. The Taliban killed two senior security officials in Takhar and an Italian soldier in Farah. A suicide bomber killed only himself in Uruzgan.
Iraq
Security forces detained 11 “terrorists” in Daqouq and Rashad near Kirkuk. Insurgents killed a policemen in Fallujah. The government declared a 10-day-long vacation in preparation for the Arab League summit.
Somalia
Shabaab forces abandoned El Bur, a town northeast of Mogadishu, as Ethiopian troops and fighters from a rival militia advanced. El Bur served as a major base for Shabaab.
Afghan security forces kill 3 ISAF troops in south, east
Sixteen Coalition soldiers have been murdered by Afghan security personnel this year. ISAF said the overall number of attacks on its personnel by Afghan forces is “classified.”
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed seven Afghan soldiers and a translator, three ISAF soldiers, and two children in separate attacks. The US paid $860,000 to the families of those killed and wounded by a rogue US soldier in Kandahar.
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has seized control of the coastal town of Radum in Shabwa province. AQAP assassinated an intelligence official in Lahj.
AQAP takes control of another town in southern Yemen
A coastal town in Shabwa province is the latest to fall to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Somalia
Shabaab withdrew from the town of Mahas in Hiran province. Shabaab fighters assassinated two civilians in Mogadishu. Kenyan warplanes killed two civilians in Gedo.
Taliban threaten Pakistani parliamentarians over possible reopening of NATO supply routes
NATO’s supply routes through Afghanistan have been closed for four months, and the Taliban want to keep it that way.
Nigeria
At least two Boko Haram fighters killed themselves while detonating their explsoives-packed car as security forces raided their home in Kano. Twelve women and children were present in the home when the car exploded.
Pakistan
Seven Pakistani soldiers and 22 Taliban fighters were killed during clashes in South Waziristan and Arakzai. The US said it would not discipline soldiers involved in the cross-border clash in Mohmand that resulted in the deaths of 24 Pakistani troops.
French fighters training in North Waziristan
Pakistani officials claim that 85 Frenchmen have been training in the known terrorist havens of Datta Khel and Miramshah.
Afghanistan
General Allen said Pakistan’s ISI still supports the Taliban and the Haqqani Network. The Taliban killed a former member of parliament, a tribal elder, and two bodyguards in an IED attack in Uruzgan. Security forces detained two Taliban leaders in Helmand and Kunduz.
Iraq
Twenty-two policemen were arrested after 19 prisoners escaped from a jail in Kirkuk. Eleven of the prisoners were in jail with terrorism-related charges; one has since been recaptured.
Nigeria
Boko Haram killed a Muslim cleric and two others in Maiduguri. The Joint Task Force killed a Boko Haram fighter during a shootout in Maiduguri.
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed five people at a Lashkar-e-Islam mosque in Khyber. The Taliban killed four soldiers and captured four more in an attack on a checkpoint in the Shirani district in Baluchistan province. The Taliban also killed a Frontier Corps trooper and his 10-year-old son in a bombing at a base in North Waziristan.
Yemen
The Yemeni military claimed it killed 29 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters while shelling positions in Zinjibar with naval gunships. Houthi rebels killed seven people in IED attacks in Hajjah.
Somalia
Shabaab stoned one of its own fighters to death for raping a woman. The government imposed a curfew in Hudur, the provincial capital of Bakool, after Shabaab attacked a military base in the city.
Taliban suicide bomber targets Lashkar-e-Islam mosque, kills 5
The attack is the second suicide bombing at a Lashkar-e-Islam mosque in Khyber’s Tirah Valley this month.
Afghanistan
General Allen said ISAF would need “significant combat power” in 2013. Security forces killed and captured “insurgent” commanders and fighters in Uruzgan and Kandahar. Qatar is hedging on a deal that would allow five al Qaeda-linked Taliban leaders to be relocated in country.
Al Qaeda touts operations in Ghazni
The terror group said Taliban operations in Ghazni province “included emigrants.”
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula brutally executed a senior intelligence officer in Mukallah. Heavy fighting between AQAP and security forces was reported in Marib.
Somalia
Ethiopian and Somali forces took control of Hudur, and Shabaab forces fled. Twenty-one Shabaab fighters, including two commanders, surrendered to military forces in Gedo.
Mali
A military junta calling itself the National Committee for the Establishment of Democracy overthrew President Toure purportedly for failing to end the Tuareg rebellion in the north. The group has sealed the borders while Toure has fled the presidential palace in Bamako.
Nigeria
The Joint Task Force killed nine Boko Haram fighters and detained two more during a clash in the town of Tudun Wada Dakadai in Kano state. Boko Haram fighters attacked a police station and a bank in the town.
Jund al Khilafah claims French shooting
But a popular web forum removed the statement within an hour after posting.
Pakistan
The Taliban confirmed that three of Mullah Nazir’s deputies were killed in a March 13 drone strike in South Waziristan. The military killed five “militants” in Kurram.
Afghanistan
The Taliban arrested two senior leaders in Ghazni for engaging the Afghan High Peace Council. The Taliban killed three children in Ghazni, and a policeman and a British soldier in Helmand.
Iraq
Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed credit for a series of bombings and attacks across the country on March 19 that killed 46 Iraqis. AQI said the target was the “fool government preparing” for next week’s Arab League summit in Baghdad.