#Somalia: Islamic State Wilāyah as-Sūmāl claims to have attacked a base of Puntland forces with machine guns yesterday in the town of (بلي طدن), southeast of the city of Bosaso. One soldier was allegedly killed and another was injured.
The last attack claimed by IS - Wilāyah as-Sūmāl before this one in the autonomous state of Puntland was in June 2021.
#Somalia: Security officials have confirmed the killing of Abu Albara al-Amani, the leader of IS militants in Bari region and an Ethiopian national, in a clash with security forces in Balidhidhin, in the autonomous state of Puntland.
#Pakistan: 3 policemen were killed in an attack on the Sarband police station in Peshawar. 6-8 militants hurled hand grenades into the compound while the policemen were shot dead using sniper guns fitted with night vision thermal goggles. urdu.geo.tv/latest/313936-
#UPDATE: Teḥrīk-e-Ṭālibān Pākistān took responsibility for the attack.
Fursan-e-Mohammad: There is paltry information available about the group. It is said that it had close ties with al-Qāʿidah and most importantly, the Commander of the group, Ibrahim, was killed in a U.S. drone strike along with an Arab al-Qāʿidah commander and...
The Moroccan Bureau Central d'Investigations Judiciaires (BCIJ) and Spain have teamed up to dismantle on Wednesday a three-member ISIS cell active in Spain and Morocco. moroccoworldnews.com/2023/01/353473…
BCIJ services arrested one of the ISIS suspects in Chtouka Ait Baha province in the Souss-Massa region, in cooperation with Morocco’s Direction Général de Surveillance du Térritoire (DGST) special forces.
The operation took place simultaneously with the arrest of two other members of the same cell in Spain by Spanish police in Almeria.
#Pakistan: Jabhat Anṣār al-Mahdī Khorāsān/Wazirīstān claims to have arrested an alleged “operative of Pākistāni Military Intelligence” from Bakakhel tehsil, Bannu district.
Bakakhel tehsil is the place where the group had previously claimed to have executed an alleged spy who was allegedly working for the Pākistāni Military Intelligence. This could be the reason: