The Taliban’s top leader called reports of negotiation “propaganda” and urged the Taliban to continue the fight. Omar said the Taliban want to bleed the US as the mujahedeen did to the Soviets in the 1980s.
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Four civilians may have been killed in the latest US Predator strike.
Six Taliban fighters, including one wearing a suicide vest, were killed in the failed attack on Forward Operating Base Fenty.
Ilyas Kashmiri is thought to have planned yesterday’s attack on the Crime Investigation Department headquarters in a highly secured area of Karachi. Several members of the assault team escaped during the battle.
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Two Taliban commanders and six Lashkar-e-Jhangvi operatives were being interrogated at the police headquarters when it was struck. The Taliban claimed it carried out the attack.
A former Guantanamo detainee was reportedly involved in plotting against targets in Saudi Arabia in December 2009, two years after he was repatriated to the country. He remains a member of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
The Haqqani Network fighters were killed in a missile barrage while returning from Khost province in Afghanistan.
How to win back Pakistan
Police arrested five terrorism suspects in Paris and the suburbs who are thought to have trained at al Qaeda camps in Pakistan’s northwest. Several of the suspects are also thought to have sent death threats to the rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris.
Afghan officials forced an airplane to return to Kabul International Airport to arrest a Haqqani Network facilitator and three associates.
Predators and Reapers hit terrorist havens in Miramshah and Datta Khel. Five “foreigners” were reported killed.
Pakistani Taliban spokesman Tariq Azam denied that leaders Hakeemullah Mehsud and Qari Hussain Mehsud were killed in US Predator strikes. The Taliban would continue to attack Pakistani security forces, Azam said.
Iran said it suspended the trial of three Americans hikers captured near the Iran-Iraq border last year. One of the Americans has been released and returned to the US. Iran has accelerated the construction of a natural gas pipeline to Pakistan.
Obama is not likely to push India hard on Pakistan
An Algerian court acquitted former Guantanamo detainee Sofiane Hadarbache of terrorism-related charges. In declassified memos prepared at Gitmo, US military officials alleged that Hadarbache was recruited by al Qaeda in France.
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The head of the Faryab provincial council was wounded in an attack by a teen-aged suicide bomber.
Earlier today, I did a rather lengthy written interview with a journalist from an online Romanian newspaper. In light of the new tapes Osama bin Laden released last month, he put a number of questions to me about the al Qaeda leader. I thought the following, adapted from the interview but maintaining its Q&A format, […]
Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s second in command, issued a videotape calling for the release of Pakistani scientist and al Qaeda operative Aafia Siddiqui, who is in prison in the US for attempting to kill US law enforcement officials. Zawahiri threatened attacks in the US and Pakistan if Siddiqui is not released.
Three strikes took place in the Miramshah, Datta Khel, and Mir Ali areas, all terrorist strongholds.
The commander led a cell of approximately 50 foreign fighters in the central province of Wardak.
The ZPU-1 and the ZU-23-2 (pictured) have seen a robust role in Afghan combat since the 1980s. On Oct. 28, a targeted ISAF airstrike killed Mullah Abdullah Kakar, one of the Taliban’s operational commanders in Zabul province who was responsible for a long list of attacks and IEDs in the Shah Joy district. What is […]
An al Qaeda suicide assault team was killed by Iraqi security forces after taking control of a church in the Iraqi capital. Three Yemenis and two Egyptians are believed to have carried out the attack.
The Germans were members of the Islamic Jihad Group. An operational commander, a financier, and an expert bomb maker were among those reported killed.
Two missiles were fired into a compound that had “become a hub of militants’ movement” in North Waziristan.