KABUL — Heavy fighting between Afghan security forces and Taliban militants is taking its toll, as large numbers of casualties across the country are pushing recently trained Afghan air medical evacuation crews to their limits. During one week in August alone, between Aug. 22 and 29, Afghan crews recovered 125 Afghan troops killed and more than 280 wounded, according to… Read more »
Fifteen years after the US invaded Afghanistan, the Taliban controls 10 percent of the country’s population. However, a top US commander fears the extremist group could potential rule over a third of Afghans following gains from the US-supported government in Kabul. Army Gen. John Nicholson, who leads NATO’s Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan, said the Afghan security troops, which took… Read more »
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan official says at least eight Afghan police officers have been killed in two U.S. airstrikes in southern Uruzgan province in what was apparently a friendly-fire incident. Rahimullah Khan, a provincial operational commander, says the first airstrike killed one policeman at a checkpoint outside the provincial capital of Tirin Kot, while the second, which struck the… Read more »
Two years after assuming power, Afghanistan’s flailing, U.S.-brokered unity government is facing a growing challenge from the biggest grass-roots protest movement since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Calling themselves the Enlightening, members of the Hazara ethnic minority have mobilized several mass demonstrations against what they say is systematic discrimination by President Ashraf Ghani’s government. They want more economic… Read more »
Suspected Taliban assailants have killed 13 soldiers in northern Afghanistan. The overnight attack took place at a security outpost in the restive Kunduz province. The victims were asleep when two fellow soldiers with suspected links to the Taliban massacred them, regional police commander, Sher Aziz Kamawal, told reporters on Tuesday. He said the attackers involved in the so-called “insider attack”… Read more »
LiveMint Dhaka: India has “all legal and globally accepted right” to respond to any attack on her sovereignty and territory, Bangladesh said on Thursday after Indian Army carried out surgical strikes against terror bases across the LoC but called for “restraint” from all sides.
Saurabh Sinhal September 29, 2016 NEW DELHI Air links between India and Pakistan — which include direct flights between the two countries and allowing airlines of one country to fly over the other — have now come under the scanner of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
F. BRINLEY BRUTON and WAJAHAT S. KHAN NBCNEWS India’s announcement of “surgical strikes” in Pakistan on Thursday marked a sharp worsening of tensions between the nuclear-armed nations, signalling Delhi has lost patience with its neighbor for allegedly sheltering militants.
Michael Rubin September 28, 2016 Commentary Magazine In some ways, Sri Lanka is a model. After decades of civil strife and outright civil war, the Sri Lankan military did what hundreds of well-paid UN officials and diplomats could not: Return peace to the island. No sooner had the island nation’s military defeated the Tamil Tigers, however, then the United Nations… Read more »
Uzbekistan has been plunged into political uncertainty as the nation mourns the death of its veteran leader, Islam Karimov, who died on Friday without naming a successor after ruling his country for 27 years. How the power vacuum is filled in Uzbekistan is of urgent concern to Russia, the United States and China, all powers with interests in the volatile… Read more »