An anti-Taliban tribal leader was killed in Kurram. Security forces killed two Taliban fighters in Swat; another was killed in a premature detonation in Kurram. A Taliban commander surrendered in Bajaur. The Taliban bombed a school in Mohmand.
Hizbul Islam leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys vowed to continue to wage jihad against Somali and African Union forces. A Shabaab leader urged women to send their sons to wage jihad in Mogadishu. The president of Puntland declared victory over Shabaab forces under the command of Mohamed Said Atom.
Security forces killed and captured Taliban and Haqqani Network leaders and fighters Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Khost, Paktia, and Nangarhar. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south.
The commander led a cell of approximately 50 foreign fighters in the central province of Wardak.
Thirty Iraqis were killed and 75 more were wounded in a series of 13 bombings in Shia areas in Baghdad. Three security officials and a captured al Qaeda commander were killed in an IED attack in Saadiya. An Awakening officer was killed in a shooting in Kirkuk.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is shopping for weapons in Chad and “laundering money” by buying “large tracts of land and villas in Niger, Mali, and Mauritania.” AQIM is using money obtained in illegal activities, including millions from the ransoming of European hostages.
A Yemeni court charged US born al Qaeda cleric Anwar al Awlaki, and his cousin Othman al Awlaki, with “plotting and incitement to murder foreigners.” Security forces launched an operation in the provinces of Maarib and Shabwa to find al Qaeda operative Ibrahim al Asiri, who is suspected of manufacturing the parcel bombs.
The Washington Post reported that Yemenis and Egyptians were involved in the deadly massacre at a Christian church in Baghdad that resulted in the deaths of at least 52 people: An Iraqi official said Monday that investigators had found at the scene three Yemeni and two Egyptian passports thought to have belonged to the suicide […]
The Pakistani military often claims success in a tribal agency, only to have the facts on the ground contradict such statements. Recent events in Arakzai are a good example of this. In the tribal agency of Arakzai, the Pakistani Taliban flogged 65 men in public who had been accused of dealing drugs, after making announcements […]
The US killed six “militants” in a Predator strike in Pakistan. A suicide bomber killed two policemen in Swabi. Three Taliban commanders were killed in Swat. The brother of Baitullah Mehsud was murdered in North Waziristan.
The Taliban overran a district center in Ghazni, while the police force defected. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in the south. Security forces killed and captured Taliban and Haqqani Network leaders and fighters Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Khost, and Paktia.
Al Qaeda in Iraq killed 52 people, including two priests and 10 Iraqi policemen, in an attack on a church in Baghdad. Security forces killed a suicide bomber in Irbil and detained 23 wanted men in Basrah and four al Qaeda fighters in Wasit.
The Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaeda’s front organization, claimed credit for last night’s massacre at a Baghdad church that killed 52 Iraqis. Iraqi troops stormed the church. Al Qaeda was seeking the release of Muslim women in Egypt.
An al Qaeda suicide assault team was killed by Iraqi security forces after taking control of a church in the Iraqi capital. Three Yemenis and two Egyptians are believed to have carried out the attack.
The Union of Communities in Kurdistan denied that its ally, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) carried out yesterday’s suicide attack in Istanbul that wounded 15 policemen and 17 civilians. The PKK is the primary suspect in the suicide attack.
While much of the attention of ISAF and Afghan forces has focused on the provinces of Helmand and Kandahar in the south, the provinces of Ghazni and Zabul remain Taliban strongholds in the southeast. Last night, the Taliban overran the poorly defended Khogyani district center in Ghazni province, and then abandoned it hours later when […]
The Germans were members of the Islamic Jihad Group. An operational commander, a financier, and an expert bomb maker were among those reported killed.
Obama administration officials are pushing for the CIA to take control of US special operations forces and step up covert operations in Yemen. The Yemeni government downplayed the al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula terrorism plot that involved bombs placed on cargo aircraft.
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Jabber al Fayfi reportedly provided the information that led to the discovery of the al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula terrorism plot that involved bombs placed on cargo aircraft. Fayfi was transferred from Yemen to Saudi Arabia two weeks ago.
Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, a Somali-American, was sworn in as the country’s new prime minister. Fifteen people were killed in fighting between Shabaab and Somali and African Union forces in Mogadishu.
Two missiles were fired into a compound that had “become a hub of militants’ movement” in North Waziristan.
ISAF estimated 78 Haqqani Network fighters were killed in yesterday’s assault on a US combat outpost in Paktika. Seventeen more Taliban fighters were killed in the Baramcha operation. Security forces killed a senior Taliban leader in Zabul and detained another in Kandahar. The Taliban killed three Afghans in Kandahar and a British soldier in Helmand. […]
Insurgents killed six policemen and an Awakening leader in Baghdad, and a security guard for a political party in Baqubah. Security forces arrested 23 wanted men in Karbala and an al Qaeda “prince” in Khanaqin.
A suicide bomber at a central square in Istanbul wounded 15 police officers and 17 civilians. A second, undetonated bomb was found near the attack. Authorities believe the radical Kurdistan Workers Party carried out the attack, as a truce with the group expired today.
Ibrahim Hassan al Asiri, a wanted al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operative from Saudi Arabia, is believed to have built one of the bombs in the parcel bomb plot uncovered two days ago. Hanan Al-Samawi, a female engineering student at Sana’a University, and her mother were detained by Yemeni police in connection to the […]
Yesterday’s attack on Combat Outpost Margah resulted in the deaths of an estimated 78 Haqqani Network fighters. The assault shows the Haqqani Network remains robust despite heavy targeting by special operations forces.
Security forces dismantled two al Qaeda-linked cells. One cell recruited jihadis to fight in Iraq, and the other, the Front of the Saharawi Jihad, plotted terrorist attacks in support of independence for Western Sahara.
Two of three men arrested yesterday in connection to a bomb threat in central Gothenburg remain in custody. The security level remains elevated and police are working closely with Sweden’s Security Service.
The Taliban killed two Pakistani soldiers in North Waziristan. A senior Taliban commander was murdered in Karachi. Security forces detained a man carrying more than 120 pounds of explosives in Mansehra.
Nigerian Muslim militant group warns of imminent attack