Yasir was involved in the Aug. 8 suicide attack in Asadabad, Kunar, that killed a command sergeant major and two staff officers for the 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, and a USAID foreign service officer.
The Taliban reportedly gathered in Chapah Darah district to conduct a public execution when they were targeted in an airstrike. A second strike in Watahpur, a known haven for al Qaeda and the Lashkar-e-Taiba, killed “many” insurgents, including foreigners.
ISAF said the al Qaeda-associated insurgent “coordinates the movement of al Qaeda terrorists throughout the region.”
The pair of suicide bombers hit Western soldiers as they were going to a meeting of the provincial council.
Mansur al Harbi runs an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, and helps foreign fighters enter the country. He has close ties to top al Qaeda leaders, including Saif al Adel.
Mufti Assad, the emir for Kunar, and his deputy, Yusuf, were killed in the Aug. 3 airstrike in the Watahpur district. Both al Qaeda leaders were Pakistani citizens. Fatah Gul, an al Qaeda facilitator who ran training camps, was killed in a separate strike.
Several “al Qaeda associated insurgents” were killed in the airstrike in the Watahpur district in Kunar, where two al Qaeda and two Lashkar-eTaiba leaders have been killed since the end of May.
Spanish authorities announced the arrests of three suspected al Qaeda operatives who had allegedly amassed enough explosives to destroy a bus, or do even more damage.
The Haqqani Network cell was planning to take over a high-rise building in Kabul. Three trucks packed with explosives, suicide vests, and weapons were seized during the raid.
During testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security on July 25, National Counterterrorism Center director Matthew Olsen provided his organization’s view of the ongoing fight against al Qaeda and its affiliates.
Kanjar, an insurgent leader affiliated with both the Taliban and al Qaeda, was killed during a raid in the Waygal district.
The Islamic State of Iraq said the offensive was launched “in application of the directives of Sheikh Mujahid Abu Bakr al Baghdadi,” the terror group’s emir.
While the Obama administration has hailed the reopening of NATO’s supply lines into Afghanistan as a major success, the prevailing dynamic of the deal is Pakistan’s continuing duality in supporting the US’s enemies while taking its money to fight them.
The emir of the Al Badar Mujahideen said his group is waging jihad in both Afghanistan and Kashmir, and the leader of Hizbul Mujahideen said his group’s jihad is against the US and its allies.
The Jamaat-ud-Dawa, a terrorist organization headed by Hafiz Saeed, played a leading role in today’s Defense of Pakistan Council march protesting the reopening of NATO’s supply lines into Afghanistan.
Ammar died in the same airstrike on July 1 that also killed Khatab Shafiq, a Pakistani citizen who served as Lashkar-e-Taiba’s leader for Kunar province.
Taliban spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan called the government’s closure of the supply lines an orchestrated “drama” and challenged the so-called Defense of Pakistan alliance to take action.
ISAF confirmed that Hanzallah was killed in the July 1 airstrike in Watahpur. He is the third senior al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba leader killed in the district in the past five weeks.
The man suspected of being a key facilitator for the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks has reportedly told authorities that the attackers were trained by al Qaeda operatives.
ISAF has conducted three airstrikes against al Qaeda leaders in the Watahpur district in Kunar over the past five weeks. Two of the strikes killed al Qaeda’s second in command in Afghanistan, and Lashkar-e-Taiba’s senior leader in Kunar.
ISAF killed the Lashkar-e-Taiba’s leader in Kunar and several insurgents in an airstrike in the province. The Taliban killed four civilians and two policemen in bombings in Helmand and Paktia, and poisoned 53 schoolgirls in Sar-i-Pul.
Saudi authorities arrested Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari, a key operative in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, earlier this month. Ansari has reportedly implicated Pakistani officials in the attacks.
Indian authorities arrested Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari, one of the Pakistan-based handlers of the Lashkar-e-Taiba assault team that conducted the 2008 Mumbai attacks. After a three-year manhunt, Ansari, a.k.a. Abu Hamza and Abu Jindal, was found in Saudi Arabia, where he was recruiting for new attacks.
Musa supported both al Qaeda and the Taliban in the Waygal district in Nuristan. The airstrike also killed “numerous other insurgents.”
Taliban fighters executed a fellow commander in Parwan province following accusations he had an “illicit relationship” with a local woman. In Nangarhar province, suspected insurgents detonated a music CD stall in Jalalabad City.
The Taliban took control of an upscale hotel at a lake on the outskirts of Kabul for 12 hours before Afghan commandos killed the members of the suicide assault team.
The Taliban commanders killed in Nangarhar “facilitated the movement of foreign fighters across the border from Pakistan into Afghanistan.” The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander was involved in the kidnapping of four aid workers in Badakhshan.
“Polio campaigns are also used to spy for America against the mujahideen (holy warriors), one example of which is Dr. Shakil Afridi,” a statement released by Hafiz Gul Bahadar said.
Shabaab emir Sheikh Mukhtar Abu Zubayr’s reward of $7 million puts him at number six on the Rewards for Justice list of wanted terrorists.
The al Qaeda facilitator, who was based in Takhar province, “served as a financier and liaison between al Qaeda leaders,” according to ISAF.