Somalia
Puntland security forces killed 20 Shabaab fighters in Galkayo; four security personnel were also killed. Shabaab executed a boy in public in Harardhere. Clans in Baidoa are at odds with Shabaab over the killing of an aid worker.
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Nigeria
Twenty-two people were killed during clashes between Christian and Muslim youths in the city of Jos. A man who was detained in 2007 with explosives and subsequently released was involved in last week’s suicide bombing of the UN headquarters.
Pakistan
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Pakistan
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Pakistan
“Gunmen” killed seven people in Kurram. A suicide bomber killed two people in Lakki Marwat. The military claimed that Mohmand has cleared the Taliban from 80 percent of Mohmand.
Afghanistan
Eight Taliban fighters were killed in a premature detonation in Kandahar. Security forces captured several Taliban fighters in Helmand and Baghlan. Forty Afghan Local Police quit in Kapisa.
Iraq
Insurgents killed three civilians, a soldier, and an Army officer in attacks in Baghdad and Salahadin. Thirty-five prisoners convicted of terrorism charges escaped from a Mosul jail; 21 have been recaptured. Muqtada al Sadr called on Iraqis to rise up against the government.
Yemen
US airstrikes killed 30 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in Abyan. US officials doubt that AQAP chief Nasir al Wuhayshi was killed earlier this week in Abyan. Yemeni military claimed it has cleared AQAP from areas in Abyan. Local officials in Lahj believe AQAP is ripe to take over the province.
Somalia
A senior security official in Puntland dodged an assassination attempt after the Shabaab bomber turned himself in to authorities. The government vowed to increase the number of security forces in Mogadishu.
US airstrikes in southern Yemen kill 30 AQAP fighters: report
US airstrikes are said to have freed a Yemeni military unit in Abyan that was under siege by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. US intelligence officials expressed doubts about reports that AQAP’s leader was killed.
Libya
Rebels captured Qaddafi’s foreign minister and extended the deadline for Qaddafi loyalists in Sitre to surrender by one week. Qaddafi called for his followers to “continue the resistance” and “struggle against foreign aggression.”
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Helmand, Zabul, Khost, and Wardak. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in an IED attack in the east.
Russia
Ramzan Kadyrov, the President of the Chechen Republic, vowed to carry out a harsh response to those who who killed nine people in Grozny yesterday. Kadyrov described the three suicide bombers as “zombified bandits” and “the devil incarnate.”
Iraq
Prime Minister Maliki said the US would pull out its troops from Iraq by the end of December 2011. Iraq closed down its airspace due to “a potential danger threatening the airport’s and airplanes safety.”
Yemen
The military claimed it has cleared al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula from several areas in Abyan province. AQAP nearly assassinated Yemen’s defense minister in Abyan; two bodyguards were killed in an IED attack. Security forces killed four AQAP fighters in Zinjibar.
Somalia
Nine soldiers and six civilians were killed as government troops clashed while looting famine food aid in Mogadishu. Shabaab leaders and fighters gathered in the open to pray and march in Mogadishu.
Nigeria
Days before the Aug. 26 suicide attack on the UN headquarters in the capital of Abuja, police arrested two Boko Haram members and a man with “al Qaeda links who returned recently from Somalia.” On Aug. 18, police had intelligence about a possible car bombing in Abuja.
Shabaab forces march in Mogadishu
Heavily armed Shabaab fighters offer prayers and march through the streets of the Somali capital.
Suicide bomber kills 11 outside Pakistani mosque
The bomber attempted to ram a car packed with explosives into a mosque in Quetta as Shia worshipers celebrated the end of Ramadan.
Libya
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Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Ghazni, Wardak, Logar, and Nangarhar. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in an IED attack in the south.
Russia
Seven policemen and a civilian were killed in a suicide attack in the Chechen capital of Grozny as Muslims celebrated the end of Ramadan. A second blast targeted security personnel as they helped the wounded.
8 killed in suicide attack in Chechen capital
Seven policemen and a civilian were killed as Muslims celebrated the end of Ramadan in Grozny.
Al Qaeda releases Ramadan tape by Atiyah Abd al Rahman
US officials have claimed that the al Qaeda leader was killed in a Predator strike. The tape gives no indication that Atiyah is dead.
Yemen
The Yemeni military said it killed six al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in the Dawfas area of Abyan. AQAP claimed it shot down a Yemeni military helicopter in Abyan on Aug. 27.
Israel
The Israeli navy deployed two warships to the border of Egypt in the Red Sea. The ships were deployed after intelligence that another attack would be launched into Israel from the Egyptian Sinai.
Nigeria
Nigerian youths killed an unknown number of Muslims as they gathered to celebrate the end of Ramadan. The attack took place in Jos, a city that borders the Christan south and Muslim north.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Ghazni, Kunduz, and Faryab. The Taliban killed an Afghan soldier in Logar and captured four policemen in Kunar. Mullah Omar said the Taliban would not participate in the Bonn conference.
Iraq
Insurgents killed four policemen and a soldier in separate attacks in Baghdad, Baqubah, and Mosul. Turkish warplanes have attacked Kurdish terrorists in northern Iraq.
Yemen
Ten Yemeni soldiers and 26 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters were killed during fighting in Dawfas in Abyan province. AQAP’s Ansar al Sharia executed a man who opposed the group.