2 US troops killed in Afghan blast

TheFrontierPost 23-JAN-10

McChrystal sells Obama war plan

aljazeera 03-DEC-09

Obama to send 30,000 troops to Afghanistan

RTERadio 02-DEC-09

Obama vows to ‘finish job’ in Afghan conflict

ft 25-NOV-09

Blast Near Aid Office Wounds 1 in NW Pakistan

ABCnews 21-NOV-09

'US drone' targets Pakistan hideout

aljazeera 20-NOV-09

Official: Obama dissatisfied with Afghanistan options

cnn 12-NOV-09

Taliban calls for Afghan election boycott

channel4news 24-OCT-09

Questions about Al Qaeda's next move

latimes 19-OCT-09

US senator warns on Afghan troops

bbc 18-OCT-09

Afghan election watchdog alters fraud policy

ft 12-OCT-09

UN highlights Afghan poll fraud

bbc 11-OCT-09

Car bomb targets India embassy in Kabul

ft 08-OCT-09

Five U.S. troops among 50 killed in violence

washtimes 13-SEP-09

One dead para, one dead translator, two dead civilians: Why DID ministers authorise raid to save reporter who ignored warning

dailymail 10-SEP-09

Gen. McChrystal: New Strategy Needed in Afghanistan

ABCnews 31-AUG-09

Karzai's lead widens in ongoing vote count

washtimes 27-AUG-09

Afghan rivals claim poll victory

bbc 21-AUG-09

Pakistan to seek Mehsud DNA proof

bbc 10-AUG-09

Pakistan Taliban denies leader dead

aljazeera 08-AUG-09

Taliban head Mehsud 'may be dead'

bbc 07-AUG-09

Roadside bomb kills at least 12 in Afghanistan

dailymail 03-AUG-09

Clinton offers 'defense umbrella' for allies

washtimes 23-JUL-09

Deadly military crash in Pakistan

bbc 03-JUL-09

Pakistan can isolate extremists: Obama (AFP)

news 21-JUN-09

US drones kill nine in Pakistan militants

irishtimes 18-JUN-09

More clashes follow Iran election

channel4news 14-JUN-09

Militants raid Pakistan army posts

channel4news 11-JUN-09

Obama accused of neglecting India

ft 07-JUN-09

Sarkozy warns on Iran sanctions

ft 06-JUN-09

An Iranian family is impressed, but words on women's rights divide them

latimes 05-JUN-09

Pakistan deal with Taliban 'collapses' as convoy is attacked

telegraph 04-MAY-09

Pakistan continues Taliban crackdown

cnn 30-APR-09

'US missile kills 12 Pakistan militants'

independent 01-APR-09

President backing for US strategy

channel4news 28-MAR-09

Obama to send 4,000 more troops to Aghanistan, officials say

cnn 27-MAR-09

U.S.-Afghan mission kills 5

latimes 15-MAR-09

Interpol to aid Pakistan investigation of Mumbai attack

latimes 08-MAR-09

Displaced residents wait, hope cease-fire holds in Pakistan's Swat

cnn 24-FEB-09

Taliban Frees Kidnapped Pakistani Official

rferl 23-FEB-09

Pakistan ceasefire draws scepticism

ft 22-FEB-09

Taliban agree to 'permanent ceasefire' in Swat valley ... but only if Sharia law is imposed

dailymail 21-FEB-09

U.S.-led coalition kills 13 Afghan civilians

cnn 21-FEB-09

FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, Feb 16

alertnet 16-FEB-09

Pakistan: Arrests made over Mumbai attacks

cnn 12-FEB-09

US envoy arrives in Afghanistan

bbc 12-FEB-09

Taliban gunmen target Afghan ministry

channel4news 11-FEB-09

David Pilling The question is: which is the real Pakistan?

ft 11-FEB-09

Obama warns on Pakistan 'haven'

bbc 10-FEB-09

US Senate a step closer to passing stimulus bill

euronews 10-FEB-09

Laskhar as big a threat to US, UK as al-Qaida: CIA

timesofindia 08-FEB-09

Student flees Taliban in 'Pakistan's Switzerland'

cnn 03-FEB-09

Eradicating the 'Little Satan'

palestinepost 09-JAN-09

Could saber-rattling lead to war between India and Pakistan? (McClatchy Newspapers)

news 27-DEC-08

Indians warned to avoid Pakistan

bbc 26-DEC-08

India rules out Pakistan attack

bbc 16-DEC-08

Pakistan arrests head of group linked to Mumbai killings (McClatchy Newspapers)

news 12-DEC-08

An intractable crisis in Thailand

ft 05-DEC-08

Internet helps foster communication between Iran and U.S.

