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Taliban (Taleban, Talaban) in Afghanistan

Sat. November 21, 2009

Obama Weighs Troop Increase in Afghanistan

U.S. News & World Report
November 21, 2009

David Petraeus, commander of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, estimated at a conference this month that there are now Taliban shadow governments operating ...

Afghanistan is world's worst place to be born: U.N.

Reuters
November 21, 2009

GENEVA (Reuters) - Eight years after a US-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most ...

U.S. Afghanistan debate curbs Gates on Canada visit

Los Angeles Times
November 21, 2009

Southern Afghanistan is the birthplace of the Taliban movement, and Kandahar, the region's main city, is a key strategic target of the insurgency. ...

Afghan official escapes attack, 4 guards killed

Xinhua
November 21, 2009

He became a parliament member in the post-Taliban country. Sayaf, an ethnic Pashtun, supported the incumbent Afghan President Hamid Karzai during this ...

Mullah Omar now in Karachi: WT

Daily Times
November 21, 2009

Lahore: Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar has fled Quetta and has found refuge from potential US attacks in Karachi, with assistance of the ISI. ...

Pakistan recommends US negotiate with Taliban

Fort Worth Star Telegram
November 21, 2009

Stanley McChrystal, the US commander in Afghanistan: Don't send additional forces to protect Afghan cities, but send them to outposts along the Pakistani ...

US-run prison in Afghanistan holds few Taliban diehards

USA Today
November 20, 2009

The militant group offers its foot soldiers better salaries than the Afghan Army in some cases, and unemployment in Afghanistan is as high as 40%. ...

Q+A: What is Afghanistan's loya jirga; what does it do?

Reuters
November 20, 2009

WHAT HAVE In June 2002, seven months after the Taliban were ousted by US and Afghan forces, Karzai, already appointed interim leader in a UN-led conference, ...

ISI helped Taliban supremo Mullah Omar flee from Quetta to Karachi

Times of India
November 20, 2009

One-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban recently found refuge from potential US attacks in Karachi with Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) ...

Dadullah and Yazid on ties between al Qaeda and the Taliban

Long War Journal
November 19, 2009

... in Afghanistan, and Mullah Dadullah Akhund, the former military commander of the Afghan Taliban (he was killed by British special forces in May 2007). ...

From Kabul to Kashmir

Indian Express
November 19, 2009

To complicate matters further, many Pakistani leaders now argue that their country needs a strong Taliban in Afghanistan to offset the rising Indian ...

Edinburgh meeting makes NATO action plan for Afghanistan more vivid

Xinhua
November 19, 2009

"Some Afghan Taliban may be committed to global jihad. But the vast majority is not. Their primary commitment is to tribe and to locality. ...

Afghanistan is world's worst place to be born-UN

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 ...

Laying Out the Stakes in Afghanistan

The AtlanticWire (blog)
November 19, 2009

Successes by the Afghanistan Taliban would greatly empower such groups to launch more and bigger attacks. India would have no choice but to respond with ...

Suicide bomber kills 18 in Pakistan's Peshawar

Reuters
November 19, 2009

The city, near the Afghan border, has been targeted several times since the army began an offensive against the Taliban in South Waziristan last month and ...

ANALYSIS-Obama walks tricky line on Afghan 'exit strategy'

Reuters
November 19, 2009

Afghanistan's Taliban militants, fighting to unseat the US-backed government of President Hamid Karzai, may also take hope from the suggestion that US ...

NATO welcomes Karzai's second term, demands corruption clampdown

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 ...

Canada hears of Afghan 'torture'

BBC News
November 19, 2009

His testimony has raised serious allegations about Canada's role in the transfer of prisoners in Afghanistan. Mr Colvin wasted no time in making his central ...

At Least 18 Reported Dead in Pakistan Blast

Voice of America
November 19, 2009

militant attacks have surged in the northwest since Pakistan launched a major anti-Taliban offensive in the lawless tribal region of South Waziristan in ...

Suicide bomber kills at least 15 in Pakistan

Reuters
November 19, 2009

The city near the Afghan border has been targeted several times since the army began an offensive against the Taliban in South Waziristan last month and ...

