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It comes to our attention that the MEMRI Blog highlights an article from the Saudi _ al-Watan _ in Arabic that - according to an Afghan source - the United States is talking to the Taliban seeking to trade control of 5...
U.S. troops who have died in Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa and Iraq. EDITOR'S NOTE: These tributes, published in alphabetical order, were supplied by The Associated Press. Army Staff Sgt. Bradley Espinoza Bradley Espinoza...
If true, this is bad. An Afghan source in Kabul reports that U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry is holding secret talks with Taliban elements headed by the movement’s foreign minister, Ahmad Mutawakil, at a secret...
Every afternoon, seven days a week, Ed Epley has a 5 p.m. appointment with the war. He pulls a protest sign from his maroon 1961 Volkswagen van and joins a one-hour peace vigil at the Benton County courthouse in Corvallis, Ore....
New operational guidelines from General McChrystal indicate that Forward Observation Posts are to be abandoned in favor of pulling a majority of troops to be stationed in larger cities, so I cannot understand this press release...
NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Nov. 13, 2009) – Four provincial governors and a 21-member executive committee from the eastern Afghanistan peace and development jirga – a group of elders -- met in the Nangarhar governor’s...
Source: Reuters Nov 20 (Reuters) - The Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba has been accused of plotting attacks in India and in the west, including the three-day assault on Mumbai in November 2008. Here are some details ...
By Kent Harris, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, Friday, November 21, 2009 VICENZA, Italy — The 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment is heading back to the same region where it took part in the Army’s deadliest battle in...
Reports of the United States attempting to take an active role in helping safeguard Pakistan's nuclear arsenal could not have come at a worse time for President Asif Ali Zardari. He is already marginalized by his military, now...
“In time of war the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers .” ( AUGUST BEBEL ) The Pakistan Army concluded its Operation Rah e Rast against Tehrik e Taliban Swat in earlier June this year and destroyed the TTP's...
