The military is set to take on the Taliban in South Waziristan, where the military has failed four times in the past. The operation will pit the Army and Frontier Corps against the Taliban’s best fighters on terrain the Taliban have owned for years.
The body of a government worker at the Federal Investigation Agency killed by a Taliban assault team is carried out by rescue workers.. EPA photo. Before the smoke even cleared from the terror assaults on three police centers in Lahore, a senior police official has pointed the finger at India’s intelligence agency for masterminding the […]
Terrorists assaulted three police centers in Lahore; 26 people were killed. A suicide bomber killed 10 police and civilians in Kohat. One child was killed in a carbombing in Peshawar. Police detained two terrorists in Islamabad.
The military hit South Waziristan with air and artillery strikes; two tribal leaders are thought to have been killed. The Taliban claimed credit for the suicide attack in Shangla and vowed to conduct further attacks. Investigators said three Uzbeks may have been among the assault team that attacked Army GHQ.
Aftermath of the Shangla suicide attack. AP photo. The Taliban have taken credit for the Shangla suicide attack against a military convoy as well as the assault on the Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi. Dawn reports on the Taliban taking credit for the Shangla attack: A boy aged about 13 and wearing a suicide vest […]
The operational commander of the Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami and Brigade 313 was thought killed in a Sept. 14 strike in North Waziristan. Kashmiri has granted an interview with a Pakistani reporter.
Taliban fighters in South Waziristan. Reuters photo. With four large-scale Taliban attacks in Pakistan since Oct. 4, including the brazen assault on the Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, the Pakistani government and military are still talking about considering discussing the possibility of issuing orders to provide for a principled decision to launch an offensive against […]
Dr. Usman was arrested in October 2008 for his involvement in the September 2008 suicide attack on the Islamabad Marriott. He is a former soldier and has extensive links to Pakistani jihadi groups.
The Amjad Farooqi Group, a faction of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan and an al Qaeda ally, took credit for the assault on the GHQ in Rawalpindi. Taliban fighters are holding military personnel hostage.
“This means they are not coming back,” a Taliban spokesman said after US troops abandoned two outposts after a deadly battle in Nuristan. “This is another victory for Taliban.”
A Taliban commander said Yuldashev, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, was killed in the Aug. 27 strike in Kanigoram. The prospect of dying in a US strike “worried him a lot.”
Taliban commander Hakeemullah Mehsud at a press conference in Peshawar in 2008. Reuters is reporting that the news leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan may be dead. According to unnamed US intelligence officials, Hakeemullah Mehsud may have been killed during a clash with a rival Taliban group several weeks ago. From Reuters: […]
The Taliban launched a rocket and ground assault on a military base in Ramzak as the government ponders an operation in Waziristan.
Police have confirmed that the elusive Noordin Mohammed Top has been killed along with three other terrorists during an assault on a safe house in Indonesia.
US special operations forces have conducted four other such strikes in Pakistan, Syria, and Madagascar since 2006.
More than 60 Taliban fighters, 14 Afghan soldiers and police, and two US soldiers were killed during fighting in Farah and Kunduz provinces.
ISAF called in the strike after two fuel trucks were hijacked in a region under control of the Taliban. More than 90 Taliban fighters and civilians have been reported killed.
The governor claimed that Mullah Abdul Salam, the Taliban’s top leader in the northern Afghan province, was killed; the Taliban denied the report. Kunduz has become a hot spot.
Scores of Haqqani Network fighters have been killed during assaults on the terror group’s bases in Khost and Paktika in eastern Afghanistan.
Hakeemullah and Waliur Rehman Mehsud confirmed that Baitullah died of wounds suffered in the Aug. 5 Predator strike. Waliur said Hakeemullah is the new Taliban leader.
Hakeemullah was appointed by the Taliban shura just days after Faqir Mohammed named himself the temporary leader of the group. The appointment gives new weight to claims that Baitullah was killed during an Aug. 5 Predator strike.
Hamas attacked the Jund Ansar Allah after the group’s leader declared an Islamic emirate in Rafah. Thirteen were reported killed, including the leader of Hamas’ military wing and Jund Ansar Allah’s leader and military commander.
The Taliban claimed 32 troops were killed during the battle; the military said 11 Taliban fighters were killed.
In the wake of Baitullah Mehsud’s death, the Pakistani government could decide to end the military operation in South Waziristan.
Hakeemullah Mehsud is said to be in the lead to take over the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan. Qari Hussain Mehsud is a close second.
Eighteen Haqqani Network fighters were killed during an Aug. 4 raid on a “stronghold in the remote mountains” in eastern Afghanistan.
Fakri Hadi Gari, the group’s deputy emir, and the financial emir were captured by Iraqi forces in Mosul.
The Taliban assaulted the home of a tribal leader who opposed the Taliban presence in Shangla. The tribal leader is the latest to be killed for supporting the government.
Police defeated a coordinated assault by the Haqqani Network in Khost; seven enemy fighters wearing suicide vests were killed. Coalition forces accidentally killed three Afghan security personnel in Kandahar during a friendly fire incident and killed “several” Taliban fighters and detained eight more in Nangarhar province. The Taliban killed a British soldier in Helmand province.