Yemen says kills deputy regional head of al Qaeda

(Credit: Reuters/Handout/Files) (Reuters) - Yemeni armed forces have killed Said al-Shehri, a man seen as the second-in-command of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a government website said on Monday. The Ministry of Defence website said Shehri was a Saudi national who was killed, along with six other militants, in any army operation in the remote Hadramout province...

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16 dead in Kunduz suicide bombing

(Pajhwok photo) KABUL (PAN): Ten policemen and six civilians were killed when a suicide bombing ripped through a busy marketplace in the capital of northern Kunduz province on Monday afternoon, officials said. Several others, including a woman and a child, were wounded in the blast that took place at a crowded square in Kunduz City at 3:15pm, the deputy police chief of...

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Car bomb kills 10 in northwest Pakistan - officials

Map of Pakistan (Photo credit: Omer Wazir) (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded at a market in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 45, officials said, adding that the death toll was likely to climb. Many people had been walking along a narrow road beside the market in the town of Parachinar in the Kurram tribal area when the bomb exploded,...

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8 Armed Taliban Killed, 5 Wounded and 5 Arrested by ANP (Sep.10.2012.)

Publish Date: Sep 10, 2012 Eight Armed Taliban Killed, Five Wounded and Five Arrested by Afghan National Police Counterterrorism: During the past 24 hours, Afghan National Police, Afghan National Army, NDS and Coalition Forces launched nine joint clearance operations in Kabul, Kandahar, Logar, Paktiya, Herat, Helmand and Nimroz...

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2 al-Qaida terrorist cells busted in Yemen's Aden

ADEN, Yemen, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Yemeni security forces dismantled two terrorist cells in the southern port city of Aden, foiling their attack plans on government compounds and military bases across the province, a police officer told Xinhua on Sunday. Units of the counter-terrorism security forces managed to dismantle two terrorist cells affiliated with al-Qaida in...

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British girl kidnapped in Lahore, Pakistan

English: Location of Lahore, in Punjab. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) ISLAMABAD, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- A British girl of Pakistani origin was kidnapped in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, said local police on Sunday night. Police sources said that the kidnapped was a 20-year-old girl named Aisha Ali. She came to Lahore to attend a wedding ceremony and was kidnapped at the...

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Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb commander dies in Mali: Algerian official

Al-Qaeda senior commander Nabil Sahrawi died in a car accident in northern Mali on Sunday. (Al Arabiya) A senior commander of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb died in a car accident in northern Mali on Sunday, an Algerian security official said. Nabil Sahrawi, an Algerian national who is also known as Abu Olqoma, was a military commander of AQIM in the Sahara desert...

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R.I.P. - CWO2 Jose L. Montenegro Jr., CWO2 Thalia S. Ramirez

DOD Identifies Army Casualties             The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.             They died Sept. 5, in Logar Province, Afghanistan, of injuries suffered when their aircraft...

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Sep. 10., 2012. - RC-East operational update

BAGRAM, Afghanistan – Afghan and coalition forces detained two insurgents and cleared five improvised explosive devices during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout the past 24 hours, Sept. 9. Ghazni province Afghan National Security Forces and coalition forces found and safely cleared two IEDs, one in Khwaia Omari district and one in Qarah Bagh district. Khowst...

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