Insurgents

U.S. Releasing High-Level Insurgents In Exchange For Peace Pledges

The Washington Post | Associated Press May 2, 2012 | Posted 05.06.2012

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KABUL — The United States has for several years been secretly releasing high-level detainees from a military prison in Afghanistan as part of negoti...

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Negotiations With Maoist Rebels Stall

AP | JIM GOMEZ | Posted 01.08.2012

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MANILA, Philippines — Negotiations to end one of Asia's longest-running Marxist insurgencies have stalled in the Philippines after Maoist rebels...

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U.S. Night Raids Curb Taliban, At A Civilian Cost

New York Times | Carlotta Gall | Posted 09.08.2011

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United States Special Operations forces have carried out an extraordinary number of night raids over the past year, turning them into one of their mos...

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NATO Says Its Forces Repel Attack On Kabul Base In Afghanistan

AP | By DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 06.01.2011

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Three insurgents attacked a NATO base on the outskirts of Afghanistan's capital Saturday but were killed by coalition force...

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Petraeus Is Focusing on the Wrong Body Count in Afghanistan

Michael Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nato, Coin, Civilian Casualties, War, Isaf, United Nations, David Petraeus, Petraeus, Taliban, Insurgents, Afghanistan, General Petraeus, Counterinsurgency, World News

Instead of focusing on metrics that matter, U.S. officials have decided to trumpet enemy body count. Apparently, the number of dead insurgents, not civilians, is now the barometer for determining the campaign's efficacy.

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Pentagon Assertions of "Progress" In Afghanistan Are a Bad Joke

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

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The latest Petraeus/Gates media tour is under way in preparation for the general's testimony to Congress next week, and they're trotting out the same, tired spin they've been using since McChrystal was replaced in disgrace last year.

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Afghanistan War Not Worth the Burning of Children and Treasure

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

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With our money fueling the insurgency and our killing of civilians driving more people to join the Taliban's side every week, it's little wonder that the insurgency continues to grow in size and sophistication.

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Journalism Is Not an Attack, Wikileaks Is Not Warfare

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you support Wikileaks, if you support transparency, accountability, or even just basic free speech, you should not be playing into the government's semantic game that presents itself as a victim, and Wikileaks as an attacker.

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Car Bombs Kill 36 In Baghdad, Fallujah

AP | BARBARA SURK | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Three car bombs tore through Baghdad and the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah Sunday, killing at least 36 people. The blasts in...

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Taliban Makes New Advances In Once-Peaceful Northern Afghanistan

Washington Post | Joshua Partlow | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the past year, security in northern Afghanistan has deteriorated rapidly as insurgents have seized new territory in provinces such as Kunduz and Ba...

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Outsourcing the Dirty War in Afghanistan

Erica Gaston | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bob Woodward's new book Obama's Wars reveals that the CIA maintains a 3000-strong Afghan paramilitary force that conducts cross-border operations into Pakistan. It's news in the U.S., but Afghanis have known this for long time.

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Negotiating Afghan Peace : Pros and Cons Outlined

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matt Waldman, Nato, Isaf, Pakistan, Taliban, United States Institute of Peace, Petraeus, Afghanistan, Insurgents, World News

That elections in Afghanistan were possible at all is an achievement on the very slow and torturous road to solving the knots of problems and disasters that the coalition forces face.

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Afghanistan Is More Dangerous Despite Troop Surge, Say Aid Groups

New York Times | ROD NORDLAND | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even as more American troops flow into the country, Afghanistan is more dangerous than it has ever been during this war, with security deteriorating i...

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$547 Million Can't Paper Over Failure of Afghanistan War

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

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No matter how much the Pentagon spins their message into the mainstream media, the facts on the ground show the U.S. lacks one of counterinsurgency's own premises for success: a legitimate host nation government.

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Civil War Still a Possibility in Iraq

Jeremy White | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday's coordinated attacks by insurgents are a chilling sign that it is far too soon to be breathing sighs of relief over the state of Iraq.

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Media Failing to Ask Tough Questions on Afghanistan War...Again

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

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If the media fail to ask hard questions, there's a chance Petraeus could get the freedom to extend an extremely unpopular war that's not making us safer.

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Spike in Civilian Casualties Shows U.S. War Policy Is Failing Afghans and Americans

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

The United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan reports that the number of civilians killed in the first six months of 2010 spiked by 25 percent compared to the same period last year.

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Rethink Afghanistan: ISI and Pakistan Army Kill Americans

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

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The US must stop escalating in Pakistan and end the war in Afghanistan. Afghanistan's future government is already taking shape, and Pakistan has enough of a powerful progressive movement that they can stabilize their country.

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Afghanistan Rights Monitor Slams Washington Spin About "Progress" in Afghanistan

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you can't protect the population generally, from the perspective of COIN doctrine, you lose. If you lack a legitimate host nation government as a partner, you lose. And guess what? According to that doctrine the United States is losing. Badly.

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Muqtada Sadr's Mahdi Army Militiamen Slowly Resurface

LA Times | Borzou Daragahi | Posted 05.25.2011

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After two years, ex-militiamen are being seen again in Baghdad neighborhoods. Officials fear the shadowy group could take advantage of Iraq's festerin...

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Khost Shooting: NATO Admits Young Victims Were Not 'Known Insurgents'

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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NATO's acknowledgment Wednesday that the unarmed young men shot to death two days earlier in Khost province were not "known insurgents," as previously...

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Abu Suhaib, High-Ranking Al Qaeda In Iraq Leader, Killed

AP | REBECCA SANTANA and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has gotten a much-needed boost from the killings of two al-Qaida leaders and a court-ordered recount of...

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Does an Afghanistan Exit Strategy Hurt Our Allies?

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

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A timetable for withdrawal is a good thing. Ignore the partisan myth-making and keep pressuring your representatives to hold Obama accountable and bring this war to an end.

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Afghanistan Fraud Is Focus Of US Military Intelligence

New York Times | THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 05.25.2011

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The military's intelligence network in Afghanistan, designed for identifying and tracking terrorists and insurgents, is increasingly focused on uncove...

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It's Always a Bad Year to Get Out of Afghanistan

Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.25.2011

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After 104 months of war, the last 12 of which saw the U.S. triple the number of troops in Afghanistan, attempted terror attacks against our country are at an all-time high.

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