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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.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- The Taliban have resurfaced in the once calm northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan, becoming a major concern to the military, security officials say.
Mullah Mohammed Omar scoffs at an expected U.S. troop increase and urges Afghans to reject Hamid Karzai's government. President Obama is to announce his war strategy in a televised speech. As President Obama prepares to unveil his long-deliberated war strategy, the Taliban's supreme commander declared Wednesday that U.S.-led forces would find only defeat, dishonor and "a bed of thorns" in ...
NATO allies appear willing to send fewer than half that number of additional troops to Afghanistan as part of President Obama’s strategy for the region, officials said.
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan -- Far from the heartland of the Taliban insurgency in the south, this once peaceful northern province was one place American and Afghan officials thought they did not have to worry about.
KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the Taliban and other extremist groups Friday to lay down their weapons...
KABUL (AP) -- The governor of the volatile southern Afghan province of Kandahar survived an assassination attempt when a bomb targeting his convoy exploded as he headed for Friday prayers to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
US allies are expected to announce reinforcements of 4,000 to 5,000 troops for Afghanistan once President Barack Obama commits to deploying extra soldiers there, a NATO officer said Friday.
The Pakistani people now believe the war against the Taliban is their war, whereas in the past they considered it to be the United States' war, a former Pakistani general with close ties to his country's military told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- German Labor Minister Franz Josef Jung , the former defense minister, resigned a day after the opposition accused him of withholding information on an air strike in Afghanistan that killed as many as 142 people.
Children play with toy guns at a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday. Children play with toy guns at a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday.
The governor of Afghanistan's troubled southern province of Kandahar narrowly escaped assassination Friday when a bomb exploded near his car as he was being driven to a mosque, his spokesman said.
KABUL (AP) - President Hamid Karzai has renewed his call to the Taliban to lay down its weapons and participate in rebuilding Afghanistan.
As daylight faded and the winter cold set in, soldiers huddled inside a crude wooden hut to tuck into Thanksgiving turkeys the unit itself had fattened and to give thanks for having survived a year of combat in Afghanistan.
Mullah Mohammad Omar, leader of Afghanistan's Taliban militia, on Wednesday rejected a call from President Hamid Karzai for peace talks, in a statement issued ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.
Berlin - Almost three months after the deadly NATO airstrike in Kunduz, Afghanistan, that killed as many as 142 people, the event claimed its third political victim in Germany on Friday. The then-German defence minister, Franz Josef Jung, resigned hi...
