Attacks Target Afghan Mosque, Tribal Elders

Districts of Khost (not showing the Shamal District). (Photo credit: Wikipedia) At least nine worshippers have been injured in an attack on a mosque in eastern Afghanistan. Khost police chief Sardar Mohammad Zazai said three grenades were thrown into a mosque in the Baghi Sara area. He said one exploded in the mosque and another in the courtyard, while a third failed...

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3 Al-Shabaab suspects killed in Kenya's coastal region

MOMBASA, Kenya, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's security forces have killed three suspected Al-Shabaab militia from Somalia in the coastal region of Lamu as the East African nation enhances security along its borders with the Horn of Africa nation. Coast Provincial Commissioner Samuel Kilele said they were killed on Tuesday night by a joint security operation conducted by Kenya...

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Suicide bomber shot dead in northern Kunduz province

Districts of Kunduz. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) According to local authorities in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan, a suspected suicide bomber was shot dead in Dasht-e-Archi district in this province on Wednesday before he detonate his explosives. District chief for Dasht-e-Archi Sheikh Sadruddin said the incident took place around 6:30 am local time and the suicide...

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'Brigades of Osama bin Laden' forms in the West Bank

By Bill Roggio - August 14, 2012 - LWJ 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 Laden issued a statement, which was released on Aug. 10 by the Al Minbar Media Foundation and subsequently published...

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Aug. 15., 2012. - ISAF Joint Command Morning Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban weapons dealer during an operation in Sangin district, Helmand province, today. The weapons dealer provided homemade explosives and other improvised explosive device material to Taliban fighters. At the time of his arrest, he was involved in plans to smuggle a large quantity of HME into the...

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Aug. 15., 2012. - RC-East operational update

BAGRAM, Afghanistan – Afghan and coalition forces killed three insurgents, detained 11, located two weapons caches and cleared five improvised explosive devices during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout the past 24 hours, Aug. 14. Ghazni province Afghan Uniformed Police and coalition forces detained five insurgents during an engagement in Andar district....

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4 killed, 15 injured in clashes between Republican Guards, Yemeni troops

ADEN, Yemen, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Four people were killed and 15 injured Tuesday in clashes between members of the Republican Guards and soldiers guarding the Yemeni defense ministry in the capital Sanaa, a medical source said. The clashes erupted when members of the Republican Guards, led by the son of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, were protesting near the defense...

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Nigeria: Suicide Bombers Die While Heading For Kaduna Mosque

What could have possibly caused  another major havoc was yesterday averted when suicide bombers suspected to be heading to the famous Sultan Bello Mosque in Ungwa Sarki met their untimely death when the Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) they were carrying exploded on them, killing two of the carriers with the third one is no where to be found. According to an eyewitness,...

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Taliban suicide assault team kills 36 Afghans in western city

Districts of Nimruz. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Bill Roggio - August 14, 2012 - LWJ 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 11 men armed with assault rifles and wearing suicide vests hit multiple targets...

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