Noor Wali Mehsud, the emir of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, or the Pakistani Taliban), has renewed his oath of allegiance to the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Mehsud also celebrates the...
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan claimed credit for today’s suicide attack that targeted a hospital in the northwestern district of Dera Ismail Khan that killed eight people. The Taliban has...
Faqir Mohammed, the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan's former deputy emir and a previous leader in Bajaur, is reported to have been captured by Afghan intelligence officials along the Afg...
Faqir Mohammed, the former emir in Bajaur of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, has returned to the fold after his dismissal a year ago for conducting negotiations with the Pakistani govern...
Hizb-i-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) has claimed credit for a suicide attack in Kabul today that targeted foreigns and was executed by a female. At least 12 people, mostly foreign workers, were killed i...
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...
Al Qaeda regroups in the tribal areas, the government falters. What is to be done?
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...
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...
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...
The top leader of a Chinese terror group with close links to al Qaeda has been killed in Pakistan, according to Pakistan's Interior Minister. The report has not been confirmed. Abdu...
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Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the tribal areas. Map from PBS' Frontline. Click to view. An attack on an al Qaeda safe house in Pakistan's lawless tribal agency of South...
Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps retreated from the Loisam region in the Bajaur tribal after heavy fighting with the Taliban over the past four days. Scores of Pakistani paramilitary t...
The Pakistani military claimed 70 Taliban fighters were killed and 60 were wounded during the lat...
Abu Khabab, via the US Rewards for Justice website. Al Qaeda has confirmed that Abu Khabab al Masri, the chief of the terror group's weapons of mass destruction program,...
Abu Khabab, via the US Rewards for Justice website. A Pakistani intelligence official claimed al Qaeda weapons expert Midhat Mursi al Sayyid Umar, better known as Abu Khabab,...
Omar Khalid, the Taliban commander of Mohmand agency. Less than two months after the Pakistani government negotiated a peace agreement with the local Taliban in the Mohmand tribal...
The Taliban has launched a series of attacks against political opponents and the infrastructure in the scenic northern district of Swat in Pakistan. The attacks occurred as the government a...
If there were any doubt about the reach of militants in Pakistan, last week's events should have put them to rest. The ostentatious procession celebrating the return home of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was tragically cut short by twin bombs that killed over 130 and wounded several hundred more on Thursday night. The attackers almost succeeded in killing Bhutto as well. The blast shattered the windows in her vehicle and set a police escort car ablaze. The sophistication of the attack was apparent from the outset, and the bombs may have been accompanied by sniper fire.