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Map locates Marjah in Helmand province, Afghanistan, where a U.S./Afghan offensive against Taliban militants is imminent. View Photo »
Hakimullah was neither killed nor I have been appointed acting amir (chief) of the Taliban
News that Mahmoud al Mabhouh, a leading member of Hamas's military wing, the Ezzedine al Qassam Brigades, was murdered in Dubai 11 days ago, has quickly prompted speculation that Israel was behind the killing. Full Article at The National Newspaper
Taliban to produce this guy — especially as time wears on. Hakimullah certainly hasn't shied away from the terrorist limelight before, so if he's alive, why is he doing so now when there's so much speculation about his demise? Here's to hoping the speculation... Full Article at Dawn
Muslims attend Friday prayers under a snowfall at the Central mosque in Almaty February 5, 2010. A vast region wedged between China, Iran, Afghanistan and Russia, Central Asia found itself on the frontline of global affairs last year when it agreed to host... View Photo »
We're out here with the ANA, supporting them to help fight the Taliban so they can take their country back.
Renee Montagne talks with Michael Semple, a fellow at Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights policy, about reconciling and reintegrating the Taliban in Afghanistan. There are several programs in the works for reintegration, with varied results so far. Full Article at NPR
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 fighting... Full Article
Map locates Marjah in Helmand province, Afghanistan, where a U.S./Afghan offensive against Taliban militants is imminent.
View Photo »Pakistan Taliban commander Hakimullah Mehsud (L) is seen with his arm around Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud during a news conference in South Waziristan in this May 24, 2008 file photo. Pakistan's military said on January 31, 2010 it was investigating a report that Hakimullah was killed in...
View Photo »The body of a Taliban fighter, who was killed in Friday's gunbattle with Afghan forces, is carried to the office of Afghan Red Crescent Society to be transported to his village, in Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010.
View Photo »Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud (C) sits with other millitants in South Waziristan in this October 4, 2009 file video grab taken from footage released October 5, 2009. The head of the Taliban in Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud, has been killed in a US drone attack, Pakistan state television...
View Photo »Pakistan Taliban commander Hakimullah Mehsud (L) is seen with his arm around Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud during a news conference in South Waziristan in this May 24, 2008 file photo. The head of the Taliban in Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud, has been killed in a US drone attack, Pakistan...
View Photo »The body of a suspected Taliban fighter lies on the ground asurrounded by security forces soon at the end of a fierce gun battle in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. A fierce gun battle broke out between security forces and a team of Taliban fighters targeting U.N....
View Photo »An Afghan policeman takes up position where the Taliban gunmen are holed up in a building in Helmand province January 29, 2010. In the country's south, suicide attackers launched an assault in the capital of Helmand, Afghanistan's most violent province, and gunmen were holed up in a building...
View Photo »A U.S. Army 120mm mortar team barrages a nearby Taliban position, at Combat Outpost Michigan, in the Pech Valley, Kunar province, northeastern Afghanistan, Thursday Jan. 28, 2010. The soldiers from the 2-12 Infantry, Task Force Lethal at COP Michigan regularly receive small and large-arms...
View Photo »In this image taken from video on Friday Feb. 3, 2010, reportedly showing Taliban militants flogging a person in the Pakistani tribal area along the Afghanistan border. This new video has emerged which was purportedly filmed Feb. 3, shows a senior Taliban commander meting out a brand of traditional...
View Photo »Muslims attend Friday prayers under a snowfall at the Central mosque in Almaty February 5, 2010. A vast region wedged between China, Iran, Afghanistan and Russia, Central Asia found itself on the frontline of global affairs last year when it agreed to host a vital new supply route for NATO...
View Photo »KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - FEBRUARY 2: Afghan men watch an afternoon Indian film at a theater, that like all movie houses, was closed during the Taliban takeover, February 02, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Despite years of foreign involvement and the money being committed to Afghanistan from both...
View Photo »FILE - In this Aug. 22, 1998 file photo, Jalaluddin Haqqani, then Taliban Army Supreme Commander talks to reporters in Miram Shah, Waziristan, Pakistan. Pakistan's links with Taliban leaders believed based in the country could prove vital to the Afghan government's renewed push to make peace...
