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Jonathan Landay

Moammar Gadhafi's dead. Now what for Libya?

With the death Thursday of Moammar Gadahfi, Libya's de facto leaders now face the challenge of preserving the fragile unity they enjoyed while the deposed dictator was on the run as they begin transforming their war-battered nation into a democracy after 42 years of tyrannical one-man rule. | 10/20/11 19:17:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay

Clinton, Petraeus likely to press Pakistan on Haqqani support

In a rare display of U.S. muscle, the United States' top diplomat, its senior-most military officer and its spy chief arrive here Thursday for a tense two-day visit that's likely to focus on U.S. accusations of Pakistani support for an Afghan insurgent group that the U.S. blames for thousands of deaths inside Afghanistan. | 10/19/11 17:32:00 By - Saeed Shah and Jonathan S. Landay

Obama warns Pakistan over support for Afghan insurgents

President Barack Obama cautioned Pakistan on Thursday that it's jeopardizing long-term relations with the United States — including billions of dollars in military and civilian aid — by maintaining ties with insurgent groups that are fighting U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan. | 10/06/11 18:54:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay

As U.S. marks war milestone, Taliban may be lying low

Ten years after the Afghan war began, President Obama says his strategy has turned the tables on the Taliban and allowed U.S. combat forces to begin withdrawing. But many Afghans counter that the insurgents are merely waiting out the U.S. drawdown, and worry that U.S. policy is turning the clock back to Afghanistan's pre-2001 civil war. | 10/04/11 17:38:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay

Pressure grows for listing Haqqanis as foreign terrorist group

Pressure is growing on the Obama administration to designate as a foreign terrorist organization the Afghan insurgent group that U.S. officials accuse of attacking the U.S. Embassy with the support of Pakistan's most powerful spy agency. | 09/26/11 19:12:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay

Gunmen attack CIA building in Afghanistan capital

The attack Sunday night occurred at the former Ariana Hotel, a facility that the CIA took over soon after the start of the Afghan war in 2001. At least two Afghan army personnel were reported injured. | 09/25/11 16:53:00 By - Habib Zohori and Jonathan S. Landay

Obama fails to persuade Palestinians to abandon quest for U.N. membership

President Barack Obama set the stage Wednesday for a U.S. veto of a Palestinian bid for full U.N. membership of an independent Palestinian state, telling world leaders that the issue can only be settled through direct peace talks and "each side learns to stand in the other's shoes." | 09/21/11 10:59:00 By - Lesley Clark and Jonathan S. Landay

Rabbani's death deals blow to U.S. peace plan

An assassin with a bomb hidden in his turban on Tuesday killed former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, the chairman of the government’s peace council, in the latest in a slew of high-profile attacks and a major blow to U.S.-backed efforts to draw Taliban-led insurgents into peace talks. | 09/20/11 12:03:35 By - Hashim Shukoor and Jonathan S. Landay

U.N. showdown looms as Palestinians press statehood

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reaffirmed his determination Monday to seek full United Nations membership, spurning the latest attempt by White House negotiators to avoid having to block the move and inflaming anti-American anger in the Middle East. | 09/19/11 19:19:00 By - Lesley Clark, Sheera Frenkel and Jonathan S. Landay

Palestinians rebuff Obama, edge closer to statehood bid

Palestinian leaders on Thursday rebuffed the latest U.S. attempt to dissuade them from seeking U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state, all but guaranteeing a veto by the Obama administration that would please domestic supporters of Israel but further inflame anti-U.S. anger across the changing Middle East. | 09/15/11 19:24:00 By - Sheera Frenkel, Jonathan S. Landay and Lesley Clark

U.S. drone kills another al Qaida leader in Pakistan

A U.S. missile strike in Pakistan has killed al Qaida's operations chief for the country, U.S. officials said Thursday, further shredding the terrorist group's upper ranks as it struggles to cope with the death of its founder. | 09/15/11 17:20:00 By - Saeed Shah and Jonathan S. Landay

Palestinian search for U.N. membership puts U.S. in bind

Palestinian leaders will ask the U.N. Security Council for full United Nations membership, Palestinian officials said Tuesday, despite a U.S. vow to veto the move and fears that it could deal a fatal blow to the moribund peace process. | 09/13/11 19:51:00 By - Sheera Frenkel and Jonathan S. Landay

Taliban launch attack on U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters

Insurgent gunmen and suicide bombers struck the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other locations in Kabul on Tuesday in coordinated attacks that raised fresh uncertainty over the ability of Afghan forces to assume security from departing U.S.-led international forces. | 09/13/11 16:50:00 By - Hashim Shukoor and Jonathan S. Landay

2 convoys of Gadhafi aides roll into Niger, but where's their leader?

As members of the ousted government of Moammar Gadhafi rolled into Niger with gold, jewels, cash and other state property on Tuesday, the U.S. said it had asked Niger to arrest those who could be prosecuted and return the property to the people of Libya. | 09/06/11 18:27:00 By - Roy Gutman and Jonathan S. Landay

Pakistani forces capture senior al Qaida commander

Pakistani security forces working in co-operation with U.S. intelligence captured senior al Qaida commander Younis al Mauritani, the most important al Qaida figure in several years to be arrested in Pakistan, officials said Monday. | 09/05/11 16:37:00 By - Saeed Shah and Jonathan S. Landay

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