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A recent report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) ‘muddies the water on one of the most important issues in the debate — the effects of Afghanistan’s drug production.’ Entitled Addiction, Crime, and Insurgency: The Transnational Threat of Afghan Opium, the report ‘gives the false impression that the Taliban are the main culprits [...]

US troops deployed in Afghanistan have launched a major operation against the Taliban in Helmand province in the south. ‘Operation Khanjar’ (Sword Strike) has 4,000 US soldiers and 650 Afghan police and military. Fifty aircraft are involved, mostly supplied by NATO. The US military hopes to succeed where NATO forces have failed for years. This [...]

US and Afghan troops recently destroyed a stronghold of the drug trade in southern Afghanistan. The offensive launched in the city of Marjah was a vast military operation to gain control of a stronghold of Taliban insurgents that is also used as a hub for storage and processing of drugs. “The four-day operation has seriously disrupted one of the [...]

The new ‘Af-Pak’ strategy of Barack Obama already received a response from the insurgents. Taliban leader Mullah Omar said that Pakistani Taliban and Afghan Taliban will join forces to welcome the purportedly powerful new offensive from the West. Mullah Omar who was located by intelligence services to be presently based in Queta, capital [...]