Ahmed Abdi Godane (Axmed Cabdi Godane, أحمد عبدي جودان; July – September , also known as Mukhtar Abu Zubair, was the Emir (leader) of Al-Shabaab, an Islamist group based in Somalia with ties to Al Qaeda. Godane, who received training and fought in Afghanistan, was designated by the United States as a terrorist. He succeeded Mukhtar Robow who had held the position for several months after Aden Ayro&#;s death. He was killed in a U.S. drone strike on September in southern Somalia.

USS The Sullivans (DDG-), an Aegis guided missile destroyer, is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the five Sullivan brothers – George, Francis, Joseph, Madison, and Albert Sullivan, aged to – who lost their lives when their ship,, was sunk by a Japanese submarine in November in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (the first ship named for them was). This was the greatest military loss by any one American family during World War II.

Hamid bin Abdallah al-Ali (born ) has been described as "an influential Salafi cleric" based in Kuwait, whom the U.S. Treasury Department has described as "an Al Qaeda facilitator and fundraiser." However, following the release of Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif&#;s anti-terrorist manifesto Rationalizing Jihad in Egypt and the World, he is reported to have "declared on a Web site that he welcomed the rejection of violence as a means of fostering change in the Arab world".

Mustafa Abduldzhemil Dzhemilev (Mustafa Abdülcemil Cemilev, Мустафа́ Абдулджеми́ль Джеми́лев, Мустафа́ Абдульджемі́ль Джемі́лєв, also known widely with his adopted descriptive surname Qırımoğlu, Crimean Tatar Cyrillic: Къырымогълу, Кырымоглу́, Киримоглу́, born November , Mizhrichia, Crimea), is former Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People and a member of the Ukrainian Parliament since .

The Dasht-i-Leili massacre occurred in December during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan when, depending on the sources, between several hundred to several thousand Taliban prisoners were shot and/or suffocated to death in metal shipping containers while being transferred by Junbish-i Milli soldiers under the supervision of forces loyal to General Rashid Dostum from Kunduz to Sheberghan prison in Afghanistan.