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Jalaluddin Haqqani (Pashto: جلال الدين حقاني, romanized: Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥaqqānī) (1939 – 3 September 2018) was an Afghan insurgent commander who founded the Haqqani network, an insurgent group who fought in guerilla warfare against US-led NATO forces and the former Islamic Republic of Afghanistan government that they supported.
- 1970s–2018
Sep 4, 2018 · September 4, 2018. Saved Stories. Before the Taliban announced Tuesday that he was dead; before, in fact, he was reported dead in 2015; and indeed before he waged violent attacks against the U.S....
Feb 2, 2023 · 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 ...
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The Haqqani network is a Pakistani/Afghan Sunni Islamist militant organization that was originally formed in the 1970’s as an insurgent group and has grown increasingly powerful within the ranks of the new Afghan government under Taliban rule.
Sep 4, 2018 · ISLAMABAD -- The founder of Afghanistan's much-feared Haqqani network, a former U.S. ally turned fierce enemy, has died after years of ill health, a Taliban spokesman said Tuesday. Jalaluddin ...
Sep 3, 2018 · Jalaluddin Haqqani was an Afghan guerrilla leader who fought Soviet troops when they occupied Afghanistan in the 1980s. US officials have admitted that at the time he was a prized asset of the...
The Haqqani network is a Pashtun militant network based in eastern Afghanistan and northwest Pakistan. Founded by Jalaluddin Haqqani, a guerrilla leader from the Pashtun Jadran (Zadran) tribe, the network originated during the Afghan War (1978–92) and became a prominent ally of the Taliban in the 1990s.
