Afghanistan
Afghanistan: where has all the aid money gone?
Afghanistan: where has all the aid money gone?
Ambitious and impatient, Afghan leader eyes aid, peace, reform
Mullah Fazlullah, the emir of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, was the target of one of the three recent strikes in Nangarhar province.
NATO launches Afghan training mission Resolute Support
The video is very similar to previous footage that shows a different suicide assault on Camp Bastion in September 2012.
The Taliban and Afghan security forces have been fighting inside Camp Bastion for three days. Hostages may have been taken in the attack in Kabul.
Russia claims Islamic State is supplying half of all Afghan heroin coming to Europe
Afghanistan’s heavily guarded capital remains vulnerable
US Adds Planes to Bolster Drive to Wipe Out ISIS
Official: Afghan President Orders Military Review
Afghan Women Are Excluded From Peace Overtures to Taliban, Report Says
The accusation is made as the US has extended the combat mission in Afghanistan for one year.
Afghanistan Quietly Lifts Ban on Night Raids
In Kapisa province, an hour’s drive outside Kabul, Taliban reign
In a Shift, Obama Extends US Role in Afghan Combat
Adil Qudoos was a former major in the Pakistani Army; Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, planner of the 9/11 attacks, was arrested at Qudoos’ home in 2003. The second jihadist leader, Dr. Sarbaland, served as a surgeon and senior propagandist for al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent.
Europe, facing multiple threats, still isn’t spending on defense
Four Taliban fighters were killed by Afghan forces in a failed suicide assault in Kabul. Yesterday, three suicide bombers killed two security guards in an attack in the capital. The National Directorate of Security claims that Taliban emir Mullah Omar has died and has split into three groups.
“Why should America’s enemies unnecessarily become our enemies,” the adviser on National Security and Foreign Affairs to Pakistan’s prime minister said of Taliban factions like the Haqqani Network and the Hafiz Gul Bahadar Group.
Global terror attack deaths rose sharply in 2013, says report
Insurgents in Afghanistan’s Laghman province may win by not losing
Well-known Afghan lawmaker and women’s rights activist survives car attack
Long-troubled Afghan government undergoes overhaul
Pakistan backs Afghan move to bring in Taliban
In Shift, Pakistanis Fleeing War Flow Into Beleaguered Afghanistan
Opium harvest in Afghanistan reaches record levels after troop withdrawal
Afghanistan Militants Attack Coalition Convoy
Bonn: former capital now a hive of Salafist activity
Marine pullout offers preview of what US leaves behind for Afghan troops
At Afghan Border, Graft Is Part of the Bargain