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Sat. November 21, 2009

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David Petraeus, commander of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, estimated at a conference this month that there are now Taliban shadow governments operating ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Eight years after a US-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most ...
Southern Afghanistan is the birthplace of the Taliban movement, and Kandahar, the region's main city, is a key strategic target of the insurgency. ...

He became a parliament member in the post-Taliban country. Sayaf, an ethnic Pashtun, supported the incumbent Afghan President Hamid Karzai during this ...
Lahore: Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar has fled Quetta and has found refuge from potential US attacks in Karachi, with assistance of the ISI. ...
Stanley McChrystal, the US commander in Afghanistan: Don't send additional forces to protect Afghan cities, but send them to outposts along the Pakistani ...
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%. ...
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, ...
One-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban recently found refuge from potential US attacks in Karachi with Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) ...
... in Afghanistan, and Mullah Dadullah Akhund, the former military commander of the Afghan Taliban (he was killed by British special forces in May 2007). ...
To complicate matters further, many Pakistani leaders now argue that their country needs a strong Taliban in Afghanistan to offset the rising Indian ...
"Some Afghan Taliban may be committed to global jihad. But the vast majority is not. Their primary commitment is to tribe and to locality. ...
GENEVA, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Eight years after a US-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 has been present in Afghanistan for nearly over eight years, helping the Afghan Army fight the Taliban insurgency through its International Security ...
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 ...
militant attacks have surged in the northwest since Pakistan launched a major anti-Taliban offensive in the lawless tribal region of South Waziristan in ...
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 ...
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 ...
These scarce resources should instead be focused on the more peaceful districts of Afghanistan. Build an Afghan partner: Increase the size and capabilities ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kabul: Local security forces backed by NATO troops killed more than three dozen Taliban in a series of military operations across Afghanistan, Afghan ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Afghan troops killed two Taliban commanders and detained six other militants during an operation in northern Kunduz province, said the press statement of ...
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 Pakistani Taliban would likely be energized, armed and financed by the Afghan Taliban as they pursue their own revolutionary ambitions in Islamabad. ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
The leaders of the Afghan Taliban warned against the Pakistani Taliban mounting attacks against their own state, precisely because they were mindful of the ...
... 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. ...


 


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