Pakistan
The Taliban killed two tribal leaders and six others in a suicide attack in Bajaur, and a political leader and two associates in a shooting in Swat. Security forces arrested six Taliban fighters in Karachi.
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Afghanistan
A Taliban suicide bomber killed the Afghan police commander for the north and the police chief of Takhar and two Afghans and two German soldiers, and wounded ISAF’s commander in the north and the governor of Takhar. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and […]
Iraq
Security forces arrested 25 al Qaeda fighters who belonged to a cell that killed 70 members of a wedding party in 2006. The leader of the cell posed as a human rights activist. Security forces found the bodies of two men who were executed in Mosul.
Yemen
President Saleh has agreed to a ceasefire with powerful tribal leader Sadiq al-Ahmar after fighting between the two led to more than 120 people killed. An “armed group” has kidnapped three French citizens in Hadramout province.
Pakistani ISI ‘S Wing’ aids terror groups in South and Central Asia
Indian officials believe the S Wing was helping Osama bin Laden hide in Pakistan.
Taliban suicide bomber strikes at high-level meeting in Afghan north
The chief of police for the Afghan north and the police commander for Takhar province were among those killed, while ISAF’s commander for the north and Takhar’s governor were wounded.
Taliban suicide bomber kills pro-government tribal leaders in Pakistan’s northwest
“We had warned them before and warn them again that they should disband this anti-Taliban peace committee otherwise we will continue to attack them till they are totally eliminated,” the Taliban’s spokesman said.
Pakistan
Security forces killed 23 “militants” in airstrikes in Kurram and Arakzai. Security forces arrested five suspects in the Pakistan Naval Station Mehran attack in Karachi and another in Faisalabad.
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2 blasts hit US troops in deadly Kandahar attack
Afghanistan
The governor of Nuristan claimed 68 Taliban fighters and 17 policemen were killed in an ISAF airstrike. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, Paktia, and Logar. The Taliban killed three security guards in Ghazni, an ISAF soldier in the south, and a young girl in Wardak.
Iraq
Ali al Lami, the chief of the Justice and Accountability Commission which rooted out Ba’athists, was assassinated in Baghdad. Lami was arrested by the US in 2008 for ties to Shia militias backed by Iran.
Lebanon
Six Italian peackeepers working for UNIFIL and two Lebanese civilians were wounded in an IED attack while driving on the main highway near Saida. Two of the Italians have been seriously wounded. No group has claimed the attack.
Yemen
Twelve people were killed during a clash between Republican Guards forces and tribesmen in Nehm. The Yemeni air force killed 18 tribesmen in airstrikes in Nehm.
Syria
Security forces killed three people in Qatana, a suburb of Damascus, while trying to break up hundreds of anti-regime demonstrators. Protests have been reported throughout the country.
Hizbul Mujahideen chief: Pakistan allows terror group to run ‘hundreds of training camps’
“Our mujahideen can come and go at their own will,” the head of the Hizbul Mujahideen said. “There is no question that the army can stop us.”
Pakistan closes intel fusion cells, ending hope for North Waziristan operation
Pakistan has long resisted US pressure to move against terror groups in North Waziristan.
Afghanistan
House passes defense bill after narrowly rejecting accelerated plan for Afghan withdrawal
Al Qaeda
Admiral McRaven: The terrorist hunter on whose shoulders Osama bin Laden raid rested
Pakistan
A Taliban suicide bomber killed 24 people in an attack on a police station in Hangu. The Taliban attacked a military outpost in North Waziristan. The US has withdrawn an undisclosed number of military personnel from Pakistan.
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Armageddon 1958
US adds Islamic Caucasus Emirate to list of terror groups
The US indicated that additional actions would be taken against the Islamic Caucasus Emirate.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed seven ISAF soldiers in an IED attack in the south. An ISAF soldier died in a helicopter crash in the east. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Helmand, Khost, Logar, Baghlan, Balkh, and Bayman. Five Taliban fighters reconciled in Helmand.
Iraq
The spokesman for US Forces-Iraq said that attacks against US troops are on the rise as the December 2011 drawdown deadline nears. Thousands of supporters of Muqtada al Sadr protested against a continued US military presence in Iraq.
Yemen
President Saleh ordered the arrest of rival rival leader Sheikh Sadiq al- Ahmar and nine of his brothers for fomenting “armed rebellion.” Seventy-two people have been killed in heavy fighting in Sana’a over the past three days.
Suicide bomber attacks police in Pakistan’s northwest
Twenty-four Pakistanis have been killed and more than 45 have been wounded, some critically.
Somalia
“The security council and donors are losing patience with the political tensions within the Somalia leadership,” UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said. Eleven civilians were killed in mortar attacks in Mogadishu. Forty children pressed to fight for Shabaab have been killed in recent fighting in the capital.
Indonesia
Police arrested six members of he so-called “Islamic State of Indonesia” during a raid in Ungaran in Central Java. Jemaah Islamiyah leader Abu Bakir Bashir accused the court of jailing him at the behest of the United States.
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed five policemen and a soldier at a police headquarters in Peshawar. A soldier linked to the Taliban who was arrested in January had warned then that an attack was to be carried out at the Karachi naval base.
Kazakhstan
A suicide bomber killed himself and a passenger of his car in a failed attack outside of a National Security Committee prison. The blast is the second in Kazakhstan a week.
Afghanistan
Ten Taliban and three policemen were killed during a battle to control Doad district in Nuristan. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Helmand, Khost, and Baghlan. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the north.