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(CNN) — Conflicting reports emerged Sunday about whether Adam Gadahn, a U.S.-born spokesman for al Qaeda, has been arrested in Pakistan.
A senior Pakistani government official told CNN that Gadahn was arrested Sunday in Karachi, but a U.S. intelligence official said there appears to be no validity to reports of Gadahn’s [...]
London, England – A British soldier who went absent without leave rather than return to fight in Afghanistan was jailed Friday for nine months by a military court, officials said. A Ministry of Defence spokesman confirmed that Lance Corp. Joe Glenton had been convicted by a military judge at a [...]
Military officials in Pakistan are showing off a mountain that al-Qaida had been using both as a hide-out and as a place to store weapons, currency and look-alike U.S. military uniforms.
By Glenn Greenwald
Joseph Stack deliberately flew an airplane into a building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas, in order to advance the political grievances he outlined in a perfectly cogent suicide-manifesto. Stack’s worldview contained elements of the tea party’s anti-government anger along with substantial populist complaints generally associated [...]
Ahmed Quraishi
How about exchanging Taliban Number Two Abdul Ghani Baradar for terror master Brahamdagh Bugti and the dismantling of the terror network targeting Pakistan’s Balochistan?
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Pakistan has agreed to hand over Afghan Taliban’s number 2, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, to Afghanistan. How about asking for Mr. [...]
Coalition Military Fatalities By Year and Month
CoalitionU.S.
Year
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Total
2001
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
5
4
12
2002
10
12
14
10
1
3
0
3
1
6
1
8
69
2003
4
7
12
2
2
7
2
4
2
6
8
1
57
2004
11
2
3
3
9
5
2
4
4
8
7
2
60
2005
2
3
6
19
4
29
2
33
12
10
7
4
131
2006
1
17
13
5
17
22
19
29
38
17
9
4
191
2007
2
18
10
20
25
24
29
34
24
15
22
9
232
2008
14
7
20
14
23
46
30
46
37
19
12
27
295
2009
25
24
28
14
27
38
76
77
70
74
32
34
519
2010
45
56
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
108
British soldiers from 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh (left) and Afghan forces, part of the 15,000 troops preparing major assaults on Taliban strongholds in Helmand under Operation Moshtarak. Photograph: Major Paul Smyth/Rifles/MoD/PA
Three British soldiers have been killed in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan in the last 24 hours, taking the [...]
ISLAMABAD: The US government has decided to establish a Quick Reaction Force for the protection of its diplomatic missions in Pakistan.
The step has been taken in order to meet the increased terrorist threats to US personnel in Pakistan.
DawnNews has learnt that the US Congress has been requested to allocate US$ 22.9 [...]
PESHAWAR: A top Al-Qaeda operative Qazi Zafar suspected of being involved in the US consulate Karachi bombing has been killed in a US drone strike in Dandi Darpakhel village near North Waziristan’s main town of Miramshah on Wednesday.
Official sources confirm that Qari Zafar who had a bounty of 5 million [...]
A night-time raid in eastern Afghanistan in which eight schoolboys from one family were killed was carried out on the basis of faulty intelligence and should never have been authorised, a Times investigation has found.
Ten children and teenagers died when troops stormed a remote mountain compound near the border with Pakistan [...]
WASHINGTON – Here’s a war game involving Iran, Israel and the U.S. that shows how unintended consequences can spin out of control:
With diplomacy failing and precious intelligence just received about two new secret Iranian nuclear facilities, Israel launches a pre-emptive strike against Tehran’s nuclear complex. The strike is successful, wiping out [...]
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has rejected a suggestion that Pakistan arrested a senior Taliban commander and two ‘governors’ to derail US-led efforts to win over the militants.
“I’m not going to speak to their motives. I’m not going to speak to any of the specific operations or these specific captures,” said Geoff Morrell, [...]
Dutch forces have been in Uruzgan since 2006
The Dutch government has collapsed over disagreements within the governing coalition on extending troop deployments in Afghanistan.
After marathon talks, Christian Democratic Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende announced that the Labour Party was quitting the government.
Mr Balkenende has been considering a Nato [...]
Pakistan captured at least five other prominent militants at about the same time as arresting Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Afghan Taliban’s second-in-command, in Karachi two weeks ago, Afghan and Pakistani officials have revealed.
The arrests appear to represent an important breakthrough in co-operation between Pakistan and the US, which has [...]
