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Journalist Jere Van Dyk has spent years in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he got to know leaders of the Haqqani network, responsible for many suicide bombings and kidnappings. His new book is ...
The Haqqani Network and al-Qaida ran joint training camps in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region after the U.S. invasion, and according to author Peter Bergen in the book The Battle for Tora Bora ...
Newsweek reports that the Haqqani Network has recently distributed 10,000 copies of a 144-page book that serves as a field manual and “manifesto.”From the Newsweek report:. Haqqani’s book is an ...
The historic relationship between the Pakistani establishment and the Haqqanis is detailed in Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus 1973-2012, by Vahid Brown and Don Rassler. They use ...
Haqqani's book is an entirely different matter: a call not to reflection but to violent action. In the past month, 10,000 copies of the 144-page book are said to have been printed for distribution ...
Qaeda in a book published this month: “Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus 1973-2012,” by Vahid Brown and Don Rassler. Based partly on new primary sources, the book highlights one of the ...
World Taliban’s secretive Haqqani Network leader finally shows his face. Haqqani heads a powerful subset of the Taliban blamed for some of the worst violence of the past 20 years.
Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the militant Haqqani network, which is now led by his son Sirajuddin. It was labelled a terrorist organization by the U.S. in 2012. (Mohammed Riaz/Associated Press) ...
The Haqqani network is one of the most violent groups of insurgents in the Middle East. On Friday, Hillary Clinton officially blacklisted them by declaring them a "Foreign Terrorist Organization." ...
A prominent Afghan cleric who supported the Taliban and was in favour of female education has been killed. Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani reportedly died in a suicide bomb blast in Kabul. Speaking to ...
As per the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), the Haqqani network has its roots in the Afghan conflict of the late 1970s ...
Despite sharing the same name, he was not related to Afghanistan's Haqqani militant group network. The religious leader had previously issued a fatwa, or religious decree, in support of female ...