Taliban suicide assault team kills 36 Afghans in western city
A Taliban suicide assault team fanned out across the western city of Zaranj today, killing 36 Afghans in several attacks before being gunned down by Afghan forces. A suicide assault team consisting of...
View Article'Brigades of Osama bin Laden' forms in the West Bank
A new jihadist group calling itself the Brigades of Osama bin Laden has announced its formation, in a statement that was recently released on terrorist-linked web forums. The Brigades of Osama bin...
View ArticleThe rise of a 'German Salafist colony' in Egypt
BERLIN -- Earlier this year, the Austrian-born Islamist and al Qaeda supporter Muhammad Mahmoud fled Germany for Egypt, where he has launched an organizational structure to develop a base of German...
View ArticleSuicide assault team attacks Pakistani airbase in Punjab
A Taliban suicide assault team attacked a Pakistani airbase in Punjab province that is known to house nuclear weapons. The base has come under attack in the past. The assault team, which is reported to...
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11 NATO, Afghan troops killed in helicopter crash in Kandahar
A US Army CH-47D Chinook helicopter from the 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division prepares to land inside the landing zone at Forward Operation Base Joyce, in Kunar province,...
View ArticleISAF kills senior IMU leader, 'multiple insurgents' in airstrike
During an airstrike in the northern Afghan province of Takhar, Coalition special operations forces killed a senior Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader who recently assassinated two Afghan officials...
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Jihadists identify Tunisian fighter killed in recent US drone strike in Yemen
Abu Hafs al Tunisi. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group. An internet jihadist confirmed that a Tunisian was killed during a recent US drone strike in Al Baydah province in Yemen. A message posted...
View Article2 US soldiers killed in latest green-on-blue attacks in Afghanistan
Two US soldiers were killed during a pair of attacks by Afghan security personnel in southern and western Afghanistan. The so-called green-on-blue attacks have now accounted for 13 percent of ISAF...
View ArticleTurkish fighters in the Islamic Jihad Union
Over the past several years, a number of Turks have been killed while waging jihad against NATO, US, and Afghan forces in Afghanistan. Other Turks been arrested in foiled plots to carry out attacks...
View ArticleUS drones kill 6 'militants' in Pakistan's Shawal Valley
The US launched a drone strike today in the Shawal Valley, a terrorist haven in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan, killing six "militants." The strike is the first in...
View Article8 more 'militants' killed in pair of drone strikes in North Waziristan
The US launched the three drone strikes in the past 24 hour in an area known as a terrorist haven in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. In the first strike, the remotely piloted...
View ArticleISAF kills Taliban district governor, 'dozens' of fighters in Kunar airstrikes
Coalition and Afghan forces killed a Taliban shadow district governor, his deputy, and 'dozens' of fighters in two airstrikes yesterday in the remote eastern province of Kunar, a known al Qaeda haven....
View ArticleAnother ISAF soldier killed in green-on-blue attack in Afghanistan
A member of the International Security Assistance Force was shot and killed in southern Afghanistan today when a man in an Afghan police uniform turned his weapon on a group of ISAF soldiers, ISAF...
View ArticleAl Qaeda-linked Taliban commander killed in recent airstrike in Kunar
The Coalition confirmed that an al Qaeda-linked Taliban commander who was responsible for a recent suicide attack that killed three US soldiers and a USAID officer in Kunar was himself killed three...
View ArticleISAF kills, captures al Qaeda-linked Taliban commanders in east
Coalition and Afghan special operations forces captured an al Qaeda-linked Taliban commander in Ghazni and killed another in Kunar during raids over the past 24 hours. Both commanders were targeted in...
View ArticleUS drone strike kills 5 'militants' in North Waziristan
The US launched a drone strike today in a village near Miramshah, the main town in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan, killing five "militants." The strike is the fourth in...
View ArticleAl Qaeda in Iraq video details deadly raid in Haditha
Warning: the video is extremely graphic and shows al Qaeda in Iraq fighters brutally executing Iraqi policemen. The Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaeda's political front in the country, recently released a...
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Al Qaeda releases biography of slain senior leader
A banner accompanying an article on Atiyah Abd al Rahman in al Qaeda's "Vanguards of Khorasan" magazine. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group. The 21st, and latest, online edition of al Qaeda's...
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Lashkar-e-Jhangvi publishes beheading video
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi fighters just before they behead a Pakistani Shia. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group. The al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) published a gruesome video on jihadist internet...
View ArticleGreen-on-blue attacks in Afghanistan: the data
Data last updated on Aug. 27, 2012 I. INTRODUCTION Attacks on Coalition forces by Afghan forces -- the so-called green-on-blue attacks -- are emerging as a major threat in the 11-year-old war in...
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