Iraq
A suicide bomber killed 12 Iraqis, including four Army officers and five soldiers, in an attack on the Presidential Palaces compound in Tikrit. Five US soldiers were killed in an attack in Baghdad.
A suicide bomber killed 12 Iraqis, including four Army officers and five soldiers, in an attack on the Presidential Palaces compound in Tikrit. Five US soldiers were killed in an attack in Baghdad.
President Saleh underwent two surgeries in Saudi Arabia. “The first was to remove a piece of shrapnel from his chest, and the second was neurosurgery to his neck,” a family member said.
Security forces killed 31 people during anti-regime protests in Jisr al Shughour. The government claimed four policemen were also killed. Israel said Syria is orchestrating violence in the Golan that resulted in IDF forces killing 23 people.
Shabaab forces in Mogadishu killed six Ugandan soldiers, including a colonel and a lieutenant. Eight people were killed during mortar attacks in Mogadishu.
One police officer was killed and two more were wounded in a roadside bomb attack in the Urus-Martan district of Chechnya. Russia’s deputy prime minister said radical Islamists who refuse to abide by the law should move to the Middle East.
The strikes took place in areas controlled by Mullah Nazir. “Punjabi Taliban,” Arabs, and Uzbeks are said to be among those killed. Al Qaeda commander Ilyas Kashmiri is also reported to have been killed in the same area just four days ago.
The Taliban killed two bank guards in a suicide attack in Wardak, and killed an ISAF soldier in the south. Two ISAF soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash in the east. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Zabul, Khost, Paktika, Logar, Kunduz, and Balkh.
Also, six Pakistanis were killed in a bombing in the Matni area of Peshawar.
Six people were killed in a bombing in the Matni area of Peshawar. Interior Minister Malik denied the existence of the Taliban’s Quetta Shura.
The picture released by HUJI is actually that of Abu Dera Ismael Khan, one of the members of the Mumbai suicide assault team.
Ustadz Ahmed Farooq, al Qaeda’s spokesman and propaganda chief for Pakistan, may have been killed in the June 2 Predator strike that killed Ilyas Kashmiri.
The aide to the parliament speaker was killed in Baghdad. An oil reserve field at the Zubeir Oil Field was set aflame in a rocket attack. The Iraq Drilling Co. has begun repairing wells and drilling for oil in the Hamrin mountains north of Baghdad.
President Saleh has been transported to Saudi Arabia to receive medical treatment after being wounded in a rocket attack on Friday. Four soldiers from Ali Muhsen Al Ahmer 1st Armored Division were killed in a rocket attack in Sana’a.
African Union and Somali forces took control of two more districts in Mogadishu. Burundi’s president said his country would not abandon the mission in Somalia.
Ahmad Faruq is rumored to have been killed in the strike that killed Ilyas Kashmiri, but the report is unconfirmed.
The Taliban claimed a “Mujahida sister” carried out a suicide attack in Kunar that killed three interpreters. The Taliban killed four ISAF soldiers in an IED attack in the south and two Afghans in bombings at a university in Kandahar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, Paktika, […]
Security forces killed 26 Taliban fighters in Dir. Three security personnel and two women were gunned down in Peshawar. Police have stopped four foreign nationals in Peshawar.
A suicide bomber killed four people, including two policemen, in an attack on a university hospital in Tikrit. A member of parliament was visiting the hospital. Insurgents killed a civil defense colonel in Baghdad.
President Saleh is rumored to have been moved to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment after being wounded in a mortar attack yesterday. The DoD said it has seen no evidence that Yemeni counterterrorism forces trained by the US military were involved in suppressing protests.
Three interpreters for US forces are said to have been killed in an attack that was claimed by the Taliban.
Shabaab is believed to have planted and detonated an IED that wounded 11 Kenyan soldiers in Mandera. The soldiers were being transported to Kenya’s northern border with Somalia.
African Union and Somali forces took control of a main road to the Bakara market in Mogadishu. Shabaab forces in Jowhar arrested a man and seized his family’s television sets.
A Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami spokesman said that Kashmiri, one of al Qaeda’s top military commanders, was killed in yesterday’s attack in Wana. His death is a major blow to the terror group.
Al Qaeda released a propaganda videotape that included statements from Ayman al Zawahiri, Abu Yahya al Libi, Attiya Allah, and Adam Gadahn. The al Qaeda leaders called for Muslim worldwide to wage jihad in their home countries.
US Predators killed five “militants” in an airstrike in South Waziristan. Hundreds of Taliban fighters attacked another outpost in Upper Dir. Four people were wounded in an IED attack in Khyber.
Security forces killed three Lashkar-e-Taiba fighters during a 12-hour-long firefight in Sopore. Abdullah Babu, a Lashkar-e-Taiba commander, was among those killed.
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Uruzgan, Kandahar, Zabul, Ghazni, Khost, Wardak, Nangarhar, and Baghlan. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in the south, and killed a police chief and kidnapped a member of the provincial council in Bamyan.
The attack took place in Wana, an area controlled by Taliban and al Qaeda commander Mullah Nazir. Ilyas Kashmiri was among those killed.
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan released a martyrdom tape about “Abdullah the Essen,” a German citizen known as Miqdad who wanted “to kill Germans.” He was killed by US forces on April 23, 2011.
Miqdad, a German citizen who is also known as “Abdullah the Essen,” was killed while fighting US forces in Baghlan in April 2011. He wanted “to kill Germans.”