Iran
Iran displayed footage of the US RQ-170 stealth UAV that the Iranian military claimed it downed over Kashmar. Iranian officials claimed it was brought down using “electronic warfare” and said it would reverse-engineer the aircraft.
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Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed a district police chief and five other Afghans in Kunar province. ISAF killed a Taliban commander in Kunar and several fighters in Helmand. The Taliban killed a British soldier in Helmand.
Yemen
Fourteen people were killed during fighting between Salafists and Houthis in Sa’ada. Tribal fighters killed two al Qaeda fighters in Abyan. Gunmen blew up an oil pipeline in Shabwa.
Somalia
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon visited Mogadishu and the Presidential Palace. Somali parliamentarians urged him to replace the UN’s representative to the country.
Suicide bomber kills 6 Afghans in mosque attack
A district police chief was among those killed. ISAF killed a Taliban commander who planned suicide operations.
African Union
The African Union’s Peace and Security Council listed Somalia’s Shabaab and Nigeria’s Boko Haram as terrorist groups. Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army was also identified as a terrorist group.
Pakistan
“Militants” torched 20 NATO fuel and supply trucks at a depot in Quetta. Major General Ashfaq Nadeem said that the ISAF strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers was part of a US “plot” to aid the Taliban.
20 NATO supply trucks torched in Quetta
“Militants” hit the trucks carrying fuel and supplies as they were parked in a truck terminal.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Anwar al Awlaki’s son said he hoped ‘”to attain martyrdom as my father attained it” just before he was killed in a US Predator airstrike, according to a Yemeni journalist. Nasser al Awlaki, Anwar’s father, denied he supports terrorism.
Yemen
Nine al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters were killed while attacking a military outpost near Zinjibar; one soldier was also killed. The government released the head of the opposition Southern Movement party.
Somalia
Somali troops killed two civilians as famine relief was handed out in Mogadishu. Islamic clerics in Bosaso spoke out against Shabaab for killing a senior imam.
Nigeria
More than 100 members of the Oodua People’s Congress, a militia, marched through Lagos firing weapons in the air to protest the attacks by Boko Haram. “We are going to retaliate [against Boko Haram] if there is any bomb blast hitting any place,” a leader of the group said.
Al Qaeda announces death of Karachi-based media operative
Abd al Moeed bin Abd al Salam was an important member of the Global Islamic Media Front and translated al Qaeda’s propaganda, according to his martyrdom statement.
Jund al Khilafah confirms 5 members killed in Kazakhstan clash
The terror group also said it is “ready to be killed in the thousands” and threatened Russia.
United States
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Pakistan
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Anwar al Awlaki’s son hoped ‘to attain martyrdom as my father attained it’
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said the US killed Abdul Rahman “so that America would not be afflicted in the future with another Awlaki.”
ISAF targets IMU suicide bomber facilitator in Afghan north
The Afghan north remains a bastion for the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed 19 Afghan civilians in an IED attack in Helmand. General Allen wants to keep US troop levels at 68,000 until 2014.
Iraq
The US military transferred control of Al Asad Airbase in Anbar province over to the Iraqi military. The US now has just over 8,000 solider in country.
Somalia
Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Abdi Aziz Abu Musab claimed yesterday’s suicide attack that killed four Somalis in Mogadishu. Shabaab leaders reportedly met in Baidoa to discuss changing their name.
Mali
Canadian special forces are being deployed to Mali to train the military to fight al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Members of the Canadian Special Operations Regiment will also provide aid to civilians in Mali.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb threatened to kill a British hostage in two weeks if their demands are not met. The British hostage was kidnapped along with an Italian, who was not shown in the video.
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed 54 Afghans as they celebrated Ashura in Kabul. The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al Almi claimed it executed the attack. Four more Afghans were killed in a bombing in Mazar-i-Sharif. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Zabul, and Paktia.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al Almi claims Kabul suicide attack
If the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al Almi did carry out the suicide attack, it had help from other groups in Afghanistan.
Somalia
The Kenyan military said dozens of Shabaab fighters and 11 Somali troops were killed during recent fighting in the south. A suicide bomber killed two policemen and two civilians soldiers at a checkpoint in Mogadishu. A Somali military court sentenced eight Shabaab fighters to death.
Suicide bomber kills scores in attack at Kabul mosque
The suicide bomber attacked a group of Shia who were commemorating Ashura. Another suicide bomber killed four more Shia in Mazar-i-Sharif.
Kazakhstan
Kavkaz Center, a propaganda arm of the Islamic Caucasus Emirates, said that Agzhan Hasen and four other “Kazakh Mujahideen” were killed during a clash in southern Kazakhstan last weekend that also killed two policemen. Hasen was described as the group’s “emir.”
Afghanistan
Five civilians were killed in a Taliban IED attack on a minibus in Uruzgan. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters and commanders in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Ghazni, Logar, and Balkh.