Pajhwok Afghan News

March 31, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

NDS kills Al Qaeda commander in eastern Afghanistan

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May 1, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Taliban Assassinate Member of Afghan High Peace Council

The Taliban assassinated a member of the Afghan High Peace Council in a complex ambush in Helmand province today. The Taliban have now assassinated three senior members of the peace council since...

April 3, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Taliban Suicide Assault Team Strikes Courtroom in Western Afghanistan

A Taliban suicide assault team stormed a courthouse in western Afghanistan today in an attempt to free Taliban prisoners who were on trial. The Taliban assault team, estimated at between...

March 18, 2013 | The Long War Journal

Afghan Forces Thwart Unprecedented Terror Plot in Kabul

 By LWJ Staff Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) forces scored a major coup on March 12, breaking up a suspected Haqqani Network terror cell that was hours away...

March 14, 2013 | Patrick Megahan The Long War Journal

IMU Commander Captured in Kunduz

The International Security Assistance Force has captured a commander in the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movem...

March 11, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

2 US Soldiers Killed by Afghan Policeman in Attack at Special Forces Base

An Afghan policeman killed two US soldiers in an attack at a US Special Forces base in Wardak province today. The attack is the second green-on-blue, or insider attack, that has been reported in...

January 21, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Taliban Suicide Assault Team Attacks Police Headquarters in Kabul

The Taliban launched their second suicide assault against a security installation in the capital of Kabul in six days. The suicide assault team targeted the traffic police head...

December 26, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Taliban Suicide Bomber Attacks US Base in Khost

The Taliban claimed credit for a suicide attack outside of a US base in eastern Afghanistan that is known to house CIA operatives who are hunting al Qaeda and other terrorist leaders across the b...

December 25, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Afghan Policewoman Kills US Military Adviser Inside Interior Ministry

An Afghan policewoman gunned down a US military adviser inside the Interior Ministry today. The insider, or green-on-blue, attack is the first in nearly six weeks, and the first recorded by a fem...

November 13, 2012 | The Long War Journal

Insurgency Encroaching on Central Afghanistan

By LWJ Staff As NATO forces continue to scale down combat operations in Afghanistan, New Zealand forces that have been stationed in the relatively stable central province of Bam...

September 20, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

‘Foreign Militants’ Still Present in Ghazni

Just days after al Qaeda released a video of its fighters conducting operations in Ghazni, Afghan officials said that "foreign militants" are continuing to flood the southeastern province....

September 4, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Suicide Bomber Kills 30 Afghans in Attack at Funeral

A suicide bomber killed 30 Afghans in an attack at a funeral in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar today. The suicide bomber attacked civilians at a funeral ceremony for a resident...

August 20, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Al Qaeda-Linked Taliban Commander Killed in Recent Airstrike in Kunar

The Coalition confirmed that an al Qaeda-linked Taliban commander who was responsible for a recent suicide attack that killed three US soldiers and a USAID officer in Kunar was himself killed thr...

August 2, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Afghan Intel Kills 5 Members of Haqqani Network Suicide Cell in Kabul

The National Directorate of Security killed five members of the al Qaeda and Pakistan-linked Haqqani Network during a raid in the capital that targeted a suicide assault cell. The NDS has linked...

June 29, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Taliban Raid Nuristan District

Reports from eastern Afghanistan indicate that hundreds of Taliban fighters, including members of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, raided two villages in Kamdesh district in Nuristan toda...

April 16, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Taliban Launch Coordinated Attacks in Kabul and 3 Provinces

The Taliban launched coordinated attacks in the Afghan capital and three other provinces today. In Jalalabad in Nangarhar province, US and Afghan forces repelled a suicide assault on a military b...

April 4, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Suicide Bomber Kills 12, Including 3 ISAF Troops, in Afghan Northwest

A suicide bomber killed 12 people, including three Coalition troops, in an attack at a park in the capital of the northwestern Afghan province of Faryab. The attack occurred less than two weeks a...

March 20, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistani Islamist Warlord Mangal Bagh Rumored Killed in Khyber

Pakistani police claimed that Mangal Bagh, the leader of a Taliban-linked terror group based in the tribal agency of Khyber, was killed during an operation there last weekend. The report is uncon...

March 1, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Afghan Soldier and Teacher Kill 2 ISAF Soldiers in South

An Afghan soldier and a teacher opened fire on NATO troops in Kandahar province today, killing two soldiers before being killed in return fire. Afghan security personnel have killed seven Interna...

July 18, 2011 | The Long War Journal

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...