Mullah Dadullah Front claims assassination of Afghan High Peace Council member
The Mullah Dadullah Front, a Taliban group closely linked to al Qaeda, claimed credit for yesterday's assassination of a senior member of the Afghan High Peace Council. The Mullah Dadullah Front, or...
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Omani jihadist killed in US airstrike in 'Khorasan'
Left and right images: Abu Hamza al Omani. Images from the SITE Intelligence Group. An Omani jihadist was among several foreign fighters who were killed in a recent US drone strike in the "Khorasan,"...
View ArticleUS drone strikes kill 7 AQAP fighters, 8 civilians in Yemen
The US launched two drone strikes today in a city in southern Yemen that is currently under the control of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Seven AQAP fighters and eight civilians are reported to...
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Pakistani Taliban releases video of Bannu jailbreak
Hakeemullah Mehsud (right) as he organized the attack on a prison in Bannu. The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan released a propaganda video that details the April 15 jailbreak in Bannu that freed...
View ArticleUS airstrike kills 2 AQAP operatives in eastern Yemen
View Larger Map The US killed two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in an airstrike in eastern Yemen today. The strike is the sixth by the US in the past week, and takes place as the Yemeni...
View ArticleUS adds Taliban financier, Haqqani Network operative to terror list
Today the US Treasury Department added a Taliban financier and a Haqqani Network "communications official" to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. Abdul Baqi Bari, the Taliban leader,...
View ArticleOmar Hammami releases part 1 of autobiography
Omar Hammami, an American who quickly rose through the ranks in Shabaab and was rumored to have been killed after publishing a video that claimed his life was in danger, has released the first part of...
View ArticleISAF captures Taliban liaison to Peshawar Shura
A combined Coalition and Afghan special operations team captured a senior Taliban leader in the Afghan north who served as a liaison to the Peshawar Shura, one of the Taliban's four military councils....
View ArticleUS drone strike kills 2 AQAP fighters in central Yemen
The US killed two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives in a drone airstrike in central Yemen yesterday as fighting for control of major towns and cities in the south heats up. The unmanned...
View ArticleAQAP suicide bomber kills nearly 100 Yemeni troops in capital
Video of the aftermath of the suicide attack in Sana'a, Yemen, on May 21, 2012. An al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula suicide bomber killed more than 90 Yemeni troops as they practiced for a parade in...
View ArticleAfghan NDS breaks up multiple terror plots across Afghanistan
Over the past few weeks, Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) operatives have arrested over a dozen Taliban and Pakistani militants and confiscated over 10 tons of homemade explosive...
View ArticleUS drones kill 4 'militants' in North Waziristan
The US launched its first drone airstrike inside Pakistan in more than two weeks, killing four "militants" today in an area of Pakistan that has been under Taliban control for eight years. The...
View ArticleISAF kills Taliban's deputy shadow governor for Nuristan
Coalition and Afghan special operations forces killed the Taliban's deputy shadow governor for Nuristan province in an airstrike today. The deputy shadow governor was killed just one week after ISAF...
View ArticleUS drones kill 10 in Mir Ali strike
The US launched another drone airstrike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. The strike is the second in two days. The unmanned Predators or the more heavily armed...
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US adds Abdullah Azzam Brigades to list of terror groups
Saleh al Qarawi, from the Saudi Interior Ministry's list of 85 most-wanted terrorists. The US State Department has added the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, an al Qaeda in Iraq affiliate that operates...
View ArticleISAF captures IMU facilitator in northeastern Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan special operations forces captured an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) facilitator during a raid today in Badakhshan province. The raid took place just one day after two...
View ArticleTaliban confirm death of Nuristan's deputy shadow governor
The Afghan Taliban confirmed that their deputy governor for Nuristan province was killed in a US airstrike. The Taliban announced the death of Jamil ur Rahman (or Jamil al Rahman bin Sa'adullah) in a...
View Article4 'militants' killed in latest US drone strike in Pakistan
The US has launched yet another airstrike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. Today's attack is the third in the past five days, and the third since the US failed to get...
View ArticleOmar Hammami calls for establishment of global caliphate
Omar Hammami, the American terrorist who has served as a Shabaab military commander, propagandist, recruiter, and fundraiser, recently released a statement calling for jihadists to declare a global...
View ArticleUS drones kill 8 in pair of strikes in North Waziristan
The US again targeted terrorists operating in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan, killing eight "militants" in two airstrikes. In the first strike, the unmanned Predators...
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