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According to reports from the Daily Mail, Britain's MI6 was involved in peace negotiations with the Taliban over the summer. This is a surprising report given the UK's tough non-negotiation policy against fundamentalist groups such as the Taliban. If...
The Allies in Afghanistan do not understand that no amount of bombing will do away with the Taliban. Ideologies cannot be destroyed by the military. The UK Telegraph reports the imminent fall of Musa Qala in north of Helmand province. NATO has even...
US soldiers are celebrating Thanksgiving in Afghanistan and this has made international news. The Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross had lost his legs to landmines, and his plight is making headlines simultaneously. Both stories are...
Afghanistan is fast slipping back into the hands of the Taliban. According to report by Senlis Council, an independent think-tank with long experience in the area, the Taliban has a permanent presence in 54% of Afghanistan and the country is in grave...
The Japanese government, recently, has come under tremendous pressure from the opposition to scale back its naval assistance to US warships involved in Afghan ground missions. Even the public opinion is heavily divided on the issue. In a recent newspaper...
We all know Iraq and Afghanistan as the victims of US 'war on terror'. However, in these two countries, there is another war going on except this. Well, you may question which one, and right, however, this another war goes on.
Yes, this is a...
There was a strong sense of hope and progress in 2001 when the US drove away the Taliban to the far outskirts and mountains of Afghanistan in their immediate retaliation to the 9/1 attacks by al-Qaeda.
But six years down the line and the country is...
Despite the recent spate of kidnappings of German contractors and aid workers in Afghanistan by the Taliban, the lower house of the German parliament extended the deployment of the 2,800-odd troops. This was approved completely against the opinion of the...
The global war on terror is rapidly failing. That's the message that has for long been circulating. A number of think-tanks in recent months have been publishing various research and reports on this matter and if anyone needs telling, all those reports...
For all who like to keep a keen eye on the situation in Afghanistan, it is all too apparent that violence has been increasing steadily since last year and that the Taliban is making a strong comeback into the heart of the country. The recently...
Two Italian soldiers and their translator who were kidnapped on Saturday were freed by ISAF, the NATO-led force in Afghanistan.
They were kidnapped in the western province of Herat and taken to neighbouring Farah province. ISAF said the Italian-led...
Just when the impossible task of finding a solution to the Afghan situation was thought to have been discovered, a tug-of-war has struck upsetting optimism. The Afghan government has given the green signal for the peace talks with the Taliban rebels...
Showing a human concern for the young and innocent Rafiqullah who was forced by the Taliban elements to become a suicide bomber, the Afghanistan government pardoned him and his family was given financial help to get his life on track. He was arrested...
According to a senior State Department official, the United States is considering the possibility of using military force to free the 21 South Korean hostages detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The Taliban had held 23 South Koreans as hostages...
Taliban in Afghanistan is tapping mobile phones of British soldiers to dread their families, a smart tactic to create panic.
Taliban presence in Afghanistan is on the rise and with it problems of the American and British forces are escalating....
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