US strikes Taliban camp in North Waziristan, kills 8

November 20, 2009 6:41 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

A Taliban training camp near Mir Ali was the target of the attack. Three al Qaeda operatives are reported to have been killed.
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Suicide bomber kills 19 outside Peshawar courthouse

November 19, 2009 8:29 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

More than 50 are wounded, six critically, in the latest suicide strike in the besieged city of Peshawar.
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US airstrike kills 4 Taliban in North Waziristan

November 18, 2009 4:26 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

The US airstrikes in Pakistan have tapered off in the past three months.
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Afghan forces battle the Haqqani Network in Paktika

November 18, 2009 9:57 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Afghan troops killed 23 Haqqani Network fighters during a clash in the Barmal district. Arab and Pakistani fighters were reported killed in the battle.
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Pakistani military hits Taliban in Arakzai

November 17, 2009 10:36 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Taliban leaders from South Waziristan have regrouped in Arakzai to continue their terror offensive against the Pakistani state.
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Suicide bomber kills four in Peshawar

November 16, 2009 8:08 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The attack took place near a police station and leveled a mosque. Another political leader was assassinated in the northwest.
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Taliban kill Bajaur opposition leader, target Peshawar leader

November 15, 2009 4:05 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

The Taliban continue their campaign to weaken the tribal opposition in Pakistan's northwest.
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Suicide bomber kills 10 at Peshawar checkpoint

November 14, 2009 10:26 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Peshawar has been hit hard in the Taliban offensive; one-third of the major Taliban attacks have taken place in the northwestern province. Clashes were reported throughout the northwest.
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Caucasus Emirate leader thought killed in raid

November 14, 2009 12:13 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Chechen and Russian forces think Doku Umarov may be among the more than 20 jihadis killed during a raid in Chechnya. Three of Umarov's senior aides were killed in the attack.
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Al Qaeda opens new training camp in Yemen

November 13, 2009 11:15 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

More than 400 fighters from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Somalia are housed in the Abyan camp, one of several operating in the country with the knowledge of the government.
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Suicide bomber targets Pakistani intelligence headquarters in Peshawar

November 13, 2009 12:02 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Ten Pakistanis have been reported killed and more than 35 wounded in an attack that targeted the headquarters of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency in the provincial capital. A second suicide attack killed seven at a police station in Bannu.
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Taliban govern openly in Nuristan

November 12, 2009 1:27 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

One month after US forces pulled out of the Kamdesh district, the Taliban have established sharia courts, opened schools, and no longer hide their faces.
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10 Pakistani troops killed, 8 missing in Mohmand

November 11, 2009 3:54 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Ten Pakistani paramilitary troops and 10 Taliban fighters were killed during clashes in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency.
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Al Qaeda names Fazul Mohammed East African commander

November 11, 2009 9:58 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Fazul has replaced Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, who was killed during a US special operations raid in southern Somalia in mid-September. Shabaab's leader praised the appointment.
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Suicide attack kills 24 in Pakistan's northwest

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

The bombing in Charsadda is the third suicide attack in the northwest in three days. Some Pakistanis refuse to believe the Taliban would carry out such attacks.
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Afghan, Coalition forces strike the Taliban in Kunduz

November 9, 2009 11:05 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

More than 130 Taliban fighters have been killed during an operation in a district under enemy control.
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Suicide bomber kills anti-Taliban leader, 12 others near Peshawar

November 8, 2009 8:27 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The attack killed a mayor who had raised a militia to battle the Taliban.
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Iraqi forces search for Qods Force agents

November 7, 2009 2:28 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Security officials in Al Kut have launched a search for four known Iranian Qods Force operatives.
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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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An American warship rescued three Yemeni fishermen after pirates took their boats and threw them into the sea. Pirates hijacked the Panamanian cargo ship Red Sea Spirit. Planes flying at low level have been seen in the Shabaab-held port town of Kismayo.

Security forces detained six wanted men in Diyala; five al Qaeda and Islamic State of Iraq fighters in Ramadi, Tikrit, and Kirkuk; and two terrorists in Wasit. Iraqis in Basrah protested Vice President Tariq al Hashemi's veto of the election reform law. Parliament may amend the law and send it back to the presidential council.

Suicide bombers struck in Farah and Kabul. A senior police official and 16 civilians were killed in Farah, and five bodyguards of a former mujahideen leader were killed in Kabul. The Taliban killed three civilians in an IED attack in Khost. Afghan and Coalition forces killed one Taliban fighter and detained five more in Takhar, Khost, and Wardak provinces. UNICEF said Afghanistan is the worst place for a child to be born.

Iran plans to launch a satellite by 2011. President Ahmedinejad said Iran's enemies are "on verge of collapse" while two senior clerics said the US actions to freeze assets of the Alvi Foundation are signs of hostility. A UN committee condemned Iran's targeting of political opponents after the presidential election.

A suicide bomber killed 19 Pakistanis in an attack outside a courthouse in Peshawar; two policemen were killed in a second bombing in Peshawar. Eight Taliban and four security officers were killed in clashes in Bajaur. The military killed eight civilians and two Taliban fighters in Hangu and seven Taliban fighters in South Waziristan.

A draft UN Security Council resolution calls for an arms embargo against Eritrea and travel bans and asset freezes for members of its government and military for aiding insurgents in Somalia. Somali pirates released a Panama-flagged ship that was seized earlier this month and alleged to be carrying a wide range of weapons. A blast targeted a security checkpoint in Galkayo.

Iraqi security forces detained 17 wanted men in Basrah and two more in Kirkuk. Iraqi troops arrested a Hezbollah Brigade operative who leads a sniper and missiles group and is a member of a media cell that records attacks against security forces. Former Baghdad Awakening leader Adil al Mashhadani has been sentenced to death by an Iraqi court.

At his inauguration ceremony, President Hamid Karzai vowed to fight corruption. A Taliban suicide bomber killed 10 civilians and wounded 13 more in Uruzgan. Afghan and Coalition forces captured an al Qaeda IED facilitator and "several enemy militants" in Ghazni province, and detained several Taliban fighters in Kandahar.