U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan on Monday morning on an unannounced visit, as NATO-led coalition forces are pressing an offensive in the nation’s south.
Gates was scheduled to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan.
Coalition forces are battling Taliban fighters around the town of [...]
More than two dozen militants were killed Friday in a Pakistani military airstrike that targeted high-value Taliban leaders, a Pakistani military official told CNN on Saturday.
The strike on militant hideouts in the country’s tribal region killed Taliban leader Fateh Mohammad, Interior Minister Rehman Malik told Pakistani station Express TV.
Taliban commanders Mullah Faqir Mohammad and Qari [...]
KABUL, Afghanistan – The Afghan government has banned news organizations from covering militant attacks while they are occurring, saying media outlets unknowingly help the Taliban through such broadcasts. The National Directorate of Security issued the ban Monday. It prevents news organizations from reporting from the site of an attack until security forces secure the area [...]
Deadly blasts targeting foreigners in the Afghan capital on Friday killed at least 17 people and wounded others.
Among those killed were eight Indians and one Pakistani national, said Kabir Al-Amiri, a coordinator for Kabul Hospital.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks near the Safi Landmark Hotel in the neighborhood of Shahr-E-Naw, where there are a [...]
Authorities raised the Afghan flag over the battle-scarred enclave of Marjah on Thursday, a ceremony symbolizing the presence of the Afghan government in the Taliban stronghold.
The red, black and green banner was hoisted over an area where U.S. and other troops have been fighting the Taliban in Operation Moshtarak — the biggest offensive of the [...]
A militant wanted in connection with an attack on a U.S. consulate in Pakistan four years ago was killed in a missile strike in the country’s tribal region, a Pakistani intelligence official said Thursday.
Qari Mohammad Zafar was among 13 people killed Wednesday in the Dargah Mandi area of North Waziristan.
Authorities had wanted Zafar for questioning [...]
An official at the human rights charity deplores its work with a ‘jihadist’
A SENIOR official at Amnesty International has accused the charity of putting the human rights of Al-Qaeda terror suspects above those of their victims.
Gita Sahgal, head of the gender unit at Amnesty’s international secretariat, believes that collaborating with Moazzam Begg, a former British [...]
CBC.ca US commander in Afghanistan says situation likely to improve Washington Post ISTANBUL — The top US commander in Afghanistan, whose gloomy assessment of the war last summer prompted the White House to boost troop levels, said Thursday that conditions were no longer deteriorating and predicted further … Afghans prepare for NATO assault on Taliban enclave Reuters 32 Taliban, 3 Afghans killed in fighting CNN International Afghan security better, says US BBC News AFP
MiamiHerald.com Afghans prepare for NATO assault on Taliban enclave Reuters CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan (Reuters) – The biggest military operation of US President Barack Obama's new Afghan surge will be a test not just for American troops, but also for the Afghan authorities expected to rush with them into the breach. … U.K
Aljazeera.net Settlement with Taliban possible only if violence ceases: Krishna The Hindu PTI 'With a military solution in Afghanisthan not in sight, the focus must be on the political process”: SM Krishna. File photo India made it clear that any solution to the Afghanistan problem would have to take place under the leadership of its … Karzai appeals to Saudi King to mediate with Taliban Telegraph.co.uk Karzai's Taliban reconciliation strategy raises ethnic, rights concerns at home Washington Post Afghan leader cancels meeting with Muslim body Reuters Sydney Morning Herald
