insurgency

Marines in key Afghan town face full-blown insurgency (AP)

October 7th, 2010

In this Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010 photo, hospital Corpsman Matthew Heger, foreground, 24, of Seattle, Wa., fires on insurgents during a gunbattle in Marjah, Afghanistan. Heger is serving with the 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines' Echo Company, which arrived in Marjah in July. Eight months on, the Taliban are still in Marjah in force, waging a full-blown guerrilla insurgency that rages daily across a bomb-riddled landscape of agricultural fields and irrigation trenches. (AP Photo/Todd Pitman)AP - The young Marine had a simple question for the farmer with the white beard: Have you seen any Taliban today?


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Foreigners boost insurgency in eastern Afghanistan (AP)

August 12th, 2010

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2010 file photo, Afghans gather at the scene of an attack on a presidential adviser in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. Militants attacked the second government official in the east on the same day. The convoy was hit by a remote-controlled bomb hidden in a rickshaw as it was driving through city, police said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)AP - As the spotlight of the Afghan war focuses on the south, insurgent activity is increasing in parts of the east, with Arab and other foreign fighters linked to…

Pakistan tries new counterinsurgency strategy (AP)

July 10th, 2010

In this photo taken on June 30, 2010, young people from Pakistan's largest and deprived Baluchistan province who are recruited in the Pakistan army, demonstrate their skills in Ziarat, Pakistan. Army helped many civilian institutions to trained local people in different trades. (AP Photo/Sebastian Abbot)AP - With every bag of coal Madad Khan dumps into trucks at this mine reopened with the army’s help, Pakistan hopes it is moving closer to quelling a 60-year-old…

Afghan officials: insurgency growing in southwest (AP)

June 11th, 2010

In this June 9, 2010 photo, Shren Azizi, a member of the Provincial Council of Nimroz province, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan. After death threats and an armed attack that killed a colleague, members of the governing council of a remote Afghan province have fled to Kabul, saying they fear more Taliban will come to their areas now that NATO is stepping up operations to the east. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - The governing council of a once peaceful province in southwestern Afghanistan has fled to Kabul after the Taliban killed one of their members and threatened the others with…

How Thailand Can Avoid a New Insurgency (Time.com)

May 27th, 2010

Time.com - A 2004 attack in Thailand’s restive south is a good model of what not to do if Bangkok wants to avoid radicalizing the Red Shirts

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Unpaid Somali soldiers desert to insurgency (AP)

April 27th, 2010

In this Wednesday, Feb.17, 2010 photo, Somali government soldiers patrol the street in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia. Up to half of all Somali soldiers who underwent U.S.-supported training in neighboring Djibouti have deserted, and some joined the al-Qaida linked militia they were supposed to fight, raising fears a new U.S.-EU effort to rebuild Somalia's army could increase insurgent ranks, officials said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh )AP - Hundreds of Somali soldiers trained with U.S. tax dollars have deserted because they are not being paid their $100 monthly wage, and some have even joined the al-Qaida-linked…

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