Afghanistan
Lack of Afghan political strategy worrisome as West prepares to relinquish security
Lack of Afghan political strategy worrisome as West prepares to relinquish security
Dawn reports that the leader of an anti-Taliban militia in the Matni area of Peshawar has threatened to end his support for the government in the wake of yesterday’s deadly suicide attack at the funeral of a wife of a fellow militia member: The leader of a powerful anti-Taliban militia on Thursday threatened to stop […]
The commander of Pakistan’s 7 Division, which operates in North Waziristan, claimed that few civilians are killed in the covert US airstrikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
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The strike ends an 11-day-long lull in the CIA-directed attacks in Pakistan’s tribal agencies. A compound in Mullah Nazir’s territory was the target of the attack.
The Taliban detonated a car bomb at a compressed natural gas station today, killing more than 32 people. The target was a nearby headquarters for the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate.
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Coalition and Afghan special operations teams captured yet another Hizb-i-Islami Gulbuddin commander, this time during a raid in the Sabari district in Khost province. From the ISAF press release: Afghan and coalition forces detained a Hezb-E Islami Gulbuddin commander and two suspected insurgents during an operation in Sabari district, Khost province yesterday. The commander is […]
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The attacks are the latest in the Taliban’s renewed offensive in the central regions of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the tribal agencies.
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