ASADABAD, Afghanistan, April 13 (Xinhua) — Taliban group as part of its yearly spring offensive launched coordinated attacks on several districts of Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan Wednesday morning but fled the area after leaving 13 bodies behind, provincial police chief Abdul Habib Sayedkhil said. “Taliban fighters launched coordinated attacks on security checkpoints in Shigal,
KABUL, April 7 (Xinhua) — Some 55 militants had been killed and 16 others wounded during military operations across Afghanistan since early Wednesday, said the country’s Defense Ministry on Thursday. “The Afghan National Security Forces conducted ground offensives in close coordination with Afghan Air Force over the last 24 hours, killing 55 terrorists and wounding
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 1, 2016 Saudi Arabia and the United States on March 31 announced joint sanctions aimed at cutting off financing for terrorist groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan, including through a Pakistani orphanage. The sanctions put four individuals and two groups on the U.S. Treasury Department’s list of global terrorists, including James
VOA News / March 1, 2016 Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden, who ordered the 2001 al-Qaida attacks on the United States that killed nearly 3,000 people, claimed in his last will to have about $29 million in personal wealth, most of which he wanted spent “on jihad, for the sake of Allah.” The United
Press TV: The CIA wasted numerous opportunities to kill Osama bin Laden before September 11, 2001, because the former al-Qaeda chief was essentially working for the US government, says Dr. Kevin Barrett, an American academic who has been studying the events of 9/11 since late 2003. Dr. Barrett, a founding member of the Scientific Panel for the
Khaama Press: A new book authored by the wife a former operative of Pakistan’s spy agency has once again made the claim that Nawaz Sharif received money from al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. The book, Khalid Khawaja: Shaheed-i-Aman, is authored by Shamama Khalid, the wife of former ISI operative Khalid Khawaja. Click here to read more
Michael Hughes: Just as the spirit of rapprochement between Kabul and Islamabad is in the air on the eve of talks with the insurgency, it appears Pakistan’s military chieftains have sunk to a new nadir amid reports they are supporting Daesh, otherwise known as the Islamic State, the sworn enemy of the Taliban and Al
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 19, 2016 Canada dropped a bid to return a former Guantanamo Bay inmate to jail, saying he should remain free while appealing a murder conviction in a U.S. military court. Omar Khadr, 29, once the youngest inmate in the special U.S. prison in Cuba, was returned to Canada, where he
PTI: “We’re concerned that Al-Qaeda can regenerate in that Afghan-Pak border region, which is why we need to maintain the intelligence collection as well as working with our Afghan and Pak partners,” CIA Director John Brennan told members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence early this week. There are about 100 or so Al-Qaeda
1TV: The United States has sanctioned Nayf Salam Muhammad Ujaym al-Hababi whom it describes as al-Qaida leader for the eastern zone of Afghanistan. The designation of al-Hababi as Specially Designated Global Terrorists bars Americans from dealing with him and freezes any of his assets in U.S. jurisdiction. Click here to read more (external link).