Topic: The Taliban
AP News | 2010-02-09 12:08:08
An Afghan police man searches the trunk of a car, which arrived from Marjah at a check post in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. Telegraphing the Marjah offensive has ...
AP News | 2010-02-09 23:11:01
US poised to seize key southern Afghan town as Taliban dig in for a fight
U.S. and Afghan forces pushed Tuesday to the edge of the southern Afghan town of Marjah, poised to seize the major Taliban supply and drug-smuggling stronghold in hopes of building public support by providing aid and services once the insurgents are gone. Instead of ...
AP News | 2010-02-09 08:18:55
US Marines expectantly await battle in harsh Afghan desert winter
Take a desert of yellow-orange dust so flat it looks like Mars, with a freezing wind that blows so hard it can lift a large tent. Add hundreds of U.S. Marines, squads of Afghan soldiers, some Drug Enforcement Administration agents, a few private contractors, along with dozens of armored ...
AP News | 2010-02-08 15:30:33
In this image taken on Jan . 18, 2010, Maulana Noor Muhammad, the head of a conservative religious school, speaks during an interview in Quetta. If Afghan Taliban fighters and their top leaders are roaming around this remote part of Pakistan ...
