A senior US official said Mullah Omar and the Taliban leadership are hiding in Pakistan. “They run the shura council, they run the strategic command and control out of the city of Quetta,” the official said. US forces detained three members an IED cell near the Pakistan border in the Bermel District of Paktika province.
Rumors abound that the American traitor and al Qaeda propagandist was killed in the same attack as Abu Laith al Libi. Gadahn’s death has not been confirmed.
Mustafa Abu Yazid, al Qaeda’s comander in Afghanistan, vowed to avenge the death of Abu Laith al Libi, the al Qaeda field commander killed in an airstrike in North Waziristan, Pakistan. “The men he trained … will not rest until they avenge him and realise his aspirations and hopes, God willing,” he said. Yazid released […]
Senior US intelligence officials believe al Qaeda™s stronghold in the Pakistani tribal areas will allow terrorists to train for strikes in Pakistan, the Middle East, Africa, and the US. A Middle Eastern newspaper reported two other al Qaeda leaders, Abu Obeida Tawari al Obeidi and Abu Adel al Kuwaiti, were killed in last week’s airstrike […]
Attack against a military bus in the garrison city kills 10 and wounds 25. A peace deal with the Taliban in South Waziristan is near.
Two months after announcing offensive to clear Swat of the Taliban, operations are ongoing. The Taliban still holds territory; 195 security personnel killed in the last year in Swat alone, comparable to the number of US and Iraqi forces killed in the insurgency when adjusted for population.
Nazir negotiates for the return of pro-Uzbek Taliban; suicide attack in North Waziristan kills six troops.
Security forces arrested Abdulkhai Yuldashev, the leader of an al Qaeda linked group that attacked Kyrgyz and Tajik border posts in May 2006, resulting in nine deaths. Yuldashev’s group received funding from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan based out of Pakistan.
The Jan. 29 airstrike in Khushali Tari Khel killed Abu Laith al Libi, according to a posting at a jihadi forum.
Al Qaeda leaders Abu Laith al Libi and Abu Obaidah al Masri may have been the target of the North Waziristan airstrike that killed 13.
Nearly 500 women gathered in Kandahar to protest the abduction of the American aid worker and her translator. Afghan officials remain clueless about the missing pair™s whereabouts. Afghan Taliban leaders are publicly distancing themselves from Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, but denied he has been relieved of his command.
Twelve Taliban reported killed as negotiations for a peace accord are underway. The event mirrors a strike that sabotaged a Bajaur peace agreement in late 2006.
Afghanistan needs more US presence, not Pakistan: Musharraf
Taliban, Al-Qaeda staying behind to fight in Pakistan: US general
US and Afghan forces killed 20 Taliban and wounded 10 as the fighters cross the border from Pakistan to attack US and Afghan forces in Kunar province. Taliban attacks in Helmand, Kandahar, and Zabul provinces claimed 12 lives. The Taliban assassinated the provincial head of Afghanistan’s National Reconciliation Commission in Zabul.
Spanish police arrested 14 South Asians for plotting attacks in Barcelona. Twelve Pakistanis and two Indians were arrested during the police raids. Police found explosives and bomb-making materials during the raids.
Al Qaeda leaders Tahir Yuldashev and Abdul Khaliq Haqqani released a video where they called for a jihad against the Pakistani military and the government. “Jihad is compulsory in Pakistan as it is compulsory in Afghanistan,” said Yuldashev. Footage included the aftermath of the fighting in Mir Ali in North Waziristan in October 2007 and […]
Seven soldiers and up to 50 Taliban reported killed; 20 paramilitaries reported captured after Taliban force stormed a post in Sararogha. Baitullah Mehsud’s Taliban are the likely culprits.
Afghan security forces capture four members of Siraj Haqqani’s terror network. Haqqani is based out of North Waziristan.
Kashmir: 2 Pakistanis among 3 terrorists killed
Afghan Taliban leader Saifur Rahman Mansour, who was commander of Taliban forces during Operation Anaconda, was killed during a clash with the military in the Pakistani tribal agency. The military is negotiating with the Taliban in North Waziristan.
A look at the violence in Afghanistan over the course of 2007. The Taliban insurgency is strongest in the regions bordering Pakistan. Almost three-quarters of the violence occurs in the East, Southeast, and South.
A look at the senior and influential Taliban leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Afghanistan suicide bombers ‘may come from Pakistan
Tension rises between Baitullah Mehsud and Mullah Nazir after nine of Nazir’s tribesmen are killed during attacks. Nazir has ordered Mehsud tribesmen to vacate Wana.
The Taliban threaten to attack in Kohistan and the settled districts if the military fails to halt operations in Swat. Fighting is ongoing in South Waziristan, home of Baitullah Mehsud.
A year-end roundup of the major developments in the Long War in the primary and secondary theaters across the globe.
Mullah Mansoor Dadullah, the Taliban commander for southern Afghanistan, has been relieved of duty by Mullah Omar. Dadullah denies claim, calls it a “conspiracy.”
Islamist websites have indicated a new Osama bin Laden tape, titled “The Path to Foiling Plots in Iraq,” will be released shortly. The tape will discuss the Islamic State of Iraq and Al Jazeera’s misrepresentation of bin Laden’s tape from November. Mustafa Abu al Yazid, the leader of al Qaeda in Afghanistan, denied involvement in […]
“We terminated the most precious American asset which vowed to defeat [the] mujahadeen,” said Mustafa Abu al Yazid, al Qaeda’s commander in Afghanistan.