Iran
Iran’s nuclear chief claimed the country is prepared to cooperate more closely with the IAEA. The Defense Ministry said it was manufacturing its own anti-armor missiles.
Author Archives: Bill Roggio
Libya
The chairman of the African Union accused the rebels of executing black people, and said this was one of the reasons it was withholding aid. “We need clarification because the TNC seems to confuse black people with mercenaries …. They are killing normal workers,” Chairman Jean Ping said.
Pakistan
Weird, Birdlike Mystery Drone Crashes in Pakistan
Al Qaeda
An Interview with Online Jihadist Abu Suleiman Al Nasser
Afghanistan
A four-man suicide assault team was killed while attempting to breach the PRT in Zabul. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in the south. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Kandahar, Uruzgan, and Ghazni.
Iraq
A suicide bomber killed 28 people in an attack at a mosque in Baghdad. Terrorists killed a policeman in a bombing in Mosul.
Yemen
Yemeni military officials claimed al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninisula leader Nasir al Wuhayshi was killed in fighting in Dawfas in Abyan. Four soldiers and three AQAP fighters were killed in Dawfas. The navy claimed it foiled a small boat suicide attack off the coast of Abyan.
AQAP chief Nasir al Wuhayshi reported killed in southern Yemen
Yemeni military officers claimed that Wuhayshi’s body was brought to a hospital in Aden after a clash near Zinjibar. His death has not been confirmed.
Al Qaeda suicide bomber kills 28 Iraqis in attack in Baghdad mosque
Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al Samarrai, the head of the Sunni Endowment who has been vocal in his opposition to al Qaeda, was the target of the attack. He was wounded in the blast.
Doubts raised in Pakistan over reports of Atiyah’s death
Some tips on what to look for in assessing the probability that the reported death of a senior terrorist leader is true.
Iran
A court sentenced an Iranian man to death for assassinating a nuclear scientist; Iran claimed he was an agent of Israel. Iran said it would defend Syria if NATO intervened. Iran “discreetly” provided food and medical aid to Libyan rebels.
Egypt
Mohamed Shawqi el Islambuli, the brother of the man who assassinated Anwar Sadat in 1981, was arrested after arriving in Egypt from Iran. Islambuli, a member of the Egyptian Islamic Group, was sentenced to death for his role in the Luxor massacre. He is linked to al Qaeda.
Helos provide vital support to US troops in Afghan east
A glimpse into operating aviation assets in what one helicopter pilot described as ‘the most God-awful environment I’ve ever seen.’
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed the suicide attack at a military academy in Cherchell that killed 16 soldiers and two civilians. AQIM said two suicide bombers, Abu Anas and Abu Noah, executed the attack.
Somalia
Security forces arrested six people in an area of Mogadishu formerly held by Shabaab. Famine victims claimed that Somali troops are looting food at refugee camps.
Al Qaeda remains entrenched in North Wazristan
The Taliban-controlled tribal agency still serves as a primary node for al Qaeda’s operations in Pakistan.
Pakistan
The Taliban killed 25 Pakistani security personnel and overran two border outposts in an attack in Chitral; 20 Taliban fighters were also killed. Three Lashkar-e-Jhangvi fighters were arrested in Karachi.
Afghanistan
Taliban suicide bombers killed four civilians outside the governor’s compound in the capital of Helmand and killed three more in the capital of Kandahar. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south.
Iraq
Insurgents killed three people in Iskandariyah and a security official in Saadiya. A terrorist died in a premature detonation in Mosul. Security forces detained 12 wanted men, including an Islamic State of Iraq leader, in Mosul and five
Yemen
Militants killed seven Yemeni soldiers in the Dofas district in the southern province of Yemen. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters are believed to have carried out the attack.
Taliban kill 25 Pakistani troops in cross-border attack
The Pakistani military accused local Afghan officials of aiding the Taliban and said ISAF has failed to take action on large concentrations of Taliban operating in the Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan.
Libya
Hundreds of Salafists have been freed from the Abu Salim prison in Tripoli. More than 600 Islamist fighters who fought US forces in Iraq were held at the prison; their whereabouts are unknown.
Algeria
Eight people, including including 16 soldiers, were killed in a suicide attack on a military academy in the town of Cherchell. AQIM is thought to have carried out the attack.
Suicide bombers kill 18 in attack on Algerian military academy
Sixteen soldiers were among those killed in the bombings in Cherchell. AQIM has carried out three suicide attacks in Algeria since mid-July.
Thailand
Muslim insurgents killed five defense volunteers in an ambush in Narathiwat’s Rueso district. The volunteers were hit with a roadside bomb while responding to a report that a man was killed at a plantation.
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Lashkar-e-Taiba admitted that one of its followers killed a respected, pro-independence cleric in Kashmir. LeT issued a report on the killing. The LeT fighter is in Indian custody.
Pakistan
Eleven people, including three soldiers, were killed in a bombing in Nowshera yesterday. The son of slain Punjab governor Salman Taseer was kidnapped in Lahore. Police detained a “terrorist” in Islamabad.
Al Qaeda
Iran and Al Qaeda’s ‘Operations Chief’
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed four civilians in a bombing at a mosque in Faryab and a woman in a bombing in Herat, and destroyed seven communications towers in Ghazni. Security forces captured several Taliban fighters in Khost and Paktia. More than 110 Taliban fighters in Badakhshan reconciled with the government.
Iraq
Insurgents killed five people and wounded 25 more in a bombing yesterday in Basrah. Security forces detained five wanted men, including an al Qaeda commander, in Mosul.