No Pakistani killed in Taliban Kabul hotel attack: embassy.
Afghan Interior Ministry spokesperson Siddiq Siddiqi earlier said that one Pakistani was among the four foreigners who were killed in the Taliban attack late Thursday. ���Not a single. The assault on the heavily fortified Serena Hotel was the latest in a string of bold attacks by the insurgents seeking to spoil an presidential election on April 5, which would mark the first time in Afghanistans history that one elected government hands power to another. Four Taliban fighters��.
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The Indian army has attacked rebel camps inside Myanmar, days after at least 20 of its soldiers were killed in an ambush on a troop convoy in north-east India, a minister has said. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said the troops had destroyed��.
Taliban Violence in Afghanistan; Protests in Lahore; Modi Congratulates Abe on.
Try out a month of FP All Access �� for just. 99��. Youll get... Violent attacks by the Taliban rocked Afghanistanon Saturday as six Afghan soldiers aboard a bus were killed, a Supreme Court official was assassinated, and 12 men clearing land mines.
Afghan War Expands to Region - The Immelman Turn
The bomber detonated an explosives-packed Sport Utility Vehicle near the outer perimeter wall of the Indian Embassy compound, killing at least 17 people ��� all Afghans ��� and wounding nearly 80 others including three Indian security guards... A week ago, Baitullah Mehsuds successor, Hakimullah Mehsud, told journalists summoned to a briefing in South Waziristan that the Taliban would launch more attacks on military, government and other targets in the country.
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Pakistan: Gunmen in police uniform enter bus, kill 47 people in Karachi
Karachi: In a brazen assault, gunmen donning police uniforms attacked a bus carrying Shia Ismaili community members and shot the passengers in the head, killing at least 47 people in Pakistans southern port city of Karachi, the latest in a series of.
Light at End of Afghan Tunnel Recedes With Brazen Taliban.
Light at End of Afghan Tunnel Recedes With Brazen Taliban Attacks, Army Desertion, and Flourishing Opium Trade. The U.S.-NATO. As Matthew Green of the Financial Times put it, ���The attack was among the most sophisticated insurgents have launched on the capital and exposed the inability of Afghan forces to guarantee security even in the most heavily defended districts.���. It was the 26th major attack on Kabul since 2008, assaults that have killed 225 people.
Taliban Violence in Afghanistan; Protests in Lahore; Modi.
Afghanistan. Taliban increase violent attacks. Violent attacks by the Taliban rocked Afghanistanon Saturday as six Afghan soldiers aboard a bus were killed, a Supreme Court official was assassinated, and 12 men clearing land mines were. ���The accused had come to prominence in the electronic media in the UK regarding his role in circulating IS material through a Twitter account,��� said Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in Parliament on Monday (Times of India).
Taliban brings war to Afghan capital, threatening stability and endangering.
KABUL ��� Taliban insurgents have intensified their attacks on this besieged capital with a flurry of brazen bombings and afternoon raids targeting foreigners and Afghans, bringing the war into this city in a way not seen in any other year since the.
Two female MPs brawl in Afghan parliament ��� Afghanistan.
Two female members of the Afghanistan Parliament got into a physical fight Tuesday following a discussion of rocket attacks from Pakistan. General Nazifa Zaki, a former army general, threw her shoe at fellow MP Hamida��.
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While the U.S. media has frequently reported on Pakistani ties to jihadi elements launching attacks in Afghanistan, it has less often mentioned that India supports insurgent forces attacking Pakistan, the former intelligence official said. The Indians... ISI has caught many time more real al Qaeda terrorists and leaders, and more Pakistani soldiers and civilians have died in the real war on terror than soldiers and civilians from all if these nations combined. Pakistan and��.
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No Pakistani killed in Taliban Kabul hotel attack: embassy.
The assault on the heavily fortified Serena Hotel was the latest in a string of bold attacks by the insurgents seeking to spoil an presidential election on April 5, which would mark the first time in Afghanistans history that one elected. Giving details of the brazen attack on the heavily-guarded hotel, the Taliban spokesperson said the attack was launched at around 9 pm yesterday by four suicide bombers ��� Siddiqullah Maaz, Zahoorullah, Hafiz Agha Muhammad Hydari��.
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The staunchly pro-Iranian Badr Organization commander Hadi al-Ameri ��� who was welcomed in the Oval Office by Obama in 2011, and is known for favoring power drills to murder his victims ��� has been tasked with leading all Iraqi efforts to secure and.
Taliban Attack: Afghanistan Capital Under Assault
KABUL ��� Taliban militants wearing explosive vests launched a brazen daylight assault Monday on the center of Kabul, with suicide bombings and gunbattles near the presidential palace and othe.. all of their members. Since August, however, the militants have stepped up their attacks in Kabul, including car bombings at NATO headquarters, the Indian Embassy and near the home of a former vice president in addition to the attack on the U.N. workers. NATO officials��.
