Keywords: €” Last year was the deadliest on record for Afghan civilians with 3,021 killed, a rise of 8 percent from the year before as insurgents ratcheted up violence with roadside bombs and suicide attacks, the United Nations said Saturday. | Taliban-affiliated militants were responsible for more than three-quarters of the civilian deaths in 2011, the fifth year in a row in which the death toll went up, the U.N. said.
Keywords: by Jim Lobe, February 04, 2012 US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's surprise announcement Wednesday that US troops will phase out their combat role in Afghanistan by mid-2013 is drawing mixed reactions, as well as a fair bit of confusion...
A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues. | As the Taliban prepares to open a political office in Qatar, the US stalls on releasing Taliban prisoners and a leaked US military report allege...
More than 3,000 civilians were killed in Afghanistan last year, the highest number since the start of the war between NATO and the Taliban, the United Nations reported Saturday. | Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: NATO-led forces plan a full withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of 2014The numbers rose despite calls from Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar last November to avoid killing civilians.
Sources at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Moscow-based daily paper Kommersant that Russia and NATO have reached the concluding stage of negotiating the so called “multi-mode transit” deal in support of the planned withdrawal of US troops...
A string of bigger and more complex suicide attacks by insurgents in Afghanistan have pushed civilian deaths to their highest level in a decade a United Nations report says. By Ben Farmer, Kabul The number of civilians killed in the conflict rose eight...
A Royal Marine who was the first British triple amputee from the conflict in Afghanistan is giving a talk in Topsham. Read this and more. | EXTENSION: Plans have been submitted to extend a listed building in Topsham. | The owners of 42 The Strand want to build a ground-floor extension to the east of the property. | The plan will now be considered by Exeter City Council.
AFTER months away from their families two recently-returned soldiers are overjoyed to be home. | Major Graeme Hood and Lieutenant Colonel Ian Woodbridge were among 300 soldiers from Allied Rapid Reaction Corps' headquarters (HQ ARRC), based at Imjin Barracks in Innsworth, who returned last week after months stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan. | FEELING WELL..BUT TIRED: Major Graeme Hood with wife Susie, Adam, two, and Daisy, four.
More than 3,000 civilians were killed in the war in Afghanistan in 2011, the fifth year in a row the number has risen, the United Nations said on Saturday in a report likely to revive tension between the Afghan government and its Western backers. | Civilian deaths undermine support both in Afghanistan and the United States for the U.S.
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar (L) talks with her Afghan counterpart Zalmai Rassoul during their meeting in Kabul February 1, 2012. | The Afghan Taliban announced last month it would open a political office in Qatar, suggesting the group may be willing to engage in negotiations that would likely give it government positions or official control over much of its historical southern heartland. | Pakistan is seen as critical to U.
Last year was the deadliest on record for Afghan civilians with 3,021 killed, a rise of eight per cent from the year before as insurgents ratchet up violence with roadside bombs and suicide attacks, the United Nations said Saturday.
A RECORD number of civilians were killed in Afghanistan's decade-long war last year, with a dramatic rise in the number of deaths from suicide attacks, the United Nations reports. | A total of 3021 civilians died - mostly at the hands of insurgents - up eight per cent from 2790 in 2010, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in its annual report.
AGI - Agenzia Giornalistica Italia: Keywords: (AGI) Kabul - The number of civilians killed in Afghanistan continues to rise for the 5th consecutive year reaching 3000 in 2011. The figures were published in a UN report on the Country (Unama) underscoring that roadside bombs and suicide bombings...
Tim ListerCNN: IEDs alone killed 967 Afghan men, women and children in 2011. Many of the 495 victims of targeted killings were provincial and district governors, peace council members and tribal elders. | Among the most disturbing statistics: in the second half of 2011, the number of women and children killed grew by 29 and 51% respectively, compared to 2010.
