Taliban prisoners have seized control of parts of a £4.3 million British-funded prison in Helmand and taken hostages, triggering an armed siege at the flagship aid project. Lashkar Gah: Afghan police and soldiers have been surrounding Helmand central prison for more than two days, after a weekend p...
WASHINGTON: The U.S.-led military command in Afghanistan said Tuesday it will no longer publish figures on Taliban attacks, a week after acknowledging that its report of a 7 percent decline in attacks last year was actually no decline at all. A spokesman for the International Security Assistance F...
An order barring elite troops from Wardak province over a slaying jeopardizes a model for a reduced U.S. troop presence. Some see political factors at play. MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan: The story was gruesome: A university student, captured in a U.S. special forces raid, was found decapitated and wit...
WASHINGTON : The American commander in the Middle East said on Tuesday that he had recommended that 13,600 United States troops remain in Afghanistan after the combat mission ends in 2014, a number slightly higher than the one being considered by NATO and Pentagon officials. The officer, Gen. Jame...
KABUL: NATO expects a decision by the middle of this year on the size of a training force to be kept in Afghanistan once most foreign troops leave in 2014, alliance Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday. The Pentagon has said a NATO-led training force of between 8,000 and 12,000 w...
FORWARD OPERATING BASE APACHE, Afghanistan: At FOB Apache, U.S. military engineers are frantically finishing a second chow hall and a new recreational building four times bigger than the old one. The gym will be expanded soon to more than double its current size, and dozens of new tents and rows of ...
Letter from Europe BERLIN: Over the next 12 months, President Barack Obama will withdraw more than 34,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan, halving the American contingent. By the end of 2014, when NATO’s combat mission ends and its new training mission begins, diplomats say that the United States i...
When U.S. Marines surged into southern Afghanistan in 2010, one of their top priorities was to secure a towering dam on the Helmand River so the U.S. Agency for International Development could begin a construction project to provide much-needed electricity to Kandahar, the country’s second-largest c...
The National Security Council (NSC) of Afghanistan on Sunday called for the international community, especially the United States, to blacklist intelligence organizations that support insurgent groups, referring to Pakistan's spy agency ISI. The Deputy National Security Advisor Rahmatullah Nabil c...
WASHINGTON: A new book by a former senior State Department policy expert paints a sharply critical picture of the Obama administration’s handling of foreign policy, detailing destructive turf battles and policy debates that challenge the White House’s claim that its management of the Afghan war is a...
"My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience." It was close to midnight on Jan. 20, 2009, and I was about to go to sleep when my iPhone beeped. There was a new text message. It was from Richard Holbrooke. It said, "Are you up, can you talk?" When I called...
Their work aiding foreign troops has made them and their families the targets of insurgents. But the U.S. has been slow to approve special immigrant visas. KABUL, Afghanistan: The two bullet-riddled bodies were found splayed on the road near a car. Both men — one an interpreter and the other a secu...
KABUL: Repeating mistake and killing non- combatants by the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) during operations against Taliban militants in Afghanistan would further damage the already strained relations between Afghan administration and the military alliance, local political ...
Afghans want the hundreds of bases and other outposts handed over to them as troops withdraw. But the U.S.-led coalition says Afghanistan lacks the capabilities for maintaining and defending all of them. KABUL, Afghanistan: Late last year, before leaving Forward Operating Base Tillman for the last ...
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan: On a whirlwind Christmas tour of Helmand Province in 2010, Gen. James F. Amos, the commandant of the Marine Corps, visited 11 bases in a single day. At one, thousands of Marines showed up for prime rib, dust-covered and grim-faced after weeks of dodging and delivering ...
In the eyes of the rest of the world, war-torn Afghanistan is a place with a beaten-down infrastructure, the minimum of modern amenities and certainly none of the services made possible by the latest technological advances powering the Internet, financial services and telecommunications. Surprisin...
‘If the President Does It, It Isn’t Illegal’-- Richard M. Nixon- Drones are finally coming out of the closet. During John Brennan's confirmation hearings for C.I.A. director, we started to learn a little more about the use of deadly drones by the U.S. government. Brennan's testimony acknowledged the...
President Obama’s “Fix-It-First” program to repair bridges, proposed in his State of the Union address on Feb. 12, may be getting a test run in Afghanistan. Don’t worry about the lack of money in this country that could limit fixing those “nearly 70,000 structurally deficient bridges” Obama mentio...
Make no mistake. Syria is Washington's war. It was planned years ago. Regime change is policy. At issue is replacing Assad's government with a pro-Western puppet one.Washington tolerates no independent governments. It demands subservience to US policies. Outliers are targeted for removal. Options i...
Can we just put aside ideology for one minute and agree that businesses hire more workers if they have more customers and fire workers if they have fewer customers?There are two big categories of customer: One is comprised of individual consumers. The other is government.We tend to think of the gove...
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