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Nato forces move on to Kandahar (video)
Published: 28/02/201028/02/2010 – After two weeks battling the Taliban in Afghanistan’s Marja town in Helmand province, Nato and Afghan forces are setting their sights on their next objective – securing Afghanistan’s second largest city, Kandahar (al-Jazeera English)
I “numeri 2″ dei talebani: forse sono troppi
Published: 27/02/2010La recente cattura del leader talebano, Abdul Ghani Baradar, offre lo spunto per delineare una mappatura dei mujaheddin “most wanted” catturati o uccisi dalle forze Nato e Isaf in Afghanistan, oppure dall’esercito pakistano oltrefrontiera. Baradar è stato preso grazie a…
I legami sauditi con i Talebani possono aiutare a stabilizzare l’Afghanistan?
Published: 26/02/201026/02/2010
Original Version: Can Saudi ties with the Taliban help stabilize Afghanistan?
La mediazione saudita che dovrebbe facilitare il dialogo con i Talebani in Afghanistan e riconciliarli con il governo Karzai va probabilmente incontro a numerose difficoltà, a causa della scarsa comprensione…
Civilian casualties continue to mar Afghanistan war effort (video)
Published: 23/02/201023/02/2010 – In Afghanistan, officials said that 27 people were killed last night in Uruzgan province, when NATO aircraft fired on what was believed to be a convoy of insurgents. It turned out that the people were all civilians, including women and children (World Focus Online)
Pakistan’s push for new role in Afghanistan
Published: 19/02/2010Afghanistan’s punishing war is entering a new phase and Pakistan has made it clear it can and must play a leading role.
The sudden significant capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, second in charge in the Taliban hierarchy, comes at a…
Malalai Joya definisce “ridicola” la strategia militare in Afghanistan
Published: 16/02/201016/02/2010
Original Version: Joya condemns ‘ridiculous’ military strategy
Malalai Joya è una parlamentare afghana sospesa dal suo incarico nel 2007, quando accusò alcuni parlamentari di essere criminali di guerra. “La donna più coraggiosa dell’Afghanistan”, come spesso viene chiamata, si è dimostrata molto…
Can Saudi Mediation Really Help in Afghanistan?
Published: 15/02/2010Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be heading to Saudi Arabia this week. The meeting in Riyadh is likely to focus on Iran, Iraq and the Arab-Israeli conflict, but it cannot be ruled out that some of the discussion will…
Operazione Moshtarak in Afghanistan: la più grande offensiva dal 2001 è in corso
Published: 15/02/201015/02/2010
Original Version: Operation Moshtarak: Biggest offensive since 2001 under way
Prosegue l’offensiva delle forze alleate ed afghane per prendere il controllo della città di Marjah, fino a pochi giorni fa roccaforte talebana; ma l’operazione militare sembra avere più che altro obiettivi…
Vuota diplomazia in Afghanistan
Published: 15/02/201015/02/2010
Original Version: Empty diplomacy in Afghanistan
Negoziare con i Talebani è troppo poco, ed è troppo tardi; gli alleati occidentali devono rendersi conto che la catastrofe socioeconomica dell’Afghanistan è iniziata ben prima dell’11 settembre 2001 – scrive il giornalista Mustafa Qadri
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NATO’s planned offensive in Afghanistan – Get out of the way
Published: 12/02/2010FOR months now United States Marines in Helmand, Afghanistan’s bloodiest province, have been sporting T-shirts proclaiming their intention: “Just do Marja”. This refers to a cluster of Taliban-controlled villages close to Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital. Marja’s lawlessness and the…
A cosa servirà comprare i Talebani?
Published: 31/01/201031/01/2010
Original Version: Why buy the Taliban?
Parlare di “buon governo” e “società civile” da un lato, e dall’altro distribuire soldi ai Talebani per comprare la loro adesione al processo politico, non è né una nuova strategia né un mezzo efficace per…
The Afghanistan problem
Published: 31/01/2010Nothing could be clearer than the fact that there is an ever-widening divide in the perception, interests and understanding of the situation amongst the various stakeholders in Afghanistan. The regional states have their eyes on maximising benefits as the US…
Why buy the Taliban?
Published: 30/01/2010After almost nine years of international military operations, billions of dollars in aid and thousands of Afghan and international lives, what Afghanistan needed was a new vision to deal with the complex set of problems. Instead, world leaders pledged £87m…
I Talebani possono riconciliarsi con Kabul?
Published: 28/01/201028/01/2010
Original Version: Could the Taliban reconcile with Kabul?
