Articles tagged with: “Afghanistan”
Suspected US drone strike kills 8 in Pakistan
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan — A suspected US missile attack targeting Al-Qaeda-linked militants killed eight people in Pakistan's mountains on the Afghan border as CIA chief Leon ...
Specter Opposes Adding Troops in Afghanistan
On a blogger conference call this afternoon, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) announced he can’t support a potential addition of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. “We ought ...
Why Pakistan Won't Fight the Afghan Taliban
President Barack Obama is about to announce his new strategy for Afghanistan, but the success of whatever option he chooses will depend heavily on Pakistan ...
History Promises Disaster in Afghanistan for Blind America
If President Obama has ever heard of William L. Shirer, chances are it's in connection with Nazi Germany. Nowadays, you can't make assumptions about what ...
Afghans say President Karzai's five-year handover is not soon enough
"People hate the Americans from the bottom of their hearts," Haji Akhtar Mohammed Shinwari said as he recalled how the US military had brought death ...
The fallout of Quetta drones
Jane Mayer of The New Yorker magazine revealed in October edition, that the number of US predator drone strikes on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border by the ...
Afghanistan is world's worst place to be born: U.N.
GENEVA - Eight years after a U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most dangerous place in the ...
Two US Soldiers Killed In Afghan Blast As Karzai Sworn In - NATO
KABUL (AFP) -- Two U.S. soldiers were killed by a car bomb in southern Afghanistan Thursday, at the same time Afghan President Hamid Karzai was ...
U.S. headed for Vietnam War-like disaster in Afghanistan, two experts warn
TORONTO — The United States is being dragged into a bloody Vietnam War-like morass because of a misguided obsession with establishing a national government in ...
Canada shamed on Afghan prisoner torture
OTTAWA–A senior diplomat delivered a series of explosive allegations to a rapt House of Commons committee Wednesday, telling MPs that Afghan prisoners transferred by Canadians ...
Stealing Money, Selling Heroin and Raping Boys -- The Very Dark Side of the Afghan Occupation
Just when President Barack Obama looked as if he might be railroaded into sending tens of thousands more US troops to Afghanistan the American envoy ...
Afghan detainees surrendered by Canada were tortured: Envoy
OTTAWA — A senior Canadian diplomat said he was on orders from his Ottawa superiors to leave no paper trail about his allegations that Canada ...
Soviet lessons from Afghanistan
All the most senior ministers were at the Afghan strategy meeting. They knew things were not going well, but from their leader there was a ...
CA Dems to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan
The California Democratic Party just sent a loud message to President Obama, who is pondering the next U.S. move in Afghanistan: Get out.The state's Dems ...
Obama Says Afghan Strategy Will Include Path to Exit
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said he is "very close" to deciding on a new course for the war in Afghanistan that will ...
Gen. Wesley Clark calls for exit from Afghanistan
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark -- the onetime Democratic candidate for president -- told Congress Tuesday in little-reported remarks that the United States should begin planning ...
Afghan minister accused of taking bribe
KABUL -- The Afghan minister of mines accepted a roughly $30 million bribe to award the country's largest development project to a Chinese mining firm, ...
Afghanistan, Iraq among the world's most corrupt
BERLIN — Afghanistan and Iraq, countries that receive billions of dollars a year in international support, are among the world's most corrupt nations, a watchdog ...
Army tells its soldiers to 'bribe' the Taleban
British forces should buy off potential Taleban recruits with “bags of gold”, according to a new army field manual published yesterday. Army commanders should also ...
UK leaders fear anger of frustrated army families
Number 99 arrives tomorrow. The 100th repatriation procession to pass through Wootton Bassett may follow within the week. As the cortege containing the bodies of ...
Where have all the protests gone? US students in limbo
WASHINGTON — When student Hemnecher Amen joined a protest outside the White House recently, it was the latest visible opposition here to US wars in ...
12 Afghans killed in attack on meeting with French
TAGAB VALLEY, Afghanistan — Rockets slammed into a market northeast of Kabul on Monday, killing 12 civilians but missing their presumed target: a meeting between ...
German minister 'shot at' during Afghan visit
BERLIN — A helicopter convoy carrying German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg came under fire from the ground during a recent surprise visit to troops ...
Head of the French army in Afghanistan narrowly escapes death in rocket attack
The head of the French army in Afghanistan narrowly escaped a Taleban rocket attack this morning which left four people dead and injured more than ...
Army detains Maryland soldier in Afghanistan
A Maryland soldier is in Army custody and classified as a deserter -- unfairly, relatives say -- after he extended a two-week midtour leave to ...
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