(AFP/File/Tauseef Mustafa)Iran helping the Taliban, US ambassador claims
Iran has been providing weapons and other help to the Taliban, the US ambassador to Afghanistan has claimed.
One Battalion’s Trials in Afghanistan
The 21 names inscribed on the white concrete memorial in front of the First Battalion, 17th Infantry headquarters here tell a grim story: the soldiers killed in five months of battling the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
U.S. lacks a defined mission in Afghanistan
President Barack Obama recently announced his long-awaited strategy for Afghanistan: 30,000 more troops over 18 months with withdrawal and transfer of security responsibility to Afghan forces beginning in summer 2011. Since then, however, uncertainty about actual U.S. intentions in 2011 -- a set departure date or simply a plan for reconsideration -- has only created more jockeying for position in the region.
Bomb blast near mosque kills 10 in Pakistan
A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives near a mosque inside a police compound in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 10 people in the latest attack by suspected Taliban militants waging war against the Pakistani government.
Officials: U.S. missile strikes kill 17 in Pakistan
Two U.S. missile strikes pummeled targets inside the main sanctuary used by al-Qaida and the Taliban along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, killing 17 people Thursday, local intelligence officials said.
Mullen arrives in Iraq
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday he is confident that Iraq will hold elections on March 7 and that the U.S. drawdown will begin on schedule that month.
Iraq, the Kurds and the Americans
Four months ago, with little fanfare, the State Department sent a full-time senior diplomat, Alan Misenheimer, to live in Iraq’s disputed oil-rich city Kirkuk. For the Obama administration, which had been hoping to back out of its day-to-day involvement in Iraq’s fractious politics, it was a smart, if belated, call.
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