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Finding al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and rolling back a resurgent Taliban are necessary steps toward winning the war in Afghanistan, the top U.S. commander there told a Senate committee Tuesday.
The U.S. office overseeing billions of dollars for Afghanistan's rebuilding lacks leadership and focus at a time when aggressive, independent oversight of the country's reconstruction is more important than ever, three senators told President Obama on Tuesday.
Kabul - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan would take several years as Afghan forces needed to be strengthened by recruiting more soldiers and police to take charge of the country's secur...
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told Congress Tuesday that he's confident he now has both the strategy and resources he needs in Afghanistan. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, initially wary of a troop increase coming before a crackdown on corruption, said he's satisfied that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has expressed the right intentions.
Killing or capturing Osama bin Laden is the key to defeating the Al-Qaeda terror network, the NATO commander in Afghanistan told US legislators in testimony on Capitol Hill.
Fort Carson is holding a memorial service for two of its soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan in separate attacks. The service Wednesday honors 24-year-old Sgt. Eduviges Guadalupe Wolf and 19-year-old Pfc. Devin J. Michel. Wolf was assigned to the 704th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. Michel was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Division ...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, traveling in Afghanistan, plans to carry the message to Afghans and U.S. troops that the United States "is in this thing to win."
The top U.S. general in Afghanistan says the Taliban — up to 27,000 fighters in the country's south — is his main focus.
Taliban insurgents have got to be "very worried" over a US move to surge 30,000 troops into Afghanistan as they had hoped to force allied forces to retreat, a top Pentagon official said Monday.
(RTTNews) - The number of British troop casualties in Afghanistan this year reached 100 Monday, when a member of the 1st Battalion The Royal Anglican Regiment was killed in a late night Taliban attack in southern Afghanistan.
Sending more U.S. troops won't defeat the insurgency, but Western officials are hoping it could help press the Taliban into a compromise
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Kabul today for talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the Obama administration’s strategy for combating the Taliban, the American Embassy said.
The mayor of Kabul continued to run Afghanistan's capital city Wednesday despite being sentenced to four years in jail for corruption, raising questions about President Hamid Karzai's campaign to prove he's serious about tackling graft and bribery in the government.
A Taliban shadow government of police chiefs, judges, administrators and governors already has ruling authority in Afghanistan, officials said.
LAGHMAN, AFGHANISTAN -- Like nearly all provinces in Afghanistan, this one has two governors.
The U.S. general in charge of the Afghanistan war assured lawmakers Tuesday that an additional 30,000 troops, combined with changes in the overall war strategy , would trigger a demonstrable change on the ground before U.S. forces start to come home in 18 months.
