Taliban assault team attacks Pakistani Navy base
The Pakistani Taliban killed four naval personnel and destroyed at least two airplanes, including a P-3C Orion. Ten Pakistani troops were killed in the fighting.
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Iraq
Fifteen Iraqis were killed in a series of attacks in and around Baghdad. Eleven were Iraqi soldiers who were killed in a suicide attack in Taji.
Bahrain
An appeals court has upheld the death sentences of two men convicted of killing policemen. Two others had their sentences reduced to life in prison. The court said the sentences were designed to prevent further protests.
Pakistani government refused to move against radical madrassas in Punjab
A leaked US State Department cable details the network of radical Islamist madrassas in South Punjab and their role as an engine of jihad.
Suicide assault team attacks police compound in Afghan east
Four suicide bombers and six Afghans, including five security personnel, were killed during a 10-hour-long clash at a police headquarters in Khost.
Pakistan
The Taliban killed 15 Pakistanis in an attack in Khyber that targeted fuel trucks carrying fuel to NATO forces in Afghanistan. Pakistani helicopter gunships killed eight Taliban fighters in Arakzai.
Afghanistan
A Taliban suicide bomber killed six people in an attack at a hospital in Kabul. Five terrorists were killed in a premature detonation in Nuristan. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Helmand, Khost, Paktika, Baghlan, and Baghlan.
Iraq
Insurgents killed seven people in attacks in Kirkuk and Mosul. Security forces detained 14 wanted men in Basra, Anbar, and Hillah.
Syria
Security forces killed 11 people at a funeral in Homs. The people were shot after they shouted “overthrow the regime” as they were leaving the cemetery.
Iran
Iranian intelligence claimed to have dismantled a US spy ring and arrested 24 people. The alleged spies were gathering information at “universities and scientific research centers, and in the field of nuclear energy, aerospace, defense and biotechnology industries.”
Somalia
Security forces seized Kudhaa Island from Shabaab forces. Tribal elders in Balad denounced Shabaab for torturing innocent people; the elders would not give their names.
Libya
Pro-government forces shelled residential areas outside outside of the rebel-held city of Misrata. Libyans attacked a bus of reporters at a border crossing to Tunisia.
US Attorney General supports update of the Authorization of Military Force
“I cannot for the life of me understand the opposition to this measure that is coming from people who profess to be concerned with civil liberties and the rule of law,” former AG Mukasey said.
Suicide bomber kills 6 in attack on Kabul hospital
A suicide bomber detonated in a cafeteria as medical students were eating lunch. The hospital is frequented by Afghan military personnel and is in a high-security zone.
Pakistan
A US Predator airstrike killed six “militants” in the Miramshah area of North Waziristan. Police arrested a suicide bomber and his two handlers in Karachi.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Helmand, Farah, Ghazni, Zabul, Khost, Logar, and Badghis. The Taliban killed a child in an IED attack in Badghis.
Afghanistan
Who controls Faryab province, the police or the Taliban?
Afghanistan
Afghan police were ‘rotten to the core’
Pakistani official urged more Predator strikes in Pakistan
The FATA Secretariat called on the US to double tap the strike area during Taliban recovery operations.
Special operations forces target al Qaeda-linked Taliban commander in the southeast
The Taliban leader organized al Qaeda fighters in the Pakistani city of Quetta. The raid is the second that targeted al Qaeda in Zabul in the past two weeks.
India
India recalled a list of 50 wanted terrorists and criminals who were believed to be based in Pakistan after two of those on the list turned up in India. One of those on the list was in Indian custody for the past 15 months.
Iraq
Insurgents killed a colonel at the Interior Ministry in Baghdad, and two policemen in Mosul. Five Mahdi Army commanders escaped from a prison in Taji. Security forces detained 12 insurgents in Diyala.
Syria
Security forces killed 27 people while attempting to suppress anti-regime protests. Eleven were killed Homs, 10 in Maaret al-Naaman, two in Daraa, two in Deir al-Zour, one in Daraya, and another in Latakia.
Indonesia
Police are hunting for members of a terrorist group in Cirebon who were planning to attack a mosque on a military base and several police stations. Two members of the group have been killed and 13 more have been detained.
Taliban attack US diplomats in Peshawar
The US Consulate in Peshawar has been a magnet for Taliban attacks.
Did the US kill Osama bin Laden’s clone?
The Nation entertains with one of the crazier conspiracy theories to spring up about the al Qaeda leader’s death.
US Predators kill 6 ‘militants’ in North Waziristan strike
The strike took place in the town of Tappi near Miramshah, the stronghold of the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network.
US designates Palestinian Salafist group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
Jaish al Islam, or Army of Islam, “subscribes to a Salafist ideology of global jihad together with the traditional model of armed Palestinian resistance.”
Pakistan
The Taliban killed a civilian in an IED attack in Akora Khattak. The government ordered an investigation into the killing of five Chechens thought to be suicide bombers.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed 35 road workers in Paktika; guards killed eight Taliban fighters. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Zabul, Khost, Nangarhar, and Kunar.