Topic: The Taliban
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Ten years after the West intervened in Afghanistan, NATO said on Thursday its plans to hand over security responsibility to the Afghan government and gradually withdraw troops remained on track despite recent spectacular Taliban attacks.U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ...
The Pentagon insists high-profile assaults by Afghan insurgents are a sign of a weakened enemy but former officials and analysts say Taliban tactics could undercut the effects of a US-led military campaign.After a series of dramatic attacks, including a firefight outside the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The military said on Friday it had identified the remains of all 30 American troops killed when the Taliban shot down their helicopter last weekend in Afghanistan, the deadliest incident for U.S. forces in the nearly decade-long war.The identification ...
Six Afghan police were killed Wednesday when Taliban attacked their checkpoint, a brazen assault likely to raise fresh security questions as the United States prepares a troop drawdown.The Taliban, which is leading a nearly 10-year war against the Afghan government and US-led ...
As the United States prepares to announce troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, US marines in one of its deadliest districts are fighting against time to capture territory from the Taliban.Sangin has been a byword for danger for years. The last marine battalion here ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A surge of foreign troops into Afghanistan has dealt a blow to the Taliban insurgency but total violence has risen since last fall, the Pentagon said on Friday.The Pentagon, in a twice-annual report to the Congress, said the increase ...
KABUL (Reuters) - An insurgent killed two people in the Afghan Defense Ministry on Monday in the third attack on security installations in four days, with the violence likely to raise questions about military transition plans due to start this year.A man ...
The United States has ordered an additional 1,400 Marines to southern Afghanistan to preempt a Taliban spring offensive, despite a planned troop drawdown starting in July, the Pentagon said.Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday "approved additional Marine forces to southern Afghanistan to ...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has authorised deployment of an extra 1,400 US Marines to Afghanistan to help counter a foreseen Taliban offensive ahead of mandated US troop reductions, a report said Thursday.The Wall Street Journal cited US officials saying the combat forces ...
The United States is due to publish its long-awaited review of the US military strategy in Afghanistan next week, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday.The report, ordered by President Barack Obama a year ago when he deployed 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan to ...
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Exporting the Taliban Revolution - Afghanistan
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