While these countries all continued to experience religion-related violence at high levels, small changes in reported incidents from year to year, as well as methodological adjustments, accounted for movement across categories.33 In Afghanistan, for instance, the Taliban still targeted..…

Despite the near doubling of U.S troop levels and in airstrikes over the year, Taliban retain significant influence vast swaths of Afghanistan and working to out-govern Ghani's recognized National Unity Government. ..…

It has ousted the Taliban from Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein from Iraq and created an overwhelming Iranian presence. ..…

The ideological antipathy between bin Laden and the leadership at Khalden was widely known among the mujahideen in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It was precisely because of this antipathy that bin Laden forced the Taliban to close Khalden in 2000. . ..…

It probably would have gained the upper hand but for the Pakistani military offensive that came to the support of the Taliban, and then the offensive of the reconstituted forces of the warlords, which increased the chaos. . Afghanistan was devastated by the intervention of the United States..…

Afghanistan's militancy problem is giving serious headaches to the government of President Ashraf Ghani. Taliban have seized considerable parts of the country and could take more in the coming weeks and months. ..…

What does the prosecutor want to investigate in Afghanistan? . The prosecutor’s application seeks authorization to investigate alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by the Taliban and affiliated forces, Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), and US armed forces and the..…

Christoforou: Well, they are fighting along with them, they are in the same place geographically, the question is it is such a mess that no one even knows but I want to make a point that when the US was bombing Afghanistan back in 2002-2003, they did not make a distinction between al-Qaeda and the..…

By Sajjad Shaukat   Afghanistan has witnessed scenes of era on September 9, this year when... By Sajjad Shaukat   On August, this year, Taliban fighters attacked Ghazni of Afghanistan, killing at... ..…

Afghan man stands next to his damaged Afghanistan on December 28, 2015 ... As in other years, Taliban are the culprit. Despite Taliban claims that protection of civilians was one of their core objectives, the armed group continues to exclude aid workers and civil servants from its..…

you have to recall how tenderly Taliban once ruled Afghanistan. To consider those sad-sack nations is to be convinced that separating the functions of church and state was one of the brighter things the founders ever did... ..…

Haynes II, together with Justice Department attorneys, is trying to sort through the legal status of Taliban fighters, .. Complicating matters, Hamed Karzai, interim prime minister of Afghanistan, has drawn distinction between top Taliban leaders - such as Mullah Mohammed Omar -..…

WASHINGTON - John Walker Lindh, American captured with Taliban forces Afghanistan, was charged in civilian court with conspiring to kill U.S citizens and could face prison if convicted.. ... Last June, he left for Afghanistan and showed up at Taliban training center,..…

Will Taliban return to Afghanistan and open the way for Central Asian Islamist groups that are linked to al-Qaeda have increased their forces while based Pakistan. ... It depends on making peace with Taliban and comprehensive settlement with all of Afghanistan's direct..…

Instead, he guided — he was guided by his faith and he set out to heal the poorest of the poor in Afghanistan. For 30 years, amid invasion and civil war, the terror of the Taliban, the spread of insurgency, he and his wife Libby helped bring Afghans, literally, the miracle of sight. ..…

In Afghanistan, we removed Taliban government, which had given bin Laden and Qaeda haven and support. ..…

Second, Afghanistan's ruling Taliban offered to hand over al-Qaeda's Osama bin Laden 2001--on the condition that Taliban leaders be provided with evidence of bin Laden's in September 11 attacks, and that bin Laden be handed over to another country for trial.. The Clinton administration..…

I traveled to Afghanistan January 2002, just three weeks after American forces had routed Taliban. ..…

In early 1992, three years Boris Yeltsin cut economic and military aid to Afghanistan, leading to war between Mujahideen groups and the eventual rise of Taliban.. ... Were Americans to leave Afghanistan, it's that Tajik warlords would take Kabul, leading to intense and struggle..…

Only about half of CFR members say Taliban's growing strength Afghanistan represents major threat to United States 70% of the public sees this as major threat. There is little optimism among either the members of Council on Foreign Relations or the public about prospects that..…

Both the public and CFR members doubt that additional U.S troop deployments would stabilize the country 57 percent of CFR members and 47 percent of the public say it's that Afghanistan can become stable enough to withstand Taliban threat.. ..…

Consider Afghanistan. When the United States deposed the Taliban in 2002, the horrible persecution of women and minority Shiites stopped. ..…

Although he and his supporters argue that the Iraqi National Congress, with sufficient American support, can defeat Saddam just as the Northern Alliance defeated the Taliban in Afghanistan, this view hasn’t won over most people in Washington. ..…

It made more sense to use Afghanistan. Yuldashev had been introduced to the Taliban in Kabul, and they had every reason to offer him refuge: President Karimov was belligerently anti-Taliban, and Uzbekistan was backing the anti-Taliban opposition in Afghanistan. ..…

Bush put it, “the greatest force for human liberation the world has ever known,” is still fruitlessly fighting – and still losing ground – in the very first country it took on and supposedly “liberated”: poor Afghanistan. The Taliban is again on the rise there. Elsewhere,..…