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...fighting literally hangs from cliffs and rocky promontories. White smoke rises from a village across a deep gorge. The screeching whistle of mortar fire echoes in the expansive valley as troops target militants in a village five miles away. Cobra helicopter gunships buzz overhead. Two weeks into its ambitious ground assault on the Pakistani Taliban's heartlands, the Pakistani army has edged its way east and says it is poised to make fresh gains against the Central Asian and Taliban fighters who are hunkered down in the Kaniguram Valley, faintly visible in the distance...
After three days of what it called fierce fighting, the army seized control of Shelwasti village, on a rocky, largely barren hilltop in the Sherwangai Valley. "We moved in as a battalion at night to take the terrorists by surprise," says Lieut. Colonel Inam Rasheed Tarar. Mud-walled homes divided by narrow alleyways served as the militants' hideouts. A wide-ranging reserve of weaponry, documents, laptop computers and plans for explosive devices put out on display by the army revealed an apparently sophisticated and well-resourced enemy that may have once sheltered leading members of al-Qaeda. (See pictures...
...influence and drug monies that pay for an insurgency that has taken 53 American lives this month - the highest death toll ever for Americans in Afghanistan. Karzai denied both allegations, telling the Associated Press that the paper's report was "ridiculous."(See pictures of Afghanistan's dangerous Korengal Valley...
...total is 12% in Afghanistan - 101 of 866 - even before Monday's losses. "The main issues [responsible for the higher rate of helicopter-crash casualties in Afghanistan] have to do with terrain, weather and of course frequency of use," O'Hanlon says. (See pictures of Afghanistan's dangerous Korengal Valley...
...least 100 people have been killed in a series of attacks by suspected Taliban militants, including a blast in Peshawar (above) that left 50 dead and the suicide-bombing of a military convoy near the Swat Valley in which 41 perished. But it was the Oct. 10 assault on the heavily guarded army headquarters in Rawalpindi that left Pakistanis shaken. Militants occupied the building--the equivalent of the U.S. Pentagon--for 22 hours before commandos freed 39 hostages, capturing one perpetrator and killing nine others. Analysts called the attack "unprecedented...