Security forces opened fire on protesters in the cities of Damascus, Idlib, and Deir al-Zour. Fourteen people were killed by security forces during the anti-regime protests.

Fahd al Quso is said to have narrowly escaped yesterday’s airstrike in Abyan province.
“The Taliban and the forces behind Taliban” were responsible for the murder of President Karzai’s influential brother, according to an Afghan official.

Bin Laden Plotted New Attack

Ahmed Wali Karzai’s killer had been a Taliban foe

Officials Say Bombers in Attack on Mumbai Had Some Training

The Taliban killed two soldiers in an IED attack in South Waziristan. A dangerous Lashkar-e-Jhangvi commander was freed from prison. Police arrested a Taliban commander in Karachi.

Russia’s special representative for Africa said Libyan prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi told him recently that if the rebels seize Tripoli, governmental forces will fire missiles at the city and blow it up.

A suicide bomber killed four people, including two senior clerics, in an attack at a mosque during a ceremony for Ahmed Wali Karzai. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in the east and torched six ISAF fuel tankers. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban leaders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Zabul, Khost, and Logar; locals claimed Haqqani Network fighters killed in Khost were civilians.

The US is reported to have killed six al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in an airstrike in Abyan. The AQAP fighters recently overran a police station in the province.

Security forces killed eight people while targeting anti-regime elements throughout the country. The US said the UN Security Council is split over sanctioning Syria for its nuclear program.

A Hezbollah Member of Parliament said the terror group has no intentions of disarming. “Hezbollah will keep its weapons and will not be affected by any views or any US-Israeli innovation or the [Special Tribunal for Lebanon] so long as Israel maintains an arsenal of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction,” Hussein Mousawi said.

The nighttime airstrike targeted a police station in Abyan province that had been recently overrun by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters.
Egypt’s Second Revolution

Civilian Deaths Rise in First Half In Afghanistan

In high heels, head scarves, Afghan women protest harassment

Iran tightens online censorship to counter US ‘shadow internet’

Afghanistan’s first female military pilots arrive in US for training

Pakistan: Paramilitary troops sent to Karachi to stop violence

India warns: End to terrorism can’t be guaranteed

Suspected militants interrogated in India’s Mumbai

Two senior clerics were killed in a bombing at a service in Kandahar for President Karzai’s brother. The suicide bomber hid the explosives in his turban.

Police arrested 15 al Qaeda operatives during raids in Ankara, Yalova, and Bursa, and seized 1,500 lbs of explosives as well as weapons. The al Qaeda cell was plotting to attack the US Embassy in Ankara and other foreign targets.

Yemeni president to return to power in weeks: top aide

Afghan politicians rethink personal security

To Track Militants, US Has System That Never Forgets a Face

UK government: Al Qaeda weakened, but terrorism still greatest threat to Olympics

Al-Qaida plotting internet jihad

Poppy Crops Set To Bloom If Afghanistan Aid Withers
