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Pakistan Will Launch Operation Against the Taliban, Panetta Claims
This is absolutely stunning. Yesterday, The Associated Press interviewed US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and during the interview, Panetta said that the Pakistani military is preparing to launch a military operation... more...
Afghan Intelligence Thwarts Complex Assault Plot in Kabul; Pakistani Suspect, 4 Others Arrested
Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) personnel supported by Coalition forces thwarted a major terrorist plot in Kabul City late on Saturday night... more...
Al Qaeda Calls on Jihadists to Attack NATO Supplies, ‘Secure the Back’ of the Afghan Taliban
Al Qaeda's top spokesman for Pakistan called on jihadists in Pakistan to attack NATO supply convoys to "secure the back" of al Qaeda's ally, the Afghan Taliban. more...
Al Qaeda Emir for Kunar, Deputy, and Facilitator Killed in Airstrikes
The Coalition confirmed that al Qaeda's leader for Kunar province and his deputy were killed in Friday's airstrike in the Watahpur district. Both al Qaeda leaders were Pakistani citizens... more...
Afghan Intel Kills 5 Members of Haqqani Network Suicide Cell in Kabul
The National Directorate of Security killed five members of the al Qaeda and Pakistan-linked Haqqani Network during a raid in the capital that targeted a suicide assault cell. The NDS has linked the Haqqani Network cell to Pakistan. more...
Firing Drones, a Dispute Between Pakistan and Sustainable US
The raid is not going to fix the already very troubled between the United States and Pakistan . The firing of a U.S. drone that killed, Monday, July 23, at least a dozen insurgents in the Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan. more...
US Drone Strike Kills 12 ‘Militants’ in North Waziristan
The US launched a drone strike in the Shawal Valley in Pakistan's tribal agency of Pakistan today, killing 12 "militants," including a local Taliban commander. The strike is the first in Pakistan in more than two weeks. more...
Offering a New Drone-Use Mechanism to US
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s magic word of “apology” in a July 3 phone call to Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar was good enough to reopen the land routes to the US-Nato forces occupying Afghanistan. more...
Taliban Suicide Assault Team Strikes Police Station in Bannu
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan claimed credit for today's suicide assault on a police station in the northwestern district of Bannu. A five-man team of "Fedayeen," or "Martyrdom seekers," attacked the police station this morning... more...
About that NATO Supply Line Deal ...
While the Obama administration is busy congratulating itself on the reopening of NATO's supply lines to Afghanistan after a seven-month shutoff by the Pakistani government. more...
Pakistani Jihadist Groups Fundraise, Recruit Openly in Rawalpindi
During a two-day conference that began yesterday in Rawalpindi, Pakistani jihadist groups linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban openly engaged in fundraising and recruitment of fighters for operations in Afghanistan and the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. more...
Jamaat-ud-Dawa Banners Dominate Defense of Pakistan Rally Against Reopening of NATO Supply Lines
Banners belonging to the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the charitable front group for the al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba, dominate a rally, or "long march," today in Lahore against the reopening of NATO's supply lines to Afghanistan... more...
US Drones Kill 17 ‘Militants’ in North Waziristan Strike
The US killed 17 suspected "militants" in a strike in an area of the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan that is known to host la Qaeda's top leaders. more...
‘We Will Carry Attacks on NATO Supplies with a New Spirit,’ Says Pakistani Taliban Spokesman
The top spokesman for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan vowed that his group would resume attacks on NATO's convoys to Afghanistan now that Pakistan has reopened the supply lines. more...
Syed Zabiuddin Ansari, and India’s Role in Prosecuting the Global War on Terrorism
The 10 Islamist terrorists who committed the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks killed 164 innocent people with guns, grenades and bombs. Nine of the killers died during their rampage. more...
Report: Al Qaeda Trained Mumbai Attackers
Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari, the alleged facilitator of the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, has proven to be a "treasure trove of information" for Indian investigators, according to new reports in the Indian press. more...
US Drones Strike Again in the Shawal Valley
The US launched its second straight drone strike in a remote valley in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today, killing eight "militants." more...
ISAF Kills Lashkar-e-Taiba’s Leader for Kunar in Airstrike
Coalition and Afghan special operations forces killed the leader of the al Qaeda-linked, Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, or Army of the Pure, during an airstrike yesterday in the remote eastern province Kunar. more...
Taliban Raid Nuristan District
Reports from eastern Afghanistan indicate that hundreds of Taliban fighters, including members of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, raided two villages in Kamdesh district in Nuristan today. more...
Key Mumbai Plotter Arrested in Saudi Arabia
A key suspect in the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari, was arrested in Saudi Arabia earlier this month and then turned over to Indian authorities. more...
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