Canada
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating a report that several Canadians are among Westerners training with al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal areas. The report named eight of the 12 Canadians said to be in North Waziristan.
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Afghanistan
The Taliban killed nine civilians in Baghlan and six more in Kandahar. Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in in Helmand and Kabul. Ten Taliban fighters surrendered in Faryab.
Somalia
“Foreign troops” helped capture five “terrorists” in Burao in Somaliland. Shabaab has blocked the roads to the Bakara market in Mogadishu.
Iran
The chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps air defense units claimed that two US unmanned military aircraft were shot down outside of Iranian airspace. Afghans protested outside the Iranian consulate in Herat to vent anger at the cutoff of fuel.
Lebanon
Hezbollah will not support Prime Saad Hariri in his bid to remain prime minister after toppling his government. Hezbollah attacked Hariri, accusing him of being an “American-Israeli project.”
Taliban attack NATO fuel trucks in Baluchistan
The Pakistani Taliban admitted to destroying 16 NATO fuel tankers yesterday in the Dera Murad Jamali area in the southwestern province of Baluchistan. From NDTV: Pakistani Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq in a phone call to AFP claimed responsibility for the attack. “It is in retaliation to drone attacks in tribal areas,” Tariq said from an […]
Pakistan
The Taliban claimed it carried out the attack on 16 NATO fuel tankers in Baluchistan. Five Taliban fighters were killed in a landmine explosion in Arakzai.
Afghanistan
The Taliban executed a policeman in Uruzgan and three civilians in Daykundi. A US Marine killed a policeman in Helmand. Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Kandahar, Wardak, and Khost.
Russia
Four people were killed in a bombing at a cafe in the city of Khasavyurt in Dagestan. Security forces killed 90 “gunmen” in Chechnya during 2010, the republic’s interior minister claimed.
Iraq
Two Iraqi soldiers killed two US troops during training in Mosul. Insurgents killed a US soldier in central Iraq and a policeman in Baghdad.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula planned to add poison to a bomb that was used in an assassination attempt that targeted a deputy Saudi interior minister, according to Jaber al Faifi, a member of the terror group. Faifi claimed the poison “can within seconds kill any person wounded by such an explosion.”
Iran
The commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps naval forces said he would display the remains of two US spy planes he claimed were shot down. Iran’s nuclear energy chief said the country’s nuclear program has not been impacted by sanctions and enrichment of uranium was proceeding.
Pakistan
Security forces killed 21 Taliban fighters in Arakzai and Kurram. The Taliban killed a policewoman and five relatives in Bannu, and destroyed 20 NATO fuel tankers in Baluchistan. Five people in North Waziristan were killed by a mortar fired from Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
The Taliban executed seven taxi drivers, who were accused of spying, by making them drive over an IED in Zabul. Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Helmand and Kandahar.
Iraq
Thirteen al Qaeda fighters escaped from a prison in Basrah. Insurgents killed a jeweler in Baghdad and a policeman in Mosul. Security forces detained 11 wanted men in in Diyala.
Somalia
One person was killed during fighting between Shabaab and government forces in Mogadishu. Shabaab is forcing women to attend public gatherings to listen to Shabaab preach jihad.
Morocco
The government may prosecute five border guards for aiding al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. The guards are accused of helping smuggle weapons to a 27-man-strong AQIM cell whose members were recently detained.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Abu Musab Abduwadoud, the leader of a Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, issued a message of support to Tunisians and asked them to fight alongside the terror group. “Send your sons to us to train on weapons and gain military expertise,” he said in a statement released on jihadist forums.
Pakistan
The Taliban killed four policemen in IED attacks in Bannu and Khyber. Security forces killed seven Taliban fighters in Arakzai. Seventeen people, including a journalist, were killed in Karachi. Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed wants the government to defend him in a US court.
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Helmand, Khost, and Nangarhar. The Taliban killed two civilians, including a child, in Helmand. Three Taliban fighters died in a premature detonation in Faryab.
Iraq
Insurgents killed two civilians in three bombings in Baghdad. Security forces detained 24 wanted men in Basrah and Kirkuk, and discovered an IED factory near Mosul.
Algeria
A court sentenced to death Abdelmalek Droukdel, the leader of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and 15 other members of the terror group. Five other leaders were among those sentenced in absentia.
Somalia
Prime Minister Mohamed said 8,000 troops will soon launch an offensive against Shabaab. Shabaab and businessmen in Bu’ale are at odds over Shabaab’s policies. A Puntland court sentenced one policeman to death and two others to life in prison.
Niger
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed it is responsible for the kidnapping of two Frenchman in the capital of Niamey. The two men were killed during a raid by French commandos along the Niger-Mali border.
Turkistan Islamic Party
The Turkistan Islamic Party announced the death of Shaykh Qurban Ata in a February 2010 airstrike in Badghis province in Afghanistan. Ata was a Chinese Uighur who was 71 years old when he was killed.
Turkistan Islamic Party identifies senior leader killed in Afghanistan
Shaykh Qurban Ata was a Chinese Uighur who was killed in the February 2010 airstrike in Badghis province.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed five ISAF soldiers in separate attacks in the south and east. A Taliban suicide bomber killed an intelligence official and a civilian in Kabul. Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Zabul, Paktia, Logar, and Nangarhar.
Pakistan
A Taliban suicide bomber killed six policemen and 14 civilians in an attack on a police station in Bannu. The Taliban killed two women in an IED attack in Peshawar. US Predators killed four “foreigners” in North Waziristan.
Iraq
Insurgents killed a policeman in Mosul and Baghdad. Security forces detained 12 wanted men in Basrah, nine insurgents in Kirkuk, two forgers in Ramadi, and an Awakening official in Babil.
Somalia
A Shabaab official in Mogadishu said the terror group would continue to prevent foreign aid agencies from delivering food and other supplies. Shabaab has banned women from working at the seaport in Kismayo.