Militants used patrol bombs to torch 25 supply trucks and oil containers for Afghanistan-based coalition forces near Peshawar, Pakistan early Dec. 13. It marked the fifth attack on a Peshawar area freight terminal within ten days, bringing the number of… Read moreTaliban hit NATO supply route in Pakistan —again
Inmates resisting the inspection of their cells clashed with guards searching for weapons and mobile phones at Afghanistan’s overcrowded Pul-i-Charki prison in Kabul Dec. 4. Eight prisoners were killed and 13 injured. The prisoners also burned mattresses, and gunfire was… Read moreEight dead in Afghan prison riot
Pakistani Taliban militants torched supplies destined for NATO forces in Afghanistan for a second day running Dec. 8, raiding a container terminal on the outskirts of Peshawar—just over a mile from the previous day’s attack, in which gunmen torched more… Read moreTaliban hit NATO supplies in Peshawar —again
Some 200 Taliban militants destroyed more than 160 Humvees and trucks bound for NATO forces in Afghanistan Dec. 7 in a pre-dawn raid on the terminal where they were parked in Peshawar, Pakistan. The war material was offloaded for transit… Read moreTaliban “surge” into Pakistan, destroy NATO convoy
Another missile strike by a suspected US drone on Mir Ali village (North Waziristan) killed at least three presumed militants Dec. 5. (AFP, Dec. 5) That same day in Peshawar, a car-bomb attack on a crowded market near a Shi’ite… Read morePakistan between two poles of terrorism
Twenty-four men at an Afghan refugee camp on the outskirts of the Pakistani port of Karachi are among those arrested on suspicion of involvement in the ethnic clashes still shaking city. At least 44 have been killed in the clashes… Read morePakistan: Afghan refugees arrested in Karachi clashes
President Hamid Karzai openly called for a timeline for NATO to withdraw from Afghanistan. At a Nov. 26 news conference with NATO secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Karzai rhetorically asked: “How long will this war go? Afghanistan can’t continue… Read moreAfghanistan: Karzai demands withdrawal timetable
From Radio Australia, Nov. 26: 10 arrested over acid attack in Afghanistan Afghan police have arrested 10 men accused of spraying acid in the faces of several schoolgirls and teachers. The attack happened outside a girls’ high school in the… Read moreAcid attacks on Afghan women
Rashid Rauf of Birmingham, UK, alleged mastermind of a 2006 plot to blow up transatlantic jets using liquid bombs, was one of five people reported killed Nov. 22 by a presumed US missile attack in the North Waziristan region in… Read moreUS bombs Pakistan again, kills British militant?
Missiles from an apparent US drone struck a house near the town of Mir Ali in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region early Nov. 22, killing at least four. Mir Ali has been hit repeatedly in the more than 20 US air-strikes… Read moreUS bombs Pakistan —again
A missile from a US drone struck a purported militant hideout in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province Nov. 19—the 20th such attack since August, but the first outside of the country’s Tribal Areas. The strike in Bannu district left five… Read moreUS bombs Pakistan —again
US President-elect Barack Obama in his Nov. 16 appearance on 60 Minutes was asked by interviewer Steve Kroft: “Can you give us some sense of when you might start redeployments out of Iraq?” His answer stated fairly explicitly that his… Read moreObama: out of Iraq, into Afghanistan?
