US Predators kill 21 in South Waziristan strikes
The strikes are the first in a week. The US has executed 12 Predator strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas this month, the highest total since December 2010.
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Nigeria
Boko Haram fighters killed 25 people and wounded 30 more in an attack in Maiduguri. Two men riding motorbikes hurled grenades and opened fire at a tavern and a beer garden in the northern city.
Pakistan
Pakistan expels 18 British military trainers
Pakistan
A community under siege in tribal Pakistan
Taliban use females in recent suicide attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan
The Taliban forced an eight-year-old girl to attempt a suicide attack in Afghanistan, and a husband and wife suicide team attacked a police station in Pakistan.
Pakistan
A husband and wife carried out yesterday’s suicide attack on a police station in Dera Ismail Khan that killed 10 policemen. Three policemen were wounded in a bombing at a checkpoint in Multan.
Afghanistan
The Taliban used an eight year old girl as a suicide bomber in Uruzgan. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in the west, one in the east, and one more in the south.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Drawdown plans leave an ambiguous military mission
Yemen
Yemen’s Saleh to reappear as violence grips south
Yemen
A suicide bomber killed three soldiers in Aden. Security forces killed three al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives who escaped from Mukalla prison last week. Police detained the director of Mukalla prison.
Al Qaeda in Iraq
A court sentenced Hasna Ali Yahya, the Yemeni wife of Abu Ayyub al Masri, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for facilitating communications between terrorists and assembling suicide vests. Al Masri was the head of al Qaeda in Iraq before he was killed by US and Iraqi troops last year.
Iraq
A wheelchair-bound suicide bomber killed two people in Tarmiyah. Insurgents killed two soldiers in Mosul, an intelligence official in Tikrit, and two civilians near Kirkuk. Security forces detained 39 wanted men in Basrah and seven more in Tikrit.
Somalia
Government officials blame Shabaab for executing and beheading two Puntland soliders in the village of Yalho, south of Bosaso. Shabaab is rounding up “US spies” in Kismayo after an airstrike on training camps near the southern city.
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed more than 30 Afghans in an attack on a hospital in Logar. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in the east. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Khost, Paktika, Laghman, and Balkh.
Pakistan
The Taliban killed seven policemen in an attack on a station in Dera Ismail Khan; five Taliban fighters were also killed. Fifteen Taliban were killed during infighting in Arakzai.
Afghanistan
Afghan MPs hit back over court ruling
Iraq
Insurgents killed a policeman in Baghdad and a councilman and his nephew in Abu Ghraib. The government declared a curfew in Bayji after security forces killed a man wanted for terrorist activities.
Suicide bomber attacks hospital in eastern Afghanistan
More than 30 people, including medical personnel and patients, were killed after a suicide bomber deliberately rammed an SUV packed with explosives into a hospital in Logar.
Mauritanian troops attack AQIM camp in Mali
“Very fierce” fighting was reported after Mauritanian soldiers conducted a cross-border attack on an al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb camp.
Mali
Mauritanian security forces inflicted “heavy” losses on al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb fighters in an attack on a camp in a forest in Wagadou in western Mali. Fighting at the camp was described as “fierce.”
Special operations forces capture 5 al Qaeda operatives in Afghan southeast
The raid took place in Ghazni province. The targeted facilitator operates in Pakistan, plans operations, and shuttles money and fighters into both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed five people in a bombing in Kunduz and a policeman in a suicide bombing in Helmand. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Ghazni, Khost, Kunduz, and Sar-i-Pul.
Iraq
Insurgents killed two civilians and two policemen in Baghdad, Mosul, and Tikrit. Security forces arrested 27 suspected terrorists in Diyala.
Al Qaeda
Osama wanted new name for al-Qaeda to repair image
Somalia
A Shabaab official and local residents claimed that helicopters attacked two military camps in Qandal just outside of Kismayo. Two Shabaab fighters were killed; “foreign fighters” were reported to be training at the camps.
US helicopters strike Shabaab camps in Somalia: report
Two Shabaab fighters are said to have been killed during airstrikes that targeted camps that hosted “foreign fighters.”
2 American Muslims arrested for conspiring to kill US troops
“If one person could kill so many people [at Fort Hood, Texas], three attackers could kill many more,” one of the defendants told an informant.
Iran
The US, France, and Britain accused Iran of “alarming” violations of UN Security Council sanctions of its nuclear program. Russia and China are blocking a UN report that implicates Iran. The US imposed sanctions on Iran Air, Tidewater Middle East Co., and other firms.
Syria
Security forces killed 15 anti-regime protesters at rallies in Homs and Al Kasweh, a suburb of Damascus. Security forces are also continuing operations in villages along the border with Turkey.
Mauritania
Security forces launched a “major operation” against al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb fighters situated in the Nara area along the border with Mali. Mauritanian forces have established a joint command center with Malian forces to coordinate efforts.