Taliban take control of district in Nuristan
Afghan police abandoned Barg-e-Matal after days of fighting. The Taliban have claimed control of the district center.
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Coalition kills Taliban’s shadow governor in Afghanistan’s Baghlan province
Mullah Rohullah was killed during air and ground strikes in the northern province. Rohullah had been appointed the shadow governor for Baghlan in early May.
United States
US, EU condemn slaughter of Pakistani sect
Afghanistan
Taliban leave Pakistan, but Afghans repel them
United States
Another suspect has been detained in Pakistan in connection with Faisal Shahzad’s failed Times Square bombing. Pakistani officials are giving no details other than the man’s name, Humbal Akhtar. Akhtar is one of 11 suspects detained in Pakistan in connection with the plot.
Former Gitmo detainee featured as commander in al Qaeda tape
Othman Ahmed al Ghamdi, a former Gitmo detainee, has risen within al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s ranks to commander. He is featured in a tape, along with other AQAP leaders, that celebrates the Fort Hood shooting and the failed Christmas Day 2009 attack, and also threatens further attacks on America.
US kills 11 in Predator strike in South Waziristan
The attack is the first by the US in South Waziristan this year.
70 killed in terror assault on Lahore mosques
Two squads of heavily armed Punjabi Taliban fighters stormed two mosques of the Ahmadi sect in the eastern city.
Nuristani Taliban commander denies Fazlullah killed
Mullah Munibullah, the military commander for Nuristan, said Fazlullah would not be leading Taliban fighters in Nuristan.
Al Qaeda
Pakistan – Obama wants more effective action against extremists
Mullah Fazlullah reported killed in Afghanistan
Afghan border police claimed the Swat Taliban commander was killed along with six fighters. The report is unconfirmed.
Al Qaeda
Pakistan™s opinionated media landscape
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US offered crucial evidence in Pakistani meeting on Times Square plot
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Pakistan’s Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s decision to free Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Hafiz Saeed from prison. The court said the government has not presented any evidence linking Saeed to terrorism or the November 2008 terror assault on Mumbai, India, which was carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives.
Yemeni airstrike kills deputy governor, al Qaeda operatives
The deputy governor of Marib province was among several people killed during a negotiating session with al Qaeda.
Taliban
‘Taliban families™ expelled from Swat
Haqqani Network executed Kabul suicide attack
The May 18 suicide attack killed two colonels, two lieutenant colonels, two soldiers, and 12 Afghan civilians. Afghan intelligence also implicated Pakistan’s military intelligence service.
Al Qaeda
Jihadis make their way to Pakistan training areas
United States
US aid group ready to help rebuild restive Pakistan
Chile
Chile orders Pakistani back to jail
NATO
Pakistan – Terrorists may attack NLC, NATO supply depots: report
US airstrike kills 10 in North Waziristan
The Predator strike is the first in six days and the sixth this month.
Barbaric Taliban twist on executing ‘US spies’
Usually, when the Taliban capture so-called “US spies” whom they accuse of working with the Pakistani government or providing information for the US air campaign in the tribal areas, the victims are shot and killed, or occasionally, beheaded or mutilated in some way. The “spies” almost always have a note pinned to their chests warning […]
Taliban suicide assault squad attacks police outpost in eastern Afghanistan
Police defeated the complex assault, which included a suicide car bomb and heavily armed suicide bombers.
Chechens spotted in Taliban’s Nuristan tape
Informed observers have pointed out a few other interesting items from the Taliban’s recently released videotape that showed a “white Taliban” fighter who is very likely a young Nuristani. In the video, you can see Chechens and what appear to be Arab and Pakistani fighters intermixed with the Taliban [LWJ noted from day one that […]
Afghan forces capture northern shadow governor
The National Directorate of Security said that Mullah Gulistan, the shadow governor for Samangan province, is in custody.
Al Qaeda
“Accord for operation in North Waziristan”
Al Qaeda
Investigations on into Hamid Mir’s links with Taliban
US troops repel complex Taliban assault on Bagram Airfield
Nearly a dozen Taliban fighters, including four suicide bombers, were killed in the attack.
France
Security forces arrested 14 “militants” accused of plotting a jailbreak. The men were attempting to free Smain Ait Ali Belkacem, an Algerian convicted of plotting to bomb the Paris metro. Police also detained 12 men involved in sending jihadists to Pakistan and Afghanistan.