Click to view slide show of the Haqqani Network. Pictured is a composite image of Siraj Haqqani. New York Times reporter David Rohde writes about his kidnapping by the Haqqani Network and seven-month captivity. Rohde tells us three things that longtime readers of The Long War Journal and more recently Threat Matrix already know: 1) […]
The military claimed 60 Taliban fighters and five soldiers were killed in the first day of operations in South Waziristan; the Taliban denied the claim and launched a fundraising campaign. Security forces detained 113 suspected Taliban fighters and extremists in Rawalpindi, Mardan, Swat, and Dera Ghazi Khan. The Taliban wounded two drivers in an attack […]
Taliban fighters resist Pakistani assault
The anti-Iranian regime resistance group claimed responsibility for killing 29 Iranians, including two brigadier generals in the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps and tribal leaders in the southeast.
Pakistan – Security blunder
The military has started the South Waziristan offensive and claimed to have taken control of two towns; 30 Taliban fighters and 12 soldiers have been reported killed. Security forces killed 12 Taliban fighters in Mohmand and Bajaur, and detained 35 Hizb-ut-Tahir members in Islamabad and a suicide vest maker in Multan. The Punjab government, fearing […]
Pakistan rounds on Taliban enemy within
Pakistan – 35 held activists of banned outfit booked under ATA
Doubts that delayed Waziristan attack
Pakistan launches Taliban assault
At this early stage of the operation, 12 soldiers have been killed in IED attacks and gunbattles, and 11 Taliban fighters have been killed in airstrikes.
Pakistan – Four soldiers killed, 12 injured in South Waziristan operation
Pak troops begin ground offensive in Waziristan
The military is set to take on the Taliban in South Waziristan, where the military has failed four times in the past. The operation will pit the Army and Frontier Corps against the Taliban’s best fighters on terrain the Taliban have owned for years.
Pakistan – On the trail of the Punjabi Taliban
No answers for escalating Pakistan guerrilla war
The Taliban-Al Qaeda connection
Suicide bombers killed 14 Pakistanis during an attack on a police station in Peshawar. Security forces killed six Taliban fighters and six civilians during bombardments in South Waziristan and three Taliban fighters in Bajaur. Three soldiers were killed in a rocket attack in South Waziristan. The government has given a green light for operations in […]
Battle-inoculated militants™ last stand?
Pentagon ramps up direct military aid to Pakistan
Pakistan ‘not prepared for attacks’
Two suicide bombers, including a female, attacked a police station and an intelligence headquarters in the provincial capital.
The body of a government worker at the Federal Investigation Agency killed by a Taliban assault team is carried out by rescue workers.. EPA photo. Before the smoke even cleared from the terror assaults on three police centers in Lahore, a senior police official has pointed the finger at India’s intelligence agency for masterminding the […]
Pakistan: Deadly militant attacks signal new ‘guerrilla war’
Pakistan spies stoke violence – Afghan advisor
Scenarios: Can things get any worse for Pakistan?
Terrorists assaulted three police centers in Lahore; 26 people were killed. A suicide bomber killed 10 police and civilians in Kohat. One child was killed in a carbombing in Peshawar. Police detained two terrorists in Islamabad.
Pak police accuse India after 5 terror attacks in a day
French nuclear facility under scrutiny over plutonium stocks
German national Bekkay Harrach has been designated as a global terrorist for his activities in support of al Qaeda and its external operations network.