The designation of Qari Hussain by State and Treasury refutes multiple rumors over the past several months claiming that he was killed in a US Predator airstrike in Pakistan’s tribal agency of North Waziristan.
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Sufi Mohammed, the instigator of the Taliban takeover of the Swat Valley from 2007-2009, is to be prosecuted for crimes almost a decade old. The Taliban executed four criminals in Hangu, killed three soldiers in North Waziristan, and killed one person in a bombing outside a school in Peshawar.
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The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan released a statement announcing the death of Bekkay Harrach, a top member of al Qaeda’s external operations network.
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Today’s strike in North Waziristan is the first in six days, and the sixth since the new year.
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Seventeen people were killed in a bus bombing in Hangu; no terror group has claimed the attack. The Taliban bombed a NATO fuel tanker in Khyber.
The attack is the latest in an area adjacent to the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan.
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One person was killed in a rocket attack in Mardan. The Taliban bombed a health clinic in Mohmand and torched two NATO fuel tankers in Kalat.
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The Pakistani Taliban admitted to destroying 16 NATO fuel tankers yesterday in the Dera Murad Jamali area in the southwestern province of Baluchistan. From NDTV: Pakistani Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq in a phone call to AFP claimed responsibility for the attack. “It is in retaliation to drone attacks in tribal areas,” Tariq said from an […]
The Taliban claimed it carried out the attack on 16 NATO fuel tankers in Baluchistan. Five Taliban fighters were killed in a landmine explosion in Arakzai.