Security forces captured Issa Lokhanovich Khashagulgov, a leader of the Caucasus Emirate in Ingushetia. Kavkaz Center, the propaganda arm of the Caucasus Emirate, angrily responded to a fatwa issued by Sheikh Qaradawi that supported Chechen President Kadyrov.
Security forces killed Rakhmiddin Azizov, one of 25 terrorists who escaped from prison in Dushande in August, during a clash in Faizabad. Azizov reportedly stabbed two prison guards during the escape.
The Afghan Taliban offered to free a British woman aid worker in exchange for the release of al Qaeda operative Aafia Siddiqui, who was sentenced to 86 years in prison by a US court. General Petraeus said senior Taliban leaders are interested in reconciliation with the Afghan government.
For a long time, we here at The Long War Journal have noted that the US Predator air campaign in Pakistan has aimed not only at eliminating al Qaeda and Taliban senior leadership based in Pakistan, but has also focused, as a primary goal, on suppressing al Qaeda’s external operations. This LWJ report, from Sept. […]
Pakistan protested hot pursuit raids by NATO forces into the tribal areas. The US killed four Taliban fighters in a Predator strike in North Waziristan. The Pakistani military killed six Taliban fighters in Arakzai.
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Insurgents killed a policeman in Baghdad and a physician in Kirkuk. Security forces detained eight wanted men in Basrah. Iraq’s foreign minister wants the US to play an active role in settling the deadlock over choosing the next prime minister.
US forces killed 10 Haqqani Network fighters in Khost along the Pakistani border. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network members in Khost, Pakitka, Zabul, Ghazni, and Helmand. The Taliban killed a Polish soldier and denied kidnapping a British woman in Kunar.
Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca said some top Somali officials are members of Shabaab. The US military denied its helicopters carried out a strike on a Shabaab safehouse in the town of Merca yesterday. The US has announced it would improve ties with the semi-autonomous regions of Puntland and Somaliland.
ISAF would not confirm its attack helicopters pursued the Haqqani Network into Pakistani territory today, as happened twice over the weekend. More than 10 Haqqani Network fighters were reported killed in today’s clash.
The interior minister claimed that Saudi authorities have stopped 230 terror attacks in the country since 2003. “Saudi Arabia is tackling terrorism with all its might and authorities have so far been successful in foiling 230 of the 240 terrorist attempts,” Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz said.
A Hezbollah member of parliament said the terror group would defend itself against the UN tribunal investigating the death of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. “There will be no concessions when it comes to defending ourselves or facing false accusations and we have the absolute right to use what we see appropriate in that regard,” […]
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps crossed into Iraq to kill 30 “terrorists” behind the bombing of a military parade last week that killed 12 people. A court banned the Islamic Iran Participation Front and Islamic Revolution Mujahedeen Organization, two parties that support the opposition.
The Interior Ministry ordered security to be increased in the capital of Sa’ana and issued photos of eight wanted al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula suspects. President Saleh said Yemen is “committed to the war on terror.”
According to reports from the region, the US military in Afghanistan again followed the Taliban into Pakistan and killed fighters in Pakistani territory. US helicopters pounded Taliban fighters in the tribal agency of Kurram, killing five, according to Geo News: According to sources, two Nato helicopters violated the Pakistani border and shelled in Kurram Agency […]
The US struck again in territory run by “good Taliban” leader Hafiz Gul Bahadar. The strike is the third in three days and the 20th this month.
Doku Umarov, the leader of the Islamic Caucasus Emirate, al Qaeda’s affiliate in the Caucasus, from a videotape in which he took credit for the March 29 suicide attacks on the Moscow Metro. Via Kavkaz Center, the online propaganda arm of the Caucasus Emirate, Emir Doku Umarov lays bare the internal disputes within the terror […]
Caucasus Emirate emir Doku Umarov accused an Arab military commander named Muhannad of creating the discord among the terror group’s leaders. A policeman was killed in an attack in Ingushetia.
A suicide bomber killed three policemen near Fallujah. Insurgents killed two government officials in Baghdad and and two civilians in Mosul. Security forces detained 31 wanted men in Basrah, and four al Qaeda operatives in Diyala and a leader in Karbala.
US helos killed more than 30 Haqqani Network fighters while conducting hot pursuit from Khost province in Afghanistan into North Waziristan. The US killed seven Taliban fighters in strikes on a compound and a vehicle in North Waziristan. The Taliban torched two NATO fuel tankers in Mastung and Kalat.
The US targeted senior al Qaeda leaders in Kunar and Takhar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network members in Khost, Pakitka, Zabul, and Helmand. The Taliban killed two ISAF troops in the south.
Members of parliament backed President Ahmedinejad’s statements at the UN about the Sept. 11 attacks on the US. An MP said Iran would sue Russia if it did not deliver the S-300 missiles system; the defense minister said Iran would build a comparable system. The chief of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant confirmed it is […]
Security forces killed five al Qaeda fighters and detained 32 more during last week’s operation in Huta in Shabwa province. Security forces also detained four suspects in yesterday’s bombing that killed two intelligence officials in Sa’ana.
Seven “militants” were killed in attacks on a vehicle and a compound in Datta Khel. Ten of the last 18 strikes have hit targets in the Datta Khel area.
US attack helicopters pounded Haqqani Network fighters in North Waziristan after the terror group attacked an Afghan outpost in Khost.
The unnamed commander, who is associated with al Qaeda facilitators and extremists throughout the Middle East, coordinates the attacks of a group of Arab fighters in Kunar and Nuristan.
Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca, a moderate Sufi Islamist group, will no longer cooperate with the government after failing to receive cabinet positions. “We shall continue fighting against the al Shabaab and Hizbul Islam to keep our controlled areas peaceful,” the group’s spokesman said.
The US killed four “militants” in an airstrike in North Waziristan. Two people were killed after masked “gunmen” opened fire on a mosque in Bahawalpur. The Taliban killed a driver in an attack on NATO trucks in Kalat, and destroyed a NATO fuel truck in Khyber. A court acquitted three men accused of plotting the […]