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The governor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province survived a bomb strike on his motorcade while heading to prayers for the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday on Friday, a spokesman said.
A helicopter belonging to an international military contractor has disappeared in Afghanistan, officials said Thursday.
U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have been tucking into turkey dinner on read more
Bombers killed an anti-Taliban leader in Pakistan's tribal belt where the military said a new operation killed 15 militants Friday as insurgents expand their battles near the Afghan border.
President Obama will reveal his new Afghanistan war strategy in a speech Tuesday evening to cadets at West Point, but his most skeptical audience is likely to be the powerful Democrats on Capitol Hill who oppose a troop buildup.
The expert, Michael A. Sheehan, told an audience at Drew University last Thursday, Oct. 8, that the U.S. effort to drive out the Taliban and eliminate al Qaeda influence in Afghanistan had been "enormously successful."
The German military's top official was removed Thursday for failing to properly pass on information to political leaders about a September airstrike in Afghanistan that killed civilians.
The White House says President Barack Obama is placing heavy emphasis on how the United States eventually will withdraw from Afghanistan even as he plans to announce a troop increase next week.
U.S. Soldiers Spend Holiday on Patrol Hoping to Aid Remote Villages
President Barack Obama, vowing to "finish the job" in Afghanistan, promised Tuesday he would soon announce his decision on sending tens of thousands more US troops to battle Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
The Pentagon says a soldier from Maryland, whose parents live in Orlando, has been killed in Afghanistan.
As daylight faded and the winter cold set in, soldiers huddled inside a crude wooden hut to tuck into Thanksgiving turkeys...
By day, French soldiers fight side by side with Afghans during Taliban attacks. By night, their officers share meals, the French trying to muster haute cuisine from military rations, the Afghans offering steaming piles of mutton stew and rice.
Berlin - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday that European states would have to send more troops to Afghanistan, as a scandal over civilian casualties in the country rocked the German government. Two of Germany's highest milita...
A key anti-Taliban leader in northwest Pakistan was assassinated and three others wounded in a bomb attack on Friday after they said prayers for a major Muslim festival, officials said.
A key anti-Taliban leader in northwest Pakistan was assassinated and three others wounded in a bomb attack on Friday after they said prayers for a major Muslim festival, officials said.
