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19 AUG 16 :: And for the first time in history, the Shia Iranians have both the Russians and the Americans on their side -and Turkey tagging along Robert Fisk |
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4 JUL 16 :: 2015, Deadliest Terror Organizations H/T Ian Bremmer |
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25 MAY 16 :: Afghan Taliban appoints new leader and confirms death of Mullah Manor |
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20 APR 16 :: A member of the Afghan security forces stands guard at the site of a Taliban-claimed suicide attack in Kabul on Tuesday. Photograph: Massoud Hossaini/AP |
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20 APR 16 :: Voice of Jihad, said it was part of Operation Omari, the 2016 spring offensive named after Mullah Omar |
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29 MAR 16 :: As the Afghan Taliban flourished, the pakistan Tabiban, occupying the same safe havens in the tribal areas, spun out of Pakistan's control |
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29 DEC 15 :: The news from Afghanistan is very bad. |
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6 NOV 15 :: “The Taliban is gone,” Army General Tommy Franks, the chief of U.S. Central Command, announced in 2002 |
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16 OCT 15 :: President Barack Obama has confirmed plans to extend the US military presence in Afghanistan beyond 2016, in a shift in policy. BBC |
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2 OCT 15 :: Al Arabiya English @AlArabiya_Eng 11, including six U.S. soldiers, killed in C130 plane crash allegedly shot down by #Taliban: |
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29 SEP 15 :: Taliban Score First Major Victory Since 2001 as Kunduz Falls |
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10 AUG 15 :: US military vehicles block the road near Camp Integrity after Taliban fighters tried to storm it on Friday. Photograph: Ahmad Massoud/Xinhua Press/Corbis |
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15 JUL 15 :: Forget about Obama’s legacy and all the technical twaddle in the 80-page agreement – 100 pages in Farsi – because Iran is now on course to put on the dead Shah’s mantle as Policeman of the Gulf. |
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22 JUN 15 :: Mirwais Afghan @Miirwais 2m2 minutes ago Inside the Afghan parliament after Taliban attack #Kabul |
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7 APR 15 :: Shabab Militants Learning to Kill on a Shoestring |
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8 JAN 15 :: Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi comforts Malala Yousafzai, who burst into tears upon seeing the blood-stained school uniform she wore the day she was attacked by the Taliban on display in Oslo. |
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23 DEC 14 :: 22-DEC-2014 2014 has been an extraordinary Year [Thomas Pynchon, #MH17, The Dollar, Crude Oil] |
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22 DEC 14 :: 22-DEC-2014 2014 has been an extraordinary Year [Thomas Pynchon, #MH17, The Dollar, Crude Oil] |
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19 DEC 14 :: After slaughtering 132 school children and nine members of staff, militants contacted their commanders to say: “We have killed all the children in the auditorium. What do we do now?” @Independent |
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18 DEC 14 :: small coffins of #Peshawar’s students are the heaviest burden on our conscience Pankaj Mishra #Peshawar |
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