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Taliban mount assault on Kunar border district, Afghan officials say
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The Peshawar attack: sickening, but no surprise
Pakistan’s refusal to sever ties with the so-called “good Taliban” has allowed groups like the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan to fester.
Afghanistan
US Seeks to Use Letters Found in Bin Laden Raid in Terrorism Trial
Afghan Taliban releases statement condemning attack on Pakistani school
The Afghan Taliban has released a statement condemning the Pakistani Taliban’s attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar.
Pakistani Taliban assaults military high school in Peshawar
More than 100 high school students are said to have been killed as Taliban fighters fanned out and killed everyone in their path.
Taliban attacks in Afghanistan surge as Coalition ends combat mission
The Taliban launched suicide bombings, assassinations, IED attacks, and ambushes in the capital and four provinces over the weekend.
Afghanistan
Day of insurgent violence kills 19 in Afghanistan
Al Nusrah Front
Finances of jihad: How extremist groups raise money
Afghanistan
NATO airstrike leaves 17 suspected militants dead in Afghanistan’s Parwan province
Taliban kill 6 Afghan soldiers, foreigner in pair of suicide attacks in Kabul
Taliban suicide bombers struck a military bus and at a high school in the Afghan capital.
Pakistani Taliban confirms death of al Qaeda leader Adnan Shukrijumah
Muhammad Khurasani said that “the impure apostate Pakistani military martyred Sheikh Adnan Shukrijumah” on Dec. 6.
Afghanistan
US General Has Misgivings as Afghanistan Mission Ends
Al Qaeda commander reported killed in drone strike in Pakistan
The ongoing targeting of al Qaeda commanders in Pakistan’s tribal areas refutes past claims by US officials that al Qaeda is “decimated” and that only two relevant leaders remain.
US transfers Taliban commander to Pakistani custody
Latif Mehsud and two others detained by US forces in Logar, Afghanistan in 2013 have been handed over to the Pakistani authorities.
Pakistani army kills senior al Qaeda commander tasked with attacking the West
Pakistan claimed it killed Adnan Shukrijumah in a raid in South Waziristan. Shukrijumah, who was wanted by the US, was al Qaeda’s operations chief for North America.
Afghanistan
US moves ahead with plan for extra troops in Afghanistan until allies finalize plans
US airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan target Pakistani Taliban
Mullah Fazlullah, the emir of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, was the target of one of the three recent strikes in Nangarhar province.
Taliban video shows training and planning for Camp Bastion attack
The video is very similar to previous footage that shows a different suicide assault on Camp Bastion in September 2012.
Taliban assault Camp Bastion, storm foreign guest house in Kabul
The Taliban and Afghan security forces have been fighting inside Camp Bastion for three days. Hostages may have been taken in the attack in Kabul.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s heavily guarded capital remains vulnerable
Afghanistan
Official: Afghan President Orders Military Review
Afghanistan
Afghan Women Are Excluded From Peace Overtures to Taliban, Report Says
Haqqani Network launched suicide attack at soccer game, Afghan intel claims
The accusation is made as the US has extended the combat mission in Afghanistan for one year.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan Quietly Lifts Ban on Night Raids
Afghanistan
In Kapisa province, an hour’s drive outside Kabul, Taliban reign
Afghanistan
In a Shift, Obama Extends US Role in Afghan Combat
US launches drone strike in North Waziristan
Nine of the 19 drone strikes in Pakistan this year have occurred in the jihadist hub of Datta Khel in North Waziristan.
Good Taliban are not our problem, adviser to Pakistan’s prime minister says
“Why should America’s enemies unnecessarily become our enemies,” the adviser on National Security and Foreign Affairs to Pakistan’s prime minister said of Taliban factions like the Haqqani Network and the Hafiz Gul Bahadar Group.
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Global terror attack deaths rose sharply in 2013, says report
Afghanistan
Insurgents in Afghanistan’s Laghman province may win by not losing