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December 15, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Pakistani Taliban emir says his group “is a branch of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”

The leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan (TTP) said that his group “is a branch of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” during a tour of several of the group’s bases across Pakistan’s...

February 13, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistani Taliban Praise Slain American, British Jihadists

The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan recently released a video of so-called "martyrs" that includes two previously unknown jihadists from the United States and Britain. The two dead Western ji...

June 15, 2011 | Weekly Standard

Descent into Appeasement

Pakistan's dangerous deals with terrorists.

August 19, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

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...

August 18, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

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,...

August 7, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

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...

August 1, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

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...

July 29, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

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...

July 25, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

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...

July 23, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

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...

July 22, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

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...

July 19, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

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...

July 17, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistani Army launches operation in Hangu; Taliban issue ultimatum

The Pakistani Army has launched a military operation against the Taliban in the settled district of Hangu in the Northwest Frontier Province. The military took over security in Hangu fro...

July 16, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US returns fire on Taliban inside Pakistan

The situation on Afghan-Pakistani border has heated up as US forces attacked a Taliban position inside Pakistan. Meanwhile, reports from North Waziristan indicate US forces are massing across the...

July 12, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Taliban attempts to spark Afghan-Pakistan border incident

A cross-border incident that resulted in Pakistani and Afghan security forces casualties was launched by the Taliban with the intent to "to spark a border incident," the International Sec...

July 9, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistan signs peace agreement with extremists in Khyber

Just 10 days after the Pakistani government launched an offensive against extremist groups threatening Peshawar, the government signed a peace accord with the Lashkar-e-Islam, one of the...

July 5, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistan suspends Khyber operation, peace negotiations underway

The Pakistani government has halted military operations in the tribal region of Khyber and has opened up negotiations with extremist groups in the region. "The operation has been...

June 28, 2008 | Bill Roggio Long War Journal

Pakistan strikes at Taliban in Khyber agency

 The Pakistani government has launched an operation targeting the Taliban in the Khyber tribal agency along the Afghan border. The operation is led by the paramilitary Frontier Corps and pol...

June 25, 2008 | Bill Roggio Long War Journal

Northwest Pakistan descends into chaos

 The Pakistani Taliban continue military operations in the tribal agencies and the settled regions of the Northwest Frontier Province despite ongoing negotiations to sign a peace agreement w...