How Did Pakistan Militant Fazalullah Escape to Afghanistan?

GroundReport
November 18, 2009

I wrote about reports coming from Nuristan province of Afghanistan, where Afghan Taliban commander Zai ur Rehman is in full control after the withdrawal of ...

Fixing a Failed Strategy in Afghanistan

Huffington Post (blog)
November 18, 2009

These scarce resources should instead be focused on the more peaceful districts of Afghanistan. Build an Afghan partner: Increase the size and capabilities ...

Report: Afghan Conflict Driven by Poverty

Voice of America
November 18, 2009

He adds the Taliban, which came third on the list, is only one of many players impacting the lives of Afghanistan's people. "They have been subject to ...

The pros and cons of talking to the Taliban

CBC.ca
November 18, 2009

But here he was assuring me that he had just the one, as if it were his badge of honour as an enlightened Afghan male. Afghanistan is such a tense country ...

More than three dozen Taliban killed across Afghanistan

Daily Times
November 18, 2009

Kabul: Local security forces backed by NATO troops killed more than three dozen Taliban in a series of military operations across Afghanistan, Afghan ...

Karzai back at helm, with a battered image

msnbc.com
November 18, 2009

When Karzai emerged as the leader of Afghanistan in the wake of the US-led invasion and ouster of the Taliban rulers in 2001, he was seen as having the ...

Taliban commander: We're fighting for 'independence'

msnbc.com
November 18, 2009

In Pakistan, the issue is raised every day in the press and on the streets: Have the Afghan Taliban moved their power base from Kandahar and set-up shop in ...

More on what if we fail in Afghanistan?

Foreign Policy
November 18, 2009

The ISI, as a rule, still backs the 'Afghan Taliban.' The loose coalition of militants that exists in FATA and NWFP that are known as the 'Pakistani ...

On China visit, Obama can't distance himself from Afghanistan

Washington Post
November 18, 2009

In China, which shares a 47-mile border with Afghanistan and is heavily invested in an Afghan copper mine, senior party officials are concerned that a ...

US public backs Obama in Afghan war

Aljazeera.net
November 18, 2009

A poll in the US has found that the majority of Americans are confident that Barack Obama's future strategy for the war in Afghanistan will be successful. ...

Joint Afghan and ISAF troops detained and killed Taliban

La Specula
November 18, 2009

Afghan troops killed two Taliban commanders and detained six other militants during an operation in northern Kunduz province, said the press statement of ...

Miliband: We can end this

The Sun
November 18, 2009

He said: "Some Afghan Taliban may be committed to global jihad. But the vast majority are not. Their primary commitment is to tribe and to locality. ...

The price of failure in Afghanistan

Reuters Blogs (blog)
November 18, 2009

The Pakistani Taliban would likely be energized, armed and financed by the Afghan Taliban as they pursue their own revolutionary ambitions in Islamabad. ...

George Packer: US "Turned our Backs" on Afghanistan

CBS News
November 17, 2009

"The question is would the Taliban actually be capable of providing a competition within Afghanistan for the support of the people" if the Afghan government ...

INTERVIEW-Afghanistan to be polio-free within two years-WHO

Reuters
November 17, 2009

The main Taliban strongholds are in the south and, in some cases, insurgent leaders restrict entry of the teams. However, Graaff said the Afghan Taliban ...

Time and Taliban

Global Security
November 17, 2009

What the outcome of all this will be is unclear, but Pakistani disenchantment with the Taliban can greatly complicating Afghan Taliban use of safe areas. ...

India to overlook Karzai taint, Krishna to attend inauguration

Economic Times
November 17, 2009

Even as US President Barack Obama debates sending more troops to Afghanistan, New Delhi has warned that failure to act against Taliban and al Qaeda could ...

Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Another way out of the mire

guardian.co.uk
November 17, 2009

The leaders of the Afghan Taliban warned against the Pakistani Taliban mounting attacks against their own state, precisely because they were mindful of the ...

Editorial: The CIA-ISI connection

Daily Times
November 16, 2009

... to the abandonment of Afghanistan in 1989 by the US and the West, the ISI nevertheless continues to support the Afghan Taliban remains a moot point. ...