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Boko Haram kills scores in attacks in northern Nigeria

A terror group linked with al Qaeda's affiliates in Africa has launched a series of attacks in northern Nigeria that have killed scores of people. The recent attacks launched by Boko Haram included...

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Taliban suicide bomber kills 7 Afghans at Baghlan mosque

A Taliban suicide bomber killed seven people, including a local police commander, in an attack today at a mosque in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan. The suicide bomber detonated outside a...

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IMU announces death of German jihadist

Abu Bakr al Almani. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan recently announced the death of a previously unknown jihadist from Germany. The announcement of the death...

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Hakeemullah Mehsud threatens more attacks in Pakistan

The leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan vowed to carry out more attacks on the Pakistani state and reiterated his pledge of fealty to Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar. Hakeemullah...

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ISAF beats back assault on eastern Afghan base

Coalition troops defeated a massed assault by the Haqqani Network and allied terror groups on a remote base near the border with Pakistan earlier today. Afghan officials claimed that more than 60 enemy...

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Kazakh jihadi leader seeks restoration of Islamic caliphate

The leader of a little-known terror group that operates in Afghanistan and Kazakhstan said his organization seeks to aid in the restoration of an Islamic caliphate. Rawil Kusaynuv, the emir of the...

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Swiss jihadi denounces Tunisian elections as Western 'trick'

A Swiss terrorist originally from North Africa who serves as a senior al Qaeda operative has released a message denouncing the recent election in Tunisia. The message, which was released on jihadist...

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'Good' Taliban leader threatens Pakistani state over drone strikes

The most senior Taliban leader in North Waziristan, who is favored by the Pakistani state, threatened to sever a peace agreement if the government and military do not halt the Predator and Reaper...

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ISAF targets Hizb-i Islami Khalis leader in Afghan east

Map of Afghanistan's provinces. Click map to view larger image. During a raid in eastern Afghanistan two days ago, Coalition and Afghanistan special operations forces targeted a leader of the Hizb-i...

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US military's role in Afghanistan after 2014

In an interview with TOLONews, US General John Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, discussed US plans to support Afghanistan after 2014. While the...

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Senior Shabaab leaders rumored killed in blast

View Larger Map Two of the top leaders in the al Qaeda-linked Shabaab are rumored to have been killed in a massive blast in a town near Mogadishu late last night. The origin of the blast is unknown,...

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US Predators strike in Miramshah

US Predators killed five people in an airstrike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. The unmanned CIA-operated Predators, or the more deadly Reapers, fired several...

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Jund al Khilafah claims attack in Kazakhstan

A terror group based along the Afghan-Pakistan border has claimed responsibility for last week's attack in Kazakhstan that killed four security personnel and two civilians, and has vowed to continue...

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AQAP seizes another town in southern Yemen

View Larger Map Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has taken control of yet another town in southern Yemen. The town of Al Koud fell to the terror group on Monday after heavy fighting over the weekend....

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US Predators kill 18 Taliban fighters in South Waziristan

US Predators struck again in Pakistan's lawless tribal agencies, killing 18 Taliban fighters today in an airstrike carried out by multiple drones in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South...

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ISAF targets 'al Qaeda facilitator' in Nangarhar

Coalition and Afghan special operations forces targeted an al Qaeda facilitator who operates in an area of eastern Afghanistan known to harbor members of the terror group. A combined special operations...

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US Predators kill 7 'militants' in North Waziristan

US Predators struck for the third day in a row in Pakistan's lawless tribal agencies, killing seven "militants" today in an area of North Waziristan that has not previously been targeted in the eight...

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Haqqani Network releases video of training camps

The Haqqani Network has released footage of its fighters going though training at a camp situated along the Afghan-Pakistan border. The video provides an interesting and previously unseen look at the...

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2 Brits thought killed in US drone strike in Pakistan

Two British Muslims were killed in a US Predator airstrike that took place in the Waziristan tribal areas about three months ago, according to their families. One of the men had fled the United Kingdom...

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ISAF kills al Qaeda 'facilitator' in Afghan east

Coalition and Afghan special operations forces killed an al Qaeda facilitator who served as a trainer and courier in an eastern Afghan district where US Navy SEALs were killed after their helicopter...

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