Afghanistan
US reconstruction effort in Afghan provinces is unfinished work
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Pakistan
Fifteen “militants” and one security official were killed during fighting in the Tirah Valley in Khyber. Two Pakistanis were killed in a bombing in Khyber. The Taliban assassinated a politician in a drive-by shooting in Hyderabad.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed four Afghans in two bombings in Helmand and Uruzgan, and two children in a mortar attack in Paktika. Special operations forces killed a relative of an advisor to President Karzai during a raid in Uruzgan.
Pakistan
Taliban Imperil US Political Ally in Pakistan
Iraq
Insurgents killed two soldiers in Ninewa and a policeman in Anbar. Security forces detained nine al Qaeda fighters in Hawijah and five “terrorists” in Anbar.
Turkey
Turkish police disclosed that a February raid on two terrorist cells in Istanbul and Tekirdag revealed an al Qaeda plot to bomb the US Embassy in Ankara, an Istanbul synagogue, and other targets. The operation resulted in the arrests of two Chechens, two Azeris, and eight Turks. The Free Cause Party called for a ceasefire […]
Syria
The Assad regime called on the UN to designate the Al Nusrah Front as a terrorist organization, following the group’s announcement of its affiliation with al Qaeda. At least 57 people were killed in Deraa province after government forces assaulted two towns linked to defections from the Syrian army. Activists say a rebel battalion has […]
Al Nusrah Front
Al-Qaeda role in Syria proves revolt a ‘trick’: newspaper
Sweden
Sweden – Anti-Semitism row rocks top Social Democrat
Egypt
President Morsi withdrew a number of complaints against journalists that his office had filed. An Israeli delegation arrived in Cairo for discussions with Egyptian intelligence and military officials on the situation in the Sinai, among other topics. Authorities detained Palestinians with ammunition who had infiltrated Egypt via Gaza’s smuggling tunnels. A Hungarian member of the […]
South Sudan
Rebel ambush kills UN peacekeepers in South Sudan
Syria
Israel on guard as Golan goes from bloom to bloodshed
Ahrar al Sham
In Syria, some brace for the next war
Syria
Move to Widen Help for Syrian Rebels Gains Speed in West
Tunisia
Tunisia began a joint security operation with Algeria against “a terrorist group consisting of 11 terrorists based in a mountainous area in El Kef.” Authorities released Salafist imam Imed Ben Saleh, a.k.a. Abou Abdullah Ettounsi, following his deportation from Egypt for forging jihadist documents. In March Ettounsi told Tunisian TV he had fought with the […]
The Taliban are ‘still dreaming’ of a return to power: an interview with Afghan Army officers in Panjwai
Officers with the 2/1/205 Afghan National Army assess their capability, local politics, and the prospects for the Taliban and the uprising against insurgents in Panjwai district.
Al Qaeda
Uzbek fighters gain support in Afghan north
Ireland
Syrian conflict’s pain felt in rural Ireland
United States
The US assistant secretary of defense for special operations said the current UN-backed ECOWAS force in Mali is “completely incapable” and that the al Qaeda-linked militants would try to regroup in Mali once the French forces left. Much of the al Qaeda leadership that had been based in Mali has escaped, he added. US troops […]
France
French mother acquitted in son’s ‘Jihad’ T-shirt trial
Pakistan
Security forces killed eight Taliban fighters in Arakzai. The Taliban killed a policeman in an attack on polio vaccination teams in Mardan. Five people, including two policemen, were killed in attacks in Karachi.
Hezbollah
Hacking Bombshell Shakes Lebanon, Threatens UN Murder Inquiry
Green-on-blue attack in Ghor province injures 2 Lithuanian troops
An Afghan National Army soldier opened fire on Lithuanian soldiers in an armored vehicle at an ANA control post, less than two months after security responsibility for the district was turned over to the ANA.
Pakistan
Policing a fragile peace in South Waziristan
Afghanistan
Peace Envoys From Taliban at Loose Ends in Qatar
Pakistan
Taliban Defend New Perch in Northern Pakistan, Gaining Sway as Election Nears
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed four policemen in Nimroz, three civilians in Helmand, and an NDS agent in Kunduz. An Afghan soldier fired an RPG at Lithuanian soldiers in Ghor, wounding two. The governor of Balkh province said the West has failed Afghanistan.
Iraq
Security forces detained six al Qaeda fighters in Babil and four members of an “armed gang” in Baghdad. The UN said that 229 civilians and 227 security personnel were killed in acts of terrorism in March.
Libya
Rogue militias challenge Libyan state security
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released a statement by deputy emir Said al Shihri that indicates he may be alive. A Saudi female convicted of having ties to al Qaeda and then freed to live with her family has escaped to Yemen.