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NEW YORK: The number of US soldiers who have died in the US ‘War on Terror’ in Afghanistan and Iraq has reached 5,385 while US casualities in Afghanistan alone hit 1,000, according to an independent website, a grim milestone in the conflict launched more than eight years ago. The icasualties.org website, which tracks military deaths [...]
KABUL: Afghanistan’s president has changed a law to take control of an election watchdog that threw out more than half a million votes cast for him in last year’s election, his spokesman said Tuesday. The amendment, made last week to the electoral law, allows President Hamid Karzai to personally appoint the five-member panel of the [...]
WASHINGTON: The United States is not looking to re-open a key military base in Uzbekistan that was shut in 2005 in a diplomatic row, a US envoy said on Sunday as he ended a rapid tour of former Soviet Central Asia. Uzbekistan, which shares a border with Afghanistan, evicted US troops from the Karshi-Khanabad base [...]
The volatile Afghan province of Kandahar will be the next focus of the new, more sensitive approach to fighting the Taliban, the top US commander in the country has said. US and British forces are implementing an Afghan-led strategy in an offensive launched ten days ago in neighbouring Helmand province, according to General Stanley McChrystal. [...]
KABUL: The Afghan government on Monday strongly condemned a NATO air strike that killed 33 civilians after mistaking them for militants, calling it “unjustifiable”. The air strike on Sunday hit three vehicles of people in Daykundi, which has been carved out of Uruzgan province, after NATO mistook them for militants moving towards their base, NATO [...]
WASHINGTON: The arrest of the Taliban military chief in Karachi should be seen in the context of Pakistan’s overall commitment to fight religious extremists, the commander of the US Central Command said in an interview with NBC television on Sunday. Gen David H. Petraeus, the head of the United States Central Command, said Sunday that [...]
AMSTERDAM: NATO was left in fear of further troop withdrawals from Afghanistan yesterday after the Dutch Prime Minister conceded that he could not prevent his forces being pulled out this year after the collapse of the Government in The Hague. The Dutch coalition government collapsed Saturday over whether to extend the country’s military mission in [...]
WASHINGTON: The CIA wants Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar transferred to an American prison near Kabul for interrogation, US officials said. The Taliban military chief, who was captured in Karachi earlier this month, is in Pakistan’s custody and is being interrogated mainly by ISI officials, but CIA representatives also have participated in some of these sessions. [...]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has increased its military posts along with Afghanistan border in Balochistan to keep strong vigil on the movement of Taliban militants from Afghanistan to Pakistani areas in the wake of ongoing ‘Operation Mushtarak’. Top military sources told our correspondent that twenty six new posts have been set-up by Pakistani security forces raising [...]
KARACHI: A top al-Qaeda leader of Egyptian origin Sheikh Mansoor had been killed in suspected US drone strike in Toll Khel area of the North Waziristan Agency. Official sources said the strike which was carried out on Febraury 17 also left number of other important militants killed. They said Mansoor was leading the militants who [...]
PESHAWAR: The February 18 killing of veteran Afghan Mujahideen leader Maulvi Jalaluddin Haqqani’s younger son in a US drone attack in North Waziristan has come as a major success for the Afghanistan-based American forces, which have conducted a record number of 20 drone strikes in the Waziristan region in 2010. The ongoing wave of drone attacks [...]
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has reviewed the situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan with his senior officials and diplomats as his administration continues a two-pronged offensive to subdue militants in that region. The new approach includes a major military offensive in southern Afghanistan and a US-led process to encourage repentant Taliban activists to join the [...]
MIRANSHAH: Missiles fired from a US drone aircraft slammed into a militant compound in the northwest tribal belt on Thursday, killing at least four militants, officials said. The attack was the fourth US bombing raid since Sunday in North Waziristan district, and hit a stronghold of the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, known for staging attacks on [...]
KUNDUZ: Pakistan has captured two “shadow governors” belonging to Afghanistan’s Taliban movement, an Afghan official said on Thursday. The timing of the reported arrests
KUNDUZ: A NATO air strike mistakenly killed seven Afghan police and wounded two others in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, Afghan officials said. “Around 2:30 pm, an Afghan army, police and NATO patrol were attacked by Taliban in Imam Sahib district (in Kunduz province),” Afghan interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told AFP in the capital Kabul. [...]
WASHINGTON: Following the arrest of the Taliban military chief in Karachi, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday described Pakistan’s cooperation in the war against terror as serving the best interests of both the countries. Also, the official Voice of America radio noted that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar’s arrest “signals a change in the [...]
KABUL: NATO forces say an airstrike in eastern Afghanistan has killed more than a dozen insurgents near the Pakistani border, reports AP. The military coalition said Wednesday that a NATO patrol saw a group of individuals near the border on Tuesday and identified them as insurgents. The soldiers called in air support and precision-guided munitions [...]
WASHINGTON: The White House on Tuesday refused to discuss publicly the arrest of the Taliban’s military chief in Karachi about seven days ago but did not reject the suggestion that he had been captured. Earlier, while speaking to various news outlets, US officials confirmed that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was arrested in a secret joint [...]
KABUL: As the joint Afghan-NATO assault against Taliban bastion in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province entered its third day Monday, more than three-dozen people have been killed and hundreds of families fled home for safer places. Twenty-seven militants and 12 civilians have been killed and the troops have secured major parts of the restive Marjah and [...]
NEW YORK: The United States and Pakistani intelligence forces captured the Taliban’s top commander in a secret joint operation in Karachi, Pakistan, the online edition of The New York Times said late Monday. Billed as the most significant Taliban figure since the start of the US-led war in Afghanistan eight years ago and second only [...]
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