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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Taliban Behead 7 Pakistani Soldiers: Report
The Taliban claimed to have killed 17 Pakistani soldiers in an attack in the northern district of Upper Dir yesterday. Seven of the soldiers are reported to have been beheaded. Pakistani...
Op-eds
US Drones Strike in Miramshah’s Bazaar, Kill 3 Militants
US drones struck for the second time in 24 hours in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. Today's strike, which took place in the early morning, targ...
Op-eds
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....
Op-eds
Bin Laden Advised Relocation of Some Leaders to Afghan Provinces Due to Drone Strikes in Waziristan
Seven months before his death in a US special operations raid at his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, al Qaeda emir Osama bin Laden instructed some of al Qaeda's leaders to relocate to provi...
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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 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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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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Al Qaeda Brokers New Anti-US Taliban Alliance in Pakistan and Afghanistan
One of al Qaeda's top leaders has reached out to the most powerful Taliban commanders along the Afghan-Pakistani border to create a new alliance to battle the US and NATO forces in Afghanist...
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US Cannot Rely on Pakistan for Counterterrorism Operations
Co-authored by Chris Radin In CJ Radin's recent Threat Matrix...
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US Drone Strikes ‘On Hold’ in Pakistan: US Official
As the US-Pakistan relationship continues to unravel, the US has placed its covert air campaign that targets al Qaeda and Taliban operatives in Pakistan's tribal agencies "on hold."...
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Pakistan Orders Closure of key US Airbase After ISAF Troops Conduct Cross-Border Attack
Within 24 hours of a US attack helicopters strike inside Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of Mohmand that killed more than 20 Pakistani troops, the Pakistan government has ordered...
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US Helicopters Kill 28 Pakistani Troops on Afghan Border
US attack helicopters killed 28 Pakistani troops manning a border outpost along the Afghan border, according to Pakistani military officials. Pakistan has retaliated by closing the vital Khyber P...
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Video of Brutal Taliban Execution of Pakistani Policemen Emerges
Co-authored by Bill Ardolino The Taliban videotaped the brutal execution of more than a dozen Pakistani policemen who were captured during last month's raid in a remote are...
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Descent into Appeasement
Pakistan's dangerous deals with terrorists.
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While Pakistan Burns
Al Qaeda regroups in the tribal areas, the government falters. What is to be done?
Op-eds
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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Suicide bomber kills 56 in northwestern Pakistan
A Taliban suicide bomber killed 56 people and wounded more than 100 in an attack on a government official's office in northwestern Pakistan. The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan...