Iraq
Insurgents killed 29 people and wounded 80 more in three bombings at a police station in Kirkuk. A civilian was killed in an IED attack in Baghdad. The Iraqi military identified the four senior al Qaeda leaders captured yesterday in Kirkuk.
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Kuwait
A fistfight broke out in parliament after Salafists attacked a Shia lawmaker who called Kuwaitis detained at Guantanamo Bay terrorists. Two Kuwaitis remain at Guantanamo. Abdullah Salih al Ajmi, a former detainee who was released in 2006, carried out a suicide attack in Iraq in 2008.
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda released a posthumous audio recording of Osama bin Laden. The slain leader praised the so-called Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.
Somalia
Fifteen people were killed during fighting between African Union forces and Shabaab fighters in Mogadishu. Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama’a announced that it would execute Shabaab “spies.”
Afghan commandos kill 60 Taliban fighters in Faryab
The Taliban fighters were killed during a three-day-long operation in the Qaysar district.
Controversial raid in Takhar sparks deadly protest
Afghan troops killed 12 protesters who had denied that the two men and two women killed during a raid targeting an IMU cell in the district of Taloqan were insurgents.
Pakistani Taliban continue outpouring of support for Osama bin Laden
“The mujahideen will continue jihad to complete his mission with a new zeal,” Waliur Rehman Mehsud said.
Pakistan
Fifteen Taliban fighters and two policemen were killed in a clash at a security checkpoint outside Peshawar. US Senators are questioning the value of aid to Pakistan.
Taliban kill 13 in Nangarhar suicide attack
The Taliban said it targeted Afghan police trainers.
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed 13 people in Nangarhar. Afghan troops killed 12 Afghans in Takhar who protested a US raid that targeted an IMU leader and resulted in four insurgents killed. Security forces killed and captured scores of Taliban, Haqqani Network, and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Khost, Paktika, Logar, Badghis, […]
The Taliban
Mohmand Taliban leader Omar Khalid threatened to take revenge for the death of Osama bin Laden. Waliur Rehman Mehsud claimed bin Laden blew himself up to avoid capture.
Iraq
Security forces detained al Qaeda’s military leader, top judge, and two other commanders in Salahadin, and captured al Qaeda’s governor in Kirkuk. Britain will withdraw its last 170 military personnel from Iraq this weekend.
Yemen
The US has urged President Saleh to sign the agreement with the opposition and step down. Yemeni troops shelled tribesmen who have laid siege to a Republican Guards camp outside of Sana’a; one person was killed.
Iran
A female Al Jazeera journalist who was detained in Syria and transferred to Iran has been released in Qatar. The IAEA fears that Iran has hacked officials’ computers and cell phones.
Syria
Over the past three days, security forces killed 27 people in the town of Tel Kelakh on the border with Lebanon. Security forces also beat anti-regime students who were protesting in Aleppo. President Assad’s regime has killed more then 700 protesters in the past two months.
Al Qaeda operative arrested in Karachi was ‘courier’ between bin Laden, Zawahiri: Pakistani officials
Muhammad Ali Qasim Yaqub was captured in Karachi on May 4, where he has lived with his family “for some time.” He is said to be linked to Anwar al Awlaki and Ramsi bin Alshib.
Indonesia
Counterterrorism police believe they killed Sigit Qordhowi during a gunfight in Sukoharjo, Central Java last weekend. Sigit is a suspect in the December 2010 attack on a police station as well as several church bombings. He has also appear in a jihadist propaganda tape.
Pakistan
Clash in NW Pakistan kills 2 police, 15 militants
Pakistan
Security forces killed five suicide bombers, including three women, in Quetta. The suicide bombers are thought to be Chechens or Uzbeks. Witnesses failed to show up in the trial of TNSM chief Sufi Mohammed.
Afghanistan
Pakistani troops and NATO helicopters exchanged fire on the border. Security forces killed and captured scores of Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, Nangarhar, Paktika, and Ghazni.
The Taliban
Hamid Gul, the former head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, is reported to have asked Mullah Omar to leave Quetta in Pakistan and return to Afghanistan or Iran. The ISI would facilitate Omar’s move to either country, the report said.
Iraq
Insurgents killed an Interior Ministry major and a civilian in Baghdad, and two Iraqis in Babil. Terrorists executed and beheaded a Christian in Kirkuk after demanding $100,000 in ransom.
Al Qaeda
Saif al Adel is reported to be al Qaeda’s new emir; the report is unconfirmed. Pakistani security forces in Karachi arrested Muhammad Ali Qasim Yaqub, who was described as “working directly under al Qaeda leaders along [the] Pak-Afghan borders.”
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters killed two soldiers and a civilian in an attack in Mukalla in Hadhramout province. The family of Osama bin Laden’s Yemeni widow wants her to be returned home from Pakistan.
Somalia
Shabaab’s spokesman warned Djbouti not to send troops to join African Union forces in Mogadishu. Security forces killed two Shabaab fighters in Hiran. Shabaab arrested “gang” members in Lower Shabelle and Bay.
Nigeria
Boko Haram, a radical Islamist group with ties to al Qaeda, has rejected an amnesty deal offered by the governor of Borno. A Boko Haram spokesman said the group does not recognize democracy.
Libya
State-run television claimed pro-Gaddafi forces hit a NATO warship off the coast of Misrata; an unnamed NATO official denied the report. Libya’s oil minister has defected to the anti-Gaddafi rebels.
Is Saif al Adel the acting leader of al Qaeda?
The News claims that al Adel is al Qaeda’s acting emir and Ayman al Zawahiri remains the chief of military operations.
Doku Umarov says Russia is part of ‘a single theater of war’
“The Jihad is spreading, steadily and inevitably, everywhere,” the leader of the Islamic Caucasus Emirate said.
Islamic Caucasus Emirates confirms death of ‘Russian bin Laden’
Abdullah Kurd was a leader in the International Islamic Battalion, al Qaeda’s foreign legion in the Caucasus.