Suicide bombers kill 14 Syrian security personnel
The Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, executed the double attack, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Tag Archives: Iraq
Al Nusrah front spearheads capture of Syrian dam, claims suicide assault
The al Qaeda affiliate has gained control or has a major presence in several key cities and towns along the Euphrates River, securing its lines of communication into Iraq.
Iraq
Twelve Iraqis were killed in a suicide attack and shooting in Mosul, and three more were killed in an IED attack in Anbar. Counterterrorism forces captured two insurgent commanders and three fighters in Diyala.
Iraq
Six people were killed in a mortar and rocket attack at a camp that houses members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq. Gunmen assassinated a security guard at his home in Baghdad. Police arrested seven al Qaeda in Iraq fighters in Fallujah.
Iraq
Insurgents killed 31 Iraqis in a series of car bombings in Baghdad. Security forces captured six al Qaeda fighters in Kirkuk, and launched an operation against the terror group in the Al Jazeera desert in Anbar and Ninewa provinces.
Iraq
A suicide bomber killed seven people in an attack outside of a prison in Taji. The suicide attack is the third in three days, and the second in Taji in two days.
Iraq
A suicide bomber killed 19 Awakening fighters and three soldiers in an attack in Taji. A senior counterterrorism official was killed in a car bombing in Abu Ghraib. The head of the Awakening warned that al Qaeda is returning to Anbar province.
Al Qaeda in Iraq suicide bomber attacks Awakening in Taji
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.
Al Qaeda in Iraq launches suicide assault in Kirkuk
The tactic of the suicide assault is being employed with increasing frequency by al Qaeda and its affiliates and allies in all of the major theaters of the Long War.
Iraq
Insurgents killed three soldiers in an IED attack south of Samarra. Security forces captured five al Qaeda fighters in a raid on a bomb factory in Karma. Clerics in Fallujah rejected al Qaeda’s call for demonstrators to join them and fight the government.
Afghanistan
As NATO Prepares for Afghan Withdrawal, Uzbekistan Seeks War’s Leftovers
Iraq
Security forces killed an al Qaeda fighter and detained three more in Hit; captured 15 members of a bombmaking cell in Baghdad; and arrested two al Qaeda leaders in Mosul. Border guards arrested seven “gunmen” who attempted to enter Iraq from Syria.
Iraq
Insurgents killed an Iraqi soldier in an IED attack in the Fallujah area. Security forces captured an al Qaeda leader in Fallujah and 10 “gunmen” linked to al Qaeda and Ansar al Sunnah in Kirkuk.
Iraq
Insurgents killed two soldiers in a rocket attack on a base north of Fallujah. Twelve “terrorists” surrendered to the government in Rabia. Parliament voted to limit Prime Minister Maliki to two terms in office.
Al Qaeda
Pakistan still global jihad hub
Iraq
Al Qaeda killed four Iraqi soldiers in an IED attack in Haswa. Two soldiers were gunned down and three more were kidnapped near Fallujah. The suicide bomber who killed 42 people at a mosque in Tuz Khurmatu had escaped from an IRaqi jail.
Al Qaeda in Iraq video shows series of attacks against Iraqi security forces
The operations are part of the “third wave” of al Qaeda in Iraq’s “Destroying the Walls” campaign.
Iraq
Iraqi soldiers killed four civilians in Fallujah after opening fire on Sunni protesters as they advanced on military vehicles and hurled rocks and water bottles. Some of the protesters raised al Qaeda in Iraq’s black banner, while others raised the flag of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
Iraq
Security forces detained 19 “wanted terrorists” involved in attacks throughout Iraq in 2012. Police detained four al Qaeda fighters who were attempting to recruit a 16-year-old boy in Mosul.
Iraq
An al Qaeda suicide bomber killed 42 Iraqis in an attack at a funeral in a mosque in Tuz Khurmatu. “Gunmen” killed an Awakening leader at his home in Samarra.
Suicide bomber kills 42 Iraqis at Shia mosque
The suicide bomber targeted the funeral of a policeman in Tuz Khurmatu. The attack is the fourth suicide bombing in the country in nine days.
Iraq
A suicide bomber killed seven Iraqis in Taji. Fifteen more were killed in car bombings and shootings in Baghdad, Bayji, and Mahmudiyah. Iraqi soldiers killed nine al Qaeda fighters in the desert west of Samarra.
AQAP eulogizes jihadist who fought in Iraq and was killed in US drone strike in Yemen
Abdullah Bawazir fought against US forces in Iraq and escaped from a Yemeni prison in June 2011, according to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. He was killed in a drone strike in Hadramout on Dec. 24, 2012.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Algeria Attack Shows Reach of Militants
Algeria
How a pile of explosives I found in a Libyan field may have ended up in the hands of Algerian terrorists
Al Nusrah Front claims 2 suicide attacks in Syria
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.
Iraq
Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility for the assassination of Sunni MP and Awakening leader Aifan Sadoun. Security forces captured AQI’s “religious guide” and three aides in Miqdadiyah.
Al Qaeda claims assassination of MP Aifan Sadoun; Sunni Awakening leader blames Iran
Dueling statements reflect the deepening sectarian political crisis in Iraq.
Iraq
Insurgents killed three policemen and a civilian in separate attacks in Mosul, Kirkuk, and Baghdad. Four more policemen were wounded in the attacks.
Iraq
Insurgents killed two policemen in separate attacks in Abu Ghraib. Police and Awakening fighters killed a suicide bomber as he approached their checkpoint on a motorcycle; one policeman was wounded.