The Taliban are digging in for a "bloody urban battle" against the Pakistani army in a hotly disputed city in the western part of the country, a strategic expert warned Thursday. “The Taliban are concentrating forces in Mingora — digging trenches, laying mines, taking positions on rooftops,” said Reva Bhalla, the director of strategic analysis at Stratfor, a private firm that describes itself as a global intelligence company. “It is not clear if the Pakistani military is trained and even equipped to go into a situation like that,” she said, adding that even the United States military “would have to think twice” about such an offensive.
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‘I imagine that my hands and body are bleeding’
A walk through Afghanistan’s only psychiatric hospital is a walk through misery.
Pakistan military faces up to humanitarian crisis
Pakistan’s military is dealing with more than a million Pakistanis who have been displaced by fighting since last year, a military spokesman said Tuesday.
Lost boys of Swat flee for their lives as fighting rages
Twenty well-behaved boys sit on the floor in two rows, quietly eating a humble lunch of flat bread, water and beans. Their hair is neatly combed and they are dressed in spotless Pakistani shalwar kamiz long shirts and baggy trousers
U.N.: 360,000 escape war-torn Pakistani region
Civilians continued to flee Pakistan’s northwest in droves Monday as government troops prepared to engage Taliban militants in the crisis-hit Swat Valley. More than 360,000 Pakistanis have fled their homes since May 2, the United Nations has reported. “Obviously more people are on the move,” said Ariane Rummery, a spokeswoman for the U.N.
How gunshot survivor became first to receive face transplant
Doctors chose a woman who survived a shotgun wound to her face as the first recipient of a face transplant after treating her for nearly four years. Connie Culp knew of the Cleveland Clinic’s interest in face transplants and approached the medical staff, doctors said at a news conference Tuesday. Dr.
Commentary: Save this ‘Terminator’
Everything you know about the world of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s most famous character has changed. In the season finale of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” John Connor, the boy destined to lead humanity’s battle against Armageddon, gets jolted into the future — the one he was supposed to lead.
Texas police shake down drivers, lawsuit claims
Roderick Daniels was traveling through East Texas in October 2007 when, he says, he was the victim of a highway robbery. The Tennessee man says he was ordered to pull his car over and surrender his jewelry and $8,500 in cash that he had with him to buy a new car. But Daniels couldn’t go to the police to report the incident
Former model: Fret over being fit, not how you look
Celebrities and their bodies.
Toddler brain difference linked to autism
The size of a specific part of the brain may help experts pinpoint when autism could first develop, University of North Carolina researchers report.