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Category Archives: Haqqani Network

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Pakistan tasked to bring 10 influential Taliban figures to Afghan peace talks

28th February, 2016 · admin · 1 Comment

Khaama Press: An Afghan government official privy of the development has told Radio Free Europe (RFE) that the 10 influential Taliban figures have been identified by the Afghan government. The official speaking on the condition of anonymity further added that leaders of the Haqqani network were also among those influential leaders. Click here to read more (external

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Key Afghan Warlord Criticizes Kabul’s Peace Push

25th February, 2016 · admin · 1 Comment

VOA News / February 24, 2016 Akmal Dawi After more than a year of political wrangling with allies in Afghanistan’s national unity government, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani this week announced the composition of a new seven-member High Peace Council (HPC), and again called on the Taliban and other insurgent groups to stop fighting and choose

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Posted in Haqqani Network, ISIS/DAESH, Peace Talks, Political News, Taliban | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Dostum, Hekmatyar |
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Afghan forces kill 6 militants in N. Afghanistan, Taliban destroys pylon

21st February, 2016 · admin

KABUL, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) — Afghan security forces during operations against Taliban militants have killed six armed insurgents in the northern Jauzjan province with Shiberghan as its capital 390 km north of Kabul on Sunday, an army spokesman in the province, Reza Rezae said. “The clash erupted after Taliban militants attacked security checkpoints in Qoshtapa

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Posted in Haqqani Network, Security, Taliban | Tags: Baghlan, Electricity, Jowzjan |
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Pakistan’s Hand in the Rise of International Jihad

7th February, 2016 · admin

New York Times Sunday Review: Pakistan is intervening in a number of foreign conflicts. Its intelligence service has long acted as the manager of international mujahedeen forces, many of them Sunni extremists, and there is even speculation that it may have been involved in the rise of the Islamic State. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Haqqani Network, ISIS/DAESH, Opinion/Editorial, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban |
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Security News Summary – February 2, 2016

2nd February, 2016 · admin

AOPNEWS | February 2, 2016 Badakhshan: Twenty-one Taliban fighters have been captured in Tishkan district, Afghan security officials said today. Badghis: An insider attack in Qadis district left 4 policemen dead, according to government officials. The attackers were 9 fellow policemen who, after shooting their fellow officers, took their weapons, abandoning their check post. Helmand:

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Posted in AOP Reports, Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Haqqani Network, ISIS/DAESH, Security, Taliban | Tags: Badakhshan, Badghis, Helmand, Kabul, Kunar, Laghman, Logar, Mullah Mansur, Nangarhar, Paktika, Uruzgan, Wahidullah Kalimzai, Wasil Ahmad |
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US Will Not Target Haqqanis in Afghanistan

29th January, 2016 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News January 29, 2016 ISLAMABAD—The United States military for the first time has categorically stated its counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan are not targeting the Haqqani network of militants, which is fighting alongside the Taliban. The comment this week by Lieutenant General John “Mick” Nicholson, picked to lead US and NATO forces in

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Posted in Haqqani Network, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Afghanistan Arrests Eight Over TV Station Attack

22nd January, 2016 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 22, 2016 Afghan authorities say they have arrested eight members of the Haqqani militant network blamed for a deadly suicide attack on a bus carrying employees of the country’s biggest TV station. The National Directorate for Security (NDS), Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, said in a statement on January 22 that those

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Posted in Haqqani Network, Media, Security, Taliban |
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Pakistani military unlikely to close down Taliban, Haqqani operations: Khalilzad

10th January, 2016 · admin

Khaama Press: “Pakistani military has never been willing to take the very steps most likely to advance the process, which are to close down Afghan Taliban and Haqqani network operations in Pakistan and imprison any of their leaders not actively negotiating peace with the government in Kabul,” Zalmay Khalilzad, a former American ambassador to Afghanistan and

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Posted in Haqqani Network, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban | Tags: Zalmay Khalilzad |
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Afghan forces seize Haqqani militants’ weapons cache

3rd December, 2015 · admin

KABUL, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) — The Afghan security forces have recovered a weapons cache near the country’s capital of Kabul, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) said on Thursday. “The personnel of NDS have found a huge weapons and ammunition cache following a special operation in Kharwar district of (eastern) Logar province,” NDS, the country’s

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Haqqani terrorist network holds American hostage, report

3rd December, 2015 · admin

Khaama Press December 3, 2015 The Haqqani terrorist network that is allied with the Taliban holds an American national as a hostage. The Daily Beast, an American-based news reporting and opinion website quotes a top congressman, Duncan Hunter, as revealing that ‘There are still Americans in captivity in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.’ According The Daily Beast,

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