Seven al-Qaida suspects captured in Yemen's Aden

ADEN, Yemen, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Seven suspected members of the Yemen-based al-Qaida offshoot were captured by security authorities in the port city of Aden on Friday, a Yemeni government official told Xinhua. Security soldiers apprehended seven al-Qaida terror suspects in the Cerater neighborhood in Aden after they infiltrated from neighboring southern Abyan province,...

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TTP commander arrested from Nowshera

English: Pakistan Administrative Units - Tier 1. This map is based on the Pakistan location map and district maps obtained from respective government websites of Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwah. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) NOWSHERA: An important Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander Wajihuddin Mehsud was arrested from Nowshera on Saturday, DawnNews...

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Badruddin Haqqani rumored killed in US drone strike

By Bill Roggio - August 25, 2012 - LWJ Badruddin Haqqani. Click to view slide show of the Haqqani Network leader. US officials believe that Badruddin Haqqani, one of the top leaders of the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network, may have been killed in a recent US drone strike in North Waziristan. US officials have told The New York Times ...

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Air strikes kill 12 militants in eastern Afghan town

Districts of Kunar. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) ASSADABAD, Afghanistan, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Air strikes have killed 12 Taliban fighters in the eastern Kunar province, provincial police chief Awaz Mohammad Nazari said Saturday. "The strikes carried out by ISAF pilotless plane in Sholtann village of Shigal district on Friday evening killed 12 Pakistani Taliban militants on...

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Bajaur Taliban leader, deputy killed in airstrike in eastern Afghanistan

By Bill Roggio - August 25, 2012 - LWJ Mullah Dadullah (right), the emir of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan's branch in Bajaur. Photo from The Associated Press. The head of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan in the Bajaur tribal agency and his deputy were killed yesterday in a US airstrike in the remote Afghan province of Kunar. Mullah Dadullah, who...

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Afghan police kill 17 Taliban, capture 26

KABUL, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Afghan police backed by the national army and the NATO-led troops have killed 17 Taliban militants and arrested 26 others over the past 24 hours across the country, Interior Ministry said in a statement released here on Saturday. "The national police backed by the national army and the NATO- led coalition forces have killed 17 armed Taliban militants...

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Aug. 25., 2012. - ISAF Joint Command Morning Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan and coalition officials confirmed today that the Tehrik-i Taliban leader Maulawi Dadullah was one of several insurgents killed in a precision airstrike in Shigal wa Sheltan district, Kunar province, yesterday. Maulawi Dadullah, also known as Jamal, was responsible for the movement of fighters and weapons, as well as attacks against Afghan...

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Aug. 25., 2012. - RC-East operational update

BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Afghan and coalition forces killed eight insurgents, detained three, located a weapons cache and cleared two improvised explosive devices during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout the past 24 hours, Aug. 24. Ghazni province Afghan National Security Forces and coalition forces discovered a weapons cache in Ghazni district. The cache...

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Four Australian soldiers hurt in bomb blast

ONLY the quick reactions of his fellow soldiers has saved the life of one of four Australian Diggers wounded in a bomb blast in Afghanistan. The soldier was seriously injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated during operations alongside the Afghan National Security Force in Uruzgan Province. He was given immediate medical assistance on the ground before...

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Kashmiri jihadist commander killed in North Waziristan drone strike

By Bill Roggio - August 24, 2012 - LWJ A jihadist commander known to have fought in Kashmir was one of several "militants" killed a US drone strike in the Shawal Valley in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan last weekend. His funeral was attended by the head of the Hizbul Mujahideen and by a prominent Pakistani politician....

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Lejeune Marine awarded Silver Star during change of command ceremony

The 2nd Marine Division commander’s last act as leader of the over 24,000 Marines was to award one of them the Silver Star at an elaborate change of command ceremony aboard Camp Lejeune Thursday morning. At quite possibly the largest ceremony to take place on Lejeune this year, 5,000 of the 24,000 total 2nd Marine Division Marines bid farewell to their commander of two years,...

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Mali Islamists warn Algeria after hostage swap rejected

Islamic fighters stand guard at the entrance of the Gao hospital in Mali. (AFP) An al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group based in northern Mali warned Algeria of deadly reprisals on Friday after Algerian officials rejected a hostage swap, a statement released by the group said. The so-called Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) is one of several...

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Taliban kill 4 security men after kidnapping

Districts of Paktia Province (Photo credit: Wikipedia) GARDEZ (PAN): The Taliban pulled four security officials on their way back to work after Eid holidays off a vehicle and killed them in southeastern Paktia province, police said on Friday. The four men, including three Afghan National Army service-members, were forced out at gun-point from the vehicle and kidnapped...

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