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Nigeria
Mohammad Yusufi, Boko Haram™s leader, and a number of his followers have fled their stronghold in Maiduguri as the Nigerian military seeks to “contain them once and for all.” The Nigerian military overran Yusufi™s compound and home along with the mosque the group has been using as a hideout. Upwards of 300 people, including women and children have been killed since violence started Sunday.
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Afghanistan
Unreliable Afghan forces make life difficult, dangerous for US soldiers
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Pakistan
Rifts emerge over tackling the Taliban
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Iraq
The People’s Mujahideen claimed the police have killed seven members during clashes at Camp Ashraf; the Diyala police department denied the report. One policeman and one civilian were killed in bombings in Mosul and Anbar. The US believes al Qaeda in Iraq is regrouping in eastern Diyala province near the border with Iran, and said its forces will conduct airstrikes in conjunction with Iraqi forces.
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Philippine government resumes peace talks with MILF
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Afghanistan
The Taliban killed two civilians in an IED attack in Kandahar, attacked a MEDIVAC flight in southern Afghanistan, and bombed President Karzai’s campaign office in Herat and candidate Abdullah Abdullah’s office in Paktika. Afghan and ISAF forces detained two Haqqani Network fighters in Khost province.
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Al Qaeda
Ireland to take 2 Guantanamo detainees
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Iraq
The ISI’s Abu Omar al-Baghdadi responds to US urban withdrawal in Iraq
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Indonesia
An Islamist blog that claims to represent “Al Qaeda in Indonesia” said the group, led by Noordin Mohammed Top, is responsible for the bombings at two five-star hotels in Jakarta this month. The statement said the attack was a “martyrdom operation for jihad” to obtain “retribution for the deeds of America and its agents against our Muslim brothers and holy warriors in all corners of the world.” Top is the leader of the Tanzim Qaedat al-Jihad, a splinter group of Jemaah Islamiyah.
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Pakistan
Prosecute Lashkar-e-Taiba’s Hafiz Saeed : Indian home minister to Pakistan
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Tajikistan
Security forces reportedly killed Nemat Azizov during a shootout in the mountains near the administrative center of Tavil-Dara after he refused to surrender. Azizov, who is also known as Sheikh Nemat, commanded Islamist forces during the civil war between 1992-97. He was accused of being a drug smuggler and of assassinating the chief of the Emergency Situations Ministry.
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Iran
The other Iraq war: In Kurdish Iraq, hostilities simmering with Iran, Turkey
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Iraq
Gates says Iraq drawdown may accelerate moderately
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Iran
Iraqi raid leaves Iranian opposition group’s future unclear
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Iraq
US defense secretary in Iraqi Kurdistan to defuse tensions
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Iran
Iran & Iraq: Two British hostages in Iraq ‘likely to be dead’
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Iran
Prominent Iranian reformer set to be freed
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Nigeria
Police have freed over 180 women and children being held by Doko Haram in Maiduguri. Heavy fighting continues in Maiduguri as security forces seek to dislodge the Islamists from their hideouts, including sect leader Mohammad Yusufi™s home and compound headquarters. Papers lifted from the bodies of killed Islamists indicate that many may originate from Chad and Niger.
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Spain
Authorities are blaming ETA, the Basque separatists in Burgos, northern Spain, for a car bomb explosion that tore through a 14-story paramilitary Civil Guard barracks, injuring 46 people. A car bomb explosion in Bilbao that killed a police officer in June was also blamed on the separatists.
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Afghanistan
Poll: U.K. public sees the Afghan war as unwinnable
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Taliban suicide bomber kills two troops in North Waziristan
The Taliban also targeted security forces in Peshawar, Mohmand, Swat, and Khyber. Four more security personnel were beheaded and three more were seriously wounded in Pakistan’s violent northwest.
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Russia
Nine insurgents were killed by security forces in the Russian Federation Republic of Dagestan today. Zaal Kasrelishvili, the leader of the mostly inactive Confederation of the Peoples of the Caucasus, has stated that roughly forty militants have become active again in Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge. Militants used the gorge as a rear base and for arms smuggling into Chechnya, but were expelled by Georgian security forces in 2001.
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Afghanistan
US envoy: most Taliban funds come from overseas
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Pakistan
The Taliban killed two Frontier Corps troops in a suicide attack in North Waziristan and wounded three policemen in an ambush in Peshawar. Security forces killed two Taliban fighters in Swat and detained 38 terrorists in Peshawar, Swat, Darra Adam Khel, and Lakki Marwat.
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Afghanistan
The Taliban killed nine Afghans in bombings in Helmand and Khost provinces, killed two British soldiers in Helmand province on Monday. Four suspected suicide bombers were detained in Kapisa province. A civilian was accidentally killed during a clash with the Taliban in Zabul province.
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Thailand
A Buddhist man and his wife were murdered while they were on their way to work in Pattani province by terrorists armed with assault rifles. Three security officers were wounded by a bomb when they attempted to respond to the initial attack. In the past month, at least 40 people have been killed by Muslim separatists in southern Thailand.
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Hezbollah
Iran hurts Hezbollah but not at home
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Iran and the Taliban, allies against America
The testimony of a Guantanamo detainee confirms that cooperation between Iran and the Taliban began prior to the September 11 attacks. The one-time enemies came together to fight their common foe: America.
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Iraq
The Iraqi Army stormed the People’s Mujahedeen camp after a riot broke out; more than 150 people and 50 security forces were wounded during the clash. Eight Iraqis were killed in a bombing in Baghdad and one was killed in an IED attack in Jalawlaa. Eight policemen were killed during a bank robbery in Baghdad. Security forces detained 19 insurgents in Fallujah and eight al Qaeda fighters in in Diyala.