Last year was the deadliest on record for Afghan civilians with 3,021 killed, a rise of 8 percent from the year before as insurgents ratchet up violence with roadside bombs and suicide attacks, the United Nations said Saturday. | Taliban-affiliated militants were responsible for more than three-quarters of the civilian deaths in 2011, the fifth year in a row in which the death toll went up, the U.N. said.
Tim Lister, CNN: Across Afghanistan, civilians live in fear that they will become part of a grim and ever growing tally -- as innocent casualties in a decade of conflict. And according to a United Nations report released Saturday tracking civilian casualties, that rate of such deaths rose yet again in 2011. | IEDs alone killed 967 Afghan men, women and children in 2011.
A total of 3021 Afghan civilians had been killed in 2011, said United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in its annual report released here on Saturday. "In Afghanistan 3021 civilians had been killed in 2011 which indicates 8 percent...
Keywords: , The Taliban are not beaten, the peace process is bogged down in internal squabbles and Afghan security forces aren't ready to take control of the nation.
Troops from 1 Rifles have been going through the final stages of their pre-deployment training... Sergeant Mick Brennan is fast becoming one of the country's top disabled skiers. Mick... The commander of British troops in Helmand Province...
Afghan officials say they are hopeful that the country's largest airport will reopen after being closed due to heavy snowfall. | Transportation Ministry spokesman Nenglai Qalatwal said Saturday that crews were busy trying to clear the runway at Kabul airport, which has been closed for more than a day because of a half-meter of snow. He says it should open Saturday afternoon.
Islumic Republic News Agency: He made the remark while talking to IRNA at the mausoleum of the Founder of the Islamic Republic the Late Imam Khomeini. He paid tribute to the Father of the Islamic Revolution on the occasion of the ten-day celebrations of the 33rd victory anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in the country. | Noting that the first summit meeting of the three countries was held in Iran, he said the next meeting is taking place in Pakistan.
With the US war in Iraq supposedly having reached a good conclusion (or halfway decent... or better than nothing... or let's get the hell out of here while some of us are still in one piece and there are some Iraqis we haven't yet killed), the best and the brightest in our government and media turn their thoughts to what to do about Afghanistan.
Internet Broadcasting: "This, my flag. This is freedom." | That's what Medic Tyrone White told Local 10's Ross Palombo while pointing to an American flag on his uniform. | With a flag on his arm and courage in his heart, White was marking his final moments with his family before his deployment to Afghanistan. | "You always wanna put your best foot forward and represent where you're from," said White.
It's the most expensive vegetable product in the world, is absolutely legal, and out-prices by far even the highly lucrative illegal drugs. Only a small amount - around 300 tonnes - is produced in the world each year, yet this item is coveted for i...
Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Eastern Europe from Moscow. It prefigured the collapse of the Soviet Union itself just two years later. | Additionally, Iran exerts growing pressure on Afghanistan to the east and growing influence in Iraq to the west.
A Nevada Army Guard helicopter unit is getting ready for another tour in Afghanistan. | Even though the Bravo Company 1-189th General Support Aviation Battalion won't be heading there until late March, they leave Reno in a few weeks to continue their training in Fort Hood, Texas. | This is the unit's second tour. It was in Afghanistan for the first time in 2005, and they're returning seven years after tragedy struck.
OPA-LOCKA (CBS4) – Nearly two hundred Army Reserve soldiers are leaving South Florida for Afghanistan to help train and support the Afghan security force. | Soldiers from the 841st Engineer Battalion bring with them varied backgrounds skills, and stories. | This is the first deployment for Captain Geoff GIivens. | Battalion medical officer Lt. Ray Rahkar has a special responsibility to look out for his fellow soldiers.
A 49-year-old US Brigadier general died of apparently natural causes in Afghanistan, the Army said Friday, the highest-ranking soldier to die during the war.Brig. Gen. Terence J. Hildner was identified as the first of that rank to die in Afghanistan since the war began there in 2001.
Keywords: by Geoff Folsom CLAY NATIONAL GUARD CENTER — A Marietta-based detachment of Georgia Army National Guardsmen got a hero's sendoff Friday before heading to Afghanistan to help those injured on the battlefield. The 21-member detachment came together only...
