Pakistan releases top al Qaeda-linked terrorist leader
Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the leader of the Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, was recently freed after being placed into “protective custody” in August.
Tag Archives: Taliban
Afghanistan
Ethnic discrimination infests Afghan army, soldiers say
Another rumor of Qari Hussain’s death in October Predator strike
Rumors of the death of Qari Hussain Mehsud, the Taliban’s “Ustad-e-Fedayeen” or teacher of suicide bombers, have surfaced again, after a Pakistani provincial minister claimed he was killed in a US Predator airstrike in October. From The Times of India: “Qari Hussain was killed in a drone strike,” Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain […]
Afghanistan
Afghanis seek peace with the Taliban in Pakistan
Afghanistan
The way out of Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Senator proposes permanent US bases in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Violence, tradition keep millions of Afghans from school
Afghanistan
US efforts fail to convince Pakistan’s top general to target Taliban
Afghanistan
Afghanistan in review: High hopes and big obstacles
Afghanistan
How Petraeus has changed the Afghanistan war
US Predators strike 3 times in North Waziristan
Four “foreigners” were reported killed in one of the strikes.
Afghanistan
Taliban leader was killed, Afghans say
Al Qaeda
Chilling details emerge about Danish attack plot suspects
Al Qaeda
Drones aided by ‘human assets’ on the ground
Pakistan
Islamists lead Pakistan strike in political crisis
Pakistan
Is Pakistan losing ground in its Taliban war?
Al Qaeda, Taliban create female suicide cells in Pakistan and Afghanistan
The cells are commanded by Qari Zia Rahman, the dual-hatted Taliban and al Qaeda leader who heads forces in northeastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan.
US Predators strike again along the Afghan-Pakistani border
Eight Haqqani Network fighters were reported killed in a strike on a convoy in Ghulam Khan in North Waziristan, Pakistan. The US carried out 117 strikes in Pakistan in 2010, more than doubling 2009’s total of 53.
Pakistan
‘Human bomb’ spills beans on all-women Taliban death squads
Pakistan
Taliban continue with anti-education activities: in 2010, terrorists blew up more than two dozen schools in Peshawar
Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, a tale of two forces
Afghanistan
Fighting erupts in Afghanistan’s Tora Bora mountains between NATO, insurgent forces
Pakistan
Disappearances with reported ties to Pakistan worry US
Afghanistan
Canadians stand by as power struggle simmers in Panjwaii
Taliban intel officer linked to Pakistan captured in Kandahar
Yesterday, ISAF captured a Taliban intelligence operative who scouted attack sites for suicide bombers based in Pakistan. From the ISAF press release: The targeted individual is an intelligence operative responsible for providing direction in the form of site selection and target sets for the suicide bombers who reportedly came into the city from Chaman, Pakistan. […]
Al Qaeda
What is Nigeria’s Boko Haram?
Pakistan
Pakistan – Are Taliban following in the footsteps of Tamil Tigers?
Afghanistan
2011 decisive for US strategy in Pakistan, Afghanistan
Afghanistan
‘Malign’ Afghans targeted: US and Afghan allies describe web of corruption but say prosecution stalls
Afghanistan
Insurgents set aside rivalries on Afghan border