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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.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he was willing to talk with Taliban leader Mullah Omar in a bid for peace, the Associated Press reported Thursday. He said in an interview he would do "whatever it takes" to bring peace.
The chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff is reiterating that the U.S. target date for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan is flexible and will take "conditions on the ground" into account.
Thirty thousand more troops by the summer. It's a daunting challenge laid out by President Obama, and it's now having the U.S. military scrambling to get it done.
U.S. Rep. Brian Baird is “very skeptical” that President Barack Obama’s plan for Afghanistan can succeed, citing concerns about corruption in the country and doubts about neighboring Pakistan becoming a true partner in the effort.
With a population estimated at around 800,000, Kandahar is Afghanistan's second-largest city and a critical component of U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal's strategy that focuses on protecting Afghan civilians, rather than killing Taliban fighters. The city is also the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban, and served as the movement's de-facto capital until it was ousted from power during the U.S.-led ...
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama's plan to deploy 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
Jim Lehrer speaks with former Army and CIA officers with experience in Afghanistan to get their take on President Obama's new plan to increase and eventually decrease the number of U.S. troops there.
The Marines heading to Afghanistan as part of the latest surge will keep track of friendly troops, enemy attacks and civilian infrastructure using a Darpa-created software system called Command Posts of the Future.
In an Associated Press interview, the Afghanistan leader says he'll have the discussions if the United States and other international partners back the move.
Kabul -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday that he's willing to talk with the Taliban chief in a bid to bring peace to the country if the move would have the backing of the United States and other international partners.
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 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."
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) -- Pressure mounted on Germany and France to send more troops to Afghanistan after other NATO allies stepped up deployments in response to President Barack Obama’s buildup of American forces.
Afghanistan's president says he's willing to talk with the Taliban chief in a bid to bring peace to the country.
