Violence in Indian Kashmir lowest in 2 decades

Militant activity in the disputed region of Kashmir has fallen to its lowest levels since an anti-India rebellion began nearly two decades ago, police said Friday.

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US predicts increase in Afghan violence

Insurgent violence in Afghanistan could reach record levels this year as militants increasingly target police and development projects, a top U.S. general said Thursday.

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Saudis Reportedly Funding Iraqi Sunnis

Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials and others familiar with the flow of cash.

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Guest columnist Ahmed Rashid on how the real problems facing Pakistan are being sidelined by a surge of conspiracy theories Switch on any of the dozens of satellite news channels now available in Pakistan.

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An interesting comparison of the two Wars. Who knew how bright the rest of us were before Newsweek caught? Could it be a new President requires a new approach?

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The BBC's Martin Patience assess the damage caused by the blast A car bomber has struck outside a Nato base in the Afghan capital Kabul, injuring three foreign soldiers and three Afghan civilians, officials say.

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It is time he acted like a president and decided. Afghanistan is his.

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President Barack Obama doesn't seem to understand specifically that U.S. meddling in and occupation of Muslim countries inflames Islamic radicals and is the main cause of blowback anti-U.S. Islamist terrorism.

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his administration is looking into reports of 'unknown' army helicopters carrying gunmen to the north of the country, amid increasing militancy in the area.

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Egypt is said to have provided Yemen with information over Iran's intelligence plans targeting it and other Arab and African states in the region, Arab diplomatic sources were cited by the Akhbar Al-Youm Newspaper as saying.

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This is an interesting take on the war in Afghanistan. It outlines exit strategies and discusses General McChrystal's lack of one. Some interesting exerts:

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The decision by a European court to remove Jose Maria Sison's name from the EU's terror list will remove restraints on his movement, allowing him, he said, to function properly as chief political consultant of the NDF.

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An amendment to the defense appropriations bill sponsored by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to compel Gen. Stanley McChrystal to testify before Congress by mid-November has failed on a party-line vote of 59 to 40. It was an escalation of a gambit most recently backed by Sen.

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi troops have arrested 140 suspected al Qaeda members and other Sunni Arab militants in the past four days in raids on the northern city of Mosul, security officials said on Saturday

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The top military commander in Afghanistan warns in a confidential assessment of the war there that he needs additional troops within the next year or else the conflict "will likely result in failure."

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Why Should We Blame It On Others?

Title: Why should we blame it on others? By: Aslam Khan

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A brief look at the inefficiencies of the Pakistan police and their failures to keep the order or instill a sense of security.

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Earlier today, congressional Democrats held their second hearing on the national security aspects of climate change in little over a week.

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Three local political leaders were seized from a small legal office here in April, handcuffed, blindfolded and hustled into a waiting pickup truck in front of their lawyer and neighboring shopkeepers.

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UN condemns promotion of army officer involved in crimes against humanity

Kathmandu-based Representative of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Richard Bennett has voiced concern over Nepal government's decision to promote Toran Jung Bahadur Singh from Major General to Lieutenant General.

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In sending in a lightning strike force of 4,000 Marines to clear the Taleban from Helmand, Barack Obama is taking the riskiest strategic decision yet of his presidency.

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The Tamil Tigers were no ordinary insurgency. Built on the ethnic hatred of the minority Hindu Tamils against the majority Sinhalese Buddhists, the movement was among the best organized and most ruthless to have emerged anywhere since the Second World War.

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An explosion in southern Afghanistan Wednesday killed two NATO troops and wounded six others, the military alliance said.

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If the bucolic Swat valley, tucked into the Himalayas less than 100 miles from the capital city of Islamabad, is a bellwether for Pakistan's war against the Pakistani Taliban,1 the war is going badly.

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The mess in Pakistan's western areas is not just a battle with religious extremism. A larger part is a battle of proxies. There are credible reports that Indian and Israeli intelligence involvement in U.S.-controlled Afghanistan has deepened in the past seven years.

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There are a series of disturbing bits of news flowing in just one week's media reports that expose the soft underbelly of India's internal security

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Here across a 1,000-sq-km area bordering Orissa in West Midnapore district, the Maoists over the last eight months have quietly unleashed new weapons in their battle against the Indian state: drinking water, irrigation, roads and health care. Carefully shielded from the public e …

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