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KABUL — He is a ghost with a blood-soaked past, a man with so many enemies that even his closest aides, trying to orchestrate his return to the Afghan capital he once attacked, coyly insist they have no idea where he is. Six months ago, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar emerged briefly from the shadows, appearing via video […]
The land is lush in this river-fed region of eastern Afghanistan. The highway that leads to the Pakistan border, 60 miles away, passes fields of ripening wheat, cucumber and cauliflower. The nearby city of Jalalabad is bustling, with crowded sidewalks and traffic jams of produce trucks, auto rickshaws and tractors. But for a large, nearly […]
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — When the army and police trucks prowl through affluent areas in this sprawling garrison city, headlights flashing and riflemen at the ready, residents breathe a sigh of relief. But when the trucks enter certain shabbier neighborhoods, home to a mix of Afghan refugees, migrants and ethnic Afghan Pashtuns, children scatter and adults […]
An Islamic State offshoot based near the Afghan-Pakistan border is expanding to new areas, recruiting fighters and widening the reach of attacks in the region, members of the movement and Afghan officials said. Some members of the so-called “Khorasan Province” of Islamic State claimed responsibility for the recent attack on a Sufi shrine in Pakistan […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An escalating border conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan is threatening to undermine their cooperation on terrorism and peace talks with the Taliban as the Trump administration begins weighing its options to spur progress on both fronts. After a blitz of terrorist bombings across Pakistan left more than 125 people dead, Pakistani forces […]
Pakistan announced that their Army killed “100 terrorists” in 24 hours following the suicide bombing at the Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Sufi shrine that killed 88 people and injured hundreds. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack that targeted hundreds of worshipers. Pakistan’s army has killed more than 100 “terrorists” in one day following a suicide blast in […]
Islamic State claimed responsibility via their Amaq News Agency for the suicide bombing at Pakistan’s Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Sufi shrine that killed at least 70 people and wounded 250. According to al Jazeera, the terrorist attack occurred while hundreds of people were gathered for a ritual. The explosion went off at the Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Sufi shrine in […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In the space of a few days last month, five Pakistani bloggers — all known as left-leaning social-media activists — were abducted by unknown hands. After a domestic and international outcry, the missing men reappeared unharmed — but as mysteriously as they had vanished. In some ways, they are still missing. None of them […]
Government forces in Afghanistan have launched a military offensive with the help of American air support against fighters loyal to the Islamic State in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. The effort comes at the same time U.S. General John Nicholson, commander of all international troops assigned to Operation Resolute Support, has requested additional U.S. soldiers to serve […]
General John W. Nicholson Jr, commander of the American-led international military force in Afghanistan, told Congress on Thursday that he believes the ongoing fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan to be at a “stale mate.” In order to effectively train and advise the Afghan military, Nicholson believes a surge of thousands more international fighters is […]
A market in the Shiite area of Kurram was targeted by a suicide bomber killing 22 and injuring at least 50 people. The Kurram region is along the Pakistan and Afghanistan border. The Taliban and Lashker-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for the joint attack. Lashker-e-Jhangvi or LeJ is a Sunni terrorist organization that primarily targets Shia within Pakistan and Afghanistan. […]
With dramatis personae that include the CIA, Delta Force, DEVGRU, the Intelligence Support Activity, Pakistani Commandos, the Taliban, and spies from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI), this story has the makings of a future Brad Thor bestseller. The only difference is, this story happened over the course of an eight-month period for a very small […]
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