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....
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Taliban Demand Release of bin Laden’s Wives, Kill 7 Pakistani Troops
Today the spokesman for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan threatened that the group would "carry out suicide bombings against security forces and the government" if Osama bin Laden's t...
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Descent into Appeasement
Pakistan's dangerous deals with terrorists.
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Pakistan hits Taliban in Arakzai
The Pakistani military pounded Taliban positions Sunday during the latest round of fighting in the lawless tribal agency of Arakzai. Pakistani Air Force attack aircraft and Army helicopt...
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The Pakistani Taliban’s top leaders
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...
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US sees Pakistani Taliban involvement in Times Square attack after downplaying links
Four days after the failed car bombing attack in New York City's Times Square, senior officials in the Obama administration have grudgingly begun to accept that the Pakistani Taliban are lik...
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Times Square bombing suspect trained in Pakistan’s North Waziristan
The US has linked the main suspect in the failed Times Square car bomb attack to a training camp in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal region of Waziristan. Faisal Shahzad, a natu...
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Suicide bomber kills 23 in Peshawar
Terrorists have carried out their fourth major suicide attack in Pakistan's northwest in four days. A Taliban suicide bomber killed 23 people in an attack today at a crowded bazaar in the ci...
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Pakistani forces thwart triple suicide bombing attack
Pakistani paramilitary forces from the Frontier Corps repelled a deadly Taliban suicide attack on a military camp near the Kohat Tunnel. Three suicide vehicles were used in the attack, G...
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Taliban suicide bomber strike at Pakistani hospital, kills 29
Just one day after Pervez Musharraf's resignation from the office of the president of Pakistan, the Taliban conducted a deadly strike in the settled district of Dera Ishmael Khan. A Taliban...
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Pakistani forces clash with Taliban in Bajaur
The Pakistani military and the Taliban battled in the northern tribal agency of Bajaur after security forces launched an attack. More than 25 extremists were...
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Pakistani military abandons forts in South Waziristan
A sketch map of North and South Waziristan. Map from The Khyber Gateway. Click to view. The Pakistani military has begun to abandon forts in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency...
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Taliban capture 25 Pakistani security personnel in Swat
Mullah Fazlullah. Click image to view the slideshow of the Taliban Leadership in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Taliban have struck again in Pakistan' s lawless Northwest...
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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...
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Operation ends in Hangu; Government opts for negotiations in northwest
The Pakistani military has halted the operation against the Taliban in the Northwest Frontier Province district of Hangu just seven days after it began. The operation was ended just one day after...
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Peace negotiations begin with Taliban in Hangu
Orakzai goes red. Red agencies/ districts are controlled by the Taliban; purple districts areunder de facto Taliban control; yellow regions are under Taliban influence. Just...
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Pakistan signs peace accord in Orakzai tribal agency
The Pakistani government has negotiated yet another peace agreement with the Taliban in the tribal agencies bordering Afghanistan. The latest a...
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Pakistani Army launches operation in Hangu; Taliban issue ultimatum
The Pakistani Army has launched a military operation against the Taliban in the settled district of Hangu in the Northwest Frontier Province. The military took over security in Hangu fro...
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US returns fire on Taliban inside Pakistan
The situation on Afghan-Pakistani border has heated up as US forces attacked a Taliban position inside Pakistan. Meanwhile, reports from North Waziristan indicate US forces are massing across the...
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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....