The Last Interview with Ahmad Shah Masood
Hoja Bahauddin, early August, 2001 conducted by Piotr Balcerowicz The interview – apparently the last one given by Ahmad Shah Masood, the famous ‘Lion of Panjsheer”, before his assasination on … Continue reading
Un ex-responsable de la CIA dévoile des échecs du renseignement US Lire la suite: http://fr.sputniknews.com/international/20150505/1015953898.html#ixzz3ZRSg9sfF
L’ancien directeur adjoint de la CIA Michael Morell présente dans son livre qui doit paraître le 12 mai les erreurs commises par le renseignement américain dans la lutte contre Al-Qaïda … Continue reading
TALIBAN START SPRING OFFENSIVE
Rather than ending the American war in Afghanistan, the military is using its wide latitude to instead transform it into a continuing campaign of airstrikes — mostly drone missions — and Special Operations raids that have in practice stretched or broken the parameters publicly described by the White House.
Western and military officials said that American and NATO forces conducted 52 airstrikes in March, months after the official end of the combat mission. Many of these air assaults, which totaled 128 in the first three months of this year, targeted low- to midlevel Taliban commanders in the most remote reaches of Afghanistan.
As early as January, when officials in Washington were hailing the end of the combat mission, about 40 American Special Operations troops were deployed to Kunar Province to advise Afghan forces that were engaged with the Taliban over a handful of villages along the border with Pakistan.
Afghan forces kill 57 militants in clean-up operations
The Afghan Interior Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that 57 militants were killed and 35 injured during a series of operations carried out in the provinces of Badakhshan, Baghlan, Faryab, Ghazni, Helmand, Herat, Khost, Kunduz, Logar, Paktia, Sar-e Pol, Uruzgan and Zabul.
The statement added that two militants were also arrested in the raids, without mentioning whether there were any casualties on the side of the Afghan forces.
Afghan forces also confiscated light and heavy weaponry, and defused several rounds of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) during the operations.
Taliban have not yet made any comments on the issue.
Fighting between Afghan forces and militants has intensified since the Taliban launched its annual spring offensive against Afghan forces and foreign embassies on April 24.
Afghan Interior Minister Noorul Haq Ulumi and the deputy to Defense Ministry spokesman, Brigadier General Dawlat Waziri, have dismissed the Taliban spring offensive, saying the country’s security forces are capable of foiling militant attacks.
“Our enemies don’t have the capability to collapse any province or district,” Waziri said.
Afghan troops attacked by Taliban insurgents around northern city of Kunduz (DW
Security consultation
The Afghan president delayed his official trip to India by a few hours Monday to hold an emergency meeting with the NATO commander in Afghanistan and top Afghan security officials.
Presidential spokesman Ajmal Obidy said President Ashraf Ghani left for India late Monday afternoon, after he met with NATO’s US General John Campbell. Campbell said the NATO coalition and the Afghan government were working to prevent IS from sending weapons or fighters to Afghanistan.
U.S. returns scores of smuggled artifacts to Iraq government
(Reuters) – More than 60 Iraqi cultural artifacts smuggled into the United States, including a limestone statue of an ancient king, were returned to the government of Iraq on Monday, … Continue reading
Afghanistan hails India for generous support
Originally posted on How to Fight ISIS Online:
NEW DELHI: Afghanistan today thanked India for firmly standing behind it in the last two decades when the country was going through…
Skiing and Rock Climbing Afghan Style
I hope you will enjoy this web sitehttp://www.afghanskichallenge.com/ and the videos I have linked here….. In Afghanistan the mountains, country, and people are beautiful. Afghanistan has some of the tallest … Continue reading
Analysis of NSA Data Collection
I came online tonight to respond to PBS Night Lines “United States of Secrets” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/united-states-of-secrets/#part-two—privacy-lost regarding Edward Snowden and his “revalations” regarding NSA. We all I hope despise the dark … Continue reading
“The Accidental Guerrilla”.
“David Kilcullen is a contemporary practitioner and theorist of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism. A former Australian Army officer, he left that army as a lieutenant colonel in 2005 and now works … Continue reading
Ian Bach 