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Civilian casualty in the US war in Afghanistan hardly gets much press. In the pursuit of victory in the highly-controversial war on terror, Afghan lives are simply collateral damage. When US safety is concerned, ‘media isn’t about to focus real attention on the particular form of barbarity involved — the American air war over Afghanistan [...]

Pakistani military forces today re-captured a key Taliban town, considered to be the birthplace of the Pakistan Taliban and holds a significant strategic advantage, as the the town of Kotkai in the South Waziristan region is known to be the gateway to the militant heartland. The town of Kotkai has been the center of the military offensive by the Pakistani [...]

The death of Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, head of Taliban operations in Pakistan in August this year, has rocked Pakistan with a violent backlash from Taliban and other insurgent and militant forces. The volatile region of South Waziristan, along with major Pakistani cities have erupted in a string of violent attacks, in the last one week, that [...]

A U.S attack drone carried out missile strikes today against suspected Taliban militants near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border killing six militants according to intelligence sources. The attack took place at pre-dawn in the South Waziristan region of FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Regions) of Pakistan. This region is known to be a stronghold of [...]

A group of Taliban fighters in a tribal region on the border of Afghanistan have claimed that, they no longer consider the ‘peace deal’ with the Pakistani government a viable one. This clearly indicates that the uneasy truce in much of the FATA or Federally Administered Tribal Areas is coming to end and could result in violent backlash from [...]