The attack is the Taliban’s latest in a long string of attacks at religious institutions in Pakistan. The Taliban have also stepped up attacks against security forces, killing 17 soldiers and paramilitary troops over the past week.
The Caucasus Emirate launched a suicide assault on the Chechen parliament in the capital of Grozny this morning. The suicide team penetrated security and entered the building before being killed by security forces. Four terrorists and four policemen were killed.
US attack helicopters pounded Haqqani Network fighters in North Waziristan after the terror group attacked an Afghan outpost in Khost.
Dahir Gurey Sheikh Ali Guled, a senior Shabaab military commander, was killed in fighting in Mogadishu. The government claimed 20 Shabaab fighters were killed in Mogadishu; Shabaab denied the report. Shabaab took credit for yesterday’s suicide assault on the Mogadishu airport.
A Shabaab suicide assault team penetrated security at the airport in Mogadishu; five Shabaab fighters, two African Union troops, and three civilians were killed in the attack. Fifteen people were killed in fighting in Mogadishu.
The Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaeda’s political front, claimed it carried out the Sept. 5 suicide assault on an Iraqi Army base in central Baghdad. Iraqi troops repelled the assault, which resulted in 12 people killed.
Iraqi troops repelled an al Qaeda suicide assault on a Baghdad military headquarters; five suicide bombers, four Iraqi soldiers, and three civilians were killed. Security forces detained 66 wanted men in Karbala, five members of the Soldiers of Heaven in Diwaniyah, and two terrorists in Samawa.
The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al Almi, another name for the Punjabi Taliban, claimed it carried out the attack.
Shabaab took credit for yesterday’s suicide assault on a hotel in Mogadishu that killed more than 30 people, including seven members of parliament. Hundreds of Ugandan troops have arrived in Mogadishu to boost the African Union forces.
A Shabaab suicide assault team killed 28 people, including 6 lawmakers and five soldiers, in an attack on a hotel in Mogadishu. Twenty-five people were killed in clashes between government forces and Islamist fighters in Mogadishu. Shabaab took control of a radio station in the capital.
Twenty-five people were killed in attacks on a mosque, a tribal meeting, and a convoy of a pro-government militia. The coordinated attacks took place in South Waziristan, Kurram, and near Peshawar.
The former deputy shadow governor and military commander of Logar was killed and a district-level commander was captured in separate raids over the past two days.
An air weapons team killed Abu Baqir, “a dual-hatted Taliban sub-commander and al Qaeda group leader” who operated in Kunduz.
The raid took place in the district of Zurmat in Paktia province, a known haven for al Qaeda and other foreign fighters.
The United Nations said the Taliban is responsible for 76 percent of all civilian casualties in Afghanistan. A Taliban suicide assault team killed two security guards in Kabul. The Taliban killed four civilians in an IED attack in Ghazni. Coalition and Afghan forces killed 13 Taliban fighters in Laghman and detained several commanders and fighters […]
More than 15 Taliban fighters, including two commanders, and upwards of 12 civilians, are reported to have been killed during a special operations raid in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar.
Al Qaeda has had at least 45 cells in 15 of Afghanistan’s provinces, and its operatives continue to launch suicide and other attacks.
A Taliban suicide assault team attacked a compound run by a development contractor for USAID in Kunduz; six Taliban fighters, two Afghan security personnel, and two foreigners were killed. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in the south and east. The US congress has blocked $4 billion in aid to Afghanistan over corruption concerns.
President Karzai is said to have met with Siraj. The meeting was also attended by Pakistani Army chief General Kayani and ISI boss Lieutenant General Pasha, according to reports.
Arabs, Uzbeks, Turks, and Chechens were reported to have been killed in the clash in eastern Afghanistan. Two Haqqani Network and Taliban commanders and a foreign fighter facilitator were killed in the fighting.
The joint forces battled more than 200 Haqqani Network fighters in the Musa Khel district.
A jihadist group said that an al Qaeda military commander, the leader of a local al Qaeda group, and a Turkish foreign fighter were killed in the June 10 airstrike in North Waziristan.
Fazil Subhan and an undisclosed number of Haqqani Network fighters were killed in the Shamul district. Subhan was known to facilitate al Qaeda operations.
A rocket strike was followed by a ground assault; fighting is still ongoing.
Police defeated a Taliban suicide assault team that targeted government building in Nimroz; nine suicide bombers and three civilians were killed. The UN said its workers can access only half of the country due to the security situation.
ISAF troops accidentally killed four Afghan civilians in an escalation of force incident in Kandahar. A suicide assault team was defeated while attacking an intelligence headquarters in Kandahar; two bombers were killed and another was captured. Security forces detained a Haqqani Network IED facilitator and a Taliban IED facilitator and an undisclosed number of fighters […]
Saudi Arabia announced arrests of 113 alleged al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists whom it claims were planning attacks against oil facilities. Over the past six years, al Qaeda and other jihadi groups have come to see attacks against oil targets as one of the keys to their economic strategy.
The attack is the first this month and also the first in 12 days.
The Taliban kidnapped a tribal leader and three associates in Kunduz, and torched a school in Faryab. The National Directorate of Security claimed the Lashkar-e-Taiba conducted the Feb. 26 suicide assault in Kabul.
Zafar was involved in several major attacks in Pakistan, including the 2006 suicide attack on the US Consulate in Karachi and attacks on major hotels in Islamabad in 2008 and Peshawar in 2009. The US had a $5 million bounty out for Zafar.