Topic: Jalalludin Haqqani
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Another major attack on American interests in Afghanistan by Pakistan-based militant groups would greatly damage the alliance with Islamabad, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday.The official was voicing Washington's frustrations with Pakistan and its failure to tackle ...
A US drone strike targeting a militant compound in a Pakistani tribal region killed four rebels in the fourth attack in two days near the Afghan border, security officials said Saturday.The drones fired eight missiles Friday night at the compound in ...
A US drone strike killed four militants in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, the third such attack in 48 hours against Taliban hotbeds in Waziristan near the Afghan border, officials said.The drone fired two missiles into a vehicle as it drove through ...
A senior commander in the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, which Washington accuses of a series of bold attacks in Afghanistan, has been killed in a US drone strike, officials said.Covert CIA drones are the chief US weapon against Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants ...
A senior commander of the Taliban-allied Haqqani network in Afghanistan who is also the uncle of its leader has been captured, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said on Saturday.The announcement of Haji Mali Khan's capture comes as the US ...
The US government is in its "final" review on whether to blacklist the Haqqani network, which it blames for deadly attacks in Afghanistan, as a terror group, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday."We're in the final formal, review that ...
The Pakistani government must act to clamp down on the Haqqani network, blamed for the attack on the US embassy in Kabul, a White House official said Tuesday."The Pakistani government needs to take action to deal with the links that exist ...
Several thousand Pakistanis Tuesday held protest rallies across the country lashing out at American demands for action against Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani militants.There is growing unease in Pakistan about US pressure to take on the Haqqani network or face the consequences, with the ...
The Taliban took the unusual step of insisting that it, not Pakistan, controls the Haqqani network, with Islamabad under growing US pressure to cut alleged ties with the group.The militia on Tuesday advised Pakistan, historically perhaps its closest foreign ally, to ...
The Obama administration is considering placing the Haqqani network on its list of terror groups after blaming the militants for deadly attacks in Afghanistan, a US official said Monday.Seven leaders of the Haqqani network, which operates from safe havens in Pakistan ...