News Source: Times Online
| about 1 month ago
Despite five war councils in two weeks, President Barack Obama has so far failed to come up with a strategy for the conflict that may define his presidency. Fierce infighting continues between his own generals and advisers. Obama has been handed...
News Source: Chicago Tribune
| about 1 month ago
A roadside bomb killed two regional officials in a remote part of Afghanistan on Saturday, the latest insurgent attack on local government targets, a regional police chief said. Afghanistan has seen a dramatic rise of violence this year as 100,000...
News Source: Hindustan times
| about 1 month ago
Had it not been for the alertness of two Afghan policemen, the damage caused by the suicide bomber who struck at the Indian embassy in Kabul on Thursday could have been much worse. Constables Alam Khan and Mohammad Usman of Afghan National Police...
News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| about 1 month ago
U.S. commanders here are enlisting some unusual allies: former mujahedeen guerrillas who battled the Russians with tactics now used by the Taliban...Dawlat Khan, who commands the 2,000 Afghan police in this town in eastern Paktika province, came of...