The US State Department released its annual Country Reports on Terrorism yesterday. The report mentions Iran’s support of the Taliban and refusal to bring senior al Qaeda terrorists to justice.
The suicide bomber detonated his vest just as Friday prayers ended in a mosque in the Jamrud area of Khyber.
Four “militants” were killed in an area that previously served as a haven for Uzbek, Chechen, and Arab fighters.
A brazen midday attack on Israeli citizens and soldiers by Palestinian militants near the southern Red Sea resort town of Eilat has left eight dead and dozens injured in the worst attack the country has seen since 2008.
Embedded in Afghanistan: The search in Sabari district, Khost province, ended in a grenade attack that wounded six US soldiers.
The Taliban have expanded the insurgency in northern Afghanistan.
A fighter named Hafeed Salahuddin is said to have been killed in Waziristan with a small group of fighters. Also, Mounir Chouka, a German jihadist with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, may have been “seriously wounded” in a Predator strike.
The senior Haqqani Network commander is the shadow governor of Paktika province in Afghanistan, aids “foreign fighters,” plots attacks, and is behind the kidnapping of a US soldier.
The strike took place in Miramshah, the seat of power for the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network.
At a terrorist camp in Pakistan’s tribal areas, 10 young boys are seen on video undergoing firearms training.
Six suicide bombers launched a complex attack against the governor’s compound in Parwan province.
Mohmand emir Omar Khalid said the use of female suicide bombers “is part of our strategy and in war strategies keep on changing.”
The Taliban have used female suicide bombers in six attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan since June 2010.
Mullah Mohibullah and his team were hunted down and killed in an airstrike in Wardak province. His team was responsible for the Aug. 6 shootdown of a Chinook that killed 30 US troops, seven Afghan commandos, and an interpreter.
Twenty-one Haqqani Network fighters and “Arabs and Uzbek nationals” were killed near Miramshah.
An interview with Major General Daniel Allyn, the Commanding General of Regional Command East.
The spokesman for the terror group also said that foreign fighters continue to enter the country, and implored Sunnis to join al Qaeda.
The Taliban and an Afghan official claimed the Chinook was shot down as it left the scene of a raid in Wardak.
The Haqqani Network commander was the deputy operational leader in Paktia, and led more than 250 fighters, including Uzbeks.
The reduction of Coalition troops in Afghanistan drives major changes to ISAF’s military strategy.
The court’s ruling and a leaked threat assessment of Moath Hamza Ahmed al Alwi, who is held at Guantanamo, revealed that he was a member of al Qaeda’s elite 55th Arab Brigade. Al Alwi also allegedly received specialized training and was a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.
Four “militants” were killed. The strike took place outside of Miramshah, a stronghold of the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network.
The US is known to have carried out five airstrikes in Yemen this year.
The tape casts further doubt that Ilyas Kashmiri, a top al Qaeda leader, and Ustadh Ahmad Farooq, al Qaeda’s media emir and top ideologue in Pakistan, were killed in a Predator airstrike in early June.
The strike took place on the Afghan border and is the first in Pakistan’s tribal areas since July 12.
US citizen Omar Hammami is directly linked to al Qaeda, while Hassan Mahat Omar, a Kenyan cleric, is identified as a key ideological leader in Nairobi.
The suicide bomber hit a police station in Helmand’s provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, killing 10 policemen and a child.
A jihadist who shares the same name as Ayman al Zawahiri’s deputy and Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law is said to have been killed. As the martyrdom announcement was not released through official al Qaeda channels, the report is unconfirmed.
Hafiz Gul Bahadar’s spokesman said reports that Bahadar ordered Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan leader Hakeemullah Mehsud and others to leave the tribal agency were “fabricated.”
The US Treasury Department designated six al Qaeda members who work for a terror network based in Iran. One of the six leaders designated today was identified as al Qaeda’s “operations chief” earlier this month; he was also reported to be involved in plotting an attack set to coincide with the tenth anniversary of 9/11.