Former Taliban emir Faqir Mohammed reported captured by Afghan intel
Faqir, who led the Taliban in Bajaur, is said to have been captured in Nangarhar province.
Tag Archives: Pakistan
Al Qaeda
Pakistan Shi’ites demand protection from militants
Afghanistan
Renewed Push for Afghans to Make Peace With Taliban
Pakistan
The military killed eight Taliban fighters in Arakzai. The government postponed polio vaccinations in Quetta after yesterday’s deadly bombing that killed scores of Shiites.
Pakistan
Pakistan faces growing anger over sectarian bombings
Pakistan
A bombing in Quetta killed 79 Pakistani Shiites and wounded more than 170. Security forces killed a Taliban fighter and detained 12 more during operations in Bannu and Taxila.
Afghanistan
US Military Faces Fire as It Pulls Out of Afghanistan
Afghanistan
NATO air strikes for Afghan security forces must end: Karzai
Pakistan
Pakistani jets killed eight “militants” in Arakzai. The chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa dodged a suicide bombing in Mardan. The fate of the Taliban commander Tariq Afridi is still unknown. The Taliban rejected peace talks.
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed seven people in an attack on a police station in Bannu. Upwards of six members of a Taliban suicide assault team were killed in a separate attack on a police station in Bannu. The Taliban killed nine people in two bombings in Arakzai. Two Taliban commanders were gunned down in Khyber.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Government lists ceasefire as talks precondition for Taliban
Pakistani Taliban praise slain American, British jihadists
Pictures of an American identified as Inaam and a Brit known as Abbas are shown with top leaders of the Taliban, al Qaeda, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and other terrorist groups who have been killed while waging jihad across the globe over the past four decades.
Pakistan
Taliban’s political strategy: Silence voices of dissent
Al Qaeda
Timbuktu: al-Qaeda’s terrorist training academy in the Mali desert
United Kingdom
The Qatar initiative: JUI-F chief features in Doha talks
Afghanistan
US Sets Stage for Exodus from Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Some Taliban prisoners released by Pakistan are back in battle, officials fear
Pakistan
AHRC says religious extremists creating bloodbath in Sindh
Afghanistan
Why Pakistan should not talk to the TTP
Al Qaeda
Push to Expand US ‘Kill List’
Pakistan
US drones killed two Arab al Qaeda operatives, including an explosives expert, four Uzbeks, and a Taliban fighter in a strike in South Waziristan. Pakistan’s foreign secretary claimed al Qaeda has been eliminated in his country.
Pakistan’s foreign secretary denounces drones, claims al Qaeda is dead
Meanwhile, US drones killed two Arab al Qaeda operatives, including an explosives expert, in a strike in North Waziristan.
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Lashkar-e-Taiba Founder Takes Less Militant Tone in Pakistan
2 al Qaeda operatives killed in latest drone strike in South Waziristan
The strike reportedly killed Sheikh Abu Waqas, a Yemeni explosives expert; Abu Majid al Iraqi; and four Uzbeks.
Al Qaeda
Giving up: Der Spiegel is pulling out its only correspondent from Pakistan
India
Pakistani Militant, Price on Head, Lives in Open
US drones strike in remote area of North Waziristan
Five people are reported to have been killed in the attack. The drone strike is the first to have been recorded in Pakistan in nearly four weeks.
Afghanistan
Taliban group dismiss tripartite summit outcome on Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan As It Once Was
Prominent al Qaeda leader killed in drone strike in 2012
Abd el Kader Mahmoud Mohamed el Sayed was a close advisor to al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri and served as a military commander in Afghanistan before he was killed. El Sayed was involved in the Luxor massacre and, while living in Milan, was recorded by Italian intelligence discussing terror plots against the West.