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Tag Archives: Pakistan
Afghanistan
As Afghanistan braces for the spring fighting season, the US hopes its preparation has paid off
Afghanistan
White House: Pakistan is failing to defeat militants
Afghanistan
White House assails Pakistan effort on militants
ISAF captures al Qaeda’s top Kunar commander
Abu Ikhlas al Masri served as al Qaeda’s Kunar operations commander before he was captured in a special operations raid in Kunar in December 2010. Kunar remains an al Qaeda haven.
US troops defeat Taliban assault on base in Nangarhar
A Taliban force of 25 fighters attacked Forward Operating Base Fenty in Nangarhar province, but was routed by US troops guarding the base.
Haqqani Network
Why are peace deals so difficult to keep in Pakistan’s tribal areas?
Pakistan
Unrepentant: Teen suicide bomber vows attacks in Pakistan
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed eight people in an attack at a bus terminal in Lower Dir. Two of the failed suicide bombers from yesterday’s attack on a shrine in Dera Ghazi Khan are from North Waziristan.
Lashkar-e-Islam
Pakistan – Tribal lashkar makes advances: copters continue to pound LI hideouts
Shocking! Sufi shrine suicide bombers from North Waziristan
The Pakistani military and intel services still don’t want to go into the tribal agency.
Al Qaeda
Evolution of militancy: Al Qaeda, Taliban grooming new leadership
Pakistan
Pakistan – Court ordered governments to locate family of Davis’ victims
Suicide bomber kills 8 in northwestern Pakistan
The suicide bombing in Lower Dir is the fourth such attack in northwestern Pakistan since March 30.
Pakistan
A pair of Taliban suicide bombers killed 42 people in an attack at a Sufi shrine in Dera Ghazi Khan. Security forces killed 15 Taliban and Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber and Hangu.
Al Qaeda
Pakistan: Shahbaz Sharif threatens long march against drone strikes
Suicide bombers kill 41 at Sufi shrine in central Pakistan
The Taliban claimed the attack, which occurred during a religious festival at the Sakhi Sarwar shrine in the district of Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab province.
Pakistan
Spy chief’s tenure is extended in Pakistan
20 killed in clash between Lashkar-e-Islam factions
Some details emerge on the infighting in Khyber.
Pakistan
Twenty Pakistanis were killed during a clash between the Lashkar-e-Islam and a tribe in the Tirah Valley in Khyber. Eleven troops were wounded in an IED attack in Khyber.
Ex-Gitmo detainee training Libyan rebels in Derna
A former Guantanamo detainee named Sufyan Ben Qumu is training Derna’s rebels. Declassified memos prepared at Gitmo note that Qumu was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group’s military committee, trained at Osama bin Laden’s camps, worked for al Qaeda front companies, and was a known “extremist” with “no qualms about committing terrorist acts.”
Lashkar-e-Islam chief targeted for assassination in Khyber
Mangal Bagh was targeted by members of his own group.
Pakistan
A Taliban suicide bomber killed a child in Darra Adam Khel. The Taliban killed three security guards at a supply terminal in Khyber used by NATO trucks. Lashkar-e-Islam leader Mangal Bagh survived an assassination attempt in Khyber.
Pakistan
Pakistan attacks reveal widening split between religious parties and militants
Pakistan
Pakistan handles Islamic extremism with kid gloves
Pakistan
Ten people were killed in an IED attack in Charsadda that targeted the head of an Islamist political party allied with the Taliban. Security forces killed eight “militants” in Kurram.
Pro-Taliban Islamist politician again targeted in Pakistan’s northwest
Twelve killed as Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s convoy hit by an IED.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Twin rocket attacks aimed at sensitive areas: probe
Indonesia
Pakistan gives Jakarta access to Bali bomb suspect
Afghanistan
Signs of strain as Taliban gird for more fighting