Comparisons have been made between the U.S.' war in Vietnam and the ongoing Afghanistan military action. The Afghan operations have gone on for a decade now, and there is no end in sight. Every time NATO believed it had crippled the head of insurgency, the Taliban has been able to bounce back and deal a heavy blow.
Afghan insurgents shot down a U.S. transport helicopter in Wardak province early Saturday killing 30 U.S. troops, seven Afghan commandos and one civilian interpreter.
More than 20 SEAL Team 6 members perished in a helicopter crash when Taliban insurgents shot down a NATO Chinook troop transport, possibly with a rocket-propelled grenade over eastern Afghanistan on Saturday.
Twenty-two Navy SEAL members were among 31 U.S. troops Killed on Saturday when Taliban insurgents shot down a Chinook helicopter over eastern Afghanistan. The nearly two dozen U.S. special forces who were killed were on a mission to rescue another team of military personnel pinned down by insurgents, a U.S. military official told CNN.
The SEAL Team Six is the special operations unit responsible for the Pakistan raid that resulted in the death of Osama Bin Laden. Saturday's death is being considered the deadliest day for American forces serving the decade-long war.
A Chinook helicopter was attacked in Afghanistan in the Sayd Abad district of the Wardak province killing 31 US forces, 25 of them being Navy Elite SEALs. The SEALs were part of Team Six, the unit that infiltrated and killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan several months ago.
The biggest threat to China's grip on its ethnically divided far western frontier comes from homegrown anger exploding in violence, not from Pakistan-based terrorists officials have blamed for the latest bloodshed.
Reportedly, Mubashir?s wife, Musarrat, who witnessed the murders, had called the police.
According to Amrullah Saleh, Afghanistan's former spy chief, Afghan spies had information four years ago that located Osama bin Laden close to where he was found hiding. However, then Pakistan president, Pervez Musharraf, refused to act on the detailed intelligence reports.
As the focus of modern warfare shifts from conventional military campaigns to clandestine, targeted strikes, the U.S. military has increasingly come to rely on covert operatives employed by U.S. Special Operations Command, according to a new report.
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All told, 240 people were shot to death in July, making it the deadliest month in the city?s recorded history.
Epidemics of HIV are emerging among gay and bisexual men in the Middle East and North Africa and high levels of risky sexual behavior threaten to spread the AIDS virus further in the region, researchers said Tuesday.
Pakistan's quick response to charges by China that militants involved in attacks in Xinjiang had trained on its soil shows the importance of its ties with Beijing, but it could be a mistake for Islamabad if it relies too much on China.
An radical Islamic group is responsible for a riot in China's East Turkestan region.
Pakistan cannot afford to antagonize China.
The Islamic religious month-long holiday incorporates Qur'an recitation, fasting, charity and prayer to celebrate this festival of giving and sharing.
China said on Monday that Islamic militants had mounted an attack that left 11 people dead in the restive western region of Xinjiang, which announced a crackdown on "illegal" religious activities at the start of the Muslim fasting month.
The petit right wing terror and Islamic terror with extended networks have gained grounds in Western world for few years.
Muslims in Norway number about 200,000, only about 4 percent of the country?s population. They come from across the Arab world, as well as Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Kenya and Somalia.
Predictions about al-Qaeda's imminent collapse threaten to lull the U.S. into a false sense of complacency about the continued threat the terror network represents, a recently retired top counter-terrorism aide said.
Pakistani security forces are routinely detaining, torturing and murdering hundreds of political activists in Balochistan in what some observers describe as a ?dirty war.?
