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The area includes Helmand and Kandahar, the financial and spiritual base of the Taliban, but also the location of most of the increase in American casualties this year.
Kabul, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday he's willing to talk with the Taliban chief in a bid to bring peace to the country if the move has the backing of the United States and other international partners.
Tehran quietly helped the U.S. overthrow the Taliban in 2001. But as tensions with the West mount, Iran's interests in cooperating in Afghanistan may be trumped by more hostile priorities
Afghanistan's president says he's willing to talk with the Taliban chief in a bid to bring peace to the country.
President Barack Obama's plan to send 30,000 new U.S. troops to Afghanistan will only lead to more American casualties, the Taliban vowed.
The President offered a reasoned case for expansion in Afghanistan. But Americans need inspiration as well
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is telling Congress that a U.S. failure in Afghanistan would mean "a Taliban takeover" of the wartorn South Asian nation.
If we lose in Afghanistan, it will be because Hamid Karzai’s regime cannot deliver.
U.S. special envoy Richard C. Holbrooke acknowledged Thursday that the war in Afghanistan is unpopular, given "the legacy of Iraq and Vietnam," but he predicted that NATO allies will soon contribute more forces to join the 30,000 additional U.S. troops being deployed there.
President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday welcomed a US decision to send 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan and set a timeline to bring forces home, as the Taliban vowed to escalate the eight-year war.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday about the newly announced U.S. war plan and other issues. Here are some questions and answers from the interview:
The Taliban vowed on Wednesday to step up resistance and fight against the extra 30,000 American troops US President Barack Obama has ordered to Afghanistan, a spokesman said.
President Obama's decision to deploy an additional 30,000 soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan by early 2010 was not a surprise. In Obama's War Cabinet meetings, the question was not whether to send more troops but how many.
The story of a troubled veteran of the war in Afghanistan and his polar-opposite brother seems especially timely and poignant.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday he's willing to talk with the Taliban chief in a bid to bring peace to the...
As he announced on Tuesday, President Obama is betting that sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan will rapidly change the balance of power in the field, erode local support for the Taliban and bolster their local opponents, give breathing space to the Kabul government to clean up its act, allow humanitarian aid and development to reach the countryside, and possibly bring some war-weary ...