View Photo »A Pakistani police officer stands with alleged militants, who stand hooded in police custody on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010, in Lahore, Pakistan. Police say they have arrested six suspected Taliban militants, who were allegedly on their way to attack U.S. tourists at a five-star hotel in Pakistan's...
View Photo »As the military base takes impacts from Taliban positions as they fire recoilless artillery rounds and machine gun fire into the base, a soldier with a U.S. Army mortar team runs to his firing position, where his team returned fire with a series of 120mm mortar rounds, at Combat Outpost...
View Photo »As the Taliban fire their own artillery and machine guns, the impacts from U.S. mortar return fire can be seen on the mountainside above Combat Outpost Michigan, in the Pech Valley, Kunar province, northeastern Afghanistan, Thursday Jan. 21, 2010. The soldiers from the 2-12 Infantry, Task...
View Photo »A British soldier is seen holding on to the turret gun of a manoeuvring armoured vehicle in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan, February 8, 2010. Coalition forces are expected launch a major assault in central Helmand in the upcoming days to seize the area from Taliban.
View Photo »As his base takes impacts from Taliban positions who are firing recoilless artillery rounds and machine gun fire, U.S. Army Sgt. Thomas Stoddard, from Virginia Beach, Va. , far left, commands his mortar team as they return fire with a series of 120mm mortar rounds, at Combat Outpost Michigan,...
View Photo »This photo taken Jan. 31, 2010 shows Qari Mohebulla Nakarar, left, and Fazel Rahman Farouqi, former pro-Taliban fighters, pose for a photograph while holding their newly-surrendered Soviet-era weapons, at an Afghan government-run reconciliation office, in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, east...
View Photo »A British soldier listens to Brigadier James Cowan during his visit to Military Operating Base Shorabak in Helmand province, Afghanistan February 7, 2010. British soldiers and Afghan troops practiced their battle plans ahead of a major NATO offensive to seize central Helmand from Taliban.
View Photo »A British soldier kneels as Brigadier James Cowan and Afghan commanders visit the troops in Military Operating Base Shorabak in Helmand province, February 7, 2010. Thousands of British troops and U.S. Marines are expected to lead a major offensive to seize central Helmand from Taliban.
View Photo »An Afghan police man searches the trunk of a car, which arrived from Marjah at a check post in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. Telegraphing the Marjah offensive has raised concerns that the Taliban might plant more...
View Photo »An Afghan policeman searches a passenger of a mini bus, who arrived from Marjah at a check post in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. Telegraphing the Marjah offensive has raised concerns that the Taliban might plant...
View Photo »Afghan families drive on tractors as they flee Marjah and the surrounding areas in southern Helmand province, February 7, 2010. Hundreds of Afghan villagers have fled their homes ahead of a massive NATO offensive in the south of the country, an official said on Sunday, with many reporting...
View Photo »Afghans walk past a shopping centre, burnt after a Taliban attack, in Kabul January 19, 2010. Taliban gunmen launched a brazen assault on the center of Kabul on Monday, with suicide bombers blowing themselves up at several locations and militants battling security forces from inside a shopping...
View Photo »General Stanley McChrystal, Commander of the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) and Commander of United States Forces in Afghanistan, center left, and Mark Sedwill, the newly appointed NATO's Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, shake hands with media members after...
View Photo »Pakistan Taliban commander Hakimullah Mehsud (L) is seen with his arm around Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud during a news conference in South Waziristan in this May 24, 2008 file photo. Pakistan's military said on January 31, 2010 it was investigating a report that Hakimullah was killed in...
View Photo »Hakimullah was neither killed nor I have been appointed acting amir (chief) of the Taliban
We're out here with the ANA, supporting them to help fight the Taliban so they can take their country back.
I dealt with about 170 patients; they ranged from children, right the way through to British and Afghan army, to treating the Taliban.
