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June 9, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

The LA Times Whitewashes the Taliban Five

There is a concerted push to sanitize the records of four of the five Taliban leaders transferred from Guantanamo to Qatar. But before delving into some of the specifics, let us recount the basic...

May 1, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Taliban Assassinate Member of Afghan High Peace Council

The Taliban assassinated a member of the Afghan High Peace Council in a complex ambush in Helmand province today. The Taliban have now assassinated three senior members of the peace council since...

October 18, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Adds IMU Financier, Taliban IED Experts to Terror List

The US Treasury Department added an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan financier and two Taliban leaders and bomb experts to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. Qari Ayyub Ba...

July 5, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

‘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. Addi...

May 23, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Drones Kill 4 ‘Militants’ in North Waziristan

The US launched its first drone airstrike inside Pakistan in more than two weeks, killing four "militants" today in an area of Pakistan that has been under Taliban control for eight years....

April 29, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Drone Strike Kills 4 ‘Militants’ in North Waziristan

Today the US launched its first drone strike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency in nearly a month. The strike in North Waziristan targeted an abandoned school that is known to be...

March 13, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Drones Kill 2 ‘Good Taliban’ Commanders in Pair of Strikes in South Waziristan

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 stri...

March 9, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Drones Kill at Least 13 in South Waziristan Strike

Unmanned US Predator or Reaper strike aircraft killed 13 "militants" in airstrikes in the Miramshah and Mir Ali areas of Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan today...

January 23, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Predators Kill 4 ‘Militants’ in North Waziristan

Unmanned US strike aircraft attacked terrorist targets in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency for the third time in less than three weeks, killing four "militants" in an area known t...

January 13, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Drones Strike in North Waziristan, End 2-Month Pause

Unmanned US attack aircraft struck in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today, ending a nearly two-month-long pause in strikes that have targeted al Qaeda and T...

December 14, 2011 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Drone Strikes ‘On Hold’ in Pakistan: US Official

As the US-Pakistan relationship continues to unravel, the US has placed its covert air campaign that targets al Qaeda and Taliban operatives in Pakistan's tribal agencies "on hold."...

September 29, 2011 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Adds 5 al Qaeda, Taliban, Haqqani Network, and IMU Facilitators to Terrorist List

Today the US Treasury Department has designated as global terrorists five men based in Afghanistan and Pakistan who are linked to al Qaeda as well as to various other terror groups, including the...