Issa Khan, who had been detained at Guantanamo for nearly three years, has been arrested in the Bannu district of northwestern Pakistan. Khan reportedly rejoined the Taliban after his release and became a Pakistani Taliban commander.
Ameerullah Mehsud was number nine on the list of most-wanted members of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan. His death highlights the continued presence of the terror group in North Waziristan.
The Taliban commander “assisted with the recent influx of Lashkar-e-Taiba” fighters into Nangarhar, according to ISAF.
A six-man team armed with assault rifles and suicide vests killed four people in an attack on a US development contractor and battled for hours before security forces eliminated them.
Three suicide bombers detonated just minutes apart in an effort to maximize civilian casualties. The attack is the 22nd major terror strike against religious institutions in Pakistan since December 2007.
A raid in the Taliban-controlled district of Baghran resulted in the deaths of 31 Taliban fighters and the capture of the district leader for Now Zad.
Coalition forces repelled an attack by a small team of Taliban fighters who attempted to storm the base. The attackers included a suicide bomber.
General Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning that Afghan President Hamid Karzai denies meeting with Siraj Haqqani, a notorious terror chieftain.
An al Qaeda operative named Hamza al Jawfi and two Punjabis are said to have been killed in the airstrike.
A battalion-sized combined force carried out an air assault in the district of Marawara, directly on the border with Pakistan. The US claimed that 150 Taliban fighters were killed in the assault.
President Karzai is said to have met with Siraj. The meeting was also attended by Pakistani Army chief General Kayani and ISI boss Lieutenant General Pasha, according to reports.
The strike took place in the Miramshah region, an area controlled by the Haqqani Network. The attack is the second in Pakistan in 24 hours.
A Predator fired a missile at a compound near Mir Ali.
Umarov is the founder and emir of the Caucasus Emirate, an al Qaeda-linked group that conducts attacks in Russia.
Abdullah Sunata created the al Qaeda in Aceh cell and served as “a bridge” between Jemaah Islamiyah and the Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf Group.
The combined forces destroyed an IED factory in Panjwai and then killed the Taliban’s district commander and 15 fighters during a follow-on raid.
At a plea hearing earlier this week, Faisal Shahzad discussed his ties to the Pakistani Taliban. Hours after Shahzad’s attempted bombing, the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in emails sent to The Long War Journal.
Arabs, Uzbeks, Turks, and Chechens were reported to have been killed in the clash in eastern Afghanistan. Two Haqqani Network and Taliban commanders and a foreign fighter facilitator were killed in the fighting.
Asmatullah Mehsud was a commander in Karachi who was involved with the October 2007 attempted assassination of Benazir Bhutto. His brother runs a training camp in Ghazni, Afghanistan.
Although the Saudi government has not identified the 25 terrorists released from Guantanamo Bay who are known to have returned to jihad, 15 of them can be identified.
Military commander Abu Ahmed and 12 members of the Islamic Jihad Group were killed in today’s strike in the Taliban stronghold.
The joint forces battled more than 200 Haqqani Network fighters in the Musa Khel district.
An unmanned Predator or Reaper fired two missiles at a compound near Mir Ali earlier today.
A jihadist group said that an al Qaeda military commander, the leader of a local al Qaeda group, and a Turkish foreign fighter were killed in the June 10 airstrike in North Waziristan.
Ten Frontier Corps troops and 38 Taliban fighters were killed in Bajaur, while 40 more troops were captured in Mohmand by the Afghan Taliban.
The defection is the latest blow to one of the two largest Islamist terror groups in Somalia, and will bolster the fortunes of Shabaab.
The Quetta Shura issued a statement denying a report from the London School of Economics that outlined Pakistani military and intelligence support for the Afghan Taliban.
Haji Abdul Jabbar, his son, and driver were killed in a bombing in the strategic Arghandab district, just north of Kandahar City.
Fazil Subhan and an undisclosed number of Haqqani Network fighters were killed in the Shamul district. Subhan was known to facilitate al Qaeda operations.