Race tightens between Iraq's Maliki, Allawi

March 17, 2010 3:55 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

With more than 80 percent of the vote counted, Maliki's State of Law party and Allawi's secular Iraqi National Movement party are in a dead heat.
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US kills 8 terrorists in 2 new airstrikes in North Waziristan

March 17, 2010 12:27 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The US launched a strike in the village of Hamzoni and another in Datta Khel, the second there in two days.
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US Predator strike in North Waziristan kills 11 Taliban, al Qaeda

March 16, 2010 7:41 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Two compounds were hit in Datta Khel, a known al Qaeda hideout.
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Maliki, Allawi surge in Iraq's early vote count

March 15, 2010 6:41 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Prime Minister Maliki looks strong in the South, while Iyad Allawi gets the vote in much of the North. The Shia Islamist parties are coming in a distant third.
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Hakeemullah Mehsud is alive, says former ISI officer

March 15, 2010 3:01 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Khalid Khawaja, the "consigliere" for the Taliban and al Qaeda, said that two of his associates met with the Pakistani Taliban leader on March 9.
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Yemeni airstrike hits al Qaeda camp

March 14, 2010 10:16 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

The Yemeni military claims two top al Qaeda military leaders were killed in an airstrike yesterday. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said a top financier and military commander was killed earlier this year.
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Suicide bomber kills 14 in Pakistan's Swat Valley

March 13, 2010 8:12 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The attack bomber targeted the police, while an anti-Taliban tribal leader is gunned down in Peshawar.
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Qari Zia Rahman survived Bajaur strike: Taliban leader

March 12, 2010 5:57 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Neither the Taliban and al Qaeda commander, nor a Swat Taliban commander were killed in a Pakistani airstrike last week, according to Faqir Mohammed.
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Suicide bombers kill 39 in Lahore

March 12, 2010 7:47 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Detonating just seconds apart, two bombers targeted the Pakistani military. The attack is the third suicide strike in five days.
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Top North Waziristan Taliban leader Bahadar rumored killed in US strike

March 11, 2010 10:33 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Unconfirmed reports indicate that Hafiz Gul Bahadar may have been among those killed in yesterday's Predator strike in North Waziristan. Bahadar was the target of the strike, US intelligence officials told The Long War Journal.
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US airstrike kills 15 in North Waziristan

March 10, 2010 2:05 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Five Predators fired seven missiles at Taliban fighters in a village near the Afghan border. The attack is the second in three days.
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US aid group attacked in Pakistan’s northwest; 6 killed

March 10, 2010 1:07 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Six Pakistanis working for World Vision International, including two women, were killed after the Taliban stormed their office in Mansehra and opened fire.
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Indonesian bombing mastermind Dulmatin confirmed killed

March 10, 2010 12:12 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The president of Indonesia confirmed that the Bali bombing plotter was killed in yesterday's raid in a Jakarta suburb.
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Wanted Indonesian terrorist Dulmatin thought killed in raid

March 9, 2010 8:29 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Indonesia police believe he was killed outside the capital of Jakarta, but the reports are unconfirmed. Dulmatin is a mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings and a possible successor to Mohammed Noordin Top.
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Taliban, HIG infighting leads to split in Afghan insurgency in the North

March 8, 2010 3:38 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

More than 120 Hizb-i-Islami Gulbuddin fighters turned themselves in to the government after a major clash with local Taliban in Baghlan province.
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US airstrike in North Waziristan kills 5 Haqqani Network fighters

March 8, 2010 2:26 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

The attack is the first this month and also the first in 12 days.
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Adam Gadahn not in custody: Pakistani officials

March 8, 2010 10:55 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The reports of the arrest of al Qaeda's American-born propagandist in Karachi appear to be a case of mistaken identity.
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Faqir Mohammad survived airstrike in Pakistan's tribal areas

March 8, 2010 8:10 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The Taliban commander was reported killed by Pakistan's Interior Minister in a strike in Mohmand last week.
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Suicide bomber kills 11 in attack on anti-terror unit in Lahore

March 8, 2010 12:22 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The attack leveled a headquarters of the Federal Investigation Agency, a law enforcement agency that has targeted the Taliban and al Qaeda.
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American al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn captured in Pakistan: Report

March 7, 2010 1:18 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

The American charged with treason for serving as al Qaeda's mouthpiece is thought to have been detained in a Pashtun region in Karachi. The reports are unconfirmed.
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The US killed eight Taliban fighters in a pair of airstrikes in North Waziristan. The Taliban killed five security personnel and blew up a NATO fuel tanker in Khyber. Ten Taliban fighters and three militia fighters were killed in a clash in Kurram. A Taliban commander and 38 fighters surrendered in Bajaur.

The US killed Sadam Hussein Al Hussami, who is also known as Ghazwan al Yemeni, in an airstrike in North Waziristan on March 10. Hussami was a top operative in al Qaeda's external operations network. He aided in the suicide attack on Combat Outpost Chapman, which killed seven CIA officials and a Jordanian intelligence officer.

The parties of Prime Minister Maliki and former Prime Minister Allawi are in a dead heat in the parliamentary election, with more than 80 percent of the votes counted. Security forces detained seven wanted men in Basrah and two Naqshabandiya fighters in Makhmour. Insurgents killed a Christian in Mosul.

Algerian security forces have dismantled a terrorist cell that provided logistical support to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb's El Ansar Brigade in Bordj Menaïel and that also provided information about the authorities' movements in the region. El Ansar Brigade's former emir and nine other fighters were sentenced in absentia to life in prison by a Boumerdes court. Maghreb nations have met in Algeria to forge a unified strategy in tackling AQIM.

Security forces detained eight members of an Qaeda-linked terror group planning to carry out attacks in the capital of Baku. Several Chechens and Dagestanis were among those captured. The group was smuggling weapons from Georgia to conduct the attack.

Police killed two suicide bombers in Helmand. Coalition and Afghan forces killed an undisclosed number of Taliban fighters, and detained two IED cell leaders and three fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, and Paktika. The Taliban killed two British soldiers in an IED attack in the South and murdered a government official in Ghazni.

US officials said progress in Iran's nuclear program has slowed, leaving room for continued pressure. Police and the Basij militia cracked down on the celebration of the "fire festival." Iran asked OPEC to provide a $200 billion investment in its energy industry.

The US killed 11 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in an airstrike in North Waziristan. Police seized more than 1,000 pounds of explosives and detained 10 suspected terrorists in Lahore. The Lashkar-i-Islam killed two cricket players in Peshawar. A woman was killed in a bombing in Karachi. The US transferred 14 Cobra attack helicopters to the Pakistani military.