The Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan - Militants tried to blast their way into an American base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, striking before dawn with rocket-propelled grenades and a car bomb.
Group: Son of 'Blind Sheik' dies in drone strike CAIRO -- A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan killed a son of an Egyptian-born militant cleric imprisoned in the United States for plots in the 1990s to blow up New York City landmarks, an Islamist group said Saturday. Egypt's Gamaa Islamiya, or Islamic Group, posted on its website a notice mourning the death of Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, the son of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, known as the "Blind Sheik," who is now serving a life sentence in the United States. The 73-year-old sheik was the spiritual leader of the Gamaa, as well as of the men convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Ahmed's path to militant jihad began at the age of 15 when he went with his elder brothers to Afghanistan to fight against the Soviet Union, which occupied the co...
By Riaz Khan and Sebastian Abbot The Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S.-led coalition has launched a new offensive against one of Afghanistan's most virulent militant networks and plans to ramp up operations next year along the eastern border with Pakistan before the American troop drawdown gathers steam, the top commander said Wednesday. Marine Gen. John Allen told The Associated Press that the "high- intensity, sensitive" operation that began just a few days ago targets the Haqqani group, a Pakistan-based militant network that attacks Afghan and coalition forces. The U.S. has been urging the Pakistanis incessantly to clamp down on Haqqani fighters, who have ties to both the Taliban and al-Qaida and have been blamed for most of the high-profile attacks in the heart of the Afghan capital, Kabul.
KABUL, Afghanistan Militants attacked a U.S. patrol with rocket- propelled grenades, killing three Americans in Afghanistan's northeast, one of the wildest regions in the country, an official said Saturday. U.S. soldiers have been hunting extremists close to Osama bin Laden's terror network in the area near Pakistan. S. troops used artillery to repel the attack in Nuristan province Friday, said Col. Tom Collins.
KABUL, Afghanistan - A U.S. official in Washington confirmed reports that the CIA is running an all-Afghan paramilitary group in Afghanistan that has been hunting al-Qaida, Taliban, and other militant targets for the agency. A security professional in Kabul familiar with the operation said the 3,000-strong force was set up in 2002 to capture targets for CIA interrogation. A former U.S. intelligence official said members of the covert Afghan force are used for surveillance and long-range reconnaissance and some have trained at CIA facilities in the United States.
KABUL, Afghanistan -- U.S.-led coalition jets bombed a compound suspected of housing al-Qaida militants in eastern Afghanistan, killing seven boys and several insurgents, officials said Monday. Clashes in the south killed a Dutch soldier, while dozens of suspected insurgents were left dead, officials said.
KABUL -- Afghan and coalition forces killed 12 militants during a gunbattle that erupted as troops raided a compound in the heartland of the Taliban insurgency in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Saturday. Meanwhile, Afghan police killed two militants and captured two others during an operation Friday in the southern city of Qalat, the capital of Zabul province, the Interior Ministry said.
Suicide blast kills 7 in Pakistan ISLAMABAD -- A suicide bomber rammed a truck loaded with explosives into a police station in Pakistan on Sunday, killing a child and six other civilians, police said. The attack at Saddar police station in the Kohat region wounded 26 people, said Abdullah Khan, the deputy inspector general in Kohat. KABUL - At least 29 militants, including two commanders, have been killed over four days of intense fighting aimed at protecting supply routes through northern Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said Sunday.
KABUL, Afghanistan - Militants in Pakistan fired rockets at NATO bases across the border in Afghanistan, killing three children in a village and prompting the alliance to launch a pair of retaliatory artillery strikes, officials said Sunday. The clashes could heighten diplomatic tension over Pakistan's inability to stop Islamic militants from operating from its territory - and whether forces in Afghanistan have the right to strike back.
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