I'm confident that there are a number of Taliban members who will reconcile with us
If (NATO forces) don't avoid large-scale civilian casualties, given the rhetoric about protecting the population, then no matter how many Taliban are routed, the Marjah mission should be considered a failure
U.S. and Afghan forces pushed Tuesday to the edge of the southern Afghan town of Marjah, poised to seize the major Taliban supply and drug-smuggling stronghold in hopes of building public support by providing aid and services once the insurgents are gone. Instead of keeping the offensive secret, America...
U.S. and Afghan forces pushed Tuesday to the edge of the southern Afghan town of Marjah, poised to seize the major Taliban supply and drug-smuggling stronghold in hopes of building public support by providing aid and services once the insurgents are gone. Instead of keeping the offensive secret, America...
If there’s stiff resistance in Marjah, this could increase the recruiting power of the Taliban or at least retain what they have in that area ... It’s become the symbol of Taliban resistance. So I would suspect it’s possible there would be stiff rearguard resistance. If it becomes bloody, it would affec...
If there’s stiff resistance in Marjah, this could increase the recruiting power of the Taliban or at least retain what they have in that area ... It’s become the symbol of Taliban resistance. So I would suspect it’s possible there would be stiff rearguard resistance. If it becomes bloody, it would affec...
Normally the Taliban would leave. They would not normally decisively engage in this kind of pitched battle. They would leave and come back because they have the time to come back
I’ve always called for a dialogue with the Taliban. I’ve always said the only way forward – and the British government knows very well because of its experience in Northern Ireland – is negotiation. Do I support terrorism? The answer is an unequivocal no
There is no such thing as good or bad Taliban. Taliban is Taliban.
between a good Taliban and a bad Taliban
This is another outrageous comment from the Liberal Party about our men and women serving in Afghanistan ... Why is it that Liberals keep questioning the actions of the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan? Is it because they are so desperate to score cheap political points they’ll make any sort of accusation...
They do not support the extremism of the Taliban, and I think it's a slur on the name of the Pashtun to bracket them as Taliban
We are chasing rumors, he may be dead, he may not be, we won't know until the Taliban want us to know
What we are seeing here is the result of the Taliban's grip on the region ... The Pakistani military can't even go to the place where he was supposedly buried two weeks ago to see if his corpse is actually there.
Our experience is not to believe in the good and bad Taliban theory. The government has to be run with the support of the people, and neighbouring countries are duty bound to provide help to bring peace in Afghanistan
The ordinary Afghan people, whether they are women or men, so not support the Taliban, do not want to see a return of the Taliban government - but, yes they want to see improved government tin Afghanistan.
The aim is to clear them from their bomb-making factories and allow us to ensure we can provide that greater cloak of security to the vast majority of people in Helmand who don't actually want the Taliban to rule them again
We don't believe in good or bad Taliban
Marjah and a small number of other centres are the last remaining bases for Taliban-led insurgency in the main population areas of Helmand
The large number of leaders and religious representatives here is an important sign that community confidence is growing. They said to me they were committed to the defeat of the Taliban.
implacably hostile to the Taliban over that movement's extremist theology and over its killing of Afghan Shiite Muslims. In 1999, Iran almost went to war against the Taliban after its militia killed eight Iranian diplomats and a journalist after capturing a predominantly Shiite town, and has worked toge...
implacably hostile to the Taliban over that movement's extremist theology and over its killing of Afghan Shiite Muslims. In 1999, Iran almost went to war against the Taliban after its militia killed eight Iranian diplomats and a journalist after capturing a predominantly Shiite town, and has worked toge...
Buzz7 News: Mystery still surrounds Pak Taliban chief Hakeemullah’s death http://bit.ly/a6ETzh
- buzz7 3 minutes ago
- prempiyush
4 minutes ago
Taliban digs in, awaits U.S. assault in Marjah http://bit.ly/ajkcMV #tcot #military #taliban
- slkbrooke 4 minutes ago
- ekawaaz
5 minutes ago
Congress/UPA govt distinction is fake. Kind of like Good Taliban/Bad Taliban or ISI/LeT.
- raoabhijeet 6 minutes ago