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Mullah Omar Leading Afghan Insurgency In Extraordinary Military Comeback

New York Times | SCOTT SHANE | Posted 10.11.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan War, Afghanistan, Mullah Omar Afghanistan Insurgency, Nato, War, Mullah Omar, Afghanistan Insurgency, Taliban, World News

Eight years later, Mullah Omar leads an insurgency that has gained steady ground in much of Afghanistan against much better equipped American and NATO...

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Al-Qaida Showing Smaller Presence In Afghanistan

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

Read More: Kabul, Cia, Al-Qaida, Pakistan, Osama Bin Laden, Mullah Omar, Radical Islamists, Shadow Army, Afghanistan War, Sirajuddin Haqqani, Nuristan, Lashkar Al-Zil, Taliban, Jalaluddin Haqqari, Al Qaada, Afghanistan, Foreign Fighters, Jihad, World News

KABUL — Al-Qaida's role in Afghanistan has faded after eight years of war. Gone is the once-formidable network of camps and safe houses where O...

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Snake Eyes in Afghanistan

Derrick Crowe | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

Read More: Civilian Deaths, Mubashar Jawed Akbar, Al-Qaida, Just War Theory, Pakistan, Nir Rosen, Robert Greene, Mullah Omar, Just War Criteria, Balochistan, Drones, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, P.W. Singer, Augustine, Geoff Morrell, Nonviolence, Ambrose, Fallujah, Rethink Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, The 33 Strategies of War, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Afghanistan, Wired for War, Quetta, World News
Derrick Crowe

None of the credible options in Afghanistan offer real chances for rolling back the insurgent reaction to our presence or reducing terrorism against the United States.

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The Ghosts of Vietnam Haunt Washington

Eric Margolis | Posted 09.23.2009 | World

Read More: Stlaney McChrystal, Military, War in Vietnam, Moscow, Osama Bin Laden, Vietnam War, Mullah Omar, Taliban, Congress, Mike Mullen, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Tet Offensive, World News
Eric Margolis

The American general Stanley McChrystal's news that America risks losing Afghanistan is a bombshell. Washington has spent some $250 billion there since 2001.

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Sen. Feingold Wants Timetable For Withdrawal From Afghanistan

ABC News | David Chalian | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russ Feingold, General Mcchrystal, Pakistan, Mullah Omar, President Obama, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

The Obama administration has been keenly aware of discontent among many in its liberal base with regard to its Afghanistan policy and an expected requ...

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HuffPost Review: Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi

Katya Wachtel | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

Read More: Daniele Mastrogiacomo, Christian Parenti, Afghanistan, Mullah Omar, Kabul, Fixer Documentary, Shia, Taliban, James Nachtwey, Pashtun, Afghanistan War, Kalashnikov, Kandahar, Mullah Dadullah, NATO Afghanistan, Nato, Taliban Beheading, Fixer, Ian Olds, Ajmal Naqshbandi, Rolodex, Northern Pakistan, Occupation Dreamland, Journalists, Foreign Correspondents, Journalists Afghanistan, World News
Katya Wachtel

This is the story of one of the thousands of silhouettes who roam war-zones every day so that we, thousands of miles away, can grasp what is happening on the front-line of wars that affect life on this continent too.

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Taliban Issues New Code Of Conduct For Fighters (VIDEO)

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 08.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Taliban, Afghanistan, Taliban Code of Conduct, Taliban Rules, Mullah Omar, Video, Taliban Video, Home News

The Taliban in Afghanistan has issued a book laying down a code of conduct for its fighters. Al Jazeera has obtained a copy of the book, which furth...

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What Does Obama's Afghan Command Change Mean?

William Bradley | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Al Qaeda, Pakistan, David Rodriguez, David Petraeus, George W. Bush, Mullah Omar, Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, Iraq, Joint Special Operations Command, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Saddam Hussein, Surge, Stanley McChrystal, Korean War, Taliban, Afghanistan, David McKiernan, Special Forces, Douglas MacArthur, World News
William Bradley

The move from McKiernan to McChrystal also seems to signify an end to nation-building fantasies in Afghanistan.

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Afghanistan: Taliban Threatens Wave Of Attacks Against US Surge

AP | HEIDI VOGT and NOOR KHAN | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

Read More: Taliban Spring Offensive, US Troop Surge, Taliban Threatens Attacks, Afghanistan Surge, War Wire, Mullah Omar, Afghanistan, Taliban, Foreign Affairs, Taliban Afghanistan, Afghanistan Taliban, Mullah Berader, World News

KABUL — The Taliban vowed Wednesday to launch a wave of attacks in a spring offensive as a surge of American troops arrives in Afghanistan, a th...

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Pakistan: Who's To Blame?

Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Islamabad, Pakistani Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism, Pakistan, Mullah Omar, Swat Valley, Asif Ali Zardari, Hillary Clinton, Taliban, Buner, Osama Bin Laden, World News
Jamal Dajani

US attacks on tribal areas in Pakistan have done nothing to reduce the Taliban's influence, but rather have backfired and strengthened it politically.

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Mullah Omar Calls For A Taliban Surge

New York Times | Robert Mackey | Posted 04.06.2009 | World

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In spirit, the attack on the Pashtun poet's shrine in Pakistan seems to echo one of the Afghan Taliban's most infamous acts of cultural cleansing: the...

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Taliban Rivals Unite To Fight US Troop Surge

The Guardian | Saeed Shah in Peshawar | Posted 04.03.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Maulvi Nazir, Gul Bahadur, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mullah Omar, Council of United Holy Warriors, Taliban, Barack Obama, Baitullah Mehsud, Shura Ittihad-Ul-Mujahideen, Afghanistan Troop Surge, Foreign Affairs, Us Troops Afghanistan, World News

Three rival Pakistani Taliban groups have agreed to form a united front against international forces in Afghanistan in a move likely to intensify the ...

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Will Afghanistan Become President Obama's War?

Eric Margolis | Posted 03.28.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Gaza, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mullah Omar, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, 9/11, Obama, Taliban, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Mujahideen, Al Qaeda, Foreign Policy, Afghanistan War, Communism, Bagram, Al Qaida, Pervez Musharraf, Israel, Muslim, Iraq, Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Union, World News
Eric Margolis

In a stunning historic irony, while U.S. troops and CIA teams were turning over ever rock in Afghanistan looking for Osama bin Laden, the gravest national security threat was on Wall Street.

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Can We Negotiate With the Taliban?

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 01.18.2009 | World

Read More: NATO Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Mullah Omar, United Nations, Insurgents Afghanistan Us Troops, Afghanistan War, Hamid Karzai, Militia, Afghanistan, Taliban Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sharia Law, Negotiating With Taliban, World News
Virginia M. Moncrieff

As each day brings bleaker news for Afghanistan, the possibility of talking with the Taliban seems to be gaining support as an essential step out of the quagmire.

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Afghan President Offers Taliban Leader Safety Deal

AP | RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 12.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Warwire, Afghanistan, Taliban Leader Mullah Omar, Mullah Omar, War Wire, Taliban, Afghanistan Taliban, Hamid Karzai, Home News

Afghan President Hamid Karzai offered Sunday to provide security for the Taliban's reclusive leader if he agrees to enter peace talks, and suggested t...

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