FDD's Long War Journal

Iran

Ahmadinejad and Musharraf discuss Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline

Taliban ban newspaper sales in North Waziristan; free press in Western Pakistan is in danger; North Waziristan Taliban Shura to meet on Friday NWFP/FATA. Click map to view. While many in the western press and various governments continue to debate the results of the Waziristan Accord, which turned North Waziristan over to the Taliban and […]

Afghanistan

Afghanistan may destabilise Pakistan, India – Armitage

Afghanistan

Shura member Mullah Ami claims Mullah Omar is leading the Taliban from Afghanistan and that the Taliban control “80 percent areas of over seven Afghan provinces.” A look at the Taliban operating from Baluchistan and Mujahideen Shura. The Taliban said it released two Pakistani reporters. Two NATO soldiers were killed in a suicide strike in […]

Chechen al Qaeda Emir Abu Hafs Killed

Russian security services killed the Chechen al Qaeda leader in neighboring Dagestan Abu Hafs al-Urduni Click image to view. The Russian government has made significant progress against the Chechen branch of al Qaeda over the past year. Today, Russian’s Federal Security Services killed Abu Hafs, al Qaeda in Chechnya’s commander, during a raid on a […]

Chechen Terrorist Doku Umarov may be wounded, surrounded

Russian security forces are on the hunt for the new Chechen jihadi leader Doku Umarov. Click image to view. The Russian Army is conducting major combat operations in the hunt for new Chechen terrorist leader Doku Umarov. The Scotsman reports that a source within Umarov’s organization stated “large numbers of Russian troops had surrounded Umarov […]

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China woos India and Pakistan with nuclear know-how

Kashmir

Police raided two hideouts and found 10 kilograms of the explosive RDX, as well as small arms. Two LeT terrorists were killed by police. Kashmiri villager captured a LeT terrorist and handed him over to the police.

Afghanistan

The directors of the CIA and DIA stated the Taliban and al Qaeda are resurgent in Afghanistan due to safe havens along the Pakistani border. Canada’s defense minister claimed many Taliban leaders have been killed in fighting in the south, and 1,500 more troops are needed.

The Somali Jihad

CBN’s Erick Stakelbeck followed up his report on western Pakistan with a look at the other forgotten front in the Long War: Somalia. We’ve documented the rise of the al Qaeda backed Islamic Courts Union. Erick interviewed Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and me, as well Adam Hassan, a representative of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia Erick […]

The Wazristan Accords in the News

CBN’s Erick Stakelbeck has produced an excellent report on the situation in Waziristan. Erick interviewed Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and me, as well as Pakistani Ambassador Mahmud Ali Durrani. Mr. Durrani continues to cling to the Pakistani party line that the Waziristan Accord is a positive development, despite the mountain of evidence showing the Taliban have repeatedly […]

India

India asks Pakistan to cooperate in fighting terror

Expanding Talibanistan

Islamist Pakistani legislators in the Northwest Frontier Province pass a law calling for Taliban-like rule; Musharraf plotter released Chief Minister NWFP Akram Khan Durrani congratulates Provincial Law Minister Malik Zafar Azam on presentation of Hasba Bill in the provincial assembly. Image from the PakTribune. As the Taliban and al Qaeda consolidate their power in the […]

Al-Qaeda Commander Abu Nasir al-Qahtani Captured

Abu Nasir al-Qahtani, an escape from Bagram prison, was captured in Khost last week. Qahtani operated from North Waziristan. Abu Nasir al-Qahtani in an As-Sahab propaganda videotape released in May of 2006. Click image to view. Last week, Afghan and Coalition forces announced the capture of “a known al Qaeda terrorist and five other extremists […]

Afghanistan

Ten al Qaeda are killed during an airstrike in Kunar province. Over 60 Taliban have been killed in fighting in eastern Afghanistan, and 7 were killed in Helmand province. The hardcore Taliban cadre must be eliminated, says a British general. The U.S., Afghanistan and Pakistan are considering a joint intelligence center in Kabul.

