Taliban suicide bomber kills 17 in Pakistan’s Swat district
Map of the tribal areas and the Northwest Frontier Province. Hangu is the latest district to fall under Taliban control. The government signed peace agreements in the red agencies/...
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Taliban suicide bombers kill 70 Pakistanis outside a munitions factory
Map of major Pakistani Air Force bases, including the nuclear sites of Kamra and Sargodha. Pakistani air bases are the most likely sites to house nuclear weapons storage and launch...
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Al Qaeda safe house targeted in South Waziristan strike
Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the tribal areas. Map from PBS' Frontline. Click to view. An attack on an al Qaeda safe house in Pakistan's lawless tribal agency of South...
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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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Pakistan’s President Musharraf resigns office
Former President and General Pervez Musharraf. President Pervez Musharraf, the longtime military leader of Pakistan and erstwhile ally of the US in the war against Islamic extremists,...
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Cross-border strike targets one of the Taliban’s 157 training camps in Pakistan’s northwest
Hangu is the latest district to fall under Taliban control. The government signed peace agreements in the red agencies/ districts; purple districts are under de facto Taliban control;...
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Bombing on Pakistani Air Force bus kills 13 in Peshawar
The Taliban have taken credit for a deadly bus bombing on a Pakistani Air Force bus in Peshawar. Thirteen Pakistanis, including ten security offici...
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Al Qaeda’s commander in Afghanistan rumored killed in Pakistan
Mustafa Abu Yazid on As Sahab, al Qaeda's propaganda arm. . Unconfirmed reports from Pakistan indicate that Mustafa Abu Yazid, al Qaeda's commander in Afghanistan,...
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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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A Dangerous Neighbor: How Pakistan’s deterioration harms Afghanistan.
THE PRE-DAWN SILENCE in eastern Afghanistan's Nuristan province was shattered on July 13 by the racket of machine gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades; the attack on the new base was fiercer and the insurgent force larger than American troops could have expected. The first enemy fire struck the mortar pit, then their RPGs blew up a tow truck. Stars and Stripes, the U.S. armed forces' overseas newspaper, reported that after two hours of combat "some of the soldiers' guns seized up because they expelled so many rounds so quickly."
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A Dangerous Neighbor
As the situation in Afghanistan worsens, many military officials have come to see the growing safe haven for insurgent groups in Pakistan as the key to the Afghanistan war. Today Bill Roggio and...
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Pakistan: A Dangerous Neighbor
This article was co-written by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Bill Roggio and originally published at...
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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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Six killed in strike in South Waziristan
Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the tribal areas. Map from PBS' Frontline. Click to view. Three foreign terrorist are among six killed in a targeted strike in Pakistan's...
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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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Taliban control of Mohmand highlights failures of peace negotiations
Omar Khalid, the Taliban commander of Mohmand agency. Less than two months after the Pakistani government negotiated a peace agreement with the local Taliban in the Mohmand tribal...
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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...