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Al Qaeda

Pakistan suspends phone networks to thwart attacks

Al Qaeda-linked Taliban commander killed in recent airstrike in Kunar

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.

Afghanistan

The Taliban killed three New Zealand soldiers in an IED attack in Bamyan and two civilians in a bombing at a cemetery in Helmand. An Afghan policeman killed an ISAF soldier in the south. Four Pakistanis, two Arabs, and a Taliban commander were killed in an airstrike in Kunar. Police killed two Taliban after they […]

ISAF kills Taliban district governor, ‘dozens’ of fighters in Kunar airstrikes

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.

8 more ‘militants’ killed in pair of drone strikes in North Waziristan

The Predators and Reapers struck a vehicle in the Shawal Valley, and then followed up and hit the recovery operations. There have been three drone strikes in Shawal in the past 24 hours.

Afghanistan

Ammonium nitrate fertilizer is being smuggled into Afghanistan for IEDs

India

India – Videos doctored in Pakistan sparked NE exodus: Government

Turkish fighters in the Islamic Jihad Union

Several Turks affiliated with the IJU have been killed while waging jihad in Afghanistan, and others have been arrested in foiled plots to carry out attacks against European and US targets in Europe.

Afghanistan

Afghanistan, Pakistani Governments Hide Meeting with Mullah Bradar

Al Qaeda

Experts: Operation Against Pakistani Taliban Will Create More Problems

Al Qaeda

Pakistan reiterates nuclear assets are safe

Al Qaeda

Taliban attack on airbase raises questions about security of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons

ISAF kills senior IMU leader, ‘multiple insurgents’ in airstrike

Mullah Anwar served as the IMU’s leader in the Burkah district in Afghanistan’s Baghlan province, and was responsible for the assassination of a district governor and a member of the Afghan High Peace Council in Takhar.

Afghanistan

The Taliban killed 36 Afghans in a suicide assault in Zaranj, the capital of Nimroz province. The Taliban also killed 15 Afghans in a bombing at a market in Kunduz. The Pakistani military killed one border policeman in an attack on Afghan border posts in Kunar.

‘Brigades of Osama bin Laden’ forms in the West Bank

The new jihadist group is the latest to spring up in the Palestinian Territories and the neighboring Egyptian Sinai.

Afghanistan

Panetta: Pakistan military plans to open new front

Omani jihadist participated in Haqqani Network raid on FOB Salerno

The Haqqani Network suicide assault on a major US base in Khost was promoted by the Taliban on their propaganda website.

ISAF captures ‘senior IMU leader’ in Kunduz

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader “directed improvised explosive device attacks in Kunduz province” and “acquired IEDs, weapons and rockets and distributed them to insurgents throughout the region.”

Toulouse shooter’s al Qaeda ties played down by officials

Newly released intelligence files on Mohamed Merah indicate he had been identified as a dangerous Islamist for well over a year before he killed seven people. And an audiotape suggests he trained for jihad in Pakistan and was working for al Qaeda in France.