Air strike kills 15 insurgents in Taliban birthplace (People's Daily)
Air raids against militants' hideouts in Taliban birthplace Kandahar province in south Afghanistan left more than a dozen insurgents dead, said a statement of provincial administration released here Tuesday. The statement said that acting upon intelligence report, the NATO-led aircrafts raided a hideout of Taliban outfit in Mianshin district on Sunday killing 15 insurgents. It also asserted that ...
Afghan forces detain 22 insurgents (People's Daily)
Afghan security forces have detained 22 suspected insurgents over the past 24 hours, Defense Ministry said in a statement released on Tuesday. "National security forces backed by the NATO-led troops during series of operations elsewhere in Kandahar, Helmand and Khost provinces have captured 22 insurgents since Sunday," the statement added. All the suspected terrorists have been handed over to ...
Gunmen storm US charity in Pakistan, kill 5 workers (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Militants armed with guns and grenades stormed the offices of a US-based Christian charity in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing five aid workers in an attack blamed on Islamist insurgents.
Intense gunbattles erupt in Mogadishu (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Heavy fighting broke out between Somali government forces and Islamist insurgents in Mogadishu early Wednesday, officials and witnesses said.
UK's Miliband urges push for Afghan peace deal (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged Afghans on Wednesday to push energetically for a peace settlement with Taliban insurgents and said Afghanistan's neighbors must support such an agreement.
Secretary Gates visits Afghan town recently seized from Taliban (Los Angeles Times)
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaks with Marines and shopkeepers in Now Zad, scene of fierce fighting only months ago. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, aiming to show progress in the expanded war against insurgents in southern Afghanistan, took a brief and heavily guarded walk Tuesday down a rutted street in this scruffy market town where the Taliban lobbed mortar shells at U.S ...
Insurgents Give Term Limits New Life (CQPolitics.com via Yahoo! News)
In what is shaping up to be a turbulent election year, with voters disgusted with Congress and disenchanted with both major political parties, could term limits re-emerge as a salient issue?
5 Somalis die as Islamists fight government (AP via Yahoo! News)
Fighting between Islamist insurgents and Somali government forces killed five people in the capital on Tuesday, residents said.
Gates walks town that was a 'no-go zone' weeks ago (AP via Yahoo! News)
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, aiming to show progress in the expanded war against insurgents in south Afghanistan, took a brief, heavily guarded walk Tuesday down a rutted street in this scruffy market town where the Taliban lobbed mortars at U.S. forces only weeks ago.
Miliband urges push for Afghan peace deal (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged Afghans on Wednesday to push energetically for a peace settlement with Taliban insurgents and said Afghanistan's neighbours must support such an agreement.