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.
A clash among Taliban leaders in Herat province left four militants dead and three wounded. The Taliban shadow district governor for Obe district and his military commander were killed in the fighting.
Afghan officials announced the arrest of eight suspects connected to the rash of school poison attacks in Sar-i-Pul province. Well over a dozen suspected poison attacks against girls’ schools this year have sickened over 2,000 students in the country.
Afghan officials reported two additional poison attacks in northern Afghanistan and one in central Bamyan province. Since the middle of April, at least 13 attacks have been made on 12 schools, and approximately 900 pupils have been sickened.
The poisoning attacks on Afghan girls’ schools are taking place with increasing frequency in the northern provinces of Takhar and Sar-i-Pul. Since the middle of April, at least 10 attacks have been made on nine schools, and approximately 650 pupils have been sickened.
Taliban fighters executed a fellow commander in Parwan province following accusations he had an “illicit relationship” with a local woman. In Nangarhar province, suspected insurgents detonated a music CD stall in Jalalabad City.
Afghan officials think poison was used to sicken more than 100 female students in the northern province, marking the ninth suspected poison attack in northern Afghanistan since April.
Afghan intelligence officials announced the arrest of 15 suspects in connection to the series of suspected poison attacks against girls’ schools in northern Afghanistan. Among those arrested were a Taliban deputy shadow governor and three women.
A new Islamist group called Jama’atu Ansarul Musilimina fi Biladin Sudan has emerged in Nigeria and vowed to defend the interests of Islam and Muslims throughout Africa, but adheres to a different “understanding of jihad” than Boko Haram.
Less than a week after both parties agreed to establish an independent state in northern Mali and implement sharia law, Tuareg rebels have publicly renounced the accord signed with the al Qaeda-affiliated Ansar Dine group.
Homegrown Islamic extremists targeted US military personnel in the northwestern city.
National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) rebels agreed to merge with the al Qaeda-backed Islamist group Ansar Dine (Defenders of Faith), and declared the creation of an Islamic state in northern Mali.
Afghan intelligence operatives captured five suspected Taliban suicide bombers and 560 kilograms of explosives on the outskirts of Kabul’s international airport; they also arrested a Taliban leader in Helmand province.
Afghan intelligence officials announced the latest achievements in thwarting multiple Taliban terror plots, including attacks intended for Kabul, Logar, Kandahar, and Nangarhar provinces.
Taliban leader Mullah Ghulam Hassan issued a 27-minute-long videotape denouncing the arrest and torture last month of Maluvi Mohammad Ismail by the Taliban’s Quetta Shura. In an unprecedented move, Hassan vowed revenge for Ismail’s mistreatment and threatened to kill senior Quetta Shura leadership.
Afghan officials interdicted a truck carrying 1,000 kilograms of explosives in eastern Kabul, preventing a major catastrophe and marking the third major terror plot broken up since April 13.
The NDS chief confirmed that the Taliban executed Maluvi Mohammad Ismail, the former Deputy Military Council Chairman for the Quetta Shura. Twenty-five other senior Afghan Taliban leaders may also have been executed in Quetta, Pakistan for defying orders not to engage in talks with the Afghan government.
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The Taliban’s leading website has been ‘infiltrated’ for the third time in less than a year by unknown cyber-assailants. The Taliban have yet to comment on the disruption to their El Emara website.
At least 10 people have been killed and dozens injured after hundreds of Taliban fighters loyal to Hafiz Gul Bahadur and Sirajuddin Haqqani clashed with local anti-Taliban tribesmen in the Shawa area of North Waziristan.
Afghan intelligence officials announced the interdiction of 11 tons of potassium chlorate, a high-powered explosive, and arrested 12 Taliban and Haqqani Network fighters in separate raids.
Assassins shot dead Sitara Achekzai, a proclaimed champion of women’s rights, during a broad daylight shooting outside her home in southern Kandahar. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the shooting.