U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan early Monday as coalition forces continued to restore order in the town of Marjah, the first major test of the U.S. and NATO counterinsurgency strategy since President Obama ordered 30,000 new American troops to blunt the Taliban’s momentum.
Gates said the…
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Missiles fired from a US drone aircraft killed five suspected Islamist militants at a training compound in North Waziristan on Sunday, officials said. The missiles slammed into a building near the town of Mirali about 25 kilometres (15 miles) east of Miranshah, capital of the insurgency-plagued tribal region of North…
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Missiles fired from a US drone aircraft killed five suspected Islamist militants at a training compound in North Waziristan on Sunday, officials said. The missiles slammed into a building near the town of Mirali about 25 kilometres (15 miles) east of Miranshah, capital of the insurgency-plagued tribal region of North…
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US led NATO troops launched an offensive today against the Taliban’s last big stronghold in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, a test of President Barack Obama’s troop surge strategy. Wave after wave of helicopters landed across central Helmand marking the start of the major offensive that aims to finally defeat the insurgency.…
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The U.S. Marines and Afghan army plan a massive assault on Taliban fighters in Marja, the last community under Taliban control in a sprawling, lawless region once dominated by the insurgency, a top Marine said Wednesday.
“We are going to gain control,” Col. George “Slam” Amland told reporters. “We are…
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama on Monday proposed .2 billion in funding next year to help train and equip Pakistani security forces to fight Taliban militants.
Created by Congress last year, the Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capability Fund set aside some 0 million in 2009 to train and equip the…
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Afghanistan’s president appealed to Taliban fighters Sunday to put down their weapons and accept Afghan laws as the government and its international allies push a program to entice militants away from the insurgency. President Hamid Karzai spoke three days after he and Western backers agreed at a conference in London…
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Major world powers opened talks Thursday seeking an stop of the grinding conflict in Afghanistan, drafting plans to hand over security responsibilities to local forces and quell the insurgency with an offer of jobs and housing to lure Taliban fighters to renounce violence. Afghan President Hamid Karzai greeted delegates from…
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Recent Pakistani counter-insurgency operations have inflicted considerable setback to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its affiliates in Malakand and South Waziristan regions, U.S. Central Command chief Gen David Petraeus said. Speaking at a U.S. think tank, Petraeus pointed out that the Pakistani Taliban are no longer in possession of the tools…
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KABUL (AFP) – A suicide bomber struck near a US military base in Kabul on Tuesday injuring at least nine Afghans, police and the NATO force said, just days ahead of a global summit on tackling a Taliban-led insurgency.
The attacker detonated a car packed with explosives as a convoy…
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LONDON (Agencies) – The new American-led surge in Afghanistan will take longer to fight the insurgency than a similar injection of force in Iraq three years ago when violence fell sharply within months, the top US general in the region told The Times.
General David Petraeus, the head of Central…
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The new American-led surge in Afghanistan will take longer to fight the insurgency than a similar injection of force in Iraq three years ago when violence fell sharply within months, the top US general in the region told The Times.
General David Petraeus, the head of Central Command, also warned…
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A foreign diplomat has said that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani who has tiptoed through Pakistan’s political minefield without making too many enemies, may be the steady hand the country needs to deal with a raging Taliban insurgency and deep economic troubles.
According to a Gulf website, a foreign diplomat…
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KABUL (AFP) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai unveiled an ambitious Western-funded plan Friday to offer money and jobs to tempt Taliban fighters to lay down their arms in an effort to quell a crippling insurgency.
His comments to the BBC came as US Defence Secretary Robert Gates described the Taliban…
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has unfurled a long-term, non-military strategy to stabilize Afghanistan and Pakistan. Clinton said that the new strategy called for sending more civilian experts to the region, besides boosting Pakistan’s capabilities to fight a growing Islamist insurgency and to enhance the US partnership with Islamabad…
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WASHINGTON – With the United States troops battling an escalating insurgency in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama has said he has “no intention of sending American boots on the ground” to Yemen and Somalia.
Obama told the popular ‘People’ magazine that the “border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan remains the…
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With the United States troops battling an escalating insurgency in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama has said he has “no intention of sending American boots on the ground” to Yemen and Somalia.
Obama told the popular ‘People’ magazine that the “border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan remains the epicenter of…
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