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The main concern of the parliamentarians was that US activity so close to a Pakistani nuclear facility could jeopardize Pakistan's nuclear assets. ...

The main American asset in the North-West Frontier Province is Asfan

Rather than destroying Taliban sanctuaries or attacking the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Taliban center in South Waziristan, all focus has been on Bajaur - where a ...

Following the arrival of American "training advisory groups", British military personnel were flown in and have reportedly taken over management of the ...

... of Jaish-i-Islami Pakistan, a militant outfit which is attached to the umbrella organization Pakistan Tehrik-i-Taliban led by Baitullah Mehsud. ...

There was also concern expressed by the BBC that the political situations in Sudan, Nigeria, Angola and Equatorial Guinea, all oil-rich states, ...

The US military base in Djibouti has existed since at least 2002, when the Bush administration began to place greater emphasis on the Horn of Africa, ...

There was also concern expressed by the BBC that the political situations in Sudan, Nigeria, Angola and Equatorial Guinea, all oil-rich states, ...

... Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia and Kenya; the European Command (Eucom), which covered other states on the continent; and the Pacific Command (Pacom), ...

(Kenya Daily Nation, Sept. 13, 2007) Prior to the creation of Africom, the US military command structure in Africa was divided among three other regions: ...

The plan is controversial because it could extend the influ

The new Afghan strategy is being crafted as new intelligence assessments conclude that Afghanistan is spiraling downward in part because of the government's ...

The site was near a seminary of veteran Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani, considered an archenemy of the US al-Qaida and Taliban militants have used ...

But US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who is in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss the Afghanistan war with NATO defense ministers, said Thursday the US would ...

Any broad effort to train tribal militias probably would have US military forces working with Taliban sympathizers. But US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, ...

... this year and it will be tougher next year unless we adjust," Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff, told reporters Thursday. ...

The fate of the SoI goes to fundamental issues of trust and reconciliation and the sectarian and ethnic games that are - or are not - being played in the ...

the White House has been incredibly slow to grasp the reality of the unremitting chaos in Afghanistan. But with its most senior Intelligence Analysts now ...

Other factors were at play, but many observers de

Factions associated with the Sunni SoI and with al-Sadr's Mahdi Army claim that they are victims of political assassinations. Sunnis boycotted the last ...

But officials in the Bush administration pushed for a large cut as proof for American voters of the surge's success - otherwise the incoming ...

... defenders see a semblance of control, described as a "new fluidity" by an author of the strategy, Frederick Kagan, of the American Enterprise Institute. ...

See article Abdullah Badawi, Malaysia's prime minister, confirmed he will stand down next March. He hopes the leadership will pass to his deputy, ...

As expected, following the collapse of the ruling coalition, Ukraine's president, Viktor Yushchenko, dissolved parliament and called an election, ...

The Afghan Taliban are based in Pakistan but focused on Afghanistan, as are the forces led by Jalaluddin Haqqani, his son Siraj and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, ...

Traditional tribal groups in FATA are a third element and are believed to be focused primarily on keeping the Pakistan Army and government out of their ...

al Qaeda, composed largely of Arabs and, increasingly, Uzbeks, Chechens and other Central Asians, is described as sitting atop the structure, ...

A review of the Afghanistan policy - and as it affects Pakistan - is said to be in hand and expected to be completed in weeks, while presidential candidates ...

Terrorist states are seeking nuclear weapons without delay ... he (Obama) wants to meet them without preconditions. al Qaeda terrorists still plot to ...

Ms. Palin compared her presidential candidate Senator John McCain as a person who will combat terrorism to protect the United States and the free world to ...

In this Asian Tribune analysis there are many lessons the Asian Region nations could learn and where they stand in relation to policies of the United States ...

According to Obama's senior foreign policy adviser Anthony Lake, Barack Ob

... set up a potential political showdown on something the world is watching: how the next US administration will fight the so-called "War On Terrorism". ...

Roads leading out of Kabul considered safe six months ago are now controlled by the Taliban. Afghan legislators from Ghazni, a province next to Kabul, ...

In Helmand province, the British commander maintains that they have "taken the sting out of the Taliban for 2008". But Gulab Mangal, the governor of Helmand ...

... that the modified objective in Afghanistan should be to reduce the level of fighting to a "low level insurgency" that Afghan Security Forces can handle. ...

(The State Department says the Afghan government's condition is renunciation of violence and adherence to the Constitution.) This is a position that has ...