IHT 03-DEC-08

Mumbai police chief: No warning given of impending attack

cnn 02-DEC-08

Pakistan under pressure over Mumbai attacks

euronews 01-DEC-08

Mumbai attacks: Pakistani relations with India deteriorate

telegraph 28-NOV-08

Al-Qaeda link is not ruled out

ft 27-NOV-08

Islamabad tries to take military out of politics

ft 24-NOV-08

Brother of Afghan minister kidnapped in Pakistan

washtimes 02-NOV-08

Terror pledge after Pakistan bomb

bbc 21-SEP-08

Taliban seize government office in Pakistan

cnn 14-SEP-08

Gaddafi offers Rice kitchen diplomacy and locket

reuters 08-SEP-08

Gaddafi takes kitchen diplomacy approach with Rice

timesofmalta 07-SEP-08

Pakistan lawmakers to choose Musharraf replacement

washtimes 05-SEP-08

Rice meets Gadhafi on historic Libya visit

cnn 05-SEP-08

Pakistan angry over territorial intrusion

ft 04-SEP-08

Six dead in fresh Afghan attack

bbc 21-AUG-08

Double-game that put Pakistan, the pariah country, back on the map

thetimes 19-AUG-08

U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan kill 36 militants

washtimes 16-AUG-08

President Musharraf of Pakistan to be impeached

thetimes 08-AUG-08

Pakistan to probe Indian embassy bombing in Kabul

washtimes 02-AUG-08

Palestinian PM seeks emergency funds from World Bank (AFP)

news 29-JUL-08

Iran 'may consider' U.S. diplomatic presence

cnn 02-JUL-08

Diplomats play down fears of Israeli attack on Iran (Reuters)

news 01-JUL-08

Consultants blaze trail through India's red tape maze (AFP)

news 22-JUN-08

Pakistan fury over U.S. 'hot pursuit' attack

cnn 12-JUN-08

CIA claims al-Qaeda victories

aljazeera 31-MAY-08

Al-Qaeda in retreat - CIA chief

phantis 30-MAY-08

Europe urges more oversight of Iranian nuclear program (AP)

news 17-APR-08

Egypt seeks Gaza deal between Palestinian rivals (AFP)

news 30-JAN-08

Bush: 'Painful' Mideast choices needed

cnn 10-JAN-08

Bush’s final chance in the Middle East

ft 08-JAN-08

Peace brokers killed in Pakistan

cnn 07-JAN-08

Israel 'deviating from road map'

independent 05-JAN-08

Dakar Rally cancelled due to security threat

CBC 04-JAN-08

Nawaz Sharif to visit Bhutto tomb

bbc 29-DEC-07

Iran and Russia meet to discuss defense cooperation

IHT 24-DEC-07

No 'miracle' for American missing in Iran

cnn 22-DEC-07

Bush launches new Mid-East talks

bbc 28-NOV-07

Musharraf to quit army 'this week'

cnn 27-NOV-07

Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan

telegraph 26-NOV-07

Leader: Deja vu, again, with Annapolis talks

guardian 24-NOV-07

Rice tries to close gap in Middle East talks (Reuters)

news 01-NOV-07

U.S.' Paulson to urge against India-Iran gas pipeline (Reuters)

news 25-OCT-07

Paulson backs India financial reforms

ft 24-OCT-07

N. Korea Marks Nuclear Test Anniversary

ABCnews 10-OCT-07

The Israel lobby and US foreign policy

austrianews 21-SEP-07

Iran set to free US 'spy'

guardian 11-SEP-07

Unaccountable generosity

ft 07-SEP-07

Sadr 'freezes' militia activities

bbc 29-AUG-07

UN to expand role in Iraq

guardian 11-AUG-07

Taliban no threat, Afghan president says

ft 07-AUG-07

Lebanese army begins final push against militants

reuters 25-JUL-07

Bush launches peace bid

guardian 17-JUL-07

US concern at al-Qaeda strength

bbc 12-JUL-07

Pakistan disputes report on new nuclear reactor

irna 23-JUN-07

‘Iranian flow of weapons to Iraq, Afghanistan increasing’

dailytimesPK 04-JUN-07

Rice Holds Line on Iran Nuclear Program

ABCnews 31-MAY-07

US and Iran discuss Iraq

RTERadio 28-MAY-07

US 'to tighten rules on Britons'

