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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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US Predator Strike Kills 4 ‘Militants’ in Mir Ali
US Predators struck in Pakistan's tribal areas for the fifth time in six days, killing four "militants" in the Taliban stronghold of North Waziristan. The unmanned CIA-operated Pred...
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US Predators Kill 4 ‘Militants’ in North Waziristan
US Predators struck again today in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan, killing four more "militants," according to reports from the region. The unmanned...
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US Predators Strike the Haqqani Network in Kurram
US Predators targeted the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of Kurram today, killing 11 enemy fighters. The strike hit in an area run by a Moveme...
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Al Qaeda Emir Osama bin Laden Confirmed Killed by US Forces in Pakistan
US officials have confirmed that Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda's top leader, was killed during an early morning raid by US forces in Pakistan today. President Barack Obama said Osama bi...
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It Will Get Worse, if the U.S. Leaves
It is entirely possible that the Central Intelligence Agency may have been a bit heavy-handed with the Pakistani military, as with the “unauthorized” drone attacks (the vast majority...
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US Predators Strike Again in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas
Unmanned US strike aircraft conducted their second attack today, this time in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. The CIA operated Predators or the more...
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Should the CIA Turn Against Pakistan’s Spies?
The recent chief-of-station (COS) cover-shredding brouhaha between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate marks an ironic and pos...
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US Predators Hit A Taliban Camp in North Waziristan
US Predators struck again in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today, killing 20 "militants" at a camp on the border with Afghanistan. Unmanned Predato...
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Islam: Unmentionable in D.C.
The recent suicide bombing against Pashtun tribal elders in Mohmand, a region not far from Peshawar, the capital city of Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province, made my mind return to conv...
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Former Gitmo Detainee Arrested in Pakistan
A former detainee held at Guantanamo Bay for nearly three years has been arrested in Pakistan on terrorism charges. Pakistani officials told Agence France Presse that Issa Khan, who had been deta...
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Taliban overrun Frontier Corps outpost in northwest Pakistan
The Taliban overran a Frontier Corps outpost during an assault today in the Arakzai tribal agency. The attack took place just seven days after the top Pakistani military commander declared an end...
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70 killed in terror assault on Lahore mosques
The Punjabi Taliban have taken credit for storming two mosques in Lahore and murdering more than 70 Pakistanis who belonged to a sect of Islam banned by the Pakistani government. Two squ...