Bajaur Agency

August 6, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

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 citizen...

June 25, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Taliban Behead 7 Pakistani Soldiers: Report

The Taliban claimed to have killed 17 Pakistani soldiers in an attack in the northern district of Upper Dir yesterday. Seven of the soldiers are reported to have been beheaded. Pakistani...

May 3, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Bin Laden Advised Relocation of Some Leaders to Afghan Provinces Due to Drone Strikes in Waziristan

Seven months before his death in a US special operations raid at his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, al Qaeda emir Osama bin Laden instructed some of al Qaeda's leaders to relocate to provi...

January 3, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Al Qaeda Brokers New Anti-US Taliban Alliance in Pakistan and Afghanistan

One of al Qaeda's top leaders has reached out to the most powerful Taliban commanders along the Afghan-Pakistani border to create a new alliance to battle the US and NATO forces in Afghanist...

July 18, 2011 | The Long War Journal

Video of Brutal Taliban Execution of Pakistani Policemen Emerges

Co-authored by Bill Ardolino The Taliban videotaped the brutal execution of more than a dozen Pakistani policemen who were captured during last month's raid in a remote are...

June 22, 2011 | The Long War Journal

Pakistani Taliban Kidnap Young Girl to Turn Her Into a Suicide Bomber

The Pakistani Taliban kidnapped an eight-year-old girl and attempted to force her to carry out a suicide attack. The girl was able to save herself and others by warning police at a checkpoint in...

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online

After Bhutto: A Nation in Crisis

Benazir Bhutto’s assassination is a tragedy, and likely a strategic setback as well. It is tragic because, despite the notorious corruption of Bhutto’s administration, in many ways sh...

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online |

A Year@War

Successes and setbacks.

June 13, 2011 | The Weekly Standard

While Pakistan Burns

Al Qaeda regroups in the tribal areas, the government falters. What is to be done?

June 13, 2011 | National Review Online

State of Denial

Musharraf's latest move has transformed him into a liability.

June 10, 2011 | Weekly Standard

Al Qaeda’s Resurgence

FOUR YEARS AGO, HIS WORDS WOULD have represented an almost unquestioned consensus view. In late January, the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Dell Dailey, described al Qaeda&...

May 16, 2011 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Taliban leader in Bajaur rumored killed in Pakistani strikes

Thirty two Taliban fighters have been reported killed during the latest round of fighting in the extremist-controlled Pakistani tribal agency of Bajaur. The Pakistani military speculated that Faq...

June 8, 2010 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Taliban overrun Frontier Corps outpost in northwest Pakistan

The Taliban overran a Frontier Corps outpost during an assault today in the Arakzai tribal agency. The attack took place just seven days after the top Pakistani military commander declared an end...

May 28, 2010 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

70 killed in terror assault on Lahore mosques

The Punjabi Taliban have taken credit for storming two mosques in Lahore and murdering more than 70 Pakistanis who belonged to a sect of Islam banned by the Pakistani government. Two squ...

May 27, 2010 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Mullah Fazlullah reported killed in Afghanistan

An Afghan police commander claimed that his forces killed a top Pakistani Taliban leader during a clash in Nuristan province. The report has not been confirmed by US officials. M...

May 24, 2010 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistan hits Taliban in Arakzai

The Pakistani military pounded Taliban positions Sunday during the latest round of fighting in the lawless tribal agency of Arakzai. Pakistani Air Force attack aircraft and Army helicopt...

May 19, 2010 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistani troops beat back latest Taliban assualt in the northwest

Pakistani troops beat back yet another massed Taliban assault on a military outpost in the lawless tribal agency of Arakzai. In today's attack, more than 200 Taliban fighters...

May 17, 2010 | Long War Journal

The Pakistani Taliban’s top leaders

After the failed car bomb attack in New York City's Times Square, the Pakistani Taliban have suddenly risen to the top of the list of concerns for Western intelligence and law enforcement of...

May 15, 2010 | Victoria Toensing Long War Journal

US Predators carry out first strike in Khyber

US Predators fired missiles a Taliban compound and a vehicle today in the first recorded airstrike in Pakistan's Khyber tribal agency. The unmanned Predators or the more deadly Reap...

May 8, 2010 | Bill Roggio Long War Journal

US pressures Pakistan to target North Waziristan

The failed Times Square bombing that was hatched in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan has forced the US to ratchet up pressure on Pakistan to take out the terro...