Eleven people were killed in fighting between Shabaab and Somali forces in Mogadishu. The prime minister said the military should prepare for an offensive to wipe out Shabaab. More than 15 Somaliland troops defected to Puntland after a “clan massacre” that killed 87 people.
Hosni Mubarak has resigned his presidency and has passed power to the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces. Vice President Omar Suleiman announced Mubarak’s resignation on national TV.
A recently released videotape glorifies IMU fighters from Europe, North Africa, and Central Asia; lauds a Pakistani Taliban commander; and shows footage of IMU operations in South Waziristan.
The IJG facilitator “is responsible for coordinating the movement of foreign fighters from Iran and Pakistan into Afghanistan,” ISAF stated.
A teenage suicide bomber killed 31 Pakistani Army recruits at a military base in Mardan; the Taliban claimed the attack. The military successfully test-fired a cruise missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
A suicide bomber killed seven people, including the district governor of Chardara, in Kunduz. Security forces killed 15 Taliban fighters in Kunar and a weapons facilitator in Wardak, and detained several Haqqani Network, Islamic Jihad Union, and Taliban fighters in Balkh, Ghazni, Khost, Nangarhar, and Kabul.
A Yemeni security official denied reports that a US Predator crashed outside of Lauder in Abyan province. US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen poses one of the greatest threats to the US.
Insurgents killed six Iraqis in a car bombing in Dujail in Salahadin province. Security forces detained 28 wanted men in Basrah and seven members of an al Qaeda cell in Karbala.
Eighty-seven people were killed during fighting between Somaliland forces and local clans in Kalshale village in Puntland. Three people were killed in Mogadishu during fighting between Shabaab fighters and Somali and African Union forces.
President Hosni Mubarak addressed the nation and said he has no intentions of stepping down until elections are held in September. His statements contradicted multiple leaks that claimed he would leave office and had fled the country.
The US Treasury Department identified The Lebanese Canadian Bank and its subsidiaries as a financial institution of primary money laundering concern under Section 311 of the USA Patriot Act. The Treasury said the bank launders money for an international narcotics trafficking network and supports Hezbollah activities.
A teenage suicide bomber in a school uniform evaded detection at several checkpoints at a military base in Khyber Pakhtunkwha province and detonated his vest in the midst of a crowd of army recruits.
The Taliban have launched 18 major suicide attacks and terror assaults on military, police, and intelligence installations throughout Pakistan since March 2009.
The Ministry of Defense estimates there are up to 35,000 Taliban in Afghanistan. General Petraeus said fighting will intensify in 2011. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in Helmand, a US customs inspector in Kandahar, and a police investigator in Balkh.
Said Jan ‘Abd al Salam, an Afghan, ran an al Qaeda training camp in Pakistan. Khalil al Rahman Haqqani is a key fundraiser who has traveled to the UAE and aided al Qaeda military operations.
The Taliban killed one civilian in a bombing in Charsadda. Security forces detained a female suicide bomber and five other people in Bajaur. Three US congressmen threatened to suspend aid to Pakistan if a consular official is not freed from custody.
Authorities have identified the Moscow airport suicide bomber as Magomed Yevloyev, from Ingushetia. Police arrested Yevloyev’s 15-year-old brother and 16-year-old sister, and another person from his village, and said they were involved in the attack.
Vice President Omar Suleiman said that al Qaeda operatives and fighters from “other armed Islamic organizations” escaped from prisons during riots last week. Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hezbollah are also known to have escaped.
The Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaeda’s front group, called for Egyptians to “wage jihad” and establish a state based on Shariah. The terror group said Egyptians should ignore “rotten pagan nationalism.”
Prosecutors charged a man holding dual German-Turkish citizenship with supporting al Qaeda. The man, identified only as Adnan V., wanted to bring “jihad to Germany” and tried to procure items to make a bomb.
A Muslim mob rampaged in Java after a court passed down a five year sentence to a Christian accused of insulting Islam. The mob torched two churches and stormed the courthouse.
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Taliban commander Anwar ul Haq Mujahid spoke at the funeral of Awar Gul, a Guantanamo Bay detainee. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south. ISAF accidentally killed two civilians during a firefight with the Taliban in Helmand.
The Taliban killed two soldiers and a policeman in IED attacks in Bannu and Peshawar, and bombed 13 trucks, including four NATO fuel tankers in Peshawar. A US inspector general report said USAID has not shown that more than $4 billion in funds for Pakistan has been properly spent.
A brigadier in the Iraqi Army was killed in an IED attack close to his home in Baghdad. A group called for protests to be held at Tahrir Square in Baghdad on Feb. 25; the group is calling the planned event the “Iraqi Rage Revolution.”
Police reportedly recovered remains of a US Predator UAV strike aircraft which supposedly crashed near the village of Jahayn near Lauder in Abyan province. Al Qaeda fighters are said to have intercepted the police and taken charge of the debris.
Doku Umarov, the emir of the Islamic Caucasus Emirate, claimed credit for the Jan. 24 suicide attack at an airport in Moscow that killed 35 people. “This special operation was carried out on my orders and, Allah willing, special operations like it will continue to be carried out,” Umarov said.
Doku Umarov, the emir of the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Caucasus Emirate, claimed the Jan. 24 suicide attack at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow that killed 35 people and wounded scores more.
The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in separate attacks in the south, a district governor in Khost, and a civilian in a suicide attack in Kandahar. Security forces killed one Taliban fighter and detained 10 more in Helmand and Parwan. Ten Taliban fighters surrendered in Kunduz.
Insurgents killed a policeman and a woman in a bombing in Babil. Security forces detained 18 wanted men in Basrah. Officials said 229 insurgents surrendered to the government since July 2010.