Topic: The Taliban

Afghanistan’s poppy war

For a symbol of how America's decade-long war is going in faraway Afghanistan, look at the beautiful fields of red poppies flowering so bountifully...

Soldiers and pilot recognized for valour

It was one of the those heart-stopping moments every pilot who flew in Afghanistan feared — the dull thud of rounds hitting the helicopter and the...

Soldier's mind-control bionic op

As the first British serviceman injured in battle to use a new bionic arm, Cpl Andrew Garthwaite's story has already been remarkable.. . But this...
The number of Afghan soldiers and police attacking their American trainers is becoming a major problem. Even worse, the attacks are now so frequent...
Afghan and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Thursday detained a local Taliban leader in Helmand province, 555 km...

They are "Us": Pissing on the Taliban

As Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, US military officers -- incumbents and retired -- and others in DC's firmament condemn the US Marines that...

6 soldiers, 17 Taliban killed in Pakistan

SIX Pakistani soldiers and 17 Taliban militants have been killed in an overnight clash in a northwestern tribal district near the Afghan border.. ...
PUL- A total of 40 Taliban insurgents surrendered to government in Baghlan province with Pul-e-Khumri as its capital, some 160 km north of capital...

Journalist gunned down during prayers in Pakistan

Courtesy Voice Of America . . Slain journalist Mukarram Atif, reporting for the Voice of America from Pakistan's Mohmand tribal agency.. By Mushtaq...

Fighting The Taliban With Poetry

The Taliban s secular-nationalist opponents are fighting back using some of the very arts that religious fundamentalists seeks to destroy--poems...