Keywords: by John Glaser, February 02, 2012 The Obama administration played down comments from Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta that the US could end its combat role in Afghanistan by the end of 2013, saying the original policy has not changed.
The Pentagon's monthly spending in Afghanistan dipped to $5.3 billion in October and November, down from an average of $7.8 billion a month in the fiscal year that ended in September, according to data compiled by the Defense Department comptroller's office.
Finnish peacekeepers in Afghanistan exchanged fire with insurgents in northern Afghanistan on Thursday. None of the peacekeepers were wounded in the action in which they returned fire in self-defence. | €œEvery now and them something happens like it did today,€ said colonel Joni Lindeman, adding that northern Afghanistan is relatively peaceful.
Islamabad—Pakistan says it could not be distracted from the pursuit of peace in Afghanistan by the ongoing malicious campaign against Pakistan which was aimed at creating chasms between the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Reuters: Lawmakers are steeling for a public battle against the possible transfer of Taliban detainees out of Guantanamo Bay prison, a key step in the Obama administration's bid to broker a peace deal ending the war in Afghanistan.
On tonight's show... | Also, Attorney General Dominic Grieve MP took your calls. As well as representing the people of Beaconsfield, he's the government's top legal advisor. He told us why he didn't approve a further inquiry into the death of weapons inspector Dr David Kelly. I asked Dominic about the sentencing of the killers of Stephen Lawrence. And he gave us his view of the controversial European Court of Human Rights.
Britain is likely to begin withdrawing a substantial number of troops from Afghanistan by spring 2013 as the US begins to wind down its presence in the country. By James Kirkup, and Bruno Waterfield in Brussels Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary...
As his new book about the Taliban is released, former newsreader Sandy Gall on why it has all gone wrong in Afghanistan. By Neil Tweedie Even at the age of 84, Sandy Gall is a newsman. While most of the world sleeps, he is catching up on events...
NATO plans an orderly withdrawal from Afghanistan. But that may prove difficult, as some countries are already making a dash for the exit. DW-WORLD.DE: German and European news, analysis and multimedia from Deutsche Welle -
Bill Van Auken: Amid growing signs of crisis in the decade-old US-led war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Wednesday that the US would make a €œtransition€ from combat to €œtraining€ and €œadvising€ puppet Afghan forces by the end of 2013.
Stara Zagora. A military ceremony will be held on Friday in the southern Bulgarian city of Stara Zagora to welcome back the 21st contingent of the Bulgarian Army after its participation in an operation in Kabul, Afghanistan, announced the press center...
Additionally, Iran exerts growing pressure on Afghanistan to the east and growing influence in Iraq to the west. Tehran has even extended its horizon to Latin America, as symbolized by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's solidarity tour through Venezuela...
BRUSSELS — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday that NATO allies have agreed broadly to step back from the lead combat role in Afghanistan and let local forces take their place as early as next year, a shortened timetable that startled...
The Obama administration on Thursday played down defence secretary Leon Panetta's comments that the United States could end its combat role in Afghanistan next year, remarks that surprised allies in Europe and Kabul, as well as U.S. lawmakers. | Panetta, who is meeting with fellow NATO defence chiefs in Brussels, said on Wednesday that U.S. troops in Afghanistan would step back from a fighting role in Afghanistan by mid-to late 2013.
By Dale McFeatters President Barack Obama's military advisers plan on the US and its NATO allies ending combat operations in Afghanistan perhaps as soon as mid-2013, a year and a half early. That lays the groundwork for the coalition leaving well...
Obama administration officials scrambled with varying degrees of clarity to explain Panetta's announcement en route to the NATO defense ministers' meeting here that he hoped combat troops would move into a training and assistance role beginning in 2013 was not a policy change, but an optimistic look at the established timetable. | "There was consensus on this"
As the US begins to rethink AfPak and the Taliban open an office in Qatar to begin negotiations ahead of the endgame in Afghanistan, many in the vibrant Afghan media are asking questions about the Taliban's mandate. Do they represent all the Pashtuns of Afghanistan?"They are a fighting force that represents Pashtuns, and they are the only legitimate force fighting the foreign invasion," said Mohmammad Yousafzai, a former Afghan parliamentarian...
