An airstrike in Nangarhar killed an estimated 12 Taliban fighters, including Pakistani fighters from Waziristan. Two Haqqani Network fighters were killed in Paktia during a raid targeting a commander who runs camps in Khost.
Three members of the Jamaat ul Dawa al Quran, including a commander, were killed and several more were captured during a raid in the Pech district. In January, Jamaat ul Dawa al Quran swore allegiance to Mullah Omar and the shadow Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
Chechens with headbands are walking through a Taliban column during an attack on a US outpost in Kunar province. Click here for more images. Back on July 11, I noted that ISAF was beginning to define the enemy in Afghanistan. At that time, ISAF stated that it was hunting a Taliban commander involved in facilitating […]
Malauwi Ghulam Haideri served on the Peshawar Shura and was in direct contact with Taliban leaders operating inside Pakistan.
The Kabul Attack Network targeted a civilian compound in the capital; two Afghan guards were killed in the attack. The Kabul Attack Network is led by a Haqqani Network commander.
The commander of al Qaeda’s Brigade 313 and the Lashkar al Zil has been added to the list of global terrorists. HUJI has also been named a terrorist organization.
More than 15 Taliban fighters, including two commanders, and upwards of 12 civilians, are reported to have been killed during a special operations raid in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar.
The website is linked to the Pakistan-based al Qaeda military formation that is commanded by Ilyas Kashmiri.
The Algerian government has denied reports that it is mistreating Abdul Aziz Naji, a former Guantanamo detainee. Naji was a member of Lashkar-e-Taiba and an expert in improvised explosive devices prior to his detention at Gitmo. His transfer was supposed to entail “security measures,” but an Algerian official claims Naji was outright released.
India claims that the Pakistani Navy directly trained the Lashkar-e-Taiba members who carried out the 2008 terror assault on the city of Mumbai. The information reportedly came from the interrogation of LeT operative David Coleman Headley.
Qari Zia Rahman has allegiance to both the Taliban and al Qaeda. ISAF said he maintained a safe haven in the district of Marawara until a recent operation to secure the region.
The Defense Department announced the transfer of two Gitmo detainees today. One of the detainees is an IED expert who was a member of Lashkar-e-Taiba and trained al Qaeda operatives. The other allegedly fought at Tora Bora alongside his son, who was also detained at Gitmo.
India’s home minister claimed Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence directorate was “literally controlling and coordinating” the 2008 terror assault on Mumbai “from the beginning till the end,” and Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Hafiz Saeed was also intimately involved in the attack. Saeed “was not a peripheral player,” the minister stated. “He knew everything.”
In a shift from the past, the US military is beginning to identify Pakistan-based terrorists, including the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Chechen and Arab fighters, as being directly associated with the Afghan Taliban.
The Taliban claimed the attack in the lawless tribal agency of Mohmand.
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.
Coalition and Afghan forces detained a Taliban commander linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba and several other fighters during raids in Nangarhar and Logar. Combined forces accidentally killed three civilians during a raid in Kandahar; a Taliban commander was captured and a fighter was also killed during the raid. The Taliban killed two civilians in an IED […]
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.
Ten Frontier Corps troops and 38 Taliban fighters were killed in Bajaur, while 40 more troops were captured in Mohmand by the Afghan Taliban.
This morning I had the opportunity to listen in on a panel called “Will Pakistan be Democratic in 2020?” that was hosted by The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (full disclosure, I am a fellow at FDD). On the panel were Cliff May, the President of FDD; Shuja Nawaz, the Director of the South […]
A report published yesterday by the London School of Economics documents Pakistan’s extensive links to the Afghan Taliban. You can download and read the full report here [PDF file]. The author, Matt Waldman, doesn’t claim that only certain elements of Pakistan’s notorious Inter-Services Intelligence directorate back the Afghan Taliban. Instead, Waldman goes further and states […]
Today’s report on the involvement of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence directorate in the 2008 terror assault on Mumbai wins this month’s coveted Captain Louis Renault Award. Once the Indians got hold of David Headley for interrogation, it was only a matter of time before that story was printed. Oh, and Lashkar-e-Taiba/Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed was also […]
Last night the Taliban attacked NATO fuel and supply trucks at a truck terminal just west of the capital, killing eight people.
Buried in an article on a strange invitation by the al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba front group Jamaat-ud-Dawa to politicians to tour its headquarters at Muridke, is this rare endorsement from a Pakistani politician who wants the US to expand the Predator strike program into Punjab province. From The News: A leader of the Pakistan People’s Party […]
The government officially labeled the Indian Mujahideen a terrorist entity. The Indian Mujahideen is thought to be a front group for activities of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Students’ Islamic Movement of India, and the Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh, and is supported by Pakistan’s intelligence services.
Despite the numerous, heinous terror attacks carried out in Pakistan’s major cities, the Pakistani government is hesitant to take on the myriad of home-grown and supported terror groups known as the Punjabi Taliban. Yesterday, Rehman Malik, Pakistan’s Minister of the Interior, stated that “no military operation is planned against banned outfits in Punjab, rather effective […]
Ebad-ul-Rehman is thought to have been killed in the May 15 attack in the Tirah Valley on May 15. Rehman orchestrated the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Two squads of heavily armed Punjabi Taliban fighters stormed two mosques of the Ahmadi sect in the eastern city.
The leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan agrees to abandon the safe havens in North Waziristan and return to South Waziristan. The pullout is “just the excuse the Pakistanis needed to call off a North Waziristan operation,” a US official said.
The Mumbai Anti-Terror Squad arrested Abdul Samad Bhatkal at the Bajpe airport. Bhatkal is thought to be a key conspirator with Lashkar-e-Taiba in the 2008 terror assault on Mumbai that killed 165 people.