A Yemeni drone specialist who had traveled to Iraq to train other Iranian-backed fighters was among those killed in a U.S. airstrike near Baghdad last week, American and Iraqi defense officials said, illustrating the extensive cooperation among militant groups supported by Tehran.
The July 30 airstrike in Musayib, a town south of Iraq’s capital, targeted militants preparing to launch an attack on U.S. forces, officials have said. The strike killed Hussein Abdullah Mastoor al-Shabal, a Houthi commander, though the Pentagon was unaware of who he was until after an assessment of the operation’s results, said the U.S. official, who like others in this story spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the airstrike.
Read more…
Source: The Washington Post
Related:
- Nigeria: Police Foil Attack On Military Checkpoint, Arrest Four ESN/IPOB Members In Imo
July 5, 2021
Men of the Imo State Police Command have foiled what would have been an attack on the military checkpoint along Owerri/ Orlu Road and arrested four members of the proscribed ESN/IPOB organisation. The futile bid of the hoodlums, who came in their numbers was to launch an improvised explosive as they were engaged in a gun ...
- Syria: Several civilians injured in booby-trapped motorcycle explosion in al-Shadadi City
July 5, 2021
A number of civilians were injured in the explosion of a booby-trapped motorcycle in front of one of the US occupation-backed QSD militia in al-Shadadi City in Hasaka southern countryside. Local sources told SANA reporter that a booby-trapped motorcycle went off before noon on Monday in front of one of the QSD positions on the main ...
- Northern Ireland: Armagh woman faces jail term after she admits having improvised viable blast bomb
July 5, 2021
A CO Armagh woman faces the prospect of a jail sentence after she admitted in court to having an improvised but viable blast bomb. With Rebecca Gregory appearing at Newry Crown Court by videolink from her solicitor’s office, defence counsel Aaron Thompson asked for the single charge to be put to the 22-year-old again and she ...
- Russia: FSB thwarts string of terror plots, including two in Moscow
July 5, 2021
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has prevented a series of terrorist attacks in Moscow, as well as in the Kabardino-Balkaria and Astrakhan Regions. Two terrorists were detained, and another six were eliminated, the FSB Public Relations Center told TASS on Monday. A Russian national was apprehended in Moscow, who was plotting simultaneous attacks against the public ...
- Pakistan: Police recover four hand-grenades, IEDs, weapons and ammunition in D.I. Khan
July 4, 2021
Two militants of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, Gandapur group, were killed while four hand-grenades, IEDs, weapons and ammunition were recovered during an operation conducted by the police here on Saturday. According to a handout, police had received a report from an intelligence agency about the presence of the terrorists in the Gundi Ashiq area. On receiving the ...
- Afghanistan: Magnetic Mine Blast in Kandahar Governor’s Compound Kills 2
July 4, 2021
The secretary of Kandahar’s governor and a security guard were killed, and another security guard was wounded, in a magnetic IED blast that occurred in a parking area in the governor’s compound in Kandahar city on Sunday afternoon, local security sources confirmed. The blast took place about 2:15 pm local time in Kandahar city as Mansour ...
- Afghanistan: Four civilians killed in Paktia explosion: police
July 4, 2021
At least four civilians – including two women and a child – were killed in a roadside mine explosion in the Paktia province, local officials said Sunday. Hayatullah Nizami, a spokesman for Paktia police, said that the incident took place in the Robat area in the provincial capital Gardez city when a vehicle hit a roadside ...
- Nigeria: IED Explosion Kills 1, Injures 2 In Kaduna
July 4, 2021
Kaduna State police command has confirmed that on Saturday there was an explosion at Shagari Close in Badarawa Kaduna as result of a suspected Improvised Explosive Device (IED) concealed in three bottles of popular children’s iuice (Viju Milk) which exploded and killed one of the children and injured two others. A statement issued by the police ...
- Somalia: 10 killed in Al-Shabaab suicide bomb attack on tea shop in Mogadishu
July 3, 2021
A suicide bombing attack by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group on a crowded tea shop in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu killed 10 people and wounded dozens, the government said Saturday. The death toll from the attack, which targeted a tea shop near heavily guarded government institutions on Friday evening, was significantly higher than the four previously reported. “On the ...
- Afghanistan: NDS forces thwart “terrorist attack” plan on Herat-Kabul flight
July 2, 2021
The Afghan National Directorate for Security (NDS) has thwarted a “terrorist attack” on a Herat-Kabul flight, the NDS said in a statement on Friday. According to the statement, the NDS personnel have arrested a man at the Herat’s Khwaja Abdullah Ansari International Airport who wanted to detonate an explosive placed in a musical instrument on a ...
