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Canadian man begins hazardous 5,000-mile road trip in rickshaw
A Canadian man and his German girlfriend are braving the Taliban to take a rickshaw on one of the world’s most dangerous road trips to bring the circus to children in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. Adnan Khan, 41, and his anthropologist sweetheart have embarked on the punishing 8,000-kilometre (5,000-mile) trip…
Taliban commander: we cannot win war and al-Qaida is a ‘plague’
Senior Taliban commander admits insurgents must seek settlement with other political forces in Afghanistan One of the Taliban’s most senior commanders has admitted the insurgents cannot win the war in Afghanistan and that capturing Kabul is “a very distant prospect”, obliging them to seek a settlement with other political forces…
U.S. drone strike kills at least 5 in Pakistan
A US drone strike targeting a militant compound in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal district killed at least five militants late Tuesday, security officials said. The unmanned aircraft fired two missiles on the compound in the Shawal area, some 50 kilometres southwest of Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan tribal district,…
Taliban storm lakeside hotel in Kabul, 16 dead
Taliban militants armed with guns and rockets attacked a lakeside hotel near Kabul overnight, seizing dozens of hostages including women and children and killing at least 16 people. The four or five attackers were also killed in the brazen assault on the Spozhmai Hotel that will exacerbate fears that insecurity…
Public health officials warn effort to eradicate polio at risk
The quest for polio eradication is faltering, with millions of children still unvaccinated and insufficient funds available to finish the job, the official monitoring group says in a new report. Global politics is having a severe impact on vaccination programmes in some parts of the world, according to health officials,…
NATO air strike kills 18 civilians at Afghanistan wedding
On a day of deadly violence that underlined the vulnerability of Afghans, , more than 30 civilians were killed by Taliban suicide attackers and a Nato air strike on Wednesday. Civilians are regular victims of the fighting that now affects most of Afghanistan, and last year a record number of…
U.S. thought Taliban had nuclear bomb in 2009: book
WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama confronted the ultimate security nightmare early in his administration — the possibility that the Taliban had acquired a nuclear bomb, according to a new book published Tuesday. The book, “Confront and Conceal” by New York Times chief Washington correspondent David Sanger, says Obama was…
Officials: U.S. missiles kill 15 in Pakistan
US missiles killed 15 militants in Pakistan’s Taliban and Al-Qaeda stronghold of North Waziristan on Monday, the third drone strike in three days and the deadliest this year, officials said. The attack looked set to inflame tensions with Islamabad ahead of a visit by a US assistant defence secretary, Peter Lavoy, on a mission to persuade Pakistan…
Top Afghan peace negotiator shot dead in Kabul
KABUL — A senior Afghan peace negotiator and close ally of President Hamid Karzai was shot dead Sunday, dealing a major blow to Kabul’s efforts to broker peace with Taliban insurgents. Arsala Rahmani, a former minister in the Taliban regime, was a “key negotiator” in the High Peace Council (HPC)…
Taliban hit Kabul after Obama visit
Taliban bombers attacked a heavily fortified guesthouse used by Westerners in Kabul on Wednesday, announcing the start of their annual “spring offensive” in defiance of assertions from US President Barack Obama during a visit to Afghanistan that the war was ending. Seven people were killed after attackers dressed in burqas detonated a suicide car bomb and clashed…
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