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Al Qaeda leader threatens India, criticizes Pakistan in message on Kashmir
Al Qaeda’s media arm, As Sahab, has released yet another message from Ayman al-Zawahiri. The elderly al Qaeda leader is a prolific commentator on world affairs, having released a series of videos an...
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Al Qaeda-linked jihadi leader killed in Kashmir
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Pakistan claims to ‘crack down’ on Jamaat-ud-Dawa. Again.
The Pakistani government says it is shuttering institutions that belong to Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), a designated terrorist group that is an alias for Lashkar-e-Taiba. If the past is any guide, the effort...
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Pakistan has ‘full-fledged plan’ to take out terrorist groups, while denying their existence
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Did al Qaeda exchange former Pakistani army chief’s son for Zawahiri’s daughters?
Al Qaeda claims that two of Ayman al Zawahiri’s daughters and a third woman were released weeks ago in exchange for the son of General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Pakistan’s former spymaste...
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US Adds Mullah Fazlullah to List of Global Terrorists
The US government has added Mullah Fazlullah, the emir of the fractured Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists today. Fazlullah, who a...
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Suicide Bomber Kills 17 Pakistani Troops in North Waziristan
A suicide bomber killed 22 people, including 17 Pakistan paramilitary soldiers, in an attack yesterday in the main town of Miramshah in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North W...
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Pakistani Taliban Execute, Behead Soldiers in South Waziristan
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan released a videotape on the fighting in the Mehsud areas of South Waziristan which includes graphic footage of the mutilation of several Pakistani soldiers...
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US Adds 8 Lashkar-e-Taiba Members to Terrorism List
The US Treasury Department has added eight Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) leaders to the list of specia...
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Jamaat-ud-Dawa Banners Dominate Defense of Pakistan Rally Against Reopening of NATO Supply Lines
Banners belonging to the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the charitable front group for the al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba, dominate a rally, or "long march," today in Lahore against the reopening of NATO'...
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Report: Osama bin Laden Helped Plan Mumbai Attacks
Osama bin Laden was in close contact with Hafiz Saeed, the wanted chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), and helped plan the 2008 Mumbai attack, according to a report in the...
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US Offers $10 Million Bounty for Capture of Lashkar-e-Taiba Chief Hafiz Saeed
The US government has offered a $10 million bounty for the capture of Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the founder of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, or Army of the Pure. A lesser reward of $2 million i...
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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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IMU Cleric Urges Pakistanis to Continue Sheltering Jihadis in Waziristan
A top ideologue for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan urged Pakistanis living in Waziristan to continue to shelter jihadists, and said the Pakistani state has done the most damage to terror grou...
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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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Admiral Mullen: Pakistani ISI Sponsoring Haqqani Attacks
During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing today, Admiral Michael Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, highlighted the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence Agency's role...
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Al Qaeda Emir Osama bin Laden Confirmed Killed by US Forces in Pakistan
US officials have confirmed that Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda's top leader, was killed during an early morning raid by US forces in Pakistan today. President Barack Obama said Osama bi...
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Taliban leader in Bajaur rumored killed in Pakistani strikes
Thirty two Taliban fighters have been reported killed during the latest round of fighting in the extremist-controlled Pakistani tribal agency of Bajaur. The Pakistani military speculated that Faq...
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US Predators are Killing ‘Hardcore Elements’ and ‘Foreigners’ – Pakistani General
A senior Pakistani Army officer said that the covert US air campaign inside Pakistan's tribal areas is killing dangerous al Qaeda and Taliban fighters and that civilian casualties are low....