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US Drones Strike Again in South Waziristan
The US again launched airstrikes in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan today, killing 17 people. The drone attack is the fourth this year, and the first since the US killed influential... more...
American Missiles Kill Senior Taliban Militant in Pakistan Who Fought US Troops in Afghanistan
An American drone strike in Pakistan has killed a top Taliban commander who sent money and fighters to battle the U.S. in Afghanistan but had a truce with the Pakistani military, officials said Thursday. more...
‘Good Taliban’ Leader Mullah Nazir Killed in US Drone Strike
The US killed a senior Taliban leader in one of three drone strikes that took place in the Pakistani tribal areas over the past 24 hours; he had identified himself as an al Qaeda leader and also was favored... more...
Pakistani Taliban Release Video Refuting Rumors of Leadership Rift
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan released a videotape today that refutes the longstanding rumors of a split among the highest leadership of the organization. The group's emir, Hakeemullah Mehsud... more...
US Drones Strike in Pakistan’s Shawal Valley
The US launched another drone strike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today. Five "militants" are said to have been killed in the latest strike in an area known to serve as a launchpad... more...
Taliban Suicide Bomber Kills Pakistani Provincial Minister
The Taliban claimed credit for today's suicide attack in Peshawar that killed nine people, including Bashir Ahmed Bilour, the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development of Khyber... more...
‘Foreigners’ Reported Killed in US Drone Strike in Pakistan
The US launched its first airstrike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agencies in 11 days, killing four "militants," possibly inkling some foreigners. The remotely-piloted Predators... more...
Taliban Target Polio Vaccination Program in Pakistan
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan's top spokesman, Ihsanullah Ihsan, claimed credit for the wave of attacks in Pakistan's northwest as well as in Karachi that targeted aid workers administering... more...
US Drone Strike Kills Another al Qaeda Commander in North Waziristan
The US killed another al Qaeda commander in a drone strike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today. The remotely-piloted Predators or the more deadly Reapers fired several missiles... more...
Al Qaeda Religious Leader Thought Killed in US Drone Strike
A Kuwaiti who was a prominent member of al Qaeda's religious committee is thought to have been killed in a recent US drone strike in Pakistan's tribal areas. Two "contemporaries" of Khalid bin Abdul Rahman al Husainan... more...
US Drones Kill 3 ‘Militants’ in 1st Strike in Pakistan in More Than a Month
The US killed three "militants," including "foreigners," in the first drone strike recorded in Pakistan in more than a month. The remotely piloted Predators or the more heavily armed Reapers... more...
Taliban, Tribal Leaders Work Together in North Waziristan
This article in Dawn highlights the close links between the local tribes in North Waziristan and the Taliban, specifically Taliban forces under Hafiz Gul Bahadar. The tribes and the Taliban formed a lashkar... more...
US Adds Pakistani Hawala, 2 Taliban Financiers to Terrorism List
The US Treasury Department added a Pakistani hawala, or money exchange, and two of its owners, to the lists of global terrorists and entities. Rahat Ltd., a Pakistan-based hawala, and its owner... more...
Taliban Claim Attacks Against Shia Worshipers in Pakistan
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan claimed credit for a suicide attack in Rawalpindi that killed 12 people as well as two bombings in Karachi that killed two more. The attacks in both cities, which took... more...
Pro-Taliban Pakistani Islamist Leader Targeted in Suicide Attack
The former leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a political party that supports the Taliban, was the target of a female suicide bomber in Pakistan's violence-ridden northwest. Qazi Hussain Ahmed, the former... more...
US Adds Haqqani Network Suicide Operations Chief to List of Global Terrorists
Today the US State Department added the Haqqani Network's chief of suicide operations to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. Qari Zakir, who is also known as Abdul Rauf, is now the... more...
Senior Haqqani Network Leader Again Calls on Turks, Kurds to Wage Jihad in Afghanistan
Mullah Sangeen Zadran, a senior Haqqani Network leader who is on the US's list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists for supporting al Qaeda and who holds a captured a US soldier in Afghanistan,... more...
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Al Qaeda leader Rashid Rauf killed in drone strike, family says. more...
Tracking America’s Drone War
Since 2002, armed drones have become an increasingly important element of U.S. national security policy. This project – which will be updated regularly – documents drone strikes in Pakistan... more...
US Drones Kill 4 ‘Militants,’ 1 Civilian in North Waziristan Strike
US drones killed four "militants" and one civilian in a strike today on a compound in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. Pakistani officials told Dawn that the unmanned... more...
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