December 30, 2011
Rarely in US history has the end of a war been marked with less fanfare than the withdrawal of the last troops from Iraq in time for Christmas. Indeed, you could almost be forgiven for failing to notice it at all, so arbitrary does the timing seem. US interests in Iraq will be no [...]
Tags: administration, Afghanistan, Afghans, Al Qaeda, Americans, believe, Civil, Civil War, Government, His Own, Immunity, Iraqi, Iraqis, Its Troops, Ldquo, military, National, National Unity, No One, Noah Feldman, Obama, Obama administration, Of National Unity, Power Sharing, President, Prime minister, Rdquo, Sunnis, Taliban, That The Taliban, The Afghans, The Americans, The country, The Iraqi, The Iraqis, The last, The Sunnis, The Taliban, The withdrawal, The world, troops, Us Military, Us Withdrawal, withdrawal, Withdrawal From Afghanistan
Posted in Life in Vietnam | Comments Off
December 29, 2011
Rarely in US history has the end of a war been marked with less fanfare than the withdrawal of the last troops from Iraq in time for Christmas. Indeed, you could almost be forgiven for failing to notice it at all, so arbitrary does the timing seem. US interests in Iraq will be no [...]
Tags: administration, Afghanistan, Afghans, Al Qaeda, Americans, believe, Civil, Civil War, Government, His Own, Immunity, Iraqi, Iraqis, Its Troops, Ldquo, military, National, National Unity, No One, Noah Feldman, Obama, Obama administration, Of National Unity, Power Sharing, President, Prime minister, Rdquo, Sunnis, Taliban, That The Taliban, The Afghans, The Americans, The country, The Iraqi, The Iraqis, The last, The Sunnis, The Taliban, The withdrawal, The world, troops, Us Military, Us Withdrawal, withdrawal, Withdrawal From Afghanistan
Posted in Life in Vietnam | Comments Off
August 11, 2011
File photo shows troops serving in the International Security Assistance Force on a dawn patrol in Afghanistan. Five NATO soldiers were killed by a bomb in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, as the Taliban rejected a US claim to have killed the fighters who shot down an American helicopter killing 38 troops. The soldiers’ nationalities and [...]
Tags: 2001 Invasion, 38 People, Afghan, Afghanistan, Air Strike, Air Strike But, An Air Strike, Assistance Force, Been Killed, Down The Helicopter, elsewhere, fighter, fighters, Five Nato, force, forces, Foreign, Foreign Troops, Had Been Killed, helicopter, Helicopter Killing, In The Tangi, In The Tangi Valley, Insurgents, International, International Security, International Security Assistance, International Security Assistance Force, killed, killing, Killing 38, Last year, Mujahid, Police, province, responsible?, Security Assistance, Security Assistance Force, Shot Down The, Shot Down The Helicopter, Soldiers, special, Special Forces, strike, Taliban, Taliban Fighters, Tangi Valley, The 2001, The 2001 Invasion, The Chinook, The country, The Helicopter, The Insurgents, The international, The International Security, The International Security Assistance, The latest, The Taliban, The Tangi, The Tangi Valley, Told Afp, troops, Wardak, Wardak Province, Were Found, Were Killed, Who Shot, Who Shot Down, Who Shot Down The
Posted in International | Comments Off
July 27, 2011
File photo of an Afghan wheeling his bicycle across a street in Kandahar City. The mayor of Kandahar, the biggest city in southern Afghanistan and the birthplace of the Taliban movement, was killed in a suicide attack on Wednesday, police said. The death comes two weeks after the assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the so-called [...]
Tags: Afghan, Afghan Forces, Afghanistan, assassination, attack, control, forces, Hameedi, Kandahar, Kandahar City, Kandahar City The, Karzai, killed, Mayor:, Police, President, province, Security, southern, Southern Afghanistan, suicide, Suicide Bomber, Taliban, The Assassination, The Mayor, The province, The Taliban, The united, The united states, Told Afp, troops, United states, Wali Karzai
Posted in International | Comments Off
May 25, 2011
Pakistani security personnel and volunteers search for victims in the rubble of a destroyed police station following a suicide bomb attack in Peshawar on May 25, 2011. A Taliban suicide bomber flattened a Pakistani police station on Wednesday, killing six people in the latest brazen assault on security forces since US troops killed Osama bin [...]
Tags: About The Security, Al Qaeda, attack, attacks, Bin Laden, Bin Laden Was, blast, Building, consulate, Drone Strikes, forces, hospital, killed, killing, Laden, Metres Yards, military, Nuclear weapons, Osama Bin, Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan, Pakistani, people, Peshawar, Police, Police Official, Police Station, Qaeda, Rubble, Security, Security Forces, Six People, Small Truck, Station, Storey Building, suicide, Suicide Bomb, Taliban, The Attack, The Blast, The building, The country, The Military, The Peshawar, The police, The Rubble, The Security, The Taliban, The three, The Three Storey, The Three Storey Building, These Attacks, Three, Three People, Three Storey, Three Storey Building, To Three People, Told Afp, Trapped Under The, Trapped Under The Rubble, Truck, Under The Rubble, Us Consulate, Us Drone, Us Drone Strikes
Posted in International | Comments Off
May 7, 2011
Pakistani Islamists chant anti-US slogans holding a picture of Osama bin Laden during a protest outskirt Quetta. Al-Qaeda and Islamic militants have vowed to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden by US commandos, declaring him a “martyr” and calling on Muslims to rise up against the United States. But US President Barack Obama swept [...]
