The Pakistani military has cut off the Shia, anti-Taliban Turi tribe from any remaining support it may have received from neighboring Afghanistan. The BBC reports: The blockade comes amid reports that the Turis have once again refused to allow the militants to enter Afghanistan via Kurram. The Taliban have been trying to launch operations around […]
Iran has begun loading nuclear fuel into the core of the Bushehr reactor. The Bushehr plant will be connected to Iran’s electrical grid by February, officials said.
The Taliban killed a district police chief and three policemen in an IED attack in Herat province. Security forces killed an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander who doubled as a Taliban district shadow governor in Takhar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Helmand, Logar, and Paktia.
Security forces killed three Islamist fighters and detained one more during operations in the Rasht Valley. Tajik President Emomali Rahmon denied the Taliban are involved in fighting in the Rasht Valley and said the situation is under control.
Insurgents killed seven Iraqi soldiers and seven civilians in separate attacks in Khalis, Kirkuk, Baghdad, and Mosul. An undersecretary in the planning ministry dodged an assassination attempt. Tariq Aziz, Saddam Hussein’s foreign minister, has been sentenced to death by hanging.
Ten people were killed in clashes between government forces and Shabaab in Mogadishu. Shabaab said the Mustafa Abu Yazid Brigade killed several Somali troops during the fighting. Gunmen assassinated two prominent clerics in Adado.
Police defused a bomb planted outside a concert hall in Grozny in Chechnya. Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said he should be given more latitude from Russia in battling the Caucasus Emirate. Islamist fighters are primarily using weapons taken from military depots.
Fifteen al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters surrendered to the governor of Abyan. The government claimed the Awalik mountain range is free of AQAP influence. A Yemen journalist is on trial for links to AQAP cleric Anwar al Awlaki.
Qari Mahmad Umar, a shadow district governor in Takhar, was also a senior leader in the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Five people were killed in a bombing at a Sufi shrine in Pakpattan. Three people were killed in an IED attack in Arakzai. The military sealed the border between Kurram and Afghanistan. Two suicide bombers were detained in Karachi.
Insurgents killed two people in a bombing at a hospital in Mosul and assassinated a senior electricity ministry official in Baghdad. Security forces detained seven wanted men in Basrah and three more in Kirkuk.
President Karzai admitted to receiving “bags of money” from Iran and other countries but insisted the payments were legitimate aid. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Khost, Paktika, and Badghis. The Taliban killed three civilians and a policeman in a suicide attack in Khost, […]
Security forces in Aden discovered a bomb consisting of 1,800 grams of TNT which was placed near the Al Wahdah stadium, where a soccer tournament is to be held. The information minister claimed that “al Qaeda in Yemen is dying.”
A suicide bomber killed a policeman in an attack in Dagestan on Saturday. Five Islamist fighters were also killed in a shootout with police in Dagestan. Five people were wounded in a bombing in Ingushetia.
A remotely triggered bomb was detonated this morning at a Sufi and Hindu shrine in the city of Pakpattan in Punjab province.
Security forces killed 17 Taliban fighters in Swat and Arakzai. The Taliban bombed two schools in Bajaur and torched two NATO trucks in Khuzdar.
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Logar, and Kunar. The Taliban killed a Danish soldier in the south.
Twenty people were killed in clashes between Shabaab fighters and government forces in the Boondere district north of Mogadishu. Shabaab commander Mohammed Said Atom is believed to be hiding in Somaliland after Puntland forces attacked his bases in the Galgala mountains.
A Texas court sentenced Adan Mirza, a Pakistani national, to 15 years in jail for aiding and supporting the Taliban and the illegal possession of weapons. Mizra, who was in the US on a student visa, also trained to wage jihad with a group of others.
The government said the Awlaki tribe has agreed to cooperate in expelling al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula from Shabwa province and has launched an operation in the Said district. The foreign minister claimed there are 400 AQAP fighters in Yemen and the government is hunting them.
Anwar al Awlaki, the US-born cleric and recruiter for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, appeared on a short videotape produced by the Al Malahim Foundation, AQAP’s propaganda arm. Awlaki urged Muslims to wage jihad and criticized “the Yemeni corrupt religious scholars who are run by the government or political opposition parties.”
Feda Hussein Maliki, Iran’s ambassador to Afghanistan, has passed along millions of dollars in bribes to Umar Daudzai, Afghan President Hamid Karzai™s chief of staff, in an effort “to advance Iranian interests.” Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei lauded the Basij for “defusing complex enemy plots during the post-vote unrest.”
Adam Gadahn, the American-born al Qaeda spokesman, urged Western Muslims to carry out terror attacks. “To my Muslim brothers residing in the states of the Zio-Crusader coalition … know that Jihad is your duty as well,” Gadahn said on a propaganda tape.
The Pakistani military killed 12 Taliban fighters in helicopter strikes in Arakzai. General Wyne, the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, said the Taliban’s network has been broken and the group is on the verge of defeat.
Insurgents killed four soldiers and a policeman in bombings in Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, and Mosul. An insurgent died in a premature detonation in Amarah. Security forces detained 14 wanted men in Mosul.
Sheikh Abu Mukhtar Robow (left) and Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan (faced covered) in a propaganda video acquired by The Long War Journal. Remember those reports from a few weeks back which claimed that Shabaab was in disarray as Sheikh Abu Mukhtar Robow, the terror group’s deputy leader, split from the group and pulled his forces […]
Senior Shabaab leaders Ali Mohamad Rage and Sheikh Muktar Robow sponsored a Shabaab parade of thousands of fighters in the capital of Mogadishu. Robow said Shabaab would avenge the death of Mustaf Abu Yazid, the top al Qaeda leader and financier killed in a US predator strike in May 2010.
A four-man Taliban suicide assault team was killed after breaking into a UN compound in Herat. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Khost, Paktika, and Kunar.
Afghan police and security guards defeated the attack after three members of the Taliban team were able to enter the compound.
Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said UN sanctions are dead. The Iranian representative to the UN urged all nations to disarm their nuclear weapons. Security forces detained four Jundallah members involved in the July mosque bombing in Zahedan.