Mohammed Omar (Pashto: ملا محمد عمر) (born c. 1959, Nodeh, near Kandahar) often simply called Mullah Omar, is the leader of the Taliban of Afghanistan and was Afghanistan's...
U.S. and British forces begin airstrikes in Afghanistan after the Taliban refuse to hand over al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, blamed for the 9/11 attacks.
Nov. 13, 2001 - Taliban fighters abandon Kabul after weeks of air assaults.
The statement was in response to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Sunday attacking the Pakistani leadership in exasperated tones, demanding that it "take out" Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman Zawahiri. "The Pakistan government has started to
But now the frightened Afghan boy is back on the gurney at the same field hospital in festering Zhari district outside Kandahar...The doctor radios to Kandahar Airfield, begging for a helicopter – and the request is denied. Ten days earlier the
We are not afraid of conspiracies and if there are any, we will fight," the President said to the party workers and leaders who gathered in Karachi to witness the live broadcast address on Wednesday night to mark the PPP’s Founding Day. "It is the
As President Barack Obama prepares to unveil his long-deliberated war strategy, the Taliban's supreme commander yesterday declared that U.S.-led forces would find only defeat, dishonor and "a bed of thorns" in Afghanistan. The statement came as the
News Source: Christian Science Monitor
| 10 days ago
McChrystal's strategy of pulling back from Afghanistan borders, and disagrees with the strategy of a surge to defeat the Taliban. The Pakistani government has some advice the Obama administration may not want to hear as it contemplates sending
The news from Afghanistan looks unremittingly bleak for the West these days. Casualties among foreign and Afghan troops are again rising, with the rancour over the fraud-marred presidential elections still in the air.
The Taliban on Tuesday rejected an olive branch extended by Hamid Karzai, ridiculing the Afghan president as a "puppet" of the West after he was handed another five years in power. In his first public appearance since being declared president for a
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