Afghanistan
Reports Say Taliban Attacks Paktika Province
Reports Say Taliban Attacks Paktika Province
The Taliban ambushed a convoy near Miramshah, inflicting “heavy losses” on Pakistani troops.
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The strike took place in the Shawal Valley in North Waziristan. Al Qaeda and the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan have sheltered in the area in the past.
In the past, al Qaeda has not shied away from putting its top leaders in Pakistan’s major cities.
The movement of the Taliban claimed credit for the suicide bombing in Pakistan’s contested tribal agency of Bajaur.
In late 2010, the al Qaeda emir said some of the group’s leaders and operatives should relocate from North and South Waziristan to the eastern Afghan provinces of Kunar, Nuristan, Ghazni, and Zabul.
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Five Taliban fighters and five civilians were killed in the assault on a civilian compound in the Afghan capital. The attack took place just hours after President Obama reiterated that the US seeks a negotiated settlement with the Taliban to end the war.
The NDS chief confirmed that the Taliban executed Maluvi Mohammad Ismail, the former Deputy Military Council Chairman for the Quetta Shura. Twenty-five other senior Afghan Taliban leaders may also have been executed in Quetta, Pakistan for defying orders not to engage in talks with the Afghan government.
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The Taliban leader was involved in the assassination attempt against Haji Abdul “Koka” Wali, the chief of police for Musa Qala in Helmand province.