Somalia
Human Rights Watch said that Shabaab “has increasingly targeted children for recruitment, forced marriage, and rape, and attacked teachers and schools.” Puntland security forces detained five suspected Shabaab fighters in Galkayo.
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AQAP notes death of local commander
Kaid al Dhahab has taken control of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Baydah province after his brother Tariq was killed last week.
Pakistan
The Lashkar-e-Islam killed nine members of a militia in an IED attack in Khyber. Thousands of Pakistanis attended a Defense of Pakistan Council rally in Rawalpindi. Lashkar-e-Taiba head Hafiz Saeed is one of the group’s leaders.
Afghanistan
Afghan policemen killed two Albanian soldiers in an ambush in Kandahar; one other ISAF soldier was wounded and 11 policemen were detained after the shooting. A policeman was killed in a suicide attack and four civilians were killed in an IED attack in Kandahar. Three ISAF soldiers were killed during an operation in the west.
Somalia
Ten people were killed during fighting between Shabaab and government forces on the road between Mogadishu and Afgoye. Kenyan warplanes struck Shabaab targets in the town of Xhwayo.
Nigeria
Boko Haram killed more than 30 civilians, including women and children, in an attack on a market in Maiduguri. Security forces killed eight Boko Haram fighters in Maiduguri and detained five more in Suleja.
Turkish jihadists eulogize commander killed in Waziristan
Sinan Tekin, a Turkish national who was known as Emir Yunis, led a group of foreign fighters along the Afghan-Pakistani border.
Pakistan
Pakistan Taliban gaining more resources from kidnapping
Jamaat-ud-Dawa
Hafiz Saeed to protest against US drone attacks in Islamabad today despite ban
Pakistan
Pakistan: Khar to seek UK help against drone raids
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed four civilians in an IED attack in Kandahar. Security forces captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Khost and Kunduz.
Iraq
A suicide bomber killed 19 policemen and recruits in an attack at a police academy in Baghdad. Security forces detained more than 200 men on terrorism and criminal charges in Wasit.
Yemen
Security officials said a wanted Saudi known as Ghalib Salem al Seiri carried out a suicide attack last week. US Deputy National Security Advisor John Brennan said that Vice President Hadi is committed to fighting al Qaeda. A Houthi cleric called for his followers to support the Syrian regime as it fights “Jews and traitors.”
Somalia
Shabaab warned Muslims “to stay away from the enemy bases in order to avoid being unintentional victims” of a newly announced terror campaign in Mogadishu. Somalia’s ambassador to Yemen claimed that more than 500 Shabaab fighters fled Somalia to join al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Nigeria
Police captured nine prisoners who escaped during a Boko Haram jailbreak last week. One person was seriously wounded in a car bombing in Suleja.
Suicide bomber kills 19 outside Baghdad police academy
Al Qaeda in Iraq still has the capacity to plan, organize, and execute suicide operations in the war-torn country.
Algeria
Four civilians were killed and 10 more were wounded, some critically, in an IED attack on a road outside of Algiers. Security forces seized a large weapons cache near In Amenas which included “shoulder fired missiles” thought to have been smuggled from Lybia.
Russia
Seventeen Russian soldiers were killed in an ambush along the border of Chechnya and Dagestan by fighters from the Islamic Caucasus Emirate. Seven ICE fighters were also killed. Kavkaz Center said that 21 Russian and five ICE fighters were killed, and the fate of Emir Makharbi is still unknown.
Pakistan
Thirty-four Taliban fighters, four soldiers, and four militiamen were killed during fighting in Khyber and Arakzai. The death toll in Friday’s suicide attack in Kurram has risen to 39. Police said they arrested the “mastermind” of the March 2011 suicide attack on the ISI headquarters in Faisalabad.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed three Taliban fighters and captured eight more in Kandahar, Helmand, Nangarhar, and Kunar. The Afghan military ordered its troops to move their families out of Pakistan.
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters killed 10 Yemeni soldiers in Al Koud. The military killed three AQAP fighters in Zinjibar. Security forces detained five “terrorists” who were planning to bomb polling centers in Aden. The military is deploying more than 100,000 security personnel to provide security for the upcoming election.
Somalia
Shabaab claimed credit for Friday’s car bombing in a police compound; the terror group said the bombing “is part of a new series of attacks that will specifically target the Crusaders & TFG bases in the capital.” Shabaab has deployed hundreds of fighters to the outskirts of Mogadishu.
Kenya
A police spokesman said that Shabaab is responsible for more than 30 murders in towns and villages along the Somali border. The police also said dozens of Kenyans have been recruited and trained to fight in Shabaab.
Nigeria
Boko Haram claimed credit for a prison break in Kogi that freed 119 inmates and killed one guard. Boko Haram fighters raided an immigration office in Damaturu.
Al Baraa Ibn Malik Martyrdom Brigade forms in Syria
The group said it would use suicide attacks to kill Syrian security forces.
Al Qaeda ‘operates in Afghanistan under the flag of the Islamic Emirate’: Taliban spokesman
Speaking of al Qaeda, Afghan Taliban spokesman Abdullah Wazir said: “They are an example of discipline and accuracy in the execution of missions and operations entrusted to them by the Military Command of the Islamic Emirate.”
Indonesia
Indonesia: Mob attacks mosque
Pakistan
A Taliban suicide bomber killed 21 Shia at a market in Kurram. Five Taliban fighters and three soldiers were killed during fighting in Khyber.
Yemen
Security forces captured 21 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters who were involved in the murder of five Yemenis in Baydah. President Saleh has diplomatic immunity in the US and cannot be compelled to testify at the trial of an al Qaeda operative involved in the bombing of the USS Cole.
Somalia
The Kenyan military killed four Shabaab fighters after being ambushed in Hawina. Shabaab shut down Koran classes in Jowhar and said they’d train the students themselves.