The Taliban claimed they spent five months digging a 350-meter tunnel to a cell underneath the Sarposa prison in Kandahar City. More than 100 Taliban commanders are said to be among the escapees.
The Taliban killed three ISAF troops in the south and a member of the Marjah peace council in Helmand. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network fighters and commanders in Uruzgan, Kandahar, Logar, Kunduz, and Khost.
Insurgents killed two US soldiers “while conducting operations in southern Iraq,” and a police captain and a soldier in Kirkuk. Four people were wounded in a bombing near a Christian church in Baghdad.
President Saleh said he would consider resigning in 30 days if the opposition halted protests and joined the ruling governing coalition. Four Republican Guards soldiers and four “gunmen” were killed in a clash in Marib province.
One of the commanders was the district leader and personally led assaults on US combat outposts in the area.
Shabaab executed two young boys in Mogadishu. Shabaab forces took control of the city of Dhusamareeb after clashes with the pro-government Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama’a.
Kenyan police arrested three Shabaab operatives on April 22 in Liboi as they attempted to return to Somalia. Police said the Shabaab fighters were Sudanese, Ugandan, and Somalia nationals.
Twenty-five people were killed in heavy fighting in the city of Misrata. Libya’s deputy foreign minister said government forces have suspended operations in Misrata but the tribes will attack rebel forces in two days if fighting does not end.
Shootdowns by the Taliban in Afghanistan are a rare occurrence.
The attack took place the same day General Kayani claimed the terrorists’ “backbone has been broken” and one day after a large Taliban force killed 16 troops in Dir.
The Taliban killed seven policemen and an ISAF soldier in the south and east. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban, Haqqani Network, and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan fighters and commanders in Kandahar, Helmand, Ghazni, Paktia, Wardak, Logar, and Takhar. An ISAF helicopter crashed in Kapisa; Hizb-i-Islami claimed it shot the helo down.
A suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban leader and five security personnel in Bajaur. General Kayani said that the “terrorists’ backbone has been broken” by Pakistani forces. Security forces killed six “militants” in Arakzai.
Admiral Mullen said Iraq must decide in the next several weeks if it wants to extend the US military mission in Iraq. Insurgents killed two Iraqi civilians, a police colonel, and an intelligence officer in separate attacks in Baghdad.
Syria security forces killed 12 mourners in Duraa, Douma, and Barzeh, The mourners were attending funerals for some of the 82 people killed during protests on April 22.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and local tribes killed 20 security personnel in attacks and ambushes in Marib, Abyan, and Lahj. A Salafist cleric said it would be bad for Islam for a new government to support the fight against AQAP.
Three people were reported to have been killed in an airstrike that targeted a bunker in Tripoli. Pro-Gaddafi tribes are threatening to oust rebels holed up in Misrata.
The latest raid targeted an IMU “facilitator and explosives expert” in the northern province of Takhar.
Fifteen people were killed during fighting between government forces and Shabaab in Mogadishu. Shabaab arrested nine volunteer doctors and nurses in the Lower Shabelle region.
Russian security forces killed Emir Muhannad, a Saudi commander who led the International Islamic Brigade and served as a key link to al Qaeda. Muhannad was also the deputy commander of forces in Chechnya.
Muhannad commanded the International Islamic Battalion, the unit comprised of Arab and other foreign fighters. He also was the deputy military leader in Chechnya.
US Predators killed 25 people in a strike in North Waziristan. The Taliban killed 16 security personnel after overrunning an outpost in Dir. Army helicopters killed 11 “militants” in Khyber.
Special operations teams captured the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan’s top leader for Afghanistan during a raid in Kunduz. Security forces captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network fighters and commanders in Kandahar, Zabul, Khost, Paktika, Logar, Nangarhar, Badghis, and Faryab. The Taliban killed five border policemen in Kandahar and an ISAF soldier in the east, and […]
Iraq has not requested an extension for US troops to remain in country. Security forces captured al Qaeda’s emir for Fallujah.
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The IMU ‘s senior leader in Afghanistan served as “a key conduit between the senior IMU leadership in Pakistan and senior Taliban leadership in Afghanistan.” He escaped from a Pakistani jail in 2010.
More than 300 Taliban fighters attacked an outpost in Dir from across the border in Kunar province. The Taliban reportedly beheaded five of the Pakistani troops.
The strike in the Mir Ali area is the first in more than a week, and took place just one day after Admiral Mullen completed a trip to patch up ties with Pakistan’s military.
The targeted compound is “associated with Pakistan-based al Qaeda leadership.”
The Taliban killed three policemen in Nangarhar and a French soldier in Kapisa. Special operations teams captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network fighters and commanders in Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, and Logar.
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