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Kabul - A US soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, while television footage showed Taliban insurgents sorting and transporting what appeared to be US military ammunition sized by militants in two remote outposts in...
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.
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 ...
ABC's Miguel Marquez reports from Afghanistan: Afghanistan is no Iraq. It’s my first time to Afghanistan and already the inverse puzzle of this place compared to Iraq is clear. Kabul feels friendlier and more open than Baghdad ever did but...
As a White House source told me Monday night, "The President hasn't received the four options on Afghanistan yet."
Japan said on Tuesday it would give Afghanistan up to $5 billion in new aid, a package Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama hopes will improve strained security ties with Washington ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit this week.
NATO says Afghan and international forces have killed more than 130 insurgents, including eight Taliban leaders, in an offensive in northern Kunduz province.
Among those who died when an American military helicopter crashed in Afghanistan last month was DEA special agent Michael Weston, a 37-year-old Harvard Law School graduate who'd already been deployed to Iraq as a Marine three times. His wife of five months, Cynthia Tidler, has been here before. Her first husband, Helge Boes, died in Afghanistan in 2003 while serving as an operations officer for ...
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev , drawing on his experience of military failure in Afghanistan in the 1980s, said the U.S. can’t win the conflict there and should begin pulling out its soldiers.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama and his senior advisers will consider five strategies for Afghanistan and Pakistan at their next meeting, administration officials said.
The White House denied President Barack Obama had come to a decision on sending US reinforcements to Afghanistan, after media reports said he had made up his mind on a troop buildup.
President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan, but probably not quite the 40,000 sought by his top general there, as Pentagon planners work to prepare bases and provide equipment the troops would need in a country with scant resources.
Army Spc. Alex Baker, horticultural specialist from Stephenville, assigned to the Texas Agribusiness Development Team at Forward Operating Base Ghazni, listens as his interpreter explains how a lime is used in local cuisine during a market assessment at the produce market in Ghazni, Afghanistan, on Oct. 27. The ADT performs market assessments in the produce market every 4-6 weeks to measure ...
