Afghanistan
Obama Increases Pakistan Drone Strikes as Relations Sour
Obama Increases Pakistan Drone Strikes as Relations Sour
Taliban close schools to mourn civilian deaths
Seven civilians were killed inside the wire, while the blast caved in the base’s dining facility and PX.
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The Taliban claimed credit for the suicide attack. “Foreign fighters” are known to operate in the area.
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Meanwhile the Pakistani government dropped support for an anti-Taliban militia in Peshawar, and confiscated their weapons.
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Afghan intelligence officials announced the arrest of 15 suspects in connection to the series of suspected poison attacks against girls’ schools in northern Afghanistan. Among those arrested were a Taliban deputy shadow governor and three women.
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The airstrike took place in the same district in Wardak province where 38 US and Afghan troops, including Navy SEALs, were killed when their helicopter was shot down in August 2011.
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The al Qaeda facilitator, who was based in Takhar province, “served as a financier and liaison between al Qaeda leaders,” according to ISAF.
“The agents of Punjab have once again spilled the blood of innocent civilians,” Kandahar’s chief of police said, referring to Pakistan’s influence over the Taliban.
Abu Yahya al-Libi of Al Qaeda Said to Be Killed
US officials have confirmed that al Libi was killed in yesterday’s drone strike in Mir Ali. Al Qaeda has not confirmed his death.
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US officials said that al Libi was the target of today’s strike, but his death has not been confirmed.
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Mullah Abdul Salam Zakir, the brother of the former Guantanamo Bay detainee who quickly assumed command of the Afghan Taliban’s military branch, is said to have been killed during a raid in northern Helmand province. ISAF has not confirmed Salam’s death.
The strike in Mir Ali is the third in Pakistan in three days, and the eighth in the two weeks since the US failed to get Pakistan to reopen the supply lines for NATO forces in Afghanistan.
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The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan facilitator was targeted in the remote northeastern province of Badakhshan.