Adam Gadahn, the American-born al Qaeda spokesman, urged Western Muslims to carry out terror attacks. “To my Muslim brothers residing in the states of the Zio-Crusader coalition … know that Jihad is your duty as well,” Gadahn said on a propaganda tape.
The Pakistani military killed 12 Taliban fighters in helicopter strikes in Arakzai. General Wyne, the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, said the Taliban’s network has been broken and the group is on the verge of defeat.
Insurgents killed four soldiers and a policeman in bombings in Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, and Mosul. An insurgent died in a premature detonation in Amarah. Security forces detained 14 wanted men in Mosul.
Sheikh Abu Mukhtar Robow (left) and Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan (faced covered) in a propaganda video acquired by The Long War Journal. Remember those reports from a few weeks back which claimed that Shabaab was in disarray as Sheikh Abu Mukhtar Robow, the terror group’s deputy leader, split from the group and pulled his forces […]
Senior Shabaab leaders Ali Mohamad Rage and Sheikh Muktar Robow sponsored a Shabaab parade of thousands of fighters in the capital of Mogadishu. Robow said Shabaab would avenge the death of Mustaf Abu Yazid, the top al Qaeda leader and financier killed in a US predator strike in May 2010.
A four-man Taliban suicide assault team was killed after breaking into a UN compound in Herat. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Khost, Paktika, and Kunar.
Afghan police and security guards defeated the attack after three members of the Taliban team were able to enter the compound.
Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said UN sanctions are dead. The Iranian representative to the UN urged all nations to disarm their nuclear weapons. Security forces detained four Jundallah members involved in the July mosque bombing in Zahedan.
Spiegel has an interesting report on how the Taliban are sheltering in areas of Pakistan far removed from the tribal areas that have become the focus of discussion. Kohistan is one such area, as Spiegel notes, and the Pakistani Army isn’t viewed as a threat. In fact they are often “quite nice”: Rafiullah, 25, is […]
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters gunned down a colonel in the intelligence branch near his home in Mukalla in Hadramawt province. AQAP has put out a hit list of more than 50 intelligence and security officials targeted for assassination.
Security forces detained five members of an al Qaeda cell in Izmir in western Turkey. The cell was supporting al Qaeda operations in Afghanistan, and included fundraisers and a computer programmer who was attempting to jam NATO UAV signals.
The Taliban killed six soldiers in an IED attack Arakzai and five civilians in a bombing in a mosque in Peshawar. The US approved a $2 billion military aid package to Pakistan, but cut of certain units from funding due to human rights violations.
The operational leader of the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network is thought to have been in the same area in Pakistan where US Apache helicopters carried out cross-border attacks last month. Siraj’s presence in part sparked the Pakistani military’s outrage over the incursion.
A US military map of Iran’s operations inside southern Iraq, from 2007. This map formed the basis of the LWJ report, The Ramazan Corps and the ratlines into Iraq. Click to view full size. In case you are curious why the release of the Wikileaks documents pertaining to Afghanistan, and now Iraq, have sparked little […]
Insurgents killed a Muslim schoolteacher after he left mosque in Yarang district of Pattani province. Two insurgents killed a Buddhist official of the Provincial Electricity Authority in Pattani’s Khok Pho district.
Suspected Moro Islamic Liberation Front fighters killed two village officials in Maguindanao province. The two officials were ambushed by gunmen after their vehicles were hit by landmines. The chairman and councilman of Barangay Liab in Mamasapano town were participating in electoral activities.
Twenty people were killed during a failed Shabaab offensive that sought to retake control of Balad-hawa district on the Kenyan border. Puntland claimed it took control of Shabaab’s last safe haven in the Galgala mountains. The African Union is seeking an air and naval blockade of Somalia.
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The Taliban killed a district governor and his bodyguard in Nangarhar, and killed three truck drivers and torched 13 NATO supply vehicles in Zabul. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Khost, and Paktika.
The Indian Army claimed that Pakistan is operating 42 terror training camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Women are being trained at some of the camps, and more than 600 terrorists are prepared to enter Indian Kashmir, the Army chief said.
The attack is the Taliban’s latest in a long string of attacks at religious institutions in Pakistan. The Taliban have also stepped up attacks against security forces, killing 17 soldiers and paramilitary troops over the past week.
Demand for Iranian crude oil increased despite sanctions. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez traveled to Iran and Syria, and won Russian support for Venezuela’s planned nuclear program. An Iranian-American imprisoned in Iran for more than two years returned to California.
Five Pakistanis were among 10 people arrested in Sana’a by Yemeni security forces. The five Pakistanis are accused of spreading “extremist jihadi ideas.”
US halts aid to some Pakistan military units
The military killed four Taliban fighters in Arakzai and four more in Kurram. Six Taliban fighters, including their commander, were killed in an IED blast in Kurram. Two of Jalaluddin Haqqani’s sons are mediating negotiations in Kurram.
Dormant Western Sahara threatens to heat up