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Mon. October 06, 2008

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The involvement of Indian agents in the troubled provinces of Pakistan and Afghanistan and its support to the anti-Pashtun Northern Alliance has raised some ...

However, he said the Afghan government is in favour of negotiation to stop violence. The General Commanding NATO forces in Afghanistan called on Afghan ...

During 2007 and 2008, the record of raw Opium production in Afghanistan reached the level of an estimated 8200 tonnes. In the same period, the Taliban-led ...

The coalition can assist in these reforms by "embedding" Western civilian experts in law, government and business management at every level of the Afghan ...

July alone saw a brazen attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, the deaths of nine Americans at a combat outpost in Nuristan and the killing of 10 French ...

Although larger and more populous than Iraq, Afghanistan has fewer than half the coalition forces, and critical programs to advise the Afghan National Army ...

Neither the Drug Enforcement Administration, which conducts counternarcotics efforts in Afghanistan, nor the fledgling Afghan anti-drug agency has pursued ...

... officials from the White House, the State Department and the United States embassy in Afghanistan, who would speak only on the condition of anonymity. ...

... instead citing limited DEA resources in Kandahar and southern Afghanistan and the absence of political will in the Afghan government to go after major ...

WASHINGTON, DC - Coalition forces killed five enemy fighters in operations Oct. 3, targeting al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorist networks in eastern Afghanistan. ...

In other operations in Afghanistan, one civilian was killed and four others wounded in the village of Matin in Pech District, Konar province, yesterday when ...

For what the US might countenance unilaterally in its global campaign against terrorism (albeit in simultaneously protecting Afghanistan and those ...

Afghanistan's security, sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity are deemed particularly crucial areas for US-Afghan cooperation. ...

... of the UN Security Council aimed at undertaking reconstruction, nation-building and security stabilisation in cooperation with the Afghan government. ...

They feature Jihadist songs, chants and stories of Muslims being abused in US-run prisons at Bagram Air Force Base outside Kabul and Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. ...

These issue warnings or directions and are used to intimidate those who may cooperate with the Afghan government. Because the vast majority of Afghans are ...

Naseer Fayez, a well-known TV presenter in Kabul, was jailed for two days by Afghanistan's combined FBI and CIA, the National Directorate of Security, ...

In June, Afghan reporter Abdul Samad Rohani was killed in Helmand while investigating a story for the BBC on the opium trade. The Taliban, usually quick to ...

Death threats and intimidation are not limited to the provinces, though. Naseer Fayez, a well-known TV presenter in Kabul, was jailed for two days by ...

The patrol moves through the mud-brick village of Solt Magarb. "The Australians are on patrol through largely agricultural area. People tending their crops. ...

The Taliban once controlled Uruzgan province with a vice-like grip, but now there are only pockets of resistance. Danger remains though, in the form of ...

Once this dusty corner of Uruzgan Province was teeming with Taliban, now coalition forces have driven most of them out. But Commander Dirago says the threat ...

"They are preparing for the winter season so at this stage they look to plant poppy seed which then gets incubated by the snow over winter," he said. ". ...

"I don't think you would ever say that any area in Afghanistan is free of Taliban. The Taliban influence on the area is greatly moved. ...

The recent (2006-07) creation of the United National Front (UNF) party - essentially a new incarnation of the old Northern Alliance - Qed by former ...

Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan rose from 104000 hectares in 2005, to 161000 hectares in 2006, to 193000 hectares in 2007, despite the fact that 13 ...

One reality is that ISAF has only some 47000 troops on the ground in Afghanistan, and not all of those are along the Pakistan-Afghan border. ...

Moreover, quite separately from anything which could be blamed on Pakistan, the Afghan Helmand province is home to a significant proportion of ISAF troops ...

Clearly, if the bulk of the Afghan economy is narcotics driven, then the ability of either the Afghan government or ISAF to control the situation is limited ...

... and weapons being offered, tantalizingly, by the new generation of minor and major Afghani warlords, or their own maliks, the tribal chiefs or elders. ...

Wardak province: Haji Mulla and 10 of his men - members of Afghanistan's fierce Taliban militia - are in heated discussion, their guns against the wall of a ...

Civilians had also been killed and labeled 'terrorists', he adds. These are regular complaints in Afghanistan with hundreds detained in US military bases, ...

