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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama should have declared victory in Afghanistan and begun a withdrawal. His escalation of the war may achieve its goals, but at too great a cost -- and without making our nation meaningfully safer from the threat of terrorist attacks. I hope I'm wrong. But my fundamental question about Obama's approach was illustrated Thursday by events far from the war zone: In ...
U.S. Marines pressed into a remote Taliban stronghold on Saturday with their first major assault in Afghanistan since President Barack Obama earmarked 30,000 more troops to try to turn the tide on the Taliban insurgency.
Pakistan resists fighting the Afghan Taliban because it fears Indian domination next door. But India is expanding its influence there because it fears a Taliban comeback
The United States welcomed new troop commitments from its allies to fight the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, warning the battle was a crucial test for NATO.
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.
A Taliban detainee in Pakistan claims Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden was seen in Afghanistan in January or February of this year, the BBC reports.
Troops target supply routes in the southern town of Now Zad. They meet little opposition, but face a much more dangerous operation ahead. Hundreds of U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers descended on a nearly empty city in southern Afghanistan on Friday to cut off supply routes for Taliban fighters who have taken refuge in the area.
President Obama is heading into his new strategy with warnings that many of the conditions that made the Iraq surge work do not exist in Afghanistan, but some similarities do exist.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hailed the pledges by NATO members and other allies to send 7,000 more troops to Afghanistan to battle Taliban and al Qaeda extremists and train Afghan forces.
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.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for Friday's bombing of a mosque in Rawapindi and vowed to carry out more attacks, according to an e-mail message from the group.
Opposition leader David Cameron on Saturday met troops in Afghanistan and said he believed troop withdrawals were unlikely to happen in 2010.
U.S. Marines swooped down behind Taliban lines in helicopters and Osprey aircraft in the first offensive since President Obama announced an American troop surge.
KABUL -- U.S. Marines swooped down behind Taliban lines in helicopters and Osprey aircraft Friday in the biggest offensive since President Obama announced an American troop surge.About 1,000 Marines and 150 Afghan troops were taking part in "Operation Cobra's Anger" in a bid to disrupt Taliban supply and communications lines in the Now Zad Valley of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan ...
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. and Afghan forces began an operation today in southern Afghanistan to disrupt Taliban militants, the first offensive since President Barack Obama announced plans to send 30,000 more troops to the country.
