Four Taliban were killed and four soldiers were wounded during fighting in North Waziristan. The South Waziristan tribal jirga said it was close to securing the release of over 300 Pakistani soldiers. Four shops were destroyed in bombings in Swat, and a cell switching center was bombed in Mahmond.
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Bill Ardolino is currently embedded in Fallujah. Bill recently sat down with a local leader to ask about local conditions, the role of mukhtars in the rebuilding of Fallujah, and thoughts on the national government.
US Special Forces captured an al Qaeda leader involved in the assassination of the leader of the Anbar Awakening, as well as other attacks in Anbar province. Al Qaeda attacks a tribe aligned with the Diyala Awakening; an anti-extremist Shia movement forms in Wasit province.
US Special Forces captured an al Qaeda operative linked to the assassination of Sheik Sattar. Special Forces also captured a senior al Qaeda leader in Tarmiyah known as “The Executioner.” Al Qaeda in Iraq killed 14 civilians in an attack in the town of Muqdadiyah in Diyala province.
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A JUI leader that issued a fatwa against suicide bombings and traveled to Afghanistan to convince Mullah Omar to give up Osama bin Laden in 2001 was murdered in Peshawar. The Taliban bombed a missionary public school in Bannu.
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Afghan and British forces killed “several” Taliban and captured two during a raid in the Garmsir district in Helmand province. The newly-formed Afghan National Army Commandos conducted their first mission in the Sherzad district of Nangahar Province; three Taliban were captured.
A look at the reconciliation process and the engagement with the local Concerned Citizen groups southwest of Baghdad.
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The suicide attack against the elite military counterterrorism unit earlier this week was likely an inside job. The president of the Taliban-supporting MMA political party blamed the government for the suicide attack. The Taliban released 11 captured paramilitary troops in Bannu. Six soldiers have gone missing in North Waziristan after fighting the Taliban. A jirga […]
Al Qaeda’s front group the Islamic State in Iraq took credit for the assassination of Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, calling the murder a “heroic operation.” At Sattar’s funeral, thousands of mourners chanted “Revenge should be made quickly. … We will chase the killers.” Sattar’s brother Ahmed has been appointed the new leader of the […]
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