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NDS hails death of Taliban leader in Ghazni
An unidentified gunman lies dead after a clash with Afghan and NATO forces in Ghazni Province, Oct. 17, 2011. Photo source: Pajhwok News. A notorious Taliban commander involved in a series of deadly...
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US adds Abdullah Azzam Brigades explosives expert to terror list
Today under Executive Order 13224, the US State Department added Suleiman Hamad Al Hablain, an explosives expert for the Lebanon-based Abdullah Azzam Brigades, to the list of specially designated...
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IMU cleric urges Pakistanis to continue sheltering jihadis in Waziristan
A top ideologue for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan urged Pakistanis living in Waziristan to continue to shelter jihadists, and said the Pakistani state has done the most damage to terror groups...
View ArticleISAF recaptures escaped Taliban convict
Afghan and Coalition forces recaptured Commander Wali Mohammad, along with four of his associates, during a combined raid in the Nahr-e-Saraj (Gereshk) district of southern Helmand province on Nov. 23....
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US helicopters kill 28 Pakistani troops on Afghan border
US attack helicopters killed 28 Pakistani troops manning a border outpost along the Afghan border, according to Pakistani military officials. Pakistan has retaliated by closing the vital Khyber Pass...
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Pakistan orders key US airbase to close after ISAF troops conduct cross...
Google Earth images of Predators on the tarmac at the Shamsi Air Base in Baluchistan province, Pakistan. Image from Wikipedia. Within 24 hours of a US attack helicopters strike inside Pakistan's...
View ArticleTaliban, artillery, and lies in Mohmand Agency
Shortly after midnight on Nov. 26, US attack helicopters rocketed and strafed two lightly manned observation posts located on the Anargai Ghakhi mountain peak in the Mohmand tribal agency, known as the...
View ArticleISAF captures al Qaeda 'facilitator' in Afghan east
Coalition and Afghan special operations forces captured an al Qaeda operative during a raid yesterday in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar. The combined special operations team captured the "al...
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Transfer of security responsibility will test Afghan National Security Forces
Phase 1 and Phase 2 of transition to the Afghan National Security Forces. Click the map to view a larger image. A central part of the US and ISAF strategy in Afghanistan is to build the Afghan National...
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IMU names 87 'martyrs' killed during past year
Photograph of Abdullah Miqdad, or Abdullah the Essen, a German member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan who was killed in Afghanistan this year. The al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan...
View ArticleJihadists announce deaths of 21 Turks linked to the Haqqani Network
A jihadist media outlet that supports Turkish terrorists fighting along the Afghan-Pakistan border said that 21 of its fighters were killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan, while another fighter was...
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Al Qaeda announces death of Atiyah Abd al Rahman
An image of Atiyah Abd al Rahman, from his latest propaganda tape. Photo from the SITE Intelligence Group. The emir of al Qaeda has announced the death of Atiyah Abd al Rahman, a top leader who was...
View ArticleAnti-Taliban tribal leader killed in northwest Pakistan
A leader of an anti-Taliban militia and head of the Darband Peace Committee,* Haji Hashim (Zaman) Khan, was killed in a roadside blast as he and his two colleagues were refueling their vehicle in the...
View ArticleNassar al Awlaki urges the spread of his son Anwar's teachings
Nassar al Awlaki, the father of Anwar, the al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ideologue who was involved in operations before he was killed by the US, spoke out against the deaths of his son and...
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Analysis: The US-Pakistan relationship and the critical factor of supply
The United States and Pakistan have had strained relations ever since the US first entered Afghanistan in the aftermath of 9/11. But over the past year, the relationship has further deteriorated in the...
View ArticleDC court: Iran showed al Qaeda how to bomb embassies
In a little-noticed ruling on Nov. 28, a Washington, DC district court found that both Iran and Sudan were culpable for al Qaeda's 1998 embassy bombings. As is typical in cases dealing with state...
View ArticleSuicide bomber kills scores in attack at Kabul mosque
A suicide bomber killed more than 50 Shia worshippers outside a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul today. Another suicide bomber killed four more Shia in the western city of Mazar-i-Sharif. The...
View ArticleAnwar al Awlaki's son hoped 'to attain martyrdom as my father attained it'
Anwar al Awlaki's son said he hoped "to attain martyrdom as my father attained it" just hours before he was killed in a US Predator airstrike in Yemen in mid-October, according to a journalist who...
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Al Qaeda announces death of Karachi-based media operative
Image of Abd al Moeed bin Abd al Salam that was broadcast on Pakistani news channels after he was killed by Pakistani Rangers in Karachi. Al Qaeda has announced the death of one of its propagandists...
View ArticleSuicide bomber kills 6 Afghans in mosque attack
A suicide bomber killed six Afghans, including a district police chief, in an attack at a mosque in the eastern province of Kunar, a known haven for the Taliban and al Qaeda. The suicide bomber...
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