Afghanistan
Missile strikes from Pakistan not a threat: Border police chief
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European Union
EU parliament slams Pakistan for ‘grave’ human rights abuses
Afghanistan
No Sign Pakistan is Combating Insurgency: Afghan Interior Minister
Afghan policeman kills 2 British soldiers in Helmand
There have been 40 green-on-blue attacks reported so far this year, resulting in the deaths of 59 ISAF military and civilian personnel.
Al Qaeda leader Rashid Rauf killed in drone strike, family says
Rauf’s family is planning on suing the British government for providing information to the US that aided in targeting him.
Afghanistan
Two Taliban fighters died in a premature detonation while they were planting bombs at a picnic area in Uruzgan. The NDS denied Pakistani claims that Swat Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah is sheltering in Kunar.
Zawahiri notes death of Blind Sheikh’s son ‘on the pure soil of Khorasan’
Al Qaeda’s emir also lauded the imprisoned jihadist cleric and vowed to help free him from US custody.
Foreign jihadists continue to pour into Mali
“The arrival of hundreds of young mujahideen from different areas across the Islamic world to support us in our war against the infidels and crusaders is not strange or surprising,” Ansar Dine’s spokesman said.
Mali
“Hundreds of young mujahideen from different areas across the Islamic world” are arriving in Mali in anticipation of a battle with Saharan nations, Ansar Dine’s spokesman said. “The same thing happened in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Chechnya, Somalia, and Iraq,” he said.
Suicide bomber kills 40 people at mosque in Afghan north
The attack targeted members of government as well as police and military officials. Ninteen security personnel are reported to have been killed.
Insider attacks continue in Uruzgan and Helmand
An Afghan policeman killed two US soldiers at a police headquarters in Uruzgan province, and two UK troops were killed in Helmand in another suspected insider attack. The latest statement by Taliban emir Mullah Omar stresses the strategic importance of such attacks.
US drones kill 4 ‘militants,’ 1 civilian in North Waziristan strike
The strike in the Taliban-controlled Pakistani tribal agency is the first in 13 days. The area where the strike occurred is under the influence of the Haqqani Network.
Shabaab threatens Britain over extradition of Abu Hamza al Masri
“The nightmare that surreptitiously looms on British shores is bound to eclipse the horrors of 7/7 and 21/7 combined,” Shabaab said on its Twitter account.
United Kingdom
Six of of 12 British Muslims from Birmingham arrested last year on terror charges have pled guilty. The three senior members of the homegrown jihadist cell, which raised funds for terrorism through a fake Muslim charity, sent jihadists to Pakistan for training, and plotted an al Qaeda-inspired attack that was to be “another 9/11,” have […]
India
Pakistan helping terrorists enter India, claims Indian home minister
Afghanistan
War Against Terrorism ‘Unwinnable’ Unless Pakistan Fights: Afghan Ministry of Interior
Norway
Authorities are concerned about Norwegian jihadists going to Syria; most are from the radical Norwegian group Ummah. Other Norwegian jihadists have gone to Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen. Extremists Arfan Bhatti and Mohyeldeen Mohammad are currently in Syria along with some 30 other Norwegian citizens. An imam said “many desperate parents” asked him “about their children […]
Al Nusrah Front commanded Free Syrian Army unit, ‘Chechen emigrants,’ in assault on Syrian air defense base
The al Qaeda-linked group said it “had the command and the planning and the participation of the Al Fajr [Dawn] Islamic Movement and the field command of a group of Chechen emigrants” to execute last week’s attack on a Scud and anti-aircraft missile base in Aleppo.
Iraq
Four Pakistani Shia pilgrims and a police officer were killed in bombings in Balad and Diyala. Military intelligence forces captured members of “a terrorist cell” in Baghdad.
Afghanistan
The Corner Where Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan Meet
Treasury ‘further exposes’ Iran-al Qaeda relationship
The US Treasury Department has designated Adel Radi Saqr al Wahabi al Harbi, a “key member” of al Qaeda’s Iran-based network. Al Harbi serves as the deputy to Muhsin al Fadhli, who now leads al Qaeda’s presence in Iran. The US government has highlighted the Iran-al Qaeda relationship several times since July 2011.
2 Zarqawi cousins detained in Jordan after fighting in Syria
Abu Musab al Zarqawi’s family members and aides continue to fight in the theaters of jihad six years after his death.
Afghanistan
Attacker of Pakistani schoolgirl was held, freed in 2009: sources
US adds IMU financier, Taliban IED experts to terror list
Qari Ayyub Bashir is the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan’s top financier; Maulawi Adam Khan Achekzai is a senior Taliban IED expert and leader; and Aamir Ali Chaudhry is an electronics and explosives expert for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan who was involved in the Times Square plot.
Afghanistan
Pakistan opposition thwarts anti-terror move
Al Qaeda weighs in on the Malala shooting
Ustad Ahmad Farooq, al Qaeda’s spokesman for Pakistan, says the world has focused on Malala while ignoring supposed atrocities against Muslim women.
Afghanistan
Pakistanis divided on army offensive after attack
Jund al Khilafah emir killed in ‘treacherous raid’
Moezeddine Garsallaoui, a Swiss citizen, led the al Qaeda-linked group, and trained Mohamed Merah, the Toulouse shooter who killed seven people. He appears to have been killed in a drone strike.
Afghanistan
Pakistan – Operation in North Waziristan: PML-N fails govt move to get parliament’s approval
Insider attack by Afghan intelligence employee kills 6 in Kandahar
A uniformed employee of the National Directorate of Security detonated his suicide vest at a district office in Kandahar province, killing two Americans and four Afghans from a visiting NDS delegation.