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The U.S. is underwriting a program that not only seeks to disarm Taliban but also enlist tribal leaders’ support by having them involved in the choice of development projects for where the jobs are offered.
Equipment questions loom for Afghanistan .
KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s inauguration last week was a somber affair. So many conversations end with the scratching of heads, with the tacit admission that no idea that has come forward has been big enough to reverse the Afghan government’s steady loss of control.
A senior ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel resigned from the cabinet on Friday amid allegations of a cover-up of an air strike that killed civilians in Afghanistan when he was defense minister.
US President Barack Obama will host Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Monday, a day before announcing his revamped Afghanistan war strategy, the White House said.
On the day he turned 27 last week, Vin Traverso, like poet Robert Browning, was having home thoughts from abroad. In fact, from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, a city in which less than a month ago eight people in a United Nations office were killed by a terrorist’s bomb.
Germany's Labor Minister Franz Josef Jung said on Friday he had offered his resignation to Chancellor Angela Merkel following criticism of his previous role as defense minister during the Afghanistan conflict.
Germany's Labor Minister Franz Josef Jung will offer to step down following criticism of his former role as defense minister during the Afghanistan conflict, sources in the ruling coalition said on Friday.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Taliban militants have set up new strongholds despite Pakistan's offensive and will likely remain a potent threat to the U.S.-backed government, analysts say.
A senior ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced a barrage of calls to step down on Friday over his failure to disclose details of an air strike that killed civilians in Afghanistan.
The head of the German armed forces and a high-ranking civilian in the defense ministry resigned Thursday after it was revealed that information was suppressed regarding the German air force bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan, in which as many as 142 civilians were killed.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Far from winding down, the numbers of wounded U.S. soldiers coming home have continued to swell. The problem is especially acute among those who fought in Afghanistan, where nearly four times as many troops were injured in October as a year ago.
Afghanistan's 007 kills with the same suave efficiency as Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Daniel Craig, but only hopes to spice up the nation's scrappy, low-budget film industry still struggling to recover from years of Taliban repression. If all goes as planned, "Nijat," or "savior," will debut next year as part of the fifth annual Kabul International Documentary and Short Film Festival.
NATO governments may increase their fighting forces in Afghanistan by up to 6,000 soldiers in response to President Obama's expected call for tens of thousands of additional U.S. service members, diplomats said Friday.
NATO governments may increase their fighting forces in Afghanistan by up to 6,000 soldiers in response to President Barack Obama's expected call for tens of thousands of additional U.S. service members, diplomats said Friday.
GOLESTAN, AFGHANISTAN -- The Marine Corps Osprey, an unwieldy, gray contraption that flies like an airplane but lands like a helicopter, raced through the sky before it slowed to a hover and alighted several hundred yards from this tiny village.