Il tentativo occidentale di aprire un dialogo con i Talebani, o di comprarli con offerte di denaro, è probabilmente destinato a fallire – scrive il giornalista pakistano Rahimullah Yusufzai
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Afghanistan rocked by Taliban attacks on govt buildings in Kabul (video)
Published: 19/01/201019/01/2010 – The Afghan president Hamid Kazai says security’s been restored to the capital, after Taliban militants launched a series of attacks on government buildings and the presidential palace. At least 5 people were killed and 38 injured after a gunbattle broke out near the Defence and Justice Ministries, and a luxury hotel used by westerners. Police sealed off a large part of the centre of Kabul, as explosions rocked the city. The militants struck as cabinet members were being sworn in (Russia Today)
La guerra segreta degli USA in Afghanistan
Published: 17/01/201017/01/2010
Original Version: The shadow war in Afghanistan
La guerra che gli Stati Uniti stanno combattendo in Afghanistan non è più una guerra tradizionale, ma una guerra “privatizzata” e “appaltata” a contractor e mercenari, sulla base di informazioni prodotte da un’intelligence militarizzata…
The shadow war in Afghanistan
Published: 14/01/2010It was a Christmas and a New Year from hell for American intelligence, that US$75 billion labyrinth of at least 16 major agencies and a handful of minor ones. As the old year was preparing to be rung out, so…
Afghanistan: come un attentatore suicida ha aperto un nuovo fronte nella guerra di al-Qaeda
Published: 10/01/201010/01/2010
Original Version: How this suicide bomber opened a new front in al-Qaeda’s war
I dettagli dei gravi errori che hanno portato all’uccisione di sette agenti della CIA in Afghanistan, segnando una perdita e una sconfitta gravissima per l’intelligence americana, nel reportage…
Inside Story – Is the CIA effective? (video)
Published: 10/01/201010/01/2010 – The reputation of U.S. military intelligence is in tatters after al-Qaeda inflicted a devastating blow on the CIA in Afghanistan.
This week seven Americans working for the CIA were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan. The deceased bomber is now alleged to have been a double agent, working for al-Qaeda as well as the CIA. Jordananian intelligence have disputed this, however.
So is Washington loosing the intelligence war there? And why? (al-Jazeera English)
US spies walked into al-Qaeda’s trap
Published: 06/01/2010ISLAMABAD – The suicide attack on the United States Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA’s) forward operating base of Chapman in the Afghan province of Khost last week was planned in the Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan.
The attacker – a handpicked…
The many faces of the double agent CIA bomber (video)
Published: 06/01/201006/01/2010 – US intelligence sources say a Jordanian double agent who attacked CIA operatives in Afghanistan last week, had provided high-quality intelligence leading to the deaths of several al-Qaeda leaders.
Hammam Khalil al-Balawi blew himself up at a US base in Khost province, killing seven CIA agents and a Jordanian Intelligence official (al-Jazeera English)
Afghan Parliament Rejects Most Cabinet Nominees (video)
Published: 03/01/201003/01/2010 – Afghanistan’s parliament dealt a stinging rebuke to President Hamid Karzai on Saturday by rejecting 70 percent of his nominees for a new cabinet, including a regionally powerful warlord and the country’s only female minister (Associated Press)
Surging for Answers: Afghan war aims vague? (video)
Published: 10/12/200910/12/2009 – The top American military in Afghanistan faced Congress for his testimony on the infusion of 30,000 additional American troops. General Stanley McChrystal said the next 18 months would be “critical” to the future of Afghanistan and that of the United States. But critics, including former Afghanistan war veterans, still disagree with President Obama’s plans (Russia Today)
Face The Nation – US and the war in Afghanistan (video)
Published: 08/12/200908/12/2009 – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates discuss the war in Afghanistan (CBS)
Taliban fighters to be lured from fighting with cash
Published: 13/11/2009The scheme being drawn up would provide jobs and protection for fighters who gave up their struggle against Nato-led troops and Hamid Karzai’s regime.
Mr Karzai is expected to reach out to fighters in his inauguration speech next week and donors…
Una via di uscita dalla trappola afghana
Published: 05/11/200905/11/2009
Original Version: A way out of the Afghan quagmire
Il dibattito sulla nuova strategia da seguire in Afghanistan ha ignorato il potenziale insito nell’idea di dispiegare nel paese forze musulmane sotto la guida dell’ONU – scrive l’ex ministro afghano Najibullah Lafraie
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A way out of the Afghan quagmire
Published: 04/11/2009The blood spilt daily means Afghanistan is rarely out of the headlines. Fresh attacks, presumed to be by Taliban militants, in Kabul and Peshawar, only increase the pressure on the US and Nato to settle on a new strategy. The…
Afghan Strategy Takes Time (video)
Published: 01/11/200901/11/2009 – President Obama met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff about troop levels in Afghanistan. As David Martin reports, the military now admits just getting troops there would take a long time (CBS)
Rivals fiddle while Kabul burns
Published: 30/10/2009Political tensions are on the rise in Afghanistan as the country braces for a challenging presidential runoff on November 7.
