Afghanistan
Afghanistan – One way out
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Afghanistan
Afghan police gain leadership skills, public trust
Al Qaeda
As generals change, will Washington again weigh its strategy in Afghanistan?
Pakistan
Afghanistan: Pakistani militants stepping up attacks in Khost
Afghanistan
US officials say Karzai aides are derailing corruption cases involving elite
India
No Pak ban on Hafiz Saeed from giving hate speeches
Iran
CIA chief Leon Panetta said UN sanctions won’t stop Iranian nuclear ambitions. President Ahmedinejad said there are three conditions for talks on Iran’s nuclear program. Iranian trade with Dubai has been hit due to UN sanctions.
Taliban
Taliban wanted to enter India after overrunning Pak: Malik
Afghanistan
Kandahar diary: Bracing for a battle
Afghanistan
US aware of Afghan-Pak contacts with Haqqani, says Panetta
Pakistan
The US killed a Taliban commander and four fighters in an airstrike in North Waziristan. Security forces killed eight Taliban fighters in Arakzai and six more in Swat. The government is attempting to resettle the displaced Mehsud tribe into South Waziristan.
Afghanistan
A friend and foe: warlord who thwarted the Russians threatens Nato
Iraq
Insurgents killed two civilians and a soldier in Mosul and Baghdad. Security forces detained four Naqshabandiya fighters in Diyala, three wanted men in Kirkuk, an al Qaeda IED cell member in Baghdad, and an Iranian in Khanaqin.
Afghanistan
Obama cites ‘obsession’ on Afghanistan timeline
Afghanistan
NATO: Afghan ops not slowed despite command change
McChrystal delivered grim report on Afghanistan before being sacked
The Independent reports that just days prior to General Stanley McChrystal’s forced resignation of command of the ISAF in Afghanistan for insulting comments by him and his staff that were directed at top Obama administration officials, McChrystal delivered “a devastatingly critical assessment of the war against a ‘resilient and growing insurgency.’” Using confidential military documents, […]
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
US-born al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula cleric Anwar al Awlaki is not on an assassination list even though he “has declared war” on the US, said CIA Director Leon Panetta. “Everything he’s doing now is to try to encourage others to attack this country,” Panetta said.
Al Qaeda
CIA Director Leon Panetta claimed that less than 100 al Qaeda operatives are active in Afghanistan and that Predator strikes and other operations have culled the terror group’s leadership by half. Panetta claimed that al Qaeda’s remaining leadership is based in northwestern Pakistan.
More ‘al Qaeda guys’ killed in Afghanistan
More in our continuing series documenting the mysterious “al Qaeda guys” whose existence in Afghanistan is doubted by blogger Michael Yon; this time courtesy of the Afghan Ministry of the Interior: Fifteen Taliban militants including 13 foreign fighters were killed in Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika province as explosive devices went off prematurely, a statement issued by […]
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces launched an offensive in Kunar province. Fifteen Taliban and al Qaeda fighters were killed in a premature detonation in Paktika province. Coalition and Afghan forces killed eight Taliban fighters in Ghazni and five more in Kandahar. The Taliban killed two US troops in Kunar, a British soldier in Helmand, and a […]
Iran
CIA Director Leon Panetta said Iran can produce nuclear weapons by 2012. The Iranian Red Crescent claimed Egypt has blocked one of its ships that is designated to run the Gaza blockade. The deputy oil minister claimed US sanctions are benefiting Iranian petroleum industries by making them self-sufficient.
Somalia
Voters defy Islamist threats in Somaliland
Al Qaeda
CIA chief says Al-Qaida at weakest point in years
Pakistan
US embassy launches campaign to correct errors in Pakistani media
Afghanistan
David Miliband: How to end the war in Afghanistan
Afghan president meets with Siraj Haqqani: Report
President Karzai is said to have met with Siraj. The meeting was also attended by Pakistani Army chief General Kayani and ISI boss Lieutenant General Pasha, according to reports.
Afghanistan
The last post: McChrystal’s bleak outlook
Taliban commander reported killed in US strike in North Waziristan
The strike took place in the Miramshah region, an area controlled by the Haqqani Network. The attack is the second in Pakistan in 24 hours.
Blowback from negotiating with the Afghan Taliban
People seem to forget that President Hamid Karzai’s negotiations with the Afghan Taliban are alienating more than half the Afghan population and only serving to infuriate the ethnic Uzbeks, Tajiks, and Hazara who fought the Taliban under the banner of the Northern alliance. From The New York Times: The dispute is breaking along lines nearly […]
Pakistan
New Afghan minister to hurt talks with Taliban