Amid the US military documents released by WikiLeaks are nearly 200 involving Task Force 373, a unit charged with killing combatants in Afghanistan, but also responsible for numerous civilian deaths.
US drones killed 18 in Pakistan’s South Waziristan region. A count by the BBC Urdu service says nearly 2,500 have been killed in Pakistan by drone strikes and Taliban attacks since January 2009.
By the end of 2011, 81 US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) special agents will be deployed in Afghanistan, up from 13 just three years ago, according to the agency’s chief of operations Tom Harrigan. “Afghanistan is the most prolific producer… Read moreDEA boosts Afghan anti-opium force
A mosque and adjoining shrines were destroyed in an explosion at Ashkail village in Pakistan’s Khyber tribal region, near the Afghan border. Some shrines held the remains of Sufi saints.
Twin suicide attacks on a Sufi shrine in Lahore left 44 dead and 175 injured. The Taliban have repeatedly threatened the Data Darbar, one of the oldest Islamic sites in Pakistan.
A new US drone strike killed four in North Waziristan. According to a count by Iran’s Press TV, the US has launched 36 drone strikes in Pakistan since January, killing at least 390.
At least nine ethnic Hazara men were killed in a Taliban ambush and possibly beheaded. The Taliban carried out a campaign of genocide against the Hazaras during their years in power.
Barack Obama’s replacement of Gen. Stanley McChrystal with Gen. David Petraeus as commander of US forces in Afghanistan appears to represent a strategic shift within the administration.
A US drone strike in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region killed 13, as the Taliban claimed responsibility for shooting down a NATO drone in Herat province.
Is the Pentagon’s revelation of a mineral bonanza in Afghanistan aimed at driving down the price of lithium and thereby undercutting Bolivia’s efforts to bring on a new global source?
The groom and 17 of the guests at a Kandahar wedding party attacked by a suicide bomber were members of an anti-Taliban militia organized by US Special Operations forces.
Millions of Pakistanis in the tribal areas live in a “human rights free zone” under Taliban control, Amnesty International charges in a new report.
