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Kabul - A US soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, while television footage showed Taliban insurgents sorting and transporting what appeared to be US military ammunition sized by militants in two remote outposts in...
Afghanistan's new government will be clean and honest, the foreign minister pledged Tuesday, after international calls mounted for Kabul to eradicate widespread graft in the country.
About 350 Taliban prisoners are on a hunger strike at a prison in Kandahar and a delegation from the Ministry of Justice is going to the lockup in southern Afghanistan to investigate their complaints.
NATO and Afghan officials claimed on Monday their forces had killed at least 130 Taliban fighters in a major operation over the past week in an area of Afghanistan's north where militant activity has surged.
Afghan police and U.S. soldiers discovered a half-million pounds of the fertilizer that is used in most of Afghanistan’s homemade bombs.
A cemetery in a remote Afghan village offers a history of the Taliban’s early years, and of the tumultuous era when young jihadists traveled to Afghanistan to train and fight.
President Barack Obama's deliberations over war strategy in Afghanistan have narrowed to four options but a decision is still weeks away, the White House said on Tuesday.
Security forces in southern Afghanistan seized a huge stash of bomb-making material, NATO's International Security Assistance Force reported Tuesday.
Yvonne Lux said it was one of the most rewarding things she has ever done. The managing partner of the Carrabba’s restaurant on U.S. 41 East near Collier Boulevard went to Afghanistan and Turkey as part of a team from OSI Restaurant Partners, the company that owns Carrabba’s, Outback, Bonefish Grill, Roy’s and several other restaurant chains. The group of 29 cooked and served food for roughly ...
Pakistani Taliban militants vowed to fight a tough, protracted guerrilla war against the army on Tuesday as a suicide car-bomber killed up to 20 people in a northwestern town, police said.
The White House says President Obama has narrowed down his decision for an Afghanistan strategy to four options.
NATO officials say 250 tons of suspected bomb-making material has been seized in a raid in Kandahar, a stronghold of Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan.
Veterans saluted and mourners laid flowers on hearses as hundreds paid tribute Tuesday to six soldiers killed in Afghanistan — including five shot to death by an Afghan police officer who turned against them.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will discuss four options for a buildup of U.S. forces in Afghanistan when he meets tomorrow with his national security team, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
Japan said on Tuesday it would give Afghanistan up to $5 billion in new aid, a move Tokyo hopes will improve strained security ties with Washington ahead of President Barack Obama's visit this week.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai's new term in office hasn't begun on a happy note as new pressures and problems, both from at home and abroad, pile on his already weakened government while his deadly nemesis, the Taliban, shows no signs of relenting on its bloodletting.
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