Fri. November 20, 2009
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Sampan
November 20, 2009
Not only was the
US Army fighting against
al-Qaeda at the beginning of the war, but they also were fighting the
Taliban and other insurgent groups. ...
Reuters
November 20, 2009
GENEVA (Reuters) - Eight years after a US-led invasion ousted the
Taliban from power in
Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most ...
Long War Journal
November 20, 2009
Indian Express
November 20, 2009
The principal argument advanced to justify this focus is that
the US needs the cooperation of
Pakistani generals to counter Al -Qaeda and the
Taliban ...
Times of India
November 20, 2009
PTI 20 November 2009, 12:53pm IST WASHINGTON: Fearing that
Taliban supremo
Mullah Omar might be targetted by US
drones,
Pakistan's ISI has helped him to ...
USA Today
November 20, 2009
That means it may prove easier than previously thought to make
peace with some
Taliban Insurgents through job projects and other economic development ...
CNN International
November 20, 2009
Atmar said security has improved in some provinces and deteriorated in others, but he's confident the Taliban can be defeated. "We have to show the resolve, ...
Winnipeg Sun
November 20, 2009
Colvin is a
Taliban dupe. They cleverly fed him fairy tales about
torture in hopes that he would one day appear before Parliament and offer potentially ...
Reuters
November 20, 2009
Boston Globe
November 19, 2009
Withdrawing and allowing the Taliban to retake the country replicates the deadly pre-9/11 status quo. Adding 40000 troops and attempting to win over local ...
Long War Journal
November 19, 2009
The ties between the brothers in
al Qaeda and brothers in the
Taliban have increased. The affection between them has increased. The Iman-based brotherhood ...
Monsters and Critics.com
November 19, 2009
NATO has been present in
Afghanistan for nearly over eight years, helping the
Afghan Army fight the
Taliban insurgency through its International Security ...
Reuters
November 19, 2009
GENEVA, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Eight years after a US-led invasion ousted the
Taliban from power in
Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is ...
Xinhua
November 19, 2009
Los Angeles Times
November 19, 2009
The attack on a bustling courthouse is the 10th
bombing in six weeks in the city as
Taliban militants retaliate for a Pakistani offensive along the Afghan ...
Asia Times Online
November 19, 2009
Nonetheless, after decades of war and the ouster of the Taliban in 2001, most Afghans welcomed help from Westerners. They were seen, if only quite warily, ...
Pajamas Media (blog)
November 19, 2009
Toronto Sun
November 19, 2009
DAWN.com
November 19, 2009
File photo WANA: The
Pakistani Taliban once again warned against the government's offensive against them and reiterated that they would fight the
Pakistan ...
Dallas Morning News
November 19, 2009
It takes time to weigh the options of boosting troop levels to match a growing Taliban threat, to muddle through with existing levels or to begin ...
Xinhua
November 19, 2009
These points included integration of insurgent
Taliban into the Afghan national mainstream, building the capacity of the
Afghan government to handle the ...
New York Times
November 19, 2009
Since the beginning of the Afghan war in 2001, more than 920
American soldiers have died out of a total of 1520 allied troops killed fighting the
Taliban. ...
World Socialist Web Site
November 19, 2009
New Delhi claims that
Pakistan's military-intelligence establishment continues to patronize the
Taliban, whose rise to power in the mid-1990s took place ...
Times of India
November 19, 2009
Tehran: British forces stationed in
Afghanistan have been issued new guidelines, asking them to buy off potential
Taliban recruits with "bags of gold". ...
Daily Mail
November 19, 2009
The Taliban are, of course, murderous ultra-reactionaries. So the phrase 'Turnip Taliban' wonderfully captures that combination of idiocy and blinkered ...
Mirror.co.uk
November 19, 2009
David Miliband yesterday insisted the lengthy and bloody battle against the Taliban would not be a war without end. ...
Salt Lake Tribune
November 19, 2009
Everyone understands that as the
Americans and their allies leave
Afghanistan, civil war will certainly ensue and the
Taliban could once again emerge ...
BBC News
November 19, 2009
The
Pakistan Army says it has captured most of the main
Taliban bases in
South Waziristan but it has come at a price. Over the last six weeks a wave of ...
New York Times
November 19, 2009
The
Taliban has claimed responsibility for most of the
bombings and has warned of further attacks. Government, military and security agencies have been the ...
GroundReport
November 18, 2009
Taleban attacks focused on southern
Afghanistan, and the overland routes via which Coalition forces brought in fuel and ammunition from
Pakistan. ...
Edmonton Journal
November 18, 2009
A big challenge has been to convince young
soldiers who crave combat that there is a better way to succeed in the notoriously unstable
Taliban heartland. ...
NME.com
November 18, 2009
... swoop after his friend Matthew Newton was one of four people arrested on
Monday (November 16) for allegedly plotting to recruit British
Taliban members. ...
Reuters
November 18, 2009
Daily News & Analysis
November 18, 2009
army officials said that they have killed as many as 550
Taliban militants a month after the military began its campaign into the lawless territory, ...
Xinhua
November 17, 2009
Daily Times
November 17, 2009
Peshawar: The
Taliban on
tuesday blew up a girls' school in
Khyber Agency on Tuesday, the third such attack in the Tribal Areas so far this month, ...
guardian.co.uk
November 17, 2009
By which he means the
tactical use of counterinsurgency principles for two or three years in the hope that elements of the
Taliban would be prepared to talk ...
