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DTN News: Afghanistan Top Stories / Headlines News Dated January 7, 2011

DTN News: Afghanistan Top Stories / Headlines News Dated January 7, 2011
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Afghanistan

Updated: Dec. 16, 2010

THE LATEST:

  • * A review of President Obama’s strategy for the war in Afghanistan concludes that American forces can begin withdrawing on schedule in July 2011, despite finding uneven signs of progress in the year since the president announced the deployment of an additional 30,000 troops.
  • * Two new classified intelligence reports offered a more negative assessment and say there is a limited chance of success unlessPakistan hunts down insurgents operating from havens on its Afghan border.
  • * Confidential diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks and released in December 2010 offered a fresh sense of the pervasive nature, overwhelming scale, and dispiriting challenge that corruption, fueled by a booming illicit narcotics industry, poses to American officials who have made shoring up support for the Afghan government a cornerstone of America’s counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan.
  • * Following months of secret talks between Afghan and Taliban leaders to end the war, a participant believed to be Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, one of the most senior commanders in the Taliban movement, was unmasked as an impostor in November. The high-level discussions conducted with the assistance of NATO appeared to have achieved little.

OVERVIEW

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country north and west of Pakistan and east of Iran. Its strategic location has long granted it a pivotal role in the region, while its terrain and population have stymied would-be conquerors for centuries. The country's population is 34 million. Its capital is Kabul.

The United States has been militarily involved in Afghanistan since 2001, when it led an invasion after the Sept. 11 attacks by Al Qaeda. The group had been given safe haven in the country by theTaliban, the extremist Islamic group that had seized control in 1996 after years of civil war. The 2001 invasion succeeded in dislodging Al Qaeda and removing the Taliban from power, but not in eradicating either group. Fueled by profits from the opium trade and dissatisfaction with the weak and often corrupt new Afghan government, the Taliban has made a steady comeback, particularly in the Pashtun regions of the south and east where the group originated.

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Taliban Suicide Bomber Kills Police Official and 16 Others
Taliban Suicide Bomber Kills Police Official and 16 Others

A suicide bomber killed himself and 16 others, including a senior border police commander, in an attack at a bathhouse in a southern Afghan city.

January 7, 2011
    U.S. Suspends 2 Contractors That Failed to Pay Afghans

    The suspension bars Bennett-Fouch Associates of Michigan and K5 Global from receiving American military contracts for at least five years.

    January 6, 2011
      More Than 1,000 Extra Marines To Be Deployed in Afghanistan

      The Marines will be sent mostly to Kandahar province, as the United States tries to solidify progress in areas of the south before troop reductions.

      January 6, 2011
        Afghan Police Officer Killed by Blast in Downtown Kabul

        A bomb exploded in downtown Kabul, just 200 yards from the Defense Ministry and less than a mile from the presidential palace.

        January 4, 2011
        MORE ON AFGHANISTAN AND: BOMBS AND EXPLOSIVES
          Judges Set to Rule on Afghan Election Complaints Within 2 Weeks
          Judges Set to Rule on Afghan Election Complaints Within 2 Weeks

          A panel the Supreme Court set up said it would issue rulings within two weeks on complaints of election abuse in September’s vote.

          January 3, 2011
          MORE ON AFGHANISTAN AND: ELECTIONS, ABDULLAH, ABDULLAH, KARZAI, HAMID
            U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan

            The Department of Defense has identified 1,431 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations.

            January 2, 2011
              For Many Returning Veterans, Home Is Where the Trouble Is

              The web of support for ex-soldiers needs to be wider and stronger.

              January 2, 2011
                Homeland Security Sending More Agents to Fight Afghan Smuggling

                Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that her department planned to triple the number of agents in Afghanistan to curb smuggling.

                January 1, 2011
                  Warnings Missed Before Soldier’s Lonely Afghan Death
                  Warnings Missed Before Soldier’s Lonely Afghan Death

                  Many questions remain about Staff Sgt. David Senft’s death and whether the Army could have prevented it.

                  January 1, 2011
                    Taliban Official Killed in Afghanistan

                    Coalition forces killed the top-ranking Taliban official in restive Kunduz Province during an overnight raid, according to Afghan police and a local governor.

                    December 31, 2010
                    MORE ON AFGHANISTAN AND: AFGHANISTAN WAR (2001- ), TALIBAN
                      Taliban Official Killed in Afghanistan

                      Coalition forces killed the top-ranking Taliban official in restive Kunduz Province during an overnight raid, according to Afghan police and a local governor.

