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Oct 5 2009
Hundreds of insurgents armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan border, killing eight U.S. soldiers and capturing more than 20 Afghan security troops in the deadliest assault against...
Sep 24 2009
Still traumatized, she recounts the events that led her to a safe house in Kabul. She was raped and nearly stabbed to death by her husband just seven days before we met her. Her lips are quivering and her eyes full of fear. “He forced himself...
Jul 27 2009
Taliban militants struck at government buildings in the city of Khost in southeastern Afghanistan yesterday with suicide bombs, AK-47 rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, wounding 14 people, including two police officers, and provoking fears of a...
Jul 21 2009
The military is allowing many residents of Pakistan’s Buner district to return to their homes – even as some villagers report ongoing Taliban presence and no Army help. “More than 100 Taliban are here right now in Malakpur village,”...
Jun 17 2009
No sooner had Pakistan announced its plans to attack South Waziristan than some pundits began to hail the operation as the Waterloo of the Taleban and al-Qaeda militants in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. The proposed offensive does indeed...
Jun 15 2009
A senior Pakistani official said the army will launch an offensive against a major Taliban leader following a bombing in a bustling provincial market in a weekend marked by violence. Fresh fighting also broke out between security forces and Taliban...
Jun 11 2009
A deadly hotel bomb in Pakistan’s Peshawar underscores its shift from safe metropolis to besieged city where shop keepers are afraid to stock Western films and few foreigners dare to visit. Up until a few years ago the northwest frontier town...
May 25 2009
U.S. and Afghan forces seized one of the country’s largest ever drug caches over a four-day operation in southern Helmand province and killed 60 militants, almost half in air strikes. Afghanistan produces more than 90 percent of the world’s...
Dec 29 2008
Taleban militants in the Swat valley in north-west Pakistan have threatened to kill girls who attend school.A local Taleban commander ordered parents to stop sending their daughters to school by 15 January.