Race tightens between Iraq's Maliki, Allawi

March 17, 2010 3:55 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

With more than 80 percent of the vote counted, Maliki's State of Law party and Allawi's secular Iraqi National Movement party are in a dead heat.
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US kills 8 terrorists in 2 new airstrikes in North Waziristan

March 17, 2010 12:27 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The US launched a strike in the village of Hamzoni and another in Datta Khel, the second there in two days.
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US Predator strike in North Waziristan kills 11 Taliban, al Qaeda

March 16, 2010 7:41 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Two compounds were hit in Datta Khel, a known al Qaeda hideout.
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Maliki, Allawi surge in Iraq's early vote count

March 15, 2010 6:41 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Prime Minister Maliki looks strong in the South, while Iyad Allawi gets the vote in much of the North. The Shia Islamist parties are coming in a distant third.
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Hakeemullah Mehsud is alive, says former ISI officer

March 15, 2010 3:01 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Khalid Khawaja, the "consigliere" for the Taliban and al Qaeda, said that two of his associates met with the Pakistani Taliban leader on March 9.
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Yemeni airstrike hits al Qaeda camp

March 14, 2010 10:16 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

The Yemeni military claims two top al Qaeda military leaders were killed in an airstrike yesterday. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said a top financier and military commander was killed earlier this year.
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Suicide bomber kills 14 in Pakistan's Swat Valley

March 13, 2010 8:12 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The attack bomber targeted the police, while an anti-Taliban tribal leader is gunned down in Peshawar.
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Qari Zia Rahman survived Bajaur strike: Taliban leader

March 12, 2010 5:57 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Neither the Taliban and al Qaeda commander, nor a Swat Taliban commander were killed in a Pakistani airstrike last week, according to Faqir Mohammed.
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Suicide bombers kill 39 in Lahore

March 12, 2010 7:47 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Detonating just seconds apart, two bombers targeted the Pakistani military. The attack is the third suicide strike in five days.
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Top North Waziristan Taliban leader Bahadar rumored killed in US strike

March 11, 2010 10:33 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Unconfirmed reports indicate that Hafiz Gul Bahadar may have been among those killed in yesterday's Predator strike in North Waziristan. Bahadar was the target of the strike, US intelligence officials told The Long War Journal.
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US airstrike kills 15 in North Waziristan

March 10, 2010 2:05 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Five Predators fired seven missiles at Taliban fighters in a village near the Afghan border. The attack is the second in three days.
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US aid group attacked in Pakistan’s northwest; 6 killed

March 10, 2010 1:07 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Six Pakistanis working for World Vision International, including two women, were killed after the Taliban stormed their office in Mansehra and opened fire.
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Indonesian bombing mastermind Dulmatin confirmed killed

March 10, 2010 12:12 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The president of Indonesia confirmed that the Bali bombing plotter was killed in yesterday's raid in a Jakarta suburb.
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Wanted Indonesian terrorist Dulmatin thought killed in raid

March 9, 2010 8:29 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Indonesia police believe he was killed outside the capital of Jakarta, but the reports are unconfirmed. Dulmatin is a mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings and a possible successor to Mohammed Noordin Top.
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Taliban, HIG infighting leads to split in Afghan insurgency in the North

March 8, 2010 3:38 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

More than 120 Hizb-i-Islami Gulbuddin fighters turned themselves in to the government after a major clash with local Taliban in Baghlan province.
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US airstrike in North Waziristan kills 5 Haqqani Network fighters

March 8, 2010 2:26 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

The attack is the first this month and also the first in 12 days.
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Adam Gadahn not in custody: Pakistani officials

March 8, 2010 10:55 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The reports of the arrest of al Qaeda's American-born propagandist in Karachi appear to be a case of mistaken identity.
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Faqir Mohammad survived airstrike in Pakistan's tribal areas

March 8, 2010 8:10 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The Taliban commander was reported killed by Pakistan's Interior Minister in a strike in Mohmand last week.
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Suicide bomber kills 11 in attack on anti-terror unit in Lahore

March 8, 2010 12:22 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The attack leveled a headquarters of the Federal Investigation Agency, a law enforcement agency that has targeted the Taliban and al Qaeda.
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American al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn captured in Pakistan: Report

March 7, 2010 1:18 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

The American charged with treason for serving as al Qaeda's mouthpiece is thought to have been detained in a Pashtun region in Karachi. The reports are unconfirmed.
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David Headley pled guilty to scouting the city of Mumbai for the 2008 terror assault as well as plotting to kill a Danish cartoonist who drew an image of the Prophet Mohammed. Headley passed along intelligence to Lashkar-e-Taiba for the 2008 Mumbai attack that resulted in the deaths of 175 people.

Security forces killed six Taliban fighters and two civilians in Kohat, and detained a Taliban leader in Karachi. Two wanted Swat Taliban commanders were among five killed in a military operation. Prime Minister Gilani said the government is “not in a rush” to launch new offensives in the northwest.

Three people were killed in fighting in Mogadishu. Shabaab detained two reporters and shut down a radio station in Bardhere. Some members of Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama'a rejected the agreement with the government. Pirates attacked a Dutch warship; the Dutch released the pirates after boarding their ships.

Prime Minister Maliki's State of Law party has a 39,905 vote lead over the secular Iraqi National Movement, with 89 percent of the votes counted. The final vote count is expected to be released within days. Al Qaeda in Iraq beheaded two security officials in Sharqat.

General McChrystal said that shaping operations in Kandahar have already begun. Coalition and Afghan forces killed a Taliban commander and killed or detained an undisclosed number of fighters in Kunar, Kandahar, and Helmand. A suicide bomber killed only himself in a premature detonation in Helmand. The Paris Club agreed to cancel more than $1.6 billion of Afghanistan's debt.

A previously unknown group thought to be linked to al Qaeda fired a rocket into Israel and killed a Thai worker. "The Jihadist mission came in response to the Zionist assaults against the Ibrahimi and al Aqsa mosques and the continued Zionist aggression against our people in Jerusalem," a group calling itself Ansar al Sunnah said in a statement.

The US State Department announced that it "feels a sense of urgency" about addressing the Iranian nuclear program. President Obama stated that thwarting Iran's nuclear program is a top priority. Tehran said it is ready for a nuclear fuel swap on its own soil, an offer which has been previously rejected by the West.

The US killed eight Taliban fighters in a pair of airstrikes in North Waziristan. The Taliban killed five security personnel and blew up a NATO fuel tanker in Khyber. Ten Taliban fighters and three militia fighters were killed in a clash in Kurram. A Taliban commander and 38 fighters surrendered in Bajaur.