Last night President Obama laid out his long-awaited plan for the war in Afghanistan. In a nutshell he wants to send an additional 30,000 troops to the country but...
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Like most good Americans, I spent the last four days stuffing myself to the brim with foodstuffs and then laying about sofas in front of dimly-pulsing televisions...
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There are few things I love more than finding a big long Seymour Hersh piece in the New Yorker - and today brings a doozy: Defending the Arsenal. The thrust of the...
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An exciting couple of days in Afghan election news. After a nail-biting few weeks of recounts, this weekend the challenger Abdullah Abdullah dropped out of the race....
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With the two helicopter crashes in Afghanistan today (killing 14 Americans), we wanted to check in real quick on how war #1 of our two wars is going. Wired's...
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As Pakistan hammers militants in South Waziristan, they've got a little help from their friends. The US military is providing video surveillance and intelligence...
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I was perusing the world's new version of headlines this morning (Google Trends) and I found a funny one: "dithering definition". Why do...
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On Current News, user WakeUpPeople points to this story: Report: Taliban trying to turn US troops into heroin addicts. Originally posted over on the The Daily...
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The numbers came back and Hamid Karzai, after you adjust for fraud, didn't quite make the over 50% he needed to keep his Presidential win without a run-off....
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Or so said some American and Afghani officials today. Afghanistan's current president Hamid Karzai just won an election that's been decried as fraudulent....
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Despite how closely you followed the balloon boy, all those attacks in Pakistan and the boobs of Meghan McCain - there was plenty of news you missed this week....
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UN envoy Peter Galbraith was recently fired from his post in Afghanistan. He says it was because he was too vocal about widespread fraud in the recent Afghan...
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As Pakistan's military is prepping their strike against the Taliban in South Waziristan, the militants seem to be attacking right back. Dressed as police...
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In an update to yesterday's story about the brazen Taliban attack on Pakistan's military headquarters, bombing runs have begun in the South Waziristan...
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Riding high on their victory over the Taliban in the Swat Valley this May, the Pakistani Army has been planning another offensive near the Afghanistan border....
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Just yesterday we posted about the eighth anniversary of the start of the war, and here we are today posting about a suicide bombing in Kabul killing 17. From the...
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With IED deaths rising in Afghanistan, what new, futuristic counter-insurgency strategies will the military unleash? How about anti-IED ads? From Wired's Danger...
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Obama met with Congressional leaders yesterday and ruled out a sharp reduction in troop levels in Afghanistan. He was also hesitant about a large increase in troop...
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In a video shot from nearby Apache helicopters, US military personnel watch as Afghan insurgents set up a deadly IED and then accidentally trigger it themselves....
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(Reuters) - Long the world's largest producer of opium, the raw ingredient of heroin, Afghanistan has now become the top supplier of cannabis, with large-scale...
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