Inter-Services Intelligence

May 8, 2025 | Bill Roggio |

India claims Jaish-e-Mohammad leader killed during airstrikes in Pakistan

The Indian government claimed that Abdul Rauf Azhar, a senior leader of the Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad and a brother of the group’s founder, Masood Azhar, was killed during India’s retaliatory airstrikes on Pakistan on May 7.

April 2, 2025 | Will Selber, Bill Roggio

US removal of Sirajuddin Haqqani’s $10 million bounty signals engagement with the Taliban

The Trump administration appears to be continuing its previous policy of engagement with the Taliban, which led to the 2020 Doha Agreement that paved the way for the Biden administration’s 2021 withdrawal...

November 28, 2022 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban ends ceasefire with Pakistani government, vows ‘revenge attacks’ across the country

The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan has officially ended its six month-long ceasefire with the Pakistani government. Mufti Muzahim, the “Minister of Defense” of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan...

September 22, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Unfriending Pakistan

A reconsideration of the relationship is long overdue

August 21, 2021 | Cleo Paskal, Bill Roggio

US is being servile to the Taliban: Bill Roggio

‘Amrullah Saleh needs support immediately. The US isn’t going to provide that aid. Washington’s primary concern is evacuation of personnel, and it will not risk antagonizing the Taliban.’

January 14, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Afghanistan

December 3, 2020 | Varsha Koduvayur, Akhil Bery

Curb Your Enthusiasm for an Israel-Pakistan Peace Agreement

While Pakistan has good reasons to normalize relations with Israel, domestic and geopolitical compulsions stand in the way.

June 20, 2020 | Cleo Paskal |

From India’s Himalayan Border to Our Local Cell Networks, It’s Time to Push Back Against China

High in the Himalayan mountains, Chinese soldiers ambushed Indian troops this week, resulting in a brutal battle on the Indian side of their shared border. Twenty Indians were killed, while China won’t...

September 16, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban supplies al Qaeda with explosives for attacks in major Afghan cities

The Taliban continues to work closely with al Qaeda’s branch in South Asia. Afghan Commandos and a unit from the National Directorate of Security raided a Taliban warehouse that was used to store explosives...

July 21, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Female Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber hits hospital

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...

July 16, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban overruns district in eastern Afghanistan

The Taliban overran the district of Dila Wa Khushamand in Paktika province over the weekend. Video published on Spokesman Zabi...

May 3, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Khalilzad flip flops on Pakistan, Taliban’s relationship with al Qaeda

While testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) in July 2016, Zalmay Khalilzad said that Pakistan should be designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism because it is an ardent suppor...

February 26, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

India strikes Jaish-e-Mohammad camp inside Pakistan

The Indian government has retaliated for the deadly Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) suicide attack that killed 40 soldiers in the state of Jammu and Kashmir nearly two weeks ago. Today, the Indian Air Force la...

February 19, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

‘Our soil is not used for carrying out terrorist attacks,’ Pakistan PM claims

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February 15, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Jihadist suicide bomber kills dozens of Indian troops in largest attack in Kashmir in decades

More than 40 Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel have died as a result of a car bombing reportedly carried out by the Pakistan-supported Jaish-e-Mohammad in city of Pulwama, near Srin...

October 1, 2018 | Thomas Joscelyn

Badness personified

Jalaluddin Haqqani is dead. The terror network he created lives on.

January 27, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

Skirmishes on the Indian front

What do you make of this month’s attacks on Pathankot Air Force Station and Bacha Khan University? My guess is you don’t know -- you’ve heard next to nothing about either....

November 9, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn

Not a Conspiracy

In May, the London Review of Books published a 10,000-word exposé by veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on the killing of Osama bin Laden. It was widely read online, receiving...

March 5, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn

How America Was Misled on al Qaeda’s Demise

Co-authored by Stephen F. Hayes In the early-morning hours of May 2, 2011, a small team of American military and intelligence professionals landed inside the high white walls of...

January 22, 2015 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistan Falsely Claims it Takes ‘Immediate Action’ Against Terror Groups Listed by the UN

A spokesman for Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed that his country takes "immediate action" against any terrorist groups that are sanctioned by the Un...