ISAF targets al Qaeda leaders in Kunar
Coalition and Afghan special operations forces targeted two al Qaeda leaders in separate airstrikes today in the northeastern Afghan province on Kunar. The raids are the first reported against al Qaeda...
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US drones target local AQAP leaders in Yemen
Kaid al Dhahab, the new AQAP emir for Baydah province. Photo from The Yemen Post. The US targeted two local leaders of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in the central province of Baydah today. The...
View ArticleAl Qaeda affiliate and Turaeg rebels merge, create breakaway state in Mali
The secular rebel group of Saharan Tuareg tribesmen known as the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) has agreed to merge with the al Qaeda-supported Ansar Dine (Defenders of Faith)...
View ArticleISAF kills al Qaeda's 2nd in command for Afghanistan
Al Qaeda's second in command for Afghanistan was killed in Sunday's airstrike in the northeastern Afghan province of Kunar, the Coalition reported. Sakhr al Taifi, a Saudi al Qaeda leader who was also...
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Emir tells of Taliban's rise to power in remote Pakistani tribal agency
Hafiz Saeed Khan, the Taliban's emir in Arakzai. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group. The leader for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan in Arakzai said the Taliban were instrumental in...
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IMU eulogizes military commander, media operative
Abbos Mansoor, the military commander for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan who was killed in 2011. Image from Furqoon, the IMU's website. The al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan recently...
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Jihad in Seattle
Michael D. McCright, a.k.a. Mikhial Jihad. Last week, Michael D. McCright, a.k.a. Mikhial Jihad, a previously convicted felon from the north Seattle suburb of Lynnwood, pled guilty to lesser charges...
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US troops repel suicide assault on base in eastern Afghanistan
Forward Operating Base Salerno, situated north of Khost City, is a main Coalition hub for operations in southeastern Afghanistan. Photo courtesy of the Market Garden Commemorative Committee. The...
View ArticleUS drones kill 'good' Taliban commander in South Wazirstan
The US killed a commander loyal to 'good' Taliban leader Mullah Nazir in a drone strike in South Waziristan. Today's strike is the first in South Waziristan since mid-March. The remotely piloted...
View ArticleLatest US drone strike kills 10 'militants' in South Waziristan
US drones targeted a group of local Taliban fighters and "foreigners" who were gathering to mourn the death of a commander who was killed in another strike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal...
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Malian rebels quit accord signed with al Qaeda affiliate
Ansar Dine fighters fly al Qaeda's banner in Northern Mali in late April 2012. (Source: PanAfrican News Wire) Less than a week after Tuareg rebels belonging to the National Movement for the Liberation...
View ArticleUS drones kill 15 in North Waziristan strike
The US carried out another drone strike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. The strike is the third in Pakistaniin three days, and the eighth in the two weeks since the...
View ArticleBrother of Taliban's military commission reported killed
Afghan officials have claimed that a senior Taliban military commander in northern Helmand province who is also the brother of the emir of the military commission was killed during a raid late last...
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Guantanamo detainee releases audio message to Syrian people
Fayiz al Kandari. Screen shot of the video from the SITE Intelligence Group. An audio message to the Syrian people purportedly from a current Guantanamo detainee has been released online by jihadist...
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Abu Yahya al Libi killed in latest drone strike, US officials say
Abu Yahya al Libi. US intelligence officials said they believe that Abu Yahya al Libi, al Qaeda's second in command and a top religious figure and ideologue, was killed in yesterday's drone strike in...
View ArticleTaliban kill 21 Afghans in double suicide attack
The Taliban killed 21 Afghan civilians and wounded more than 50 in a double suicide attack near one of NATO's largest military bases in the country. Kandahar's chief of place blamed "the agents of...
View ArticleISAF detains al Qaeda facilitator in Afghan north
Coalition and Afghan special operations teams captured an al Qaeda facilitator during a raid today in the northern province of Takhar. "The facilitator served as a financier and liaison between al...
View Article7 Shabaab leaders added to Rewards for Justice most wanted list
The US State department has added seven senior leaders of Shabaab, al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, to the Rewards for Justice list. The rewards, which were first reported by Reuters, range from $7...
View ArticleISAF airstrike kills 3 al Qaeda operatives in Afghan east
Coalition and Afghan special operations forces killed three al Qaeda operatives in an airstrike in the same district where 38 US and Afghan troops, including Navy SEALs, were killed when their...
View ArticleNDS arrests senior Taliban leader and 14 others linked to school poisonings
In the wake of the seventh suspected poison attack against a girls' school in Afghanistan's northern Takhar province since mid-April, the Afghan National Security Directorate (NDS) yesterday announced...
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