A senior NATO official says the coalition in Afghanistan is facilitating contacts between senior Taliban leaders and top Afghan government officials. The official says the alliance has helped secure passage of Taliban commanders to Kabul for high-level contacts with the government. The official said it would be very difficult for Taliban leaders to travel safely [...]
NATO officials say one of its servicemembers died following an insurgent attack in northern Afghanistan Sunday, while another servicemember died Saturday in a bomb blast in the south. Elsewhere on Saturday, NATO says Afghan and coalition forces who were pursuing a suspected insurgent have killed an Afghan adult male and a child. The coalition says [...]
Afghan, NATO Forces Launch Anti-Taliban Air-and-Ground Push in Kandahar
28 Sep
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Afghan and NATO forces are staging a new push to drive Taliban militants out of their stronghold around the southern city of Kandahar. Officials say Operation Dragon Strike is an air-and-ground phase of an anti-Taliban offensive that has involved weeks of fighting. NATO spokesman Josef Blotz, a German brigadier general, says Afghan and coalition forces [...]
A new book documents deep division among U.S. President Barack Obama’s top advisors on the Afghan war strategy, with some key administration officials doubtful the new plan will succeed. The Washington Post and The New York Times both published excerpts Wednesday of an upcoming book by Bob Woodward, an associate editor at the Post, who [...]
As Afghanistan’s Parliamentary election date approaches, many threats pose great obstacles. Threat one is the Taliban. The militant group said Thursday it plans to attack polling stations throughout the country and urged Afghans to boycott the September 18 elections. More than 10 million people are eligible to vote for some 2,500 candidates. Insurgents have already [...]
The Taliban on Sunday announced plans to disrupt Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections, scheduled for September 18. A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, told reporters that the balloting is just for the benefit of the foreigners who he says are occupying the country. And he urged the Afghan people to boycott the election. Some 2,500 candidates are competing [...]
The Taliban on Sunday announced plans to disrupt Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections, scheduled for September 18. A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, told reporters that the balloting is just for the benefit of the foreigners who he says are occupying the country. And he urged the Afghan people to boycott the election. Some 2,500 candidates are competing [...]
The Taliban on Sunday announced plans to disrupt Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections, scheduled for September 18. A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, told reporters that the balloting is just for the benefit of the foreigners who he says are occupying the country. And he urged the Afghan people to boycott the election. Some 2,500 candidates are competing [...]
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told an American veterans’ group Tuesday it is not time to celebrate victory in Iraq, even though the U.S. combat mission is formally ending. Gates spoke Tuesday to the annual meeting of the American Legion in the midwestern U.S. city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Secretary Gates called Wednesday’s formal handover in [...]
Five more American soldiers were killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan Tuesday, bringing the number of U.S. troops killed in the war-torn country since Saturday to 19. NATO said four U.S. soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb in the east, while the fifth died in a gunfight with insurgents in the south. On Monday, [...]
Pakistani officials are urging 400,000 people to evacuate three southern towns threatened by new flooding. Authorities issued the warning Thursday after the Indus River breached an embankment in Sindh province. Officials say the residents of Sujawal, Mir Pur Batoro and Daro are at risk. Authorities in the Thatta district are working to shore up other [...]
An Afghan presidential aide who is under investigation for corruption is on the payroll of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, according to a report published in the New York Times newspaper. The report quotes unnamed Afghan and U.S. officials as saying Afghan National Security Council official Mohammed Zia Salehi appears to have been receiving CIA [...]
The U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, says he sees progress in the war but cautioned that the fight against the Taliban is an “up and down process.” In an interview aired Sunday on NBC Meet the Press, General Petraeus said the goal is to defeat the Taliban and prevent the country [...]
President Barack Obama met on Thursday with his national security team to discuss Afghanistan and Pakistan. The 7th such regular meeting on the subject came as the government pressed ahead with an investigation into the leak of tens of thousands of classified documents about the war in Afghanistan. Taking part in the meeting in the [...]
NATO officials in Afghanistan say they are searching for two American sailors who disappeared from their compound in Kabul City. NATO said Saturday that the U.S. service members left the compound in a vehicle Friday and never returned. Afghan officials said Saturday the two sailors were seen driving an armored vehicle in the country’s [...]
NATO officials in Afghanistan say they are searching for two American sailors who disappeared from their compound in Kabul City. NATO said Saturday that the U.S. service members left the compound in a vehicle Friday and never returned. Afghan officials said Saturday the two sailors were seen driving an armored vehicle in the country’s [...]
NATO officials in Afghanistan say they are searching for two American sailors who disappeared from their compound in Kabul City. NATO said Saturday that the U.S. service members left the compound in a vehicle Friday and never returned. Afghan officials said Saturday the two sailors were seen driving an armored vehicle in the country’s [...]
Concluding a second round of the so-called U.S.-Pakistan strategic dialogue in Islamabad, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday announced more than $500 million in several new aid programs for Pakistan. The string of new projects unveiled by Clinton during a joint press conference with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Memood Qureshi are designed to help [...]
Afghanistan is hosting a major international meeting aimed at showing world leaders it is capable of taking control of its own security and development. Security forces were deployed throughout Kabul Monday, as top officials from more than 60 countries and international groups, including U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, [...]
Six Afghan police officers and two U.S. soldiers have been killed in separate roadside bombings in southern Afghanistan. Afghan officials say the police officers were killed and four others wounded Monday when a bomb ripped through their vehicle in the Khakrez district of Kandahar province. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Two American soldiers [...]
The new study says there is a clear link between increased corruption and the increased power of the Taliban Tags: Taliban
Hours earlier, Taliban suicide bombers launched a daring raid on compound of a USAID contractor in Kunduz Tags: Taliban
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told ABC news that investigators have developed evidence that links perpetrator to Taliban in Pakistan Tags: pakistan, Taliban
Pakistani police say Taliban militants have set fire to 10 trucks carrying cement to Western forces in Afghanistan Tags: Taliban
Taliban spokesman claims responsibility for the attack on Sitara Achakzai, an activist for women’s rights Tags: Taliban
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