... fighters from Pakistan to the Taliban, which mounted an increasingly violent insurgency since its hard-line Islamist government was toppled in 2001 by an international coalition. The new U.S. operation will test the Obama administration ...

... It upheld its tradition of a secular government in 1997 because the Turkish army pushed the nation's first Islamist government out of power. Indeed, Turkey's tradition of military intervention has led the European Union to be wary of ...