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Kabul - A US soldier and 17 Taliban militants have been killed in the latest attacks in Afghanistan, officials said Sunday as the the new US-Afghan military operation entered its third day in the southern of the country. A NATO airstrike targeted a g...
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The goal of the Afghanistan surge is limited: to break the Taliban's momentum by July 2011. Plenty of US troops will remain in Afghanistan after that to continue work on longer-term goals, said Defense Secretary Robert Gates Sunday.
Osama bin Laden may be slipping back and forth from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Or the U.S. might not have a clue, more than eight years after the al-Qaida leader masterminded the terrorist attacks on America.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates rejects any suggestion that setting a transition date for withdrawing U.S. forces in Afghanistan will embolden the Taliban.
Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. hasn’t ruled out negotiations with Taliban leaders in Afghanistan to persuade them to end the insurgency, senior Obama administration officials said today.
Obama's foreign policy takes a narrower view of American power -- we can't fight everyone all at once
KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- A landmine killed a U.S. soldier and a NATO-led airstrike killed a group of Taliban militants in Afghanistan, the military said Sunday.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday the United States and its allies must have patience if his country is not ready to assume control of its own security by July 2011, when U.S. troops would begin leaving under President Obama's plan.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Americans should expect a significant U.S. military presence in Afghanistan for two to four years more.
A U.S. service member was killed by a bomb planted in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said Sunday.
Setting a date for the start of a US withdrawal from Afghanistan conveys "a sense of urgency" to Kabul that American forces would not stay indefinitely, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he is seeing signs of progress in the war in Afghanistan days after President Barack Obama announced a planned surge of 30,000 additional troops.
National security adviser James Jones said Sunday that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden still spends some time inside Afghanistan. Most recent U.S. estimates have placed bin Laden inside Pakistan. But Jones, a retired general, said the best estimate is that bin Laden "is somewhere in North Waziristan, sometimes on the Pakistani side of the border, sometimes on the Afghan side of the border."
Turkey's prime minister has ruled out sending additional troops to Afghanistan but says the country is willing to train the Afghan army and police.
The United States said Sunday it was pressing Pakistan to move against Taliban and Al-Qaeda sanctuaries in its territory, saying success in Afghanistan depended on disrupting the cross-border safe havens.
