Are the Taliban really trying to be a kinder, gentler entity? Reuters provides a reminder of the reality of the Taliban: Taliban fighters opened fire, hurled grenades and staged suicide bombings in central Kabul yesterday, killing at least 16 people in defiance of the Western-backed government and a NATO offensive. An Italian diplomat and Indian […]
Rival extremist groups vie for control in Khyber; a blast kills 11 civilians in Arakzai.
Pakistan banned the Lashkar-e-Taiba in January 2002, and its successor front group Jamaat-ud-Dawa in December 2008 after the November 2008 suicide terror assault on Mumbai, India . So what is Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa, doing sitting in front of a Jamaat-ud-Dawa banner during the recent interview with Al Jazeera […]
The assault on the Taliban stronghold of Marja in Helmand is underway; five Taliban fighters and one British soldier have been killed. The Taliban killed three US soldiers in southern Afghanistan and killed an ISAF soldier and a civilian in a suicide attack in Kandahar. Security forces detained a Haqqani Network commander, a Taliban sub-commander, […]
A Taliban commander claims that Hakeemullah Mehsud convened the executive council and decided it was time to prove he was alive.
Mokhmad Mohamad Shabban, a wanted Egyptian al Qaeda operative who helped establish the terror group in the Caucasus, was killed by Russian security forces during a clash in Dagestan.
The al Qaeda-linked group has initiated a terror campaign in Puntland and has threatened to take over the semi-autonomous region and the breakaway republic of Somaliland.
The US again targeted Hakeemullah in a region in North Waziristan that borders South Waziristan.
The Taliban chief released another audiotape to reporters; this time he provided a date to prove he is alive.
Mustafa Abu Yazid, al Qaeda’s leader in Afghanistan, confirmed that Abdullah Said al Libi was killed in a US airstrike. Yazid confirmed this in a tape praising the suicide attack on the CIA base in Khost.
The Taliban and the government continue to battle for control of the tribal area. Anti-Taliban tribal militias have been hit hard.
The US conducted 47 percent more strikes in 2009 than in 2008, and there is no sign the intensity of the campaign will abate in 2010.
The Frontier Corps claimed 49 Taliban fighters were killed during battles in the tribal agencies where the Taliban regrouped after the South Waziristan operation.
Strategic depth, anger at the US, and fear of a military revolt keep Pakistan from moving against the Haqqani network and the Quetta Shura.
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry in Baghdad after the August 19 suicide attacks. Photo by The New York Times. Joel Wing rolls up his sleeves again and does the boring yet essential work of analyzing mass casualty events within the context of Iraq’s overall decline in violence: Every time there is a massive, headline-grabbing bombing in […]
The Arakzai-based Taliban group has been implicated in four of the five suicide attacks in Islamabad this year.
Afghan troops killed 23 Haqqani Network fighters during a clash in the Barmal district. Arab and Pakistani fighters were reported killed in the battle.
Taliban leaders from South Waziristan have regrouped in Arakzai to continue their terror offensive against the Pakistani state.
Chechen and Russian forces think Doku Umarov may be among the more than 20 jihadis killed during a raid in Chechnya. Three of Umarov’s senior aides were killed in the attack.
More than 130 Taliban fighters have been killed during an operation in a district under enemy control.
A high number of terrorist plots have been disrupted in the US this year. Several of the Islamists who have been detained have been traced back to Pakistan’s tribal areas.
The attack was a joint operation between the Haqqani Network and the Lashkar al Zil. Siraj Haqqani and Ajmal, a senior Lashkar al Zil commander, have been implicated by Afghan intelligence.
Eleven Islamist fighters and one policeman were killed during clashes in Chechnya and Dagestan. Among those killed was a regional commander known as Iban who is said to be behind suicide attacks and armed assaults in Argun.
The car bomb took place in a crowded bazaar in the provincial capital. Hundreds are wounded. The blast leveled a mosque.
The Taliban took credit for an attack that killed upwards of seven people, including UN employees, at a guest house in Kabul. Reuters reported that four UN employees were killed in the attack (Geo News claimed three UN employees and four others were killed), which was carried out by a team of gunmen. The Taliban […]
The senior al Qaeda military commander and two Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives aided two Americans as they plotted to strike at a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Recent clashes in South Waziristan, Bajaur, and Hangu have reportedly killed 46 Taliban fighters and 12 soldiers. The Taliban are reinforcing in South Waziristan via North Waziristan despite the military’s peace agreement with Hafiz Gul Bahadar.
Fifteen Pakistanis were killed and 19 more were wounded, nine critically, in the latest strikes inside Pakistan.
Seven people were reported killed and 12 more were wounded after a bomber detonated at a security checkpoint near the Kamra Air Weapon Complex in Attock.
At this early stage of the operation, 12 soldiers have been killed in IED attacks and gunbattles, and 11 Taliban fighters have been killed in airstrikes.