Sep 8, 2010
By Greg Jaffe Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, September 4, 2010; 1:32 PM KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN – U.S. commanders in southern Afghanistan are adopting a strategy that increasingly places the priority on fighting the Taliban even if that means tolerating...
Sep 8, 2010
London Review of Books, Vol. 32 No. 17 · 9 September 2010, by Jonathan SteeleThe road from Kabul to Kandahar was once known as the Eisenhower highway. Built in the 1950s, when the United States and the Soviet Union competed peacefully for Afghan friendship, this...
Sep 8, 2010
Source: Institute for Security Studies (ISS), Date: 31 Aug 2010 INTRODUCTION On 23 July 2010, the eve of the African Union’s Summit in Kampala, AU Commission chairperson Jean Ping announced that he had asked countries, including South Africa, Angola, Nigeria,...
Sep 8, 2010
New York Times, By ROD NORDLAND, Published: September 6, 2010 Photo: Eros Hoagland for The New York Times Muhammad Akram Khapalwak, a top official at the Afghan Peace and Reconciliation Commission, said some fighters who had changed sides in the past had been...
Sep 7, 2010
by: Matthew Harwood, t r u t h o u t | Report, Tuesday 07 September 2010 President Barack Obama’s declaration Tuesday that the US combat mission in Iraq is officially over may give some Americans hope that US foreign policy may become less invasive and...