Dargai and AQAM

More on the Dargai suicide attack, and the role of AQAM A wounded Pakistani soldier from the Dargai suicide attack. Click image to view. The toll in the suicide attack on Pakistani Army recruits in Dargai in the Northwest Frontier Province has risen to 45 soldiers killed and wounded 20. Pakistani investigators are hunting for […]

Afghanistan

Thousands of Afghan Pashtuns protested Pakistan’s interference inside Afghanistan, and claim Pakistan is harboring the Taliban. Schools are being reopened in Helmand province. The Afghan Army will take up to 10 years to develop.

Kashmir

Pakistani infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir has doubled

Somalia

The Islamic Courts are reported to be advancing north towards the southern part of Galkayo in Puntland. Fighting broke out in the southern town of Bardhere as the ICU attempted to establish control. The TFG claims to have evidence ‘foreign fighters’ are in Somalia, including Americans, Pakistanis, Afghanis and Indonesians. Kenyan Muslims “strongly condemn … […]

The Taliban Regroups in Bajaur

Executions, rebuilding of madrassa, further anti-government statements issued in wake of Chingai airstrke; more Taliban assassinations in Waziristan NWFP/FATA. Click map to view. Less than a week after the airstrike that destroyed the Chingai madrassa housing Taliban fighters and serving as an al Qaeda training camp, local al Qaeda chieftain Faqir Mohammad continues to openly […]

Pushing Forward with the Bajaur Accord

Pakistan is still willing to negotiate despite the fact that Faqir Mohammed has called for jihad against Pakistan and the West, and the downfall of Musharraf Pakistanis protest against an attack on tribal area madrassa, Islamabad, Pakistan. AP Photo. Click image to view. The Pakistani military continues its cordon of Bajaur agency and portions of […]

The Taliban Return to Musa Qala

Taliban continues to suffer heavy losses in open combat; Musa Qala is back under Taliban control Afghan National Army soldiers prepare to conduct a presence patrol in the village of Alizai in the Ghazni province. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Ethan Anderson. Click image to view. Over the past week, NATO forces and the Taliban […]

Aftermath of the Bajaur Airstrike

Demonstrations, political maneuvering follows the attack on the Taliban and al Qaeda training camp in the Chingai madrassa Sirajul al-Haq addresses a rally in Bajaur, Pakistan. Click image to view. The aftermath of the destruction of the Taliban madrassa in the town of Chingai in Bajaur agency, Pakistan was predictable. Local tribesmen and Islamist Pakistani […]

Afghanistan

Fifty-five Taliban and one NATO soldier are killed during fighting in Uruzgan. The Taliban claim they will continue to fight through the winter and will take Kabul. NATO blames Pakistan for the Taliban’s infiltration into Afghanistan. The Dutch have taken over command of the south.

Airstrikes on Bajaur Training Camps

Bajaur madrassa and training camp hit by helicopter assault; up to 80 killed Satellite map of Bajaur and neighboring Kunar province in Afghanistan. Location of strike in Chingai in red. Click image to view. Just two days after Faqir Mohammed held a tribal meeting in Bajaur to express support for the Taliban and al Qaeda, […]

The Pro-Osama Meeting in Bajaur

Faqir Mohamed holds a tribal meeting that declares Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar “heroes of the Muslim world” Qazi Hussain Ahmad, president of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) and amir of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, during an anti-U.S., anti-Musharraf rally in Bajaur after the Damadola strike in January 2006. Click image to view. The Taliban and al […]

India

Indian police thwarted a plot by suspected Pakistani militants to blow up the state legislature in Bangalore. An LeT operative was arrested in Jammu & Kashmir. India calls on Pakistan to dismantle the terror camps in its territory.

Bajaur: An al Qaeda Command Center

An al Qaeda command center is uncovered in Bajaur, Zawahiri is believed to be in the region, and Pakistan still wants to cut the Bajaur Accord Bajaur and neighboring Kunar province in Afghanistan. Red arrows indicate locations of U.S. operations and clashes with the Taliban over the summer of 2006. Click image to view. As […]

Al Qaeda

CNN reports Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah, a wanted al Qaeda leader involved in the Kenya and Tanzania attacks in 1998, has been confirmed killed. This is ‘old news’ as we reported Atwah as being killed on April 13 during a Pakistani airstrike in North Waziristan. Most likely remains were recently found that allowed the DNA […]