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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.
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.
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.
Afghan and international troops killed more than 130 insurgents in six days of fighting in a once-stable area of northern Afghanistan that has seen a recent spike in Taliban attacks, NATO said Monday. It was some of the heaviest fighting in the north this year.
Pakistani Taliban have started a guerrilla war against the army and will wage a tough, protracted fight in the insurgents' South Waziristan stronghold, a Taliban spokesman said on Tuesday.
Japan's government decided on Tuesday to pledge five billion dollars in new aid over five years from 2010 to help rebuild war-torn Afghanistan, an official said Tuesday.
Mohammad Rafi Hamdard, a food importer in Kabul, puts the following prices on the United Nations decision to withdraw staff from Afghanistan: $15 more for a ton of flour, $5 more for 50 kilograms of sugar and $3 more for a carton of cooking oil.
Hundreds of grieving Britons were expected to line the streets of this small English town on Tuesday to watch the repatriation of the bodies of six soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to add tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan, though probably not quite the 40,000 sought by his top general there.
The White House denied President Barack Obama had come to a decision on sending US reinforcements to Afghanistan amid mounting speculation he had made up his mind on a troop buildup.
President Obama is nearing a decision to add tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan, though probably not quite the 40,000 sought by his top general there.
Japan on Tuesday announced $5 billion in fresh aid to Afghanistan even as it plans to bring home refueling ships supporting U.S.-led forces there. The pledge comes just days before President Barack Obama arrives in Tokyo for talks that are sure to focus on the countries' military alliance.
US President Barack Obama faces a "pivotal moment" as he mulls whether to send more troops to Afghanistan and is unlikely to announce his decision until after a trip to Asia, officials said Monday.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday that Washington will give Afghan President Hamid Karzai a set of measures to root out the corruption undermining allied efforts to stabilise Afghanistan.
As President Obama considers the way forward in Afghanistan, factions within his party are increasingly torn between their strong wish to bring U.S. troops home and their equally passionate desire to protect Afghans — particularly Afghan women — from a return of the dark rule of the Taliban. Signs indicate that after a lengthy review process, the president is leaning toward sending more troops ...
