Islamists are boasting that they have entered the central district of the key Afghan city of Kunduz. Local news media report that government and police forces are still resisting the massive Taliban assault as civilians flee the city. #BREAKING: #Kunduz city’s main circle and many parts of city over run by Taliban, sources confirm #Afghanistan…
Afghanistan supports recent surgical strikes carried out by Indian forces across the border with Pakistan, Afghan Ambassador to India Shaida Mohammed Abdali said on Friday. On Thursday, the Lt. Gen. Ranbir Singh, India’s army director-general of military operations, said that India carried out surgical strikes against suspected positions of terrorists in the disputed areas of…
Here we go again. In yet another Pentagon precision strike, a residential building in Achin district of Nangarhar province was hit as a crowd welcomed home a tribal leader returning from the Hajj. At least 13 civilians were turned into «collateral damage». The Pentagon of course does not «discuss the details of counter-terror operations», but…
Are the Wars in the Middle East and North Africa Really About Oil? The Iraq war was really about oil, according to Alan Greenspan, John McCain, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, a high-level National Security Council officer and others. Dick Cheney made Iraqi’s oil fields a national security priority before 9/11. The Sunday Herald reported:…
The Changing Of The Guard Central Asia is slated for a series of inevitable leadership transitions with the future passing of the elderly leaders in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan coming after the recent one in Uzbekistan, opening up many avenues for state breakdown and interstate sabotage in the latter two mutually antagonistic Fergana Valley states and…
The Cyber-soldiers of the German armed forces only work for the protection of their own networks and simulate a maximum of attacks – so the official line. Now it is clear: by 2015, the unit has cracked the network of a Afghan mobile phone operator, in the case of a kidnapped German, the movements of…
