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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.
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.
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.
Non-U.S. nations operating under the NATO command in Afghanistan have promised about 7,000 more troops to battle Taliban and al Qaeda extremists and train Afghan forces, NATO's secretary-general said Friday.
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
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. and Afghan forces began an operation in southern Afghanistan to disrupt Taliban militants, the first offensive since President Barack Obama announced plans to send 30,000 more troops to the South Asian country.
While acknowledging "our people are weary of war," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told her NATO counterparts Friday that an infusion of allied troops in Afghanistan is crucial to turning the tide in a war that has been deteriorating for years.
NATO said on Friday 25 countries had pledged a total of around 7,000 more troops to support the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, following President Barack Obama's commitment of 30,000 extra U.S. troops.
In response to entreaties from the United States, the alliance announced Friday that it had agreed to contribute new forces to the coalition in Afghanistan.
U.S. Marines and Afghan troops Friday launched the first offensive since President Barack Obama announced an American troop surge, striking against Taliban communications and supply lines in a southern insurgent stronghold, a military spokesman said.
Afghanistan's president says he's willing to talk with the Taliban chief in a bid to bring peace to the country.
KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said today 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...
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.
The withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, scheduled to begin in July 2011, will "probably" take two or three years, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday, although he added that "there are no deadlines in terms of when our troops will all be out."
