A Yemeni intelligence officer was assassinated in the capital of Hadramout province by suspected al Qaeda militants. The commander of Yemen’s central military region deployed an infantry brigade to Marib province to stop armed tribesmen who maintain ties with al Qaeda from attacking oil pipelines. Yemen’s Navy claimed its forces have intercepted an Iranian ship […]
A British citizen was reportedly detained near the Malian border as he attempted to join up with terrorists linked to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. A tacit truce between between AQIM and the Mauritanian Army might be ending as the Army moves to secure the strategic town of Fassala Nere and other border areas […]
Suspected Boko Haram militants attacked a village last night in northeastern Nigeria and executed a group of 15 men, women, and children by tying them up and slitting their throats. A separate Boko Haram attack in Maiha near the border with Cameroon left at least two dead. The attackers burnt down the police divisional headquarters, […]
Boko Haram fighters unleashed a series of attacks across northern Nigeria on Christmas Eve, killing at least 12 Christian worshipers and burning down two churches. Separately, Nigerian security forces killed 14 suspected Boko Haram members in northern Nigeria.
Unidentified gunmen shot and wounded Auranzeb Farooqi, a prominent Sunni cleric and leader of the Ahle Sunnat-Wal-Jamaat party, in Karachi. Pakistani militants shot dead two Afghan policemen who were traveling to Quetta via Chaman. The policemen were accompanying a sick female companion to a medical facility in Quetta when they were abducted and murdered; the […]
Yemeni tribesmen are demanding a ransom in exchange for the release of a Finnish couple and an Austrian man abducted three days ago. Six militants and two soldiers died in clashes near a damaged oil pipeline east of Sanaa, and unidentified gunmen assassinated Brigadier Fadel Mohammed Ali in Sanaa. In a separate attack, gunmen assassinated […]
A group of Shabaab fighters surrendered to Somali officials in the Bay region. Fighting between Somali forces and Shabaab had raged in the region a day earlier. Somali forces have erected a controversial checkpoint at Bar Ismail near the Afgoye district in lower Shabelle.
Filipino military and police elements arrested suspected communist rebel leader Filemon Mendrez, also known as “Tatay” and “Edon,” in Negros Oriental. Mendrez was a commander of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) in Negros and had a P5.25 million ($127,294) bounty on his head. Abu Sayyaf members freed a public school teacher whom they […]
Iran claims Israel is operating three separate drone platforms from Azerbaijan to conduct “secret spy missions” into Iranian territory. Iranian officials threatened that any drone crossing into Iranian airspace would receive a “sharp counterblow.”
The Taliban suicide car bomb attack on Dec. 17 against a compound in Kabul owned by Contrack International has devastated local businesses. Afghan traders reportedly lost $10 million in damages from the attack.
Syrian rebels have debuted the Sham II armored fighting vehicle, “100 percent Syrian made,” in the besieged city of Aleppo.
Iranian claims of a “captured” US-made Scan Eagle drone earlier this week and subsequently produced video images of the aircraft raise questions about the drone’s origins.
Mullah Nazir ordered all Mehsud tribesmen to leave South Waziristan’s largest town before Dec. 5 or face the consequences. Nazir clearly holds the Mehsud tribe responsible for the Nov. 29 suicide attack against him and his associates at the Rustam bazaar in Wana.
Coalition forces killed senior Taliban commander Abdullah Kalta in an airstrike on Nov. 21. Abdullah was responsible for the deaths of four New Zealand soldiers in central Bamyan province over the past two years.
Somali security forces arrested two Shabaab leaders in Puntland. Abu Hafsa, allegedly Shabaab’s head of assassinations, and Abdirizak Hussein Tahlil, a Shabaab logistics officer, were arrested in Galkayo. The pair were in possession of suicide vests, explosives, grenades, and other explosive paraphernalia.
Unidentified militants lobbed a hand grenade into a minibus in Nairobi, killing at least five people and injuring 13 others. The attack occurred in the predominantly Somali Eastleigh neighborhood. Such attacks have been seen as Shabaab retaliation for Kenya’s decision to send troops into Somalia.
The Taliban website has uploaded a 35-minute-long video depicting a series of attacks against Afghan security forces in the Kamdesh district in Nuristan province.
Radullan Sahiron, a senior Abu Sayyaf leader wanted for his alleged involvement in the 1993 kidnapping of an American in the Philippines, has been added to the FBI’s updated list of most-wanted terrorists. A wife of a detained Abu Sayyaf group leader has been detained for her role in a kidnapping plot four years ago.
Nigerian security forces claim to have killed a senior Boko Haram leader suspected of facilitating the assassination of General Shuwa Mohammad earlier this month. Six other Boko Haram affiliates were also killed in the operation.
A former Taliban-era cabinet official and current shadow district chief was reportedly assassinated in Quetta, Pakistan.
New Zealand’s 145-man unit tasked with stabilizing one of Afghanistan’s most vulnerable, yet once secure, regions has dismantled crucial forward operating bases in preparation for an early withdrawal in 2013.
The nephew of slain Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a shootout with Pakistani police in Bannu.
The Pakistani Taliban’s spokesman claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that killed a local politican and Aman Lashkar commander, Fateh Kahn, and three of his bodyguards in Buner, Pakistan.
A combined force detained a wanted Taliban fugitive who had shot and killed two British ISAF members on May 13. He was attempting to joint the Afghan National Army when he was arrested.
Intelligence operatives disrupted four terror plots in the past two days and captured nine suspected Taliban insurgents along with homemade explosives believed to have been smuggled into Kabul from Pakistan.
The Taliban’s 34-minute-long video tribute to rogue Afghan soldiers suspected of killing US and Afghan soldiers in May describes attacks and diminishes the notion that Taliban infiltrators joined Afghan forces to carry out such attacks.
NDS officials arrested a heavily armed Haqqani Network cell in Kabul that was planning to attack the Afghan Parliament, the Afghan Presidential Palace, and the Afghan Second-Vice President. It is the second such raid in Kabul since August 1.
Three ISAF personnel were killed in the Garmsir district of Helmand province on the same day a rogue Afghan police commander killed three US soldiers in Helmand’s Sangin district.
Infighting between two Taliban factions left eight militants dead, including three local commanders, and injured 10 others. Some Taliban survivors of the clash later defected to the Afghan government.
Afghan and Coalition forces detained a Taliban shadow governor in western Herat province. Within the past three days, 32 Taliban fighters and two commanders have joined the peace process in Herat.