Afghanistan
Exclusive: Afghan officials visit Guantanamo in peace bid
Exclusive: Afghan officials visit Guantanamo in peace bid
Pakistan’s Iran pipeline plan further strains ties with US
Afghans Are Hindering Smuggling Inquiry, 2 Americans Say
A decade of Israeli airstrikes against Palestinian terror groups has failed to lead to their collapse.
The US agreed to transfer control of the Parwan Detention Facility to the Afghan government in six months. The Taliban killed a civilian in a bombing at a Sufi shrine in Kandahar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Helmand, Khost, Paktia, Wardak, and Laghman.
No plan for anti-drug raids in Afghanistan: Russia
Drone strikes are attack on Pakistan’s sovereignty: Gilani
Pakistan – Taliban in talks to end ‘serious differences’
The US is investigating charges that the Afghan Air Force is involved in drug smuggling. The Taliban killed nine policemen in Uruzgan. Security forces captured two IMU leaders in Badakhshan.
Afghanistan – Mafia groups threaten trade with Pakistan: ACCI
US commanders says there are no plans to turn Afghan war over to CIA control after 2014
Corruption Remains Intractable in Afghanistan Under Karzai Government
Afghan Air Force Probed in Drug Running
US probes allegations Afghan Air Force involved in drug running
The two Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leaders are responsible for suicide attacks in northern Afghanistan.
Foreign militants fighting in Syria battlefields
Afghan Women Seen Losing Ground
Six British soldiers “are missing” and “believed killed, after their armoured vehicle was caught in an explosion” in Helmand. The Taliban killed four Afghans in Kandahar.
General Gholamreza Baghbani, the senior Qods Force officer in Zahedan, facilitates heroin and opium smuggling to arm the Taliban in Afghanistan, according to the US Treasury.
Faqir claims he was not notified of his dismissal and said the Taliban have supported negotiations with the government.
Afghanistan – President defends scholars’ guideline regarding women
The PR challenge in Afghanistan: suicide bombing, Quran burning, and murky data
Ousted deputy leader of Pakistan Taliban favors talks with govt
Afghan government says likely to reach US prison deal
The Afghan Response to the 2012 Koran Burning Incident
The Taliban killed two civilians in a suicide bombing at Bagram Air Base and an Afghan intelligence official in another suicide bombing in Jalalabad. Afghan clerics have issued Taliban-like guidelines for women.
Afghan clerics’ guidelines ‘a green light for Talibanisation’
Pakistan Asks Taliban to Negotiate with Afghan Government
The Taliban claimed they carried out the attack to take “revenge” for the burning of Korans at the base more than two weeks ago. Another suicide bomber killed an Afghan intelligence official in Jalalabad.
US-Afghan Talks Falter on Detainee Transfer