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September 4, 2010
By Bill Roggio
The strike took place in Data Khel, a region under the control of Hafiz Gul Bahadar.
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September 4, 2010
By Bill Roggio
Six Taliban fighters were killed during a raid in Takhar that targeted the newly minted deputy shadow governor. The Taliban leader held the job for one day.
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September 3, 2010
By Thomas Joscelyn & Bill Roggio
One policeman was killed, 30 were wounded, and one is missing after a suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a police headquarters in Khujand.
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September 3, 2010
By Bill Roggio
In today's attacks, 54 Shia were killed during a protest in Quetta and one Ahmadi was killed at a mosque in Mardan.
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September 2, 2010
By Thomas Joscelyn
As part of its reconciliation process with terrorists and extremists, the Libyan government has freed a former Gitmo detainee who served al Qaeda and the Taliban for almost a decade.
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September 2, 2010
By Bill Roggio
The attack is the third on a US outpost in eastern Afghanistan in four days.
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September 2, 2010
By Bill Roggio
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.
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September 1, 2010
By Bill Roggio
The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al Almi, another name for the Punjabi Taliban, claimed it carried out the attack.
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August 31, 2010
By Bill Roggio
A combined US and Afghan force air assaulted into a Taliban stronghold in the Pech district, a known haven for al Qaeda.
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August 29, 2010
By Bill Roggio
Last weekend's attack by the Haqqani Network on Forward Operating Bases Salerno and Chapman has been costly for the terror group; 35 fighters and a commander were killed, and more are being rounded up.
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August 29, 2010
By Bill Roggio
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.
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August 29, 2010
By Bill Roggio
Zia Ul Haq was the Taliban's military commander for Logar province. He was "responsible for the facilitation of foreign fighters and suicide bombers into Kabul City" and was closely linked to the Kabul Attack Network.
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September 5, 2010:
National police have killed an Abu Sayyaf Group commander and his two aides in a 15-minute gun battle at a house in Maimbung, Sulu province. The Abu Sayyaf commander, Gafur Jumdail, is the younger brother of the group's top leader, Umbra Jumdail. Other Abu Sayyaf members may have been wounded in the raid.
Bahraini authorities accused 23 Shia activists who are protesting the Sunni-dominated government of being members of a "sophisticated terrorist network." The suspects are said to have been planning to overthrow the government, conduct violent acts, and use a propaganda campaign against the current regime.
Security forces killed 23 Taliban fighters in Kunar and a Taliban district commander in Takhar, and captured a Haqqani Network commander in Khost and a Taliban commander in Paktia. The Taliban killed a British soldier and an ISAF soldier in the south, and freed a Japanese journalist.
Mauritanian authorities have captured a drug trafficker with links to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Ahmed Ould Baba Ahmed was arrested in Rosso, close the Senegalese border, and is thought to have a connection to the Lemzarrab operation last February in which authorities clashed with drug traffickers on the Mali border.
Four policemen and two "militants" from the Southern Movement were killed during yesterday's fighting in Lahj province. Al Qaeda killed a tribal leader and two of his bodyguards in Abyan.
September 4, 2010:
A suicide bomber killed five people and wounded more than 30 in an attack on a military base in the town of Buinaksk in Dagestan. A second bomb was detonated as first responders headed to the attack scene. The driver of a Dagestani minister was killed in a car bomb attack.
Israel claimed footage from an unmanned aircraft showed that a large explosion in the village of Shehabiyeh took place at a Hezbollah weapons depot. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah brushed off the government's call for the disarming of militias in Beirut.
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The attacks took place near Miramshah and in Data Khel. A Taliban commander known as Inayatullah is reported to have been killed.
Hakeemullah Mehsud and Waliur Rehman Mehsud have been designated as specially designated global terrorists for their sponsorship of terrorist acts in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the US.
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. 
