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Talk or fight? In Afghanistan, signs Taliban now prefer victory. “The Taliban is the same Taliban as before. They have not changed By Scott Peterson In the streets of Kabul, Shogofa Sediqi knew she was being stalked by Taliban killers. As the chief director for Afghanistan’s Zan TV (Women’s TV), she had grown accustomed to militants sending her threats, telling her in real time what she was wearing and what time she left home, and warning her to stop her work as a journalist. “We know you are back, at the airport,” read the first message that popped up on her phone last summer, afte...

share Print A week after U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration said it would review Washington’s peace deal with the Afghan Taliban, the fate of the nearly year-old agreement is in the balance. The Pentagon announced on January 28 that the Taliban is not complying with the commitments the militant group reached according to the deal, including committing to reducing violence and renouncing ties to Al-Qaeda. The announcement came in response to a U.S. Treasury Department memo that said Al-Qaeda was “gaining strength in Afghanistan” because it operates under the Taliban’s protecti...

machine. >> narrator: frontline investigates the latest us strategy... >> bludgeon your opponent. kill and capture as many as you can. make them ask for peace. >> narrator: ...its impact and its risks. >> by launching those attacks, are we creating more militants than in fact we are killing? >> narrator: can this campaign of killing and capturing make the difference? >> it could take years. i mean, i don't think anybody knows. >> bin laden's gone. that creates the kind of space in which diplomacy might actually be able to make progress. >> narrator: tonight on frontline , "kill/captu...

machine. >> narrator: frontline investigates the latest us strategy... >> bludgeon your opponent. kill and capture as many as you can. make them ask for peace. >> narrator: ...its impact and its risks. >> by launching those attacks, are we creating more militants than in fact we are killing? >> narrator: can this campaign of killing and capturing make the difference? >> it could take years. i mean, i don't think anybody knows. >> bin laden's gone. that creates the kind of space in which diplomacy might actually be able to make progress. >> narrator: tonight on frontline , "kill/captu...

ante. the cliff notes version of the backup plan is to pass the buck, drop responsibility for the debt ceiling solidly in the president's lap by forcing him to raise the debt ceiling on his own. mcconnell is also catching flak. presidential candidate newt gingrich called it an irresponsible surrender to big government and continued overspending. are the republicans handing the president a hot potato or a blank check? we'll have more on that. first, here are the other stories we're looking into tonight. the ultimate game of hide and seek. the cia in pakistan using dna to track the mos...