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Pakistani Taliban raise funds through street crime

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Police caught up with the four Taliban militants about 15 minutes after they robbed the bank, shooting them dead on a bridge as they attempted to drive their loot to the safety of the border regions with Afghanistan.
The rare triumph against the insurgency in this dangerous part of Pakistan [...]

Read More » No commentOctober 12, 2011

Ex-Afghan spy chief details hunt for bin Laden, 10-year war

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Afghan spies had intelligence leads four years ago that pointed to an area close to where Osama bin Laden was hiding, according to Afghanistan’s former spy chief.
But Pervez Musharraf — then Pakistan’s president — refused to take action despite receiving detailed reports, said Amrullah Saleh.
CNN cannot independently confirm Saleh’s account and [...]

Read More » No commentAugust 4, 2011

NATO hands model anti-Taliban province to Afghans

NATO troops on Sunday handed control of the Panjshir valley, a fiercely anti-Taliban province, to Afghan forces in the last of a series of security transitions.
Afghan policemen attend a ceremony to hand over security control in the rugged mountains of the Panjshir valley. NATO troops on Sunday handed control of the Panjshir valley, a fiercely [...]

Read More » No commentJuly 25, 2011

Pakistan floods could give Taliban time to regroup

ISLAMABAD – The floods ravaging Pakistan are generating fears that Taliban insurgents could regroup amid the chaos and destruction. The country’s already anemic economy is expected to weaken, increasing the poverty that is a factor in the militancy wracking the country.
One of the hardest hit regions is the northwest, the heartland [...]

Read More » No commentAugust 12, 2010

Japan reporter held by Taliban in OK health: media

TOKYO (AFP) – A Japanese journalist missing in northern Afghanistan since late March has said that he is being held by the Taliban but is in good health, a newspaper reported Thursday.
“I am in good health. I don’t have any injuries,” Kosuke Tsuneoka, 40, was quoted as telling the Mainichi Shimbun, [...]

Read More » No commentJune 17, 2010

Tradition, Taliban threats give Afghans a dilemma

SAR HAWZA, Afghanistan (AFP) – Every Afghan in Sar Hawza district in dusty eastern Afghanistan wants the medical clinic rebuilt — even the Taliban, who used to send their wounded fighters there for treatment.
But talks to renovate the NATO-funded facility have been deadlocked since militants took refuge there last August [...]

Read More » No commentApril 7, 2010

27 Taliban reported killed in western fighting

KABUL – Afghanistan’s military said 27 insurgents were been killed in ground fighting and airstrikes in a western province on Tuesday, in what appeared to be a major blow to Taliban influence in the region, while four civilians died in a NATO airstrike in the south.
NATO and Afghan forces launched an [...]

Read More » No commentApril 7, 2010

Afghan leader threatens to join Taliban

KABUL – Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened over the weekend to quit the political process and join the Taliban if he continued to come under outside pressure to reform, several members of parliament said Monday.
Karzai made the unusual statement at a closed-door meeting Saturday with selected lawmakers — just days after kicking up a diplomatic [...]

Read More » No commentApril 5, 2010

Taliban holding Japan journalist in Afghanistan

TOKYO (AFP) – A Japanese freelance journalist missing in Afghanistan since last week is being held by the Taliban in the country’s north, media reports in Japan citing unnamed insurgent sources said Monday.
Kosuke Tsuneoka, 40, is in the hands of a Taliban group in the northern province of Kunduz, the Jiji Press news agency [...]

Read More » No commentApril 5, 2010

Pakistan tribes ready to return after Taliban offensive

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – Some 100 tribal elders from Pakistan’s South Waziristan district said Thursday they were ready to go home after a military offensive against the Taliban.
Elders from Mehsud tribes gathered in the northwestern town of Tank and told administrators that they intended to resettle in the spring, local government [...]

Read More » No commentApril 2, 2010