As US military action continues in Afghanistan, the interim head of state, Mr Karzai, pleads with western states to extend the security assistance force to more of the country. The
Within Afghanistan the war continues, with further bombing and a wide range of actions by US special forces. Several thousand US troops are now in Afghanistan itself, together with 1,
In the immediate aftermath of 11 September, there was a widespread belief that the US would realise that multilateral cooperation would be the only way to respond to the atrocities.
Coverage of the conflict in Afghanistan is now limited to relatively brief reports in the inside pages of more substantial newspapers, though the specialist defence press remains full of it.
The "war on terror" is best seen in the context of the geopolitics of oil, especially since the 1970s. In particular, the USs oil dependency and its
At a superficial level, one might expect a degree of satisfaction in the Pentagon at the apparent completion of the war in Afghanistan, with the destruction of the Taliban regime
By the end of the eleventh week of the war, there was a media perception that the conflict in Afghanistan was effectively over and that issues of international terrorism were
The bombing campaign and its implications
Until last Wednesday, local anti-Taliban militia had spent the best part of two weeks attempting to overcome a substantial force of al-Qaida
The end of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan has left competing power centres encircling each other. The US will continue to hunt dispersed al-Qaida and Taliban groups, at the
By the end of the eighth week of the war, there was an expectation that, with the imminent occupation of Kunduz, the southern Taliban city of Kandahar would quickly fall.
A More Complicated Conflict with Unexpected Consequences
Following the retreat of substantial Taliban forces from most of Northern Afghanistan in the period 8-13 November, there was an expectation that
Over the period 8-13 November, there was a radical change in the war in Afghanistan, with the Taliban retreating throughout the majority of the areas under their control. A
