Afghan Taliban suicide team kills ISAF soldier in assault on base
The suicide assault that targeted an Afghan and Coalition base in Kandahar’s Zhari district is the second such attack in Afghanistan in four days.
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Taliban attack Pakistani military in Rawalpindi, Bannu
Thirty-three security personnel and five civilians were killed in the two suicide attacks. Meanwhile the Pakistani Taliban extend the olive branch.
Pakistan
The Taliban killed 20 Frontier Corps personnel and wounded 30 more in a suicide attack that targeted a military convoy in Bannu. Eight people were killed in an explosion at a bazaar near Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed three policemen and two soldiers in Sar-i-Pul, Kandahar, and Uruzgan, and three civilians in Helmand. The Taliban denounced the US’s offer of peace talks. President Karzai said the US must end airstrikes in Afghanistan before the Bilateral Security Agreement is signed.
Iraq
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed four policemen east of Tikrit and two more north of the city, seven civilians in Tuz, five Awakening fighters in Baqubah, and a civilian in Kirkuk. The government announced that it is going on the offensive to eject the ISIS from Ramadi.
Islamic Caucasus Emirate claims suicide bombings in southern Russia
The emir of the “Mujahid Subversive Group of Ansar al Sunnah” said its suicide bombers attacked transportation targets in Volgograd at the end of last year. He also said the group has sworn allegiance to Doku Umarov.
Afghan Taliban reject US call for peace talks
Zabihullah Mujahid rejected the US’ call for the group to “put down their arms and begin peace talks,” a request that was made just one day after a Taliban suicide assault team killed 21 people, including two Americans, at a restaurant in Kabul.
Afghanistan
A Taliban suicide assault team killed 21 people, including 13 foreigners, in an attack at a restaurant in Kabul yesterday. The Taliban said the suicide assault was carried out to avenge a raid in Parwan. The Taliban killed four border policemen in Khost, three soccer players in Kandahar, and an intelligence officer in Uruzgan. The […]
Iraq
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed a soldier near Mosul and three civilians in Tikrit, and bombed two police stations in Fallujah. Abdullah al Janabi has retured to Fallujah. Security forces accidentally killed two civilians during shelling in Fallujah, and captured an ISIS leader in Kirkuk.
Yemen
An Iranian diplomat was killed after resisting a kidnapping attempt in the capital of Sana’a. The military killed a pregnant woman and her two daughters during shelling in Dhale.
Abdullah al Janabi openly preaches in Fallujah mosque
The former head of al Qaeda’s Mujahideen Shura Council in Fallujah has returned to impose Taliban-like rule, just as he did in 2004.
Taliban say Kabul suicide assault was response to ISAF raid in Parwan
The Jan. 15 raid in Parwan targeted Qari Nazar Gul, a senior Taliban leader who is involved in attacks in Kabul. The Taliban claim that the raid killed and wounded “mostly defenseless women and children.”
Iraq
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed an Awakening leader and his son in Tikrit, five Awakening fighters in a suicide attack in Ramadi, and a soldier in Mosul. Security forces killed two ISIS fighters as they attacked a military checkpoint north of Baghdad.
Taliban suicide assault team targets foreigners in Kabul
Fourteen people, including the International Monetary Fund’s representative to Afghanistan, are reported to have been killed in the attack on a restaurant in a secured area of the capital.
Yemen
Five people were killed after tribesmen clashed with the military in Dhale province. Twenty civilians were reported to have been wounded in the fighting. The military killed civilians in the province in December 2012 while shelling an unknown target.
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Afghanistan
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Afghan, US forces target Haqqani-linked Taliban leader in Parwan
Qari Nazar Gul, the deputy shadow governor for Parwan province, is linked to the Haqqani Network and “transports weapons, fighters and suicide bombers” into Parwan and Kabul. Ten Taliban fighters, a US Special Forces soldier, and two civilians were killed during the raid.
Afghanistan
Ten Taliban fighters, an ISAF soldier, and two civilians were killed after Afghan and Coalition forces targeted a Haqqani Network-linked Taliban commander in Parwan province. President Karzai claimed ISAF killed seven children during the Parwan clash. Security forces killed four Taliban fighters in Herat.
Iraq
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham executed 14 people after kidnapping them in Tarmiyah, killed three people in IED attacks in Baqubah, and killed two more people in bombings south of Baghdad. Security forces killed four ISIS fighters in Khalidiyah, three in Saqlawiya, and three more near Baghdad. The military accidentally killed six […]
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula sent a suicide assault team to attack Yemeni military bases in Rada’a in Al Baydah province. Ten Yemeni soldiers and one suicide bomber were killed in the attacks. AQAP overran one base and seized three armored personnel carriers.
AQAP overruns Yemeni army base, seizes armored vehicles
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters attacked military bases in Rada’a in central Yemen, where the group has remained entrenched.
Al Nusrah Front suicide bomber kills 5 in attack on Hezbollah
AL Qaeda-affiliated groups are stepping up attacks on Hezbollah and Iranian interests in Lebanon as the Syrian civil war rages.
Afghanistan
One Taliban fighter and one policeman were killed during a clash in Sar-i-Pul. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in a firefight in the east. The Taliban are circulating a video of the only US soldier in their custody. The US inspector general said the counternarcotics effort is failing.
Iraq
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed 52 people in a series of bombings and attacks in Baghdad and Baqubah. The ISIS also killed three policemen in Tikrit. Security forces killed an ISIS emir and an aide in Baqubah. Awakening fighters killed two suicide bombers and an ISIS fighter in Tikrit.
US drone strike accidentally kills civilian in eastern Yemen
Five of the past six strikes in Yemen have taken place in Hadramout, a province where al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is known to operate.
Afghanistan
Security guards killed a suicide bomber in Kabul. Three Afghan Local Police officers were stabbed to death by the Taliban with the help of their colleagues. Seven of the 88 prisoners that the government wants to free from Bagram are involved in green-on-blue attacks. Twenty Taliban fighters reconciled with the government in Baghlan.
Iraq
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed nine people, including three policemen, in Baghdad; two policemen and an Awakening fighter south of Baghdad; a judge and his driver north of the capital; four soldiers in Baiji; and a soldier in Ramadi. Security forces killed 21 ISIS fighters in Ramadi, six in Abu Ghraib, […]
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula gunned down a Yemeni army colonel in Hadramout province. A Salafist spokesman claimed that 210 people have been killed during fighting between his group and Shia Houthis.
7 Afghans involved in green-on-blue attacks may be freed
ISAF confirmed that at least seven of the 88 prisoners at Bagram that the Afghan government plans on releasing were involved in attacks that killed Coalition forces.