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (APP) : Welcoming Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar's visit to Afghanistan , the State Department on Thursday said the United State supports efforts towards improved ties between the two South Asian countries in wide-ranging areas.
KABUL: Sitting cross-legged on a blood-red Afghan carpet in a house perched on a Kabul hillside, the bearded man gazes out across the sprawling city where he was once one of the most feared men in town. Now, Maulavi Qalamuddin, former chief...
Finally, we are making the theocratic clique that rules Iran pay at least a minimal price for being the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism; for facilitating the killings of hundreds of American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan , and in Saudi...
Russia and NATO may soon sign an agreement that would ease cargo transportation from Afghanistan via Russia's territory, the Kommersant daily reported on Friday. Moscow is in talks with NATO on the so-called “multimodal” cargo transit from Afghanistan...
Sitting cross-legged on a blood-red Afghan carpet in a house perched on a Kabul hillside, the bearded man gazes out across the sprawling city where he was once one of the most feared men in town. | Now, Maulavi Qalamuddin, former chief of the Taliban's "vice and virtue" squad which whipped women without burqas and jailed men without beards, lives behind a battered green door set in a mud wall at the top of a narrow track.
WASHINGTON • President Barack Obama's administration scrambled Thursday to tamp down the fallout out from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's surprise announcement that the United States would end its combat role in Afghanistan a year earlier...
JUDY WOODRUFF: For more, we get two views. | Retired Army Gen. Jack Keane was Army vice chief of staff when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001. He now has his own consulting firm. And Celeste Ward Gventer was a deputy assistant secretary of defense in 2006 and 2007. She's now at the University of Texas in Austin. | We thank you both for being with us. | Gen. Keane, to you first.
PTI, Updated: February 03, 2012 10:30 IST Washington: Doubting Pakistan's "willingness" to go after the militant groups enjoying sanctuary in the country, a top US intelligence official has said these elements have caused major problems for the Afghan...
Afghanistan urged the Obama administration to stick to an agreed timetable for withdrawing its troops after the US caught allies off guard by saying it would switch to a training role next year. | The remarks by Leon Panetta, the defence secretary, surprised Afghan and Nato officials, who had assumed the US would continue to play a main combat role until the completion of a phased security handover to Afghan forces in late 2014.
After more than a decade of war in Afghanistan, there are now plans in place to bring troops home. Fort Bragg officials said the timetable will not keep them from deploying soldiers there in the coming months. | Defense Decretary Leon Panetta said he would end the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan next year, a year earlier than planned. Troops would act as advisers and trainers in 2014.
For years, in the village of Juz Ghoray, at the remote fringes of the Musa Qala District in northern Helmand Province, the Taliban enjoyed free rein, collecting taxes from local poppy farmers and staging attacks on any foreign patrol that moved within shooting range of an abrupt desert prominence called Ugly Hill. After a Marine unit found nine I.E.D.
By Chick Jacobs In the end, the troubled kids win that big football game, the rescue crew saves orphans from a burning bus, everyone emerges better for their trials. Jaye White knows that Thursday night's offering at Haymount United Methodist Church...
BRUSSELS/KABUL (Agencies): The United States took Kabul by surprise by laying out plans to end its Afghan combat role earlier than expected, just after the leak of a secret report that the Taliban is confident of regaining control of the country.
uploader: ISLAMABAD, Feb 2 (APP): Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar called on Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani here at his Parliament House Chamber on Thursday. The Foreign Minister briefed the Prime Minister on her recent visit to Afghanistan and her...
Kevin Rudd, the prime minister she ousted, had displeased Washington by being disobedient, even suggesting that Australian troops withdraw from Afghanistan . In the wake of her portentous rise ascent to power, Gillard attacked WikiLeaks as “illegal,”...
