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Hamid Karzai bars US lawmaker from visiting country A US lawmaker critical of President Hamid Karzai was barred entry to Afghanistan as part of a congressional delegation meeting with Afghan opposition groups, his office said Monday. Republican Dana Rohrabacher’s office said he was a “last-minute” addition to the delegation when one of the members canceled days […]
Afghanistan arrests alleged insurgents linked to Pakistan based terror groups Afghanistan security forces have detained five insurgents with massive quantities of explosive materials intended for use in attacks on crowded areas of Kabul and linked them to Pakistan-based militants, an intelligence spokesman said on Saturday. The alleged connection to militants in Pakistan will likely […]
US apology over NATO strikes expected in the next few days US President Barack Obama is sending his key trouble-shooter to Pakistan later this month amidst efforts to reset ties in light of the new foreign policy guidelines recently approved by parliament. Former presidential hopeful and chairman of the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee Senator […]
No evidence to suggest Kabul attacks were planned in Pakistan: General Martin Dempsey US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey says that they do not have any intelligence yet on whether the Kabul attack was planned in Pakistan. Taliban insurgents mounted spectacular synchronised attacks on government buildings, Western embassies and Nato headquarters […]
NATO struggling to control threat from insiders in Afghanistan Nato commanders are struggling to contain the damage from a spike in “fratricidal” attacks by Afghan forces, seeking to protect their troops without rupturing a frayed partnership with Kabul. With Afghan soldiers opening fire on their NATO comrades with alarming frequency, US defense officials on Thursday […]
A fresh drone attack kills suspected terrorists in North Waziristan A US drone launched a missile attack on a suspected militant compound in North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border early Friday, killing four alleged insurgents, security officials said. The missiles targeted a house in a market area of Miranshah, the main town in […]
Top American military commanders want to move beyond Salala A day after Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani met US President Barack Obama on the margins of a nuclear security summit in Seoul, top American military commanders flew in to meet Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Wednesday. The meeting between Kayani and the American commanders – Centcom […]
US soldier formally charged for murdering Afghan civilians The US soldier implicated in the deaths of 17 civilians in a village in southern Afghanistan, was formally charged Friday with the “premeditated murders”, US forces said in a statement released in Kabul. Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, of the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry, was also accused of […]
US military has little evidence against US serviceman behind the Afghan massacre US authorities lack proof of what occurred the night a US soldier is suspected of killing 16 villagers in Afghanistan, the lawyer representing the serviceman said on Tuesday. “I’m very concerned now they don’t have much proof of anything,” attorney John Henry Browne told Reuters after […]
USA flies out the soldier behind Kandahar massacre According to Reuters, United States of America (USA) has flown its soldier who killed 16 Afghan civilians out of the troubled country in a bid to ease tensions that rose after incident. Underscoring the instability in Afghanistan, an Afghan man in a stolen pickup truck sped onto […]
The US soldier suspected of killing 16 Afghan civilians in a shooting rampage could face the death penalty if convicted, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday. The Pentagon chief told reporters aboard his plane enroute to Kyrgyzstan that the suspect in the Afghan shooting spree would be brought to justice under the US military […]
Homosexuals in the US Army On the December 20, 2010 the U.S. Senate ended 17 years of a controversial law. Indeed, it adopted controversial a bill, abolishing the rule which requires the military to hide their sexual orientation for fear of being written off. President Barack Obama enacted the text. Though the repeal of the directive was passed, the entry into force of the law, however, took several months. 17 years old, the directive "do not ask, do not tell" (do not ask, […]
