November 22, 2009 12:14 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Abdul Rahim Wardak, Afghanistan's Defense Minister announced the Afghan Army would be expanded to more than 240,000 soldiers. Wardak described President Obama's process to decide on a US increase in troops as "long awaited and over-elaborated," which prompted laughter from the senior US generals in attendance, including General Stanley McChrystal.

November 19, 2009 5:19 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

The Taliban struck yet again in Peshawar, this time outside of a court complex. The bombing killed 19 Pakistanis.

November 17, 2009 1:17 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Khalid Kelly, the Irish jihadi who is training in Pakistan to wage war on the West, live on Irish TV with Anjem Choudary, the radical cleric and leader of Al Muhajaroun. Kelly is based in Pakistan's Swat Valley.

November 14, 2009 8:27 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

The Taliban stuck in Peshawar for the second day straight. Today's suicide attack, which killed 10 people at a checkpost, follows yesterday's attack on the headquarters of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, which killed 10 people. Taliban suicide commander Qari Hussain Mehsud vowed to step up attacks if the military operation in South Waziristan is not ended.

November 13, 2009 1:31 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

One month after US forces abandoned outposts in the Kamdesh district in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nuristan, the Taliban are operating in the open, without fear of retaliation [see LWJ report, "Taliban govern openly in Nuristan"]. The Taliban and their commander Dost Mohammed recently flaunted their control of the district to Al Jazeera. The audio is in Arabic.

November 11, 2009 2:15 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The Taliban provide footage from what was formerly known as Combat Outpost Keating in the Kamdesh district in Nuristan province. The Taliban now are in full control of the district and claimed to have recovered US munitions at the site.

November 9, 2009 2:29 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Iraq's Parliament passed the long-awaited elections reform law, which will set the rules for the upcoming election in January.

November 7, 2009 2:21 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The Pakistani government is considering passing laws that would restrict media coverage of sensitive issues. The move risks rolling back improvements in media coverage and freedoms that gained ground under the administration of President Pervez Musharraf.

November 5, 2009 2:12 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Bing West provides footage from combat engagements with the Taliban in Helmand province. "Video shows why coalition and Afghan battalions inflict few Taliban casualties. Causes include terrain, Taliban maneuver, heavy coalition armor and risk aversion to minimize casualties, while doing a professional job and returning in one piece," West writes. The inability to fix and kill the Taliban allows them to continue to threaten the Afghan people and Coalition forces.

November 3, 2009 6:44 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Influential Muslim scholars from the Deobandi school in India have passed a resolution condemning all forms of violence in the name of Islam. Also, an analyst defends the Pakistani government's claims that India backs the Taliban.

November 2, 2009 7:53 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Hamid Karzai has been declared president of Afghanistan after Abdullah Abdullah dropped out of the runoff election that was scheduled for Nov. 7.

October 30, 2009 12:47 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Journalists take a tour of an al Qaeda camp in Sherwangi, where the passport of a known al Qaeda plotter was found.

October 29, 2009 5:53 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The FBI killed Luqman Ameen Abdullah, a radical Muslim preacher and the leader of the Detroit area's Masjid Al-Haqq mosque, during an attempted arrest. Federal agents rounded up members of the radical Islamist group “Ummah,” which advocates the establishment of an Islamic state in the US.

October 27, 2009 5:42 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Al Jazeera provides footage from Kotkai, where the Pakistani Army recently took control after a week-long battle that saw the town change hands.

October 26, 2009 10:36 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Hundreds of Afghans protested in Kabul over the alleged burning of a Koran by US soldiers based in Wardak province. The US military denied the incident occurred. Clashes with police later left 10 policemen injured.

October 25, 2009 8:10 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Suicide bombers driving trucks packed with explosives detonated outside the Ministry of Justice and the Baghdad provincial administration, killing 132 Iraqis and wounding more than 500.

October 25, 2009 1:14 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The Pakistani Army has retaken control of the town Kotkai in South Waziristan four days after losing it in a Taliban attack. The town is the home of Hakeemullah Mehsud and Qari Hussain Mehsud.

October 22, 2009 10:34 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

France 24 provides an overview of the Taliban threat in Pakistan. Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa, a Pakistani security specialist, provides an excellent commentary on the jihadi catch and release program, and notes that Dr. Usman, the commander of the recent attack on the Army GHQ in Rawalpindi, had previously been in custody but was later released.

October 20, 2009 7:16 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Al Jazeera provides footage from Sararogha and Jandola in the battle zone in South Waziristan. Civilians have been hit hard by the fighting in Sararogha. Pakistani troops are embarking into the fight on lightly up-armored open bed pickup trucks.

October 20, 2009 5:13 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The UN-backed Electoral Complaints Commission and the Afghan-led Independent Election Commission are at odds over the results of the elections. President Karzai said the ruling of the Independent Election Commission, which is said to favor his administration, will be obeyed. The standoff may need to be resolved by Afghanistan's Supreme Court.