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) €“ U.S. and other international forces in Afghanistan aim to end their combat role next year and switch to training and advising Afghan forces through 2014, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday. | Afghan President Hamid Karzai shakes hands with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta during a joint press conference in Kabul on December 14, 2011.
Internet Broadcasting: The end is in sight in Afghanistan, after more than a decade of war. The Defense Department says the U.S. and NATO will transition into non-combat roles by the end of 2013. The Obama administration had set a deadline of 2014 to end the war in Afghanistan. | Human rights activists say at least 70 people were killed across Syria in battles between government forces and opposition protesters Wednesday.
Keywords:... forces from Afghanistan . We hope that AI and other torch-bearers of human rights would not leave the matter as such and take up the issue at every forum in a bid to sensitize the conscience of those who harbor these attacks against innocent people.
Bwog Staff: On Monday, the scintillatingly entitled talk Opium Trade in Afghanistan: Implications for Human Rights, Security and Public Health was held in IAB 501.
ISLAMABAD: Peace in Afghanistan was critical for peace and security in Pakistan, asserted Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. In a meeting with a delegation of Afghan senators led by Fazal-e-Hadi Muslimyar here, the prime minister...
U.S. lawmakers are steeling for a public battle against the possible transfer of Taliban detainees out of Guantanamo Bay prison, a key step in the Obama administration's bid to broker a peace deal ending the war in Afghanistan.
The US Defence Secretary, Leon Panetta, says he hopes American troops in Afghanistan can end their combat role by as early as the middle of 2013, 18 months before the Nato mission in the country is due to end.
CW Staff: Afghanistan's Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (MoTCA) is inviting bids for an operational services contract at Mazar-e Sharif Airport. | Currently there is a new passenger and cargo terminal complex under construction at the airport. The new facilities are scheduled to go into operation in the spring of this year.
BRUSSELS — NATO defense ministers will discuss possible changes to the alliance's strategy in Afghanistan after the US and France called for speeding up the handover of combat roles to local forces. Both US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and French...
Sgt. Maj. Henry Prutch, right, and his son, Lance Cpl. Scott Prutch, were recently reunited in Afghanistan. The sergeant major is nearing the end of a yearlong deployment to Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, as the senior enlisted advisor for 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward), and his son is beginning a deployment as a landing support specialist with Combat Logistics Battalion 4. Sgt. Maj. Henry Prutch is deployed out of Marine Corps Air Station...
It is notable that while quoting reports from Afghanistan and Iran, 'Pakistan Observer' disclosed on January 27, 2012 that Indian secret agency, RAW and Israeli Mossad have stepped up their covert operations in supplying Russian SA-2 surface to air...
The United States and its NATO partners will end their combat roles in Afghanistan in 2013 -- a year earlier than previously announced. | U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said that American troops will remain in the country through 2014, but only in a supporting role. | This switch to training and advising Afghan forces will occur in mid- to late-2013, Panetta told reporters in Brussels.
Peter Hamby CNN Political Reporter: Mitt Romney swept into Nevada on Wednesday evening and sharply criticized Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta for declaring that the United States and NATO plan to end combat operations in Afghanistan sometime in 2013. Thursday, February 2, 2012.
Related SEATTLE — | KING-TV reports 23-year-old Sgt. William Stacey grew up in Seattle. The station says his parents, Robert and Robin Stacey, are both professors in the University of Washington's History Department. | The Defense Department announced Stacey's death Wednesday. He died Tuesday in Helmand province. | Get out and do something!
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday the coalition in Afghanistan hopes to have shifted its primary mission from combat to advising and training Afghan security forces next year. | "Hopefully by the mid- to latter part of 2013 we'll be able to make a transition from a combat role to a training, advise and assist role," Panetta said.
BRUSSELS €” In a major milestone toward ending a decade of war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday that U.S. forces would step back from a combat role as early as mid-2013, more than a year before all U.S. troops are scheduled to come home. The defense secretary's words reflected the Obama administration's eagerness to bring to a close the second of two grinding ground wars it inherited from the Bush administration.
