US adds Taliban commander involved in IED, suicide attacks to terrorism list
The US Treasury Department has added a Taliban commander who builds bombs and deploys suicide bombers against Coalition and Afghan forces to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. The...
View Article55 Pakistanis killed in violence in Khyber
At least 55 Pakistanis were killed in the contested tribal agency of Khyber today in a suicide bombing outside a mosque and an ambush on a military outpost. The outburst of violence takes place just...
View ArticleAQAP overruns Yemeni Army base, kills 62 soldiers
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula mounted a complex assault today in which an army base was overrun, heavy weapons were seized, and 62 Yemeni troops were killed. AQAP opened the attack against a Yemeni...
View ArticleTaliban claim suicide attack outside Bagram Air Base
The Taliban claimed credit for a suicide attack today outside of a major US base in central Afghanistan that killed two Afghans and wounded five people, including two Coalition soldiers. The Taliban...
View ArticleLatest Gitmo recidivist statistics released
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has released new summary statistics on the recidivism of former Guantanamo detainees. At present, 167 ex-Gitmo detainees are either...
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Pakistani Taliban deputy Faqir Mohammad demoted
Faqir Mohammed. Image courtesy of AfPax Insider. Faqir Mohammed, the deputy emir of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, was relieved of his command, according to the spokesman for the terror...
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Al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri spotted at Taliban meeting
Left: a photograph purported to be Ilyas Kashmiri after his death. The picture is actually that of Abu Dera Ismael Khan, a Lashkar-e-Taiba fighter who was a member of the suicide assault team that...
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US adds Qods Force general as 'Narcotics Kingpin' for heroin, weapons...
Qods Force General Gholamreza Baghbani. Image from the US Department of the Treasury. Today the US Department of the Treasury added an Iranian Qods Force general to the list of Specially Designated...
View ArticleISAF captures 2 IMU leaders in northeastern Afghanistan
During a raid today in the remote northeastern province of Badakhshan, Coalition and Afghan special operations teams captured two Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leaders who are involved in suicide...
View ArticleUS drones kill at least 13 in South Waziristan strike
Unmanned US Predator or Reaper strike aircraft killed 13 "militants" in the Makeen area of Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan today. The strikes broke a two-week-long lull...
View ArticleTaliban demand release of bin Laden's wives, kill 7 Pakistani troops
Today the spokesman for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan threatened that the group would "carry out suicide bombings against security forces and the government" if Osama bin Laden's three widows...
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Al Qaeda eulogizes senior commander killed in recent drone strike
Badr Mansoor. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group. Ustad Ahmad Farooq, al Qaeda's spokesman for Pakistan, confirmed that Badr Mansoor, a top military commander, was killed in a recent US drone...
View ArticleDozens of AQAP fighters killed in airstrikes in southern Yemen
View Larger Map Dozens of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters were killed in a pair of airstrikes in the southern Yemeni cities of Jaar and Al Baydah over the past 24 hours. The strikes are...
View ArticleSuicide bomber kills 15 at funeral in Peshawar
A suicide bomber killed 15 people and wounded dozens more in an attack at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Peshawar today. The attack appears to have targeted a senior provincial government official...
View ArticleUS drone strike kills 3 AQAP fighters in Yemen
Unmanned US Predators and Reapers killed three al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters during a raid in the terrorist-controlled city of Jaar last night. The strike is the third of its kind in Yemen...
View ArticleUS drones kill 2 'good Taliban' commanders in pair of strikes in South...
Unmanned US Predator or Reaper strike aircraft killed 15 Taliban fighters, including two commanders of a faction considered to be "good Taliban" by the Pakistani government, during a pair of strikes in...
View ArticleShabaab suicide bomber strikes at presidential palace in Mogadishu
A Shabaab suicide bomber killed at least five people in a suicide attack inside the presidential palace compound in the Somali capital of Mogadishu today. Shabaab claimed credit for the suicide attack,...
View ArticleTaliban suspend 'dialogue' with US
Today the Taliban formally announced the "suspension of dialogue" with the US, while maintaining in their statement that the Taliban office established in Qatar had been created to discuss a prisoner...
View ArticleUS drone strike kills 4 AQAP fighters
US drones struck yet again in the Yemeni province of Al Baydah, according to a report from the country. The strike is the fourth in Yemen in the past week. Yemeni security officials have told the Yemen...
View ArticleKashmiri is dead, al Qaeda spokesman suggests
A recent propaganda statement released by al Qaeda's spokesman for Pakistan indicated that Ilyas Kashmiri was indeed killed, most likely last year in a US drone strike in South Waziristan. Ustad Ahmand...
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