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Taliban stories: 488 news summaries

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 City-Focused 
 Afghan Plan 
 Winning Support 

Emerging strategy fuses McChrystal, Biden competing plans

Oct 28, 09 6:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - A plan one official describes as "McChrystal for the city, Biden for the country," is emerging as the administration continues to hammer out its Afghan strategy. The plan would concentrate US forces in population centers, while maintaining pressure on insurgents elsewhere with drone strikes and targeted attacks from... More »

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Afghanistan • Joe Biden • Taliban • US military • Afghanistan war • Afghanistan exit strategy • Stanley McChrystal

UPDATED

 UN Staffers Among 
 Dozen Killed in 
 Kabul Attacks 

Taliban claims responsibility for attacks on guest houses

Oct 28, 09 5:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Six United Nations staffers and six others were killed today when militants armed with automatic weapons, grenades, and suicide vests stormed two guest houses in downtown Kabul where international workers were sleeping. One of the dead was American. The nationalities of the others was not immediately known. Rockets hit another... More »

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Afghanistan • United Nations • Taliban • Kabul • Afghanistan war • Afghanistan election

 In Pakistan 
 Battle Zone, 
 Few Back Army 

Hatred of Taliban doesn't translate into support for government

Oct 28, 09 3:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistan is stepping up its US-supported offensive against the Taliban in the country's lawless northwest, but military victories may be fleeting in the face of a greater challenge: winning the support of local people. In the border region near Afghanistan, the Washington Post finds that refugees fear reprisals by the... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Islamic extremism • Pakistan army • South Waziristan • North West Frontier Province

Oct. Deadliest Afghan Month as 8 US Troops Die

'Complex' bombings in south also take 1 Afghan life

Oct 27, 09 10:05 AM CDT
(AP) - Eight American troops have been killed today in multiple bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, making October the deadliest month for American troops there since the war began in 2001. The 8 deaths occurred in "multiple, complex" bomb attacks in the south, according to the US military. More »

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Taliban • US military • US troops • bombing • Afghanistan war • war dead • military offensive

AFGHAN ELECTION

 Karzai Nixes 
 Power-Sharing 
 Government 

Abdullah says result will be same without new election officials

Oct 25, 09 8:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Both candidates for Afghanistan's presidency focused on the Nov. 7 runoff yesterday, with Hamid Karzai declaring that there would be no power-sharing government, while challenger Abdullah Abdullah voiced concern that without the ouster of top election officials, the tainted outcome would be no different. "So long as these people... More »

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Taliban • Hamid Karzai • election fraud • runoff election • Abdullah Abdullah • Afghanistan election

(AP) - The army captured the hometown of Pakistan's Taliban chief today, snagging its first big prize in a major US-backed offensive along the Afghan border. Helicopter gunships provided aerial bombardment as soldiers captured heights around the town of Kotkai. The final fight saw 13 militants and two soldiers die; the military... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • United States • Hakimullah Mehsud • Kotkai

 US Drones Back Up 
 Pakistani Offensive 

Predators offer intel on militant positions in South Waziristan

Oct 23, 09 9:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US military is supporting the Pakistani offensive against Taliban militants in South Waziristan with intelligence and imaging collected by unmanned Predator drones. The support is separate from the CIA program using the drones inside Pakistan to kill terrorist leaders. “We are coordinating with the Pakistanis,” a military... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • intelligence • US military • surveillance • UAVs • drones • Predator • al-Qaeda • South Waziristan • military offensive

 Blasts in Pakistan Kill 24 

Insurgents his air force facility, bus headed to wedding

Oct 23, 09 5:48 AM CDT
(AP) - A suicide bomber killed seven people near a major air force complex in northwest Pakistan today, while an explosion killed 17, including three children, on a bus heading to a wedding elsewhere in the region. The attacks are the latest in a surge of militant strikes this month, coinciding with... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • insurgents • al-Qaeda • South Waziristan • terror attack

 Mass. Terror Suspect an 
 'Incompetent Wannabe' 

Mehanna and accomplice were turned away from training in Yemen, Pakistan

Oct 22, 09 12:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Massachusetts man arrested yesterday for plotting to shoot up a mall, kill US troops fighting overseas, and assassinate US officials didn’t really have a chance. Tarek Mehanna traveled to Yemen in search of terrorism training but couldn't find a camp. His alleged accomplice was turned away from Pakistani... More »

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Taliban • terrorism • Pakistan • Massachusetts • Yemen • training camps • al-Qaeda • terrorist attack • Tariq Mehanna • Tarek Mehanna • Lashkar e Tayyiba

NICHOLAS KRISTOF

More Troops in Afghanistan
= Angrier Insurgents

Doesn't US remember how our country began? Or how Vietnam ended?

