Security forces killed a Taliban commander and 13 fighters, and detained four commanders and five fighters in Logar, Paktika, Kandahar, Helmand, and Farah. Thirty Taliban fighters reconciled with the government in Herat. The Taliban killed a Pakistani worker in Kandahar.
Counterterrorism police detained four terrorists, including two men directed from within Pakistan who were tasked with conducting attacks inside Mumbai. Indian intelligence believes Pakistan’s ISI will use Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s fighters and the Lashkar-e-Taiba to attack Indians in Afghanistan.
Jalaluddin Haqqani with his son Nasrudin. Click to view. Robert Kaplan’s overview of Afghanistan in the April 2010 edition of The Atlantic makes some extremely controversial statements about reconciliation with the Haqqani Network and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Hezb-i-Islami. According to the article, top ISAF officers and advisers believe that the Taliban have become “kinder” and “gentler,” […]
Neither the Taliban and al Qaeda commander, nor a Swat Taliban commander were killed in a Pakistani airstrike last week, according to Faqir Mohammed.
President Karzai said Pakistan would get a major role in any upcoming negotiations with the Taliban. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in an IED attack in southern Afghanistan. Coalition and Afghan forces killed a Taliban fighter and captured a Taliban facilitator, a sub-commander, and 12 Taliban fighters in Helmand, Nimroz, Kandahar, Wardak, and Paktika. […]
Putin: Terror outfits in Pakistan, Afghanistan worry to entire world
Detonating just seconds apart, two bombers targeted the Pakistani military. The attack is the third suicide strike in five days.
Below is a statement from Representative Gary Ackerman, the Chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, which was delivered at the opening of a hearing on the the threat of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba. Rep. Ackerman notes LeT’s global reach and aspirations, and questions the US support for Pakistan and the […]
Unconfirmed reports indicate that Hafiz Gul Bahadar may have been among those killed in yesterday’s Predator strike in North Waziristan. Bahadar was the target of the strike, US intelligence officials told The Long War Journal.
Five Predators fired seven missiles at Taliban fighters in a village near the Afghan border. The attack is the second in three days.
The Adezai lashkar, just a few miles outside Peshawar. Image from the BBC. Two of the major reasons the Awakenings were so successful in Iraqi’s Anbar province and beyond were: 1) the Awakening received support from the Iraqi government and the US, to include military backup in case of an attack; and 2) there was […]
Harvard professor and Foreign Policy blogger Stephen Walt published an interesting piece last Friday raising objections to the containment argument for Iran. Responding to an article in Foreign Affairs by Ray Takeyh and James M. Lindsay titled “After Iran Gets the Bomb” (a shorter version appeared as an op-ed in the Washington Post), Walt offers […]
While much of the news from Pakistan focused on the suicide attack that leveled the Federal Investigation Agency building in Lahore, a second strike against the FIA took place under the radar. According to Geo News, an assault team freed three dangerous terrorists from a police prison in Multan. The prisoners, who were not named, […]
More than 120 Hizb-i-Islami Gulbuddin fighters turned themselves in to the government after a major clash with local Taliban in Baghlan province.
The attack is the first this month and also the first in 12 days.
Adam Gadahn, al Qaeda’s American spokesman, from “A Call to Arms,” a videotape released in March 2010. Below is the full transcript of Adam Gadahn’s latest tape, ” A Call to Arms.” Gadahn, al Qaeda’s American-born spokesman, is thought to have been captured in Karachi on March 7, but there is much controversy over the […]
The attack leveled a headquarters of the Federal Investigation Agency, a law enforcement agency that has targeted the Taliban and al Qaeda.
Taliban fighters battled Hezb-i-Islam Gulbuddin forces in Baghlan province.
All the Taliban wanted was money: Rescued Sikh
Leading Pakistani Taliban deputy believed killed
Pakistan flag flies over former Taliban stronghold
Unconfirmed reports indicate that Qari Zia Rahman and Faqir Mohammed were among 30 killed today in the tribal agency. Both leaders have been reported killed in the past.
Agha Jan Mohtasim, the former Finance Minister during the Taliban regime and a son-in-law of Mullah Omar, is reported to have been detained along with three associates during a raid in Karachi. Mohtasim is considered to be a candidate to replace Mullah Baradar, the leader of the Quetta Shura.
An Indian army captain and four Hizbul Mujahideen fighters were killed in a two-day-long gunbattle int he town of Dadsara Tral. Kashmiri terrorist groups are thriving with the support of Pakistan, according to a report by the BBC.
The UN envoy to Afghanistan said it is time to conduct talks with the Taliban. The Defense Ministry said 120 Taliban fighters have been killed in the Marja operation. Police killed a Taliban commander and six fighters in Helmand. The Taliban killed four Pakistani workers and two ISAF soldiers in the South.
Pakistani embodies a policy puzzle
Mullah Abdul Qayum Zakir, a former detainee at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, is not in Pakistani custody, according to US and Afghan intelligence officials.
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