Web18: Washington: The US is planning to end its combat operations in Afghanistan by mid 2013 and would switch to a "train-and-assist" role, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said. | Even as the transition came as a surprise to many, Panetta argued that this is in fact the fulfillment of the Lisbon strategy.
The US will seek to wind down combat operations in Afghanistan during 2013, more than a year before a deadline for withdrawal, the defence secretary says. Speaking while travelling to a Nato summit, Leon Panetta said the US hoped to switch to a role training and supporting Afghan forces.
Panetta's remarks to reporters traveling with him to a NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels showed how the foreign military role in Afghanistan is expected to evolve from the current high-intensity fight against the Taliban to a support role with Afghans fully in the lead. | The timeline fits into the U.S.
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Keywords: by The Arizona Republic on Feb. 01, 2012, under Arizona Republic News BRUSSELS, Belgium — The United States hopes to end its combat mission in Afghanistan by the middle of next year, more than a year earlier than scheduled, Defense Secretary Leon...
NATO allies meeting in Brussels will on Thursday discuss US plans to end military operations in Afghanistan in 2013 and hand power over to Afghan forces by 2014, following US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta's announcement.
AFP: The United States said Wednesday it has waived a ban on non-lethal military aid to Uzbekistan because it serves a key US national security role as a transit route for US supplies to Afghanistan. | Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waived the ban on January 18 to allow Uzbekistan to receive night-vision goggles, personal protection equipment and global positioning systems, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.
KABUL – A secret United States military report says that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control over Afghanistan after Nato-led forces withdraw from the country, The Times newspaper reported yesterday.
The U.S. military plans to change the focus of its Afghanistan mission from combat to training local forces by the end of 2013, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday, apparently accelerating the timeline for Afghan forces to take over security responsibilities from NATO troops.
Panetta cast the decision as an orderly step in a withdrawal process long planned by the United States and its allies, but his comments were the first time the U.S. had put a date on stepping back from its central role in the war. His words reflected the Obama administration's eagerness to bring to a close the second of two ground wars it inherited from the Bush administration. | Promising the end of the U.S.
Internet Broadcasting: Keywords: now Afghanistan. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says he'd like to end U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan in 2013. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is criticizing the announcement, calling it a sign of the Obama administration's "naivete." | The nation's third-largest airline is putting its employees on notice. American Airlines says it needs to cut 13,000 jobs, ranging from maintenance workers to flight attendants.
Helix Consulting LLC: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday the coalition in Afghanistan hopes to have shifted its primary mission from combat to advising and training Afghan security forces next year, the USA Today reported. A decision to push this a year earlier throws out the whole transition plan. The transition has been planned against a timetable and this makes us rush all our preparations," a senior Afghan security official, who could...
AP: Pakistani fighter jets bombed the hideouts of two militant commanders along the Afghan border Wednesday, killing up to 31 insurgents, government and security officials said. One of those killed was reported to be a Pakistani Taliban leader in Orakzai region named Moin ud Din, said one security official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan says a man wearing an Afghan army uniform has shot and killed a NATO soldier in the south of the country.
He said the U.S. military has used depleted uranium in the country and Afghan babies are being born with severe deformities. | Miraki has described the use of DU weapons as genocide in his book, which provides an insight into the grimness of life under the U.S. occupation. | He said that he has seen people die without any physical signs of injuries to their bodies in Afghanistan.
A secret US military report says the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control over Afghanistan after Nato-led forces withdraw from the country. | The document, seen by the BBC, said Pakistan's powerful security agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), was assisting the Taliban in directing attacks against foreign forces.
As Sunday's conviction spread around the country, it released a gamut of emotional responses. Vilification, affirmation of human rights, grief for three beautiful teenagers and a spurned first wife. Justice had to be meted out and so it was. Meanwhile, the ready acceptance that this murder came from the mind of an Afghan patriarch gave air to a fabricated concept that the act was linked to a light-filled term called "honour."
