Tag Archives : U.S Troops

Afghanistan’s Kunduz province had been earlier evaluated as secure that is why troops were moved to other hotspots. Now, with US and Afghan forces concentrated on the southern regions of Afghanistan, the Taliban have returned to the northern Kunduz province. In fact, ‘the Taliban is now threatening a key route bringing NATO supplies from Central [...]

Whether the US wants Hamid Karzai for Afghanistan leadership or not is now moot. Karzai’s opponent backed out of the runoff and the country is left with no choice but to accept Karzai’s ‘reelection,’ amidst prevailing speculation of massive electoral fraud. ‘Nearly a third of the votes cast in Mr. Karzai’s favor in presidential elections [...]

It is said that there are ‘two poles in Washington: the counterinsurgency experts, or COIN-istas, who believe Afghanistan’s deteriorating security can only be reversed by adding tens of thousands of troops – perhaps as many as 80,000; and those who believe US interests in Afghanistan are few, and the best way to keep it on a low simmer is [...]

Civilian casualty in the US war in Afghanistan hardly gets much press. In the pursuit of victory in the highly-controversial war on terror, Afghan lives are simply collateral damage. When US safety is concerned, ‘media isn’t about to focus real attention on the particular form of barbarity involved — the American air war over Afghanistan [...]

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 [...]

American troops have withdrawn from Iraqi cities, and US President Barack Obama has warned that Iraq faces difficult days ahead. While the US president congratulated Iraq on its important step that is being celebrated as a national holiday of sovereignty and unity, he reminds the country that violence will continue in Iraq as it takes over the reins [...]

Since the campaigning days, U.S President Barrack Obama had outlined his primary policy, stating that the withdrawal of U.S troops from Iraq took precedence over every other issue. Now, it seems that Pres. Obama was true to his word, with the beginning of the withdrawal of U.S troops from Iraq. This latest development comes amidst growing unrest and [...]

US soldiers who fought in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder that manifests in various illnesses such as headaches, anxiety, sleeplessness, and chronic pain. Just as they heavily depended on their high-powered ammunition, so are they heavily dependent on prescription pills such as antidepressants, anti-anxiety [...]

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 [...]

Barely three months to the Afghan elections, efforts at detailed security accelerate to prevent attacks in a time when the whole world would be looking at Afghanistan. “At the end of 2008, there was a time when the Taliban were able to besiege the capital and controlled the main access roads. That would not be repeated,” says a UN official who [...]