Mohammed Omar

Cause for hope -- and fear -- in Pakistan

2013-05-19 00:00:00

There is reason for hope in Nawaz Sharif's victory in the recent Pakistani elections. Sharif, who has twice served as Pakistan's prime minister, has said he wants to build a more robust democracy, revive the country's shattered economy and end the...

America's go-to man in Afghanistan's Oruzgan province

2013-01-12 18:51:00

TARIN KOWT, Afghanistan — A shy boy with filthy hands and a shabby tunic approached the great man, bowed and tried to kiss his hand. Gen. Matiullah Khan was seated like a sultan on a cushion in his hojra, his airy receiving room. He barely...

Afghanistan's Karzai urges Taliban leader Omar to run for president

2012-07-12 16:42:28

Pakistan rips 'preposterous' ideas about its role in Afghan talks

2012-02-17 16:39:28

U.S. offers $10-million bounty for Pakistani militant chief

2012-04-03 16:41:28

Muslim holiday in Afghanistan opens with a bombing

2011-11-06 16:37:32

Osama bin Laden, born to privilege, dies a pariah

2011-05-02 00:00:00

Osama bin Laden, a scion of one of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest families, became the grim apostle of a strain of Islamic radicalism that exalted violence against non-believers, and the leader of a terrorist network that launched repeated attacks in the West,...

Book review: 'Obama's Wars'

2010-09-27 00:00:00

The essential outline of the story journalist and political historian Bob Woodward sets out to tell in " Obama's Wars" actually is fairly well known. President Obama's agonized march to a decision on how to move forward in what he has called "a war of...

White Paper of the Interagency Policy Group's Report on U.S. Policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan

2009-03-27 00:00:00

Introduction The United States has a vital national security interest in addressing the current and potential security threats posed by extremists in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In Pakistan, al Qaeda and other groups of jihadist terrorists are planning new...

Don't fail Afghanistan

2007-08-27 00:00:00

The United States is now at risk of "losing" Afghanistan, the predictable result of committing insufficient troops and money to that catastrophically failed state after the rout of the Taliban in 2001. U.S. forces are suffering sharply higher casualties...

Pakistani militant's reputation grows

2008-02-12 00:00:00

Not so long ago, Baitullah Mahsud was an obscure tribal sub-chieftain, little known outside his ancestral district set amid the forbidding, snow-shrouded mountains and valleys of South Waziristan. Now, in a matter of months, he has emerged as the most...

Everything It Wanted--Almost

2001-12-07 00:00:00

In the unfolding final acts of the war in Afghanistan, it suddenly appears that victory could bring the United States most--yet not quite all--of what it wanted when American warplanes began dropping bombs two months ago. The Taliban regime that was...

Taliban leader Mullah Omar

2012-08-17 04:24:21

(Mullah Omar pictured)

2012-04-18 00:00:00

Brig. Gen. Josef Blotz, spokesman for NATO 's International Security Assistance Force, said he would not speculate about reports that Mullah Omar had died.

2011-05-23 00:00:00