Adding to the current challenges in Afghanistan, the Taliban claimed Saturday to have captured two U.S. soldiers near the country’s capital, Kabul according to Fox News. NATO has confirmed two missing soldiers were Americans but there are conflicting reports regarding there whereabouts and status. Read Full Article Related articles by Zemanta You: NATO: Taliban claims  Read More →

In an audio message posted online today, Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command taunts President Obama for saying that the US would prevail in Afghanistan, Reuters reports. Experts attribute the recording to Ayman al-Zawahiri, who refers to the president’s March visit, saying, “Poor Obama comes to Kabul and he promises that Taliban shall not return to power.” “You poor This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National... 

Communist party-run propaganda outlet People’s Daily finally has an ally to support its thoroughly debunked claim that the Taliban is training monkeys for war against the U.S. and NATO. The newspaper last week “reported” that the Taliban had taught monkeys to use AK-47s against American troops, which the story claimed would also “arouse Western animal This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert.... 

Brad Thor first reported that Mullah Omar had been detained back on May 10th.Since that time there have been a number of additional reports that have trickled in, including this one today, from a popular Afghan TV channel. An Afghan popular television channel Tolo citing Pakistani media reported Tuesday that Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar This story comes to us via Homeland Security  Read More →

U.S. officials boast that al-Qaida has never been weaker, its upper ranks decimated because of the stepped-up drone attacks in Pakistan and special operations raids in Afghanistan. At the same time, they warn, in seeming contradiction: An even greater number of well-trained terrorists are setting their sights on the United States. Across the remote tribal This story comes to us  Read More →

Harboring, detaining, holding…. regardless of the semantics it’s beginning to appear that  Brad Thor’s tip from last month may be “spot on” .  According to this report on Irans PressTV.com site, a former senior member of the militant group says Pakistani security forces are harboring the fugitive Taliban leader, Mullah Omar in Karachi. Mullah Abdul Salam This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National... 

Taliban fighters are burying dirty needles with their bombs in a bid to infect British troops with HIV, The Sun reported Wednesday. Hypodermic syringes are reportedly hidden below the surface of explosive devices, pointing upwards to prick bomb squad experts as they hunt for devices. The needles are feared to be contaminated with hepatitis and HIV. And This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert... 

The U.S. military is developing plans for a unilateral attack on the Pakistani Taliban in the event of a successful terrorist strike in the United States that can be traced to them, The Washington Post reports. Planning for a retaliatory attack was spurred by ties between alleged Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad and elements of This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National  Read More →

Suspected Islamist militants attacked two mosques packed with hundreds of worshippers from a minority sect in eastern Pakistan on Friday, holding hostages and battling police, officials and witnesses said. More than 70 people died, and dozens were wounded. The assaults were carried out by at least seven men, including three suicide bombers, officials said. Two attackers This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert.... 

According to the UK Telegraph, Pakistani and US sources say there is evidence that mobile phone calls were exchanged between Major Adnan Ejaz and the suspected would-be bomber, Faisal Shahzad, who was arrested on May 3 as he attempted to fly out of New York. A Pakistani law enforcement sources said that the major had mobile This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted... 

Pakistan has arrested several suspects in connection with the failed bombing in New York City, officials say. One of the arrested is the co-owner of a prominent catering firm used by the US embassy in Islamabad, Pakistani officials told news agencies. It is not clear when the arrests were made. They follow a visit to Pakistan This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted... 

Taliban militants strapped explosives to two men accused of being U.S. spies and blew them up at a public execution in northwest Pakistan, intelligence officials and residents said on Friday. The killings took place on Thursday evening in North Waziristan, a lawless al-Qaida and Taliban sanctuary on the Afghan border where the United States has stepped This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert... 

Kabul: A knife-wielding Afghan man has been arrested after he broke an emergency window mid-flight on an Ariana Afghan Airlines passenger plane, but the motives behind the incident were unclear, the Interior Ministry said yesterday. The incident happened on Sunday on an Ariana plane flying from Kabul to the Iranian city of Mashad via the southern This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is... 

The failed bombing in New York’s Times Square is a possible signal that militant leaders in Pakistan have shifted their focus to targets in the U.S. and other Western countries instead of sticking to their home base, according to U.S. counterterrorism officials. The attack, they also warned, could be only the first by terrorist groups that This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is... 

Fox News reports the investigation into the Times Square bomb plot has revealed that the Pakistani Taliban were behind the failed attack, top Obama administration officials said Sunday. Despite conflicting claims over the past week from military and law enforcement officials, as well as Taliban leaders, Attorney General Eric Holder and White House counterterrorism adviser This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert....