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Pakistan army anger at Nato border tactics after forcing militants out
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Taliban cooperation with al Qaeda ‘is at the highest limits’ – Siraj Haqqani
The leader of the Haqqani Network in eastern Afghanistan said the Taliban welcomes foreign fighters and that 90 percent of areas under his command are under Taliban control.
Al Qaeda
US, Pakistan alter approach on Waziristan
Pakistan
A US strike in North Waziristan killed five Taliban fighters. Taliban commander Qari Zia Rahman spoke to the media to dispel reports of his death and also said Hakeemullah Mehsud is alive. Security forces detained 29 tribal elders in Bajaur for failing to keep out the Taliban.
Afghanistan
A dagger to the CIA
Afghanistan
Interview: Karzai brother mends ties with US
Pakistan
Pakistan admits civilian deaths in air strike
Afghanistan
US forces leave Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley
US strike kills 4 in Taliban stronghold of North Waziristan
The Predators struck the Taliban’s car as they stopped to pray. The attack is the second in three days.
Taliban commander Qari Zia Rahman denies reports of his death
The powerful military commander spoke to the media and also denied that Hakeemullah Mehsud was dead. Qari Zia said he would concentrate his operations in eastern Afghanistan; ISAF has just pulled out of the Korengal Valley.
Pakistan
Violent protests over the renaming of the Northwest Frontier Province continue. The Taliban vowed to halt the return of the Mehsud tribe to South Waziristan and torched two NATO supply containers near Khuzdar. Two ANP leaders were killed in Swat.
Al Qaeda
Pakistan anti-Taliban push divides Afghan, US officials
Zazi case sheds light on US plot, Pakistan connections
Najibullah Zazi plotted to carry out suicide attacks on crowded New York City trains. He had been recruited by al Qaeda’s external operations branch in Pakistan after he traveled there to fight with the Taliban.
Al Qaeda
New arrest in plot to bomb New York City subway
Pakistan
Bootlegging, Pakistan-style
Al Qaeda
Al-Qaida could get nukes from Pakistan: US
Al Qaeda
Pakistan airstrike kills 71 civilians: official
Al Qaeda
Report: Pakistan’s nuke materials at greatest risk
Al Qaeda
200,000 civilians flee Pakistan military offensive
Pakistan
Forty-one Taliban fighters and two Frontier Corps troops were killed in fighting in Arakzai. A US airstrike killed five Taliban fighters in North Waziristan. Six people were killed during clashes in Abbotabad over the renaming of the Northwest Frontier Province.
US strike kills 5 Taliban in North Waziristan
The strike is the first in 13 days. A compound run by a local Taliban commander was hit in the attack.
Al Qaeda
Could terrorists get hold of a nuclear bomb?
Taliban ‘fleeing’ Arakzai to Khyber
More than 419 Taliban fighters and only eight soldiers have been reported killed during clashes in Arakzai since mid-March.
Father of Taliban endorses LWJ
The Long War Journal has received a compliment from one of the most unlikely sources. General (Retired) Mirza Aslam Beg, Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff from 1988-1991, said that the depiction of the Taliban provided by The Long War Journal is spot on. Here is what General Beg had to say in his column, which […]
India
India terror cells widen funding net
Pakistan
Agenda of nuclear talks leaves out a new threat
Pakistan
Security forces killed Taliban fighters in Arakzai. “Gunmen” killed two policemen in Mardan; one policeman’s throat was slit. Investigators believe one of the three terrorists killed during the assault on the US Consulate in Peshawar was a Yemeni member of al Qaeda.
Al Qaeda
Threat to Pak N-arsenal leaves India worried
Pakistan
Fifty-four Taliban fighters were killed in Arakzai, and 45 Lashkar-e-Islam fighters and civilians were killed in airstrikes in Khyber. Ten Taliban fighters and three soldiers were killed in South Waziristan. A suicide bomber killed himself in a premature detonation in Bannu. The Taliban bombed a school in Dir.
Afghanistan
Mullah Baradar’s arrest threatens peace talks