Insight - Afghan forces ill equipped to fight Taliban without NATO
KABUL Afghan district police chief Ahmadullah Anwari only has enough grenades to hand out three to each checkpoint in an area of Helmand province swarming with Taliban insurgents who launch almost daily attacks on security forces. Sometimes up to 200.
4 Indians Killed In Kabul Guest House Seize As Taliban Target Indian Envoy
KABUL: Four Indians and an American were among 14 killed when Taliban gunmen stormed a guesthouse in the Afghan capital thinking that the Indian Ambassador was inside the complex popular among foreign nationals as the attack ended after .
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On the Spot: Counterterrorism, Afghan-Style - NYTimes.com
More than 50 people died last July when the Indian embassy was car bombed. But that was a single, momentary attack. The ministry building was under Taliban control for more than an hour before Afghan security forces started a serious counterattack, which was watched by three of us from The New York Times bureau in Kabul.. the death. It also allowed them to see that despite the brazen and fearless attack, the Taliban attackers were themselves also very mortal.
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Afghanistans lower house of parliament on Sunday approved agreements that will allow about 12,500 NATO-led troops to stay on next year as the national army and police struggle to hold back the Taliban... Afghan Taliban conduct brazen attack on Kabul airport. Heavily-armed Taliban militants attacked the Kabul International Airport in the Afghan capital early Thursday, firing rockets and occupying two unused buildings before they were gunned down by Afghan security forces.
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���The Haqqani network has proven itself to be the most capable [of the insurgent groups], able to conduct spectacular attacks inside Afghanistan,��� says Matthew DuPee, researcher at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. The network. The group is alleged to be behind many high-profile assaults, including a raid on a luxury hotel in Kabul in January 2008 and a massive car bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul that left 41 people dead in July 2008.
Afghanistan: Taliban Insurgents Behead 17 Afghans As.
Usackas said the mass slaughter reminded him of the brazen public shooting of a young woman in Parwan province in July, which local officials also blamed on the Taliban, provoking an international outcry. The killings, 75 km. The deaths in Laghman province brought to 12 the number of foreign soldiers killed this month, prompting NATO to increase security against insider attacks, including requiring soldiers to carry loaded weapons at all times on base. U.S. Joint��.
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The group largely did not launch attacks against U.S. troops, instead entering the political game to build influence in Iraqs fledgling security institutions. Its members embedded themselves within the Interior Ministry, using their positions of power.
US troops repel complex Taliban assault on Bagram Airfield.
Similar attacks have also taken place in Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, and India.. Oct. 8, 2009: A Taliban suicide bomber killed 17 civilians and wounded more than 80 in an attack outside the Indian embassy in Kabul... All that being said��� I have to admit that there are some creeping and somewhat disturbing similarities between the two wars. I myself have commented several times on this blog that the drone strikes are little more then mini-me Linebacker II raids, just way��.
Taliban attacks Kabul, 3 more cities; claims more will follow.
Afghanistans Taliban said they launched a spring offensive on Sunday with multiple attacks against Western embassies in the central diplomatic area and at parliament in Kabul, with heavy explosions, rockets and gunfire. ALSO SEE Taliban launches coordinated attacks in Kabul, 16 dead. Pakistans Taliban movement, which is close to al Qaeda, said it was behind the brazen assault by militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47 assault rifles.
Taliban launch brazen attack on Afghan parliament; all attackers killed
The post had been left vacant for months due to disagreements between Ghani and his chief executive and former presidential election rival, Abdullah Abdullah, but Stanekzai is expected to be confirmed by Afghanistans parliament soon.
���I think its terrible for Pakistan, which is one of the major cricketing.
Tuesday marked the sixth anniversary of the militant attacks on the Sri Lankan team bus, which killed eight people and left seven Sri Lankan players injured. Those brazen attacks suspended all international cricket in Pakistan, forcing the national.
After Karachi, War! ��� Newsweek Pakistan
Exactly a week after the attack on Pakistans largest international airport, at Karachi, the military launched ground forces into the federally-administered North Waziristan tribal agency that is crawling with terrorists.. In an effort to prove that India was behind the attack, TV anchors declared that the Taliban-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan terrorists who attacked the airport were carrying Indian weapons and, just as Indian soldiers do, blood-clotting injections on��.
Who Are the Pakistani Taliban?
However, the Pakistani Taliban are not the Afghan Taliban. The Afghan Taliban do not carry out attacks inside Pakistan, and do not consider Pakistans military an enemy. Rather, they have often worked as Pakistans strategic allies in Afghanistan.
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he said in an address to parliament.. After talks collapsed, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas angered Israel by forming a joint government with Hamas and launching a campaign to get the United Nations Security Council to set a deadline for an.
Pakistan arrests mastermind of Karachi bus attack that killed 45
ISLAMABAD: In a breakthrough in last weeks Karachi attack that killed 45 Shia Ismaili Muslims, Pakistans Interior Minister today said that the mastermind and the gunmen involved in the brazen assault have been arrested.. Sharif said the arrest of.