Pakistani Army enters key Taliban town

November 6, 2009 2:11 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Soldiers have begun to clear the town of Makeen, where slain Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud based his operations.
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Two US paratroopers missing in western Afghanistan

November 6, 2009 11:45 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Two US paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division went missing during a resupply mission. Twenty-five Coalition troops have been wounded during a search for the soldiers.
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US Army major behind Fort Hood murders expressed sympathy for Islamic terrorists

November 5, 2009 9:50 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the US officer who killed 11 soldiers and wounded 31 more during a shooting spree, likened suicide bombers to a soldier diving on a grenade and, according to a former co-worker, supported attacks against US troops at home and abroad.
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Army retakes fort in South Waziristan

November 5, 2009 10:22 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The Ladha Fort was abandoned by the Frontier Corps during the summer of 2008 after the Taliban besieged the region. The Army said 28 Taliban fighters have been killed during fighting over the past day.
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US kills 4 in North Waziristan airstrike

November 4, 2009 9:09 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Unmanned aircraft targeted al Qaeda and Taliban operatives in the Mir Ali region.
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Pakistani troops enter another Taliban-held town

November 4, 2009 4:59 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Heavy fighting has been reported in Ladha as soldiers have entered the Taliban stronghold. Two suicide bombers were killed in Hangu.
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Pakistan captures two Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan

November 3, 2009 11:21 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The military said the towns of Kanigoram and China are secured and that Sararogha is in the process of being cleared. The Taliban claim to have conducted strategic withdrawals from the region and to be preserving their forces to fight "a long war."
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Suicide bomber kills 34 Pakistanis in Rawalpindi

November 2, 2009 7:35 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The blast took place in a high-security area populated by hotels and military installations. The government has offered bounties for Taliban leaders.
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Pakistani Army surrounds major Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan

November 1, 2009 8:34 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

The military said Makeen and Sararogha are now surrounded while troops have cleared half of Kanigoram.
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US moves on domestic jihadis

November 1, 2009 4:10 PM ET
By Wes Bruer

A high number of terrorist plots have been disrupted in the US this year. Several of the Islamists who have been detained have been traced back to Pakistan's tribal areas.
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Haqqani Network, al Qaeda, behind attack on UN guesthouse in Kabul

November 1, 2009 8:54 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The attack was a joint operation between the Haqqani Network and the Lashkar al Zil. Siraj Haqqani and Ajmal, a senior Lashkar al Zil commander, have been implicated by Afghan intelligence.
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Fighting spreads in Pakistan's northwest

October 31, 2009 8:15 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

In Khyber, seven Pakistani troops were killed in an IED attack. In South Waziristan, 21 Taliban fighters and two soldiers were killed as the military closes in on Sararogha. And in Arakzai, 12 Taliban were killed in strikes.
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Pakistani troops advance on Uzbek stronghold in South Waziristan

October 29, 2009 10:52 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Soldiers are close to surrounding the town of Kanigoram, the scene of two Predator strikes this year. The passport of an al Qaeda operative involved in the 9/11 attacks has been found by the military at a camp in Sherwangi.
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89 killed in car bomb attack in Peshawar

October 28, 2009 8:29 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The car bomb took place in a crowded bazaar in the provincial capital. Hundreds are wounded. The blast leveled a mosque.
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Kashmiri, Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives aided 2 Americans in foiled Danish terror plot

October 27, 2009 7:14 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

The senior al Qaeda military commander and two Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives aided two Americans as they plotted to strike at a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
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Al Qaeda takes credit for Baghdad suicide bombings

October 27, 2009 10:59 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Al Qaeda's front, the Islamic State in Iraq, said the attacks were against "the rejectionist Shi'ite state." The attacks are thought to have been executed from inside the International Zone.
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Taliban, Army clash throughout Pakistan's northwest

October 26, 2009 8:50 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Recent clashes in South Waziristan, Bajaur, and Hangu have reportedly killed 46 Taliban fighters and 12 soldiers. The Taliban are reinforcing in South Waziristan via North Waziristan despite the military's peace agreement with Hafiz Gul Bahadar.
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Suicide bombers target Iraqi ministries, kill 132

October 25, 2009 2:19 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

A pair of suicide bombers detonated simultaneously outside of Iraqi government buildings in the heart of Baghdad, killing more than 130 Iraqis in one of the worst attacks in the capital in years.
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US strikes in Bajaur tribal areas, kills 27 Taliban, al Qaeda

October 24, 2009 7:37 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The airstrike targeted a meeting of the Bajaur Taliban shura. Faqir Mohammed narrowly survived the attack. The attack is the first outside Waziristan since April.
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The government's allegations against Tarek Mehanna

October 23, 2009 10:20 PM ET
By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Federal authorities in Boston said Mehanna has been charged with conspiring with others on terror attacks against shoppers in US malls.
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Pakistani troops killed 12 Taliban fighters in South Waziristan and one more in Kurram. Six Taliban fighters and three soldiers were killed in clashes in Hangu. Fifteen Pakistanis, including four Frontier Corps troops, were wounded in two grenade attacks in Quetta.

Iraqi security forces detained 27 wanted men in Basrah, nine terrorists and an al Qaeda motorcycle bomb maker in Fallujah, and four wanted men in Ninewa. Police discovered and defused a large IED in a hospital in Amarah. Insurgents wounded three civilians in a bicycle bombing in Abu Ghraib.

Mohammed Gafaje, commander of the pirates holding a Spanish crew hostage, called for the extradition of two Somali pirates held in Spain and issued an ultimatum to the Spanish government. At least five civilians were killed after Shabaab attacked two bases in Mogadishu. An explosion targeted the Ministry of Finance in Galkayo, in central Somalia.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters killed two senior security officials and three soldiers in Hadramout. A brigadier general in charge of security and a colonel in charge of the criminal investigations branch were among those killed in a drive-by shooting. Al Qaeda took credit for the attack in a posting on the Internet.

Soldiers captured Asnawi Adan Sala, a wanted Abu Sayyaf operative, at the airport in the southern city of Zamboanga. Sala was behind the murder of 14 Filipino Marines on Basilan in July 2007, in which 10 of the Marines were beheaded.

Afghan and Coalition forces killed 18 Taliban fighters in the Nawbahar district in Zabul and detained several Haqqani Network fighters in Khost. Seven Afghan security personnel and one civilian were killed in a friendly fire incident while searching for two missing US soldiers in Badghis. The UN said it will withdraw only an estimated 200 personnel.

An officer with the rank of commander of the National People’s Army (ANP) was killed yesterday when a car bomb he was set to defuse exploded, killing him instantly. He was killed near Cap Djinet, 35 kilometers east of Boumerdes. The bombs were discovered during a car crash when the car that overturned was found to contain many homemade bombs associated with those used by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.

Hamid Essouffi, aka Abdel Hamid Abou Zeid, the prominent Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb commander, has been badly wounded in fighting with Algerian security forces in Adrar province. Zeid leads the Taregh Ibn Ziyad brigade operating in the Sahara-Sahel region that stretches throughout Mali, Mauritiania, Niger, and southern Algeria. Zeid’s brigade is responsible for the beheading of the British hostage Edwin Dyer last May.