The Taliban also targeted security forces in Peshawar, Mohmand, Swat, and Khyber. Four more security personnel were beheaded and three more were seriously wounded in Pakistan’s violent northwest.
More than 20 people, including the security minister and the former ambassador to Ethiopia, were killed in a suicide attack in central Somalia.
Mullah Saaed Hafiz, the deputy commander of the Arakzai Taliban, said the attacks were executed to avenge Pakistani military strikes in Hangu and Darra Adam Khel that killed 47 people, including a pro-Taliban cleric.
Hakeemullah Mehsud, the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, and the Abdullah Azzam Brigade took credit for the complex assault on the Pearl Continental Hotel.
Twenty-three people were killed after gunmen attacked a police headquarters and a building used by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency. The attackers set off a car bomb during the street battle.
Suicide assault teams target military and government buildings in Khost, the home of the Haqqani Network.
Twenty-five police and soldiers were among those killed after a suicide car bomber struck a convoy at a checkpoint in Hangu.
The Taliban terror-insurgency continues to shift eastward. A bomber detonated at the front gate of a mosque in Punjab province in the latest attack on religious sites in Pakistan.
The bomber struck at the Frontier Constabulary camp in Pakistan’s capital. The unit is responsible for providing security at diplomatic missions and VIP homes.
The Fedayeen-e-Islam, a front for the Jaish-e-Mohammed, said it conducted the attack on the Lahore police training center in retaliation for the Pakistan military’s presence in the tribal areas
Nineteen reported killed, more than 50 wounded in suicide attacks and gun battles at the Justice and Education ministries and a prison office.
Afghan intelligence dismantles the Kabul bombing cell behind six attacks in the capital. Seventeen members from the Haqqani Network and the Harkat ul-Mujahideen have been detained.
Twenty-one policemen were killed when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a training center in Tarin Kot, Afghanistan. The attack is the latest targeting police and intelligence compounds in the south and east.
The Taliban attacked a Frontier Corps base in battalion strength; 40 Taliban fighters and 15 Frontier Corps troops reported killed; more than 25 troops reported missing. Four soldiers were mutilated in Bajaur.
Attack at school in Buner kills 35 civilians; 14 children, two policemen killed in Khost attack.
Twenty-two tribal members were killed and more than 45 were wounded in the attack on the Salarzai tribal meeting. The Salarzai have raised local militias to fight the Taliban.
Officials fear more than 100 people are believed to have been killed in the suicide strike at the Marriott Hotel as an unknown number are trapped in the burning building.
The Yemeni Islamic Jihad hit the US Embassy with multiple bombs then initiated a firefight on the streets of Sana’a. Sixteen were killed in heavy fighting.
Five Pakistanis were killed and 37 wounded as troops stopped three suicide car bombers just outside the gates of a military camp near the Kohat Tunnel. Two bridges were also destroyed on the Indus Highway.
A suicide car bomber hit the outside wall of the Indian embassy. More than 140 were reported wounded. The Indian defense attache was killed in the attack.
Fifteen policemen killed, more than 40 wounded in the strike, which occurred during the anniversary of the Lal Masjid assault.
A Pashtun party’s political rally is the target of the Taliban attack. Only four of the 24 districts in the Northwest Frontier Province have been rated as having a security situation sufficiently stable to hold elections.
27 wounded after a suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into the side of a bus carrying military and civilian personnel at the Sargodha air base in Punjab.
The second major suicide attack in Salahadin in five days targeted the leader of the Salahadin Awakening Council and the Baiji police chief.
Pakistani military and intelligence officers were the direct target of two suicide attacks in the military garrison city of Rawalpindi. Suicide bombers targeted a bus carrying Inter Services Intelligence personnel and the Royal Artillery bazaar.
Islamists paint the dome of the Red Mosque. Click to view. 11 killed in bombing at hotel near the mosque compound Just one day after the reopening of the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, the radical, Taliban and al Qaeda-supporting Islamist students of the mosque have reoccupied the complex. Fighting appears to have broken out […]
North Waziristan Taliban commander said attacks are in retaliation for the Red Mosque assault As the Pakistani government continues with negotiating to restore the Waziristan Accord with the Taliban in North Waziristan, the Taliban has admitted to conducting suicide attacks across the country. Maulvi Abdul Khaliq Haqqani, a member of the Taliban Shura in North […]
Over 50 wounded in attack where ousted Chief Justice was scheduled to speak; government still negotiation with Taliban in North Waziristan The suicide attacks that have plagued the Northwest Frontier Province have shifted to the heart of Pakistan in the capital of Islamabad. A suicide bomber on a motorcycle pulled into a crowd at the […]
NWFP/FATA map. Red agencies/ districts openly controlled by the Taliban; purple is defacto control; yellow is under threat. Click map to view. Army convoy hit en route to Miramshah as violence increases throughout the Northwest Frontier Province The Northwest Frontier Province is in danger of catching fire in the aftermath of the assault on the […]
Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Click to view. Mosque compound still being cleared, over 100 reported killed The assault by Pakistani forces on the radical Islamist mosque known as the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, has resulted in the death of Abdul Rasheed Ghazi, the mosque’s leader. Ghazi was shot and killed in the basement of the […]