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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.
Pakistan has paid out the equivalent of nearly 120,000 dollars over the arrest of a lieutenant of the country's Taliban warlord ahead of a major Muslim festival, the military said Thursday.
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-Harding) is said to be on his way back to New Jersey after visiting troops in Afghanistan as part of a congressional delegation.
Germany's former defence minister Franz Josef Jung quit the cabinet on Friday over a deadly air strike in Afghanistan, the day after claims of a cover-up took the scalp of the country's top general.
Pakistani forces killed 15 militants in the lawless northwest of the country, a security official said Friday, as part of a campaign Washington hopes will help it defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan.
NATO's secretary-general is confident that "all allies will step up to the plate" and provide more soldiers to the fight in Afghanistan after President Barack Obama announces his decision next week on an extra U.S. troop deployment.
KABUL, Afghanistan | The Taliban's reclusive leader ruled out talks with President Hamid Karzai and called on Afghans on Wednesday to break off relations with his "stooge" administration. Mullah Mohammed Omar's message, issued ahead of the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday this weekend, comes less than a week before President Obama is expected to announce an increase of thousands of troops for ...
The United States will not be in Afghanistan eight years from now, the White House said on Wednesday, as President Barack Obama prepared to explain to Americans next week why he is expanding the war effort.
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."
US President Barack Obama, faced with a wary Western public days before he unveils a new strategy on Afghanistan, is embracing the role of India, one of the countries most worried about a Taliban resurgence.
KABUL (AP) — An official in the volatile south of Afghanistan says the governor of Kandahar province has survived an assassination attempt while he was on his way to a mosque for prayers marking the Muslim holiday of Eid.
Allies of the United States must follow its lead and boost their troop levels in Afghanistan, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Thursday.
The Taliban's reclusive leader ruled out talks with President Hamid Karzai and called on Afghans on Wednesday to break off relations with his "stooge" administration.
CONTROL POST ALAMO, Afghanistan -- Pfc. Patrick Brown is on guard duty in this small control post in the mountains of Logar province.
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. The remote-controlled roadside bomb damaged Turyalai Wesa's car and blew out one of the vehicle's windows, but the governor was unhurt, said spokesman Zelmai Ayubi. He ...
Equipment questions loom for Afghanistan .