bbc 03-MAY-07

U.S. Seeks Closing of Visa Loophole for Britons

nytimes 02-MAY-07

UN chief urges peaceful resolution of Iranian nuclear issue

peopledaily 27-APR-07

Al Qaeda group claims bombings

cnn 12-APR-07

US Troops Battle Shiite Gunmen

ABCnews 07-APR-07

Rice Seeks Arab Support for Peace Deal

ABCnews 24-MAR-07

U.S. pressing Pakistan on counter-terrorism

reuters 21-FEB-07

Democrats sweep into Congress

guardian 04-JAN-07

Bush signs US-India nuclear bill

bbc 19-DEC-06

Taliban 'not dead and buried'

iol 16-NOV-06

[ says]: Hekmatyar could be turned if the ISI wanted him to be turned,

wsj 22-JAN-10

[-asked]: If the other side was running this one person against us, how confident are we of everyone else?

msnbc 07-JAN-10

[-said]: The bomber allegedly was sent by Ayman Zawahiri himself to conduct the attack and claimed he had information on Zawahiri,

asharq 05-JAN-10

[ says]: Al-Qaeda has always found weak and failing states like Yemen to be its best staging bases and sanctuaries,

theglobeandmail 05-JAN-10

[ added]: I think what (military officials) Petraeus and Mullen are trying to do is just keep pushing the Pakistanis in the right direction without overplaying their hand. But it is tricky,

alertnet 16-DEC-09

[ said]: We don't know as much yet about the new case in Virginia, but it would appear to be another case where the radicalisation process taking root among Americans of Pakistani, or Afghan or Somali origin,

channelnewsasia 11-DEC-09

[ said]: We've known for several years that al-Qaeda and its allies like Lashkar-e-Taiba have put a high priority on recruiting assets in the Pakistani communities in the United States, and the United Kingdom, the rest of the world,

telegraph 11-DEC-09

[ said]: We don't know as much yet about the new case in Virginia, but it would appear to be another case where the radicalization process taking root among Americans of Pakistani, or Afghan or Somali origin,

turkishpress 11-DEC-09

[ said]: We've known for several years that Al-Qaeda and its allies like Lashkar-e-Taiba have put a high priority on recruiting assets in the Pakistani communities in the United States, and the United Kingdom, the rest of the world,

channelnewsasia 11-DEC-09

[-said]: The entire western intelligence community have been looking for bin Laden for the last seven years and haven’t come upon a source of information like this,

timesofindia 04-DEC-09

[-said]: The entire Western intelligence community, CIA and MI6, have been looking for Osama bin Laden for the last seven years and haven't come upon a source of information like this,

indiatimes 04-DEC-09

[ said]: It is a very delicate balancing act,

alertnet 04-DEC-09

[ said]: It's a big gamble. It's probably the biggest gamble of the whole speech and the strategy,

alertnet 02-DEC-09

[ said]: Wars tend to consume presidencies and this is now Obama's war,

theglobeandmail 02-DEC-09

[ said]: This is also a bold gamble in terms of domestic politics,

news 02-DEC-09

[-said]: He probably had no choice. He had to have something that answers the requirement from congressional Democrats to show a timeline for how this all starts to come to end,

alertnet 02-DEC-09

[ said]: They have always felt that the United States would run away and they would be left with the mess - just like they were in the 1990s,

nzherald 02-DEC-09

[ said]: Wars tend to consume presidencies, and this is now Obama's war,

theglobeandmail 02-DEC-09

[ said]: In 18 months we will know whether this strategy is working ... We will either have broken the momentum of the Taliban ... or not,

alertnet 02-DEC-09

[ said]: It's an eerie sense of deja vu,

wsj 27-NOV-09

[ said]: This will have to be done with a great deal of care. If the focus is already on how to get out then this could have a great impact on the Taliban and also Pakistan,

thestar 25-NOV-09

[-said]: We're losing... It's getting worse in Afghanistan,

jpost 18-NOV-09

[-said]: In June this year, the president called,

jpost 18-NOV-09

[-said]: Within 18 to 24 months, we will know whether Obama inherited a dead patient on an operating table,

jpost 18-NOV-09

[-told]: Israelis need to understand that there's going to be a huge drain on resources, attention and capital, and that will have implications,

jpost 18-NOV-09

[-said]: The president has inherited a disastrous war that is being lost,

jpost 18-NOV-09

[-said]: President Obama has ruled that [a withdrawal] out. I think correctly,

jpost 18-NOV-09

[-says]: It [the Obama administration] needs a strategy to engage Karzai effectively so he will now reach out and broaden the political process to bring in Abdullah and minimise the warlords,

