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President Barack Obama, vowing to "finish the job" in Afghanistan, promised he would soon announce his decision on sending tens of thousands more US troops to battle Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
I've had conversations with rank-and-file members of the U.S. military recently who are not sure that the Afghanistan mission can actually be accomplished
Suspected Taliban militants on Wednesday attacked and destroyed a tanker supplying fuel to NATO troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, police said.
At the Kampany market on the outskirts of the Afghan capital Kabul, the rain is turning to snow as the livestock traders decide to call it a day and heave their animals back into their trucks.
A remote-controlled bomb planted in a water station exploded in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing six members of a family, including four children, authorities and a relative said.
The aim is to persuade Taliban foot soldiers to put down arms in exchange for jobs and protection from militants. The drive will be modeled on the 'Sons of Iraq' initiative that helped calm Iraq. The Afghan government and the U.S. military have begun a fledgling drive to lure Taliban foot soldiers away from the battlefield by offering them job opportunities and protection, diplomats and military ...
The U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, spoke to German news magazine Spiegel about Washington's goals in Afghanistan, President Obama's new war strategy and the prospects of handing over responsibility to the government in Kabul.
Jason A. McLeod, 22, was weeks from visiting wife and daughter Spc. Jason A. McLeod, 22, of Crystal Lake, was three weeks from leave to see his wife and infant daughter when he was killed this week in a mortar attack in Afghanistan, a relative said Tuesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama met Monday night with his national security team on Afghanistan and Pakistan, the White House announced.
A remote-controlled bomb hidden in a water truck exploded in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing three people including two children, the Interior Ministry said.
The Pakistani military killed 20 militants during military operations in northwest Pakistan late Sunday night and into Monday morning, a senior military official told CNN.
Three cabinet officials and 12 former ones are under investigation for corruption, the attorney general’s office said Tuesday.
KABUL, Afghanistan -- In his inaugural address last week, President Hamid Karzai proudly touted his country's achievements in creating an Afghanistan with a "rehabilitated economic infrastructure" and "budding free-market economy."
A US Army Special Forces soldier with ties to Massachusetts was killed in Afghanistan Monday when his vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device, the Pentagon said yesterday.
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said he intends to “finish the job” in Afghanistan by dismantling al- Qaeda’s networks and will announce a new strategy that gives the U.S. public a “clear rationale” for the war.
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.
