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Show availability of Iran for al Qaeda training, plotting. This week, prosecutors in New York introduced eight documents recovered in Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan as evidence in the trial of a terrorism suspect. The U.S. government accuses Abid Naseer of taking part in al Qaeda’s scheme to attack targets in Europe and New York City. The files do not support the view, promoted by some in the Obama administration, that bin Laden was in “comfortable retirement,” “sidelined,” or “a lion in winter” in the months leading up to his death. Some of the key revelations in the newly-released...

Note: Video and photos included. "Pictures of the 'White Taliban' in Kunar" By BILL ROGGIO May 17, 2010 3:57 PM SNIPPET: "Via SpyTalk comes the report of a Western-looking man dressed in Western clothes, milling around in a group of Taliban fighters in Kunar province, Afghanistan. The video (above, for as long as it stays up) was produced by Al Emara, the Taliban's propaganda arm, and released on jihadist forums over the weekend. The video also has plenty of footage of the Taliban's assault on Combat Outpost Keating in the Kamdesh district in Kunar province. Interestingly enough, the Sunday Times...

Afghan children learn the alphabet in one of five classrooms donated by Bazaar Mayor Bang, a local businessman. U.S. Army photo by 1st. Lt. Matthew A. Psilos Zabul Province Children Return to Classroom Three volunteer teachers and 60 students traveled as far as nine miles to attend the first day of school. By U.S. Army Capt. Lawrence Sekajipo Task Force Warrior QALAT, Afghanistan, June 9, 2006 — More than 75 children in Khakeran and Anwari valleys, Deh Chopan district, celebrated the first day of school May 27 despite enemy insurgents’ intimidation throughout Zabul Province. Three volunteer teachers and 60...

KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. military says a U.S. military Chinook helicopter has crashed in Afghanistan, killing all on board.

ASSOCIATED PRESS KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- U.S. and Afghan forces killed a regional Taliban commander in a clash that also left an American soldier and an Afghan interpreter dead, the military said Friday as violence spiraled ahead of this month's landmark elections. The Taliban commander - identified by Afghan officials as Thor Mullah Manan - was killed with another rebel fighter in a firefight Thursday with coalition and Afghan forces in Daychopan district of southern Zabul province, the U.S. military said. The military said Manan was in command of three other Taliban sub-commanders and responsible for the movement of equipment and...

Four US soldiers have been killed and three wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in southern Afghanistan, the US military said. The explosion took place as they were on patrol in the Daychopan district, Zabul province, it said in a statement. The three wounded were hurt while trying to pull the others out of their armoured vehicle which had been hit by the explosion. Earlier on Sunday, suspected Taleban fighters killed two Islamic clerics.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2005 – Members of the deposed Taliban, who had hosted and supported Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network in Afghanistan, are seeking to harass and stop coalition reconstruction efforts across the country, a senior U.S. military operations officer there reported Aug. 4. The Taliban are "losing their legitimacy" in the eyes of Afghan citizens because of myriad coalition reconstruction projects, like road building, water purification, well digging, and school- and hospital-refurbishing, conducted across Afghanistan, Army Brig. Gen. James G. Champion, deputy commanding general of operations and intelligence for Combined Joint Task Force 76, told reporters at a...

KABUL: Coalition forces have arrested two Taliban commanders in Nowbahar district of Zabul province, VoA reports. Security chief of the Zabul province Gen Janan Khan said both the commanders were held in a joint operation by the Afghan National Army and the coalition forces. However, a Taliban spokesman has denied arrest of the said commanders.

KABUL, Nov 10 (AFP) - Afghan authorities have lost control of at least seven districts in troubled southeast Zabul province, the deputy governor said Monday. But tribal chiefs and elders, rather than resurgent Taliban forces, were in control of the areas, Mawlawy Mohammad Omar said. "There is no government control over Atghar, Naw Bahar, Shinkay and Shamazai in the south of the province," deputy Zabul governor Omar told AFP by satellite phone from the provincial capital Qalat. "There are some other districts such as Shahjoy, Daychopan and Khak-e-Afghan where the government has no control but the Taliban do not...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Taliban commanders have held a meeting with their supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, to plan their armed campaign against U.S. forces, a purported spokesman said. The spokesman, who said his name was Sayed Hamid Agha, telephoned Associated Press reporters in Afghanistan and Pakistan on Sunday and read out a statement. "Over the last few days we established a shura (council) under the leadership of Mullah Omar," Agha said. "The shura appointed four committees -- military, political, cultural and economic to regulate all relevant matters." One of the two AP reporters recognized the man's voice and...

Afghan Govt Says Ousts Taliban from Dai Chopan Wed September 03, 2003 02:14 AM ET By Sayed Salahuddin KABUL (Reuters) - After more than a week of intense bombardment and ground fighting, Afghan and U.S.-led forces have driven out Taliban fighters from Dai Chopan district in the southern province of Zabul, a senior official said on Wednesday. Zabul's intelligence chief, Khalil Hotak, also said that authorities from neighboring provinces had rushed fighters to the borders of the district to arrest Taliban forces trying to flee. He told Reuters he had received reports of skirmishes between fugitive guerrillas from the hardline...

United States Special forces and aircraft are engaged in a massive offensive in Southeast Afghanistan in a bid to kill or capture senior Taliban leaders.Aljazeera's Afghanistan correspondant said a United States offficer was 100% sure that Taliban leaders Mullah Omar and Mullah Qahar were both surrounded in the villiage of Sarang with about 1000 Taliban fighters.The special forces have joined a major week long operation against suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda bases in the mountains of Daychopan district of Zabul province, 300 kilometeres Southwest of Kabul. Aljazeera.net has learned that the Afghan Government infantry was order to withdraw in anticipation...

U.S. bombs suspected Taliban forcesFollows intense fighting in Afghanistan this week Associated Press KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - U.S. fighter jets and helicopters bombed suspected Taliban hideouts yesterday in Afghanistan's rugged southern mountains after intense battles between the insurgents and Afghan troops, officials said. The troops were trying to flush out the Taliban from Zabul province when the guerrillas attacked with heavy machine guns in the Chinaran mountains, Haji Granai, an Afghan military commander, told the Associated Press by satellite telephone from Chinaran. Khalil Hotak, head of intelligence in Zabul, said fighting lasted four hours with the Taliban guerrillas entrenched in a...

KABUL: Ten Taliban fighters were killed on Thursday in fighting in southern Afghanistan as the rebels tried to retreat after four days of clashes with government forces, a provincial official said. About 60 Taliban fighters managed to slip out of the Ata Ghar mountains in Zabul province and moved into neighbouring Kandahar province where government forces confronted them, said Khalid Pashtun, a spokesman for Kandahar's governor. Pashtun said 10 Taliban were killed and 16 wounded in the fighting. "Fortunately, so far we have lost no one," Pashtun told Reuters. He had no further details of the fighting in Marouf district,...