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...vineyards and poppy fields of southern Afghanistan it is hard to know who the enemy is. In their black turbans, Taliban fighters can vanish like ghosts into the local population, leaving NATO soldiers shooting into thin air, or worse still at the wrong targets - which is what happened this week as the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan came to a close...
...Afghan officials said dozens of civilians were killed late Tuesday when NATO warplanes bombarded a village in the district of Panjwai just 20 kilometers outside the largest city in southern Afghanistan, the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. Panjwai district has been the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in the Afghan south this summer, with NATO killing at least 500 suspected insurgents in the two-week-long Operation Medusa, which concluded last month...
...Control of Panjwai, which lies so close to the political heart of the Afghan south, is vital, and it seems NATO's hold on the district is slipping. Lieutenant General David Richards called Operation Medusa a "significant success," but weeks later the Taliban have come back with a vengeance, staging large-scale attacks on NATO bases in the area and scotching NATO claims that they had driven the Taliban out of Panjwai...
...Taliban fighters launched a series of bloody attacks on NATO troops late on Tuesday night, the second day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, and NATO struck back, bombing houses where Taliban fighters had taken refuge. Eyewitnesses in the village of Zangwat said that 25 houses had been razed to the ground, and their inhabitants killed and injured as Taliban fighters took shelter behind their walls, using the local population as human shields. Niaz Mohammad Saradi, district governor of Panjwai district, said 60 people were killed, while other officials put the death toll as high as 85. NATO says...
When the Soviet Union collapsed, Chechens yet again declared the independence of the Ichkeria Republic, although only the Taliban regime in Afghanistan recognized it. In the first Chechen War of the ’90s, the post-perestroika Russian army was unable to break Chechen will. Forced by demoralized soldiers and angry public opinion, President Boris Yeltsin signed a ceasefire. The second, ongoing Chechen War began under Vladimir Putin’s leadership, with a much stronger military. In a battleground too obscure and too dangerous for Western journalists, the military launched total war against the rebellious Chechens. In order...