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ISLAMABAD — As American military officials complete plans that are likely to send several thousand additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, a flurry of setbacks in the war have underscored both the imperative of action and the pitfalls of various approaches. Further complicating the picture are questions about how to deal with neighboring Pakistan and balance separate fights against […]
According to a report released by the Pentagon on Tuesday, China is developing plans to expand its military footprint on foreign soil. After the completion of a facility in the African nation of Djibouti, it is expected that more Chinese military bases will follow suit, particularly in Pakistan. The 97-page annual report to Congress listed […]
The Pentagon is considering sending between 3,000 to 5,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to advise Afghan military and police units fighting the Taliban, as well as an unspecified number of special operations forces to fight ISIS and al-Qaida militants along the Pakistani border. A senior Afghan defense official also told the Military Times that NATO was considering deploying up […]
Brandon Webb, former Navy SEAL, best-selling author, and Hurricane Media CEO, appeared on Fox & Friends to discuss how counter-terrorism has changed since Osama bin Laden was killed six years ago. On May 1, 2011 (20:00 UTC) Navy SEALs assaulted a compound in Pakistan in search of their number one target—Osama bin Laden. The well-documented […]
PADANNA, India — The aspiring jihadists began leaving here quietly in May, slipping away in twos and threes to avoid suspicion. By the time their relatives realized they were missing, five families — some with small children — had left their comfortable bungalows and jobs as doctors and businessmen to make the perilous journey to […]
Student-led protests on Monday in the Indian-controlled region of Kashmir escalated into violence that has left over 100 injured as students clash with Indian police and paramilitary forces. The protests began as a result of a police raid on a Kashmiri college this past weekend. There, in the southern Kashmiri town of Pulwama, over 50 […]
It was a little more than six months after the 9/11 attacks when Dr. James E. Mitchell received a phone call from the chief of department that housed the CIA’s operational psychologists. The request to come to the CIA headquarters in Langley wasn’t seemingly out of place, Dr. Mitchell was already an established consultant with […]
A Pakistani military court has issued a death sentence for an Indian man who they claim confessed himself to be a spy from India’s foreign intelligence service. The man in question is Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav, a former officer in the Indian Navy, who was detained by Pakistani authorities in March 2016 and accused of “sabotage […]
WASHINGTON — A Pakistani militant who planned a devastating truck bomb attack on a hotel in Islamabad in 2008 — which left two members of the American military and dozens of others dead — was killed in recent days by an American drone strike in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said on Saturday night. The militant, Qari […]
KABUL — He is a ghost with a blood-soaked past, a man with so many enemies that even his closest aides, trying to orchestrate his return to the Afghan capital he once attacked, coyly insist they have no idea where he is. Six months ago, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar emerged briefly from the shadows, appearing via video […]
The land is lush in this river-fed region of eastern Afghanistan. The highway that leads to the Pakistan border, 60 miles away, passes fields of ripening wheat, cucumber and cauliflower. The nearby city of Jalalabad is bustling, with crowded sidewalks and traffic jams of produce trucks, auto rickshaws and tractors. But for a large, nearly […]
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — When the army and police trucks prowl through affluent areas in this sprawling garrison city, headlights flashing and riflemen at the ready, residents breathe a sigh of relief. But when the trucks enter certain shabbier neighborhoods, home to a mix of Afghan refugees, migrants and ethnic Afghan Pashtuns, children scatter and adults […]
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