Al-Qaida training sites are harder to locate
WASHINGTON (AP) Under growing pressure from U.S. missile strikes, the al-Qaida terror network is relying more heavily on local insurgent groups along the Pakistan border to house training camps that are growing smaller and more mobile, according to...
 1.5K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 158.0 Israel commandos seize ship loaded with guns
JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli commandos seized a ship today that defense officials said was carrying hundreds of tons of weapons bound for Lebanon s Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas the largest arms shipment Israel has ever commandeered. The Israeli ...
5.6K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 282.0 Obama mulls a reduce troop plan
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is considering a scaled-down version of the war plan advanced by his top Afghanistan commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, U.S. officials say. Such a narrowed military mission would increase American forces to accom...
5.7K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 158.0 Suspected US missile kills 3 in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) Intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed three alleged militants in Pakistan s North Waziristan tribal region. The region lies adjacent to South Waziristan, an al-Qaida and Taliban stronghold tha...
0.6K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 204.0 Blast kills four soldiers
KABUL (AP) A roadside bomb killed four American troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. said Friday, as a U.N.-backed panel finished most of its investigation into whether the level of fraud in the August presidential election would force a runoff...
4.5K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 158.0 Blast kills four soldiers
KABUL (AP) A roadside bomb killed four American troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. said Friday, as a U.N.-backed panel finished most of its investigation into whether the level of fraud in the August presidential election would force a runoff...
4.5K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 158.0 Gunmen kill 39 in five attacks in Pakistan's cultural capital
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) Teams of gunmen launched coordinated attacks on three law enforcement facilities in Pakistan s cultural capital of Lahore, and car bombs exploded in two cities near the Afghan border today, killing 39 people in an escalating ...
7.2K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 394.0 Afghanistan corruption worries McChrystal
WASHINGTON (AP) The top military commander in Afghanistan is asking for up to 80,000 more American troops even as he warns that rampant government corruption there may prevent victory against the Taliban and al-Qaida, according to U.S. officials br...
4.7K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 158.0 UN official says widespread fraud in Afghan vote
Heidi Vogt and Rahim Faiez, Associated Press Writers KABUL (AP) The head of the U.N. mission in Afghanistan acknowledged Sunday there was widespread fraud in the August presidential election but refused to give specifics or lay blame to avoid inf...
6.7K - Oct. 11, 2009; scored 158.0 Bloody siege at Pakistan army HQ
Nahal Toosi and Zarar Khan, Associated Press Writers RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) Pakistani commandos freed dozens of hostages held by militants at the army's own headquarters Sunday, ending a bloody, 22-hour drama that embarrassed the nation's milita...
6.0K - Oct. 11, 2009; scored 307.0 Suicide car bomb kills 41, wounds 100s in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle near a crowded market in Pakistan s northwest city of Peshawar on Friday, killing 41 people. The government responded by saying it had no other option but to launch an offensive in th...
1.7K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 204.0 US forces leave isolated Afghan base after attack
KABUL (AP) Taliban fighters claimed Friday their flag was flying victoriously over an eastern Afghan village U.S. forces abandoned after suffering casualties in one of the war s deadliest battles for American troops. The withdrawal this week from m...
6.3K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 204.0 Obama weighs Pakistan s role in war
WASHINGTON Recognizing the U.S. can neither win in Afghanistan nor succeed more broadly against al-Qaida without Pakistan s cooperation, President Barack Obama s war council is weighing a new role for Pakistan in the eight-year-old struggle in the ...
4.6K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 236.0 U.S. aid bill concerns Pakistan military
ISLAMABAD (AP) Pakistan s powerful military, preparing for a new offensive against Taliban and al-Qaida militants, expressed serious concern today about a proposed multibillion-dollar U.S. aid package some consider an avenue to American meddling....
7.0K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 158.0 Taliban claim responsibility for deadly U.N. blast
ISLAMABAD (AP) Taliban militants claimed responsibility today for the deadly suicide bombing at the U.N. food agency s heavily fortified compound in Islamabad, saying international relief work in Pakistan was not in the interest of Muslims. The at...
5.0K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 158.0 U.S. should support Pakistan
Morton Kondracke, Columnist From China to Russia and Afghanistan to Iran, it s a time of woe for U.S. foreign policy. But there s an exception Pakistan and Congress can keep the progress going. Specifically, Congress needs to pass legislation, sp...
3.1K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 158.0 Strategy may shift to drones in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON ” President Barack Obama s strategy against al-Qaida may shift away from more troops in Afghanistan and toward more drone strikes against terrorist targets. As the war worsens in Afghanistan, Obama could steer away from the comp...
5.0K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 249.0 Attacks reduce al-Qaida s core leadership
LONDON Recent targeted attacks that killed militants in Somalia, Indonesia and Pakistan have chipped away at al-Qaida s power base, sapping the terror network of key leaders and experienced operatives who train recruits and wage attacks. Intelligen...
5.2K - Sep. 19, 2009; scored 261.0 Pakistani Taliban spokesman caught
ISLAMABAD Security forces captured the Pakistani Taliban s top spokesman, and he acknowledged the death of the group s leader in a recent U.S. missile strike, officials said today further signs the militants are in disarray since the American att...
4.5K - Aug. 18, 2009; scored 307.0 Those labels can mislead you
Among the many criticisms hurled at President Barack Obama is that he is a pacifist. How can a man willing to talk to Iran and North Korea have the backbone to exert our military might against enemies? The reported death of Taliban leader Hakmiullah ...
0.7K - Aug. 17, 2009; scored 158.0 | 
