Coalition and Afghan special operations teams captured yet another Hizb-i-Islami Gulbuddin commander, this time during a raid in the Sabari district in Khost province. From the ISAF press release: Afghan and coalition forces detained a Hezb-E Islami Gulbuddin commander and two suspected insurgents during an operation in Sabari district, Khost province yesterday. The commander is […]
Assassinated Pakistani minister ‘wasn’t afraid of being killed’
Two Americans, Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, pled guilty to attempting to travel to Somalia and join Shabaab. Adis Medunjanin, an associate of convicted terrorist Najibullah Zazi, told prosecutors he traveled to Pakistan to receive training.
Pakistan – Lawyer suggests ‘blood money’ to free US man
Pakistan Christians bury murdered leader Shahbaz Bhatti
US senators uneasy about Afghanistan, Pakistan
This time, murder of Pakistan minister spurs condemnation from Islamic clerics
The attacks are the latest in the Taliban’s renewed offensive in the central regions of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the tribal agencies.
Eight Iraqi soldiers were among those killed in the latest suicide attack in Anbar province. Haditha was once a seat of power for al Qaeda in Iraq.
Christians across Pakistan protest Bhatti’s killing
Mumbai attack: US links cover for ISI chief to Davis case
Pakistan: under attack from within
According to The Associated Press, a “devout Muslim” man shot and killed two US airmen today at an airport terminal in Frankfurt, Germany. The gunman, who appears to be named Arid Uka and was born in either Kosovo or Germany, boarded a bus that carried a group of airmen who had just arrived at the […]
Pakistani minister gunned down
On Monday, a British Airways employee named Rajib Karim was convicted of plotting to blow up a US-bound airliner. While planning the attack, Rajib emailed back and forth with al Qaeda cleric Anwar al Awlaki. The emails reveal that Awlaki played a direct, operational role in Rajib’s plotting.
“We killed them because they were spying for America, anyone who acts like this will face the same fate,” the Taliban statement read. The men were shot in the face multiple times.
Farid, the captured HIG media emir, was directly under the command of senior Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid.
US Army Sergeant David M. Pooler, of 1st Platoon, Able Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, scans the area across the Kunar River as he provides security in the Noorgal district of Kunar province, Afghanistan, May 1, 2010 as part of a community development council meeting. US Army photo by […]
The CIA and Pakistan’s ISI: on the high ground
Spy war threatens Pakistan-US ties
A military juggling act in Pakistan
Afghan defence minister sees better Pakistan cooperation
Tensions rise between US, Pakistan spy agencies
The New York Times reports that the US Army has begun withdrawing from combat outposts in the Pech River Valley in Kunar province: The withdrawal from the Pech Valley, a remote region in Kunar Province, formally began on Feb. 15. The military projects that it will last about two months, part of a shift of […]
Pakistan Demands Data on C.I.A. Contractors
More than 20 Taliban fighters attacked a convoy carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan.
The strike hit a car and a compound in the Datta Khel area, a known haven for al Qaeda and allied terrorist groups.
State actors in Pakistan involved with terror outfits: India
Pakistan – Artists, students can’t leave country without clearance: Malik
In an opinion released on Feb. 18, a DC district judge denied the habeas corpus petition of Guantanamo detainee Mashour Abdullah Muqbel al Sabri; the decision contradicts earlier district court rulings in important ways. Al Sabri’s career demonstrates that there was extensive overlap between Taliban and al Qaeda operations prior to Sept. 11, 2001.