A commander of militia in northwest Pakistan fighting the Taliban was injured in a homicide bomb attack that killed 15 people.
The Taliban admitted being behind the attack on the compound of Nabi Hanafi. Officials said there were wounded but were unable to agree on the number. At least one woman and child were among the wounded.
Witnesses told the BBC that gunmen fired on the compound after driving an explosives-laden vehicle through the compound gate.
Hanafi at one time was closely associated with the Taliban until 2008 when he formed his own militia and began to fight against the Islamic extremist group. The Pakistani government has been reported to have helped Hanafi’s group in fighting the terrorists.
The compound was hit with a homicide bomber attack last year that killed 18.
The Pakistan government could release Senior Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in an attempt to help the Afghanistan peace process.
Baradar was arrested in Karachi in 2010 after a mission called a major win for the American CIA and Pakistani Intelligence Service. Continue reading →
An Indian woman who wrote a memoir about escaping the Taliban in 1995 has been murdered by Taliban terrorists after she returned to the country according to police.
Sushmita Banerjee, whose book about her dramatic 1995 escape was turned into a 2003 Bollywood movie, was executed outside her home in Paktika province while her family was tied up inside her house. Continue reading →
A U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan has been attacked by Taliban terrorists resulting in the deaths of at least three terrorists.
The attack on Torkham base came after the terrorists attacked and burned NATO supply trucks creating a flaming barricade for anyone attempting to reach the base. Continue reading →
The Taliban continues to assert their terroristic power in Afghanistan ahead of NATO’s 2014 withdrawal from the country. Local officials say the group has executed 12 civilians in their latest round of violence. Continue reading →
A raid in southwest Pakistan has turned up over 100 tons of bomb making materials believed to be connected to a terrorist organization.
The materials were the same as those used in two terrorist attacks in Quetta earlier this year that killed more than 120 people. Continue reading →
The Taliban launched an attack on a prison in northwest Pakistan freeing about 300 prisoners.
The Dera Ismail Khan jail was housing hundreds of Taliban fighters and militants from banned Islamist groups. Taliban fighters yelling “God is great” and “Long live the Taliban” fired rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns during the assault. Continue reading →
The leader of the Pakistani Taliban has sent a letter to a schoolgirl that the Taliban tried to assassinate in 2012.
Adnan Rasheed doesn’t apologize but says he wishes the attack “had never happened” and that she was not attacked for advocating for girls’ education but because she an ran “an anti-Taliban smear campaign.” Continue reading →
At least 17 people are dead after a roadside bomb destroyed a civilian transport in western Afghanistan. 16 of the confirmed dead are women and children.
Ten of the dead are from the same famliy. They were riding in a trailer being pulled by a motorcycle which is a common civilian transport in the Herat region. Continue reading →
Taliban terrorists attacked the base of a logistics firm that supplies NATO troops, killing at least seven people in the homicide bombing raid.
Kabul’s police chief told the BBC that four terrorists drove a truck full of explosives into the compound. At least five base guards were killed in the bomb and gun attack. Continue reading →