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A soldier was killed and three others injured when their platoon entered a minefield in Afghanistan that was unmarked despite being identified as dangerous ...
If Afghanistan and Iraq have demonstrated one point over another, it is that the quantity theory of counterinsurgency is very unsoundly based. ...
Kabul: Strong earthquakes measuring 5.9 and 6.6 on the Richter scale hit central Afghanistan and Tibet respectively on Monday but there were no immediate ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says it's up to the government of Afghanistan to decide if it wants to embark on a negotiated peace with the Taliban. ...
Sometime soon, seven years after it invaded Afghanistan, the Bush administration is expected to settle on a new policy to stabilize that still-fragile ...
Now, though, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, the commander of the United Kingdom's military forces in Afghanistan, has told the Times "that, in his opinion, ...
Flexing their muscle is one way of looking at the Taliban's resurgence in Pakistans' Northwest Frontier Province, bordering Afghanistan, where the Pakistan ...
Australia's Defence Minister has backed a British brigidier's assessment that the war in Afghanistan may not lead to a 'decisive military victory'. ...
OTTAWA - Afghanistan will never be completely free of an insurgency, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday, echoing the top British commander who said ...
By Abdul Haleem Kabul, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan's Election Commission on Monday commenced voter registration for the upcoming presidential election ...
The Afghan government said it was hoping for peace talks with the insurgent Taliban movement but denied a media report that a first round of negotiations ...
By Kristin Roberts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - the United States has asked Japan and NATO allies who have refused to send troops to Afghanistan to pay the ...
With just four weeks left until decision day, John McCain and his campaign kicked the week off by attacking Barack Obama on Afghanistan. ...
Washington - The military is expanding the number of airplanes for reconnaissance and surveillance in Iraq and Afghanistan in response to demands from the ...
... aimed at changing the approach of operations in the North-West Frontier Province and the area along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border under US pressure. ...
... Joel Fitzgibbon has raised concerns that the economic meltdown in the United States will inhibit the number of troops the country sends to Afghanistan. ...
the US has ramped up cross-border strikes that target alleged al-Qaeda and Taleban hideouts in Pakistan's tribal regions bordering Afghanistan. ave killed ...
By Our Special Correspondent London, Oct 5: The UK's commander in Helmand has dampened Britain's hopes of a "decisive military victory" in Afghanistan ...
By Jon Hemming Kabul (Reuters) - Afghanistan began registering voters on Monday for elections due next year that will test support for President Hamid ...
Kabul, Afghanistan - Mirza Kunduzai, 58, a slight man with a short white goatee, had almost reached his house after a day of trading in the capital's ...
By Jim Riggio Clear Channel Online A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit central Afghanistan early Monday morning. The quake hit at 6:56 eastern standard time ...
San Francisco - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin called Afghanistan "our neighboring country" on Sunday in a speech that could revive ...
... Services are volunteering their time to gather shipments of shoes, small toys and personal items for civilians and US soldiers in Afghanistan. ...
By VOA News NATO says coalition soldiers have captured a suspected senior Taliban commander in Afghanistan without firing a shot. ...
the US spy agencies and forces in Afghanistan had even collected 'proof' of leaks by the ISI of operations plans to the Taliban. It needs mention here that ...
Cpl. Michael Farrah, 23, suffered head injuries when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle in southern Afghanistan. ...
In a discussion of what to do in Afghanistan, Palin said supreme commander of US forces "McClellan did not say definitively the surge principles would not ...
Both President Karzai and Ahmed Wali Karzai, now the chief of the Kandahar Provincial Council, the governing body for the region that includes Afghanistan's ...
By Con Coughlin The admission by the commander of British forces in Afghanistan that the war against the Taliban cannot be won will inevitably lead to ...
Western forces in Afghanistan will never be able to win the war against Insurgents and may need to include the Taliban in any long-term solution, ...
The bombing of Islamabad's Marriott Hotel puts into stark relief the clash of values between Pakistan's sovereignty, Afghanistan's security and the ...
But General David Petraeus will find pacifying the Taleban a tougher job still Can the Petraeus magic work in Afghanistan? is the question being asked in ...
Friends and family have gathered at Ohakea Air Force base this morning to see off a contingent of 129 Defence Force personnel to Afghanistan. ...
Letter writer Andrew MacDonald writes about wanting "stories that cast other lights on our motives from being there (Afghanistan) other than the ...
The war in Afghanistan cannot be won, Britain's most senior military commander in the country has warned. By Caroline Gammell Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith ...
Decisive military victory in Afghanistan is impossible and the Taliban may have to be part of a long-term solution for the country, the UK's senior ...
Taliban leader Mullah Omar quickly rejected Karzai's offer and claimed the US was headed toward the same kind of catastrophic defeat in Afghanistan that the ...
Iran, Syria and Afghanistan had all been trying to get the seat. Early this month, Iran announced withdrawing from the competition and turning to support ...
The day that happens across Afghanistan is the day we lose the war. With more than 230 military deaths since January, this year is on track to be the ...

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