U.S. Cyber Command is scheduled to be activated this month, in the words of a Reuters dispatch "ready to go to war in cyberspace" with full operational capability.

A Senate investigation has expressed serious concern about the Pentagon’s hiring of private Afghan contractors to guard US military bases in Afghanistan, noting that they had next to no information about who was being hired and exercised no oversight over them.

When US Marines invaded the largely fictional city of Marjah as part of an ill-conceived attempt to install a Karzai-friendly governor, the invasion was  supposed to be the first in a series of “clear and hold” operations in which US troops stormed areas en masse and transferred power immediately to Afghan security forces to hold the area.

A US terror alert issued this week about al-Qaida plots to attack targets in western Europe was politically motivated and not based on credible new information, senior Pakistani diplomats and European intelligence officials have told the Guardian.

Washington: The USA is grateful to Czechs for increasing their contingent in Afghanistan, as approved by the Czech government, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told her Czech counterpart Foreign Minister Schwarzenberg.