By Syed Manzar Abbas Zaidi As the problems of the Afghan campaign and its cross-border dimensions in Pakistan continue to exercise policy-makers in the US and other ISAF partner states, it is crucial to understand the nature... [read full story]
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By DEXTER FILKINS, The New York Times TARAKHEL, Afghanistan -- The locals call the place "The Taliban Cemetery," a weed-clotted memorial to the men who died for the movement during its fiercest campaigns in the years before...
There is certainly a lot of hand-wringing, chin-rubbing and forceful exhaling going on these days over the increasingly challenging war in Afghanistan, where nearly 70,000 U.S. troops are duking it out with the Taliban,...
Taliban Still Working for the CIA? Henry Makow Ph.D. November 8, 2009 As President Obama ponders whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, there is mounting evidence the Taliban is supported by the CIA. If correct, the Afghan...
Hamburg - Britain has quietly urged Afghan's newly re-elected president, Hamid Karzai, to make peace with the less radical part of the Taliban, a German magazine, Stern, claimed Monday. In a story on its website, stern.de, it...
A month ago, I sent an email to over fifty leaders and thinkers in the Jewish and progressive world, asking them what they thought about the conflict in Afghanistan. I wrote: I keep asking myself an old question that seems ever...
Despite being relatively few in number, the Afghan Taliban are thriving in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as they take advantage of Islamabad's apparent ambivalence towards them, the BBC's Hugh Sykes reports from Kabul.
By Paul Pickering In The Daliz Pass, Afghanistan Brief encounter: The Taliban chief whom Paul Pickering met on the Daliz Pass A single high-velocity rifle shot went over my head and into the snow-covered rocks. Our meeting...
