Afghanistan: A Taliban Message
New York Times - 1 hour 12 minutes agoThe reclusive leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban has ruled out talks with President Hamid Karzai and called on Afghans to break off relations with his “stooge” administration.
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The reclusive leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban has ruled out talks with President Hamid Karzai and called on Afghans to break off relations with his “stooge” administration.
KABUL (AP) — The Taliban's reclusive leader is calling on Afghans to continue what he calls their "legitimate jihad" or holy war. Mullah Omar has issued a Muslim holiday message urging them to break off relations with an Afghan government that he refers to as "this stooge Kabul administration."
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President Obama won't use the Oval Office to unveil plans to send more troops to Afghanistan - and it's very possible he won't ever make a major address from his storied West Wing workspace.
War-weary Americans will support more fighting in Afghanistan once they understand the perils of losing, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday, announcing he was ready to spell out war plans virtually sure to include tens of thousands more U.S. troops.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- President Obama will meet with U.S. congressional leaders of both parties next week before he announces his Afghanistan policy, lawmakers' aides confirmed.
On paper, the mission for Camp Pendleton's newest recipient ofthe Silver Star seemed straightforward enough: Travel overnight toan isolated mountainside cave where a suspected Taliban leader washiding, kill or detain him, and destroy a reportedly large weaponscache.
The collapse of a deal granting Pakistan's president and thousands of other officials freedom from prosecution on graft charges has triggered fresh political turmoil just as the army wages a major battle against Taliban militants near the Afghan border.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Italy will consider U.S. President Barack Obama’s request to “reinforce” the presence of international troops in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s office said today in an e-mail.
Sgt. James Michael Nolen, a 25-year-old husband and father, was killed when his military vehicle hit an explosive device Sunday in Afghanistan.
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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.
Skeptics reject President Barack Obama's expected decision to ramp up the Afghanistan war as a misguided bid to fix a muddled mission, arguing it will draw America deeper into a quagmire.
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.