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May 31, 2008, 8:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
Some serious stock-taking in the Afghan capital and US-led NATO command has followed the Taliban's success in breaking up the Afghan army parade in Kabul Sunday, April 27. Scheduled for the 16th anniversary of the Soviet Army's defeat and expulsion from Afghanistan, it was staged to showcase the ...
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June 20, 2006, 5:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
"Operation Mountain Thrust," the biggest coalition offensive since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, has taken US-led forces deep into the remote mountains of the south. Its primary purpose is to abort the revived Taliban's drive to retake Kabul the capital, and the key city of Herat ...
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July 23, 2002, 5:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
Notwithstanding its avowed reluctance to boost its presence in Afghanistan, the United States has launched two critical military steps: <br/>First, A 45-man American unit, including special forces, will move into the presidential palace in Kabul and assume responsibility for Hamid Karzai's safety. It will replace a contingent of Afghan ...</br/>
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March 17, 2002, 9:48 AM (GMT+02:00)
Ahead of the next US-led operation in Afghanistan, Army Maj.-Gen. Franklin L. "Buster" Hagenbeck informed reporters at Bagram Air Base Saturday, March 16, that the two-week Anaconda Operation around the Shah-e-Kot Valey had severely damaged the al Qaeda network, killed most of its most seasoned military leaders and destroyed ...
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March 10, 2002, 5:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sunday, March 10, the United States unexpectedly ordered 400 US troops lifted out of the battle area south of Gardez in the Afghan Paktia province. As helicopters carried the troops back to Bagram airbase, a US spokesman announced that the major part of the offensive against the al Qaeda and ...
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March 8, 2002, 9:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
<span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span> 's military experts report the intense fighting over the past week in the mountains of Afghanistan south of Gardez, between the US 101st Airborne and 10th Mountain divisions and al-Qaeda and Taliban forces, is beginning to impinge on US preparations for its coming assault on Iraq. <br/>A poor ...</br/>
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March 5, 2002, 9:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
General Tommy Franks, head of the American Central Command, claims the United States has applied the lessons drawn from previous battle of the Afghan War, especially the Tora Bora engagement, in the current push against Taliban and al Qaeda strongholds south of Gardez in East Afghanistan. He promises that in ...
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March 3, 2002, 9:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
The largest joint air-ground, US-Afghan offensive of the Afghanistan war on terror is now in its third day in the snow-clad, inaccessible mountains of Arma in the eastern Afghanistan province of Paktia. It was launched to pre-empt the regrouping of the al Qaeda and Taliban remnants sheltering there - estimated by ...
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January 26, 2002, 4:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
With pledges for US$4.5 billion under his belt from the Tokyo conference of Afghanistan donor-nations, interim Afghan prime minister Hamid Karzai set out for Washington Saturday, January 26, for his first encounter with US President George W. Bush.<br/>The sum raised for the reconstruction of war-torn Afghanistan will ...</br/>
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January 12, 2002, 4:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
Not content with brandishing nuclear, chemical and biological threats over the cities of the Western world, Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda and his partners in the Egyptian Jihad Islami plan a series of assassinations to destabilize targeted Middle East and West European countries. <br/>Two days before committing their September ...</br/>
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December 31, 2001, 4:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
In a provisional summing up of the Afghan campaign, <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s military analysts find that the sixteen weeks of warfare have cost the al Qaeda terror organization the use of Afghan soil - and possibly Pakistan too - for its primary command centers, its specialized training facilities, its logistical infrastructure and ...
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December 31, 2001, 4:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Taliban intelligence chief Quri Ahmadullah came across as brash and unbowed in an interview he granted on December 28 to a reporter of the Pakistani Pashtun newspaper Shariat. He invited the reporter quite openly to the Pakistanvillage of Datha Khail, south of Tora Bora and eight miles from the ...
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December 22, 2001, 8:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
The fragility of the national interim government sworn into office in Kabul Saturday, December 22, was underlined by one of the first tasks thrust on the new interim prime minister, the royalist Pashtun leader Hamid Karzai. On the day of his inauguration for a six-month period, he had to promise ...
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December 17, 2001, 8:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the first senior US official to visit Afghanistan, inspected US troops at Bagram airfield Sunday, December 16 and met the country's first post-Taliban interim prime minister Hamid Karzai, who is due to take office next Saturday. Celebrated too was the reopening of the US ...
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December 15, 2001, 5:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
<span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s military sources report that over the last 48 hours, most of the al Qaeda fighters holed up in the caves of the Tora Bora mountains were able to creep past the siege thrown round the area by US-backed local Pashtun tribesmen, known as the Eastern Front, and ...
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December 5, 2001, 3:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
The post-Taliban interim government accord signed at Petersberg Hotel outside Bonn Wednesday, December 5, was hailed by its exhausted signatories and sponsors as a landmark for shattered Afghanistan. <br/>The interim administration is due to take office in Kabul on December 22. Former King Zahir Shah is awarded the symbolic function ...</br/>
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November 27, 2001, 3:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
While US troops scour the mountains and caves for Osama bin Laden, the bulk of his al Qaeda army has also disappeared. It was found to be missing when the Northern Alliance seized control of the northern Taliban enclave of Konduz-Khanabad on Monday, November 26. Roughly 1,500 of bin ...
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November 26, 2001, 9:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
Coinciding with the fall of the northern Taliban garrison at Konduz to the Northern Alliance Monday morning, November 26, several hundred US Marines were ferried from Arabian Sea carriers to the Kandaharr air strip in south Afghanistan, the first American ground troops to appear openly in the war-torn country. Within ...
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November 24, 2001, 9:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saturday saw heavy truck, four-wheeled drive and tank traffic charging up and down the dusty roads of northern Afghanistan, packed with unexpectedly smiling warriors in the headgear denoting their diverse tribal affiliations. According to most reports, they men were part of a swelling stream running to many hundreds of Taliban ...
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