Keywords: €” Pakistani fighter jets bombed the hideouts of two militant commanders along the Afghan border Wednesday, killing up to 31 insurgents, government and security officials said. Militants have in the past disputed army accounts of casualties, and human rights groups say civilians often die in military actions. [...]
Nematullah Sarfraz, for CNN: Police in the northern Afghanistan province of Kunduz are looking for a man they say strangled his wife after she bore him a third child that was not a son. | The couple had three daughters, the last of whom was born three months ago, said Khanabad district police chief Sufi Habib. | After the youngest daughter was born, Mohammed blamed his wife for not being able to deliver a boy, Habib said.
The US Embassy Cables, Afghanistan war logs and Iraq war logs, which were drip-fed to the media in 2010, helped raise his profile. By the end of the year he had become a minor celebrity. Upon his arrest in December 2010 he had a number of famous...
The Obama administration has steadily increased the use of US drones while withdrawing its land forces from Afghanistan and Iraq. The US completed its withdrawal from Iraq in December, but the presence of drones has enraged Iraqi officials who consider...
NATO has employed several disturbing tactics in Afghanistan. The first tactic is that special operations, civil affairs and military members operating in Provincial Reconstruction Teams have been observed in civilian vehicles and dressed as civilians. When questioned about this, the NATO response has been (1) that it is a necessary €œforce protection€ measure and (2) that it aids in intelligence gathering.
Reuters: A secret U.S. military report says that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control over Afghanistan after NATO-led forces withdraw from the country, The Times newspaper reported on Wednesday.
By Rob Taylor and Amie Ferris-Rotman KABUL (Reuters) - A secret US military report says that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control over Afghanistan after NATO-led forces withdraw from the country, Britain's Times of London...
Uzbekistan's border with Afghanistan has become the vital component in Islam Karimov's political longevity and the pretext for the West's cooperation with his regime, regardless of the harm he inflicts on his people, participants said at a round table...
With the help of their dad's letter to a general, three Army siblings with Benton County roots were able to reunite recently in Afghanistan after a four-year separation.
Australian special forces could remain fighting in Afghanistan for years after an official international troop withdrawal, Defence Minister Stephen Smith says. | Speaking to reporters in Perth, Mr Smith said Australian special forces would likely remain behind in Afghanistan after the official withdrawal of about 1500 troops, which was on schedule for 2014 or earlier. | "Any transition has to be conditions-based,"
2/1/2012 1:56 AM ET (RTTNews) - The Taliban is hoping to regain power in Afghanistan with Pakistan's assistance once the NATO-led international troops, currently deployed in the war-torn Asian nation, are withdrawn, media reported citing a leaked confidential NATO report.
By Anne Gearan and Kimberly Dozier AP WASHINGTON - US intelligence officials acknowledged Tuesday that the United States may release several Afghan Taliban prisoners from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as an incentive to bring the Taliban...
Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar arrived in Afghanistan on Wednesday, a private local television channel reported. | "Hina Rabbani the Foreign Minister of Pakistan arrived in the capital city of Kabul Wednesday morning to talk with Afghan officials," Tolo broadcast in its morning news bulletin.
Pakistani fighter jets bombed the hideouts of two militant commanders along the Afghan border Wednesday, killing up to 31 insurgents, government and security officials said. | One of those killed was reported to be a Pakistani Taliban leader in Orakzai region named Moin ud Din, said one security official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
Accusations in a secret US military report that Pakistan backs the Afghan Taliban are "frivolous", said a senior Pakistani foreign ministry official today. | "We are committed to non-interference in Afghanistan," the official said, responding to the document which Britain's Times of London newspaper reported on.
Medical personnel carry a wounded US soldier to the ambulance in Helmand province on October 27, 2011. Another US-led soldier with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has been killed in an attack in southern Afghanistan...
A secret U.S. military report says that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control over Afghanistan after NATO-led forces withdraw from the country, Britain's Times of London newspaper reported on Wednesday.