Results of Kandahar offensive may affect future US moves

Release Date 23 May, 2010 in Washington Post

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Results of Kandahar offensive may affect future US moves Washington Post - Karen DeYoung - 23 May, 2010 The Obama administration's campaign to drive the Taliban out of Afghanistan's second-largest city is a go-for-broke move that even its authors are unsure will succeed. The bet is that the Kandahar operation, backed by thousands of US ...
	US troops, Afghan police sweep through Taliban stronghold Los Angeles Times - 23 May, 2010 Military and civilian teams search homes and offer reconstruction aid in a Kandahar district. The operation is a preview of a wider summer campaign. Afghan national police commanders and US military police sort out a plan to patrol Kandahar's District ...
Afghan Militants Attack U.S. Base Wall Street Journal - Maria Abi-Habib, Alan Cullison - 23 May, 2010 KABUL�"Insurgents late Saturday launched coordinated ground and rocket attacks on Kandahar Air Field, the main coalition base in southern Afghanistan. Stray rocket and mortar attacks on the Kandahar base have been ...
	Into Kandahar, Yesterday and Tomorrow New York Times - John F. Burns - 23 May, 2010 LONDON �" In the postcards of the mind, it is the starkest of all the images of Kandahar, dating back more than 20 years to the period immediately after Soviet troops withdrew from the city, and standing ever since as a grim warning of ...
Insurgents attack NATO's southern Afghan base Ynetnews - 23 May, 2010 The Taliban claimed responsibility Sunday for a nighttime assault on NATO's biggest base in southern Afghanistan in which insurgents firing rockets, mortars and automatic weapons tried to storm Kandahar Air Field. It was the second such attack on a ...
Taliban win £1600 bounty for each Nato soldier killed Times Online - Miles Amoore - 23 May, 2010 TALIBAN rebels are earning a bounty of up to 200000 Pakistani rupees (£1660) for each Nato soldier they kill, according to insurgent commanders. The money is said to come from protection rackets, taxes imposed on opium farmers, donors in the Gulf ...
Taliban attack southern Afghanistan base Financial Times - Fazel Reshad, Matthew Green - 23 May, 2010 Taliban insurgents staged a rare ground assault on the main Nato base in southern Afghanistan this weekend, the latest in a string of high-profile attacks designed to show the movement is back on the offensive ...
Afghan insurgents attack NATO military base Dallas Morning News - 23 May, 2010 The Washington Post, AP KANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan �" Insurgents launched a brazen ground and rocket attack late Saturday against NATO's largest military base in southern Afghanistan, wounding several coalition troops and civilian employees, ...
Rockets fired at NATO base in S. Afghanistan Xinhua - 23 May, 2010 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, May 22 (Xinhua) -- Rockets were fired at the military base operated by the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in southern Afghanistan's restive city of Kandahar late on Saturday, officials said. ...
Afghan insurgents kill 3 troops, 1 civilian ABC Online - 23 May, 2010 NATO says three foreign soldiers and a civilian working with NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have been killed in Afghanistan. "Two ISAF service members and a civilian working with ISAF died following an insurgent attack in ...
Militants attackkey Afghan NATO base Sydney Morning Herald - Nasrat Shoib - 23 May, 2010 The Taliban said Sunday they were behind an attack on NATO's main base in southern Afghanistan, the third on international forces in a week, showing their determination to meet fire with fire. As US and NATO troops escalate operations against the ...
New US troops arriving in Afghanistan quickly learn about challenges Washington Post - Joshua Partlow - ‎May 19, 2010‎ FORWARD OPERATING BASE WILSON, AFGHANISTAN -- The soldiers who will lead the buildup of US forces in Kandahar this summer began arriving this week and immediately dove into a crash course on the problems they will face in ...
Afghanistan's Kandahar military base under attack Vancouver Sun - 23 May, 2010 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Suspected militants fired rockets at Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan Saturday, followed by a ground attack, NATO and Afghan officials said. A spokesman for NATO-led forces in Afghanistan said Kandahar Airfield came ...
Rebels Attack Base in Afghanistan New York Times - 23 May, 2010 By THE NEW YORK TIMES KABUL, Afghanistan �" Insurgents assaulted Kandahar Air Base, the main military base in southern Afghanistan, on Saturday night, military officials said, in the second attack on a major base in a week. The attack began with rocket ...
	Kandahar: A Dossier and Timeline New York Times - 23 May, 2010 Kandahar - the province and the city - is a prize politically, economically and militarily. Most residents are Pashtuns, Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, and Kandahar is the birthplace and political base of the Taliban. ...
