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Officials: Dozens Of Frenchmen Training With Taliban

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 05.24.2012

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Dozens of French Muslims are training with the Taliban in northwestern Pakistan, raising fears of future attacks fo...

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DRONE ATTACK: 15 Suspected Militants Reportedly Killed

Reuters | Posted 05.13.2012

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By Saud Mehsud DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan, March 13 (Reuters) - U.S. drone aircraft struck twice in Pakistan's unruly tribal regions ...

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The Ghost and the Machine

Kathy Kelly | Posted 04.30.2012

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Fazillah, age 25, lives in Maidan Shar, the central city of Afghanistan's Wardak province. She married about six years ago, and gave birth to a son, Aymal, who just turned five. His father was killed by an American bomber plane, remote-controlled by computer.

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Suspected Drone Strike Kills 6 Mlitants

Reuters | Posted 03.13.2012

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(Updates death toll) By Haji Mujtaba MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Jan 12 (Reuters) - A second drone strike in two days killed s...

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U.S. Reportedly Launches First Drone In Pakistan In 6 Weeks

AP | By LOLITA C. BALDOR and RASOOL DAWAR | Posted 03.12.2012

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BANNU, Pakistan -- An American drone strike killed four Islamist militants in Pakistan, the first such attack since errant U.S airstrikes in November ...

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Suspected U.S. Drone Kills Powerful Pakistani Commander

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 12.27.2011

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Two American drone strikes hours apart destroyed a hideout in Taliban strongholds in Pakistan's rugged tribal regio...

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Pakistan: Drone Attacks Are Wrong, Regardless

Ethan Casey | Posted 09.18.2011

Drone attacks are wrong. I'm sure to be called an appeaser of terrorists for saying that, particularly in light of the latest events in Mumbai. But I ...

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Why We Shouldn't Push for a Pakistani Offensive in North Waziristan

Michael Kugelman | Posted 08.24.2011

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A Pakistani operation in North Waziristan may well make the job of U.S. forces in Afghanistan easier. However, it also would imperil critical U.S. interests in Pakistan that far outweigh those in Afghanistan.

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Pakistan General Rules Out Waziristan Offensive

AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 08.01.2011

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MAMAD GAT, Pakistan — A top Pakistani commander said Wednesday the army intends to start operations against militants in a strategic tribal regi...

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Suspected U.S. Missiles Kill 10 In Northwest Pakistan

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD and KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 05.25.2011

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ISLAMABAD — Drone aircraft unleashed two missile attacks in a lawless tribal region on the Afghan border, making September the most intense peri...

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Hakimullah Mehsud, Pakistan Taliban Chief, May Have Survived Missile Strike

AP | MUNIR AHMED and ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 05.25.2011

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan and U.S. intelligence wrongly reported the death of the head of the Pakistani Taliban in a CIA drone strike and the brash, ...

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Working Backwards: A New Strategy to Hunt Osama bin Laden

Rahim Kanani | Posted 05.25.2011

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Osama bin Laden is either dead or alive, and I'm proposing a strategy to both remove him from the world stage while hunting him down in the process. The tactic is simple: declare his demise.

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Kamikaze Karzai

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hamid Karzai is alienating the very international community on which he is so dependent. To push the historical analogies to the extreme, Karzai seems to be fiddling while Kabul is burning.

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Preparing the American Invasion of Pakistan

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even as withdrawal from Iraq becomes conventional wisdom, and we continue to force Congress to end the war in Afghanistan, it's still not over. 104 months into the outrageous War on Terror, it appears we're just getting started.

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How a Top Pakistani Journalist Encouraged a Militant Commander to Kill a Former Official

Abdulhadi Hairan | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was long speculated that Pakistani journalist had ties with militant networks in the country and had an important role in promoting extremism and militancy in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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Pakistan Arrests Man Calling Himself "Accomplice" To Faisal Shahzad, Times Square Terror Suspect

Washington Post | Greg Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Pakistani government has arrested a suspect with connections to a Pakistani militant group who said he acted as an accomplice to the man accused o...

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Suspected US Drones Kill 6 Militants In Pakistan

AP | RASOOL DAWAR | Posted 05.25.2011

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MIR ALI, Pakistan — The Pakistani Taliban refused Tuesday to provide proof their leader survived a U.S. missile attack, just one day after promi...

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The New Strategy for Obama's War: Precision Power

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

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There is nothing like the convergence of two equally unpleasant scenarios -- in this case the danger in Pakistan and American forces settling further into Afghanistan -- to sharpen a leader's mind.

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Pakistan: Suicide Bomber Kills 3 Near Peshawar Press Club

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bombing that killed three people and wounded 17 outside a press club in the northwestern city of Peshawar has und...

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Taliban Fight Back Against Pakistan Offensive

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 05.25.2011

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles in a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border, with both si...

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US Steps Up Drone Missile Attacks In Pakistan

AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 05.25.2011

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ISLAMABAD — The United States has unleashed an unprecedented number of missile attacks by unmanned drones in northwest Pakistan over the last tw...

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Obama Leaning Toward 34,000 More Troops For Afghanistan

McClatchy | Jonathan S. Landay | Posted 05.25.2011

President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it unti...

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Pakistan's Success Against Taliban May Influence Obama's Afghan Troop Decision

New York Times | SABRINA TAVERNISE and ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 05.25.2011

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Success in this region, in the remote mountains near the Afghan border, could have a direct bearing on how many more American troops are ultimately se...

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Pakistani Army Fighting The Taliban (VIDEO): Amazing Footage From New PBS Documentary

Posted 05.25.2011

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"NOW on PBS" has obtained some amazing footage of the Pakistani army taking the fight to the Taliban in Waziristan as part of its look at the U.S.'s ...

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Pakistan And Taliban Both Claim Success In Second Day Of Military Assault

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 05.25.2011

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles in a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border, with both si...

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