Tags: 11 Attacks, Abbottabad, Al Qaeda, attacks, avoid, Bin Laden, Bin Laden Was, calling, Compound, Courier, Death, forces, Friday, helicopter, His Death, His Death The, house, intelligence, Intelligence Services, Islamists, Laden, Ldquo, Ldquo Martyr, Ldquo Martyr Rdquo, leader, martyr, Martyr Rdquo, Muslim, network, Obama, Obama administration, Of Osama Bin, Of Osama Bin Laden, Officials, Operation, Osama, Osama Bin, Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan, Pakistani, Paper Said The, people, Post Reported, Post Reported The, Qaeda, Rdquo, released, reported, September 11, Shot Dead, Special Forces, Statement Released, states, Taliban, terrorist, That Bin Laden, The Compound, The Courier, The obama, The obama administration, The Pakistani, The paper, The Paper Said, The Paper Said The, The Post, The Post Reported, The Post Reported The, The Raid, The September, The site, The Taliban, The united, The united states, The white house, The world, United, United states, Us Officials, Vowed, Where Bin, Where Bin Laden, Where Bin Laden Was, White house
Posted in International | Comments Off
February 10, 2011
Pakistani paramilitary soldiers are seen on patrol. A teenage suicide bomber killed up to 27 Pakistani army recruits at a parade ground on Thursday, an attack the Taliban said was vengeance for US drone strikes and local military offensives. Wearing school uniform, the boy blew himself up at the parade inside a heavily guarded military [...]
Tags: 000 people, Al Qaeda, Army Recruits, attack, attacks, Attacks Rdquo, diplomatic, Diplomatic Immunity, Drone, Drone Strikes, Drone Strikes And, In The Northwestern, In The Tribal, In The Tribal District, killed, Ldquo, Mardan, Militants, military, Military Operations, Pakistan, Pakistani, people, Police, Qaeda, Rdquo, recruits, School Uniform, Soldiers, Such Attacks, suicide, Suicide Attack, Taliban, The Northwestern, The Taliban, The Tribal, The Tribal District, The united, Told Afp, Tribal, Tribal Belt, Tribal District
Posted in International | Comments Off
November 13, 2010
An Afghan soldier stands guard after clashes with Taliban fighters near Jalalabad airport. The Taliban launched a pre-dawn attack on a NATO base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, triggering a firefight with foreign and Afghan forces that left eight militants dead. Another 10 people, including three children, were killed in a motorcycle bombing in a [...]
Tags: 10 People, 10 People Including, 10 People Including Three, Afghan, Afghanistan, attack, attacks, Children Were Killed, Commander:, Eight Militants, force, Foreign, Foreign Troops, Government, Government Militia, Hamid Karzai, Including, Including Three, Including Three Children, Including Three Children Were, Jalalabad, Jalalabad Airport, Kandahar, killed, Local, market, military, Motorcycle, people, People Including, People Including Three, People Including Three Children, Pro Government, Pro Government Militia, Saturday, suicide, Taliban, Taliban Attacks, target, The Attack, The Explosion, The Taliban, The Target, Three Children, Three Children Were, Three Children Were Killed, troops, Were Injured, Were Killed, Were Killed And
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
January 1, 2010
Map showing provinces in Afghanistan where five Candians and eight Americans were killed in two separate attacks on Wednesday and Tuesday The CIA vowed on Thursday to avenge the deaths of seven officers in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan and to investigate security breaches that allowed the second deadliest attack in agency history. The Taliban [...]
Tags: Afghan, Afghan Army, Afghan Forces, Afghanistan, agency, attack, bombing, Cia Employees, Deadly Attack, deaths, Defense Ministry, employees, Five Canadians, forces, Fort Hood, He Said The, intelligence, Intelligence Official, journalist, killed, official, province, Security, spokesman, Taliban, The Afghan, The Attack, The Cia, The Deaths, The Fort, The Fort Hood, The second, The Taliban, Wednesday, Were Killed
Posted in International, News | Comments Off
December 5, 2009
NATO allies and partner nations rallied Friday to U.S. President Barrack Obama’s call for an international military surge in Afghanistan, by adding at least 7,000 troops . . . A meeting of foreign ministers of the NATO-Russia Council is held at the NATO headquarters in Brussels Dec. 4, 2009. (Xinhua/Wu Wei)“Despite all the challenges, all [...]
Tags: 000 Troops, Afghan, Afghan Forces, Afghan National, Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Contingent, current, Current Contingent, Deploy, development, Dutch, Fogh Rasmussen, Fogh Rasmussen Said, force, forces, Foreign, Foreign Minister, Foreign Ministers, German, Growing, International, International Forces, Local, ministers, National Army, nations, Obama, On The Ground, public, Rasmussen, Secretary, Security, Soldiers, strategy, support, Taliban, Taliban Regime, That Has Been, The Afghan, The Dutch, The Ground, The international, The Nato, The new, The Taliban, The Taliban Regime, troops
Posted in International, News | Comments Off
