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Type: Organization

Name: Taliban

Nationality: Afghanistan

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First Reported 7 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 Documents

20 Afghan militants killed

Kabul, May 28 (IANS) Over 20 Taliban militants were killed in Afghanistan during military operations, the interior ministry said Monday.The Afghan police, army and the NATO-led coalition forces launched the operation in nearly a dozen provinces, including ... [ Published 7 hours ago by Yahoo! Maktoob News ]

Entities: Kabul, Kandahar, Taliban, Afghanistan, Coalition

First Reported May 27 2012 - Updated May 27 2012 - 1 Documents

Q&A with author Ben Anderson

Anderson spent five years filming combat in Afghanistan. The book focuses on British and American troops in Helmand province, a Taliban stronghold. At the center is the 2010 American attempts to rout the Taliban in a town called Marjah, where Anderson ... [ Published May 27 2012 by Star Ledger ]

Entities: Ben Anderson, Afghanistan, Taliban, Afghan National Army

First Reported May 27 2012 - Updated May 27 2012 - 1 Documents

'The Koran doesn't say cinema is a bad thing'

Afghan superstar Salim Shaheen, who was in Mumbai recently, tells us what it means to be in the movie business in Afghanistan, where films, deemed "un-Islamic" had to be made under duress, where a mere five cinema halls have survived persecution, and ... [ Published May 27 2012 by Mid Day ]

Entities: Afghanistan, Bollywood, Qur'an, Kabul

First Reported May 26 2012 - Updated May 26 2012 - 1 Documents

Taliban

12 Taliban militants killed

ANDKHOI, Afghanistan, May 26 (UPI) --Deputy provincial council member Abdul Jame Jame said 15 other Taliban militants were detained after the clashes in the Andkhoi district in Ghazni province, Khaama Press reported.Jame said the clashes began Friday ... [ Published May 26 2012 by UPI ]

Entities: Taliban, Islamic Party of Afghanistan (AF), Afghanistan

First Reported May 26 2012 - Updated May 26 2012 - 1 Documents

Ken Burns

How Is This Memorial Day Different Than Others?

I've written lots of military-related news stories: veterans returning to college, opponents of military recruitment in high schools, reaction to Latinos being left out of the Ken Burns World War Two documentary. On Friday I reported about friends and ... [ Published May 26 2012 by KCET ]

Entities: Israel, Ken Burns, Phenobarbital, Long Beach (California, United States)

First Reported May 24 2012 - Updated May 26 2012 - 1 Documents

NATO

Gwynne Dyer: How the Afghan War ends

Last weekend’s NATO summit in Chicago was mostly about how to get NATO troops out of Afghanistan without causing too much embarrassment to the Western governments that sent them, and a little bit about how to ensure that the Taliban don’t take over again ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Georgia Straight ]

Entities: NATO, Gwynne Dyer, Taliban

First Reported May 26 2012 - Updated May 26 2012 - 2 Documents

Anna Hazare

Please ask me

2G Advani Anna Anna Hazare Antony Anushka Sharma Army Chief Bipasha Basu BJP Chidambaram China Dalai Lama Deepika Padukone Freida Pinto Hazare Headley Health Fair Hillary Clinton Hindu Temple horoscopesigns Imran Khan India Indian American Kareena Kareena ... [ Published May 26 2012 by IndiaPost ]

Entities: Anna Hazare, Anushka Sharma, Mallika Sherawat

First Reported May 25 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents

Poetry of the Taliban - review

A revelatory collection from Afghanistan My initial feeling when faced with a title that includes the words "Taliban" and "poetry" is that it is oxymoronic; indeed several pieces, through their inflammatory call to arms, seem stereotypically subservient ... [ Published May 25 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: Taliban, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, George W Bush

First Reported May 24 2012 - Updated May 24 2012 - 1 Documents

Theatre in the times of Taliban bombings

CULTURE & SOCIETYM Salih TMNew DelhiRAH-E-SABZ, an Afghan theatre company, staged an Afghan version of Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors at the Azad Bhavan Tuesday. The Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) has brought the play to India. The play was ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Tehelka ]

Entities: Taliban, India, Kabul, Afghanistan, England

First Reported May 23 2012 - Updated May 24 2012 - 2 Documents

Afghan schoolgirls 'poisoned' by Taliban

More than 120 schoolgirls and three teachers have been poisoned in the second attack in as many months in Afghanistan blamed on conservative radicals in the country's north, Afghan police and education officials have said.The attack occurred on Wednesday ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Yahoo! Maktoob News ]

Entities: Taliban, Poison, Afghanistan, National Directorate of Security, attack

First Reported May 23 2012 - Updated May 23 2012 - 1 Documents

'Taliban Cricket Club' is a novel with a twist

‘Taliban Cricket Club’ a novel with a twist“The Taliban Cricket Club” (Ecco), by Timeri N. Murari: Writing a novel about Afghanistan can be a difficult, unenviable undertaking.Ideally, the result will be well-informed, nuanced, stylishly written, surprising ... [ Published May 23 2012 by Lubbock Online ]

