41 killed in Kabul suicide strike at Indian embassy
A suicide car bomber hit the outside wall of the Indian embassy. More than 140 were reported wounded. The Indian defense attache was killed in the attack.
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Suicide bombing outside Lal Masjid in Islamabad kills 19
Fifteen policemen killed, more than 40 wounded in the strike, which occurred during the anniversary of the Lal Masjid assault.
Afghan Army kills 25 Taliban after ambush in the northwestern province of Badghis
Taliban continue ambushes despite taking lopsided casualties. Seven Taliban killed in clash in Paktika.
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed three policeman and a civilian in an attack on a convoy transporting the governor of Nimroz province. One civilian was killed and several wounded after Taliban mortar teams fired into Kunar province from inside Pakistan. Six Taliban fighters were detained in Helmand province. A US Blackhawk helicopter was shot down in […]
Al Qaeda
Spain arrested three Algerian al Qaeda financiers behind operations in Iraq, Pakistan, Algeria, and Iran. The founder of al Qaeda’s first women-only website will be among several women to denounce al Qaeda during interviews to be aired on Saudi television.
Ex-Guantanamo detainee suicide bomber fought at Tora Bora
Abdullah Salih al Ajmi, the former Guantanamo detainee behind the March 23 suicide bombing at Combat Outpost Inman in Mosul, Iraq, was a member of the Taliban who fought at the battle of Tora Bora.
Afghanistan
The Taliban rocketed a US base in Paktika province from inside Pakistan. The Taliban killed two civilans and wounded 11 in mortar attacks in Kunar province. A Coalition soldier was killed in an attack in Farah province.
22 Taliban killed in attacks on three district centers in eastern Afghanistan
Afghan police fend off attacks on two district centers in Paktika province and one in Paktia province. The attacks are originating from Pakistan, said a senior US general in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
Afghan forces killed 22 Taliban after attacks on district centers in Paktia and Paktika provinces in eastern Afghanistan. A US helicopter crashed in Kunar province. One Coalition soldier was killed and three were wounded in an IED attack in Helmand province. An Afghan government official blamed Pakistan for the April assassination attempt in Kabul on […]
US, Afghan forces kill 16 Taliban in eastern Afghanistan
Afghan police hold off attack by Afghan, Arab, and Chechen fighters on a district center in Paktia. US forces back up police, kill 16 Taliban fighters.
Afghan, US forces kill 55 Taliban after ambush
Coalition troops rout a Taliban force after being ambushed in Paktika province along the Pakistani border across from the lawless tribal agency of North Waziristan.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Legality Of ‘Hot Pursuit’ Into Pakistan Debated
Afghanistan
Coalition forces killed 55 Taliban fighters and wounded 25 during heavy fighting in the Zerok district of Paktika province. Three Taliban leaders are reported to have been killed in the fighting. One Afghan woman and three children were killed in the indirect fire attack from Pakistan. A German general said 6,000 additional troops are needed […]
Afghanistan
Rockets from Pakistan kill Afghan woman, 3 children
Afghanistan
Afghan and Coalition bases in Paktika were targeted by indirect fire launched from inside Pakistan. Five Coalition troops were killed in two separate IED attacks in Kandahar and Paktika province. Six Coalition soldiers were wounded in the attacks.
Afghanistan
Afghan and NATO forces have launched an offensive to retake the villages in the Arghandab district north of Kandahar city. Thirty-six Taliban have been confirmed killed so far, and some of the villages have been cleared. Afghan troops and US helicopters engaged the Taliban in Kunar province a mile from the border of Pakistan.
Afghanistan
President Karzai threatened to attack Baitullah Mehsud inside Pakistan. “When they cross the territory from Pakistan to come and kill Afghans and kill coalition troops, it exactly gives us the right to go back and do the same,” Karzai said. Afghan and Coalition forces killed 15 Taliban in Kandahar while tracking down escaped prisoners. Coalition […]
Iran
Iran refuses to back down from the development of its nuclear program as the West threatens more sanctions. Twenty-eight IRGC soldiers were kidnapped by “militants” in a region of Sistan-Baluchistan province on the Pakistani border. Pakistan has turned over four Jundallah fighters to Iran.
United States
Pakistan: Relations With US In Crisis After Clash Across Afghan Border
Al Qaeda
India: Focus – Al-Qaeda a ‘cancer’ in Pakistan
Afghanistan
The US military released footage of the June 10 clash with the Taliban on the Pakistani border. International donors pledged $20 billion in aid to Afghanistan; the US is contributing $10.2 billion. Two British soldiers were killed and one wounded in an attack in Helmand province.
Afghan troops clash with the Taliban on the border
Afghan forces, backed by US air power, pursued a Taliban force into the Mohmand tribal agency. Pakistani soldiers have been caught in the crossfire; Pakistan condemns the US.
Report: US strikes inside Mohmand tribal agency
A US Air Force unmanned Predator is believed to have carried out an attack inside Pakistan’s lawless tribal zone. The Pakistani government recently signed an agreement with the Taliban in Mohmand.
North Waziristan peace agreement allows Al Qaeda to remain
The Pakistani government has worked to suppress all reporting of the peace agreement, which was signed in February. Al Qaeda can remain in North Waziristan “as long as they pledge to remain peaceful.”
Afghanistan
Three British soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing in Helmand province. Afghan officials say the Taliban are coercing and forcing children to become suicide bombers. Taliban kidnappers abducted a Pakistani employee of an Afghan company in Kandahar province. A Canadian soldier died after he fell into an open well west of Kandahar City. Operation […]
Baitullah Mehsud’s fighters killed in Afghanistan
18 Pakistanis from South Waziristan among dozens killed in a US airstrike. The Pakistani Taliban refuse to end cross-border raids into Afghanistan.
Tracking the Coalition’s Afghan spring offensive
Coalition forces have gone on the offensive against the Taliban in Kapisa, Badghis, Farah, Uruzgan, Kandahar, and Helmand provinces.
Afghanistan
Pakistan tries to assure Afghans over Taliban talks
Al Qaeda
The US Treasury Department has frozen the assets of two Bahrainians and a Qatari for providing financial and material support to al Qaeda. The men have supplied funds to senior al Qaeda and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group operating in Iran, Pakistan and throughout the Middle East.
Al Qaeda
Mustafa Abu Yazid, al Qaeda’s leader in Afghanistan, took credit for the bombing of the Danish embassy in Islamabad that wounded eight Pakistanis and wounded more than 30. The attack was a “revenge against the infidel government … of Denmark which published degrading drawings of the prophet … and refused to apologize but continued” to […]