The Taliban claimed one of their suicide bombers detonated the bomb inside a base in the Now Zad district. The suicide attack is the sixth of its kind by the Taliban and their allies in less than two weeks.
The suicide bomber targeted a US and Afghan Local Police patrol as it passed by a high school in Paktia province. The US has stepped up raids against the Haqqani Network in Paktia.
Mokhtar Belmokhtar is alive, and announced that his al Mua’qi’oon Biddam, or Those Who Sign in Blood Brigade, carried out the suicide assaults in Niger in conjunction with MUJAO.
The al Qaeda-linked Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa said the suicide attacks were intended to punish Niger for “cooperation with France in the war against Sharia” in Mali.
The Taliban’s spring offensive promised a renewed focus on suicide attacks targeting ISAF forces. Today’s suicide bombing in a residential area also injured 39 Afghan civilians.
Jihadists have launched 12 suicide bombings and assaults in Mali since the beginning of February.
The terror group continues to retain the capacity to launch suicide and other attacks throughout Iraq while expanding its network into Syria.
Three ISAF soldiers and two civilians who worked at the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Qalat were killed in the suicide attack in the provincial capital of Zabul.
The Al Nusrah Front said that “brothers from the rest of the brigades participated in operations of advancement and positioning” in one of the two attacks.
The suicide attacks took place as US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was visiting the capital to discuss the handover of security to Afghan forces.
Reaz Qadir Khan was arrested two days ago by the FBI and charged with providing material support for an al Qaeda suicide bomber who participated in a suicide assault in Lahore, Pakistan in May 2009.
The chairman of Pakistan’s Ulema Council said suicide bombings should continue in “occupied” Muslim areas that do not have the atomic bomb. His rhetoric is identical to that of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan.
The suicide attack killed scores of civilian workers at a munitions factory near Hama. Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria has now claimed credit for nine of the 10 suicide attacks that have been reported in Syria so far this year.
Three of the suicide bombers targeted the National Directorate of Security in Kabul and Nangarhar; the other suicide bomber attacked a headquarters for the Afghan National Civil Order Police in Logar.
Nine suicide attacks have now been reported in Syria so far this year; the al Qaeda affiliate has claimed credit for eight of them.
Nineteen anti-al Qaeda Awakening fighters and three Iraqi soldiers were killed in the suicide attack, which is the second of its kind in Iraq in two days.
The Al Nusrah Front has claimed credit for five of the six suicide attacks that have been reported in Syria so far this year.
Ten policemen were killed in the attack in Kunduz, while a policemen and a civilian were killed Ghazni.
Today’s suicide attack is the third in Afghanistan in 10 days; all three have taken place in central Afghanistan.
Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria claimed credit for the first two suicide attacks reported in Syria this year. The attacks were launched to avenge reported atrocities in a village in Idlib.
The Taliban claimed credit for an attack on tribal leaders at the district center in Kandahar’s Spin Boldak. The Mullah Dadullah Front likely carried out the suicide bombings.
An Afghan policeman and two civilians were killed in a blast outside of Forward Operating Base Chapman, which is known to host CIA operations.
Contrack International, the target of the attack, supports US military operations in Afghanistan.
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant said two of its suicide bombers attacked the Interior Ministry yesterday.
The al Qaeda-linked terror group has now claimed credit for 42 of the 51 suicide attacks that have taken place in Syria in the past 12 months.
The suicide attack is the 50th in Syria in the past 12 months; 41 of them have been claimed by the Al Nusrah Front.
Additionally the Al Nusrah Front claimed credit for a suicide attack outside of Damascus two days ago.
The al Qaeda-linked terror group has now claimed credit for 39 of the 47 reported suicide bombings in Syria that the The Long War Journal has tallied since December 2011.
The suicide attack targeted a military headquarters at a French hospital in Aleppo. In Handarat, Al Nusrah launched an assault on an air defense brigade base with a “battalion of Chechen emigrants.”
The al Qaeda-linked group claimed credit for killing “not less than 60 elements” in an attack near the Turkish border.