Afghanistan
Unity among North Waziristan groups crumbles
Tag Archives: Afghanistan
Hizb-i-Islami
Osama bin Laden’s escape: A tale of subterfuge and hard cash
Afghanistan
Petraeus would helm an increasingly militarized CIA
Afghanistan
New Afghan war leader helped nurture Sunni Awakening in Iraq
Afghanistan
Strategic shift in Afghanistan seen under new US envoy
ISAF captures HIG’s provincial commander for Khost
Special operation teams have hammered Hizb-i-Islami Gulbuddin’s command in an area of Khost under the control of the Haqqani Network.
Afghanistan
Pakistan urged Afghanistan to distance itself from the West, officials say
Afghanistan
An Afghan pilot killed eight ISAF soldiers and a contractor in an attack in Kabul. The Taliban killed two policemen in Kunar and two ISAF troops in the south and the east. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and HIG commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Khost, and Paktika.
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Yemen remains al Qaeda’s ultimate breeding ground
Al Qaeda
Karzai told to dump US
Afghanistan
Pakistan denies reports of efforts to split US, Afghanistan
Afghan pilot kills 8 US troops, contractor in Kabul attack
The pilot is said to have opened fire on the ISAF troops after a dispute at North Kabul International Airport. The Taliban claimed the attack.
Al Qaeda
Pentagon lists mosques where al-Qaida recruited, reveals WikiLeaks
How many al Qaeda operatives are now left in Afghanistan?
ISAF said it has killed more than 25 al Qaeda leaders and fighters in Afghanistan in the past month.
Afghanistan
ISAF killed al Qaeda’s operations chief for Kunar in an April 14 airstrike. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network fighters in Helmand, Ghazni, Khost, Nangarhar, Laghman, Baghlan, and Badghis. Seventy-one Taliban fighters who escaped from a jail in Kandahar have been captured.
Afghanistan
Taliban prison break may lead to military and political setback
Al Qaeda
Dossier shows push for more terror attacks after 9/11
Saudi al Qaeda leader killed in Kunar airstrike
Abu Hafs al Najdi, a Qaeda’s operations chief in Kunar, was wanted by the Saudi government. ISAF said “more than 25 al Qaeda leaders and fighters” have been killed in Afghanistan over the past month.
Al Qaeda
The growing threat of militants in a corner of Central Asia
Afghanistan
US watchdog questions management of Afghan police
Afghanistan
Afghan local police stoke fears of new-generation militia
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – 453 militant leaders arrested or killed so far this year: ISAF
Al Qaeda
Libyan, once a detainee, is now a US ally of sorts
Al Qaeda
Judging detainees’ risk, often with flawed evidence
Afghanistan
More than 450 Taliban members, including more than 100 leaders, escaped from a prison in Kandahar City; two escapees have been killed and 24 more captured. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban, HIG, and Haqqani Network fighters in Uruzgan, Kandahar, Logar, Kunduz, Ghazni, Khost, Wardak, Nangarhar, Baghlan, and Badghis.
More than 450 Taliban leaders, fighters escape from Kandahar jail
The Taliban claimed they spent five months digging a 350-meter tunnel to a cell underneath the Sarposa prison in Kandahar City. More than 100 Taliban commanders are said to be among the escapees.
Afghanistan
400 inmates, some Taliban, escape Afghan prison
Al Qaeda
WikiLeaks discloses new details on whereabouts of al-Qaeda leaders on 9/11
Afghanistan
In an Afghan village, living in fear of both sides
Germany
An Islamist’s return: US hands over suspected German terrorist