Pakistan has reportedly urged the United States to reconsider its offensive against the Afghan Taliban, fearing it will lose influence over the terrorist group if America fails.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry claimed to annul its alliance with the United States after the Trump administration reportedly suspended an estimated $1 billion in security aid for refusing to take decisive action against jihadists who are fighting American troops and their allies in Afghanistan.
President Donald Trump lashed out at Pakistan on Twitter just a few minutes past 7:00 a.m. Eastern time on New Year’s Day, expressing frustration at Islamabad’s inadequate efforts against terrorism and implying that U.S. foreign aid will be terminated as a result.
Russia, Iran, and Pakistan continue to undermine U.S. interests in Afghanistan by engaging with the Taliban, the most prominent terrorists fighting against American troops in the war-ravaged country, the Pentagon claimed in a new assessment.
Joshua Boyle, who was held for years by the Taliban-linked Haqqani network, says Islamists killed his infant daughter and raped his wife in captivity.
America’s Caitlan Coleman, her Canadian husband, and her children were released by the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network this week, according to a Fox News report.
WASHINGTON, DC — American President Donald Trump is ready “to take whatever steps are necessary” to pressure Pakistan into taking action against terrorist groups killing and maiming American troops in neighboring Afghanistan, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis tells lawmakers.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly, praised U.S. President Donald Trump’s strategy to end the 16-year-old war in his country, saying it conveys a message to the Taliban terrorists that they will lose militarily.
The Taliban and its affiliate the Haqqani Network, two terrorist groups fighting American troops and their allies in Afghanistan, have established bases in neighboring Pakistan with the knowledge of Islamabad, suggested U.S. National Security Adviser HR McMaster in an interview with MSNBC.
Secretary of Defense James Mattis told Congress this week that Pakistan will not receive some $50 million in outstanding military reimbursements from the 2016 fiscal year because the Pakistani government has not done enough to fight the Taliban and its allies, such as the Haqqani network.
The final fatality tally for jihadi attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan increased to 1,639, primarily fueled by victims who succumbed to their injuries, reveals an updated Breitbart News count of terror incidents during the period. With a
An Afghan army commander in eastern Paktia province, near the Pakistan border, has accused Islamabad of heavily arming the Taliban against the U.S.-backed Afghan security forces in areas along the Durand Line, the de facto international boundary separating the countries.
Jihadi “sanctuary” Pakistan is “the most influential external actor affecting” stability in Afghanistan and the “outcome” of the U.S.-NATO military mission there, reports the Pentagon as President Donald Trump’s administration considers a tough approach towards Islamabad.
Contents: Three suicide bombers target Kabul Afghanistan funeral for previous victims; Afghanistan seethes with renewed anger over the attacks
Contents: Five people killed in clashes with police in anti-government rally in Kabul, Afghanistan; Kabul bombing brings back memories of bloody 1990s Afghan civil war
The National Directorate of Security (NDS), the intelligence agency in Afghanistan, accused Pakistan, considered a willing terrorist safe haven, and the Haqqani Network, a terrorist group affiliated with allies al-Qaeda and the Taliban, of being behind the recent carnage in Kabul.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has issued an order for the execution of 11 death row jihadists from the Taliban and its ally, the al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network, following the deadly attack in Kabul.
Contents: Massive terror explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, the largest in years; Afghans blame Pakistan and the Taliban-linked Haqqani network; Afghanistan situation deteriorates, as US considers sending more troops
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A top Republican lawmaker in the U.S. House of Representatives has reintroduced a bill for the American government to officially designate “untrustworthy ally” Pakistan as a state-sponsor of terrorism, insisting that Islamabad has long “aided and abetted enemies of the United States.”
A new video from the Taliban features Canadian Joshua Boyle and his American wife Caitlan Coleman, who were kidnapped while hiking through Afghanistan in 2012.
A top Pakistani official has conceded that Pakistan is still serving as a safe haven for “some” members of the Haqqani Network, a jihadist group the American military believes poses the greatest threat to U.S. forces and their allies fighting in Afghanistan.
Irek Hamidullin, a former Russian army officer who defected to fight against U.S. troops in Afghanistan on behalf of jihadists linked to the Taliban, has reportedly argued before a U.S. federal court that the government should treat him as a “lawful combatant” and prisoner of war (POW) who is immune to the civilian court system in the United States.
The government of Pakistan has failed to take “adequate” action against the al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked Haqqani Network, which poses the “primary threat” to the American military and its allies fighting in Afghanistan, declared a top U.S. commander.
Contents: Death of Afghan Taliban leader complicates America’s relationship with Pakistan; Massive explosions in Syria target Bashar al-Assad’s heartland
The Hakeemullah group, a branch of the Pakistani Taliban, has claimed responsibility for killing a renowned activist in Pakistan’s Karachi region who was known for speaking out against jihadist groups, Reuters has learned.
A Taliban suicide bomber killed himself and eight fellow jihadists on Tuesday after setting off his explosives vest prematurely while organizing coordinated attacks in Afghanistan’s Kunduz province.
Taliban jihadists in Afghanistan reportedly warned media organizations Thursday not to promote immorality and foreign cultures.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan warned on Monday that it had received “credible reports of an imminent attack,” potentially within the next 48 hours.
Pervez Musharraf, a retired four-star general and former president of Pakistan, said that terrorists such as Osama bin Laden, current al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri, jihadist group founder Jalaluddin Haqqani, and the Taliban were once heroes for Pakistan.
Sources told the BBC that Afghani Jalaluddin Haqqani, who founded the terrorist Haqqani network syndicate, died at least a year ago after a long illness.
Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour has been named the leader of the Taliban as the terrorist organization grapples with peace negotiations-related infighting that has triggered defections to the growing Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) group.
Mullah Mansour is reportedly not well liked by some high-ranking Taliban commanders.
Members of the Taliban and the Haqqani Network, considered the most lethal insurgent group targeting U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan, attended the peace talks with Afghan officials held in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, according to various news outlets.
The Saudi embassy in Islamabad has been in contact with the Haqqani Network, a Sunni Islamist organization that operates along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and is considered the most lethal and sophisticated group targeting U.S. and Afghan forces, documents released by WikiLeaks reveal.
Members of Afghanistan’s intelligence service have accused a Pakistani intelligence officer in the country’s infamous Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) unit of helping the Taliban launch a sophisticated attack on the Afghan Parliament in Kabul on Monday.
Retired Lt. Col. and Fox News Strategic Analyst Ralph Peters said that the US must avoid nation building and overlitigating the war on terror and instead “leave behind smoking ruins and crying widows” on Friday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox
