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Pakistan plotted Kabul embassy attack: Afghanistan
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Pakistan
Pak’s great game: Evict India from Afghanistan through terror
Taliban claim responsibility for attack on Pakistan Army Headquarters
The Amjad Farooqi Group, a faction of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan and an al Qaeda ally, took credit for the assault on the GHQ in Rawalpindi. Taliban fighters are holding military personnel hostage.
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Pakistan’s ‘new zone of militancy’
Afghanistan
Britain building Pakistan border force camp: report
Terrorists assault Pakistani Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi
Four attackers and six soldiers were killed in a battle outside the front gate of the General Headquarters in the military garrison city. Several of the terrorists escaped and are holding more than a dozen people hostage.
Pakistan releases pro-Taliban official
Wanted flyer for Swat Taliban leaders. A Pakistani court has ordered the release of Syed Muhammad Javed, the pro-Taliban commissioner of the Malakand Division, the region that encompasses the Swat Valley. Javed openly aided the rise of the Taliban in Swat after being appointed commissioner in February. He openly facilitated the Taliban takeover of neighboring […]
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed 49 Pakistanis and wounded more than 100 in an attack in Peshawar. Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in Darra Adam Khel, and eight Taliban fighters and two Uzbeks in Swat and North Waziristan. The Taliban wounded four soldiers in a rocket attack in North Waziristan and torched a NATO fuel […]
Suicide bomber kills 49 in Peshawar
The suicide attack is the second in one of Pakistan’s major cities in four days.
Pakistan
Security forces killed 17 Taliban fighters in Swat and two more in South Waziristan; the bodies 15 Taliban fighters were found in Swat. One soldier and two Taliban fighters were killed in a clash in North Waziristan. The Taliban killed a soldier in Bajaur and launched three rockets at Peshawar.
Afghanistan
Taliban owns up Kabul blast, shifts focus from ISI
Analysis: Al Qaeda is the tip of the jihadist spear
The editors of The Long War Journal take a look at the insurgency in Afghanistan through al Qaeda’s eyes.
Afghanistan
Taliban claims responsibility for Indian embassy blast
Suicide attack kills 17 outside Indian embassy in Kabul
“This was an operation which was planned by a state,” Afghan officials said, referring to Pakistan.
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Pakistan – Foreigners advised to restrict movement
Pakistan
The Army killed one of the 21 most-wanted Taliban leaders in Swat. The operation in South Waziristan is expected to be launched in mid-October. The World Food Program suspended operations in the wake of the suicide attack on its headquarters in Islamabad. The military expects a tough fight in South Waziristan.
Pakistani Army kills a most-wanted Swat commander
Sher Mohammad Qasab was on the Pakistani government’s list of the 21 most-wanted in Swat; he commanded Taliban forces in the stronghold of Charbagh. Five of the top 21 are now in custody or are dead.
Pakistan
US push to expand in Pakistan meets resistance
Al Qaeda and the Taliban: together again
The Taliban have released a clever piece of disinformation today, which clearly is aimed at US policymakers as well as the American public as the Obama administration decides on a new path forward in Afghanistan. In this latest statement, the Taliban are claiming they have no aspirations to be involved in the global jihad. From […]
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With UN bombing, Pakistani Taliban attempts a comeback
Pakistan
The Pakistani Air Force killed six Taliban fighters during strikes in South Waziristan. Security forces arrested 10 Taliban fighters in Swat while 17 more surrendered in Swat and Dir. The Taliban killed a member of a “peace committee” in Hangu and injured three people in a rocket attack in Peshawar.
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US aid: Pak fights ‘terror riders’
Pakistan
Go to jail or join jihad against India: ISI tells surrendered Taliban
Al Qaeda
Pakistan – UN blast shows Taliban still potent
Pakistan
Six killed as Pakistan jets hit Taliban positions
Taliban and AQAM ‘plug and play’
At the Christian Science Monitor, Ben Arnoldy has a must-read article on Saturday’s attack by the Taliban on two joint US-Afghan outposts in Nuristan province. While Ben did interview me for this article and I am quoted in the piece, that isn’t my reason for pointing it out. Ben has a masterful, simple description of […]
Three al Qaeda trainers killed in western Afghanistan
US and Afghan troops killed the embedded al Qaeda trainers in the western province of Herat.
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Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility for WFP bombing
Pakistan
Four Pakistanis and an Iraqi were killed in a suicide attack at the World Food Program compound in Islamabad. Security forces killed eight Taliban fighters in Malakand and detained 30 Afghan imams in Mardan. The Lashkar-i-Islam wounded five Frontier Corps troops in Khyber. Ten TNSM members surrendered in Dir.
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Pakistan – Militants melting into settled areas