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Published Date: 21 November 2009 YOU may know al-Qaeda wants to kill you, but does al-Shabaab, the Islamic militia fighting the UN-backed government of Somalia, perceive the West as a direct enemy? And does the Eastern...
Published Date: 21 November 2009 A SUSPECTED American missile strike killed at least eight Taleban militants yesterday in north-western Pakistan, officials said. It was the second attack this week in an area believed to hold...
Here is detailed report of the demonstration against NATO in Edinburgh last weekend. Report of protest against NATO on Saturday 14th November 2009 There was a five day NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) conference in...
This has been a week when some politicians – Tory ones at that – have deeply offended rural voters, says our countryside commentator John Sheard. But next week, a scheme is launched which raises a glimmer of hope for peace in...
Dr. Uddipan Mukherjee The Operation Rah-i-Nijat has completed its first month. The battle seems to be long drawn as the Pakistani Taliban has declared to engage the military in guerrilla warfare. From north to south, FATA is...
IN A DUSTY VILLAGE NEAR KABUL, BRIAN READE MEETS THE HUMAN SIDE OF THE CONFLICT Life is tough here - it shows in people's faces. In the village of Danishmand, 10 miles outside Kabul, the Afghanis speak of their hopes. In this...
KABUL, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Afghan and the NATO-led troops have killed over a dozen Taliban fighters in Kandahar province south of Afghanistan during an operation launched Friday, a private television channel reported Saturday....
While military officers wait for President Obama to conclude his agonizingly slow review of Afghanistan policy, they've been reading a paper by an Army Special Forces operative arguing that the only hope for success in that...
Richard Colvin's repeated warnings to the Canadian government about detainee torture in Afghanistan were an expression of the common concerns of like-minded Western nations, not the baseless ramblings of a rogue diplomat, a...
Lalit K. Jha Washington Nov. 20: Fearing that Taliban supremo Mullah Omar might be targeted by US drones, Pakistan's ISI has helped him to flee from the border town of Quetta to the mega port city of Karachi, where he has...
