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Paratroopers, Afghans build post in heart of Taliban country
For a company of paratroopers planted in the heart of Taliban country, newly built Joint Security Station Hasan in southern Ghazni Province is a chance to make a real difference. Conceived as a blockade against arms, explosives and fighters streaming up through Ghazni’s desolate Nawah District from Pakistan, JSS Hasan was established within view of [...]
How the Taliban mastered the operational art of modern war
The greatest intellectual challenge in Fourth Generation war—war against opponents that are not states—is how to fight it at the operational level. NATO in Afghanistan, like the Soviets three decades ago, has been unable to solve that riddle. But the Taliban appears to have done so. The operational level of war lies between strategy and [...]
NATO allies to debate Afghan war
NATO foreign and defence ministers gather for two days of talks Wednesday expected to focus on their troop withdrawal from Afghanistan as a Taliban onslaught underscores difficulties in ending the decade-old war. The talks will lay the groundwork for a summit hosted by US President Barack Obama in Chicago on May 20-21 to map out [...]
Pakistan approves new guidelines for US ties
Pakistan’s parliament on Thursday unanimously approved new guidelines on relations with the United States which include a ban on transporting weapons through the country to Afghanistan. The recommendations drawn up by a national security committee also include a call for an end to drone attacks in Pakistani territory and an unconditional apology for US air [...]
NATO denies accelerating Afghanistan troop withdrawal
NATO’s chief denied on Monday that the alliance was speeding up the withdrawal of combat troops from Afghanistan as he sought to clear up “confusion” over the pullout planned for the end of 2014. Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen insisted that NATO was sticking to the timeline agreed at the Lisbon summit in November 2010 [...]
Pakistan fighter jet strike kills 20 Taliban
Pakistani warplanes pounded militant hideouts in the northwestern tribal area before dawn on Wednesday, killing at least 20 Taliban insurgents, security officials said. The jets targeted hideouts in the tribal Orakzai district and at least four compounds were hit, they said, in the latest surge of fighting between government security forces and Islamist militants in [...]
Pakistan condemns NATO leak on Taliban support
Pakistan on Wednesday hit out angrily at a leaked NATO report accusing its spies of secretly aiding the Afghan Taliban, saying that pre-dawn air strikes killed at least 20 local Taliban fighters. Pakistan’s alliance with the United States and NATO plummeted to an all-time low after US air strikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on November [...]
Taliban, US Negotiators Meet in Qatar
Afghan Taliban negotiators are meeting with U.S. officials in Qatar for a series of discussions aimed at building trust between the two sides ahead of the upcoming peace talks. Maulavi Qalamuddin, who once led the group’s religious police, said Sunday the delegation includes several former officials, as well as a former secretary to the Taliban’s [...]
Taliban back peace talks but warn no surrender
Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents warned Thursday that their support of peace talks did not mean they had given up fighting or accepted the constitution of the “stooge” government in Kabul. The comments came as the United States announced that it would send a senior official to meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai next week to see whether [...]
