Ten Taliban fighters behind the acid attacks on schoolgirls in Kandahar have been arrested; they said senior Taliban leaders based in Pakistan paid them to conduct the attacks. US forces killed six HIG fighters and detained 12 more in Kapisa province; one Haqqani Network fighter was killed and five more were captured in Paktika province. […]
The Obama administration is about to discover that the terrorists detained at Guantanamo are there for good reason. Originally published in The Weekly Standard.
Reports are unconfirmed. Rauf is one of the architects of the failed 2006 London airline plot. His family is active in Pakistan’s jihadi community. He escaped from Pakistani custody in December 2007.
Five have been reported killed in the latest strike inside Pakistan. Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadar threatened to renew attacks on Pakistani military if strikes continue.
Hajji Hammadi, al Qaeda’s emir in Karmah and Abu Ghraib, was behind numerous deadly attacks, including the suicide bombing in June that killed a US Marine battalion commander. Hammadi is the fourth senior al Qaeda leader killed in the past six weeks.
A suicide attack on a government center in Khost province killed nine people and wounded 16. The US and Pakistani military coordinated a strike on Taliban rocket teams operating in Waziristan. Russia is permitting Spain and Germany to ship supplies through the central Asian states.
US and Afghan forces killed “a large number of insurgents” in Nangarhar and Paktika provinces. US forces returned fire on a Taliban rocket team inside Pakistan. A suicide bomber killed two policemen and a civilian in Kandahar; an IED attack killed four civilians in Panjwai. China denied it would send troops to Afghanistan.
US troops killed 10 Haqqani Network fighters and captured a commander in Paktia. The US and Pakistan are coordinating operations in Kunar province and the Bajaur tribal agency. The US is seeking up to 10,000 smaller MRAPs for its forces.
Twelve people, including five “foreigners,” are reported to have been killed in the latest airstrike in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
Al Qaeda operative Abu Kasha al Iraqi survived the Oct. 31 US Predator airstrike that targeted a safe house in Mir Ali. “He is healthy and very much in his routine,” a source told AKI. The source also said the Pakistani government’s claim that Mustafa Abu Yazid was killed in fighting in Bajaur a “cheap […]
The Taliban are penetrating high-security areas and have intelligence on the movement of foreign diplomats and aid workers.
The targets of the attack appear to have been the chief minister and the governor of the Northwest Frontier Province.
Manzar Zaidi takes an in-depth look at the chief of Khyber agency’s Lashkar-i-Islam.
An intelligence report stated there are “extremist concentrations” in “London, Birmingham, with significant extremist networks in the South East, notably Luton.” Thousands of jihads are supporting terror attacks inside the UK and abroad. “The majority of extremists are British nationals of south Asian, mainly Pakistani origin but there are also extremists from north and east […]
Up to 14 killed in the first cross-border attack in Pakistan’s tribal areas in one week. Three of al Qaeda’s top 20 leaders have been killed in recent strikes, said General Petraeus.
Gunmen kidnap Afghan government adviser in Pakistan: police
Eight paramilitary troops were killed in the attack on a Frontier Corps checkpoint. The bombing comes two days after Mullah Nazir escaped a US Predator strike.
General Petraeus has arrived in Afghanistan for talks with military and government officals. US troops wounded five Afghan soldiers in a friendly fire incident in Kunar. Two Bangladeshi aid workers kidnapped by the Taliban have been freed.
Officials believe Abu Jihad al Masri was one of several al Qaeda operatives killed in yesterday’s strikes in North and South Waziristan. He is the leader of the Egyptian Islamic Group, sits on al Qaeda’s Shura Majlis, and serves as an operational and intelligence chief.
Six “foreigners” and one Taliban operative are killed in today’s second airstrike that reportedly targeted Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan chief Tahir Yuldashev and Mullah Nazir in South Waziristan. Nazir is said to have been wounded in the strike.
Abu Kasha served as a key link between al Qaeda’s Shura Majlis and the Taliban, as well as involved in al Qaeda’s external operations. Khalid Habib is also reported to have been killed in an Oct. 16 airstrike.
Parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani threatened the US with suicide attacks in response to US incursions into Syria and Pakistan. “The US method and conduct, expressed by this aggression, will only be stopped by a clear-cut and unexpected response, whose grounds were set by the martyr Hussein Fahmida,” he said. Fahmida was a suicide bomber.
More than 470 wounded in 13 blasts in the restive state of Assam. Indian officials point the finger at Bangladesh-based HuJI, an al Qaeda affiliate.
Third massive cache found inside the former Mahdi Army stronghold; 49 explosively formed penetrators found in Sadr City since Oct. 20. Seven Special Groups fighters killed and 118 captured during October.
The coordinated attacks hit the presidential palace, a UN compound, and the Ethiopian Consulate in Somaliland, and an intelligence headquarters in Puntland. The attacks were carried out by Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked terror group.
A Pakistani and an “Iranian infiltrator” are among those detained in security sweeps in Basrah province.
The Afghan-Pakistani jirga agreed to negotiate with Taliban elements willing to accept the supremacy of the constitutions of both countries. US troops killed 12 Taliban during the recovery of the downed Blackhawk helicopter in Wardak province. Coalition troops killed one Haqqani network operative and captured seven during operations in Ghazni province. One Coalition soldier was […]
Unconfirmed reports indicate Haji Omar Khan, a senior Taliban leader who has strong ties to Mullah Omar, has been killed in the Oct. 26 strike.
The attack was aimed at Abu Ghadiya, an Iraqi who manages al Qaeda’s network that funnels foreign fighters, weapons, and cash from Syria into Iraq.
The strike is the third in inside tribal areas run by Baitullah Mehsud this year.