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' Blog: Coordinated review'por open05 hace 1 mes | 0 comentariosNewsnight said the Obama administration had already told the UK government it would soon announce a substantial increase to its military forces in Afghanistan.The programme said it understood an announcement could come next week, in time for a ...
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Blog: Swatpor open04 hace 1 mes | 0 comentarios
Swat, a former princely state in northern Pakistan, was governed by a British-era law which a court declared unconstitutional in the early 1990s. That triggered a violent campaign for Islamic law to be introduced in Swat and other areas of the ...
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Blog: Oruzgan, Ghazni, Wardak, Logarpor open04 hace 1 mes | 0 comentarios
Initially the Taliban were unable to maintain sustained pressure on the country's south-central highlands. But with safe sanctuaries in the border region - from the Baramcha area of Helmand province in the south, to some parts of Pakistani ...
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Blog: Mohmand, Bajaur, Kunarpor open03 hace 1 mes | 0 comentarios
Analysts have long suspected Pakistan's Bajaur tribal region to be the hiding place of Osama Bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and other top al-Qaeda leaders. As such, it is where suspected US drones launched their earliest missile strikes. One drone ...
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Blog: North Waziristanpor open03 hace 1 mes | 0 comentarios
North Waziristan is dominated by the Wazir tribe that also inhabits the adjoining Afghan provinces of Paktika and Khost. North and South Waziristan form the most lethal zone from where militants have been successfully destabilising not only those ...
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Blog: South Waziristanpor open02 hace 1 mes | 0 comentarios
South Waziristan, a tribal district in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), is the first significant sanctuary Islamic militants carved for themselves outside Afghanistan after 9/11. Militants driven by US troops from the Tora Bora ...
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Blog: Paktika, Khost, Paktiapor open02 hace 1 mes | 0 comentarios
Taliban sanctuaries in South Waziristan and North Waziristan directly threaten Paktika, Khost and Paktia provinces of Afghanistan. The US-led forces have large bases in the Barmal region of Paktika and in Khost, and several outposts along the border ...
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Blog: Kurram, Orakzai, Khyberpor open01 hace 1 mes | 0 comentarios
As the Pakistani military strategists who organised Afghan guerillas against the Soviets in the 1980s discovered to their delight, Kurram is the best location along the entire Pakistan-Afghanistan border to put pressure on the Afghan capital, Kabul, ...
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Blog: Zabul, Toba Kakarpor open01 hace 1 mes | 0 comentarios
Afghanistan's Zabul province lies to the north of Kandahar, along the Toba Kakar mountain range that separates it from the Pakistani districts of Killa Saifullah and Killa Abdullah. The mountains are remote, and have been largely quiet except for a ...
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Blog: Dow Jones breaks through 10,000por open10 hace 1 mes | 0 comentarios
Stocks continued to fall. They hit a 12-year low early in March before staging their comeback. Analysts said the latest rise in the Dow could encourage more investors into the market. "Dow 10,000 may be largely psychological, but with tremendous ...
