African Union troops beat back a Shabaab suicide assault on a base in Mogadishu; two suicide bombers dressed as Somali troops were killed. Kenya’s top military leader said his country would stay in southern Somalia until the threat from Shabaab is gone.
The Taliban and allied groups are attempting to carry out major operations in the provinces just north of Kabul.
An Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander said the assault team included “Turks, Tajiks, Arabs, Pashtuns, and Afghans.” IMU emir Abu Usman Adil said the group is dedicated to creating a global caliphate.
The strike is the second in Danda Darpa Khel in two days. Yesterday’s strike killed Jan Baz Zadran, a top Haqqani Network leader.
Ustadh Ahmad Farooq, the chief of al Qaeda’s propaganda efforts in Pakistan, was thought to have been killed in a Predator strike with Ilyas Kashmiri.
Dilawar was the principal deputy to the top Haqqani Network commander in Afghanistan who was captured last week. He also was connected to al Qaeda and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Haji Mali Khan served as the top Haqqani Network commander in Afghanistan. He established and ran training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan, supported operations, and served as a key link to the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan.
The attacker and a US citizen were killed in a shootout at a complex that houses Western security contractors and supposedly a CIA office.
A Taliban team launched rocket-propelled grenades at the US embassy and ISAF headquarters from a high-rise under construction, while suicide bombers attacked two police stations.
The suspect was uploading jihadi videos at the behest of the son of Lashkar-e-Taiba leader’s leader, Hafiz Saeed.
A four-man suicide assault team was killed while attempting to breach the PRT in Zabul. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in the south. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Kandahar, Uruzgan, and Ghazni.
An Afghan intelligence operation led to the arrest of three Taliban facilitators linked to an urban attack against Afghan police in June. Future plots were also disrupted.
A Taliban suicide assault team killed nine people, including a New Zealand soldier, in an attack on the British Council in Kabul. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Paktia, and Uruzgan.
The senior Haqqani Network commander is the shadow governor of Paktika province in Afghanistan, aids “foreign fighters,” plots attacks, and is behind the kidnapping of a US soldier.
A suicide assault team killed four civilian guards in an attack on a fuel depot in Kandahar. Four Taliban fighters and a policeman were killed as the Taliban attempted to overrun a district center in Ghazni. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Zabul, Ghazni, Khost, and Logar.
A Taliban suicide assault team killed 16 civilians and six policemen in an attack in Parwan; seven Taliban fighters were also killed. The Taliban killed three ISAF soldiers in the east. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, and Faryab.
The Haqqani Network commander was the deputy operational leader in Paktia, and led more than 250 fighters, including Uzbeks.
A suicide assault team killed four people in an attack on a guesthouse in Kunduz. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the east. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Paktia, Paktika, Nangarhar, Wardak, and Baghlan.
Afghan intelligence arrested one of its own agents, who was facilitating a plot to attack the Defense Ministry and ISAF headquarters.
“The indications are that Kashmiri intentionally floated the news of his death in a drone attack to avoid the heat following the killing of Bin Laden in Pakistan,” according to a report.
A Taliban suicide assault team killed 19 people in an attack on a government center in Uruzgan. The Taliban killed an ISAF solider in the east. Nine Taliban fighters and an Afghan soldier were killed during fighting in Ghazni. Security forces captured a Taliban district commander in Helmand. French troops accidentally killed two civilians in […]
ISAF said that more than 50 Haqqani Network fighters were killed during a daylong battle in Paktika province.
UNAMA said the Taliban account for 80 percent of the civilian casualties in Afghanistan.
A Taliban suicide assault team killed a key adviser to President Karzai and a member of the Afghan parliament in an attack in Kabul. The Taliban killed five ISAF soldiers yesterday and today in the south and the east. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and IMU leaders and fighters in Helmand, Khost, Nangarhar, […]
Unidentified “sources” say that reports of the top al Qaeda leader’s death are premature.
The so-called Indian Mujahideen is suspected of carrying out the three bombings in India’s financial capital today.
Ilyas Kashmiri, a top military commander and strategist, was targeted in a June 3 Predator strike in South Waziristan.
A suicide assault team killed 14 people in an attack on a hotel in Kabul. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in the south and four civilians in Jawzjan. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leaders and fighters in Zabul, Nimroz, Ghazni, and Paktika. A UAV crashed in the […]
Ten thousand troops will be withdrawn by the end of the year, and an additional 23,000 troops will leave Afghanistan by the end of the summer of 2012.
A suicide assault team killed 25 Iraqis at an attack at a checkpoint outside of a provincial center in Diwaniyah. Insurgents killed two Iraqis in Mussayab and two more in Baghdad. Security forces killed two insurgents in Baghdad.