US troops in Kunar, 2008 / Wiki
The U.S. military has long complained that Taliban and al Qaeda forces have sanctuary inside Pakistan along the Afghan border, and can launch attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan and then scoot safely back into Pakistan. So it seems only fair to note, as Long Wars Journal does Wednesday, that al Qaeda and Taliban forces have begun using Afghanistan as a sanctuary to attack targets inside Pakistan. “The Taliban reportedly launched today’s attack from across the border in the Afghan province of Kunar,” LWJ reports, “where the Taliban and al Qaeda have established safe havens after US forces withdrew from remote valleys.”