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Afghan leader says US bases depend on neighbours
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Hakeemullah Mehsud alive, shown on tape executing former ISI officer
The Pakistani Taliban emir is seen directing the execution of Colonel Imam on videotape released to the Pakistani press. The tape confirms that Hakeemullah was not killed in an early October 2010 Predator strike.
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A Taliban suicide assault team killed 18 Afghans during an attack on a bank in Jalalabad. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in attacks in the south and the east. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Helmand and Kandahar.
Taliban suicide assault team kills 42 at Jalalabad bank
A seven-man Taliban suicide team hit the Jalalabad branch of the Kabul Bank as police were queued to collect their pay. The attack is the latest in Afghanistan’s major cities.
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Afghanistan – Radio Azadi’s SMS service hits 100,000 subscribers
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Clinton sees Pak-US ties in limbo; urges reforms
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Russia opposes long-term US bases in Afghanistan
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Security forces killed more than 30 Taliban fighters in Kunar and detained several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Ghazni, Zabul, and Khost. A suicide bomber killed nine Afghans in Khost. The Taliban killed three police in Nangarhar. A man dressed in an Afghan Army uniform killed three German soldiers in Baghlan.
US helos kill more than 30 Taliban fighters in Kunar
The Taliban fighters were killed during a four-hour-long engagement with a US air weapons team.
Taliban suicide bomber kills 9 in eastern Afghanistan
The suicide bomber appears to have been targeting the provincial governor. Women and children were among those killed.
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Afghan imams wage political battle against US
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Afghan women fear losing safe houses
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US-funded militia in Helmand province to be expanded
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Security forces killed and captured several Taliban, Haqqani Network, and HIG commanders and fighters during raids in Kandahar, Helmand, Ghazni, Khost, Wardak, and Parwan. The Taliban killed a policeman and a civilian in Kunduz, and an ISAF soldier in the east.
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Kidnap and ransom: negotiating lives for cash
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No refuge from fear in Afghanistan, even at prayer
HIG media emir, military commander detained in Afghan raids
A HIG media emir involved with suicide attacks in Kabul and linked to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan was captured in Parwan. And in Khost, the commander of a 50-man HIG cell was captured.
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Hamid Karzai’s brother under US grand jury investigation
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Afghanistan violence to rise in 2011: US military
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A history of anti-Americanism in Pakistan
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Afghan transit pact stalls on smuggling
ISAF detains Taliban commander operating from Pakistan
ISAF and Afghan special operations forces captured another Afghan Taliban commander who used the Pakistani border city of Chaman in Baluchistan province as a base of operations. From the ISAF press release: Afghan and coalition forces detained a Taliban attack leader, along with several suspected insurgents during an operation in Kandahar City, Kandahar province yesterday. […]
Analysis: Gap in Pakistan Predator strikes not unusual
The current pause in strikes is the third-longest since the US ramped up strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas in 2008.
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NATO chief Petraeus to leave post by end of year: report
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A rare voice against plan to pull out of Afghanistan
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Coalition and Afghan forces captured dozens of Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Ghazni, Zabul, Khost, and Kunar. Police arrested five suicide bombers in Kandahar. A New Zealand soldier died in an accident in Bamyan province.
Deputy emir of al Qaeda training camp agrees to plea deal at Gitmo
An al Qaeda trainer agreed to a plea deal at Gitmo on Tuesday. The terms of the deal remain undisclosed. The trainer, Noor Uthman Mohammed, was captured alongside top al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah in March 2002 and was allegedly involved in Zubaydah’s plot against Israel.
German terrorists pass through Yemen, meet Awlaki, before joining IMU in Pakistan
Abu Ibrahim al Almani and his brother Abu Adam fought in Yemen for a year before moving to Pakistan on the advice of Anwar al Awlaki. Their move to Pakistan was “very professionally organized.”
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AP sources: Clinton to name new Af-Pak envoy