Entities: Taliban, Cricket, Afghanistan, India, Nahal

First Reported May 21 2012 - Updated May 21 2012 - 2 Documents

NATO takes up Obama timetable to end war in Afghanistan by 2014

NATO countries are expected to sign off Monday on U.S. President Barack Obama's exit strategy from Afghanistan that calls for an end to combat operations next year and the withdrawal of troops by the end of 2014.Against a backdrop of massive demonstrations ... [ Published May 21 2012 by Channel4000 ]

Entities: NATO, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Hamid Karzai

Quotes

"We love you, we are proud of you. Stay strong, never give up. We pray for the day that we welcome you home" he said

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Gen.Colin Powel: Famous Black Soldiers to Remem... [ Published May 27 2012 by RollingOut ]
Q&A with author Ben Anderson [ Published May 27 2012 by Star Ledger ]
Between the Lines: Novels for summer reading [ Published May 27 2012 by Sacramento Bee ]
'The Koran doesn't say cinema is a bad thing' [ Published May 27 2012 by Mid Day ]
HBO movie a lot of hooey about Hemingway [ Published May 27 2012 by Globe and Mail ]
12 Taliban militants killed [ Published May 26 2012 by UPI ]
How Is This Memorial Day Different Than Others? [ Published May 26 2012 by KCET ]
Biden touts Obama's foreign policy in West... [ Published May 26 2012 by Channel4000 ]
Please ask me [ Published May 26 2012 by IndiaPost ]
On her own strength [ Published May 26 2012 by IndiaPost ]
Poetry of the Taliban - review [ Published May 25 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
Texas Twang returns to Neumeier’s Rib Room [ Published May 25 2012 by The City Wire ]
Review: Can We Talk About This? [ Published May 25 2012 by Gscene ]
Gwynne Dyer: How the Afghan War ends [ Published May 24 2012 by Georgia Straight ]
Resurgent Radicals Poison Afghan Women to Keep ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Breitbart.com ]
NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Nonfiction, Week Of ... [ Published May 24 2012 by NPR ]
Hochul sees on-time Afghanistan withdrawal, bla... [ Published May 24 2012 by Buffalo News ]
Theatre in the times of Taliban bombings [ Published May 24 2012 by Tehelka ]
Five Reasons Why Jean Gabin Still Rocks [ Published May 24 2012 by Empire Online ]
UPI NewsTrack TopNews [ Published May 24 2012 by UPI ]
Five girls poisoned at Afghan school return... [ Published May 24 2012 by Channel4000 ]
Outside View: Pipe dream in Afghanistan? [ Published May 24 2012 by UPI ]
Afghan schoolgirls 'poisoned' by Taliban [ Published May 24 2012 by Yahoo! Maktoob News ]
Parky at the Pictures (DVD 24/5/2012) [ Published May 24 2012 by Oxford Times ]
Taliban Poisons 120 School Girls in Latest Atta... [ Published May 23 2012 by International Business Times ]

Blogs

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Afghan Woman Horrifically Disfigured By Taliban... [ Published May 22 2012 by RadarOnline.com ] read more ...
TV Bits: ‘Community,’ ‘30 Rock’ and ‘Parenthood... [ Published May 11 2012 by /Film ] The good news for a lot of comedy fans today is that NBC renewed Community for a fourth season. There’s a catch, however. That season is a truncated 13-episode order at this point. And while EW reports the renewal, the site says that the returns ...
TV: Newswire: VICE gets its own HBO show [ Published May 10 2012 by A.V. Club ] VICE 's evolution from being the magazine that makes you feel bad about your outfit to being the magazine that makes you feel bad about slave labor will continue its trajectory to a whole new level of self-righteousness, vaulting from its current ...
Vice, Bill Maher, and Fareed Zakaria Are Making... [ Published May 10 2012 by Vulture ] Dirtbag magazine turned world-dominating media empire Vice is graduating from CNN and MTV to premium cable with a forthcoming weekly newsmagazine show on HBO to be executive produced by fellow free spirit Bill Maher, with Fareed Zakaria along for the ...
HBO And VICE Develop News Show With Help From B... [ Published May 10 2012 by Deadline.com ] The weekly news magazine — to be called VICE — will be hosted by Shane Smith, who co-founded VICE Media and helped to build it into a youth oriented multi-media entertainment company. Smith, Bill Maher, and VICE Chief Creative Officer Eddy Moretti will ...

Audio/Video

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Blitzer & Karzai discuss Pakistan, Taliban, and... [ Published May 22 2012 by CNN International - YouTube ]
CNN looks at transformation of Aesha, a woman m... [ Published May 19 2012 by CNN International - YouTube ]
'War of diminishing returns': Jon Soltz offers ... [ Published May 03 2012 by Current - YouTube ]
Deadly Taliban violence in wake of Obama's trip [ Published May 02 2012 by CBS - YouTube ]
Taliban Attack After Obama Visits Kabul [ Published May 02 2012 by Associated Press - YouTube ]