The terror factor in Afghanistan, Iraq
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The US government is warning its citizens in Afghanistan to &quot;keep a low profile&quot; after a car bombing Sunday at the offices of a US private security contractor in Kabul killed 11 people, including three Americans.
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Intelligence-gathering by the front-line forces that need to know the most is proving difficult in a region increasingly gripped by fear.
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With Maoist attacks on the rise in Nepal, authorities apprehend large-scale displacement of people. In fact, a good indicator of this âflight of passageâ is a newspaper report on Iraq-bound Nepalese that
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The U.S. intelligence community accurately predicted months before the Iraq war that al-Qaeda would link up with elements from former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime and militant Islamists to conduct terrorist attacks against U.S. forces in that country, according to a report released tod...
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Not worth a tin full of beans Analysis A significant and noticeable part of the US and European academy of terrorism studies is like a shark. If it stops swimming forward, it dies. This has two consequences: a drive to publish or perish which, in turn, motivates it to creep onto past battlefields, assessing which bodies can be ignored for the sake of renewing mythologies; or new terror analyses that purport to show Byzantine networks and capabilities.â¦
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While American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are fighting some of the most intense battles of the war against radical Islamic terrorists, our national debate on the future of the conflict has descended to platitudes of campaign rhetoric and a pathological, partisan refusal on both sides of that debate to acknowledge the harsh realities and difficult choices that confront us.
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The conduct of the Iraq war fueled   Islamic fundamentalism across the globe and created more   enemies for the United States, a retired U.S. Army general who   served in the conflict said on Monday.
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The third year of the US' global "war on terror" saw a number of high-profile terrorist acts in a wide range of countries.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends. The war on terrorism has long since lost its crisp moral lines. We may agree that terrorism is wicked, but we're still unsure about how to answer it
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The politics of terrorism has Democrats tied in knots. Each time President Bush raises fears of a possible attack, the political debate shifts from his most troublesome issue (Iraq) to one of his strongest (the war on terrorism) while Democrats fight their impulse to question the president's motives.
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WASHINGTON -- Iraqi insurgents and their informants have been infiltrating US and coalition organizations, Iraqi security units, and political parties in growing numbers, posing a daunting challenge to efforts to defeat the guerrillas and create a stable Iraqi state, according to US military officials, Iraq specialists, and a new study of Iraqi security forces.
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the U.S. commander in Afghanistan has launched a review of the American mission there with a major focus on counterterrorism, a senior U.S. military official said Sunday. U.S. intelligence shows that al Qaeda has carved a safe haven in the region, and attacks by the Taliban have increased.
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Recent upsurge in attacks has parallels, and differences, with past insurgencies.
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(SH) - Maybe things aren&#39;t going so well in Iraq, but we must be doing something right in Afghanistan, which so often seems a sideshow in the war on terror.
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More than two-thirds of the people living in Australia, Britain and Italy &#151; three countries allied with the United States in the Iraq war &#151; believe the war has increased the threat of terrorism.
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Findings and recommendations by recent studies on the Iraq war:
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One of the latest tools being deployed in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan seems to be old-fashioned. Think weather balloons or blimps.