Central Command Intelligence

Leaders at the US military's Central Command did not falsify intelligence relating to the fight against the ISIS in Iraq and Syria, a Pentagon report said Wednesday.

Russian air strikes have destroyed the main weapons depots of a US-trained rebel group in Syria, their commander said today, in an expansion of Russian attacks on insurgents backed by foreign enemies of President Bashar al-Assad.

The head of the US military's Central Command on Wednesday told a Senate hearing on the conflict against Islamic State that he never asked for intelligence reports to be skewed to present a more positive view of military operations in Iraq and Syria.

US military officials have rewritten intelligence reports to give a more optimistic assessment of the US-led campaign against the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda's branch in Syria, the Daily Beast reported on Wednesday.

Pakistan on Saturday released its most senior Afghan Taliban detainee, Abdul Ghani Baradar, a senior official of the interior ministry told AFP, in a move Kabul hopes will encourage peace talks with the insurgents.

Pakistan will release today its most senior Afghan Taliban detainee, Abdul Ghani Baradar, a one-time military chief often described as the insurgents' former second-in-command.

The United States has warned countries against giving shelter to fugitive Edward Snowden, or letting him travel internationally, as the former CIA contractor landed in Moscow and said to be on his way to the South American country of Ecuador through Havana and Venezuela.

Does the March 13 fidayeen (suicide) attack in Bemina in Srinagar, in which five Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) men were killed and another seven including civilians injured, come as a surprise? If one were to believe the security agencies, specially the intelligence agencies, the answer is a clear 'No'.

Doctor Shakil Afridi, who assisted the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in tracking down Osama bin Laden was sentenced to 33 years in prison for conspiring with an Islamist militant commander, not his involvement the American spy agency, a copy of the verdict obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday adds to questions about Pakistan's treatmen...

Leaders at the US military's Central Command did not falsify intelligence relating to the fight against the ISIS in Iraq and Syria, a Pentagon report said Wednesday.

Russian air strikes have destroyed the main weapons depots of a US-trained rebel group in Syria, their commander said today, in an expansion of Russian attacks on insurgents backed by foreign enemies of President Bashar al-Assad.

The head of the US military's Central Command on Wednesday told a Senate hearing on the conflict against Islamic State that he never asked for intelligence reports to be skewed to present a more positive view of military operations in Iraq and Syria.

US military officials have rewritten intelligence reports to give a more optimistic assessment of the US-led campaign against the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda's branch in Syria, the Daily Beast reported on Wednesday.

Pakistan on Saturday released its most senior Afghan Taliban detainee, Abdul Ghani Baradar, a senior official of the interior ministry told AFP, in a move Kabul hopes will encourage peace talks with the insurgents.

Pakistan will release today its most senior Afghan Taliban detainee, Abdul Ghani Baradar, a one-time military chief often described as the insurgents' former second-in-command.

The United States has warned countries against giving shelter to fugitive Edward Snowden, or letting him travel internationally, as the former CIA contractor landed in Moscow and said to be on his way to the South American country of Ecuador through Havana and Venezuela.

Does the March 13 fidayeen (suicide) attack in Bemina in Srinagar, in which five Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) men were killed and another seven including civilians injured, come as a surprise? If one were to believe the security agencies, specially the intelligence agencies, the answer is a clear 'No'.

Doctor Shakil Afridi, who assisted the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in tracking down Osama bin Laden was sentenced to 33 years in prison for conspiring with an Islamist militant commander, not his involvement the American spy agency, a copy of the verdict obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday adds to questions about Pakistan's treatmen...