Pakistan
Pakistan: 3 percent of drone deaths were civilians
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Afghanistan
US Disrupts Afghans’ Tack on Militants
Afghan Taliban deny opposition to suicide attacks
The Taliban’s official spokesman denounced Mawlana Abdul Aziz, who purported to speak for the group, as a fraud. Aziz told the Pakistani media that suicide attacks are “unlawful.”
Iran
Iran Executes 16 Sunni Insurgents in Retaliation for an Attack
Pakistan
Pakistan’s government approved of and colluded with the US to conduct drone strikes, leaked memos show. Former Prime Minister Gilani denied the reports. Prime Minister Sharif said the strikes violate Pakistan’s sovereignty and again called for an end to the attacks.
Pakistan
Secret memos reveal explicit nature of US, Pakistan agreement on drones
Al Qaeda
The Effectiveness Of Drone Strikes In Counterinsurgency And Counterterrorism Campaigns
Pakistan
Ex-Pakistani Ambassador: My Country Supports Terrorism
Pakistan
Civilian Deaths in Drone Strikes Cited in Report
Afghanistan
Terrorist hideouts outside Afghanistan must be eliminated: Sediqi
Inter-Services Intelligence Agency
Pakistan – Reporter held incommunicado by military intelligence
ISIS photos show children training at ‘al Zarqawi Cubs Camp’
The ISIS images are similar to videos and photographs of child training camps in Pakistan’s tribal areas that are run by the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, the Turkistan Islamic Party, and the Islamic Jihad Union.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Enhancing security: K-P government to form Anti-Terrorism Force
Senior al Qaeda leader and former US detainee killed in drone strike in 2012
Hassan Ghul served as Osama bin Laden’s emissary to Abu Musab al Zarqawi, and later disclosed key information that led to the killing of bin Laden. The US captured Ghul in Iraq in 2004 and transferred him to Pakistan in 2006, where he was freed one year later, only to rejoin al Qaeda.
Afghanistan
Pakistan releases seven low-ranking Afghan Taliban prisoners
NSA
Documents reveal NSA’s extensive involvement in targeted killing program
Pakistan
Pakistan – Booksellers take Taliban threat seriously
Afghanistan
Pakistan – Experts Say Baradar Released, But Under Supervision
Suicide bomber kills provincial minister in Pakistan’s northwest
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Law Minister Israrullah Gandapur was killed outside his home. He is the latest senior government official to be assassinated by the Taliban.
Pakistan
Pakistan – How our entire history was dumped in a horse stable
Malaysia
In Malaysia the Hackers are Back
Al Qaeda
The Inevitable Rise Of Al-Qaeda in Libya
Burundi
‘White Widow’ Lewthwaite ‘Key’ In Al Shabaab
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed two Pakistani soldiers in an attack in South Waziristan. The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan is “delighted” that Malala Yousafzai failed to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Afghanistan
Fazlur Rahman arrives in Kabul, meets Karzai
US grabs Pakistani Taliban commander from Afghan intel
Latif Mehsud, a top deputy to Hakeemullah Mehsud, the emir of the al Qaeda-linked Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, is said to have been captured by US forces while being escorted by the NDS after conducting a meeting to exchange Afghan prisoners for cash.
Taliban
Malala, survivor of Taliban, resented in Pakistan hometown
Pakistan
Pakistan – Hide collection, a lucrative business
Pakistan
Twelve people were killed in a series of bombings in Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, and Quetta. The Pakistani Taliban denied reports that Afghan Taliban fighters killed Mullah Fazlullah in an attack in Kunar province, Afghanistan.
European Union
Malala wins EU’s Sakharov human rights prize