Taliban
Afghan police: Pakistani Taliban leader rumored killed
May 28, 2010By Andrew Lebovich "Radio Mullah" dead? Afghan police claim that Maulana Fazlullah, the chief of the Swat Valley Taliban, was killed during clashes in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan, after several days of fighting there (NYT,...
Amnesty International releases its 2010 human rights report
May 28, 2010By Elizabeth Lee There is still no scarcity of poverty and human degradation around the world. But Amnesty International says in its latest annual human rights report that people are being held accountable for some of the worst violations. "We...
Car bomb hits outside NATO base in Kandahar
May 26, 2010By Katherine Tiedemann The spring offensive A car bomb exploded earlier today in the parking lot of a Canadian civilian-military base used by provincial reconstruction teams in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, and no casualties were reported (AFP...
More U.S. troops in Afghanistan than Iraq
May 25, 2010By Katherine Tiedemann Supreme decision Earlier today, Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld the Lahore High Court's decision to release Hafiz Saeed, the founder of the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba and suspected mastermind of the deadly 2008 terrorist...
Taliban attack NATO air field in Kandahar
May 24, 2010By Katherine Tiedemann Going for broke In the third major strike against a NATO target in less than a week, late Saturday night Taliban insurgents fired rockets and launched a ground attack against Kandahar air field in southern Afghanistan, the first...
Pakistani authorities arrest 6 in NY Times Square bomb plot
May 22, 2010Pakistani authorities have arrested six people on suspicion of ties to a Pakistani-American being held for the failed car bombing in New York's Times Square. Officials say one of the people arrested was Salman Ashraf Khan, the co-owner of a catering...
Afghan government, Taliban meet in Maldives
May 20, 2010By Katherine Tiedemann Killing rivals At least 17 people have been killed in the last day in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi as rival ethnic-based political factions clashed, reportedly sparked on Tuesday night when an office of the Awami...
Times Square bomb plot: Three Pakistani men held in Massachusetts and Maine
May 14, 2010By Katherine Tiedemann Rounding up suspects Three Pakistani men were arrested yesterday in Massachusetts and Maine on suspicion of providing money to failed Times Square car bomber Faisal Shahzad (Wash Post, NYT, BBC, AFP, Times). All three were detained...
Pressure mounts for North Waziristan offensive
May 11, 2010By Andrew Lebovich The fizzle heard 'round the world American officials are now saying that failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad went to Pakistan to seek help with his own already-formed idea to bomb the United States (CNN, AP)...
Top U.S. officials: Pakistani Taliban behind NY bomb attempt
May 09, 2010Two senior U.S. officials say the United States has evidence that the Pakistani Taliban was behind the failed attempt to explode a car bomb in New York City. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told ABC news ("This Week") Sunday investigators...
