Over 600 militants from both the local area and Afghanistan launched a frontal assault on three checkpoints in Pakistan's border Mohmand Agency, sparking a several hour gunfight which led to the deaths of at least 40 of the attackers and six Pakistani soldiers. At...
According to Afghan President Hamid Karzai "during a coalition operation, 17 civilians including women and children were killed among militants in Laghman province." The United States has denied the claim, insisting that only militants were killed in the attack on the...
2008 was the most violent year yet of the seven year war in Afghanistan, and nowhere was this more apparent then in the nation's south. Attacks were not only on the rise, but in many places the Taliban is setting up "shadow governments" to compete with the US-backed...
Admiral Mullen's prediction that 2009 is going to be even worse in Afghanistan than the record-level violence of 2008 is off to a strong start, after one of the worst single attacks in months left 20 Afghan policemen and two insurgents dead. The apparent target was...
As 2008 draws to a close, the rising Taliban force in Afghanistan is taken a backseat to more immediate concerns in the region and elsewhere. But the crisis in Afghanistan remains, indeed 2008 was the deadliest year of the seven year long war. The US death toll was a...
The Afghan government announced today that it has arrested 48 members of the Afghan police force over suspicion of aiding the Taliban insurgency and that 12 others eluded capture and joined the Taliban. The announcement comes just a day after a Taliban statement...
In addition to announcing a massive military offensive in the Khyber Agency, the Pakistani government today proclaimed the Khyber Pass, the source of nearly three quarters of the supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan, closed until further notice. The military imposed...
Less than a month ago, German General Hans-Cristoph Ammon declared the effort to train Afghanistan's police, Germany's whole raison d'etre in the seemingly endless war, "a miserable failure," and said that at the current rate of progress "it would take 82 years to...
Getting NATO to agree to the US plan to dramatically escalate the war on drugs in Afghanistan was no small task. Tired of trying to persuade the nations of the necessity of the operation, perpetually exasperated General John Craddock lashed out at NATO allies in...
It has been over a week since the Pakistani government promised to deploy its paramilitary Frontier Corps to protect supply trucks being delivered to NATO forces in Afghanistan. The attacks continue, but shipments have crawled to a virtual halt. While all the sides...
