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Pakistan targets Taliban leaders
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan: Pakistan vowed on Monday to target Taliban leaders and deal a killer blow to the Islamists as it pressed a major offensive Western military chiefs said was key to regional stability. The army said 78 militants had been killed in the operation which presents the military with its biggest challenge yet [...]
Indian Maoists vow ‘tornado’ uprising: report
New Delhi: The leader of India’s Maoist rebels has vowed to unleash a “tornado” of violence if the government goes ahead with a planned large-scale offensive against his insurgent forces. In an interview published in the weekly magazine Open, Mupalla Laxman Rao, better known as Ganapathi, said any offensive might secure some early gains but [...]
Georgia War: Finding The Facts, Losing The Message
By Charli Carpenter On 30 September, the European Union released its report on last year’s August war in the Caucasus. The aim was to establish what happened, since as stated in the preamble, “there can be no peace in the South Caucasus as long as a common understanding of the facts is not achieved.” Since [...]
New Pakistani Taliban chief may be dead: US official
Washington: Newly anointed Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud may have been killed recently during clashes with a rival faction, a senior US counterterrorism official said Saturday. “There’s reason to believe that Hakimullah may have died recently — perhaps as the result of factional in-fighting within the Pakistani Taliban,” the official told AFP. US and Pakistani [...]
Pakistan minister warns against US missile strikes
Quetta, Pakistan: A Pakistani minister has warned the United States against launching missile strikes against the Taliban in his southwestern province, as a furore brewed over militant hideouts here. “America will never make the mistake of drone strikes in Baluchistan,” said Aslam Raisani, chief minister of a province troubled by attacks by both separatist rebels [...]
Water War Possible Between India and Pakistan
If there is any possibility of a water war erupting soon, it will have to be between India and Pakistan, according to SAMAA News (International) senior correspondent Ibrahim Malick. Malick reports that at least 20 different UN bodies concur that these are the two likeliest combatants. A war of this magnitude should send shivers around [...]
Nigeria rebels extend truce by 30 days
LAGOS: The main armed rebel group in oil-rich southern Nigeria said early Wednesday it was prolonging by 30 days its truce which expired at midnight, but warned it was not giving up the fight. “The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) is extending its unilateral ceasefire which expired midnight (2300 GMT), September [...]
NATO Probe Finds German Officer at Fault Over Afghan Bombing
A German army officer who ordered a deadly airstrike on two fuel trucks in Afghanistan, leaving many civilians dead, violated procedures, a preliminary NATO investigation has found. In a report published Thursday, the German daily, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, quotes the initial NATO review of the incident stating that Colonel Georg Klein overstepped his authority and misjudged [...]
NATO strike hits heart of new Afghan strategy
Kabul: An air strike in northern Afghanistan that killed up to 90 people hit at the heart of plans for a tactical change in the Western military strategy against Taliban-linked insurgents. The issue of civilian casualties in the NATO-backed war to rout militants from Afghanistan is a thorn in the relationship between the Kabul government [...]
