WATER'S EDGE PATROL - U.S. Marines patrol the Musa Qal'eh District Center, Afghanistan, Aug 6, 2010. The Marines, assigned to the 1st Battalion's 2nd Marine Regiment, are deployed to Helmand province in support of the International Security Assistance Force. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Sean Baldwin Afghan Militants Return To Arms -- Zia Ahmadi, Asia Times
HERAT - Militants in Herat province of eastern Afghanistan who laid down their weapons in response to government offers of aid and amnesty are rejoining the insurgency after officials failed to deliver on their promises.
A senior security official told the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) that about half the 1,000 militants who had surrendered in the past year were now back fighting against the government.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
America's Flawed Afghanistan Strategy -- Dr. Steven Metz, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute monthly op-ed.
Keeping Promises -- Peter Bergen, The New Republic
Counter-Terorism vs. Counter-Insurgency in Afghanistan -- Elise Cooper, American Thinker
The Taliban Must Be Defeated, Not Accommodated -- Max Boot, The Commentary
The Struggle for Afghanistan: Counting Progress in Small Steps -- David Wood, Politics Daily
The killing fields of Afghanistan -- The Guardian editorial
U.S. and Iraqi Interests May Work Against Pullout -- New York Times
Barack Obama is running out of Iraq for all the wrong reasons -- Con Coughlin, The Telegraph
Will Iraq Fall Victim to the Oil Curse? -- Judith Miller
The Point of No Return (To Bomb Iran) -- Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
The Weak Case for War with Iran -- Flynt Leerett and Hillary Mann Leverett, Foreign Policy
After the Flood, A Stream of Radical Islamists -- Reza Jan, The American
Why Pakistan plays a double game -- Fawaz A. Gerges, CNN
Kim Jong-il cleans house -- Lee Byong-chul, Globe And Mail
Is Israel-Lebanon War Inevitable? -- Jeffrey White, Real Clear World/Washington Institute
WikiLeaks helps the Taliban to hunt an honest man -- Hamida Ghafour, The National
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