While its recent attack on a military school in Peshawar, Pakistan brought international outrage, the Pakistani Taliban has long taken credit for an extensive list of assaults on civilians and the military in the country’s largely-ungoverned tribal areas along the Afghan border — and further afield. The banned Islamist group, which has intimate links to the Afghan Taliban and al… Read more »
US troops in Afghanistan are in a train-and-advise role, but increasingly they’re having to get more into combat situations, and they are not equipped for that, Michael Maloof, former Pentagon official told RT America’s Simone Del Rosario. The war in Afghanistan has cost the US hundreds of lives and billions of taxpayers’ dollars all with promises to bring peace to… Read more »
At least two unknown assailants have hacked a Hindu tailor to death in central Bangladesh, police say, amid a rise in attacks on religious minorities in the South Asian nation. Police officials said they were investigating whether Saturday’s killing in Tangail was linked to religious groups suspected of a series of minority killings, or was tied to a family dispute…. Read more »