Taliban suicide bomber kills 12 in Peshawar
Meanwhile, the Pakistani government continues to claim it has “broken [the] Taliban’s back.”
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Initial security impressions: Panjwai
Long War Journal correspondent Bill Ardolino is currently embedded with US soldiers from the 4-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team in Panjwai, Afghanistan.
Latest IMU capture indicates resiliency of terror group in Afghanistan
Raids against the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and al Qaeda have taken place consistently for years. Can Afghan forces maintain the tempo as NATO takes a backseat in Afghanistan?
Taliban suicide assault team strikes police HQ in eastern Afghanistan
Five policemen and eight Taliban fighters were killed after the suicide assault team penetrated security at the Quick Reaction Force headquarters in Jalalabad.
Iran
Pakistan as a global leader in Islamic banking and finance
Jamaat-e-Islami
Pakistan – Rise of the Right: JI, JUI-F ‘warm up’ in search of common ground
United States
The US is expanding the role of the CIA in Syria by providing actionable intelligence to rebel groups that have been vetted by the CIA. The US is attempting to bolster non-jihadist rebel forces amid increasing concern that the Al Nusrah Front in Syria is working closely with al Qaeda’s central leadership in Pakistan. The […]
Senior pro-Assad Sunni cleric killed in Damascus suicide attack
Syrian “activists” say that the “deeply religious” rebels are incapable of conducting an attack in a mosque, but this ignores scores of suicide attacks and bombings in mosques by al Qaeda and its allies over the past decade.
United States
A recently disclosed document seized from Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, reveals that as of March 2010 al Qaeda had detailed plans for attacking critical infrastructure and economic targets in the US and Europe. The US and the UN both added the Malian Islamist group Ansar Dine, which has links to al Qaeda, […]
Suicide bombers kill 22 people in Nigeria
A pair of suicide bombers from either Boko Haram or Ansar al-Muslimeen in the Land of Black Africans targeted Christians at a bus terminal in Kano.
Egypt
Pakistan, Egypt to strengthen relations
Al Qaeda
Controversial weapon Pakistan seeks UN ban on unilateral drone strikes
Al Qaeda propaganda arm confirms death of senior religious emir
The Al Fajr Media Center referred to Khalid bin Abdul Rahman al Husainan in terms used to describe dead leaders and fighters. Husainan was killed in a drone strike in late 2012.
Afghan forces thwart unprecedented terror plot in Kabul
NDS forces raided a Haqqani Network safe house in eastern Kabul, killing five militants, capturing two others, and seizing a 7,800-kg truck bomb wired for detonation. The bomb’s destructive capacity had a radius of nearly one mile, according to Afghan officials.
Palestinian jihadist trainer killed fighting for Al Nusrah Front
Muhammad Ahmed Qanitah was a member of the al Qaeda-linked Tawhid and Jihad Group in Jerusalem, and previously served in Hamas’ Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
United Kingdom
A British official said more British jihadists are going to Syria than all the other areas of conflict combined, and warned that Syria could become “the crucible of trans-national terrorism.” Three men pled guilty to terrorism charges, including traveling to Pakistan for training. Complaints were made about an event sponsored by an Islamic group at […]
IMU commander captured in Kunduz
ISAF has targeted the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan eight times so far this year. The captured IMU commander is from Uzbekistan.
United Kingdom
The Labour Party suspended Pakistan-born Muslim peer Nazir Ahmed for stating that his recent prison sentence for dangerous driving was due to pressure by Jews “who own newspapers and TV channels.” As many as 10 of the UK’s most dangerous terror suspects will be “free of all constraints” early next year when the time limits […]
Afghanistan
Ex-Spy Chief: Pakistan Sees Afghanistan As ‘Sub-Nation’
Afghanistan
Pakistan – A Few Words : Talking to the Taliban: consequences
Al Qaeda in Iraq claims ambush that killed Syrian, Iraqi troops
The Iraqi terror group said it killed the Syrian and Iraqi soldiers just one day after its affiliate, the Al Nusrah Front, seized a border crossing in Syria.
Why the Afghan ‘peace conference’ idea keeps bombing
An in-depth article by the Afghan Analysts Network shows why the Afghan government’s plan for a regional ulema ‘peace conference’ on suicide attacks is likely to fail.
Afghanistan
Pakistan supply routes open, but move gear slowly into Afghanistan
Haqqani Network
Opening Minds and Roads in Pakistan
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
Amid Pakistan sectarian violence, Sunnis saved Shiites
India
India PM Tells Pakistan to Control Terror
United States
Shortly after being released by Turkey, bin Laden spokesman Abu Ghaith was captured by the CIA as he passed from Jordan to Kuwait, and has been extradited to the US. A Pakistani US citizen in Portland, Ore., was indicted for supporting an al Qaeda suicide bomber. John Brennan was confirmed as CIA Director. The US […]
Former bin Laden spokesman in US custody
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith served Osama bin Laden as a spokesman, threatened mass casualty attacks against America, and recruited the al Qaeda cell responsible for a 2002 attack on US Marines in Kuwait. He lived under a loose former of house arrest in Iran for years before being reportedly freed in 2010.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
Pakistan – PML-N urged to sever ties with terrorist groups
Al Qaeda
Journalism in Pakistani tribal areas: a shadow of death