The military-style terror attack on Mumbai is entering its third day as Indian forces are still working to clear gunmen from several locations in the city. The scope and depth of the attack is unprecedented.
The Pakistani military is compelling the tribes to battle the Taliban. This is a recipe for disaster, officials tell The Long War Journal.
Abu Kasha served as a key link between al Qaeda’s Shura Majlis and the Taliban, as well as involved in al Qaeda’s external operations. Khalid Habib is also reported to have been killed in an Oct. 16 airstrike.
The Taliban claimed credit for the attack on the Information and Culture Ministry in Kabul. A small team assaulted the main gate and then entered the compound. Five were killed and dozens were wounded, including children in a daycare center, after the suicide bomber detonated inside the ministry.
Abu Ghadiya and his network’s senior leadership was killed in yesterday’s raid near Albu Kamal. The network funnels foreign fighters, weapons, and cash from Syria into Iraq.
Abu Qaswarah, who was killed by US forces on Oct. 5, has been identified as Mohamed Moumou, a Swedish citizen. He was a member of Ansar al Islam and was listed a Special Designated Global Terrorist in 2006.
US Predators hit in a tribal region run by the Haqqani Network for the second time in three days.
Two homes belonging to a local Taliban leader near Miramshah are targeted in the attack; six al Qaeda reported killed.
US hits Haqqani Network positions in Khost province in Afghanistan, two airstrikes are reported across the border in North Waziristan.
Taliban spokesman denied Baitullah died of natural causes. US targets Taliban safe house in Mirali.
A US raid is thwarted for the second time in one week. Fedayeen-e-Islam takes credit for the Marriott bombing. Afghanistan’s ambassador-designate to Pakistan is kidnapped in Peshawar while a suicide bomber kills nine soldiers in Swat.
Al Qaeda and the Taliban carry out their latest sophisticated strike. The death toll rises to 70, with more than 250 wounded. The hotel is destroyed by the bombing and fire.
The recent strikes in Pakistan are aimed at al Qaeda’s external operations against the West as well as the Taliban support networks that aid in attacks inside Afghanistan.
The US targeted a group related to Hekmatyar. The airstrike attack is the fifth such cross-border attack in the North Waziristan tribal agency in two weeks.
US aircraft struck the Manbaul Ulom, the primary madrassa run by the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani family in order to “send a message.” Five Haqqani compounds have been hit in the last ten days.
More than 20 are reported killed in a strike against a compound run by Siraj Haqqani. This is the seventh reported strike inside Pakistan in nine days.
The US campaign against the Taliban and al Qaeda’s safe houses in Pakistan’s tribal areas has intensified. Today’s strike is the fifth inside Pakistan in six days.
The attack occurred along the border with Afghanistan in territory run by the Haqqani family. This is the fourth cross-border strike in five days.
The cease-fire comes as heavy fighting with the Taliban has occurs in Swat, Bajaur, South Waziristan, and Aurkzai and the Taliban ramp up their suicide campaign.
Iraq’s Quick Reaction Forces moves through upper Diyala province in the largest Iraqi offensive in five years.
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Bill Roggio look at how Pakistan’s deteriorating security situation harms Afghanistan.
One week into Operation Omens of Prosperity, the Iraqi-led operation has resulted in the capture of six senior al Qaeda leaders and has secured the Balad Ruz region.
The Haqqani Network has risen in prominence in the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. The Haqqani family has been behind some of the most high-profile attacks in Afghanistan and is rivaling the older generation of Taliban leaders.
Omar Khalid is a rising star in the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan as he crushes his rivals and consolidates power in the Mohmand tribal agency.
The son of infamous Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani is among those killed during recent battles in southern and eastern Afghanistan.
Al Qaeda, Taliban, and Pakistani terror groups united to conduct the complex attack on a joint US and Afghan outpost that resulted in the death of nine US soldiers and more than 40 Taliban fighters.
Heavy fighting is ongoing after Taliban launched a complex attack against US forces in a new outpost. Multiple US casualties have been reported.
A history of the outcome of recent military operations directed against the Taliban in Islamabad, the tribal agencies and the Northwest Frontier Province.
Local politician and family among seven killed; a ski resort and eleven girls’ schools are torched. The government commits to the peace accords with Fazlullah’s Taliban.
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.