Asia
Marines launch their first post-surge operation
Operation Cobra's Rage aims to take back the city of Nawzad from the Taliban
Inside Asia
US admits it has no idea of Bin Laden's whereabouts
Monday, 7 December 2009
The United States has no real idea where Osama bin Laden, the al-Qa'ida leader, may be hiding, and has not had the benefit of any substantial intelligence on his possible whereabouts "for years", the US Secretary of Defence, Robert Gates, conceded yesterday.
Martial law declared in southern Philippines
Monday, 7 December 2009
Philippines troops arrested 62 people and discovered another major weapons cache yesterday after martial law was imposed in a southern province following the country's worst political massacre.
Andrew Buncombe: A sure way to lose hearts and minds
Monday, 7 December 2009
Kashmir Notebook: Te central Government recently banned pre-paid mobile phone connections in the state
Philippine troops arrest dozens under martial law
Sunday, 6 December 2009
Philippine troops arrested 62 people and discovered another major weapons cache today after martial law was imposed in a southern province following the country's worst political massacre.
Help the girls going to school in the shadow of the bombers
Sunday, 6 December 2009
The IoS Christmas Appeal: The Taliban have been driven out of Buner in Pakistan but life is far from normal.
Accidental blast in Peshawar kills three
Saturday, 5 December 2009
An accidental explosion ripped through a store in northwestern Pakistan today, killing at least three people and trapping others in a separate building that caught fire, police said — rattling nerves in a city repeatedly pounded with militant attacks.
Pakistan trial of Mumbai attack suspects delayed
Saturday, 5 December 2009
A trial of seven Pakistanis suspected in last year's attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai was delayed after lawyers went on strike to protest against a militant attack near Pakistan's military headquarters.
Taliban strikes heart of the Pakistani army
Saturday, 5 December 2009
Forty people killed in gun, grenade and suicide bomb attack in garrison quarter
Bin Laden not in our country, says Pakistan
Friday, 4 December 2009
Brown's claim that country is not doing enough to find al-Qa'ida leader is rejected
Miliband challenges NATO allies over Afghanistan troops
Friday, 4 December 2009
Foreign Secretary David Miliband today challenged the rest of the Nato allies to do "the maximum possible" to support efforts to bring peace to Afghanistan.
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