Khyber District

March 25, 2013 | The Long War Journal

Pakistani Taliban Overrun Rival Faction’s Headquarters, Dozens Killed

By LWJ Staff Two nights ago, hundreds of Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan (Tehrik-e-Taliban-e Pakistan or TTP) militants overran the headquarters of a rival faction, Ansar-ul...

February 19, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Former Taliban Emir Faqir Mohammed Reported Captured by Afghan Intel

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...

September 4, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Suicide Bomber Kills 30 Afghans in Attack at Funeral

A suicide bomber killed 30 Afghans in an attack at a funeral in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar today. The suicide bomber attacked civilians at a funeral ceremony for a resident...

May 10, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Bin Laden Docs Hint at Large al Qaeda Presence in Pakistan

Two of the 17 documents released by the US government from the large cache seized during the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound indicate that al Qaeda has a much larger footprint in Pakistan...

March 20, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistani Islamist Warlord Mangal Bagh Rumored Killed in Khyber

Pakistani police claimed that Mangal Bagh, the leader of a Taliban-linked terror group based in the tribal agency of Khyber, was killed during an operation there last weekend. The report is uncon...

May 10, 2010 | Bill Roggio Long War Journal

Taliban kill 9 Pakistani soldiers in ambush

The Taliban killed nine Pakistani soldiers during a ambush in a region where the military has claimed success in the recent past. The Taliban ambushed the Pakistani military unit as it c...

August 6, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistan: A Dangerous Neighbor

This article was co-written by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Bill Roggio and originally published at...

August 6, 2008 |

A Dangerous Neighbor: How Pakistan’s deterioration harms Afghanistan.


THE PRE-DAWN SILENCE in eastern Afghanistan's Nuristan province was shattered on July 13 by the racket of machine gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades; the attack on the new base was fiercer and the insurgent force larger than American troops could have expected. The first enemy fire struck the mortar pit, then their RPGs blew up a tow truck. Stars and Stripes, the U.S. armed forces' overseas newspaper, reported that after two hours of combat "some of the soldiers' guns seized up because they expelled so many rounds so quickly."

July 25, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistan cedes Hangu to the Taliban

The Pakistani government has signed yet another peace accord with the Taliban in a settled district of the Northwest Frontier Province. Just one day after the military canceled an operation in Ha...

July 12, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Taliban kill Pakistani soldiers in ambush in Hangu

The security situation in the settled district of Hangu has rapidly deteriorated over the past week as the Taliban has laid siege to a police station and threatened local security forces....

July 6, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US forces kill 20 Taliban on Pakistani border

US forces killed 20 Taliban fighters during airstrikes in Nangarhar province today in the latest in a series of attacks along the Pakistani border. The US military targeted "a la...

June 30, 2008 | Bill Roggio Long War Journal

In Pictures: Extremist leaders in Pakistan’ s Khyber agency

 The Pakistani military has launched an operation against extremist groups in the Khyber agency. On June 29, the military said it was directly targeting the local extremist groups of Ansar-u...

June 29, 2008 | Bill Roggio Long War Journal

Pakistani military advances in Khyber

The military operation in Pakistan's tribal agency of Khyber completed its second day. The military said the operation is limited in scope, while the Taliban have again threatened to attack...

June 28, 2008 | Bill Roggio Long War Journal

Pakistan strikes at Taliban in Khyber agency

 The Pakistani government has launched an operation targeting the Taliban in the Khyber tribal agency along the Afghan border. The operation is led by the paramilitary Frontier Corps and pol...