TheFrontierPost 16-NOV-09

[ said]: 

latimes 13-NOV-09

[-said]: Additional troops are a necessity if we want to stop losing,

latimes 13-NOV-09

[-said]: He is a Kashmiri, obviously born in Pakistan Kashmir. He joined the struggle against India in Kashmir in 1994, where he began by taking American, British and Israeli hostages, some of which were killed.

rediff 06-NOV-09

[said that:]: double standards

dailytimesPK 28-OCT-09

[ warns]: We are losing this war. It is not yet lost, but we are losing,

theglobeandmail 22-OCT-09

[ said]: What we've seen is a coalescence of the various militant jihadist groups,

washtimes 21-OCT-09

[ said]: A further delay in electing a government will increase the pressure to make military decisions that cannot wait without knowing whether we have a legitimate Afghan partner,

washtimes 21-OCT-09

[ said]: was very much keyed to having a successful (presidential) election (on 20 August)

ahram 19-OCT-09

[-said]: Do you want to bet the safety and security of the United States on [the] calculation that Al Qaeda wouldn't find a way back in?

latimes 19-OCT-09

[ said]: He needs to bring those together in the next two weeks and answer the outstanding request from his generals on the battlefield,

alertnet 19-OCT-09

[ said]: You can't do a serious counterinsurgency with a flawed local partner,

alertnet 19-OCT-09

[-said]: but had forgotten to tell us [the French]

sundaytimes 16-OCT-09

[-said]: Poll after poll shows Pakistanis increasingly do fear the threat posed by Islamic extremists... but they believe the U.S. is an even bigger danger to their country,

thestar 14-OCT-09

[ said]: When the enemy has the momentum, it's highly unlikely you're going to get people willing to talk,

WashingtonPost 14-OCT-09

[ said]: When the enemy has the momentum, it's highly unlikely you're going to get people willing to talk.

WashingtonPost 13-OCT-09

[ said]: It was always regarded as hard to do, and it was very much keyed to having a successful election,

msnbc 12-OCT-09

[ said]: This is an amazing story,

dailytimesPK 12-OCT-09

[-said]: what the Bush administration did largely for seven years, and it didn't work,

CBSnews 08-OCT-09

[ added]: But it is very dangerous in this environment to claim victory or to say we have turned some significant corner (in Pakistan). Much of the progress we have seen is tenuous at best,

reuters 06-OCT-09

[ said]: We are seeing evidence of some significant progress compared to a year or two years ago,

reuters 06-OCT-09

[ said]: If South Waziristan is indeed next, that would be a significant development,

asiatimes 06-OCT-09

[ said]: A counter-insurgency strategy can only work if you have a credible and legitimate Afghan partner. That's in doubt now,

TheScotsman 24-SEP-09

[-told]: The US will probe allegations of technology transfer of American equipment provided to Pakistan thoroughly,

timesofindia 22-SEP-09

[ said]: What Gen. McChrystal is saying is that time is not our friend, that the enemy is resourceful and agile,

kyivpost 21-SEP-09

[ said]: The moment of truth is arriving for what we want to do with Afghanistan,

kyivpost 21-SEP-09

[ said]: This puts the president in the middle between his own supporters and his Republican critics who are going to look for any sign of softening resolve as a sign that the president is going weak on terrorism,

alertnet 13-SEP-09

[ said]: Col Gaddafi wants a meeting at the highest level as a sign that Libya is finally fully cleared,

telegraph 06-SEP-09

[says:]: the process worked.

telegraph 06-SEP-09

[-said]: That will reinforce their deeply held belief that we [the U.S.] are going to cut and run in Afghanistan sometime in two or three years and all they need to do is to wait us out and then their Taliban friends will take over at least half of the country,

voanews 01-SEP-09

[-said]: If the government of Afghanistan now goes into free fall — something like the South Vietnamese governments of the 1960s — then all the troops in the world really aren't going to matter,

time 31-AUG-09

[-said]: If the government of Afghanistan now goes into free fall - something like the South Vietnamese governments of the 1960s - then all the troops in the world really aren't going to matter,

news 31-AUG-09

[-said]: Anyone who thinks that in 12 to 18 months we're going to be anywhere near victory is living in a fantasyland,

time 31-AUG-09

[-said]: If Karzai is returned to office now because of Dostum’s support, then hopes for anti-corruption, good governance and the rest are going to be rather weak in the second round of the Karzai administration,

