Pakistan
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Taliban use females in recent suicide attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan
The Taliban forced an eight-year-old girl to attempt a suicide attack in Afghanistan, and a husband and wife suicide team attacked a police station in Pakistan.
Pakistan
A husband and wife carried out yesterday’s suicide attack on a police station in Dera Ismail Khan that killed 10 policemen. Three policemen were wounded in a bombing at a checkpoint in Multan.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Govt to consolidate data about terrorists
Afghanistan
A test case for Afghan pullout
Afghanistan
Taking a risk with Taliban negotiations, even if the talks are real this time
Pakistan
The Taliban killed seven policemen in an attack on a station in Dera Ismail Khan; five Taliban fighters were also killed. Fifteen Taliban were killed during infighting in Arakzai.
Special operations forces capture 5 al Qaeda operatives in Afghan southeast
The raid took place in Ghazni province. The targeted facilitator operates in Pakistan, plans operations, and shuttles money and fighters into both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Bin Laden’s courier tied to Pakistani-backed terror group
The New York Times reports that Osama bin Laden’s courier was found to be in contact with members of Harakat ul Mujahedin (HUM), a terrorist organization long backed by Pakistan’s spy agency. Leaked Guantanamo files provide more details about the relationship between HUM and al Qaeda.
Al Qaeda
Cellphone Offers Clues of Bin Laden’s Pakistan Ties
Obama announces rapid drawdown of surge forces from Afghanistan
Ten thousand troops will be withdrawn by the end of the year, and an additional 23,000 troops will leave Afghanistan by the end of the summer of 2012.
Pakistan
Three security personnel and five Taliban fighters were killed during clashes in Khyber and Arakzai. The military is questioning four army majors over possible links to Hizbut Tahrir.
Pakistan
Pakistan: Military strategy and the flight of capital
Pakistan
Pakistani support for military action against militants drops: poll
ISAF captures ‘foreign fighter’ facilitator in southeastern Afghanistan
“The facilitator assisted in the transfer of Uzbeks and Farsi speaking foreign fighters from Pakistan into Afghanistan to fight for the Taliban,” ISAF reported.
Pakistan
In Pakistan, denial is easier than heartbreak
Afghanistan
The End of AfPak
Pakistan
Security forces arrested a Brigadier General for links to Hizb-ul-Tahrir. A security official and four Taliban fighters were killed during fighting in South Waziristan.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: US cautioned to take Pakistan along on talks with Taliban
Pakistani Taliban kidnap young girl to turn her into a suicide bomber
The Taliban have used females to carry out three suicide attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan over the past year.
Pakistan
US Predators killed 11 Taliban and Haqqani Network fighters in a strike in Kurram. A suicide bomber killed four people in Peshawar. The Taliban forced a young girl to become a suicide bomber.
Afghanistan
Few Taliban leaders take Afghan offer to switch sides
Al Qaeda
How will Zawahiri transform al-Qaeda?
US Predators strike the Haqqani Network in Kurram
The strike hit in an area run by Fazal Saeed Utezai, a Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan commander who supports the Haqqani Network.
Is the US really negotiating with the Afghan Taliban?
Gates admits he’s not even sure the US is speaking to “genuine representatives of the Taliban leader Mullah Omar.”
Pakistan
Twenty-five Taliban fighters and four Pakistan soldiers were killed during fighting in Mohmand. The Taliban torched a tanker carrying NATO fuel and killed the driver in Quetta.
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Qaeda woes fuel talk of speeding Afghan pullback
Pakistan
Pakistan’s army is ready for its close up
Pakistan claims 25 Taliban fighters killed in Mohmand airstrikes
Four Pakistani soldiers were also killed. The military has claimed it has defeated the Taliban in Mohmand several times over the past couple of years.
Pakistan
Six Taliban fighters and two Pakistan troops were killed in a clash in South Waziristan. Security forces killed four Taliban fighters in Mohmand.