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Q&A: How Are the Taliban Linked to the Ancient Tribe the World Never Quite Conquers?
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsJust when NATO forces in Afghanistan thought the Taliban were finally less of a threat, they staged an astonishing comeback Monday when they broke about 488 of their colleagues, mostly fighters and commanders, out of a maximum-security prison. Five days before the mass escape from Kandahar's Sarpoza prison, Defense Secretary Robert Gates spoke confidently of the gains U.S.-led forces had made against the Taliban and predicted they were about to "turn a corner" in driving them out of power for good. Gates' optimistic remarks, followed by the prison break -- which was similar to an equally ...
Obama Sending Panetta to Pentagon, Petraeus to CIA
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- In a major national security reshuffle, President Barack Obama is sending CIA Director Leon Panetta to the Pentagon to replace Robert Gates, a widely praised Bush holdover, and replacing Panetta at the spy agency with Gen. David Petraeus, the high-profile commander of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Obama's changes, expected to be announced at the White House on Thursday, also will include a new ambassador and war commander in Afghanistan. However, they don't signal any major adjustment in the president's Afghan strategy or the fight against violent extremism. The moves ...
Obama Reportedly to Make Major National Security Leadership Changes
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama plans this week to name CIA Director Leon Panetta to replace Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Gen. David Petraeus, now running the war in Afghanistan, would take the CIA chief's job in a major shuffle of the nation's top national security leadership, administration and other sources said Wednesday. All sources spoke on condition of anonymity because the changes are not final. Getty Images Leon Panetta, left, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the International Security Assistance Force and ...
Afghan Forces Recapture at Least 65 From Taliban Jailbreak
By not in system - AOL NewsKANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Afghan forces have recaptured at least 65 of the prisoners who escaped from the south's largest prison, the government said Tuesday as it scrambled to recover from the massive security breach that allowed 480 inmates to be spirited out in a stunning jailbreak. Prison officials discovered early Monday morning that the convicts - nearly all of them Taliban militants - were missing from their cells, and then found the tunnel through which they appeared to have made their getaway. The Taliban said the prison break was five months in the making, with diggers starting the ...
NATO: Key al-Qaida Figure Killed in Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan - A NATO airstrike earlier this month killed a key al-Qaida operative in Afghanistan - a regional commander in charge of suicide bombings and cash flow, the international military coalition said Tuesday. NATO identified the man killed in the April 13 airstrike in Dangam district of eastern Kunar province as Abu Hafs al-Najdi, also known as Abdul Ghani. The alliance said the strike also killed a number of other insurgents, including another al-Qaida leader known as Waqas. Al-Najdi, a Saudi citizen, directed al-Qaida operations in Kunar and traveled regularly between ...
Roadside Bombs Kill 3 NATO Troops in Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- Roadside bombs killed three NATO service members and a gunman shot dead a prominent local official in southern Afghanistan, where thousands of Afghan and international troops are bracing for an expected spring resurgence of Taliban attacks, officials said Sunday. NATO said one service member died in a blast Sunday and two others were killed in an explosion on Saturday. Earlier, the alliance said that a fourth foreign service member died Saturday when a coalition helicopter crashed in Alasay district of Kapisa province in the east. It did not provide any further details, ...
NATO: Key Figure From al-Qaida-Linked Group Captured
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- A militant who led operations in Afghanistan for an al-Qaida-linked terror group has been captured in the north where his fighters joined forces with the Taliban to step up attacks against Afghan and coalition forces, NATO said Friday. The senior figure from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan was apprehended in Kunduz province along with two of this associates, the coalition said. NATO described the militant, whom it did not identify, as a key conduit between the IMU's leadership in Pakistan and senior Taliban leadership in Afghanistan. "He assisted both groups by ...
Officials Say 5 Afghan Police, 1 NATO Soldier Killed in Separate Attacks
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- A roadside bomb killed five Afghan border policemen in southern Afghanistan and other violence was reported in the east where insurgents have stepped up attacks against pro-government forces as spring fighting gets under way, officials said Friday. In other violence across Afghanistan, an insurgent attack left one NATO service member dead in the east, militants in the north attacked a tanker convoy transporting fuel for coalition forces, and the nephew of an Afghan warlord was reportedly killed in fighting southwest of Kabul. The uptick in violence expected with warmer ...
Pakistan Army Accuses US of 'Negative Propaganda'
By not in system - AOL NewsISLAMABAD - The Pakistani army on Thursday rejected what it called "negative propaganda" by the United States, hours after the top U.S. military officer accused the country's spy agency of continued links to a powerful Afghan Taliban faction. The unusually strident back and forth reflected the poor state of relations between the two counterterrorism allies, which sunk to new lows after an American CIA contractor in January shot and killed two Pakistanis he said were trying to rob him. While officials from both nations have raised the level of rhetoric, they have also spoken of the need to ...
Two Western Photojournalists Killed in Libya
By not in system - AOL NewsMISRATA, Libya -- Two Western photojournalists, including an Oscar-nominated film director, were killed Wednesday in the besieged city of Misrata while covering battles between rebels and Libyan government forces. Two others working alongside them were wounded. British-born Tim Hetherington, co-director of the documentary "Restrepo" about U.S. soldiers on an outpost in Afghanistan, was killed inside the only rebel-held city in western Libya, said his U.S.-based publicist, Johanna Ramos Boyer. The city has come under weeks of relentless shelling by government troops. Outpost Films / ...
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