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I wish one day I can freely go alone to the roadside "rice hotel" and eat: Gen...South) headquarters at Mantripukhri, said security forces have been successful in its mission of keeping insurgency under control while admitting that this is all that can...
Tags: Manipur, security forces, Chaudhary, ak chaudhary, militant groups, rice hotel, India, Imphāl, Insurgency, Inter-Services Intelligence, Militant tendency, Militant, Imphal, Terrorism, North East India, War Conflict, Politics
Khalid Khan stares through the dusty window pane, down across the rooftops of the capital, and wonders if they really know where he lives...Do you know what we can do to you?'" Khan was contracted to build one of the final links of a $2.5 billion highway...
Tags: Taliban, Afghanistan, Kabul, Iranian Plateau, War Conflict, Hamid Karzai, Helmand Province, Sher Mohammad Akhundzada, Khan, Insurgency, Kandahar, Year of birth missing, Amir Muhammad Akhundzada, Islamism, Afghan National Police, War in Afghanistan
T he question of whether Canada handed over large numbers of Afghans – possibly innocents – to face abuse and torture is not just one of morality or law, but about making the mission a success. So says the Canadian Forces' own manual on how a counterinsurgency...
Tags: United States, Barack Obama, U.S, Afghanistan, Richard Colvin, president barack, John McCain, Robert Gates, Canada, Kandahar, Colvin, War in Afghanistan, Special forces, Human rights abuses, David Kilcullen, Counter-insurgency, Terrorism, Insurgency, War Conflict, Politics, Nancy Pelosi, Hamid Karzai, Karzai, Cape Breton County Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Regional Municipality Nova Scotia, Law Crime, Pashtun people, Stephen Harper, Liberal Party of Canada, Michael Ignatieff, Peter MacKay, Canadian Firearms Registry, Canadians of Scottish descent, Georgian era, Jacobitism
Central Asia’s most feared Islamic group is back in the news, with reports that it has regrouped in northern Afghanistan close to the border with Tajikistan. At first sight, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, IMU, looks positioned to mount a repeat of...
Tags: IMU, Central Asian, Tashpulat Yoldashev, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Tohir Yoldash, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Asia Plus, Uzbek Guerrilla Force, Dushanbe, Insurgency, Terrorism in Central Asia, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Islam Karimov, Islam in Uzbekistan, Terrorism in Uzbekistan, Islamism, War Conflict
In a ComRes poll for the IoS this weekend, an overwhelming proportion – 71 per cent – supported this newspaper's call for a phased withdrawal of British forces from Afghanistan within a year or so, while just 22 per cent disagreed. Nearly half – 47 per...
Tags: Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, president hamid, Canada, Kabul, Sport in Pakistan, Pashtun people, Karzai, Equestrianism, Sport in Afghanistan, Buzkashi, Central Asia, allnews, Taliban, Afghan National Army, Islamic mujahid movement, Military of Afghanistan, Islamism, Islamic terrorism, War Conflict, NATO, International public opinion on the war in Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Human rights abuses, Human rights in Afghanistan, Politics, Afghan presidential election, Andrew Leslie, Insurgency, Peacekeeping, Military operations other than war, Counter-insurgency
I n his approach to National Security Agency surveillance, as well as CIA renditions, drone assassinations, and military detention, President Obama has to a surprising extent embraced the expanded executive powers championed by his conservative predecessor,...
Tags: Philippines, Manila, Counter-insurgency, Counter-intelligence, War on Terrorism, Insurgency, Disinformation, War Conflict, Guerrilla warfare, Irregular military, Iraq, Politics
Taliban and other insurgent groups were asked yesterday by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to vote in upcoming August elections and to refrain from attacking the polls. "It is also my wish that our Taliban brothers and all other Afghans who are not in Afghanistan...
Tags: Afghanistan, elections, Taliban, insurgency, Pakistan, United States, Hamid Karzai, voting
As Pakistan attempts to fight a Taliban insurgency, the militants have turned to attacks against journalists. Rehman Buneri, a contributor to Voice of America’s Deewa Radio, was visited by around 50 gunmen, who told him that they had been given...
Tags: journalists, targets, Taliban, Afghanistan, insurgency, Pakistan, freedom of speech
As reported by U.S. military, an American service member was killed by gunfire from Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan. At least 39 U.S. troops have already been killed this month in the country.No additional details have been released about the...
Tags: Afghanistan, United States, Taliban, insurgency, gunfire, battle, casualties, NATO, Barack Obama
Italian Reforms Minister Umberto Bossi called for the withdrawal of Italian troops from Afghanistan at a meeting in northern Italy, arguing that he would “bring them all home”. The Minister is a key member of Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s...
Tags: Afghanistan, Italy, withdrawal, troops, United States, Taliban, insurgency, terrorism