Oct 22, 09 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - The United States was born from a nationalist insurgency. “Given that history, you’d think we might be more sensitive to nationalism abroad,” writes Nicholas Kristof. “Yet the most systematic foreign-policy mistake we Americans have made in the post-World War II period has been to underestimate its... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • troop surge • US military • Pashtun • nationalism • insurgency • Nicholas Kristof

Brigadier Assassinated
in Islamabad

Head of UN mission killed as army pushes into Taliban heartland

Oct 22, 09 4:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - A top army officer was gunned down in the Pakistani capital today as the military continued to push into the Taliban's Waziristan sanctuary. Brigadier Moinudin Ahmed, head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan, was shot dead  along with his driver by suspected militants on a motorbike as their jeep... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Islamabad • Waziristan • Pakistan army • South Waziristan

 Pakistan Closes All Schools 
 After Bombings 

Taliban promises more violence unless army halts offensive

Oct 21, 09 10:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistan closed all of its schools today, following the twin suicide attacks on the International Islamic University in Islamabad yesterday. Four were killed and another 18 wounded, and the Taliban has promised more bombings if Pakistan doesn’t halt its military offensive in South Waziristan’s tribal areas. Pakistan’s... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • suicide bombing • school • university • South Waziristan

 Taliban Starts 
 YouTube Channel 

But its most disturbing clip was taken down

Oct 19, 09 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The jihad has come to YouTube: The Taliban has set up shop on the viral video site, posting two propaganda videos to its “Istqalmedia” channel, Fareed Zakaria noticed over the weekend. One, which you can see here, shows a variety of pastoral scenes set to Pashtun-language music. The other,... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • YouTube • viral video

 Taliban Money Men Outwit US 

Diverse revenue streams defy crackdown efforts

Oct 19, 09 7:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Taliban is thriving financially, despite the US’ best efforts to clamp down on its cash flow, thanks to a sophisticated collection of revenue streams including foreign donations, criminal activities, and drug trade profits. “I don’t believe we can significantly alter their effectiveness by cutting off their money... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • heroin • opium • drug trade • Afghanistan war

 Al-Qaeda Boosts 
 Western Recruits 

Networks funnel manpower to Pakistan, Afghanistan

Oct 19, 09 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - An increasing number of Westerners are joining al-Qaeda and the Taliban as the terrorist groups profit from dissatisfaction with the war in Afghanistan and develop sophisticated foreign-recruiting networks. Some 30 German citizens have traveled to Pakistan for training this year, according to authorities. Belgian, French and Swedish nationals have also... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Germany • Western Europe • al-Qaeda • domestic terrorism

 NYT Reporter Recounts 
 7 Months as Prisoner 

David Rohde begins first-person account of capture, escape

Oct 17, 09 5:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - New York Times reporter David Rohde begins a gripping first-person account of his 7 months as a Taliban prisoner in Afghanistan before he managed to escape. In the first of the five-part series, he writes of his capture ("I waited for the sound of gunfire. I knew I might... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • New York Times • kidnapping • reporter • hostage • David Rohde

UPDATED

 Pakistan Army Launches 
 Assault on Taliban 

Military readies all-out offensive on militants' South Waziristan stronghold

Oct 17, 09 7:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - More than 30,000 Pakistani soldiers launched a major assault on the Taliban's sanctuary in Waziristan early today, following months of airstrikes intended to soften up militant defenses. Officials have given few details but said the troops are pursuing militants holed up in the region. Civilians have been evacuated from... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Waziristan • al-Qaeda • Pakistan army • South Waziristan • terrorist camp

 New Pakistan Blast Kills 11 

Peshawar explosion rocks beleaguered nation

Oct 16, 09 4:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - The string of deadly bombings in Pakistan continued today as 11 people died in a blast at a police station in Peshawar, the capital of the dangerous North West Frontier Province near the Afghan border. Two of the victims were children. The Taliban are being blamed for two weeks of... More »

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Taliban • terrorism • Pakistan • Peshawar • bombing • North West Frontier Province

 Taliban: Italy Paid Us
 Protection Money

Italian government denies bribing insurgents to leave its troops alone

Oct 16, 09 3:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Italian secret services bribed the Taliban not to attack Italian forces in Afghanistan, according to both a Taliban commander and senior officials in the Afghan government. The accusations have sparked fury in France, which lost 10 soldiers in an ambush after taking over a district east of Kabul from... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Italy • International Security Assistance Force

UPDATED

 Deadly Wave of 
 Pakistan Attacks 
 Kills 38 

Government warns of 'guerrilla war' after blasts in Lahore, northwest

Oct 15, 09 7:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistan erupted in violence today as three teams of militants launched coordinated strikes on law enforcement buildings in Lahore and a suicide car bomber struck a police station in the country's northwest. A few hours later another blast rocked a school in Peshawar, near the Afghan border, killing at least... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Islamic extremists • car bomb • Waziristan • Lahore • South Waziristan

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