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provinces of Afghanistan:
Long War Journal
October 12, 2008
Times Online
October 12, 2008
However, an attempt to overrun a small US base in the eastern
province of Nuristan in July came close to succeeding. Nine
US soldiers died and more than 50 ...
An attempt to threaten Kandahar City in 2005 saw NATO forces kill up to 1200 Taleban fighters during a Western counter operation named 'Medusa'. ...
Times Online
October 11, 2008
Last week I sat perched inside a Chinook flying over
Helmand, trussed up in flak jacket and helmet, squashed between some Royal Marines arriving for a ...
For 15 years Ahmed Bachar looked after the children of the province of Logar - orphans and those whose fathers had lost legs or eyes to the war that has ...
Daily Times
October 11, 2008
The suicide bomber detonated his
explosives beside the convoy in the Dihrawud district of
Uruzgan province, provincial police chief Juma Gul Himat said. ...
In addition, Taliban briefly took control of Qalandar district in eastern Khost province, provincial police chief Abdul Qayom Bakinoi said. ...
Registan.net
October 11, 2008
For example, the strictly obeyed exclusion of women from the public sphere in
Paktia contradicts the idea of gender-equal communal participation. ...
... warn that the arbakai-tribal militias meant to enforce decisions by a jirga-are only relevant in the Loya Paktya area: Paktya, Paktika, and Khost. ...
Sydney Morning Herald
October 11, 2008
One
Taliban militant,
Ghazni Mohammad, worked as the contact point between the Taliban group and the policemen, it added. The plan was to launch a series of ...
In a similar plot in June, Taliban suicide bombers blew open Kandahar City's main prison, killing 15 prison guards and allowing 1100 prisoners, ...
Financial Express
October 11, 2008
From 'Poplino', the Italian eatery to '
Herat', the Afghan kebab resto, here mobile phones jostle for space with money exchangers and book sellers. ...
After a lovely tour of the Ka Faroshi Bird market, my Afghan driver, Ghulam, insisted his mother is the best cook this side of the Panjshir valley. ...
Times of India
October 12, 2008
CBC.ca
October 12, 2008
Xinhua
October 12, 2008
Kabul, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- The top UN envoy to
Afghanistan in a Sunday statement hailed the reshuffle of Afghan cabinet announced by Afghan President Hamid ...
Washington Post
October 12, 2008
Earthtimes (press release)
October 12, 2008
More than 4000 people - mostly
Insurgents - have been killed in
Afghanistan conflicts so far this year, according figures provided by Afghan and ...
Daily Times
October 11, 2008
Sources privy to the meeting told Daily Times that the meeting reviewed the security situation in all four provinces and the steps taken by the authorities ...
Daily Times
October 11, 2008
Hindustan Times
October 11, 2008
Former governor of southern
Kandahar province Assadullah Khalid was appointed minister for parliamentary affairs. provinces, which is also a main hotbed for ...
Tehran Times
October 11, 2008
Twenty-seven people have been killed in a suicide
car bomb attack at a meeting of tribal elders in a restive region of
Pakistan near the Afghan border. ...
Times Online
October 11, 2008
And, unlike the
Iraqis, the Afghan people wanted us there. When British troops arrived in force, in what we all described as "the lawless province of ...
Voice of America
October 11, 2008
Reuters India
October 11, 2008
"The administration is considering whether
the United States should devote more effort to working directly with tribal leaders in far-flung provinces, ...
Islam Online
October 11, 2008
Xinhua
October 11, 2008
Tehran Times
October 11, 2008
A missile from a suspected US unmanned
aircraft (drone) has killed at least six people in a Pakistani tribal area close to
Afghanistan, reports say. ...
Los Angeles Times
October 11, 2008
Daily Times
October 11, 2008
The talk in
Afghanistan of sitting down with the Afghan
Taliban and thrashing out a solution to the conflict is now overt. To nudge the initiative forward, ...
Yass Tribune
October 11, 2008
"We need more troops everywhere, but particularly in the southern provinces, that's where its most dangerous," he said. "Without change, at best progress ...
New York Times
October 11, 2008
According to the recent
United Nations survey, 98 percent of
Afghanistan's opium comes from seven provinces in the southwest, with no opium at all produced ...
Sydney Morning Herald
October 10, 2008
And there is growing recognition among coalition forces that victory in
Afghanistan is unlikely. It is a view reinforced by a weak and corrupt Afghan ...
Dallas Morning News
October 10, 2008
No longer content to just cross into
Afghanistan to kill
American soldiers, the militants have begun to challenge the government itself. ...
Toronto Star
October 10, 2008
Reuters India
October 10, 2008
Kabul, Oct 10 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed a provincial intelligence officer and wounded three policemen in an attack in the eastern Afghan province ...
New York Times
October 10, 2008
Zabiullah Majahid, front, of the
Taliban, led his group in the mountains of
Helmand province. By ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON - With security and economic ...
Asia Times Online
October 10, 2008
Waliur Rahman works out of
Pakistan's
Bajaur Agency - a tribal area situated near the border with the
Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nooristan. ...
PRESS TV
October 10, 2008
Earthtimes (press release)
October 10, 2008
Telegraph.co.uk
October 10, 2008
Afghanistan's lawless southern provinces, including
Helmand where British troops are stationed, are the centre of worldwide opium and heroin production. ...
Sydney Morning Herald
October 10, 2008
"We need more troops everywhere, but particularly in the southern provinces, that's where its most dangerous," he said. "Without change, at best progress ...
Los Angeles Times
October 10, 2008
Many enjoy great influence in their home provinces, with some fielding private
militias or gaining wealth from the opium trade. Any broad effort to train ...
Irish Times
October 10, 2008
A suicide bomber killed a provincial intelligence officer and wounded three policemen in the eastern Afghan
province of Khost today. ...
Telegraph.co.uk
October 10, 2008
Yet it is these
US soldiers, stationed in a cluster of six provinces from fertile
Khost to the border badlands of
Paktika, that are at the sharp end of the ...
Washington Post
October 10, 2008
Trend News Agency
October 9, 2008
Afghanistan,
Kabul, 9 October /Trend News corr. A.Hakimi/
Taliban rebels attacked on coalition forces on 9 October. Goulamnabi Charhi, chief of police in ...
Reuters India
October 9, 2008
FARAH - Afghan and foreign troops killed as many as six
Taliban militants during a sweep in
Bakwa district, some 650 km (400 miles) west of
Kabul on ...
Daily Times
October 9, 2008
The Afghan
Taliban movement has splintered into three groups: Taliban forces linked to Omar but based in
Afghanistan and engaged in the fighting; ...
Times Online
October 9, 2008
The leaked US intelligence report said the heroin trade accounted for 50 per cent of the Afghan economy. It also cast doubt on whether
President Karzai, ...
Voice of America
October 9, 2008
Xinhua
October 9, 2008