- Pakistan: Three brothers killed in Tank ‘toy bomb’ explosion
July 2, 2021
Three brothers were killed in a toy bomb explosion in Tank’s Shah Alam Mehsud district Friday evening, according to the police. The children were playing in the neighbourhood. They found the toy bomb near a nullah and brought it home. “The bomb fell while they were trying to open it and blew up with a powerful explosion,” ...
- Iraq: Explosion at Baghdad’s Sadr City injures at least 15
July 1, 2021
An explosion in a crowded Baghdad market on Wednesday injured at least 15 people, Iraqi officials said. The military confirmed the blast went off in Sadr City, a mostly Shiite section of the Iraqi capital. The same Baghdad area was targeted in April when a car bombing claimed by the Islamic State (IS) killed four people ...
- Turkish military destroys IEDs planted by PKK terrorists in N. Iraq
June 30, 2021
Turkish security forces have neutralized improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted by the PKK terrorists in Operation Claw-Lightning and Claw-Thunderbolt areas in northern Iraq, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. Turkish soldiers in the Metina, Avashin-Basyan regions in northern Iraq have exterminated explosives laid by the PKK terrorists, the ministry said. Northern Iraq is known as the location of ...
- Afghanistan: An explosion in the city of Jalalabad injured four civilians.
June 29, 2021
An explosion in the city of Jalalabad injured four civilians. Farid Khan, spokesman for the Nangarhar police chief, told RFE / RL that the blast took place at around 2pm on Tuesday in the Do Sarkeh area of the 7th district of Jalalabad. According to Farid Khan, the bomb was placed on a bicycle. On Monday, an ...
- Kenya: Cops kill al Shabaab, intercept guns and IED materials in Garissa
June 29, 2021
A suspected al Shabaab terrorist was on Monday killed as police intercepted a donkey carrying two AK 47 rifles, bomb making materials at the main border in Liboi, Garissa County. Officers in the operation said the suspect who had the donkey was shot and killed as the animal with the cart were scrambled. “They were headed for ...
- Boko Haram: 350,000 dead in Nigeria — UN
June 28, 2021
Insurgency-related conflicts claimed the lives of almost 350,000 lives in the North-eastern part of Nigeria up till the end 2020, a new report of the United Nations Develop Programme (UNDP) has said. The report said insurgency directly resulted to the death of 35,000 people in three states in the region, while an estimated 314,000 people died ...
- DR Congo imposes curfew in Beni after weekend bombings
June 28, 2021
People in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s city of Beni have woken up to a curfew on Monday after three bombs rocked the east of the country, with authorities warning they had reports more attacks were being planned. On Sunday morning, a makeshift bomb went off in a Catholic church in the city, injuring two ...
- Pakistan: Karachi Police Detains ‘Wanted Terrorist’ In Intelligence-Based Raid
June 28, 2021
The police in Ittehad Town has on Sunday claimed to have arrested in an intelligence-based raid an alleged notorious terrorist belonging to a banned outfit, ARY News reported. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kaemari Fida Hussain said at least half kilogram explosives and hand grenades were confiscated from his possession at the time of the arrest. Read ...
- Somalia: Roadside explosion leaves 1 soldier dead in Puntland
June 27, 2021
On Saturday, Jun. 26 one soldier died and another three were injured in a roadside explosion aiming at Puntland region’s security minister. The blast aimed at a convoy of Puntland State Security Minister, Abdisamad Galan close to Bali Dhidin village in Bari region on the suburbs of Bosaso, northeast Somalia, said the state-owned television in a ...
- First drone attack in India marks new phase for Kashmir dispute
June 27, 2021
Indian officials said Sunday they suspect explosives-laden drones were used to attack an air base in the disputed region of Kashmir, calling it the first such incident of its kind in India. Dilbagh Singh, the region’s police director-general, told the private news channel New Delhi Television that “drones with payload were used in both the blasts.” ...
- Somalia: More than 20 killed in al-Shabaab attack in Mudug
June 27, 2021
At least twenty were on Sunday killed and more than thirty others injured after al-Shabaab attacked a military base in Somalia’s central region. According to officials and witnesses, Al-Shabaab used a Vehicle Borne Improvised Device (VBIED) to breach the gate of the base before heavily armed fighters engaged the soldiers. “At around 4:30 am, as the soldiers ...
- Afghanistan: 13 people wounded in blast targeting bus in Parwan
June 27, 2021
At least 13 people were wounded after a roadside bomb struck a passenger bus in the Charikar, the capital of Parwan province, on Sunday, local officials said. Mohammad Sadiq Hashimi, the Parwan crime branch chief, told Ariana News that the bus – carrying 20 passengers to Kabul – was targeted in the Badar-e-Sabiqa Ghorband area of ...