On October 26, incumbent President Hamid Karzai rejected demands from his election rival, former foreign minister, Abdullah Abdullah, that key cabinet…
Il ballottaggio divide l’Afganistan in tre
Published: 29/10/200929/10/2009
Original Version: Runoff splits Afghanistan in three
Coloro che tengono al processo elettorale sono divisi secondo linee etniche, fra pashtun e tagiki. Coloro che invece non credono a queste consultazioni vedono solo affarismo e corruzione – scrive l’analista afghana Nushin Arbabzadah
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AfPak: rompicapo in Asia Centrale
Published: 28/10/2009
Lo sviluppo degli eventi nell’area che va dall’Asia centrale ai confini dell’India ad est e dell’Iran ad ovest, passando per l’Afghanistan e il Pakistan, sembra aver subito un’accelerazione impressionante in queste ultime settimane.
In Afghanistan è stato fissato al 7 novembre…
Inside Story – Afghan election runoff (video)
Published: 25/10/200925/10/2009 – Two months after Afghanistan’s presidential elections, Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, is forced to face Abdullah Abdullah, his main rival, in a runoff vote.What are the chances of president Karzai remaining in power and what could it mean for the country? And how will this affect the imminent deployment of more foreign troops to the country? (al-Jazeera English)
Al-Qaeda emigra in Asia Centrale
Published: 18/10/200918/10/2009
Original Version: هجرة القاعدة إلى آسيا الوسطى
L’espulsione dei salafiti jihadisti dalle loro roccaforti in Pakistan e Afghanistan, per mano delle offensive condotte dall’esercito pakistano, spingerà questi gruppi nelle vicine regioni dell’Asia centrale che si estendono fino alla Cina, determinando così…
Pakistan warns India to ‘back off’
Published: 17/10/2009The Indian embassy in Kabul has been targeted for bomb attack for a second time in the past 15 months. A least 17 people were killed in Thursday’s attack, when a car loaded with explosives rammed into the embassy’s compound…
Obama shifting focus to Al Qaeda over Taliban
Published: 09/10/2009Reporting from Washington – President Obama and his top advisors are moving toward a strategy on Afghanistan that defines Al Qaeda as a greater threat to U.S. security than the Taliban, a view that could help them avoid the major…
Afghanistan: Go All-In, Or Fold
Published: 30/09/2009Sitting in an air-conditioned office within this gargantuan NATO encampment in southern Afghanistan, a U.S. officer pointed to a map of Kandahar province that indicated, with small, rectangular boxes, where soldiers deployed by President Obama earlier this year were now…
Miti e verità sull’Afghanistan
Published: 23/09/2009
Negli ultimi mesi, e ancor più nelle ultime settimane, la “guerra dimenticata” dell’Afghanistan sta drammaticamente tornando al centro dell’attenzione dei media in Occidente, soprattutto a causa di un inasprimento del conflitto e del sempre maggior numero di vittime fra i…
In Afghanistan, la verità è semplice
Published: 23/09/200906/09/2009
Original Version: In Afghanistan, Let’s Keep It Simple
Per gran parte del XX secolo, prima dell’invasione sovietica del 1979, l’Afghanistan fu un paese pacifico che viveva in armonia con i suoi vicini.
Vi era un re e un governo effettivo, che ho…
L’Afghanistan ha bisogno della Cina e della Russia
Published: 23/09/200918/09/2009
Original Version: Afghanistan Needs China and Russia
La preoccupazione per le contestate elezioni presidenziali dell’Afghanistan è comprensibile. Per porre fine alla violenza del paese, sarà necessario un governo che abbia sia la legittimità che la capacità di affrontare le ragioni che sono…
A dangerous new Afghan road opens
Published: 23/09/200918/09/2009 - Increased insurgent activity in northern Afghanistan in recent months is likely to force the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to once again re-evaluate its and the United States’ escalation of the war.
Recent events in Kunduz province due south of…
How to Lose in Afghanistan
Published: 23/09/200931/08/2009 – The United States cannot win the war in Afghanistan in the next three months — any form of even limited victory will take years of further effort. It can, however, easily lose the war. I did not see…
A Fresh Approach in Afghanistan: An End to War?
Published: 23/09/200909/09/2009 – Left out of the options under consideration in “Obama’s war” is the only one with any chance of success.
Despite assurances to the contrary in Washington and a major policy speech in London, one need not quibble with the…
McChrystal seeks more US troops for Afghanistan (video)
Published: 22/09/200922/09/2009 – The senior US military commander in Afghanistan has warned that he needs more troops on the ground, or else risk the mission failing. The White House says that McChrystal has not made a formal request for more soldiers yet, but McChrystal’s strategic assessment could fuel US public anxiety over an escalating to the eight-year conflict (Al-Jazeera English)
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