Britain will withdraw 3,800 troops, almost half of the current force serving in Afghanistan's troubled Helmand province, by the end of 2013, Prime Minister David Cameron announced today. Cameron told the Parliament that 3,800 British troops are to be withdrawn from Afghanistan next year. ...
09:25 PM, Dec 19, 2012
The Pentagon has notified the Congress about its decision to reimburse $688 million to Pakistan, under Coalition Support Fund (CSF), which is cost of providing support for some 140,000 troops stationed at the Afghan-Pak border. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, notified the Congress of its decision of the US Department of Defence in a letter dated December 6, 2012, a Pentagon official said. ...
12:05 PM, Dec 19, 2012
Ten young girls were killed when a bomb exploded as they were gathering firewood outside their village in eastern Afghanistan on Monday morning, an official said. It was not clear what triggered the explosion outside Dawlatzai village in Nangarhar province's Chaperhar district, said Mohammad Seddiq, the government administrator for the district. ...
11:25 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Saying that extremism in Pakistan has its roots in jihad during the war between the then Soviet Union and Afghanistan, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Sunday said his country had brought down the frequency of suicide bombings. ...
04:41 AM, Dec 17, 2012
The Pentagon says it will send Patriot air defense missiles and 400 troops to Turkey as part of a NATO force meant to protect Turkish territory from potential Syrian missile attack. ...
03:40 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Al Qaeda still represents the most important threat the United States faces across the world, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said on Friday. ...
10:51 AM, Dec 14, 2012
Amnesty International on Thursday accused the Pakistan Army of widespread human rights abuses in the country's restive tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, saying several laws were being misused in the fight against Taliban and other militants. ...
02:58 AM, Dec 14, 2012
Facebook has removed a page set up by the Pakistan Taliban, after a US monitoring group reported of its existence as a fresh example of a social media being used by terror groups to recruit new fighters. Earlier, the US-based SITE Intelligence Group said the Umar Media TTP page used Facebook as "a recruitment" tool and called attention to the Facebook page that belonged to Umar Media TTP, the media...
03:47 PM, Dec 13, 2012
The Obama Administration should continue to "bet" on India, the prestigious Asia Society said in a report as it underlined that the US should take a fresh approach to South Asia to best position itself for success in the region after the 2014 military drawdown from Afghanistan. ...
04:41 PM, Dec 11, 2012
After being rescued in a daring military operation from Taliban captivity, an Indian American doctor who was involved in training local medical professionals in Afghanistan, is set to return home. ...
12:51 PM, Dec 11, 2012
The International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) has provisionally suspended the Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF). Where does that put our boxers? ...
12:37 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday a suicide bombing that wounded his intelligence chief was planned in the Pakistani city of Quetta and that the issue would be raised with Islamabad. Karzai stopped short of blaming the Pakistani government directly. ...
04:54 PM, Dec 08, 2012
Using a wide range of new sources from Afghan, Russian, Indian and Pakistani archives, including a series of previously untranslated Afghan epic poems and biographies, "Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-1842" is a definitive analysis of the First Anglo-Afghan War, and an important parable of colonial ambition and cultural collision for our times. ...
12:54 PM, Dec 07, 2012
A Taliban suicide bomber posing as a peace messenger wounded Afghanistan's intelligence chief in Kabul on Thursday, another sign that the government is struggling to improve security ahead of a NATO pullout in 2014. ...
10:03 AM, Dec 07, 2012
The US on Tuesday agreed to step up efforts to provide defence equipment needed by Pakistan to maintain security along its border with war-torn Afghanistan and to continue discussions on the provision of military aid to Islamabad. ...
12:27 AM, Dec 05, 2012
In a boost to the tourism industry, India has relaxed its tourist visa rules by lifting restrictions imposed on foreign visitors to have a two-month cooling off period between subsequent visits. ...
01:48 PM, Dec 04, 2012
Archaeology has become a tool of interactive art for Afghan artist Amanullah Mojadidi, who is working on a multi-media land installation art at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale beginning on Dec 12. ...
01:39 PM, Dec 04, 2012
The number of terrorist attacks each year has more than quadrupled in the decade since September 11, 2001, a study released on Tuesday said, with Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan the most affected. The number of annual deaths in attacks, however, peaked in 2007 - the height of the Iraq conflict - and has been falling ever since. The survey reported 7,473 fatalities in 2011, 25 percent down on 2007. That...
12:46 PM, Dec 04, 2012
Suicide attackers detonated bombs and fired rockets outside a major US base in Afghanistan on Sunday, killing five people in a brazen operation that highlighted the country's security challenges ahead of the 2014 NATO combat troop pullout. ...
02:15 AM, Dec 03, 2012
Two explosions and shooting were heard at a US base in the Afghan city of Islamabad on Sunday, a Reuters witness said. ...
08:49 AM, Dec 02, 2012
