Tag: Taliban

Iraqi anti-terrorism forces patrol in central Ramadi, Iraq, Saturday, April 18, 2015. After weeks of intense clashes, the city finally fell to the Islamic State. (AP Photo)

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There’s no power in airpower

Connor Ryan · June 9, 2015 9:00 am

Joint-Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai speaks as she gives a press conference with Kailash Satyarthi in Oslo, Norway, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

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Malala shooting suspects ‘cleared’ after appeal

Kelly Cohen · June 5, 2015 2:20 pm

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, sits in a vehicle guarded by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan. A one-year travel ban is expiring for five senior Taliban leaders held in U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay until they were released last year in exchange for Bergdahl, who was held captive by the Taliban for nearly five years after he walked away from his Army post in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Voice Of Jihad Website via AP video)

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Qatar extends travel ban for ‘Taliban 5’

Kelly Cohen · June 1, 2015 12:27 am

Retired U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal speaks during a forum called "Ask What You Can Do For America's Veterans" at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Monday, March 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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Ex-Afghanistan general: Taliban five ‘presumably’ will return to fight

Kelly Cohen · May 31, 2015 3:54 pm

In this undated image provided by the U.S. Army, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl poses in front of an American flag. U.S. officials say Bergdahl, the only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan, was exchanged for five Taliban commanders being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to published reports. Bergdahl is in stable condition at a Berlin hospital, according to the reports. (Photo by U.S. Army via Getty Images)

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5 senior Taliban leaders to be freed on Monday

Charles Hoskinson · May 31, 2015 4:01 am

A Pakistani army soldier stands guard in Miran Shah bazaar after driving out militants from Pakistan's tribal region of North Waziristan along the Afghanistan border, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Rebecca Santana)

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U.S. drone strike in Pakistan kills militants

Tara Copp · May 16, 2015 11:19 pm

Afghanistan Takes Heaviest Casualties Since Fighting Began

Afghanistan Takes Heaviest Casualties Since Fighting Began

Geoffrey Norman · May 4, 2015 12:05 pm

U.S. service members salute during a ceremony on the thirteenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in front of the World Trade Center Memorial at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

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Taliban launch spring offensive with exaggerated claims of U.S. casualties

Tara Copp · April 25, 2015 2:45 pm

In the coming years, no person will play a more critical role in saving Afghanistan than Dr. Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, the nation's new president. (AP Photo)

Afghanistan needs its own Plan Colombia

George Phillips · April 9, 2015 9:00 am

"This is someone who was held for five years by terrorists," CNN's Brooke BaldwinÂ saidÂ Wednesday. "Is that not -- this is what some say -- is that not punishment enough?" (AP Photo)Â

Media concerned that Bergdahl has suffered enough

Eddie Scarry · March 27, 2015 5:48 pm

This undated file image provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. A U.S. official says Bergdahl, who abandoned his post in Afghanistan and was held by the Taliban for five years, will be court martialed on charges of desertion and avoiding military service. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, file)

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Major U.S. newsrooms downplayed reports soldiers died while searching for Bergdahl

Becket Adams · March 27, 2015 2:47 am

President Obama stands with the parents ofÂ Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl May 31, 2014, to announce his release. Bergdahl wasÂ freed by the TalibanÂ in exchange for the release of five Afghan prisoners. (AP File Photo)

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White House confident ‘Taliban Five’ won’t pose a risk

Susan Crabtree · March 26, 2015 9:17 pm