The US is drawing down forces in the Pech Valley in Kunar. Security forces detained several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Uruzgan, Kandahar, Helmand, Khost, Paktia, and Khost. Afghan officials claim five hunters were killed in an ISAF airstrike in Kapisa.
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More than 20 Taliban fighters attacked a convoy carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan.
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US pulling back in Afghan valley it called vital to war
General Petraeus ordered an investigation into charges that General Caldwell ordered an information campaign against US politicians. Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban, Haqqani Network, and HIG commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, and Khost. A suicide bomber killed three people in Kandahar. ISAF is investigating reports that civilians were killed in […]
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Coalition and Afghan forces detained several Taliban fighters in Kandahar. General Caldwell said the Afghan Army loses 32 percent of its forces each year and the police lose 23 percent. The United Nations said that security in Afghanistan is at its lowest in a decade and that the Taliban have expanded operations throughout all of […]
In an opinion released on Feb. 18, a DC district judge denied the habeas corpus petition of Guantanamo detainee Mashour Abdullah Muqbel al Sabri; the decision contradicts earlier district court rulings in important ways. Al Sabri’s career demonstrates that there was extensive overlap between Taliban and al Qaeda operations prior to Sept. 11, 2001.
Security forces detained several Taliban, Haqqani Network, and HIG commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Uruzgan, Zabul, Khost, Logar, and Nangarhar. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south.
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Midlevel Taliban admit to a rift with top leaders
Talks with the Taliban come at a price for women
Afghans see warlord footprints in new police force
A suicide bomber killed 32 civilians in Kunduz. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters and commanders in Nimroz, Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, Paktia, Nangarhar, Takhar, and Jawzjan. Thirty Taliban fighters in Kandahar and 21 more in Badghis abandoned the insurgency.
Petraeus’s comments on coalition attack reportedly offend Karzai government
Predators hit a compound in the Miramshah area, which is under the control of the Haqqani Network. The strike is the second in two days.
Afghanistan peace council seeks release of Guantanamo Bay prisoners
Provincial leaders in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar, including the governor and the provincial chief of police, are claiming that a joint US and Afghan clash in Kunar province claimed the lives of upwards of 65 people. The five-hour-long battle took place late last week in the Ghaziabad district in Kunar after ISAF attack […]
Imam was killed last month for spying
The governor of Kunar claimed 65 civilians were killed in joint operations in the province; ISAF is investigating the allegations. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south. The death toll in yesterday’s attack on a Jalalabad bank rose to 38, including 12 police.
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