Have the Taliban Changed?
...the anti-Soviet struggle. These attributes allow the Haqqani network to act autonomously in many instances, while its current leader—Sirajuddin Haqqani—has risen to become one of the movement’s deputy...
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Red on Red: Analyzing Afghanistan’s Intra-Insurgency Violence
...Taliban and initiated clashes with the Haqqani Network, killing as many as 18 Haqqani fighters, including the Taliban shadow chief for Urgun District named Hizbullah.38 Hunar most likely...
View ResultAl-Qa`ida’s Comeback in Afghanistan and its Implications
...the new leader. In the end, the various Taliban factions reached a compromise in which Sirajuddin Haqqani, son of Jalaluddin Haqqani and current leader of the “Haqqani Network,”...
View ResultA View from the CT Foxhole: Lieutenant General (Ret) H.R. McMaster, Former National Security Advisor
...form of sharia, that the Taliban were not disconnected from other jihadist terrorist organizations, including the Haqqani network and al-Qa`ida, that the ISI rebuilt and sustained the Taliban...
View ResultThe U.S.-Pakistan Relationship in the Year Ahead
...officials, the head of the ISI and Ibrahim Haqqani, the son of Jalaluddin Haqqani, in the United Arab Emirates in August 2011.[9] Clearly, the meeting was unsuccessful because...
View ResultThe Death of Ayman al-Zawahiri: Succession Challenges, Tradeoffs, and Other Implications
...his Kabul compound in the first place, and where he was prior. Who helped him? (Initial reports suggest that Sirajuddin Haqqani and other Haqqani figures played a key...
View ResultCommentary: No Good Choices: The Counterterrorism Dilemmas in Afghanistan and Pakistan
...as against Taliban leaders and operatives enabling terrorists in the country (like Taliban leaders known to have supported al-Qa`ida, such as Sirajuddin Haqqani).r The resource requirements for such...
View ResultEvaluating Pakistan’s Offensives in Swat and FATA
...what the security picture is today. This evaluation is especially critical in the context of U.S. demands on Pakistan to launch an offensive against the Haqqani network in...
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