Ghazni City falls to the Taliban
Ghazni City, the capital of a southeastern Afghan province with the same name, is the tenth provincial capital to fall to the Taliban in one week. It is strategically important terrain for the jihadists,...
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Taliban overrun Herat City, Qala-i-Naw
The Taliban continues its blitzkrieg assault across Afghanistan, overrunning two additional provincial capitals today, including Herat City, one of the largest in Afghansitan. The Taliban took full control...
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Taliban seizes Afghan Army corps headquarters, 2 northern airports
The Taliban seized control of the Afghan National Army’s 217th Pamir Corps headquarters, as well as airports in Kunduz City and Shibirghan, as their onslaught in the north continued on Wednesday. The...
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Former headquarters of Northern Alliance falls under Taliban control
The Taliban seized control of Badakhshan province and its capital city, Faizabad, on Tuesday. The northeastern province served as headquarters to the Northern Alliance prior to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan...
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Farah City, Pul-i-Khumri fall to the Taliban
The Taliban’s all-out assault in northern and western Afghanistan resulted Tuesday in control of two additional provincial capitals in Farah and Baghdad provinces. That marks eight provincial capitals...
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Taliban assaults Farah City
The Taliban has attacked another provincial capital, this time Farah City in the west. Video shows Taliban fighters inside the city. From Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid. Will report on this in detail...
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Taliban Suicide Assault Team Strikes Courtroom in Western Afghanistan
A Taliban suicide assault team stormed a courthouse in western Afghanistan today in an attempt to free Taliban prisoners who were on trial. The Taliban assault team, estimated at between...
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Taliban Suicide Assault Team Kills 36 Afghans in Western City
A Taliban suicide assault team fanned out across the western city of Zaranj today, killing 36 Afghans in several attacks before being gunned down by Afghan forces. A suicide assault team...
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The Iran Connection
Co-Authored with Stephen F. Hayes On December 1, Undersecretary of State William Burns appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to brief members of Congress...
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What the WikiLeaks Documents Say About Iran-al Qaeda
One of the more interesting aspects of the WikiLeaks document dump is the persistence of intelligence reports indicating collusion between al Qaeda, al Qaeda-affiliated parties, and Iran. By itse...
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Taliban commander linked to al Qaeda, Iran, killed in US strike in western Afghanistan
Coalition special operations forces and Afghan commandos have killed a wanted Taliban commander with links to al Qaeda and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, during a raid on a train...
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Taliban assault team strikes governor’ s compound in western Afghanistan
Afghan police defeated a Taliban suicide assault team that sought to kill the governor of Nimroz province in western Afghanistan. A Taliban assault team made up of nine heavily armed sui...