Mohammed Amin , a senior Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander, served as the Taliban’s deputy shadow governor for Takhar province. ISAF and Afghan forces have pursued the IMU in the north over the past month.
Flood-hit Pakistanis and Afghans may cross to Iran: UNHCR
The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al Almi, another name for the Punjabi Taliban, claimed it carried out the attack.
The US government has designated the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan as a terrorist entity, and has named Hakeemullah and Waliur Rehman Mehsud as specially designated global terrorists. Hakeemullah and Waliur now have $5 million bounties out for information leading to their capture and prosecution.
A combined US and Afghan force air assaulted into a Taliban stronghold in the Pech district, a known haven for al Qaeda.
ISAF is definitely hot on the tail of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commanders who are operating in Kunduz. From an ISAF press release today: Afghan and coalition security forces detained two insurgents in Kunduz province Monday in their continued pursuit of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist connected to several insurgent groups in the area including the […]
Said al Shihri, an ex-Gitmo detainee who is one of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s most senior leaders, issued an audiotape earlier this month seeking the support of Saudi soldiers and security officers. Al Shihri’s tape echoes the messaging of al Qaeda cleric Anwar al Awlaki, who has sought to convince Muslim soldiers to serve al Qaeda.
Canada’s Operation Samosa and the Pakistani connection
Afghan concern about Pakistan is legit: Petraeus
Spanish authorities arrested a Moroccan national for links to al Qaeda. Faical Errai ran a jihadist website, raised funds, and recruited fighters for terror groups in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Chechnya. Spanish authorities have warned that Mokhtar Belmokhtar, an al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb cell, is hiring mercenaries to kidnap more Westerners in the Sahara/Sahel.
Pakistan – No proper mechanism for relief items™ distribution: DTCE
One Taliban fighter was killed as an IMU commander who facilitates the entry of al Qaeda operatives into Afghanistan was targeted in an airstrike in Kunduz province.
Twelve terrorists and five policemen were killed in the complex attack carried out by heavily armed suicide bombers.
Just days after a suicide attack at a mosque in Wana, the main town in South Waziristan, Mullah Nazir has ordered members of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan to leave the area. Nazir believes that followers of Hakeemullah Mehsud were responsible for the bombing that killed Maulana Noor Mohammed, a pro-government and pro-Taliban […]
The Haqqani Network fighters were wearing US military uniforms. A senior Haqqani Network facilitator who aids in suicide attacks was killed during the fighting.
Petraeus: the US will press militants’ havens in Pakistan
US aid chief says threatened in Pakistan
Al Qaeda-linked cells are targeted in in Kunduz, Badakhshan, and Paktika, while more than 90 Taliban fighters were killed in Kabul and Laghman.
Mustafa Abu Yazid, al Qaeda’s former leader in Afghanistan and top financial official, claimed al Qaeda carried out a bombing at a German bakery in Pune. Yazid, who was killed in a Predator strike in Pakistan in May, created a videotape claiming credit for the attack.
The Pakistani Taliban threatened to attack foreign aid workers delivering relief for the floods that have paralyzed much of the country. “… [T]his horde of foreigners is not acceptable to us at all,” spokesman Azam Tariq said. “… [W]hen we say something is unacceptable to us, one can draw his own conclusion.”
‘Afghan war ends only by targeting insurgency in Pakistan’ – Afghan national security advisor
Suicide bombers struck police stations in Baghdad and Al Kut, while remotely triggered car bombs were detonated outside police stations in Karbala and Basrah.
Muhammad Abdallah Hasan Abu al Khayr is Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law and a senior aide to Ayman al Zawahiri. He is a top contender to take over al Qaeda’s financial operations.
Al Qaeda shifting to Pakistan™s urban areas
Pakistan flooding disrupts Afghan war supply lines
The Shabaab assault team stormed a hotel in a government-controlled area of Mogadishu.
Today’s report in The New York Times on Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence directorate’s detention of Mullah Baradar and other top Afghan Taliban leaders as part of an attempt to sabotage and control negotiations with the Afghan government wins this month’s coveted Captain Louis Renault Award hands down. And to boot, the ISI used the CIA to […]
An airstrike in Nangarhar killed an estimated 12 Taliban fighters, including Pakistani fighters from Waziristan. Two Haqqani Network fighters were killed in Paktia during a raid targeting a commander who runs camps in Khost.
A former Gitmo detainee who rejoined al Qaeda after being repatriated surrendered to authorities in Yemen.
One strike took place in the same town that hosts the Manba Ulom madrassa, the headquarters of the Haqqani Network in Pakistan.