Analysis: Taliban leader Sirajuddin Haqqani becomes a statesman
Khalifa Sirajuddin Haqqani in Hajj. pic.twitter.com/TGlhRiPbR9— Muhammad Jalal (@MJalalAf) June 7, 2024 ...
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Taliban’s special forces outfit providing ‘security’ at Kabul airport
Taliban-linked social media accounts claim that members of the group’s Badri 313 outfit are providing “security” at Kabul’s international airport. Badri 313 is a special forces wing of the Taliban’s...
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Afghanistan Is a Failure of Military Intelligence—and Common Sense
Wars are not fought on paper.
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Taliban promotes its ‘Preparation for Jihad’
1) From Taliban’s new ‘Preparation for Jihad’ video: Taliban fighters going through obstacle course, reminiscent if al Qaeda training camp videos. Note the Taliban fighters are wearing...
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Badness personified
Jalaluddin Haqqani is dead. The terror network he created lives on.
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New Docs Reveal Osama bin Laden’s Secret Ties With Iran
This week, prosecutors in New York introduced eight documents recovered in Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan as evidence in the trial of a terrorism suspect. The U.S. government accuse...
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US Drones Launch 2 Strikes in North Waziristan
The US conducted two more airstrikes in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today, killing eight "militants" in an area known to host al Qaeda and other foreign t...
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US Drones Strike in Pakistan’s Shawal Valley
The US launched another drone strike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today. Five "militants" are said to have been killed in the latest strike in an area k...
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‘Foreigners’ Reported Killed in US Drone Strike in Pakistan
The US launched its first airstrike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agencies in 11 days, killing four "militants," possibly inkling some foreigners. The remotely-piloted Pre...
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US Adds Haqqani Network Suicide Operations Chief to List of Global Terrorists
Today the US State Department added the Haqqani Network's chief of suicide operations to the list of Specially Designated Gl...
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Senior Haqqani Network Leader Again Calls on Turks, Kurds to Wage Jihad in Afghanistan
Mullah Sangeen Zadran, a senior Haqqani Network leader who is on the US's list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists for supporting al Qaeda and who holds a captured a US soldier in Afgh...
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US Drones Kill 3 ‘Rebels’ in Mir Ali Strike
The US killed three "rebels" in a drone strike on a vehicle in the Mir Ali Area of the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. The remotely piloted Predators or the more ad...
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US Drone Strike Kills 12 ‘Militants’ in North Waziristan
The US launched a drone strike in the Shawal Valley in Pakistan's tribal agency of Pakistan today, killing 12 "militants," including a local Taliban commander. The strike is the first in Pak...
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US Drones Strike Again in the Shawal Valley
The US launched its second straight drone strike in a remote valley in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today, killing eight "militants." The remotely...
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Haqqanis Part of Taliban: Mullah Sangeen
Mullah Sangeen Zadran, the senior Haqqani Network leader who is also the Taliban's shadow governor for Paktika province, granted an interview with Al Samoud, the Taliban's official maga...
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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 State Department Adds Mullah Sangeen to Terrorist List
Today under Executive Order 13224, the US State Department added Mullah Sangeen Zadran, a top Haqqani Network leader, to the list...
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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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Afghan, US forces kill 55 Taliban after ambush
US and Afghan forces fought a major battle with the Taliban and "inflicted heavy casualties" on the force just miles from the Pakistani border on June 20, Combined Joint Task Force - 101 re...