At War

US Wants Iraq To Pay Bill For War Victims

AP | MARJORIE OLSTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

War in Iraq Defies U.S. Timetable for End of Combat

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...

New Mehsud Videos Show Pakistani Taliban Leader Alive (VIDEO)

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 ...

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Could NATO Stay In Afghanistan For Another 10 To 15 Years?

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...

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Afghan Lawmaker: U.S. Soldiers Raided My Home, Killed My Relative

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 ...

U.S. Forces In Afghanistan Will Soon Outnumber Those In Iraq

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...

'The Runaway General': General McChrystal Faces BLOWBACK From Rolling Stone Expose

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...

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Pakistan Militants Find New Haven

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...

NATO Apologizes For Killing 4 Unarmed Afghans, Admits They Weren't 'Known Insurgents'

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...

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NATO Troops Open Fire On Vehicle, Kill 4 Unarmed Afghans

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...

UN Bodyguard Reportedly 'Executed' By Afghan Police

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...

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U.S. Contractors Failed To Train Afghans To Adjust Gun Sights

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 ...

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U.S. Ramps Up Effort To Hunt Down Afghan Taliban Leaders

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...

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AT WAR: U.S. Special Ops Playing 'Largely Unseen' Role In Pakistan

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...

The Inside Story On Marjah

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 ...

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AT WAR: Obama, NATO Say Karzai Remains A 'Partner'

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...

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AT WAR: White House Plays Down Karzai Feud

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...

AT WAR: Ex-UN Official Implies Karzai Has A Drug Problem (VIDEO)

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...

AfPak News, June 2: U.N. Official Says U.S. Should End Drone Attacks In Pakistan

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...

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AT WAR: Karzai Increasingly Spurning US's Influence

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...

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AT WAR: Kandahar Offensive To Begin In June

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...

Andrew Sullivan: 'Incoherence Of Obama's Afghan Strategy Becoming Clearer By The Day'

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...

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AT WAR: Military Orders Withdrawal Of Fast Food Joints From Afghan Bases

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...

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AT WAR: US, Pakistan Report Only Modest Progress In Talks

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...

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AT WAR: US-Led Forces In Afghanistan Are Committing Atrocities, Reporter Says

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...