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Taliban claims French bribery ploy
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 4 days ago
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In an exclusive interview, Saif-Allah Jalili, the Taliban commander of the Kabul district, said on Monday that his men have been offered gifts and money by the French soldiers in order to persuade the fighters not to engage their forces. "The French...
Tags: ASIA Taliban, The Taliban, Saif-Allah Jalili, taliban fighters, Afghanistan, taliban claims, troops deployed, Kabul, Operation Mountain Fury, Taliban, Islamism, War in Afghanistan, Islamic terrorism, Taliban insurgency, War Conflict, International Security Assistance Force
Afghanistan Using Persuasion and Jobs to Disarm Taliban
Jalālābād :: Afghanistan | 7 days ago
Credibility Afghanistan The American-backed campaign to persuade legions of Taliban gunmen to stop fighting got under way here recently, in an ornate palace filled with Afghan tribal leaders and one very large former warlord leading the way. “O.K., I want you...
Tags: Taliban, tribal leaders, American Special Forces, American Army Special Forces, Kabul, taliban fighters, Mr. Yahia, Afghanistan, Iraq, change sides, Jalālābād, Islamism, War in Afghanistan, Islamic terrorism, Taliban insurgency, War Conflict
Taliban biker militia: Anatomy of a failed Afghanistan ambush
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 17 days ago
Credibility The Taliban had set a trap for the tiny company of Afghan soldiers here, its handful of US mentors and the American helicopters that they expected would rush in to help. Firing mortars to lure the Americans and Afghans out of their mud-straw base, the...
Tags: afghans soldiers, Taliban, Christopher Goeke, taliban fighters, aircraft guns, Kyle Maki, Keith Matz, Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghan National Army, Taliban insurgency, Helmand province campaign, War in Afghanistan, War Conflict
Pakistani jets bomb militants, more troops move
Peshawar :: Pakistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Pakistani aircraft bombed Taliban fighters in their South Waziristan bastion on Wednesday as more soldiers and tanks moved in for an expected offensive against the militant hub. The government says most attacks in the country -- including four major...
Tags: Pakistani Taliban, South Waziristan, taliban fighters, Al Qaeda
Taliban attack Afghan provincial capital
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 months ago
Credibility At least three people were killed when Taliban gunmen and suicide bombers stormed a building in an Afghan provincial capital, officials said Monday. The attack happened in Pul-e-Alam, the capital of Logar Province, and seemed timed to coincide with Afghan...
Tags: Taliban, Afghanistan, government buildings, Kabul, Logar Province, logar provinces, taliban attack, taliban fighters
Militant nexus
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 5 months ago
Credibility Kandahar, Quetta Kandahar has the symbolic importance of being the spiritual centre of the Taliban movement and also the place of its origin. The supreme Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, made the city his headquarters when the Taliban came to power...
Tags: Afghanistan, Taliban, Central Asia, Farah City, IED, taliban fighters, Barack Obama, Hamed Karzai, Quetta Kandahar, Hamid Karzai
Airstrikes Target Afghan Taliban
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 5 months ago
Credibility The Afghan army's regional commander said Saturday another seven militants were killed during operations elsewhere in Helmand on Friday. Earlier, Afghan officials said six civilians, including three women, were killed in a roadside bombing late Friday...
Tags: Afghanistan, Taliban, taliban insurgency, U.S, air strikes, Xinhua, Helmand, roadside bomb, taliban fighters, told xinhua
Seven killed by violence in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 6 months ago
Credibility Taliban militants stormed a police post in northwestern Afghanistan early Sunday killing four policemen, while three civilians died in a bomb blast in the country's south, authorities said. The policemen were killed after their remote post was attacked...
Tags: Afghanistan, Taliban, press release, roadside bomb, troops ordered, southern afghanistan, U.S, taliban fighters
Lahore attack video surfaces
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 6 months ago
Credibility Staff Report KARACHI: Closed-circuit camera footage of the attack on the May 27 Lahore Rescue-15 office has surfaced. Around 30 people were killed and at least 250 wounded when gunmen fired and lobbed grenades at offices of the police and top intelligence...
Tags: Pakistan, Taliban, Lahore High Court, Mumbai, Afghanistan, army rescued, Kunduz, court orders, taliban fighters
Pakistan police arrest suspected Taliban among refugees
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 6 months ago
Credibility ET The Associated Press A soldier from Pakistan's army looks around a corner in Mingora, the capital of Pakistan's troubled Swat Valley, where the military is fighting with Taliban militants. (Associated Press) Police have arrested 39 suspected Taliban...
Tags: Pakistani Taliban, Pakistani Army, Taliban Fighters, suspected taliban, Swat Valley, taliban militants, Peshawar, Maulana Fazlullah, pakistan police, taliban chief
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