The Interior Ministry claimed it killed 37 Taliban fighters during operations throughout the country. Six security personnel and six Taliban fighters were killed during clashes in Kunduz. The Taliban killed five civilians in Nangarhar. The Taliban claimed that 65 security personnel joined their ranks in Nuristan and Sar-i-Pul.
The Iraqi military claimed yet again that it liberated Jurf al Sakhar and killed 140 Islamic State fighters. Kurdish officials claimed to have retaken Zumar; the Kurds previously claimed to have liberated Zumar on Aug. 10. An Islamic State suicide bomber killed seven Iraqi soldiers in Taji. The US launched 22 airstrikes against the Islamic […]
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula reportedly beat back the Shiite Houthi rebels’ advance on the city of Rada’a in the central province of Baydah. Thirty Houthis and 18 AQAP fighters are reported to have been killed. AQAP claimed it captured 12 Houthi fighters and six armored vehicles. US drones killed three AQAP operatives near […]
The strike took place in Baydah, where al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is battling Shiite Houthi rebels for control of the central province.
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Iraqi military officials claimed an Afghan was among 135 Islamic State fighters killed in an Iraqi airstrike in Baiji. Officials also claimed 27 Islamic State fighters were killed in Sinjar and 32 more while attacking Amriyat al Fallujah. The US launched 12 airstrikes against the Islamic State near the Mosul Dam.
One of the districts was the location of the shoot down of a US helicopter that resulted in the deaths of 31 special operations personnel, including 17 US Navy SEALs, in 2011.
The Pakistani military claimed it killed 30 Taliban fighters, including a commander named Daud Matta, in airstrikes in North Waziristan. The US added South Waziristan Taliban commander Khan Said to the list of global terrorists. The Taliban in Bajaur threatened polio vaccination workers. The Taliban in Khyber threatened to destroy the homes of tribesmen who […]
The Taliban killed four soldiers in an IED attack in Kabul. The Ministry of Defense said that 950 soldiers were killed while fighting the Taliban in the past six months. The military claimed it killed 38 Taliban fighters during operations in Kandahar. Last year, poppy cultivation in Afghanistan reached an all-time high.
The Islamic State killed 18 Iraqis in three IED attacks in Baghdad. Yesterday, the Islamic State launched a series of attacks against Kurdish forces in northern Iraq, including a suicide bombing that killed six Peshmerga near the Mosul Dam, and killed 15 more people in car bombings in Karbala. The US launched three airstrikes against […]
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The US reportedly killed Abu Bara al Kuwaiti, a leader in al Qaeda’s General Command, in an airstrike in Nangarhar province. Abu Bara was at the home of Abdul Samad Khanjari, al Qaeda’s military commander in the province. The Taliban denied that Anas Haqqani and Anas Haqqani and Qari Abdul Rasheed Omari were members of […]
An Islamic State suicide bomber killed an Iraqi Army brigade commander and two aides in Amriyat al Fallujah. The police chief for Salahaddin province was wounded in an IED attack. Another Islamic State suicide bomber killed 18 people at a Shia mosque in Baghdad. The US launched 10 airstrikes against the Islamic State in Fallujah, […]
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The group said “Shahidullah Shahid” is a nom de guerre used by all spokesmen and that former spokesman Shaykh Maqbool was not a member of the group when he defected.
Abu Bara al Kuwaiti is a member of al Qaeda’s General Command and was mentored by Atiyah Allah. The US killed Abu Bara in Nangarhar province, yet another indicator that al Qaeda is not confined to Kunar and Nuristan.
Jihadists killed six Egyptian security personnel in an IED attack in Al Arish in the Sinai Peninsula. The attack took place in the same area where two policemen were killed in an ambush with RPGs three days ago.
A town in the key northern Baghdad belt has fallen back under control of the Islamic State.
Afghanistan’s intelligence service captured Haqqani Network leaders Anis Haqqani and Hafiz Rashid during a raid on Oct. 14. Anis is the son of the group’s emir, and Rashid is a senior military commander. Security forces killed an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander in Takhar. The military claimed it killed 39 Taliban fighters in Nangarhar and […]