Three U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan - Los Angeles Times

FOXNew­sThree U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan­Los Ange­les Times­Re­port­ing from Kabul, Afghanistan — Tal­iban mil­i­tants killed three Amer­i­can troops in volatile south­ern Afghanistan, US mil­i­tary author­i­ties …‘Spe­cial Report’ Panel on Fight­ing T…

Four NATO troops killed in Afghanistan - CNN International

BBC News­Four NATO troops killed in AfghanistanCNN Inter­na­tion­alK­A­BUL, Afghanistan (CNN) — Four NATO troops have been killed in sep­a­rate inci­dents in Afghanistan since the week­end, mil­i­tary offi­cials said Tues­day. …FACTBOX-Military deaths in Afghanis…

Closeddoor summit...Worries over Pakistani Taliban...Typhoons ... - Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck

Closed­door summit…Worries over Pak­istani Tal­iban…Typhoons
Reiten Tele­vi­sion KXMB Bis­marck
ISLAM­ABAD (AP) Pak­istan is wor­ried that al-Qaida may try to regroup by installing its own “chief ter­ror­ist” as the head of Pakistan’s Tal­iban.
North Amer­i­can sum­mit…Tal­iban denials…Terror tri­als9&10 News



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Feared Taliban Leader Killed, But Military Strategy is Not the ... - Religion Dispatches


Aljazeera.net
Feared Tal­iban Leader Killed, But Mil­i­tary Strat­egy is Not the
Reli­gion Dis­patches
The ties to al Qaeda are thin, espe­cially among the Pak­istan Tal­iban. Most of the lead­ers are war­lords and oppor­tunists, and much of their sup­port comes
Report: Pak­istan Nuclear Facil­i­ties Attacked at Least Three Times FOXNews


Life, death and the Tal­iban: Blow­backReuters
US pres­sure on Pak­istan relentsDaily Times
The Hill -Amer­i­can Con­ser­v­a­tive Mag­a­zine -Reuters
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US hears from Taliban on kidnapped soldier - WTOL


MiamiHerald.com
US hears from Tal­iban on kid­napped sol­dier
WTOL
It was a US air strike that sup­pos­edly killed Pakistan’s Tal­iban head last week. There have been con­flict­ing reports over whether he’s actu­ally dead,
Amer­i­can Sol­dier remains in Tal­iban cus­todyFOXNews


Tal­iban: Await­ing US response on cap­tured troopThe Asso­ci­ated Press
Tal­iban wait­ing for response before decid­ing what to do with BergdahlKMVT
KBCI CBS 2 -Wash­ing­ton Times
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Baitullah Mehsud May Be Dead

ISLAM­ABAD — If con­firmed, this would be a huge vic­tory in the fight against tak­firi mil­i­tants in Pak­istan: U.S. and Pak­istani author­i­ties were inves­ti­gat­ing whether Pak­istani Tal­iban chief Bait­ul­lah Mehsud, who has led a vio­lent cam­paign of sui­cide attacks and assas­si­na­tions against Pakistan’s gov­ern­ment, was killed in a CIA mis­sile strike. A Pak­istani offi­cial said Fri­day that reports of […]

Influx of Afghan Taliban Worries Pakistan - CBS News

Influx of Afghan Tal­iban Wor­ries Pak­istan
CBS News
“To the best of our knowl­edge, Tal­iban move freely across the bor­der. Some­times the Afghan Tal­iban, the Pak­istan Tal­iban coor­di­nate, some­times they don’t.
Pak­istan raises con­cern over US Afghan offen­siveThe Asso­ci­ated Press


Pak­istan demands US intel­li­gence, ammu­ni­tionAFP
Pakistan’s ‘mock war’ on Tal­ibanThe Aus­tralian
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"It was always a bad year to get out of Vietnam"

Com­pare and con­trast: Obama’s Viet­nam: “Viet­nam analo­gies can be tire­some. To crit­ics, espe­cially those on the left, all Amer­i­can inter­ven­tions after Viet­nam have been poten­tial “quag­mires.” But some­times clichés come true, and, espe­cially lately, it seems that the war in Afghanistan is shap­ing up in all-too-familiar ways. The par­al­lels are dis­turb­ing: the pres­i­dent, eager to […]

Baitullah Mehsud Rival Gunned Down

ISLAM­ABAD — Hoo, boy, talk about Pro­pa­ganda of the Deed. Early this morn­ing, Qar’i Zain­ud­din Mehsud, who just days ago spoke out pub­licly against Tehrik-i-Taliban Pak­istan (TTP) leader, Bait­ul­lah Mehsud, was shot dead by his own body­guard. AfPax Insider had a scoop in wait, with a 14-minute inter­view with the old jihadist, who had decided that his […]

Afghans in America

While this post has lit­tle to do with the insur­gency in Afghanistan, it does reflect the project I’ve been work­ing on for the past 10 weeks or so. In my clos­ing days at Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity as a Knight Fel­low, I decided to explore the Afghan com­mu­nity in Fre­mont, Calif., which is the largest in the United States. […]