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A short video produced by al Qaeda’s mouthpiece As Sahab Media and released on the Internet showed a U.S. convoy coming under attack in what the video said was Farah province in western Afghanistan.

The convoy is seen moving on the road, when suddenly an IED explosion detonates not far from the Humvee in the back. The vehicle wasn’t damaged by the explosion whatsoever, but after a few moments of heavy gunshots sound in the background and the camera shaking, the abandoned Humvee is seen in flames on the road. The video ends with pictures of weapons seized from the vehicle.

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) released a video showing a group of militants ambushing a police pickup truck in Theniet el Hda south western the capital Algiers.

The 12-minute is part of a series entitled “Shadows of the Swords.” It opens with pictures of a small boy identified as Mujahid Muadh, “the son of an AQIM martyr who was born and raised in the wild.”

The video then shows a police pickup truck being ambushed by the militants, who are seen spraying the vehicle with bullets and killing the driver, which causes the vehicle to swerve off the road before coming to a halt.

More bullets were fired at the vehicle and the men sitting inside it before the militants began pulling the bodies of six policemen out of the vehicle. The militants are seen stripping them of their uniforms, belts, boots, and taking their weapons, ID cards. They then set the truck alight and disappear in the mountains.

The video then closes with pictures taken from the top of the mountain, showing an army of Algerian police that arrived to inspect the site after it’s been reported.

The tape was produced in May 2009, according to the group, but an attack matching that in this tape was reported in the Algerian press on October 5th 2008.

The Iraqi insurgent group The Army of Abu Bakr released a video of a dual operation carried out by the group last February. The operation began with the firing of a C5k rocket on what the group said was the U.S. base in Babel. It was followed by the detonation of an IED on a U.S. patrol that arrived to inspect the site where the rocket was fired from. The date stamp on the tape was February 10th, 2009.

Hamas’ military wing, Al Qassam Brigades, claimed its fighters ambushed an Israeli force that walked into a Palestinian home in Gaza this afternoon. In a statement posted on al Qassam’s website, the group said that at its men launched over 10 RPG rockets on the building at 1 p.m. today and engaged in a gun battle with the Israeli troops, killing and injuring many of them. The statement acknowledged that one of the al Qassam fighters had also been killed in the exchange.
Al Qassam said it filmed the operation and promised to soon release a video of the ambush.

Saraya al Quds, the military wing of the militant Palestinian group Islamic Jihad, released an Internet video in which it claimed ambushing an Israeli convoy in eastern Khan Younis. A spokesperson for the group appeared in the video sporting a missile launcher which he said was seized during the attack and claimed that his comrades had targeted the Israeli vehicle with a single RPG rocket.
He also claimed that a group’s sniper had hit one of the Israeli soldiers who ran off as his men opened fire on them and said the soldiers took refuge in a nearby house to try and give medical assistance to the wounded soldier. A separate video showed traces of blood on the wall and the floor of the house where the troops supposedly sought refuge

A new video released on the Internet today shows a large group of Taliban fighters getting on their bikes and setting off to lay an ambush for Afghan police convoys driving down a highway near Zabul. A few rounds of machine guns later, they seized two police pick-up trucks and went back home. The 10-minute video was released by Hijrat Media and is undated.

A jihadi video posted on the Internet Tuesday night shows an attack on “a U.S. base” and an ambush of U.S. and Afghani soldiers in Nuristan.

The 51-minute video was released by a previously unknown group called "Nedaa Al Jihad Media Center" and is focused on Taliban activities in northeastern Afghanistan. It is entitled "The Breaking of the Cross" and is entirely in Dari, a language spoken in northern and western parts of Afghanistan.

The undated video shows a group of militants on top of a mountain with binoculars conducting surveillance on the base. The camera catches two U.S. soldiers walking near their watch booth.

The men then attend a briefing session where the plan of attack is explained over a rough sketch of the area. The following 12 minutes of the tape show the attack on the base. Although gunshots are heard, no fighting can be seen. The group takes an Afghani soldier, who is seen crying, as hostage. The commander of the group in Nuristan, identified in the tape as Mulai Mohammed Muneeb, makes a short statement announcing the outcome of the raid. The group shows footage of two men killed during the attack and show off the booty they seized, including a laptop, radios, weapons ammunition and weapons.

Taliban’s former information minister Mohammed Yasser also makes a short statement to honor the militants who have been killed in the clashes. Yasser had been released along with four other Taliban leaders in exchange for the release of an Italian reporter that the Taliban captured in 2007.

The video also includes footage of an ambush of a joint U.S.-Afghan foot-patrol in Nuristan. The militants are seen opening fire on a number of men from atop of a mountain. The shaky footage shows U.S. and Afghani troops having nowhere to hide from the shots. Close-up shots then show the bodies of a U.S. and an Afghani soldier. Once again, the outcome of the raid is announced by Muneed, the commander of the area.

The video ends with shots of a helicopter that the group claims to have downed in Nuristan. There were reports a U.S. helicopter making an emergency landing in Nuristan on May 13th after being shot by militants.

A 5:54 minute video posted on the “military preparation” section of a militant Islamist website, explains different techniques used to ambush foot patrols. The video looks into the various devices that could be used, given advice on where to place them and detonation technique. The video is similar to releases produced by the militant Lebanese group Hezbullah.