                      December 31, 2010
                      MORE ON AFGHANISTAN AND: AFGHANISTAN WAR (2001- ), TALIBAN
                        An Election Gone Wrong Fuels Tension in Kabul
                        An Election Gone Wrong Fuels Tension in Kabul

                        Afghan officials and losing candidates warn that seating the new Parliament could fuel the insurgency and even the kind of ethnic strife that might lead to civil war.

                        December 30, 2010
                          Afghans and NATO Diverge Sharply in Accounts of Deadly Raid
                          Afghans and NATO Diverge Sharply in Accounts of Deadly Raid

                          A shootout at the headquarters of the Afghan Tiger Group, a supplier of vehicles to the U.S. military, left two Afghan guards dead and two wounded.

                          December 29, 2010
                            Insurgents Set Aside Rivalries on Afghan Border
                            Insurgents Set Aside Rivalries on Afghan Border

                            Rival militant groups on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border are teaming up, military officials say.

                            December 29, 2010
                              Kandahar Car Bomb Explodes Near Afghan Police Station

                              The explosion, which killed one and wounded 26 others, occurred in front of Kabul Bank, according to authorities.

                              December 28, 2010
                              MORE ON AFGHANISTAN AND: TERRORISM, KANDAHAR (AFGHANISTAN),KABUL BANK
                                States of Conflict: An Update

                                It is fairly straightforward to summarize the past year in Iraq and Pakistan, but a more complicated matter for Afghanistan.

                                December 27, 2010
                                  Haqqani Network Quelled, at Least Temporarily, by Raids

                                  The Haqqani network has not conducted a complex, large-scale attack in Kabul for seven months.

                                  December 27, 2010
                                    David Rohde’s ‘Rope and a Prayer’ - Review
                                    David Rohde’s ‘Rope and a Prayer’ - Review

                                    A firsthand account of a Times journalist’s war-zone assignment gone devastatingly wrong in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

                                    December 27, 2010
                                      Taliban Challenge U.S. in Eastern Afghanistan
                                      Taliban Challenge U.S. in Eastern Afghanistan

                                      American forces are trying to persuade Afghan villagers to help root out the Taliban at great personal risk.

                                      December 26, 2010
                                        Book Review - A Rope and a Prayer - By David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill
                                        Book Review - A Rope and a Prayer - By David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill

                                        Chronicling a Times reporter’s captivity in Taliban strongholds — and his wife’s efforts to free him.

                                        December 26, 2010
                                          Joao Silva: Bearing Witness to History
                                          Joao Silva: Bearing Witness to History

                                          Why photographers like The Times’s Joao Silva, who lost his legs in Afghanistan this year, risk their lives for their profession.

                                          December 26, 2010
                                            NATO Raid in Kabul Kills 2 Afghan Guards

                                            The troops, acting on apparently faulty intelligence, killed two private security guards early Friday that could lead to renewed criticisms of foreign forces by President Hamid Karzai.

                                            December 25, 2010
                                              Deployed Football Coach a Finalist for Coach of Year

                                              Clayton Kendrick-Holmes of Maritime College in the Bronx is one of five finalists for the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award in Division III.

                                              December 24, 2010
                                                Military and Relief Aid: When the Lines Blur

                                                Readers respond to an article about the rising number of relief worker deaths in Afghanistan.

                                                December 24, 2010
                                                  Another Christmas in Kabul

                                                  Five days in Afghanistan offered frequent reminders of the overwhelming challenges that remain in the war.

                                                  December 24, 2010

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                                                    At War

                                                    Notes from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and other areas of conflict in the post-9/11 era.

                                                    It's Iraq but It's Not, Part 2
                                                    January 7, 2011 5:27pm
                                                    The Islam That Hard-Liners Hate
                                                    January 6, 2011 7:03pm

                                                    Follow the latest Afghanistan updates on The Times’s news blog.

                                                    Revisiting Holbrooke's Last Remarks
                                                    December 14, 2010 8:37pm
                                                    U.S. Rescuers May Have Killed British Captive in Afghanistan
                                                    October 11, 2010

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                                                    Afghanistan: A Look Back at 2010

                                                    Alissa J. Rubin, Kabul bureau chief, looks back at the major military campaigns -- and forward at the prospects for progress in the coming year.

                                                    The Trials of Leadership

                                                    Just two months after taking command of Alpha Company, First Battalion, 87th Infantry, Capt. Adrian Bonenberger faces a major test of his leadership.

                                                    Panoramas: Views From a Year at War

                                                    Photographer Damon Winter is following the lives of soldiers in Afghanistan.

                                                    Blast in Kandahar Kills Six

                                                    A van exploded beside a joint outpost in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing six Americans.

                                                    ‘The Great Game: Afghanistan’

                                                    Images from “The Great Game: Afghanistan,” a seven-hour cycle of a dozen short plays by different authors.

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