Read more Taliban stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/190/taliban.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 5:39:43 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74633/us-afghans-recruit-taliban-with-jobs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAfghanistan has launched an initiative to convert Taliban foot soldiers with the promise of jobs and protection. Backed by the US military, the plan is modeled on its “Sons of Iraq” program; Stanley McChrystal even lured a key architect of that program out of retirement to help with it. The...http://www.newser.com/story/74633/us-afghans-recruit-taliban-with-jobs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Nov 2009 10:49:27 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74570/us-backs-afghan-militias-against-taliban.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe US is actively supporting local militia groups against the Taliban as American and Afghan officials move to encourage a demoralized Afghan population to re-engage in the war, reports Dexter Filkins of the New York Times . Tapping into the militias’ resources could fill the manpower gap as a vacillating White...http://www.newser.com/story/74570/us-backs-afghan-militias-against-taliban.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 22 Nov 2009 9:38:57 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74540/pakistani-intelligence-sheltering-taliban-leader.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPakistan’s intelligence service is secretly sheltering the Taliban’s top leader, US intelligence sources tell the Washington Times —helping Mullah Omar escape from the town of Quetta, along the Afghanistan border, to the port city of Karachi, deep within Pakistan. The sources say Mullah Omar is leading a new senior leadership...http://www.newser.com/story/74540/pakistani-intelligence-sheltering-taliban-leader.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 20 Nov 2009 18:50:47 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74492/suicide-bomber-kills-16-in-afghanistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed 16 people, including two children and a policeman, and wounded at least 23 others today in a busy city square in western Afghanistan. The violence comes a day after President Hamid Karzai, in his second inaugural address, said he has placed national reconciliation...http://www.newser.com/story/74492/suicide-bomber-kills-16-in-afghanistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 20 Nov 2009 6:44:35 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74385/suicide-bomb-kills-19-at-pakistan-courthouse.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA suicide bombing outside a Peshawar courthouse killed 19 people this morning in Pakistan, the latest in a series of attacks by Islamic militants reacting against an anti-Taliban army offensive in the region. Today's bombing came only hours after missiles fired from a suspected US drone killed three alleged militants...http://www.newser.com/story/74385/suicide-bomb-kills-19-at-pakistan-courthouse.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Nov 2009 6:16:37 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74299/us-fears-insurgents-are-eluding-pakistan-crackdown.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPakistan's drive to oust militants from South Waziristan has been suspiciously successful, prompting US fears that the enemy is simply eluding Pakistani forces. The military, for example, recently captured Sararogha, the Taliban’s de facto capital. “It all started here,” a commander boasts to the New York Times . “This is the...http://www.newser.com/story/74299/us-fears-insurgents-are-eluding-pakistan-crackdown.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 18 Nov 2009 8:57:32 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74044/another-suicide-attack-kills-10-in-pakistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA suicide car bomber killed 10 people, including four children, today at a police checkpoint on the outskirts of the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. The city has been a main focus of recent attacks, which in the last week alone have killed more than 50 people, including 10 yesterday...http://www.newser.com/story/74044/another-suicide-attack-kills-10-in-pakistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 14 Nov 2009 10:43:39 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73865/taliban-is-paid-to-protect-us-supply-convoys.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Taliban is getting a big chunk of its financing by protecting supply convoys to the American military. Security contractors paid by the US to bring supplies into Afghanistan pay huge amounts of protection money to warlords and insurgents, an investigation by the Nation has discovered. Pentagon officials are aware...http://www.newser.com/story/73865/taliban-is-paid-to-protect-us-supply-convoys.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 12 Nov 2009 5:20:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73735/gorbachev-take-it-from-me-leave-afghanistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMikhail Gorbachev—the man who pulled the Soviet Union's troops out of Afghanistan after a decade of stalemate—says the US should do the same. "There is no prospect of a military solution," he tells Bloomberg . The nation is too fragmented among clans, dooming even a troop surge to failure,...http://www.newser.com/story/73735/gorbachev-take-it-from-me-leave-afghanistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Nov 2009 17:01:57 CST