The Islamic world was but one item on the nation’s foreign-policy agenda in early 2001. China had dominated the first days of the George W. Bush administration, particularly after a showdown over a downed U.S. jet. In a flash, the 9/11 attacks put the Islamic world at the center of that agenda, where it [...]
Sensitive Government information about Afghanistan was accidentally revealed by Cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell when he left Downing Street with the documents on show.[Read more...]
The Taliban attack on the British Council offices in Kabul has underlined the failure of the western strategy in Afghanistan, the UK’s former special envoy to the country has warned.[Read more...]
Reuters - Five Taliban attackers laid siege to a British cultural center in the Afghan capital Friday, killing at least nine people during an hours-long assault on the 92nd anniversary of Afghanistan’s independence from British rule.[Read more...]
AP - Six suicide bombers attacked a governor’s security meeting in one of Afghanistan’s most secure provinces, killing 22 people and driving home the point that the Taliban is able to strike at will virtually anywhere in the country.[Read more...]
Reuters - Foreign forces in Afghanistan were investigating on Sunday the crash of a helicopter believed to have been shot down, killing 30 U.S. soldiers, seven Afghans and an interpreter in the deadliest single incident for foreign troops in a decade of war.[Read more...]
AP - Al-Qaida’s defeat is “within reach,” U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Saturday during his first visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief. He said eliminating as few as 10 of the group’s top figures could cripple its ability to strike the West.[Read more...]
A huge search is under way in Afghanistan for a British soldier who has gone missing in the south of the country.[Read more...]
AP - Military intelligence officers were scrambling a year ago to collect and analyze the social, economic and tribal ins and outs of each valley and hamlet in Afghanistan.[Read more...]
Exclusive to Yahoo! News - By Ron Fournier National Journal Don’t kid yourself. President Obama’s decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for re-election is not driven by the United States’ “position of strength” in the war zone as much as it …[Read more...]
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