An Indian woman who wrote a memoir about escaping the Taliban in 1995 has been murdered by Taliban terrorists after she returned to the country according to police.
Sushmita Banerjee, whose book about her dramatic 1995 escape was turned into a 2003 Bollywood movie, was executed outside her home in Paktika province while her family was tied up inside her house. Continue reading
A U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan has been attacked by Taliban terrorists resulting in the deaths of at least three terrorists.
The attack on Torkham base came after the terrorists attacked and burned NATO supply trucks creating a flaming barricade for anyone attempting to reach the base. Continue reading
The Taliban continues to assert their terroristic power in Afghanistan ahead of NATO’s 2014 withdrawal from the country. Local officials say the group has executed 12 civilians in their latest round of violence. Continue reading
A raid in southwest Pakistan has turned up over 100 tons of bomb making materials believed to be connected to a terrorist organization.
The materials were the same as those used in two terrorist attacks in Quetta earlier this year that killed more than 120 people. Continue reading
The Taliban launched an attack on a prison in northwest Pakistan freeing about 300 prisoners.
The Dera Ismail Khan jail was housing hundreds of Taliban fighters and militants from banned Islamist groups. Taliban fighters yelling “God is great” and “Long live the Taliban” fired rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns during the assault. Continue reading
The leader of the Pakistani Taliban has sent a letter to a schoolgirl that the Taliban tried to assassinate in 2012.
Adnan Rasheed doesn’t apologize but says he wishes the attack “had never happened” and that she was not attacked for advocating for girls’ education but because she an ran “an anti-Taliban smear campaign.” Continue reading
At least 17 people are dead after a roadside bomb destroyed a civilian transport in western Afghanistan. 16 of the confirmed dead are women and children.
Ten of the dead are from the same famliy. They were riding in a trailer being pulled by a motorcycle which is a common civilian transport in the Herat region. Continue reading
Taliban terrorists attacked the base of a logistics firm that supplies NATO troops, killing at least seven people in the homicide bombing raid.
Kabul’s police chief told the BBC that four terrorists drove a truck full of explosives into the compound. At least five base guards were killed in the bomb and gun attack. Continue reading
Islamic terrorists attacked the Afghanistan Presidential Palace, killing three guards and wounding one. All terrorists were killed in the assault.
The Taliban said the attack was aimed at the Presidential Palace and the Ariana Hotel, home of the CIA’s Afghanistan headquarters. Continue reading
After stating that they were targeting foreigners in a Saturday terrorist attack in Afghanistan, the Taliban has announced the unit is now going to focus strictly on killing foreigners.
Pakistan’s cabinet met to discuss the attack and the potential impact on the country’s tourism. The remaining tourists in the area of the attack were evacuated by Pakistani troops following the terrorist attack. Continue reading