Afghanistan
Panetta: Pakistan military plans to open new front
Panetta: Pakistan military plans to open new front
The Haqqani Network suicide assault on a major US base in Khost was promoted by the Taliban on their propaganda website.
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader “directed improvised explosive device attacks in Kunduz province” and “acquired IEDs, weapons and rockets and distributed them to insurgents throughout the region.”
The Taliban’s 34-minute-long video tribute to rogue Afghan soldiers suspected of killing US and Afghan soldiers in May describes attacks and diminishes the notion that Taliban infiltrators joined Afghan forces to carry out such attacks.
NDS officials arrested a heavily armed Haqqani Network cell in Kabul that was planning to attack the Afghan Parliament, the Afghan Presidential Palace, and the Afghan Second-Vice President. It is the second such raid in Kabul since August 1.
ISAF said the al Qaeda-associated insurgent “coordinates the movement of al Qaeda terrorists throughout the region.”
Exclusive: Afghan officials met key Taliban figure in Pakistan
Operation in North Waziristan
Pakistan – US must seal Afghan border for NWA push: Pak official
Three ISAF personnel were killed in the Garmsir district of Helmand province on the same day a rogue Afghan police commander killed three US soldiers in Helmand’s Sangin district.
Afghanistan – Taliban behind attacks on ISAF troops: Police chief
Taliban Attacks Rise During Ramadan: Sediqi
No change in timeline for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan: US
Pakistan confirms talks with Afghanistan on Taliban releases
There have been three green-on-blue attacks reported in the past four days; four US troops and one Afghan soldier have been killed in the attacks.
Afghanistan – Pakistani Insurgents Trying to Infiltrate Northern Borders
Ustad Ahmad Farooq, al Qaeda’s spokesman for Pakistan, said that jihadists must “pay special attention to targeting American and NATO supply lines” in order to help their “Afghan brothers.”
TTP threaten Imran Khan over Waziristan march
A Pakistani military official claimed that operation “Tight Screw” is putting the “squeeze” on the Haqqani Network and other terror groups in North Waziristan.
5,000 Afghan ‘militants’ have surrendered – but are they real?
Afghanistan – Taliban forcing residents into staging protests
A monthly cartoon that tackles the issues of the war. This month’s topic: NATO’s supply lines from Pakistan to Afghanistan.
The pair of suicide bombers hit Western soldiers as they were going to a meeting of the provincial council.
‘Sticky bombs,’ like those used in Iraq, now appearing in Afghanistan
Targeted killings in Afghanistan up 53%
Afghan reconciliation: Pakistan may release ‘former chief of Quetta Shura’
Exclusive: US sweetens Taliban prisoner proposal in bid to revive peace talks
Is terror not far away from Swat Valley in Pakistan? Taliban consolidating to recapture Swat
Afghan security forces have now killed 28 ISAF soldiers this year, and 90 total since May 2007.
Afghanistan – Pak Army officers accused of aiding Nuristan rebels