Tag Archives: Pakistan


Predator strikes now leaner, meaner in Pakistan

The Washington Post has a good read on the covert US air campaign in Pakistan. According to the Post’s CIA sources, the strikes have been much more effective in killing enemy fighters and commanders, and have killed far fewer civilians, since smaller warheads and increased surveillance have been employed. According to an internal CIA accounting […]


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US strike aircraft killed eight Taliban fighters in North Waziristan. Security forces killed four Taliban fighters and detained nine more in Swat, and detained a senior Taliban commander from Swat in Karachi. The military launched a new operation in Khyber; 12 extremists were captured.






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Amid outrage over civilian deaths in Pakistan, CIA turns to smaller missiles



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Security forces killed eight Taliban fighters in Arakzai. Baluch fighters killed three policemen in an attack on a checkpoint in Nasirabad. The Mehsud tribes said they would return to South Waziristan and promised not to aid or shelter the Taliban.


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A US airstrike killed seven Taliban fighters in North Waziristan. The military killed 20 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. The Taliban killed four policemen and bombed 12 NATO tankers in Mianwali and wounded 10 policemen in a suicide attack in Dir.






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The Taliban took credit for an ambush that killed eight soldiers in North Waziristan. The Taliban also beheaded four “US spies” in North Waziristan. Security forces killed 16 Taliban fighters in Arakzai.




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Afghanistan – Taleban rift ignites power struggle over who controls the insurgency



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Pakistan – ‘Jihadi channels™ opened to secure release of former ISI spies



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Thirty-five Taliban and one soldier were killed in fighting in Arakzai and Swat. The Taliban killed three tribesmen in Arakzai and a politician in Charsadda. The military killed a woman during mortar strikes in Khyber. The government closed two hospitals and 177 health clinics in North Waziristan.






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The top Taliban spokesman denied carrying out attacks in crowded cities and claimed Blackwater was behind the recent suicide strikes in Kohat and Peshawar. The Taliban warned shop owners and leaders to stop the “growing vulgarity.” Only four Taliban fighters were detained among 500 suspects rounded up in Swat.



Why the Korengal Valley matters

At The New York Times, Sebastian Junger shares what he knows about Kunar’s Korengal Valley, the region abandoned by US forces last week and now overtaken by the Taliban. Junger’s article should be read in full, but the two paragraphs below point out that the valley does indeed possess tactical significance. And the oft-repeated mantra […]