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January 30, 2023 | Bill Roggio |

Kabul Attack Network commander brags about suicide assaults in TV interview

A co-leader of what the U.S. military called the Kabul Attack Network appeared on Afghan television and bragged about his role in killing thousands of Afghans and hundreds of U.S. and Coalition personnel...

August 7, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban takes second provincial capital

The Taliban took control of its second provincial capital today. Shibirghan, the capital of the northern province of Jawzjan and the home of warlord Marshall Abdul Rashid Dostum, fell to the Taliban. Dostum...

May 6, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban takes control of two districts in Afghan north

The Taliban seized control of two districts in the northern province of Baghlan over the past two days. The move presages a coming Taliban offensive, which the goal is to reestablish its Islamic Emirate...

March 3, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Afghan security forces withdrawing from checkpoints, bases

The Afghan military abandoned a base in Bala Murghab district in Badghis province. This video of the abandoned base was published by Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid. The Ministry of Defense has confirmed...

July 13, 2020 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban suicide team strikes NDS headquarters in Afghan city

The Taliban has claimed credit for today’s suicide assault in the provincial capital of Samangan in northern Afghanistan. The attack belies U.S. officials’ claims that the Taliban has not been fighting...

September 5, 2019 | |

Suicide bombing in Kabul is the latest in Taliban wave of attacks

The Taliban killed at least 10 people, including an American and a Romanian soldier, and wounded 42 more in a suicide bombing near a National Directorate of Security checkpoint in the Afghan capital of...

August 7, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban suicide bomber strikes police in Kabul

A Taliban suicide bomber, identified by the terrorist group as “a hero of Islamic Emirate, Mullah Jabbar Logari,” leveled a police headquarters in Kabul’s Police District District 6....

August 4, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban threatens Panjshir province

Afghan security forces scrambled to defend the relatively peaceful and secure province of Panjshir this week after the Taliban seized a district in neighboring Badakhshan. The narrative stemming fr...

July 13, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban suicide team strikes hotel

A Taliban suicide assault team attacked a hotel in the northwestern Afghan province of Badghis earlier today, killing six police officers and two civilians. The attack took place just days after the T...

July 4, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Afghan government unable to administer 64 districts

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July 2, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban overruns district in Afghan north

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July 1, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban launches string of attacks throughout Afghanistan

The Taliban has launched several major attacks throughout Afghanistan over the past two days, including an attack on the Ministry of Defense in the capital of Kabul, and another on election workers in...

June 12, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Afghan government unconditionally releases hundreds of Taliban prisoners

In an effort to convince the Taliban to open negotiations, the Afghan government has freed hundreds of Taliban prisoners without conditions, and will free hundreds more. The Taliban has not responded...

May 21, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

U.S. commander confirms: al Qaeda operating ‘across’ Afghanistan

Al Qaeda is operating “across the country” and not confined to one region, the commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan confirmed. General Austin Miller, the commander of Resolute Support...

May 6, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

ISAF Kills 2 ‘Arab’-Linked Commanders in Nuristan

Coalition and Afghan forces killed two "Arab"-linked insurgent commanders, a wanted Saudi and an Afghan, during two separate raids in the Waygal district of Nuristan province over the past week....

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...

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....

August 26, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Badruddin Haqqani ‘Is Alive and Healthy,’ Taliban Spokesman Says

A top spokesman for the Afghan Taliban denied reports that senior Haqqani Network leader Badruddin Haqqani was killed several days ago in a drone strike in North Waziristan. "A number of...