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The Iraqi insurgent group Ansar al Islam released a short video showing three of its members allegedly targeting the U.S. Base at Mosul airport with a makeshift missile. The video shows the militants firing the missiles, but does not include footage of the actual attack. The statement accompanying the video claims the target had been hit.

The video was produced by the group’s media wing Al Ansar Media Foundation.

The militant Afghani Taliban movement released a video of recent clashes between the Pakistani Taliban Movement and the Pakistani army.

The video also includes footage of suicide operations, attacks on Pakistani army outpost, executions of “traitors,” including one beheading, as well as shots militants during training.

The one-hour video is entitled “Swat Three” and is part of a series that the group calls “Hell of Apostates in Swat.” It was produced by a jihadi media outlet called The Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF).

The Iraqi insurgent group The Army of al Mujahideen, released a new undated video depicting an attack on a U.S. MRAP with an RKG3 grenade in what the group said was Baghdad.

A new video showing unseen pictures of slain al Qaeda-in-Iraq leader Abu Mus’ab al Zarqawi was distributed on the Internet today. Al Zarqawi appeared briefly and was surrounded by a few masked men. It seems he was preparing to address a small group of gunmen gathered in the courtyard of a school. The tape is from 2003-2004, as the banner shown in the video was that of al Tawheed and Jihad, the name of the group founded by al Zarqawi prior to his admission into al Qaeda in late 2004.

The Taliban’s media outlet Neda al Jihad released a new video of attacks carried out by the militant group against a NATO base in the “Zumyobileh-Nuristan area” last year.

The 55-minute video is entitled “Defeat of the Aggressors in Afghanistan” and opens with pictures from previous Taliban videos, including the footage of the attempt to assassinate Afghani President Hamid Karzai during a celebration in Kabul on April 27, 2008 and footage of a 2007 ambush on a joint U.S.-Afghan foot patrol in Nuristan.

The group claims to have intensified its attacks on U.S. forces based in this camp for 47 days until they were forced out. The video shows Taliban fighters, dressed in military uniforms, during their preparation for the operation followed by shots of Taliban fighters trying to shoot a Chinook down. The video also shows the militants firing mortars and engaged in a gun battle against the forces inside the base. Several Taliban fighters look like they were badly injured during the fighting.

A local commander called Osman Jawhari was interviewed on the tape. He claims the militants managed to down two helicopters and kill 95 U.S. troops and only 10 Taliban militants were killed. He also told a group of militants that he was confident they would defeat U.S. troops and force them out of Afghanistan. “We shall fight and defeat them here God willing, then we will chase them all the way to Washington,” he says.

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.

An increasing number of children and teenagers are appearing in jihadi videos of the militant Afghan Taliban movement, which claims that they carry out suicide attacks. A new propaganda video showing attacks carried out by the group shows two young boys who allegedly carried out two separate suicide attacks in Nangarhar in Western Afghanistan.

The video shows a teen suicide bomber called al Hafidh, who seems to be 15 to 16 years old, sitting in the middle of a group of masked gunmen and reading the Quran, before making his final goodbyes to carry out the attack.

Though the video does not show the actual attack, the group claims that the boy rammed his explosives-laden car into a U.S. convoy in Nangarhar, destroying three armored vehicles, and killing five U.S. soldiers.

The video also includes footage of another young boy, who looks about the same age, and is identified as Ahmad Bilal. The group claims he killed 14 U.S. soldiers in a suicide attack on a convoy in Fathabad, Nangarhar. Again, the video does not show the actual operation, but there are shots of the explosives’ preparation process in which the boy took part.

The video also showed gruesome pictures of an execution of a man accused by the Taliban of collaborating with the U,S, against the militants. The man was identified as Khushhal Omar Umara Khan, from Muhmand Dara, in Nangarhar. According to the group, he was arrested in November 2008.

The man is seen during the before he sits on the groups with his eyes blindfolded. Four masked men who surrounded him then open fire from a short distance. Although the shots did not kill the man, he is left to die.

The 53-minute video also included footage of an IED attack and parts of a UAV shot down by the militants in Sarubi, according to the group.

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.

The Iraqi insurgent group the Army of al Mujahideen released a new video showing an RKG-3 grenade attack on a U.S. MRAP in what the group said was Baghdad. The video was not dated.

A short video released by the Iraqi insurgent group the Army of al Mujahedeen shows U.S. soldier shot by a sniper in what the group said was northern Baghdad. The soldier is seen falling on the ground.

The Iraqi Armed Forces’ General Command, a group headed by the former Iraqi vice president Izzet Ibrahim al Doury, released a short video showing an IED attack on a U.S. armored vehicle in Diyala.