US Wants Iraq To Pay Bill For War Victims
RAMADI, Iraq — Off a dusty street flanked by piles of rubble and bombed-out car skeletons, the Saleh family is rebuilding their home with Americ...
RAMADI, Iraq — Off a dusty street flanked by piles of rubble and bombed-out car skeletons, the Saleh family is rebuilding their home with Americ...
nytimes.com | TIM ARANGO | Posted 05.25.2011
NEAR TULUL AL-BAQ, Iraq -- President Obama has set an August deadline for the end of the combat mission in Iraq. Here at this makeshift desert camp in...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff and Doug Sarro | Posted 05.25.2011
Pakistan Taliban leader alive, videos seem to show. Two videos released this weekend appear to provide further evidence that Pakistani Taliban leader ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nicholas Sabloff & Faiz Lalani | Posted 05.25.2011
NATO to stay in Afghanistan for another 10 to 15 years? The UK's former Ambassador to Afghanistan, Mark Sedwill, said that NATO could expect to stay i...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nicholas Sabloff & Faiz Lalani | Posted 05.25.2011
Deadly raid on Afghan MP's house leads to protests. According to an Afghan lawmaker, dozens of U.S. troops raided her home around midnight and killed ...
Posted 05.25.2011
UN shuts mission in Kandahar. After a surge of violence in Kandahar--the heart of the Taliban insurgency, and the location of the next NATO military o...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON (AP)- The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has been summoned to Washington to explain derogatory comments about President Barack Obama and...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nicholas Sabloff & Faiz Lalani | Posted 05.25.2011
Pakistani Taliban regroup in North Waziristan. The Pakistani military ostensibly routed out Taliban militants from its tribal areas during a large-sca...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff and Doug Sarro | Posted 05.25.2011
NATO apologizes for killing 4 unarmed Afghans, says it was a "mistake" to claim they were insurgents. The victims, their family claims, were civilians...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nicholas Sabloff & Faiz Lalani | Posted 05.25.2011
NATO troops kill four unarmed Afghans. NATO troops shot at a vehicle, killing four unarmed Afghan civilians in Khost province, reports Reuters. The c...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff and Doug Sarro | Posted 05.25.2011
UN bodyguard reportedly executed by Afghan police. An amateur video indicates that Louis Maxwell, a security officer from the United States, who until...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nicholas Sabloff & Faiz Lalani | Posted 05.25.2011
$6 billion later, Afghan policemen don't know how to shoot properly. After doling out more than $6 billion to train Afghan policemen, we may now know ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nicholas Sabloff & Faiz Lalani | Posted 05.25.2011
U.S. special forces in Afghanistan double. The U.S. military has doubled the presence of Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan, bringing the numbe...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nicholas Sabloff & Faiz Lalani | Posted 05.25.2011
U.S. military increases presence in Pakistan. As U.S. troops struggle to secure Afghanistan, U.S. Special Forces have apparently beefed up their pres...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff and Doug Sarro | Posted 05.25.2011
Round-up of today's AfPak news. Amnesty: Northwest Pakistan a "rights-free zone." A new report by Amnesty International, titled "As if Hell Fell on ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nicholas Sabloff & Faiz Lalani | Posted 05.25.2011
White House and NATO mend relations with Karzai, call him "partner." After remarks earlier this week by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that he would jo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nicholas Sabloff & Faiz Lalani | Posted 05.25.2011
White House plays down Karzai rift. The White House tried to play down the public rift growing between the Obama administration and Afghan President H...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff | Posted 05.25.2011
What is going on with Hamid Karzai? The Afghan leader has not only been lashing out repeatedly at the West and accusing foreigners of being responsib...
Posted 05.25.2011
Afghan police not up to the job in Marjah. The poor performance of an elite cadre of officers deployed to Marjah has cast doubt on the Afghan police's...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nicholas Sabloff & Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011
We are blogging the latest news about America's war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Email us at AfPak [at] huffingtonpost.com. Follow Nico on Twitter; fo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nicholas Sabloff & Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011
We are blogging the latest news about America's war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Email us at AfPak [at] huffingtonpost.com. Follow Nico on Twitter; fo...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff and Doug Sarro | Posted 05.25.2011
Round-up of the latest AfPak news. Andrew Sullivan slams Obama's "incoherence" on Afghanistan. Earlier today, Sullivan wrote that "the incoherence o...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nicholas Sabloff & Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011
We are blogging the latest news about America's war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Email us at AfPak [at] huffingtonpost.com. Follow Nico on Twitter; fo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nicholas Sabloff & Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011
We are blogging the latest news about America's war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Email us at AfPak [at] huffingtonpost.com. Follow Nico on Twitter; fo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nicholas Sabloff & Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011
We are blogging the latest news about America's war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Email us at AfPak [at] huffingtonpost.com. Follow Nico on Twitter; fo...
AP | MARJORIE OLSTER | Posted 05.25.2011