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36 articles tagged "Operation in Afghanistan"
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DEBKAfile
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November 23, 2001, 9:29 AM (GMT+02:00)
Fierce fighting raged around the strategic North Afghanistan town of Konduz Friday, as anti-Taliban forces hammered the Taliban-al Qaeda defenders with rockets, heavy artillery and tank fire. US B-52's pounded nearby Khanabad, where 1000 "foreign" fighters of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network were reported holed up.
DEBKAfile
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November 20, 2001, 3:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
Negotiations for the evacuation of Taliban-al-Qaeda forces from their last Afghan strongholds of Konduz and Kandahar are shuffling forward sluggishly.
DEBKAfile
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November 17, 2001, 2:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
A high-level Russian delegation is being rushed to the Afghan capital of Kabul to "look into the military requirements of the legitimate government of Rabbani".
DEBKAfile
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November 17, 2001, 9:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
Friday, November 16, was the day Mulla Mustafa Omar ordered Taliban forces to abandon their southern stronghold of Kahandar and head for the towering Hindu Kush mountains in the north.
DEBKAfile
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November 14, 2001, 4:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tuesday night, the Northern Alliance was forced to detach contingents from Kabul which its forces captured earlier in the day, and return them to the northern battle arenas of Konduz and Khanabad, a scant twenty four hours after those towns were said to have fallen.
DEBKAfile
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November 13, 2001, 3:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military experts note that only a fraction of the Taliban's estimated 60,000 strong army was struck down in the latest round of fighting. Most fell back with their weapons - almost without firing a shot. Before abandoning Kabul, they emptied the banks. Even the 55th Brigade, the ...
DEBKAfile
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November 12, 2001, 3:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Northern Alliance's surprise rout of the Taliban in its most formidable Northern fortress of Konduz Monday completed the Afghan opposition's control of northern Afghanistan. The almost simultaneous fall of the northwestern town of Herat offers the Northern Alliance the military option of continuing its victorious march all the way ...
DEBKAfile
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November 11, 2001, 9:35 AM (GMT+02:00)
The capture of Mazar-e-Sharif was the first victory the Afghan oppositionNorthern Alliance chalked up in three years against the dominant Taliban regime. It was also the United States' first tangible achievement in a month of combat.
Without detracting from the victory's strategic and propaganda importance, it must be said that ...
DEBKAfile
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November 7, 2001, 10:11 AM (GMT+02:00)
This former Soviet republic has some key strategic advances going for it in Washington - and not merely as a forward base for the Afghanistan war effort: It is largely unpopulated - 80pc empty desert - and therefore eminently suited to a large-scale military forward presence; three-quarters of its 4.25 ...
DEBKAfile
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October 29, 2001, 2:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
The shape of the governments-to-be of Afghanistan and Iraq - "when the war is over" - seems to be uppermost in the minds of the US-led alliance engaged in the war against world terrorism. This may be a useful academic exercise, but while it is in process, the war itself ...
DEBKAfile
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October 22, 2001, 10:28 AM (GMT+02:00)
US military chiefs had banked on the four main Afghan cities of Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad and Herat, falling into US hands with Taliban bases three weeks before the onset of heavy winter snows. That estimate has been revised. Now, the United States will have to do one of two things: ...
DEBKAfile
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October 20, 2001, 4:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile has learned from military sources in Dushanbe and Bishbek, capitals of Tajikistan and the Kyrgizstan respectively, that at least 15 Chinese fighting men on the side of the Taliban, were killed in last week's US bombing over Kahandar and in a separate incident on the ground. This ...
DEBKAfile
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October 16, 2001, 3:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
Pakistani President Pervez Musharref had hoped that the brief visit US Secretary of State Colin Powell paid to Islamabad on October 15-16 would end in a joint announcement of a ceasefire in Afghanistan. This did not come about and the Pakistani leader had to content himself with a declaration of ...
DEBKAfile
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October 9, 2001, 10:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
On Sunday, October 7, exactly 1 hour and 50 minutes before the first US air bombardment, two light planes took off from Kahandar airport, without lights. They appeared on the radar screens of US attacking bombers for five minutes before vanishing, never to be traced until now. According to the ...
DEBKAfile
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October 6, 2001, 4:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Before even the launching of the major US military offensive in Afghanistan, long Chinese convoys were carrying armed Chinese Muslim servicemen through northwest China into Afghanistan, according to debkafile's intelligence experts.
DEBKAfile
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October 2, 2001, 2:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
The most significant feature of the imminent US assault against Afghanistan is the major role to be played by Russian military might, following the new and far-reaching understanding reached between President George W. Bush and President Vladimir Putin.
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