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Afghanistan – Peace bodies formed in Kunduz, Helmand
US Predators strike again in North Waziristan
The airstrikes killed 15 Taliban fighters in an area used for staging attacks into Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
The Taliban recede in Kandahar: The Coalition’s advance or winter’s?
Pakistan
Pakistan food program set to resume
Pakistan
Militias stem Pakistani Taliban, but at what cost?
Afghanistan
How one Afghan village fended off a Taliban advance
US Predators kill 25 ‘rebels’ in pair of strikes in North Waziristan
The strikes are the first in 10 days, and the first in the Mir Ali area since the end of November.
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UN maps out Afghan security
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US troops battle to hand off a valley resistant to Afghan governance
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Taliban fighters appear quieted in Afghanistan
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Petraeus commends Pakistan’s counterinsurgency
Afghanistan
Al Qaida-allied Afghan fighters seek new Pakistan haven
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Taliban challenge US in eastern Afghanistan
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Afghanistan’s Hazaras gain clout in disputed parliamentary elections
Female suicide bomber kills 42 people in Pakistan’s northwest
The suicide bomber targeted civilians as they waited to receive rations at a World Food Program distribution point in Bajaur.
Taliban assault Pakistani military checkpoints in Mohmand
Eleven Pakistani soldiers and 24 Taliban fighters were killed in heavy fighting after the Taliban assaulted five checkpoints in the tribal agency.
Pakistan detains top Haqqani Network leader
Nasiruddin Haqqani was reportedly detained after returning from the hajj in Saudi Arabia, where he conducted fundraising for the Haqqani Network.
Afghanistan
British forces face secret new threat from Iran
Afghanistan
UN envoy fears ‘spectacular attacks’ in Afghanistan
Pakistani Taliban commander reported killed in Kunar
A Pakistani Taliban commander who aided in the murder of three US Special operations troops in the Pakistani district of Dir in February 2010 may have been killed in a recent US airstrike in Afghanistan’s Kunar province. From Express News, via AKI: Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) [or Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan] leader Hafeezullah and […]
ISAF captures Qods Force-linked operative in Kandahar
The Taliban commander is linked to the Qods Force, which aided in the shipment of weapons from Iran to Kandahar province.
Afghanistan
Afghan Taliban leadership splintered by intense US military campaign
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Afghanistan – British troops will hunt Taliban’s winter hideouts, says senior officer
US to expand ground ops in Pakistan?
According to The New York Times, US military leaders are pushing for the expansion of US ground operations against the Taliban based in Pakistan: The proposal, described by American officials in Washington and Afghanistan, would escalate military activities inside Pakistan, where the movement of American forces has been largely prohibited because of fears of provoking […]
Afghanistan
US military in Afghanistan – Life and death decisions weigh on junior officers
Taliban
Pakistan: Militants ‘surrounded convoy’ before destroying trucks with rockets
Jordanian al Qaeda operative killed in Afghanistan
Abu Kandahar al Zarqawi was an administrator at the jihadist Al Hesbah forum and an associate of Abu Dujanah al Khurasani, the suicide bomber who carried out the suicide attack against the CIA at Combat Outpost Chapman in Khost province.
United States
Afghanistan guardedly backs US review
Al Qaeda-linked Taliban leader reported killed in Khyber Predator strike
Ibn Amin, the leader of the Tora Bora Brigade in Swat, was killed in one of three Predator strikes in Khyber on Dec. 17.