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XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement system, dubbed "The Punisher", has already been used 200 times against the Taliban in Afghanistan, with stunning results as it fires further and more accurately. Put simply, a soldier will be able to aim roughly...
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The political turmoil has been a problem for the United States as well, because it wants Pakistan to focus on repairing troubled relations between the two countries and help negotiate peace with the Taliban in Afghanistan. "The case has been very...
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Afghan children carry bags filled with garbage used to burn and keep warm in Herat on February 11, 2012. Herat transitioned from NATO to Afghan security control in July 2011, but critics said the security transition timetable was politically motivated... View Photo »
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The Taliban ruthlessly cut down more than 80% of the forests when they controlled Swat. The illegal cutting by Taliban not only caused environmental degradation but also deprived the local population of an economic lifeline
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But, I think what's clear from the New York Times story and what I've learned talking to forces on the ground is that unless we can really pin down some of these Taliban fighters who flee into the Pakistan territories, we're going to continue to have...
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The two boys had gone to Pakistan after they were released but were sent back to Afghanistan after being trained to conduct suicide attacks. "They told me I would be safe after conducting a suicide attack," one the boys Azizullah was quoted in a...
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Pakistan, he said, backed any Afghan-led peace plan to establish peace in the neighbouring country and in no way supported Taliban insurgents. Gilani’s statements were aired on the eve of a hearing at which the premier faces indictment for contempt of...
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This October 14, 2011 file photograph shows Afghan sightseers as they walk past burqa-clad women at the Band-e-Qargha Gulestan Park in Kabul. On February 10, 2012 a report showed that as tentative steps are made towards peace talks between the United... View Photo »
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The Taliban ruthlessly cut down more than 80% of the forests when they controlled Swat. The illegal cutting by Taliban not only caused environmental degradation but also deprived the local population of an economic lifeline
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‘Undergo a Miraculous Transformation’: George Soros ‘Pretty Sure’ Romney Will Pursue a Stimulus if Elected
The Blaze
He and Holder sell 2,000 high caliber weapons to the drug cartels and then tell the CIA to launder the drug money. We recruit a Muslim Brotherhood legal beagle to lead negotiations on our behalf with the Taliban for our naked withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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If convicted, Mr Gilani faces six months in jail and disqualification from office in a case that has rocked his government and is expected to force elections within months in the country plagued by al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Asked during an interview...
About Taliban
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The Taliban (Pashto: طالبان ṭālibān, also anglicised as Taleban; translation: "students") is a Sunni Islamist, predominately Pashtun movement that governed Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, when its leaders were removed from power by Northern Alliance and NATO forces. It has regrouped and since 2004 revived as a strong insurgency movement... Full Article
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Two burqa-clad Afghan women beggars share a mid-day break in Kandahar on February 7, 2012. The civil war in the Central Asian nation, which followed the Afghan defeat to Soviet occupiers, ruined once-beautiful Afghanistan and left up to 80,000 people dead. It ended with the 1996...
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An Afghan man with two children begs at a roadside in Kandahar on February 1, 2012. The volatile southern city is the birthplace of the Taliban movement, which has been waging bloody battle for a return to power since its ouster in a US-led invasion in late 2001 in the wake of the 9/11...
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Taliban militants hand over their weapons after joining the Afghan government's reconciliation and reintegration program, in Herat January 30, 2012. Some thirty Afghan Taliban have joined the program, Herat governor Daoud Shah said.
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A Taliban militant poses for a picture after joining the Afghan government's reconciliation and reintegration program, in Herat January 30, 2012. Some thirty Afghan Taliban have joined the program, Herat governor Daoud Shah said.
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Afghan commando soldiers disclose the faces of detained Taliban militants during a news event in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. 15 Taliban militants were killed and six more were arrested during a joint operation of NATO - led forces and Afghan commando...
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Supporters of Pakistani pro-Taliban religious party Jamiat Ulema Islam listen to their leaders during a rally in Karachi, Pakistan on Friday, Jan 27, 2012. A pro-Taliban Islamist party has shown its strength by holding a large rally in southern Pakistan ahead of parliamentary elections,...
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Former Taliban minister Maulvi Arsala Rahmani, a member of the High Peace Council set up by President Hamid Karzai two years ago to liaise with insurgents, speaks during an interview in Kabul January 26, 2012. Senior Afghan peace negotiators believe the Taliban are willing to...
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An Afghan girl holds a doll in a displaced camp in Kabul on January 25, 2012. Despite massive injections of foreign aid since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Afghanistan remains desperately poor with some of the lowest living standards in the world.
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Pakistani protesters shout anti-US slogans during a protest in Multan on January 24, 2012 against the US drone attacks in the Pakistani tribal region. A US drone fired missiles into a vehicle, killing four militants in Pakistan's Taliban and Al-Qaeda hub of North Waziristan on January...
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The Tolonews website runs a story on its front page reporting about the news of the death of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar in Kabulin this May 23, 2011, file photo. The White House received a letter last year purported to come directly from Mullah Omar, the reclusive leader of the...
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Two US gunners sit aboard a US helicopter Chinook at the Bagram Airport on January 21, 2012. The French defence minister said that an Afghan soldier who killed four French troops was a Taliban infiltrator, as he appeared to dampen the prospect of an early withdrawal. Gerard Longuet flew...
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A U.S. soldier from Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry, throws away the empty shell of a 120mm mortar after firing rounds at Taliban positions in Shalay Valley from Combat Outpost Penich, in Kunar province, near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, in this file photo taken October...
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A German medic soldier, right, part of the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) checks an Afghan child patient through a mobile medical team during a joining ceremony of Taliban militants with the Afghan government in Baghlan, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday,...
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