Jan Mohammad Khan, the former governor of Uruzgan province, and Mohammad Hashim Watanwal, a parliamentarian from Uruzgan, were killed during a suicide assault at Khan’s compound.
A suicide assault team penetrated security at the Intercontinental and has opened fire on guests. Foreigners are the target of the operation.
Al Qaeda in Iraq has executed five major suicide attacks in Iraq this month; two of them have targeted provincial headquarters.
Three Taliban fighters wearing military uniforms killed nine people in an attack on a police station in the capital.
Al Qaeda in Iraq carried out a coordinated assault in Baqubah, but it was ultimately defeated by Iraqi and US troops.
Four suicide bombers and six Afghans, including five security personnel, were killed during a 10-hour-long clash at a police headquarters in Khost.
Pakistani officials said the attackers appeared to be “Uzbek or Chechen.” The Pakistani Army claimed to have captured a senior al Qaeda operative in Karachi.
The Taliban have carried out six suicide attacks in Afghanistan over the past two days.
The Mullah Dadullah Front, a radical Taliban subgroup closely linked to al Qaeda, is likely behind today’s complex attack.
Four Taliban suicide bombers were killed while attempting to storm Camp Phoenix in the Afghan capital. The attack takes place as violent protests occur in Kandahar and Mazar-i-Sharif.
AQI hit a provincial council meeting.
The Taliban claimed credit for the suicide attack that killed 20 Afghan road workers in the Bermel district in Paktika province.
A seven-man Taliban suicide team hit the Jalalabad branch of the Kabul Bank as police were queued to collect their pay. The attack is the latest in Afghanistan’s major cities.
Afghan security officials repelled the assault on the provincial police headquarters in Kandahar. The Taliban also launched other small-scale attacks against police in the provincial capital.
The commander of the 1st Emergency Battalion in Mosul had been targeted by al Qaeda on five other occasions. He had recently killed al Qaeda’s top leader in the city.
Two Taliban commanders and six Lashkar-e-Jhangvi operatives were being interrogated at the police headquarters when it was struck. The Taliban claimed it carried out the attack.
Afghan police and security guards defeated the attack after three members of the Taliban team were able to enter the compound.
Four Caucasus Emirate fighters and four policemen were killed during the battle at the Chechen parliament in Grozny.
Five suicide bombers were killed as they attempted to storm Forward Operating Base Gardez in Paktia province.
A five-man assault team penetrated the first layer of security at Mogadishu International Airport. Two African Union soldiers and three civilians were killed.
Five suicide bombers, four Iraqi soldiers, and three civilians were reported killed in the daylight assault on a military headquarters in Rusafa.
The Shabaab assault team stormed a hotel in a government-controlled area of Mogadishu.
The Kabul Attack Network targeted a civilian compound in the capital; two Afghan guards were killed in the attack. The Kabul Attack Network is led by a Haqqani Network commander.
The Taliban’s latest attempt to get suicide bombers through the wire at Kandahar Airfield fails again.
A six-man team armed with assault rifles and suicide vests killed four people in an attack on a US development contractor and battled for hours before security forces eliminated them.
Police defeated the complex assault, which included a suicide car bomb and heavily armed suicide bombers.
A team of suicide bombers struck at sites frequented by foreigners. Five Indians are among the 17 people reported killed.
A terror assault team struck a “sensitive agency” in the city in southern Punjab, killing 12 Pakistanis in the attack.
Seven Haqqani Network fighters were killed during a coordinated assault in Khost City.
The Haqqani Network and the Tora Bora Front launched suicide assaults in Paktia and Nangarhar provinces. Eight Taliban fighters and six Afghan security officials were killed in the failed attacks.