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December 15, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Pakistani Taliban emir says his group “is a branch of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”

The leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan (TTP) said that his group “is a branch of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” during a tour of several of the group’s bases across Pakistan’s...

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...

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...

March 15, 2017 | Clifford D. May

What went wrong in Pakistan

Pakistan was meant to be a model, an example for other nations to emulate. It was founded after World War II, as the sun was set...

September 3, 2014 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistani Military Claims 910 ‘Terrorists,’ 82 Soldiers Killed in North Waziristan Operation

The Pakistani military claimed that 910 "terrorists" and 82 soldiers have been killed since it launched an operation against the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan and...

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 13, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistani Taliban Praise Slain American, British Jihadists

The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan recently released a video of so-called "martyrs" that includes two previously unknown jihadists from the United States and Britain. The two dead Western ji...

January 14, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Uzbek Terror Group Kills 14 Pakistani Soldiers in North Waziristan

An Uzbek group that calls itself the "Mujahideen Ansar" claimed credit for today's roadside bomb attack on a Pakistani military convoy in North Waziristan that killed 14 soldiers. The attack...

December 26, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Taliban Suicide Bomber Kills Pakistani Provincial Minister

The Taliban claimed credit for today's suicide attack in Peshawar that killed nine people, including Bashir Ahmed Bilour, the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development of Khyber Pa...

August 29, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Dangerous Pakistani Taliban Commander Thought Killed

A Pakistani Taliban leader who has been responsible for numerous attacks and kidnapping in the tribal areas is rumored to have been killed by a family member. The report has not been confirmed....

August 15, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistan Will Launch Operation Against the Taliban, Panetta Claims

This is absolutely stunning. Yesterday, The Associated Press interviewed US Secretary of Defense L...

July 9, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistani Jihadist Groups Fundraise, Recruit Openly in Rawalpindi

During a two-day conference that began yesterday in Rawalpindi, Pakistani jihadist groups linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban openly engaged in fundraising and recruitment of fighters for operatio...

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...

April 3, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Offers $10 Million Bounty for Capture of Lashkar-e-Taiba Chief Hafiz Saeed

The US government has offered a $10 million bounty for the capture of Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the founder of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, or Army of the Pure. A lesser reward of $2 million i...

April 3, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal Philadelphia Inquirer

Are Jews Safe in Europe?

French authorities brought a recent dramatic standoff with a crazed gunman to an abrupt end when they shot him dead in a house in the southwestern town of Toulouse. Mohammed Merah, a 23-year-old...

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...

February 29, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Jundallah kills 18 Shia travelers in northern Pakistan

An al Qaeda and Taliban-linked terror group known as Jundallah claimed credit for murdering 18 Shias who were traveling on a bus in a relatively quiet area of northern Pakistan. In the past, the...