WASHINGTON -- The capture and interrogation of Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar could help unravel the Afghan insurgency, but it's less likely to lead U.S. forces to Osama bin Laden. In nearly two weeks of interrogation in Pakistan, the Taliban operations chief has provided limited information, officials said. In his discussions with his Pakistani captors, Baradar has focused on his own fate and not provided full details about the location of fellow insurgents or weapons caches.
ISLAMABAD (AP) - The Taliban's top military commander has been arrested in a joint CIA-Pakistani operation in Pakistan in a major victory against the insurgents as U.S. troops push into their heartland in southern Afghanistan, officials said today. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the group's No. 2 leader behind Afghan Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar and a close associate of Osama bin Laden, was captured in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, two Pakistani intelligence officers and a senior U.S. official said.
A U.S. soldier who was captured by Taliban militants in Afghanistan earlier this month appeared on a video posted Saturday on a Web site. It was the first time the soldier has been seen since he went missing from his base in eastern Afghanistan on June 30. The Taliban announced July 6 that it had captured the soldier.
KABUL - Local Taliban commanders threatened Thursday to kill a captured American soldier unless the U.S. military stops operations in two districts of southeastern Afghanistan. Also Thursday, Canadian authorities announced that a Canadian soldier was killed southwest of Kandahar, bringing to 47 the number of international troops killed in Afghanistan this month. That makes July the deadliest month of the war for foreign troops - with nearly half the month to go.
KARACHI, Pakistan - The Afghan Taliban's top military commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, has been captured near Pakistan's biggest city of Karachi in what may be the most significant blow to the eight-year insurgency. Baradar, who has directed daily operations as deputy to Mullah Omar, was among four Afghans traveling in a car intercepted by Pakistani police on a highway north of the city, a senior Karachi intelligence officer, who can't be named because he's not authorized to speak to the media, said in an interview. Another top police official confirmed the detention.
WASHINGTON | The Taliban on Wednesday released a video of a man identified as a U.S. soldier captured in Afghanistan in June, showing him pleading for his freedom and to be returned home. In the video, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl says he wants to return to his family in Idaho and that the war in Afghanistan is not worth the number of lives that have been lost or wasted in prison. It is the first time he has been seen since the Taliban released a video of him on Christmas Day.
Marines go behind Taliban lines MARJAH, Afghanistan -- Two U.S. helicopters dropped elite Marine recon teams behind Taliban lines before dawn Friday as the U.S.-led force stepped up operations to break resistance on the seventh day of fighting in the besieged militant stronghold of Marjah. About two dozen Marines were inserted into an area where skilled Taliban marksmen are known to operate, an officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity due to security concerns. U.S. and Afghan troops encountered skilled sharpshooters and better-fortified Taliban positions Thursday, indicating that insurgent resistance in their logistics and opium-smuggling center was far from crushed. A Marine general said Thursday that U.S. and Afghan forces control the main roads and markets in town, but fight...
ISLAMABAD - Security forces captured the Pakistani Tali-ban's top spokesman, and he acknowledged the death of the group's leader in a recent U.S. missile strike, officials said Tuesday - further signs the militants are in disarray since the American attack. S. and Pakistani officials have said they were almost certain the chief, Baitullah Mehsud, had been killed in the Aug. 5 strike, but at least three Taliban operatives, including the spokesman, Maulvi Umar, had called media organizations after the attack to say he was still alive.
NAWA, Afghanistan - U.S. Marines hiked through searing heat and took fire from small pockets of militants after landing in this Taliban-controlled southern region of tree-lined fields, mud homes and crisscrossing waterways in the first major operation under President Barack Obama's strategy to stabilize Afghanistan. Elsewhere, the U.S. military announced that insurgents were believed to have captured an American soldier missing in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday. The missing soldier was not involved in Operation Khanjar, or "Strike of the Sword," under way in southern Afghanistan.
To make the connection between the Taliban government and the September 11 terrorist events, the installation displays a "captured" Taliban flag: a white banner with what is known as a short version of the text of the shahada, or statement of faith in Islam. The text ranslates as "There is no God but Allah and Muhammed is the messenger of God." The full version is the first pillar of Islam, the declaration of belief in God (Allah in Arabic) and the prophethood of Mohammed. The text on the captured flag is in amateur hand- writing in black marker on white cotton cloth. According to the exhibit's label the object is "A handmade Taliban flag captured from the Taliban in Afghanistan". A brief retrospect to Islamic flags and banners shows that the Prophet Mohammed's flag was solid black and ...
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