Islamic World, a Turkish jihadist magazine, said that Bekkay Harrach fought against Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, traveled to Iraq, where he was wounded, and was detained by Syrian security forces. Harrach also lived with Atiyah Abd al Rahman in Pakistan.
Special operations forces have conducted at least 31 raids against the IMU in eight of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces so far this year; 13 of those raids have occurred in Kunduz.
Special operations forces have conducted 30 raids agains the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in Afghanistan so far this year; 12 raids have taken place in Kunduz.
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader directed the group’s operations in the northern Afghan province, and provided training and direction for IED attacks against Coalition and Afghan forces.
The double suicide attack killed 10 civilians and two policemen in Sayyidabad, a district where a helicopter carrying Navy SEALs was shot down one year ago.
Mullah Anwar served as the IMU’s leader in the Burkah district in Afghanistan’s Baghlan province, and was responsible for the assassination of a district governor and a member of the Afghan High Peace Council in Takhar.
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader “directed improvised explosive device attacks in Kunduz province” and “acquired IEDs, weapons and rockets and distributed them to insurgents throughout the region.”
The al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan has announced the death of its emir, Abu Usman Adil, in a drone strike in Pakistan in April, and named Usman Ghazi to replace him. Adil was responsible for ramping up the IMU’s activities in Afghanistan.
The strike took place in Mir Ali, a known terrorist haven where the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and the Islamic Jihad Group, an IMU splinter group, are based.
Almost 30 percent of the announced raids this year against the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan have taken place in Kunduz province.
Special operations forces killed Khadim, an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader and explosives expert who recruited and trained fighters for suicide attacks, during yesterday’s raid in Kunduz.
“Numerous suspected insurgents” were detained during the raid that targeted a senior Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader in Kunduz province.
Special operations forces have conducted three raids this year in Takhar against the al Qaeda and Taliban-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
The attack took place in Samangan, where a suicide bomber killed 23 people, including top Afghan officials, in an attack just four days ago.
Also killed were the western zone police commander and the chief of the National Directorate of Security in Samangan province.
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leaders are Afghan nationals who were involved in suicide operations in Kunduz.
Special operations forces have now conducted 22 raids against the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, in eight of Afghanistan’s 24 provinces.
The attack took place in Sayyidabad, a hotbed of Taliban and al Qaeda activity. The Afghan soldier escaped and the Taliban claimed he joined them.
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.
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.
Two Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commanders involved in the May kidnappings were targeted on Monday; one was killed and the other was captured.
The Taliban commanders killed in Nangarhar “facilitated the movement of foreign fighters across the border from Pakistan into Afghanistan.” The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander was involved in the kidnapping of four aid workers in Badakhshan.
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.
The al Qaeda facilitator, who was based in Takhar province, “served as a financier and liaison between al Qaeda leaders,” according to ISAF.
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan facilitator was targeted in the remote northeastern province of Badakhshan.
Commander Abbos Mansoor was named the military emir of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan just days before he was killed in a drone strike, while Abdul Aziz served as a combat cameraman and producer for Jundallah Studio.
ISAF has targeted the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan six times in Faryab since mid-March.
Badakhshan province has become a haven for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
The Taliban commander is linked to Dost Mohammed, the shadow governor of Nuristan, and has helped “foreign fighters and suicide bombers” conduct attacks in the Afghan north.
Special operations forces have targeted two different IMU leaders in the Imam Sahib district over the past three days.