US Predators kill 4 ‘militants’ in North Waziristan
Unmanned strike aircraft hit a vehicle as it traveled through the Mir Ali area, which has been the epicenter of an al Qaeda plot to attack the West.
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Afghanistan
MI6 ‘blamed for Taliban impostor’
Afghanistan
Karzai aide blames British for bringing Taliban impostor to talks
Al Qaeda
Pakistan: Terrorist attack demonstrates Karachi is ‘in serious danger’
Al Qaeda
Pakistan: Military ‘ready to attack’ insurgents in North Waziristan
Afghanistan
UK-based Taliban spend months fighting Nato forces in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Karzai government challenges election results
Taliban commander linked to Iran and al Qaeda targeted in Farah
Special operations teams have targeted al Qaeda-linked cells in the western Afghan province four times this month.
Pakistani minister ♥ the Taliban
Remember when, immediately after the Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out the terror assault on the city of Mumbai in November 2008, a Pakistani Army corps commander called Taliban leaders Baitullah Mehsud and Mullah Fazlullah “patriots” during a briefing with senior Pakistani journalists? We do. Sadly, that sentiment runs deep in Pakistani military and government circles. Yesterday, Maulana […]
Afghanistan
Into Taliban territory: the beginnings of the Tarbuz Guzar militia
Afghanistan
Oops … wrong man!
Afghanistan
Taliban commanders killed or captured by British troops
Afghanistan
Sign of Afghanistan war gains proves false
Afghanistan
Pentagon: Progress ‘uneven’ in Afghanistan war
Al Qaeda
Taliban impostor reveals perils of negotiation
Afghanistan
Pentagon report cites gains in Afghanistan
United States
Afghan violence soars, insurgency expanding: US
US captures Haqqani Network facilitator who was previously in custody
Today ISAF announced that it recently detained a Haqqani Network commander who had been in custody earlier this year. From the ISAF press release: Afghan and coalition forces captured a Haqqani Network improvised explosive device facilitator during an operation in Khost province yesterday. The facilitator, a top target for Afghan and coalition forces, was responsible […]
Afghanistan
Taliban vows to keep fighting this winter
Afghanistan
Negotiator for Taliban was an impostor, Afghan officials say
Afghanistan
Fake Taliban leader ‘dupes Nato negotiators’
NATO, Afghan officials negotiated with Taliban ‘impostor’
Afghan and NATO officials thought they were in peace talks with Mullah Akhtar Mohammed Mansour, one of Mullah Omar’s top two deputies who ran the Quetta Shura. The so-called leader turned out to be a fake.
United States
Taliban leader in secret talks was an impostor
Al Qaeda
Pakistan hits back at American support for India by stopping al-Qaeda offensive
Afghanistan
Between firefights, jokes, sweat and tedium
5 Taliban killed in latest US Predator strike in North Waziristan
Predators hit a vehicle and a motorcycle in a village controlled by “good Taliban” commander Hafiz Gul Bahadar.
Coalition and Afghan forces kill Taliban commander linked to Iran, al Qaeda
Mullah Hafiz Janan served as the Taliban’s shadow governor for the Bakwah district in Farah province. He helped train and arm al Qaeda fighters entering the country from Iran.
Afghanistan
Refugees from Afghanistan’s Helmand province disheartened at US presence
Afghanistan
Clinton rules out setting up permanent US bases in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
NATO sees long-term role after Afghan combat