US Army Lieutenant Colonel Edward Sholtis announced on Monday that elements within Iran are training Taliban fighters on Iranian soil. The news that Tehran is supporting contingents of the Taliban is not new; US Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry has said several times before that the Iranians are providing material support to insurgents in the […]
Six Haqqani Network fighters were killed in a US strike in North Waziristan. Pakistani forces killed five Taliban fighters in Arakzai and detained eight more in Bajaur. The Taliban killed a tribal elder in Hangu and bombed a girls’ school in Nowshera. The Taliban plotted to kidnap the Jordanian ambassador.
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The strike targeted the Haqqani Network and is the fifth since March 16.
A military court sentenced 20 men to prison terms of up to 15 years for belonging to an al Qaeda cell that plotted attacks against the government and civilians. The men are from Saudi Arabia, Syria, the Palestinian Territories, and Lebanon. Seven men are still on the loose and have been tried and sentenced in […]
Members of the State of Law Alliance said Iraqi National Movement leader Iyad Allawi is constitutionally ineligible to be the next Prime Minister as his mother is not an Iraqi. Political leaders in nine provinces requested a manual recount of the vote. Security forces detained 11 wanted men in Basrah, seven al Qaeda and Ansar […]
The Taliban appointed Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansur and former Gitmo detainee Mullah Abdul Qayum Zakir to replace Mullah Baradar as the leaders of the Quetta Shura. Coalition and Afghan forces detained a Taliban IED facilitator and an undisclosed number of Taliban and Haqqani Network fighters in Helmand and Khost. A Turkish helicopter crash-landed in Wardak […]
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Mullah Abdul Qayum Zakir is one of two top Taliban leaders designated on March 19 to replace Mullah Baradar, who was detained by Pakistan last month. Zakir was released from Guantanamo in 2007.
A US Army officer said Iran is training Taliban fighters within its borders. The US Congress will launch final actions to implement new sanctions on Iran. Brazilian President Lula called for Iran to be part of the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
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Security forces killed a Taliban commander and two fighters in Swat. Police detained two terrorists behind the October 2009 attack on the World Food Program headquarters in Islamabad. The leader of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl party said he supports the Afghan Taliban.
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One of the Taliban’s latest statements (Voice of Jihad English, and PDF at non-terrorist site) comes as a response to outgoing United Nations uber-envoy for Afghanistan Kai Eide being underwhelmed at Pakistan’s arrest of senior Taliban official Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, and the subsequent wrench that it allegedly threw into backroom talks under way. This […]