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Pakistan petitioned to release Osama bin Laden’s youngest wife
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Afghanistan
Pakistan has allowed NATO to ship some perishable food items into Afghanistan. Security forces captured several Taliban leaders in Wardak, Helmand, and Nangarhar.
Taliban flex muscles in Miramshah
Hundreds of Taliban fighters patrolled the Miramshah bazaar after the Shura-e-Murakeba ordered a halt in attacks against Pakistani troops and an end to kidnappings.
Kuwait
Pakistan – Seminaries in KP collected over Rs30m from abroad
Afghanistan
Pakistan allows NATO to ship food to Afghanistan, sign of thawing tension after airstrikes
Afghanistan
Afghan leader to push for access to Taliban in Pakistan
Afghanistan
The Taliban said Mullah Obaidullah, their former minister of defense, died in a Pakistani jail in 2010. The Taliban killed a British airman in Helmand. Security forces detained Taliban commanders in Helmand and Kandahar.
Afghanistan
Pakistan – Qazi warns against restoring NATO supply
Afghanistan
Pakistan: Politicians to decide on NATO supply routes
Indonesia
Umar Patek, the al Qaeda-linked militant behind the deadly bombings of Jakarta churches in 2000 and a Bali nightclub in 2002, is being tried for mass premeditated murder. An alleged member of the Jemaah Islamayah terror group, Patek was arrested in Abbotabad, Pakistan in January 2011, where he may have met with Osama bin Laden.
Wanted IMU leader urges attacks in Germany
German citizen and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader Mounir Chouka said that “jihad in Germany is only a matter of time.”
Afghanistan
Can’t go after terrorists hiding in Pakistan: Afghan Army Chief Karimi
Afghanistan
US-Taliban Talks End Without Result, Pakistani TV Says
Afghanistan
NATO supplies from Pakistani airspace never stopped
‘We in MYC are now part of al Qaeda East Africa’
The Muslim Youth Center, Shabaab’s affiliate in Kenya, said that the groups would fight “under the banner of AQEA (al Qaeda East Africa).” AQEA has long reported to al Qaeda’s most senior leadership.
Shabaab formally joins al Qaeda
The announcement formalizes the longstanding close working relationship between the two terror groups.
United Kingdom
Nine British Muslims were sentenced to terms of five to 16 years for plotting to bomb UK targets including the London Stock Exchange. Three of them, Mohammed Shahjahan, Usman Khan, and Nazam Hussain, also planned to set up a training camp in Pakistan to prepare jihadists for attacks in the UK.
US Predators strike again in Miramshah
Four “militants” were killed in the second strike in 24 hours in Pakistan’s Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. A senior al Qaeda-linked Taliban commander is reported to have been killed.
Afghanistan
Security forces captured four Taliban leaders and facilitators in Helmand and Khost, and three insurgents, including a Pakistani, in Kandahar. The government said it was willing to accept the transfer of Taliban detainees held at Guantanamo to Qatar.
Suicide bomber kills 9 in Mogadishu
The suicide attack took place at a hotel that is frequented by members of the Somali parliament.
Al Qaeda ‘still standing in Khorasan’ despite US drone strikes: jihadist
Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah al Lubnani said that despite US airstrikes in Pakistan, “time is in our favor.”
Afghanistan
NATO, Afghan and Pakistan officials to hold border talks
US drones kill 10 ‘militants’ in North Waziristan strike
The strike took place in a village known to harbor terrorists that is a stronghold of the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network.
Afghanistan
Pakistan – Resume NATO supply for better deal, says Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar
Al Qaeda releases photos of slain Khorasan commanders
A jihadist media outlet has released previously unseen photographs of slain top al Qaeda leaders Abu Laith al Libi, Abdullah Said al Libi, and Abu Abdullah al Shami.
Afghan intelligence captures 3 members of northern assassination cell
The Taliban cell is led by a commander known as Qari Abdul Rahim, who is based in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. The group is linked to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Afghanistan
Pakistan Tries to Take Part in Afghan Negotiations: Afghan Senators
Afghanistan
US Sending General to Repair Ties With Pakistan
United States
Raja Lahrasib Khan, 58, a Pakistani cab driver in Chicago and US citizen, admitted to giving funds to Ilyas Kashmiri, a top al Qaeda and Harkut-ul Jihad Islami commander. Khan said he last met Kashmiri in Pakistan in 2008. Under a plea deal, Khan faces a prison term of five to eight years and must […]
Abu Musab al Suri released from Syrian custody: report
A statement at a prominent jihadist forum claimed that al Qaeda strategist, military trainer, and ideologue Abu Musab al Suri has been freed from Syrian custody. The report has not been confirmed.