Pakistani security forces kill 12 insurgents in 2 raids hours apart
Pakistan's military says troops have faced off with insurgents in two separate raids on their hideouts in the country, ...
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A Critical Analysis of the US Army’s Security Force Assistance Mission During the War on Terror
In 2014, the Iraqi army, into which tens of billions of American taxpayer dollars had been invested, collapsed in the face of ...
Dhaka Tribune20d
Pakistani Taliban attack kills 10 police in northwest
Pakistan has seen an increase in insurgency since the Afghan Taliban returned to power in 2021, with the Pakistani chapter of the movement carrying out attacks mostly targeting security forces. A ...
THE WEEK8d
Killing Taliban leaders isn't enough
Unfortunately, it remains doubtful that such attacks will ever slow the Taliban insurgency, let alone defeat it. Less than a week after Mehsud’s apparent death, The Wall Street Journal reported ...
Taliban Investigate Deaths Linked to Alleged Iran Border Clash
The Taliban announced Thursday that they are investigating reports of Afghan casualties near the Iranian border. This marks their first official acknowledgment of rumors regarding the killing and ...
The Diplomat19d
The State-Owned Company at the Center of Taliban Plans for Self-Sufficiency
The National Development Corporation (NDC), though established under the previous government, has become a key instrument for the Taliban ... from the days of the insurgency.
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Clashing With Insurgency: Pakistan's Security Triumph
The BLA and Pakistani Taliban were reported as involved groups ... In a significant crackdown on insurgency, Pakistani ...
Scroll29d
Pakistan: Evident shift in Balochistan insurgency signals urgency of state response
marking an unprecedented change in Pakistan’s insurgency history. These developments can be compared to the transformation of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan. The Taliban had exploited the ...
The New York Times21d
Is Afghanistan’s Most-Wanted Militant Now Its Best Hope for Change?
While the Taliban regime fell quickly, by the summer of 2006 the movement had regrouped and roared back as an insurgency. By then, Mr. Haqqani was leading guerrilla operations in the east ...
Newsweek29d
As World Powers Clash, ISIS Returns for Revenge
"These efforts are primarily aimed at mobilizing support from militants for an insurgency against the Taliban in Afghanistan." So, while ISIS-K maintains its global ambitions, the group's ...
24/7 Wall St2d
These Are the Foreign Terrorist Organizations the Government Warns Against
The Terrorist Organizations listed by the U.S. Department of State include al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Ansaru, Army of Islam, and ...
BBC23d
First-hand experiences from the Welsh Guards told for the first time in new BBC film - Helmand: Tour of Duty
the Welsh Guards were tasked with pushing back an evolving Taliban insurgency whose battlefield tactics increasingly centred on Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and intense, close quarters combat.