Posts Tagged ‘Taliban’

Petraeus’s Karzai Kerfuffle

Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s public criticism of United States military strategy in Afghanistan is a significant threat to American progress in the war, according to the coalition military commander in Afghanistan, General David H. Petraeus. Karzai’s insistence that the U.S. “reduce military operations” and end Special Ops raids in southern Afghanistan (which, according to coalition [...]

Pakistan fears of Taliban attacks against relief efforts

The Taliban are planning attacks against foreigners who are in Pakistan to help in the efforts against the worst floods the country has undergone in the last century, today reported the British public broadcaster BBC. The BBC quoted an unidentified senior U.S. administration, who said that, the Pakistani Taliban want to, “carry out attacks against [...]