TheFrontierPost 31-AUG-09

[ agreed]: They're back,

washtimes 29-AUG-09

[ says]: it's not clear that the Pakistanis are prepared to pay more than lip service to that,

news 28-AUG-09

[-said]: The point here is if Karzai is returned to office now because of Dostum as his supporter, then hopes for anti-corruption and good governance and the rest are going to be rather bleak in the new second round of a Karzai administration,

channelnewsasia 28-AUG-09

[ says]: its not clear that the Pakistanis are prepared to pay more than lip service to that,

news 28-AUG-09

[ says]: The Afghan government lost legitimacy over the past five years,

alertnet 27-AUG-09

[-said]: If Karzai is returned to office now because of Dostum's support, then hopes for anti-corruption, good governance and the rest are going to be rather weak in the second round of the Karzai administration,

asiatimes 27-AUG-09

[-said]: Anyone who thinks that in 12 to 18 months we're going to be anywhere close to victory is living in a fantasy,

middle 27-AUG-09

[ said]: he almost certainly will owe it to the endorsements that he got in the days just before the election from several warlords... most notably Abdul Rashid Dostum

ipsnews 27-AUG-09

[-said]: If Karzai is returned to office now because of Dostum's support, then hopes for anti-corruption, good governance, and the rest are going to be rather weak in the second round of the Karzai administration,

ipsnews 27-AUG-09

[ said]: He almost certainly will owe it to the endorsements that he got in the days just before the election from several warlords ... most notably Abdul Rashid Dostum,

asiatimes 27-AUG-09

[ said]: We are going to need an understanding from whoever the new president is that Afghanistan is going to rise to the occasion,

reuters 21-AUG-09

[ added]: We have now put roughly 70,000 American soldiers into this war, we are committing billions of dollars in new assistance. We are living up to our end of the deal to resource the war properly,

alertnet 21-AUG-09

[ said]: We’ve buried him more than once in the past. But assuming it is right, it is a pretty significant step. He became a symbol of the Taliban’s war on the Pakistani state, much more than any other figure,

NewsJang 10-AUG-09

[ said]: a big blow to al Qaeda's Southeast Asia franchise,

washtimes 08-AUG-09

[ said]: We've buried him more than once in the past. But assuming it is right, it is a pretty significant step. He became a symbol of the Taliban 's war on the Pakistani state, much more than any other figure,

news 07-AUG-09

[-told]: The drone was, of course, presumably an American drone, but information on the target may have been coming from the Pakistanis,

news 07-AUG-09

[ said]: We've buried him more than once in the past. But assuming it is right, it is a pretty significant step. He became a symbol of the Taliban's war on the Pakistani state, much more than any other figure,

news 07-AUG-09

[-said]: very frankly, it's the only game in town in terms of confronting and trying to disrupt the Al-Qaeda leadership.

news 07-AUG-09

[ said]: They tell you a lot about themselves even when they don't know it,

guardian 05-AUG-09

[-said]: What this means in practice is you are not going to have a negotiated settlement with the Taliban leadership. I think that is highly unlikely. But what you might see is that if the momentum of the Taliban is reversed, we might see the onion starting to peel away,

thetimes 01-AUG-09

[writes:]: Clinton asked Sharif if he knew how advanced the threat of nuclear war really was? Did Sharif know his military was preparing their nuclear tipped missiles? Sharif seemed taken aback and said only that India was probably doing the same.

dailytimesPK 29-JUL-09

[had concluded:]: A jihadist victory in Pakistan, meaning the takeover of the nation by a militant Sunni movement led by the Taliban... would create the greatest threat the United States has yet to face in its war on terror... [and] is now a real possibility in the foreseeable future.

middle 28-JUL-09

[-points out that]: Afghan politics have been less fiery than people sometimes threaten they will be.

NPRnews 26-JUL-09

[ says]: If you have an election that's a real horse race and it goes to a second round, Afghans are going to see that as a victory for democracy for their country,

NPRnews 26-JUL-09

[-says]: A contested election would provide more legitimacy to the Afghan government than a lopsided victory by anyone.

NPRnews 26-JUL-09

[-says]: In the end, the Afghans worked it out,

NPRnews 26-JUL-09

[ said]: It's a good deal for Pakistan, for India, for the Kashmiris,

alertnet 19-JUL-09

[-says]: What the government has going for it, though, is that it's not hard to convince the British public that there's a real threat,

NPRnews 13-JUL-09

[ says]: All this comes at a time of war weariness in Britain,

NPRnews 13-JUL-09