The Taliban overran a district in Nuristan, killed three ISAF troops in the east, and destroyed seven communications towers in Helmand. Security forces killed and captured dozens of Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Helmand, Uruzgan, Kapisa, Khost, Paktika, Logar, Kunar, and Jawzjan.
An al Qaeda in Iraq suicide assault team killed 53 people during an assault on the Tikrit provincial center. Insurgents killed two civilians in Baghdad. Security forces arrested 12 wanted men in Basrah.
A US federal appeals court overturned a lower court’s order to release al Qaeda operative Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman from Guantanamo. Uthman, a Yemeni, fought US forces at the battle of Tora Bora in Afghanistan in 2001.
The Yemeni government is said to have lost control of six of the country’s 18 provinces. Casualties from yesterday’s explosion at a weapons factory in Abyan have risen to 93 dead. More than 20,000 anti-government protesters marched in Sana’a.
Doku Umarov and his top two commanders, Emir Khamzat and Emir Supyan, are rumored to have been killed during a raid in Ingushetia. Russian officials do not believe Umarov was killed.
AQI hit a provincial council meeting.
President Assad’s cabinet resigned in an attempt to placate anti-government protesters. Tens of thousands of Syrians held pro-government rallies across the country.
President Gaddafi’s forces retook the town of Bin Jawad and have pushed rebel forces back to Ras Lanuf. The US launched 22 cruise missile strikes against Gaddafi’s military.
First time ISAF mentions the TTP being a target of a raid.
A large Taliban force attacked the district center in Waygal today and drove out Afghan police. The Taliban claim to have kidnapped 13 police and seized large amounts of weapons and ammunition.
The Taliban killed 14 paramilitary troops in an ambush in Khyber, bombed two schools in Darra Adam Khel, and torched a NATO fuel tanker in Kalat. The Taliban and the Haqqani Network created the Lashkar-e-Khorasan to hunt down US spies in North Waziristan and surrounding areas.
A colonel and a captain were among the Frontier Corps troops killed in an ambush in the Atakhel area of the Pakistani tribal agency of Khyber.
A Taliban suicide bomber killed 20 road workers in an assault on a compound in Paktika province. The Taliban freed 19 of the 50 Afghan men kidnapped yesterday in Kunar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Nangarhar, and Logar.
Insurgents killed six women and a young man in an attack on their home in Mosul. Three terrorists were killed when their car detonated prematurely in Baghdad. Kurdish Peshmerga forces withdrew from areas of Kirkuk.
Seven people were killed in fighting between Shabaab forces and Somali and African Union troops in Mogadishu. The European Union is providing $93 million to the African Union mission in Somalia.
The group was established by the Haqqani Network and Hafiz Gul Bahadar to root out so-called US spies that aid in the US’ Predator campaign in Pakistan.
A blast at a weapons factory in Jaar in Abyan province killed 78 people. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters looted the factory of truckloads of weapons and several armored vehicles prior to the blast, which is said to have been an accident.
Rebel forces, backed by NATO air cover, have taken control of Nawfaliyah and advanced to the town of Sitre, the home town of President Moammar Gaddafi. Qatar has recognized the rebels as the official representatives of the Libyan people.
Security forces opened fire on protesters in Duraa; casualties have not yet been reported. Security forces also arrested an American citizen and accused him of inciting protests against the Assad regime.
The Taliban claimed credit for the suicide attack that killed 20 Afghan road workers in the Bermel district in Paktika province.
The Taliban captured more than 40 Afghan police recruits in Kunar and killed an ISAF soldier in the south. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban, HIG, and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, Paktika, Zabul, Kabul, Logar, and Baghlan.
Insurgents killed two civilians in Baghdad and Mosul. Security forces broke up two al Qaeda in Iraq cells in Babil. Ansar al Sunnah vowed to continue fighting the Iraqi government.
A Norwegian citizen of Somali origin was killed while fighting alongside Shabaab forces. The Transitional Federal Government extended its mandate for one year.
The Israeli Defense Force deployed the anti-rocket Iron Dome system near Beersheba. The Israeli Air Force killed two Islamic Jihad fighters in a strike in Gaza.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula killed seven troops in Marib province and took control of the town of Jaar in Abyan province after security forces fled. President Saleh rescinded his offer to step down at the end of the year.
Rebel forces, under the cover of UN aircraft, have seized the western coastal towns of Lanuf, Uqayla, Brega, and Ajdabiyah after government forces withdrew without a fight. Rebels have advanced to the town of Bin Jawad.
Twelve protesters and members of the security forces were killed during clashes in Latakia. The government claimed it would lift the emergency orders implemented in 1963; no timetable was given.
The Taliban claimed credit for the kidnapping of more than 40 Afghan men who attempted to join the police in the contested northeastern Afghan province.
Al Qaeda in in the Islamic Maghreb “took advantage of the pillaging of arsenals in the rebel zone [in Libya] to acquire arms, including surface-to-air missiles, which were then smuggled into their sanctuaries in Tenere,” the president of Chad said. A Malian official said AQIM has pilfered heavy weapons, including SAM-7s.
Hafiz Saeed, the founder and chief of the Lashkar-a-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa, said Pakistani terror groups have a “right” to fight in Jammu and Kashmir to “teach India a lesson.” He also said that US involvement in South Asia has set back the fight in Kashmir.