Afghanistan
Pakistan – Religious parties to stand against restoration of NATO supply
Pakistan – Religious parties to stand against restoration of NATO supply
France’s Afghanistan withdrawal decision raises worries
Afghan President Hamid Karzai ‘plans talks with Taliban’
Pakistan – Drone attacks linked to ‘trust deficit’ with US
Taliban Have Begun Talks With US, Former Taliban Aides Say
For CIA family, a deadly suicide bombing leads to painful divisions
President Sarkozy said France will withdraw from Afghanistan in 2013, one year early. Police killed five Taliban fighters and detained several more. Eighty insurgents reconciled with the government in Baghlan.
Britain calls for NATO to stick to 2014 Afghan pullout
Progress seen in moves towards Afghan peace talks
Afghans blast French plan for early pullout
Did the US meet with the Taliban?
Emboldened Taliban Try to Sell Softer Image
Pakistan – ANALYSIS: Voices from FATA and the panic
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Helmand, Khost, Wardak, and Kunduz. The Taliban killed a British soldier in Helmand. France will resume its training of Afghan forces. Afghanistan signed a strategic pact with Italy. NATO fuel purchases are depleting supplies used by Afghans.
France, Karzai want faster NATO Afghanistan exit
Before he was killed in Waziristan in 2009, Abdullah bin Muhsin al Shahri, who was known as Abu Rawada, discussed an al Qaeda cell that operated in Gardez, Afghanistan.
Dialogue with the US: Afghan Taliban share ‘peace’ blueprint with Pakistan
Taliban diplomats arrive in Qatar
Qatar’s towering ambition on show in Doha
Taliban willing to compromise, Afghan negotiators say
Thousands of NATO trucks in Pakistan backlog
A suicide bomber who targeted foreign aid workers killed four Afghan civilians in Helmand. Afghan civil society activists disputed President Obama’s claim that the Taliban are in retreat and said al Qaeda fighters still remain in the country.
Afghanistan – Taliban’s Momentum Higher than US
Afghanistan – Nangarhar security under threat: Ghani
Panetta: al Qaeda is ‘still a real threat’
Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti Played Crucial Role in Somalia Rescue
Mounir and Yassin Chouka, two Germans who are operatives in the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and Mevlut Kar, an Islamic Jihad Union facilitator, were added to the list of Specially Designated Global terrorists. All three have ties to al Qaeda.
The drone war
Afghan army’s night raiders ready to take control
Mullah Abdul Bari served as the Taliban’s shadow governor for the districts of Nad Ali, Musa Qala, Baghran, and Kajaki in northern Helmand province.