Afghanistan
UN reports 28% increase in Afghan civilian casualties
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Afghanistan
Khalid Assassin Was Former Prisoner: Saleh
Afghanistan
US force in Afghanistan may be smaller than expected after 2014
Afghanistan
Taliban control schools in Ghazni province of Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Insecurity hampers development of some districts
Pakistan
Pakistani girls protest naming of college after Malala
Afghanistan
Panetta, other US officials in Kabul paint rosy picture of Afghan situation
Afghanistan
Pentagon reports Taliban attacks up during Afghan fighting season
Taliban suicide assault team attacks Pakistani police station
The Taliban said the attack was executed to avenge the death of Ibrahim Mehsud, the nephew of Baitullah Mehsud, the former emir of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan.
Tunisia
Extremism threatens Tunisia schools
Afghanistan
Suicide Attack Investigators Are Inept: Afghan Senate
Afghanistan
Afghan polio program worker’s slaying raises questions
Afghanistan
Attack on Afghan Spy Chief Won’t Derail Peace Moves, Says Karzai
Afghanistan
For Afghan Officials, Prospect of Death Comes With Territory
US drone strike kills another al Qaeda commander in North Waziristan
Mohammad Ahmed al Mansoor, a midlevel Pakistani al Qaeda commander, is reported to have been killed in the attack. He is the fourth mid-to-senior-level al Qaeda leader reported killed since the US stepped up strikes since the end of November.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan to Allow US Troops Conditional Immunity
Afghanistan
Rural Afghan town feels caught between U.S. and Taliban
US adds West African group, 2 leaders, to terrorism list
The US government has added the al Qaeda-linked Movement for Tawhid [Unity] and Jihad in West Africa and two of its leaders to the list of global terrorists and entities. The group has named one of its units fighting in Mali after Osama bin Laden.
Afghanistan
Afghan spy chief ‘wounded by underpants bomber’
Afghanistan
Taliban Group attends Paris Conference on Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghan Spy Chief critically injured by underpants bomber
Taliban assassination attempt injures Afghan spy chief
Asadullah Khalid, the chief of Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security, was wounded in an attack at an NDS guesthouse today by a Taliban suicide bomber posing as a peace envoy.
US drones kill 3 ‘militants’ in North Waziristan strikes
The drones hit a compound near Mir Ali, an area known to shelter al Qaeda’s military and external operations councils, as well as a host of regional terror groups.
Pakistani officials promoting false split in Taliban leadership cadres, again
Pakistani officials persist in claiming that Hakeemullah Mehsud and Waliur Rehman Mehsud are “at each other’s throats,” and tell an obvious lie in the process.
Al Qaeda
Afghanistan: a graveyard of commitments
Afghanistan
Corruption in Police causing insecurity: Afghan MOI
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Women Activists Slam Govt Silence Over Schoolgirl Murder
ISAF launches 2 raids targeting al Qaeda-linked commanders
Special operations forces killed an al Qaeda leader in Kunar and captured an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan facilitator in Kunduz.
Pakistan
Pakistan’s Hazara Shiites Under Siege
Pakistani Taliban group denies targeting Mullah Nazir in suicide attack
The top spokesman for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan denied his group was involved in the assassination attempt that targeted Mullah Nazir, an al Qaeda-linked Taliban leader in South Waziristan.