As Pakistan's Bajaur offensive moves into its fourth month, Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen has praised the operation as having "great significance" in security along the Afghan-Pakistan border in the region. The announcement comes just days after US...
Pakistan Aided in NATO Shelling of South Waziristan
After coming under rocket fire from across the border, NATO troops in Afghanistan's Paktika Province fired 20 artillery rounds into Angoor Adda, South Waziristan. The incident occurred on Sunday, but it is unclear as of yet if anyone was killed in the shelling....
Pakistan PM Hopes Obama Means End to US Air Strikes
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani said today that his government is in "regular contact" with the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama, and expressed hope that they would halt the US policy of launching drone strikes inside Pakistan....
Pakistan’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Deal on US Air Strikes
Pakistan's loud complaints about the regular US air strikes in its tribal areas have had so little effect on American policy that it has been speculated that there must be a "secret understanding" between the two. Pakistan's government denied this earlier in the...
US Officials Say Working With Pakistani Military on Afghan Border Operation
Senior American officials are reporting that the several month long Pakistani offensive in Bajaur is part of a broader military campaign which includes US strikes in Afghanistan's Kunar Province, which they are calling Operation Lionheart. There had been no previous...
US Drone Attack Kills At Least 12 in North Waziristan
US drones fired three missiles at the house of a tribesman in a village along the border between North and South Waziristan Agencies, killing at least 12 and injuring an unknown number of others. An official from Pakistan's parliament said five of those killed were...
CIA Warns of Growing al-Qaeda Influence
In a speech today in Washington, CIA Director Michael Hayden warned that over seven years after the beginning of America's war on terror al-Qaeda remains the single gravest threat to the United States. While touting the deaths of al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan's tribal...
Taliban’s Khyber Pass Hijacking Threatens NATO Supply Route
Without firing a shot, dozens of militants along the Khyber Pass border between Pakistan and Afghanistan managed to hijack a convoy of trucks bound for NATO forces in Afghanistan. One of the trucks was carrying Humvees, which the militants proudly took photos in front...
Pakistan to Force Bajaur Tribesmen to Fight Militants
With Pakistan's several month long offensive in Bajaur still causing a humanitarian nightmare in the tiny agency and no real end in sight as the government continues to reject offers from the militants for a ceasefire, the government is taking its efforts to secure...
Secret US Order Governs Raids Anywhere on Earth
The New York Times is reporting tonight that a secret military order signed by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in spring of 2004 gave the military formal authority to conduct attacks against al-Qaeda anywhere in the world, including nations not current at...