October 19, 2009 4:42 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Jundallah attacked a meeting between Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps leaders and tribal leaders in Sistan-Baluchistan province, and an IRGC convoy, killing 28 officers and civilians. Brigadier General Nour Ali Shoushtari, the deputy commander for the IRGC's ground forces, and Brigadier Rajab Ali Mohammadzadeh, the IRGC's provincial commander for Sistan-Baluchistan, were killed in the attack. In a press release on its website, Jundallah claimed the commanders of Iranshahr Corps, Sarbaz Corps, and the Amir al Mo'menin Brigade were also killed in the attack.

October 18, 2009 3:43 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The Pakistani military has launched the much-awaited offensive in South Waziristan. The operation has caused more than 100,000 Mehsud clansmen to flee the area.

October 15, 2009 11:39 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Pakistani Taliban assault teams attacked the Federal Investigation Agency building, the Manawan police training center, and the Elite Force Headquarters. Twenty-six are killed during the fighting.

October 14, 2009 4:28 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Several US officers involved with the battle at Combat Outpost Keating in Kamdish, Nuristan province, Afghanistan, discuss the incident during an interview with the media. Part 1 of 5.

October 12, 2009 5:36 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Coalition forces and the Afghan army teamed up to kill Ghulam Yahya Akbari, a Taliban commander, in the western province of Herat. Akbari has been behind the rising violence in Herat and is known to have sheltered al Qaeda fighters, according to Al Jazeera. See LWJ report, Senior insurgent leader reported killed in Western Afghanistan, for more information on Akbari.

October 11, 2009 7:05 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Pakistani commandos from the Special Services Group assaulted a building inside the Army General Headquarters building and freed 25 hostages. Four terrorists and three hostages were killed during the assault.

October 10, 2009 3:35 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Six Pakistani soldiers, including a brigadier general and a lieutenant colonel, and four terrorists were killed after a Taliban assault team attacked the main gate of the Army General Headquarters in the military garrison city in Rawalpindi.

October 10, 2009 4:34 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The US Attorney's office in Denver announced that a grand jury returned the indictment against Mohammed Zazi, the father of suspected al Qaeda operative Najibullah Zazi, for allegedly making a false statement in a matter involving terrorism. Najibullah attended an al Qaeda camp in Pakistan and was attempting to conduct an attack in the US.

October 7, 2009 10:42 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Al Qaeda is behind the Taliban's growing strength and is an integral part of operations in the region, according to this report by Al Jazeera.

October 6, 2009 4:59 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Video of Hakeemullah Mehsud and Waliur Rehman Mehsud's press conference in Sararogha on Oct. 4, 2009.

October 4, 2009 3:16 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Pakistanis deny that Mullah Omar, the Quetta Shura, and the Taliban are based in Pakistan's Baluchistan province and its capital, Quetta.

October 2, 2009 7:06 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Pakistani soldiers from the Punjab Regiment beat several Pashtun men during questioning in Swat. The video appears to have been taken on a cell phone by a Pakistani soldier. A Pakistani officer questions the men, then steps back as several soldiers advance to beat the men with whips, their fists, and feet. Several of the men are slammed to the ground. The beatings take place in what appears to be a courtyard or on a street. The beatings are administered as many young men watch.

October 1, 2009 7:02 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Al Qaeda's leader in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu Yazid, eulogizes former Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed in a US airstrike on Aug. 5, 2009.

October 1, 2009 12:36 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

A video of slain Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud in his burial shroud, from BBC Urdu. Baitullah was the emir of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan before he was killed in a US airstrike in early August 2009.

September 30, 2009 2:44 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Two US Navy SEABEES and one Filipino marine were killed in a landmine attack on Jolo Island in the southern Philippines. Abu Sayyaf is thought to be behind the attack.

September 29, 2009 4:07 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Security is increased at the Munich Oktoberfest beer festival as Germany arrests two Islamist suspects in connection with recent al Qaeda videos.

September 27, 2009 6:22 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

US soldiers captured Saif Rahman Saif Sadr, an Afghan Taliban commander and logistical and financial chief, and five associates, as he attempted to take refuge in a safe house in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan.

September 26, 2009 7:47 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

This video, released by a group calling itself the "German Taliban Mujahideen," shows foreign fighters in weapons training and training in the snow. The video shows Abu Ibrahim Amriki, an American terrorist operating in Pakistan, and a spokesman named Ayyub Almani. The video appears to be produced by the Islamic Jihad Union, an offshoot of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.

The video is related to this story in the Telegraph, which described a German "village" in Pakistan's tribal areas.

September 25, 2009 6:23 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Osama bin Laden issued another audiotape, this time a short clip (4:48) titled "A Message from Sheikh Osama bin Laden to the People of Europe." The tape is captioned in English and German (the English version is displayed). In the tape, bin Laden urges European nations to withdraw their forces from Afghanistan and end their support of the US. Bin Laden says the US will withdraw from Afghanistan and leave Europe to the predations of al Qaeda:

Would that you reflect on the matter and ask wise and reasonable people, because it won’t be long until the dust of war clears in Afghanistan, at which point you won’t find a trace of any American, because they will have gone away far beyond the Atlantic, Allah permitting, and just us and you will remain, for the oppressed to retaliate from his oppressor.

September 24, 2009 5:50 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus said al Qaeda is "diminished" from where it was several years ago, particularly in Iraq.