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The Afghan government and the U.S. military are pursuing an effort to lure low-level insurgents with job offers and other incentives, and split them from their Taliban leaders. In his second inaugural last week, President Hamid Karzai called on militants to lay down their arms and return to their homes.
President Barack Obama planned a ninth session with top advisers on Afghanistan on Monday as he neared a decision on whether to send troops and fought Republican charges that he is taking too long to make up his mind.
Security in the Kunduz province of northern Afghanistan has deteriorated markedly in recent months. In an interview with German news magazine Spiegel, Kunduz Governor Mohammed Omar expresses his dissatisfaction with the German troops stationed there.
Congressman David Obey, who called for a tax to pay for the war in Iraq two years ago, is calling for a tax to pay for Afghanistan. It's a very good idea for several reasons.
Corruption is deeply entrenched in Afghanistan's culture, and therefore extremely difficult for the government to stop.
WASHINGTON -- As President Obama nears a decision on a troop increase for the war in Afghanistan, he is facing increasingly vocal criticism from senior Congressional Democrats over the war's cost, the size of the United States troop commitment and the reliability of America's allies.
President Obama is calling his war council together as he moves toward a decision on whether to add more U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what he's called "a war of necessity" in Afghanistan, U.S. officials told McClatchy Newspapers.
President Obama is facing increasingly vocal criticism from senior Congressional Democrats over the war’s cost, the size of the U.S. troop commitment and the reliability of America’s allies.
A senior Pentagon official says that preventing roadside bombs from killing troops has proven to be tougher in Afghanistan than in Iraq because of the austere conditions there.
The top U.S. general and the U.S ambassador in Afghanistan have been told to prepare to testify before Congress as early as next week, according to White House and other U.S. officials, giving an indication of how and when President Obama plans to announce his war strategy.
A primer on the military utility of some of the force options before President Obama to bolster the 68,000 American troops already in Afghanistan.
Pakistani security forces, backed by tanks and artillery, attacked Taliban positions in the northwest of the country, killing 22 militants, a senior police official on Monday.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- NATO forces launched a mission in partnership with coalition forces to expand training for the fledgling Afghan national security force.
Four U.S. servicemembers were killed in the past 24 hours in Afghanistan, NATO forces said Monday.
Attacks in Afghanistan claim the lives of four U.S. troops as President Obama met again with top advisers on whether to commit more troops.
