Qari Hussain Mehsud, the Taliban’s master trainer of suicide bombers, claimed the car bomb was intended to avenge the deaths of top al Qaeda and Taliban leaders in Pakistan and Iraq.
Forty Shabaab fighters and supporters were killed as a top military commander in Mogadishu spoke during prayer.
The “Asian Tigers” killed pro-Taliban and al Qaeda lawyer Khalid Khawaja after the Pakistani government failed to release top Afghan Taliban leaders.
A Pakistani intelligence official said Hakeemullah is alive, while the Pentagon believes he is no longer in control of the Taliban.
Fighters attacked a police outpost in North Waziristan, while a suicide bomber hit a police convoy in Peshawar.
Anwar al Awlaki said he was “proud” to have taught Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan and failed Christmas Day airline bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
Afghan officials said Mullah Yar Mohammad and two of his aides were killed in a Coalition airstrike in Kunduz province.
Predators hit a compound operated by a known Taliban commander. The strike is the second in North Waziristan in three days.
Al Qaeda in Iraq’s sharia minister is quoted in a statement released on the Internet six days after the raid occurred.
The strike took place near the Taliban and al Qaeda hub of Miramshah and is the first by the US in eight days.
The office of Iranian-backed anti-US cleric Muqtada al Sadr was the main target in Baghdad, while the homes of a judge and police officers were bombed outside of Ramadi. Iraqi forces detained al Qaeda’s military commander in Anbar.
The attack is a direct violation of the peace agreement between Hafiz Gul Bahadar and the government. The Taliban also executed four “US spies” in Miramshah.
Manaf Abdulrehim al Rawi had been appointed the emir of the Iraqi capital in 2008 by the recently slain leader of the Islamic State of Iraq. Rawi’s detention several weeks ago helped lead to the deaths of al Qaeda’s top two leaders in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al Masri and Abu Omar al Baghdadi.
The top spokesman for the Afghan Taliban and an unnamed commander denied any involvement in kidnapping Colonel Imam and Khalid Khawaja.
The death of the northern emir takes place two days after the two al Qaeda leaders in Iraq were killed in a raid near Tikrit.
The US military’s withdrawal from the Valley of Death sends the wrong signals to the Afghan people as preparations for further operations begin in the south, US military officers said. Al Qaeda has also been given a new sanctuary.
The blast took place in a bazaar as an Islamist political party carried out a protest. The suicide attack is the fourth in four days.
Abu Ayyub al Masri and Abu Omar al Baghdadi were killed during raids in the Thar Thar region. Also killed were a top aide to al Masri and Baghdadi’s son.
The Taiban want Mullah Kabir and Mansour Dadullah released in exchange for Colonel Imam and Khalid Khawaja. A US official described the situation as a “farce.”
The five Americans detained in Sargodha while trying to link up with al Qaeda were in contact with HUJI leader Qari Saifullah Akhtar.
The coordinated blasts took place in a camp for refugees fleeing the fighting in the Arakzai tribal agency.
Predators fired seven missiles at a Taliban compound and two cars in a town near Miramshah.
A look at the data shows a decrease in the number of top-tier terrorist leaders killed in US strikes in Pakistan since the beginning of 2010, after the suicide attack that targeted a CIA base in Afghanistan.
The leaders of the Al Akhtar Trust and the Al Rashid Trust continue to support the Taliban using their charitable fronts based in Karachi.
The leader of the Haqqani Network in eastern Afghanistan said the Taliban welcomes foreign fighters and that 90 percent of areas under his command are under Taliban control.
The Predators struck the Taliban’s car as they stopped to pray. The attack is the second in three days.
The powerful military commander spoke to the media and also denied that Hakeemullah Mehsud was dead. Qari Zia said he would concentrate his operations in eastern Afghanistan; ISAF has just pulled out of the Korengal Valley.
Najibullah Zazi plotted to carry out suicide attacks on crowded New York City trains. He had been recruited by al Qaeda’s external operations branch in Pakistan after he traveled there to fight with the Taliban.
Five civilians, five Philippine Marines, and a policeman were killed as Abu Sayyaf Group fighters attacked in the southern city. The brother of a known terror leader was among the four Abu Sayyaf Group fighters also killed.
The strike is the first in 13 days. A compound run by a local Taliban commander was hit in the attack.