The complexities of the war in Afghanistan were driven home once more on Thursday by a suicide car bombing that left 17 people dead and many injured in Kabul. Daniel Markey of the Council on Foreign Relations discusses Afghanistan's importance to India and the implications of the bombing.
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October 8, 2009
Massive bombing targets Indian embassy in Afghanistan
May 27, 2009
Pakistan bombing could be Taliban retaliation
Government officials in Pakistan say a car bomb that killed more than two dozen people and wounded hundreds in the city of Lahore could be retaliation for the Pakistani military's month-long war on the Taliban. Alex Thier of the United States Institute of Peace discusses the bombing and public opinion about the government offensive.
March 30, 2009
Bloody terrorist attack on police academy rattles Pakistan
A group of gunmen stormed a police academy in Lahore on Monday, triggering a bloody eight-hour siege in Pakistan's second largest city and raising even deeper concern about security in that vital nation. Amit Pandya of The Stimson Center discusses the attack.
March 9, 2009
Fatal attack by Real IRA gunmen rattles Northern Ireland
Niall O'Dowd of the Irish America magazine discusses a Real IRA attack on a British base in Ulster on Saturday, the first killings of British security forces in Northern Ireland in a dozen years. The violence threatened the province’s fragile coalition government of Protestants and Catholics.







