Shabaab claimed it killed 13 Kenyan soldiers in an attack on an airbase in Kismayo. Ethiopian troops have withdrawn from bases in Baidoa and turned over security to African Union forces. The Kenyan government denied a UN report that claimed Kenyan troops exported charcoal from Kismayo despite a UNSC ban.
A aide to Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan emir Hakeemullah Mehsud said that al Qaeda’s operational commander in Syria requested that the Taliban send fighters to wage jihad.
A leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed the Free Syrian Army is selling weapons to the terror group.
Afghan officials claimed that 20 Taliban fighters were killed during operations in Ghazni and Paktia. An Afghan soldier who killed a Slovakian soldier last week escaped from prison with the aid of his supervisor. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the east.
Terrorists killed 38 Iraqis in attacks throughout the country yesterday and nine more today. In one of the attacks today, a suicide bomber killed two soldiers in Kirkuk.
“A brigade of Mujahedeen from Burma, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan” purportedly have launched operations in Burma. Photographs of scores of armed jihadists in military uniforms have appeared on a jihadist website.
Many of the fighters are from the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan and the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, the anti-Shia terror group that serves as muscle for al Qaeda.
A member of the US-backed Supreme Military Council said that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant is “welcome if they help us fight the regime,” just days after the ISIL murdered a senior Free Syrian Army commander.
Two unidentified militants were killed while riding a motorcycle in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan. The strike is just the second in Pakistan this month.
Security forces killed 12 Pakistani Taliban fighters during a raid on a compound in Kandahar’s Arghistan district. Ten more Taliban fighters, including two “foreigners,” were killed in an airstrike in Logar.
Iraq’s foreign minister said that his country is unable to effectively halt Iranian arms transfers to Syria. The provincial government in Anbar rejected Iranian companies’ bids to build roads and schools.
A 24-hour deadline to turn over the al Qaeda commander has already passed. The FSA is using the incident to demand weapons from the West.
As the US and its NATO allies continue to draw down forces in Afghanistan and seek to negotiate a peace agreement with the Taliban, al Qaeda continues to highlight its operations in Afghanistan.
A suicide bomber killed three people in an attack at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Kabul. Three insurgent commanders were among eight people killed during fighting in Kunduz.
Al Qaeda in Iraq killed 31 people in an attack at a cafe in Kirkuk. Security forces captured four al Qaeda in Iraq fighters in Sharqat and an al Qaeda leader and two aides in Kirkuk.
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan has sent experts in warfare and information technology to Syria to establish a base, aid in joint operations, and monitor the fighting there.
The Taliban killed three civilians and two policemen in two separate IED attacks in Helmand province. The Obama administration’s top spokesman confirmed that the “zero option,” where no US troops would be stationed in Afghanistan after 2014, is still being considered.
Insurgents killed at least 44 Iraqis in a series of bombings and attacks in Baghdad, Anbar, Mosul, Tikrit, Kirkuk, and Muqdadiyah. Among those killed were 14 policemen and four Awakening fighters. Suicide attacks were carried out in Muqdadiyah and Mosul.
Six days before the Taliban opened their de facto embassy in Qatar, the group published a defense and justification of suicide bombings.
The 313 Brigade shares the same name as an al Qaeda military formation that is based in Pakistan.
The Taliban killed 17 women and children in an IED attack in Herat and gunned down a tribal leader in Uruzgan. A Slovakian soldier was killed and 3 more were wounded in an insider attack at Kandahar Air Field.
Insurgents killed two civilians in a bombing in Haqlaniyah and the spokesman for Mosul in a shooting in the city. Security forces captured an al Qaeda leader in Fallujah and eight members of a terrorist cell in Baghdad.
The military said that 14 Afghan soldiers were killed in attacks and bombings in Helmand, Kandahar, Paktika, Kabul, and Kunar. Security forces killed 18 Taliban fighters during a clash in Jawzjan province.
Four people were killed in a bombing in Lahore. An al Qaeda military commander, a Haqqani network leader, and two other jihadist leaders are reported to have been killed in the July 2 drone strike in North Waziristan.
The military claimed it killed al Qaeda in Iraq’s finance minister and three of his aides during an operation in Anbar province near the border with Syria. The al Qaeda finance minister was not named.
Three soldiers were killed in an IED attack in the capital of Sana’a. The government said that a reporter was arrested for threatening the prime minister, and accused him of being tied to al Qaeda.
A government official claimed that senior Shabaab leader Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansour is negotiating with the administration in Bakool after clashes there killed seven. Shabaab claimed it killed four Ugandan soldiers and that government troops are defecting.
Abu Saif al Jaziri is an al Qaeda “paramilitary commander”; Maulana Akhtar Zadran is from the same tribe as Mullah Sangeen, who works closely with al Qaeda and is thought to be holding the only US soldier who has been captured in Afghanistan.
A female suicide bomber killed 15 people and wounded 32 more in an attack outside a Shia mosque in Baghdad. Four more Iraqis were killed in a car bombing north of the capital.
In Uruzgan, a suicide bomber wearing a police uniform detonated at a dining facility, killing 12 policemen. In Kandahar, a suicide bomber killed a border police commander.