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Taliban lionizes Haqqani commander who celebrated ties to Al Qaeda, held American hostage
Mullah Sangeen Zadran, a senior Taliban and Haqqani Network leader, was intricately linked to Al Qaeda. he viewed the two groups as inseparable “brothers.” The U.S. killed Sangeen and an Al Qaeda bomb maker in a drone strike in Pakistan in 2013.
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US charges American citizen with conspiring to kill soldiers in Afghanistan
Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh, a member of al Qaeda’s paramilitary force in Afghanistan and Pakistan, was involved in a double suicide attack in Khost, Afghanistan in 2009.
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Jihadists tout Taliban ‘special forces’ training camp in Afghanistan
The Taliban and allied groups such as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, al Qaeda, Harakat-ul-Mujahideen, and Lashkar-e-Taiba are known to have run dozens of camps inside Afghanistan even as the Coalition was present.
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US launches another drone strike in North Waziristan
The strike is the second in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan in the past week.
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Mullah Sangeen Zadran, al Qaeda commander reported killed in drone strike
The senior Haqqani Network commander and a Lashkar al Zil explosives expert are said to be among those killed in yesterday’s strike in North Waziristan.
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ISAF targets al Qaeda leaders in Kunar
Over the past several days, ISAF launched five raids against two senior al Qaeda leaders and two al Qaeda-linked Taliban commanders in Kunar and Nuristan provinces.
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US adds al Qaeda explosives expert to list of global terrorists
Abd al Hamid al Masli, a Libyan, is a “key improvised explosive device (IED) facilitator” who operates in Waziristan. He temporarily served as the head of al Qaeda’s military committee, likely after Abdullah Said al Libi, the former head of the Lashkar al Zil, was killed in a drone strike.
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Prominent al Qaeda leader killed in drone strike in 2012
Abd el Kader Mahmoud Mohamed el Sayed was a close advisor to al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri and served as a military commander in Afghanistan before he was killed. El Sayed was involved in the Luxor massacre and, while living in Milan, was recorded by Italian intelligence discussing terror plots against the West.
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Taliban release video of planning for Camp Bastion assault
The video clip shows a map on a whiteboard that details the location of the security perimeter, aircraft, hangars, and other buildings. Al Qaeda and the Mullah Dadullah Front were likely involved in the assault that destroyed six USMC Harriers.
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ISAF captures Taliban leader involved in Camp Bastion attack
The US military also announced that the Harrier squadron commander was one of the two Marines killed in the suicide assault on Camp Bastion that took out eight strike aircraft.
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Taliban provide some details on Camp Bastion attack
The Taliban claimed the “Khalid ibn al Walid group” and the “Omar bin al Khattab group” were part of the attack, and said they used silencers.
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Al Qaeda ‘weapons expert’ killed in eastern Afghanistan
Taqwa, an Afghan national, directed attacks and funneled IEDs and weapons to insurgents in Paktika province. ISAF has conducted at least 19 raids against al Qaeda’s network in Afghanistan since the end of May.
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ISAF kills 2 Taliban commanders linked to ‘foreign insurgents’
One of the commanders had planned an August 2008 ambush in Kabul province that resulted in the deaths of 10 French soldiers.
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Laskar-e-Taiba commander killed in recent airstrike in Kunar
Ammar died in the same airstrike on July 1 that also killed Khatab Shafiq, a Pakistani citizen who served as Lashkar-e-Taiba’s leader for Kunar province.
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Saudi al Qaeda commander confirmed killed in Kunar airstrike
ISAF confirmed that Hanzallah was killed in the July 1 airstrike in Watahpur. He is the third senior al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba leader killed in the district in the past five weeks.
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Al Qaeda releases photos of slain Khorasan commanders
A jihadist media outlet has released previously unseen photographs of slain top al Qaeda leaders Abu Laith al Libi, Abdullah Said al Libi, and Abu Abdullah al Shami.
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Lashakr al Zil strong in Afghanistan-Pakistan border region
Last October, a 500-man force assaulted an observation post in Kunar. The attack was launched from Pakistan.
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US adds IMU, IJU operatives to list of global terrorists
Mounir and Yassin Chouka, two Germans who are operatives in the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and Mevlut Kar, an Islamic Jihad Union facilitator, were added to the list of Specially Designated Global terrorists. All three have ties to al Qaeda.
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‘Foreign fighter’ cell leader captured in central Afghanistan
The commander led a cell of approximately 50 foreign fighters in the central province of Wardak.
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Al Qaeda leader linked to Iran may have been killed in recent Predator strike
Press reports indicate that Atiyah Abd al Rahman, who is Osama bin Laden’s ambassador to Iran, was killed in a recent airstrike in northern Pakistan. US intelligence officials cannot confirm Atiyah’s death, but do confirm that he has relocated from Iran to northern Pakistan.
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Senior bin Laden aide killed in recent Predator strike
Mohammed Usman was a key member of Brigade 313 and helped unite al Qaeda with several Pakistani jihadist groups.
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Taliban, al Qaeda forces repel Afghan Army assault in eastern Afghanistan
An Afghan Army operation was “routed” during an operation along the Pakistani border in Laghman province.
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Al Qaeda Brigade 313 website goes online
The website is linked to the Pakistan-based al Qaeda military formation that is commanded by Ilyas Kashmiri.
