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Kenya
Kenya mall attackers’ bodies still not found
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Report highlights al Qaeda affiliates’ role in Syrian atrocities
A new report by Human Rights Watch says that al Qaeda’s affiliates and their extremist allies committed atrocities in Latakia, Syria in August. The two al Qaeda affiliates in Syria and their close allies led the rebel offensive in Latakia as well.
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Libya
Tripoli security official Abdelmonem Al-Said, who founded the Libyan Revolutionaries Operations Room militia in July, is suspected of involvement in a plot hatched a week ago to abduct Prime Minister Zeidan. The bodies of three men who had been tortured and killed were found outside the Tripoli suburb of Janzour. A car bomb damaged the joint Swedish-Finnish consulate in Benghazi. Abu Shaala, of Misrata, threatened to kill himself in Tobruk over the capture of Abu Anas al Libi.
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US grabs Pakistani Taliban commander from Afghan intel
Latif Mehsud, a top deputy to Hakeemullah Mehsud, the emir of the al Qaeda-linked Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, is said to have been captured by US forces while being escorted by the NDS after conducting a meeting to exchange Afghan prisoners for cash.
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3rd Israeli killed in West Bank in 3 weeks
Sariya Ofer was reportedly murdered by two Palestinians in his home in the Jordan Valley community of Brosh Habika. In 2012, no Israelis were killed in terror attacks in the West Bank.
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Taliban
Malala, survivor of Taliban, resented in Pakistan hometown
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Egypt
In Egypt, a campaign to promote an ‘Egyptian Islam’
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Italy
Marines again moved to Italy as Libya falters
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Sudan
Special Report: The Darfur conflict’s deadly gold rush
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Morocco
Morocco’s king names new ministers, Islamists lose ground
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Albania
Albania mulls measures against terrorism financers
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Pakistan
Pakistan – Hide collection, a lucrative business
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Taliban
Taliban ask Nangarhar residents for hides
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Afghanistan
UN extends NATO force in Afghanistan for last time
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Central African Republic
Central African Republic – UN Backs Peace Effort for African Nation
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Arab League
Arab league, OIC call for Eid ceasefire in Syria
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CIA
C.I.A. Warning on Snowden in ’09 Said to Slip Through the Cracks
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Pakistan
Twelve people were killed in a series of bombings in Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, and Quetta. The Pakistani Taliban denied reports that Afghan Taliban fighters killed Mullah Fazlullah in an attack in Kunar province, Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan
The government claimed security forces killed 26 Taliban fighters while retaking a base in Daykundi; the Taliban denied the report. Six Taliban fighters were killed in Badghis; four more died in a premature detonation in Kunar. A suicide bomber killed four civilians in Khost.
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Iran
The exiled dissident National Council of Resistance claimed that Iran is quietly moving a nuclear weaponization research and planning center to a site in a defense ministry complex in Tehran ahead of talks with world powers on the Iranian nuclear program. Semi-official media said “counterrevolutionary armed guerrillas” killed five members of the Revolutionary Guards near the Kurdish town of Baneh, close to the Iraqi border.
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Egypt
A suicide bomber in the Sinai killed four security personnel at a checkpoint. The army claimed to have arrested those behind the Oct. 7 suicide bombing in South Sinai that was claimed by Ansar Jerusalem. The army also announced the seizure of drugs and weapons near the border with Libya. A foreign ministry spokesman said the US decision to cut off some aid to Egypt was “wrong.”
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Israel
The IDF released footage of a recent mid-air refueling exercise during training that “tested the ability of IAF aircraft to fly exceptionally long distances.” Prime Minister Netanyahu warned that Israel’s ability to strike Iran, if necessary, should not be “cut short.” An Israeli man, a retired IDF General, was killed in a suspected terror attack by Palestinians near his home in the Jordan Valley.
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Iraq
The government executed 42 convicted terrorists over the past two days. The military killed two “gunmen” who attempted to enter from Syria. Al Qaeda in Iraq killed a counterterrorism officer in Hit.
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Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula gunned down a colonel in Yemeni intelligence in Mukallah. Tribesmen in Marib province cut off the power to the capital of Sana’a yesterday by attacking an electrical tower.
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Lebanon
The UN-backed Special Tribunal said it secretly indicted Hassan Habib Merhi, a fifth suspect in the assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri, in August. Merhi, like the other four indicted suspects, is linked to Hezbollah and remains at large, despite alleged efforts by Lebanese officials to arrest him. Authorities charged 12 suspected terrorists for plotting against supporters of the Assad regime; in a separate case three suspected terrorists confessed to planning assassinations.
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Mali
Mali man burnt to death by mob for stealing motorbike
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European Union
Malala wins EU’s Sakharov human rights prize
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Denmark
Denmark – Young poet threatened after TV appearance
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Hamas and Salafi jihadists reportedly seeking to ‘normalize relations’
Mediation by Kuwaiti and Qatari clerics may result in an agreement normalizing relations between Hamas and Salafi jihadists. Tensions between Hamas and Salafi jihadists have increased sharply over the past year.
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Somalia
Ten people were killed after government forces clashed with Shabaab in the El-Dhun Adegow area of Bay province; Shabaab is in control of the area. Shabaab killed three people in an IED attack in Beled Hawo.
