Taliban Slip Away From Afghanistan Surge Battle - WSJ.com
online.wsj.com — The U.S. embarked on a large offensive in southern Afghanistan Thursday in which one Marine was killed, while in the east the military mobilized to recover a soldier apparently captured by the Taliban. (Submitted by noupsell) More...
Taliban Leader Is Former Gitmo Detainee?
google.com — "U.S. officials say the Taliban's new top operations officer in southern Afghanistan is a former prisoner at the Guantanamo detention center. Pentagon and CIA officials say Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul was among 13 prisoners released to the Afghan government in December 2007." (Submitted by supercandy) More...
Afghan Taliban kill young woman, man for eloping
news.yahoo.com — Taliban gunmen used a firing squad to kill a young couple in southern Afghanistan for trying to elope, shooting them with rifles in front of a crowd in a lawless, militant-controlled region...The two had fled their homes and hoped to travel to Iran, but their parents sent villagers to bring them home (Submitted by redwolfwalker) More...
BREAKING: Taliban Commander Killed
breitbart.com — ANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Mullah Dadullah, the Taliban's most prominent military commander, was killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan with Afghan and NATO troops, officials said Sunday. Dadullah was killed Saturday in the southern province of Helmand, said Said Ansari, the spokesman for Afghanistan's intelligence service. (Submitted by SeaMowse) More...
Optimism Grows as Marines Push Against Taliban
nytimes.com — For two years British troops staked out a presence in this small district center in southern Afghanistan and fended off attacks from the Taliban. The constant firefights left it a ghost town, its bazaar broken and empty but for one baker, its houses and orchards reduced to rubble and weeds... (Submitted by vick3ii) More...
Australian troops kill Taliban commander
edition.cnn.com — Australian commandos have killed a Taliban chief blamed for numerous attacks on coalition troops in southern Afghanistan, including one that killed an Australian soldier last week, the country's defense ministry announced. (Submitted by ecksteing) More...
Marine commander sees progress in Afghanistan -- LA Times
latimes.com — The general in charge of U.S. Marines in Afghanistan said Monday that progress is being made in wresting a key southern province from Taliban control but cautioned that process will be slow and difficult to measure. (Submitted by tcbishop12) More...
Marines in Afghanistan Not Waiting for Obama's Strategy - AB
abcnews.go.com — Marines in Southern Afghanistan aren't waiting around for Washington to decide on a new strategy. Here at Forward Operating Base, or FOB, Delaram Marines are putting into action counter-insurgency tactics aimed at chasing away Taliban fighters and returning the towns and villages within this vast area of Afghanistan to some sense of stability. (Submitted by physicsmajor) More...
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