Suicide attack hits Afghan police BBC News - ‎May 21, 2010‎ A group of suicide bombers launched an attack on a police base in the eastern Afghan province of Paktika, officials say. At least one policemen and four militants were killed during the raid and the gun battle that ensued in Paktika's Urgun district. ...
	Kandahar Airfield Under Attack By Insurgents, NATO Troops Wounded UK Today News - 23 May, 2010 Kandahar Attacked: Canada's main military base, which is set up on the Kandahar Airfield, was reportedly attacked by insurgents on May 22, 2010. Reports say that the strike came at around 8.00 pm local time, with rockets and mortars, ...
Afghans detain Taliban "governor" Reuters - Sayed Salahuddin, David Fox - ‎May 20, 2010‎ KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's intelligence department said on Thursday it had captured a Taliban shadow governor believed to have been behind at least two deadly attacks. Since being ousted in a US-led invasion in 2001, the Taliban have appointed ...
	Insurgents launch ground assault against NATO Montgomery County Courier - 23 May, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan �" Insurgents firing rockets, mortars and automatic weapons launched a ground assault Saturday against NATO's biggest base in southern Afghanistan, wounding several coalition troops and civilian employees in the second such attack on ...
Taliban birthplace major focus of Afghan offensive The Associated Press - Sebastian Abbot - ‎May 21, 2010‎ ZHARI DISTRICT, Afghanistan �" US commanders are bolstering their forces in this rural district where Mullah Mohammad Omar organized the Taliban more than a decade ago, hoping to wrest control of an area considered the key to securing the nearby city of ...
	Afghan Nato base comes under attack Aljazeera.net - 23 May, 2010 Suspected fighters have launched a rocket and ground attack on Nato's main military base in southern Afghanistan, days after a similar assault on the coalition's military base in Bagram. Nato officials said the fighters fired a number of rockets and ...
Insurgents hit Afghan base Only a few injuries in Kandahar attack Winnipeg Free Press - Tara Brautigam - 23 May, 2010 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Maj. Robert Kelly had just finished dinner and was walking to his shack at Kandahar Airfield late Saturday when he heard two explosions nearby, the start of an attack on the base. The 35-year-old St. John's, NL, ...
	NATO aviation kills 12 militants in Afghanistan RIA Novosti - 23 May, 2010 NATO helicopters killed 12 militants in eastern Afghanistan, the press service of the International Security Assistance Force said on Sunday. Two militants were killed by foreign servicemen while trying to plant a roadside bomb. ...
Insurgent Attack on Kandahar Airfield War On Terror News - 23 May, 2010 05.2202010 KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - Kandahar Airfield came under indirect fire at approximately 8 pm local time May 22. Five rockets were fired at the base. The base operations centre sounded a ground attack alarm shortly after 8 pm A number of ...
NATO forces kill 12 insurgents in southeastern Afghanistan The Hindu - 23 May, 2010 NATO forces killed at least 12 suspected militants in south�"eastern Paktia province on Saturday, officials said. “Two insurgents were shot dead in Zurmat district when they were trying to plant a roadside bomb” Dastagir Rostamyar, deputy chief of ...
US Soldiers Team With Afghan Police to Swarm Taliban Stronghold TheCelebrityCafe.com - 23 May, 2010 In the most elaborately detailed military-civilian operation in Kandahar, Afghanistan since the Obama administration decided to send 30000 additional American troops to the area last December, US soldiers and Afghan authorities stormed a Taliban ...
Insurgents attack NATO base Chicago Sun-Times - Heidi Vogt - 23 May, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban claimed responsibility for a Saturday night assault on NATO's biggest base in southern Afghanistan. Insurgents firing rockets, mortars and automatic weapons tried to storm Kandahar Air Field -- the second ...
NATO forces repel attack on Kandahar Airfield base Calgary Herald - Matthew Fisher - 23 May, 2010 Civilian and military personnel take shelter during an attack at Kandahar Airfield. Several NATO troops and civilians were wounded. -NATO security forces have repelled an attack by "a small ...
	In Kandahar, the Taliban targets and assassinates those who support US efforts Washington Post - Joshua Partlow - ‎May 21, 2010‎ In Kandahar, the Taliban's most powerful weapon has become the calculated assassination. The tools of this murder campaign are rudimentary -- ropes, knives, old rifles -- but the results have been devastating. The slayings take aim at the goal of the ...
NATO Agrees to Split of Regional Command South, Afghanistan War On Terror News - 23 May, 2010 05.21.2010 AFGHANISTAN - On May 21, 2010, the North Atlantic Council in consultation with non-NATO International Security Assistance Force Troop Contributing Nations, gave final authorization for the reorganisation of ISAF's Regional Command South and ...