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Few Taliban Take Up Afghanistanâs Offer to Switch Sides
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A much diminished Al Quaeda in Afghanistan next to a growing Taliban focussed on local issues.
01/06/2008
This factors into whether it makes sense for the US to commit large forces in Afghanistan with no clear mission as General Powell suggests.
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Around an Invisible Leader, Taliban Power Shifts
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Unruly Factions Hurt Taliban’s Bid to Capture Afghan Hearts, and Territory
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Taliban Leader Mullah Omar Is Dead, Afghan Spy Agency Says
Wall Street Journal 07/30/2015
Al Qaeda's Diminished Role Stirs Afghan Troop Debate
Wall Street Journal 10/06/2009
Buying out Taliban fighters in the war in Afghanistan.
11/28/2009
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Leader of Pakistani Taliban Killed in Drone Strike
Wall Street Journal 11/02/2013
Around an Invisible Leader, Taliban Power Shifts
New York Times 12/28/2014
Afghans Offer Jobs to Taliban Rank and File if They Defect
New York Times 11/28/2009
Afghan Tribe, Vowing to Fight Taliban, to Get U.S. Aid in Return
New York Times 01/28/2010
The Taliban Donât Seem Ready to Talk
New York Times 01/23/2010
Few Taliban Take Up Afghanistanâs Offer to Switch Sides
New York Times 06/19/2011
Co-opting or buying out of Afghan warlords or insurgents seen as difficult.
10/14/2009
A strategy that worked in Iraq may not work in Afghanistan.
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Reconciliation Efforts in Afghanistan Flounder
Washington Post 10/14/2009
‘You Have Atomic Bombs, but We Have Suicide Bombers.’
New York Times 10/20/2009
McChrystalâs Fate in Limbo as He Prepares to Meet Obama
New York Times 06/23/2010
Rethinking the Afghanistan Warâs What-Ifs
New York Times 07/31/2010
Afghanistan's troubled national army: Fixing the unfixable
Economist 08/21/2010
New Afghan War Leader Helped Nurture Sunni Awakening in Iraq
Wall Street Journal 04/28/2011
Afghanistan's national army and police force
08/21/2010
Conditions do not offer much hope of fixing the problems.
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Taliban Making Military Gains in Afghanistan
New York Times 07/26/2014
With Taliban’s Revival, Dread Returns to Swat Valley
New York Times 07/26/2014
Afghanistan's troubled national army: Fixing the unfixable
Economist 08/21/2010
Kabul's Police Tab Fails a U.S. Audit
Wall Street Journal 04/26/2011
Wall Street Journal 06/17/2011
Report Sees Danger in Local Allies
Wall Street Journal 06/17/2011
Taliban shadow government in Afghanistan- 2011-2014
02/06/2011
Grouped Articles
Pakistan to Release Senior Taliban Leader
Wall Street Journal 09/11/2013
Leader of Pakistani Taliban Killed in Drone Strike
Wall Street Journal 11/02/2013
Around an Invisible Leader, Taliban Power Shifts
New York Times 12/28/2014
Afghans Form Militias and Call on Warlords to Battle Taliban
New York Times 05/24/2015
Taliban Leader Mullah Omar Is Dead, Afghan Spy Agency Says
Wall Street Journal 07/30/2015
Afghanistan's Hidden Taliban Government
New York Times 02/06/2011
Pakistan's view on the debate in Washington about sending more troops and expansion of war in Afghanistan.
10/01/2009
Foreign Minister Qureshi at the Journal's offices in New York says it would mean the Pakistani Taliban would threaten Islamabad, there would be more misery, suicide bombings, and hurt the economy badly. But Qureshi speaks for an increasingly unpopular Zardari administration. The army, opposition parties, and the Intelligence agencies, and increasingly the public sentiment is against an expanded American presence in Afghanistan, or a bigger American footprint in Afghinstan and Pakistan. See Rosenberg in WSJ.
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How the Pakistani Taliban Became a Deadly Force
New York Times 12/16/2014
Wall Street Journal 10/01/2009
Several Afghan Strategies, None a Clear Choice
New York Times 10/01/2009
Reconciliation Efforts in Afghanistan Flounder
Washington Post 10/14/2009
Pakistan Attacks Show Tightening of Militant Links
New York Times 10/16/2009
U.S. deeply split on troop increase for Afghan war
Washington Post 10/21/2009
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