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Attacker of Pakistani schoolgirl was held, freed in 2009: sources
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US adds IMU financier, Taliban IED experts to terror list
Qari Ayyub Bashir is the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan’s top financier; Maulawi Adam Khan Achekzai is a senior Taliban IED expert and leader; and Aamir Ali Chaudhry is an electronics and explosives expert for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan who was involved in the Times Square plot.
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Pakistan opposition thwarts anti-terror move
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Afghanistan – Taliban use women to take injured to hospital
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Pakistanis divided on army offensive after attack
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A Taliban suicide bomber wounded 45 Afghan soldiers in an attack on a base in Paktia. One of the two US personnel killed in last weekend’s green-on-blue suicide attack at an NDS headquarters in Kandahar was a CIA officer. The Taliban killed three civilians in the west.
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Govt Indifference Pains Father of Ghazni Kids Shot by Taliban
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Afghanistan’s safest province falling prey to Taliban
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Afghan girl ‘beheaded for refusing prostitution’
Jund al Khilafah emir killed in ‘treacherous raid’
Moezeddine Garsallaoui, a Swiss citizen, led the al Qaeda-linked group, and trained Mohamed Merah, the Toulouse shooter who killed seven people. He appears to have been killed in a drone strike.
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US pushes Afghans as security deteriorates
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Pakistan – Operation in North Waziristan: PML-N fails govt move to get parliament’s approval
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Last weekend’s suicide attack at an NDS headquarters in Kandahar that killed four Afghan intelligence operatives and two ISAF personnel was a green-on-blue attack. ISAF apologized for killing three civilians in an airstrike in Helmand on Oct. 14. The NDS killed a civilian during a raid in Kabul. ISAF captured a Taliban leader in Nangarhar […]
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Afghan Army’s High Turnover Clouds US Exit Plan
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A militia killed six Taliban fighters in Ghazni. Afghan officials said three civilians were killed in an airstrike in Helmand. Three health workers and their driver were kidnapped in Herat.
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Germany Faces Logistical and Political Trouble in Afghanistan Drawdown
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NATO Says New Framework Assures Afghan Stability After 2014
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A quiet waiver for Pakistan from the Obama administration
Turkish jihadists eulogize slain German al Qaeda leader
Islamic World, a Turkish jihadist magazine, said that Bekkay Harrach fought against Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, traveled to Iraq, where he was wounded, and was detained by Syrian security forces. Harrach also lived with Atiyah Abd al Rahman in Pakistan.
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Pakistani schoolgirl shot by Taliban sent to UK for treatment
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Thousands of British troops to quit Afghanistan in 2013
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Afghan MOI Concerned About Nangarhar’s Unofficial Armed Groups
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Afghan anti-Taliban leader prefers to go it alone against militants
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A Taliban suicide bomber killed four Afghan intelligence officers and two ISAF personnel in Kandahar. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in an IED attack in the south. Police in Kandahar are arresting mullahs who are preaching anti-government messages.
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A US platoon awaits the end of Afghan war
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The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man
Taliban suicide bomber kills 4 NDS, 2 ISAF personnel in southern Afghanistan
Today’s suicide attack is the second in southern Afghanistan in six days that targeted the National Directorate of Security.
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UK – Defence chiefs draw up plans for faster withdrawal from Afghanistan
ISAF captures IMU ‘financial facilitator’ in Kunduz
Special operations forces have conducted at least 31 raids against the IMU in eight of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces so far this year; 13 of those raids have occurred in Kunduz.
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The Taliban killed four Afghan soldiers in Kunar and a policeman and five civilians in Faryab. ISAF killed 10 Taliban fighters and four civilians in an airstrike in Ghazni.