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The FBI matched Ali’s Volume 26 DNA to explosives recovered in Afghani- stan, where he worked as a bomb maker for Al Qaeda. Augus 2018 Edition On July 23, 2018: Ali Charaf Damache, 53, an Alegrian-born (Khalid Ali had three blades tucked into his clothes when he was arrested by armed police in Irish citizen, Westminster. Courtesy of ITV News and YouTube. Posted on Jun 26, 2018.) pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material sup- TALIBAN port to terrorists. Operations Against the Taliban Damache acted on behalf of Al Qaeda in a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist for depicting On July 7, 2018: Qari Abdullah Dawar, a Taliban commander who the Prophet Mohammed in a drawing. BOKO HARAM Recent Boko Haram Attacks On July 26, 2018: A clash between Nigerian soldiers and Boko Haram militants in Bama, Borno State, has left 20 soldiers missing. Reports state that the soldiers embarked on a clearance operation. The military has stated that 22 members of Boko Haram were neutralized. had been hiding in Tor Tangai, Wa- ziristan, has been killed in an appar- ent airstrike. Recent Taliban Attacks On July 11, 2018: The Pakistan Tali- ban has claimed a suicide attack on a political rally in Peshawar which left 20 dead. This marks the first attack since Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud assumed control of the group last month after its previous leader Mullah Fazlullah was killed in an airstrike. 12